Howard C. Wilkinson - "What We Do Here" (September 20, 1964)

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Preacher	Old type sermon, it will not follow the lines	0:13
	that you are accustomed to a sermon following.	0:17
	Some of you may decide when it is concluded	0:21
	that it was no sermon at all.	0:23
	This will not make some of you angry.	0:26
	I think however, that there is a sermon in it.	0:32
	What I propose to do is to talk with you a little bit about	0:38
	what we do here.	0:41
	Now, this is the Duke University chapel.	0:43
	It is Sunday morning, it is 11 o'clock.	0:48
	We are gathered here in the house of God,	0:52
	in the center of the campus for what is described	0:57
	on the front of your bulletin as	1:01
	the University Service of Worship.	1:04
	Take those words literally.	1:10
	This is not the faculty's service of worship,	1:13
	nor the administration service of worship,	1:17
	nor is it the student service of worship.	1:20
	This is the university service of worship.	1:24
	Nor is it the Methodist service of worship	1:29
	or the Episcopalian or the Baptist or the Presbyterian	1:34
	or the Lutheran, the United church of Christ,	1:38
	the Friends, the Moravians, or the Mormons	1:41
	or the Roman Catholics,	1:46
	this is the university service of worship.	1:49
	Now someone perhaps will be thinking in the back	1:54
	of his mind, if not in the front of it,	1:57
	when I say these words, that what we propose to do here	1:59
	in the Duke chapel on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock is	2:04
	to be all things to all men,	2:09
	to kind of be a catch all basket that will carry everyone	2:12
	into something that is called worship.	2:17
	You could not be more mistaken.	2:21
	This university service of worship has	2:24
	a very distinctive characteristic and nature.	2:27
	This is not a Buddhist church, it is not	2:33
	a Mohammed in service of worship.	2:37
	It is not a Judaic service	2:41
	or an ethical culture society meeting.	2:43
	You see this is a Christian service of worship.	2:48
	Let me explain that for a moment.	2:54
	If you have never thought about the fact that neutrality for	2:58
	an institution or an organization is as impossible	3:02
	as neutrality is for an individual,	3:08
	you should think about that for it is true.	3:11
	No institution, no college, no university,	3:15
	no organization can be religiously neutral,	3:19
	in spite of the fact that many people erroneously think	3:23
	that their institutions are neutral.	3:27
	You have to take a stand, you have to come down somewhere.	3:33
	If you're an individual, if you're a family,	3:38
	if you are a college or university.	3:41
	From the very beginning of its life,	3:44
	Duke university has come down on ashamedly, humbly,	3:46
	but resolutely in the position	3:51
	of a Christian faith commitment.	3:55
	I say it has done this from the beginning.	4:00
	It has done it not only from the beginning,	4:02
	but within the last three years,	4:04
	the highest authorities at Duke university have reaffirmed	4:07
	the stated aims of the university.	4:11
	They are in bronze on a plaque at the very center	4:15
	of the campus.	4:19
	Some of you have seen them.	4:20
	If you have not seen them there, perhaps in	4:22
	the religious life handbook that was mailed to you,	4:24
	you saw them photographed on the back cover.	4:28
	To clarify the point which I am seeking to make now,	4:33
	I would like to read these aims to you from the back cover	4:36
	of your religious life handbook.	4:39
	The aims of Duke University are to assert a faith	4:41
	in the eternal union of knowledge and religion set forth in	4:46
	the teachings and character of Jesus Christ the son of God,	4:52
	to advance learning in all lines of truth,	5:04
	to defend scholarship against all false notions and ideals,	5:08
	to develop a Christian love of freedom and truth,	5:13
	to promote a sincere spirit of tolerance.	5:17
	This is the aim of Duke university as an institution.	5:24
	To discourage all partisan and sectarian strife	5:29
	and to render the largest permanent service	5:37
	to the individual, the state, the nation and the church.	5:39
	Unto these ends shall the affairs of this university	5:43
	always be administered.	5:48
	That is the official position of the university.	5:52
	And that official position is responsible for this chapel,	5:56
	and for this Sunday university service of worship.	6:02
	This is not a group of people who suddenly decided one day	6:07
	to come together someplace on the campus and worship.	6:11
	This is the university officially at worship.	6:15
	I should also make another clarifying point,	6:19
	and that is that within the context	6:23
	of this very necessary faith commitment,	6:26
	the university sponsors and encourages and firmly insists	6:29
	upon total freedom for everyone to worship as he wishes,	6:33
	be he Buddhist, Mohammedan, Christian, Jew, whatever.	6:42
	The university also insists upon the complete freedom	6:49
	of its students and its faculty not to worship at all,	6:51
	if such is their wish.	6:55
	There must be and there is total freedom for the individual	6:59
	within this context of a necessary faith commitment	7:04
	for the university itself.	7:07
	Now that means therefore that what we are doing here,	7:10
	is gathering for worship around one central agreement	7:15
	and faith commitment, which is the faith in Jesus Christ,	7:22
	the son of God.	7:27
	That means therefore that the university of beckons all	7:31
	on its campus and within its community of learning,	7:35
	be they administration, faculty or students	7:39
	who share this faith commitment to come together	7:43
	for the worship of Almighty God, and to affirm this faith	7:48
	and to explore its meaning without any prior insistence upon	7:54
	a particular form of baptism, particular expressions	8:01
	of the minutiae of theological affirmations,	8:08
	without prior commitments	8:12
	to particularized ecclesiastical procedures	8:15
	or liturgical refinements	8:18
	in our various denominational groups	8:22
	and in our individual preferences,	8:25
	we have these differences of refinements and so on.	8:27
	But we come together here without a prior insistence	8:33
	upon any particular expression of these.	8:36
	We come here to join our hearts and minds in the worship	8:40
	of God within the Christian tradition.	8:44
	That's why we're here, that's what we're doing.	8:47
	Now, having made this rather broad statement	8:51
	of the generalities of what we do here,	8:57
	I should now deal with certain, very particular	9:01
	and distinguishing characteristics	9:04
	of this university service of worship that will help you	9:07
	to understand better what we do here and why we do it.	9:10
	I would like to say that there is a feature	9:17
	of this university service, which distinguishes it	9:20
	from many other services of worship around the world.	9:23
	Not all but many.	9:29
	We emphasize in this service, the worship of God period.	9:33
	This is not a backslapping personality cult	9:40
	that has gathered together under the name of	9:44
	a service of worship.	9:47
	What happens here is not an oration or a performance.	9:51
	The sermon is not judged on the basis of the perfection	9:56
	of its oratory, but upon the basis of its faithfulness	10:01
	in witnessing to the mighty acts of Almighty God	10:06
	in his son, Jesus Christ.	10:09
	The choir when it finishes singing its anthems	10:13
	which the dictionary defines as being songs of praise	10:18
	to God does not then bow to the congregation,	10:22
	but it bows to God.	10:27
	You may have noticed at the top of the service of worship	10:31
	in your bulletin, the words opening organ voluntary,	10:33
	not prelude.	10:40
	The word voluntary means in this connection,	10:42
	and a musical offering to God.	10:45
	This therefore is not played for your entertainment,	10:49
	but to assist you in your worship of God.	10:52
	We do not in this service try to highlight	11:00
	the personalities of individuals.	11:03
	We come here to recognize the majesty of Almighty God,	11:06
	the greatness of his acts in history and of his creation,	11:11
	and to affirm our obedience to his will.	11:16
	I have been in services of worship	11:21
	where the personality code was emphasized.	11:23
	Those of you who have been accustomed to worshiping	11:28
	in the chapel would be jarred, shocked,	11:30
	if we were to do that here.	11:34
	Not all churches for which perhaps you students	11:36
	who are new here come, do this but I have been	11:40
	in many services myself	11:43
	where something like this would happen.	11:45
	And if one of the persons who conducts	11:47
	those services were present today,	11:49
	he might proceed in the fashion.	11:52
	Stand up in the pulpit and say, well, I see over here,	11:56
	we have Beth Racy in our congregation this morning.	11:59
	I was a great run that Beth made last night at	12:03
	the football game.	12:05
	Beth, we're real glad that you're here.	12:06
	Awfully nice to have you.	12:09
	Oh, yes and I see over there Buzzy Harrison too.	12:11
	You know, you are basketball fans and he played	12:13
	in the championship game last year when we were number two	12:17
	in the nation.	12:20
	Great to have you Buzzy, it's real nice that you make	12:21
	this witness for Christ by coming to church.	12:23
	Oh yes, there's Burl Lye over there.	12:26
	Burl Lye you enjoyed your last picture?	12:28
	It's really a great a film and we've got a number	12:31
	of your records at our house.	12:33
	It's real great to have you here.	12:34
	Down here, I see Clyde Hood Jr.	12:36
	who's worshiping with us today.	12:38
	He's the son of our former United States Senator,	12:40
	who did so much for our state.	12:42
	Well, what's happening to the rest of us	12:45
	who are thus not singled out?	12:48
	Don't we get smaller and smaller,	12:51
	not only in the eyes of the congregation,	12:54
	but in our own eyes.	12:56
	When really in the eyes of God,	12:59
	every person who has come here to worship him is	13:00
	as great as every other person.	13:04
	We do not come here to have our egos inflated.	13:07
	We come here to get a vision of what God would like	13:10
	for us to know and to do.	13:14
	We come here to feel his love, his forgiveness of our sins	13:17
	and his grace to make us strong.	13:22
	We come here in short to worship God, rather than man.	13:25
	This is a university service of worship.	13:31
	And in view of that fact, the architecture of	13:37
	the building puts the altar in the center, not the pulpit.	13:41
	The preacher is not the center of worship, but God	13:47
	and consequently that article of furniture,	13:52
	which symbolically represents the presence of God	13:55
	and our devotion to God is placed in the center.	13:59
	And those who assist the congregation in worship are	14:03
	to the side, that is the choir, that is the preacher,	14:07
	that is the presiding minister.	14:11
	Those of us who are here are not performers for you	14:13
	in the congregation, but we with you worship God	14:18
	and center our thoughts upon God.	14:22
	Also along with that idea is the idea that the congregation	14:27
	and what it does is every bit as important	14:33
	as what the preacher does or the presiding minister	14:36
	or the choir.	14:39
	And consequently, we do the best we can to involve	14:42
	the congregation in this service.	14:45
	We do not have one person who leads the Lord's prayer	14:48
	and the rest of us sit and listen, and when it's over,	14:52
	we say, well, didn't she do a good job of leading	14:55
	the Lord's prayer?	14:58
	No, we all joined together and make it our own prayer.	15:00
	The same is true of other prayers in the service	15:05
	and of the hymns.	15:08
	This is one of the reasons why we sing hymns	15:10
	so that we may all participate.	15:12
	And I hope you'll remember that when we sing each Sunday.	15:15
	We participate in the offering.	15:21
	You may know that this chapel is not supported	15:25
	by the offering that is received here.	15:28
	None of the money that you contribute in the offering goes	15:30
	to the support of this chapel or its services.	15:34
	It is all turned over to the University Religious Council	15:37
	for the council to use in a program of charities.	15:40
	Well then why do we take up an offering if we don't need it	15:44
	to operate the chapel?	15:47
	We do it because worship is not complete without an act	15:49
	of giving, the giving of self.	15:53
	And we feel that if we operate a service of worship here	15:56
	and do not give you an opportunity to contribute,	15:59
	to give of yourself, we have not had complete worship,	16:04
	and we have robbed you of this opportunity.	16:07
	So every Sunday, we provide this opportunity for you to give	16:10
	of your money and symbolically of yourself to the service	16:14
	of God and for His glory.	16:19
	So then this is one of	16:23
	the particular distinguishing characteristics	16:25
	of our university service of worship.	16:28
	There is a second one that I would call to your attention.	16:31
	And that is that we make the deliberate, intentional effort	16:34
	here to feel ourselves a part of the church of Jesus Christ	16:38
	through all ages and in every land.	16:46
	This is not a gospel which any of us conceived here at Duke.	16:51
	It is a gospel that was given to us.	16:56
	It was not conceived by those who gave it to us.	17:00
	It was a gospel given by God, through Jesus Christ.	17:04
	and it is an ancient gospel.	17:08
	And therefore, if we are to receive	17:11
	the maximum spiritual benefit by coming here to worship,	17:14
	we should identify ourselves with	17:18
	the ongoing Christian community in every land	17:21
	and in every age.	17:24
	And so we select those things for use in the service,	17:27
	which do this.	17:32
	We read the scriptures, which are very ancient,	17:35
	and they are a part of the very bedrock of our faith.	17:39
	These are read in every service and when they are read,	17:44
	we may know that what happens here is in the tradition	17:47
	of the scriptures.	17:50
	And secondly, we always joined together in praying	17:52
	the Lord's prayer.	17:55
	There is no prayer used anywhere in the Christian Church	17:57
	that is as old or as authoritative and authentic	18:01
	as the Lord's prayer.	18:05
	And then there is a form of words that we use deliberately,	18:08
	which I want you to know about.	18:13
	A while ago, when Dean Clelland called us to prayer,	18:16
	he used a form of words.	18:20
	It was not put in the bulletin,	18:23
	just so it would look like we had a formal service	18:25
	of some kind.	18:28
	This was put in the bulletin because it is even older than	18:30
	the Apostles' Creed in the use of the church.	18:35
	We have books in our divinity school library here,	18:40
	which contains the most ancient forms of worship,	18:43
	which were used in the very earliest Christian Church	18:47
	and the call to prayer, which we use today	18:51
	and which we use each Sunday is the one described	18:54
	in there as being the most ancient.	18:57
	The presiding minister stands up and faces the congregation	18:59
	and he greets the congregation.	19:02
	He says to you, the Lord be with you.	19:05
	And then you greet him back.	19:11
	You answer and with thy spirit, and then he beckons	19:14
	the congregation and the ministers to approach the throne	19:21
	of grace by saying, let us pray.	19:26
	And so each Sunday, when you were presiding minister stands	19:30
	and faces you and greets you, the Lord be with you	19:35
	and you answer, and with thy spirit,	19:38
	and he says, let us pray, you may know that Christians down	19:40
	through 1900 years have approached the throne of grace	19:45
	with these words, and this is one of the reasons	19:50
	why we use this.	19:54
	There are others, but I mentioned this to be indicative.	19:56
	I said, also we identify ourselves	20:00
	with Christians of every land.	20:02
	I noticed here in the congregation this morning,	20:05
	people who are here from around the world.	20:07
	And this has been true always for at least	20:12
	for many years here at Duke, but this is not only true	20:14
	in the congregation, it is true in the choir,	20:18
	and it is true of the preachers who will preach	20:20
	to you in this pulpit.	20:23
	This year, for example we have president Chandran	20:24
	of the United Theological College in India,	20:28
	as one of our preachers.	20:31
	he will come here, not as a guest in this pulpit primarily.	20:32
	he will come here as one of the men of the church	20:36
	of Jesus Christ in the world today,	20:39
	who is bearing a witness to our Christian faith,	20:41
	which we hold in common.	20:44
	We do this in part to help all of us know that this is not	20:47
	an American religion primarily.	20:52
	It is not a Duke service of worship, primarily.	20:55
	But what we do here is a part of	20:59
	the great worldwide community of people	21:01
	who have found the meaning and salvation	21:04
	in the Lord, Jesus Christ.	21:07
	Well, there is a third distinguishing characteristic	21:10
	of what we do here.	21:14
	We believe that God is honored when we bring him our best,	21:17
	not our worst.	21:23
	God is honored by efficiency and by excellence,	21:26
	more than by inefficiency and slipshod shoddy thing.	21:30
	And so as a place of worship, the university has prepared	21:36
	a great architectural work.	21:43
	The time this chapel was built, it engaged	21:48
	the greatest ecclesiastical architectural minds of America.	21:51
	It was based upon the traditional architectural expressions	21:56
	of Christian faith back in the middle ages	22:00
	and on the continent.	22:03
	They brought the perfection of architecture and of art	22:05
	into this chapel in order that it may be an aid	22:10
	to our worship of God and our adoration of his greatness.	22:14
	We do not sing the ditties that are passing in this service,	22:19
	but the great music of Beethoven and Bach and Mozart,	22:26
	and the other great composers are used	22:30
	to enrich our worship of God.	22:33
	Not for the purpose of trying as we say, to show off,	22:39
	but for the purpose of offering our best to God	22:43
	and by implication who inspire each of us in our own lives	22:48
	to offer our best always to God.	22:53
	Now, there is a fourth distinguishing characteristic	22:58
	of what we do here, which is different	23:01
	from almost every other service of worship in the world.	23:05
	It is different intentionally.	23:10
	And I would be one to say that what we are doing here	23:13
	in this regard is something	23:16
	that should not be done everywhere.	23:17
	It should not be done all your life,	23:20
	but since you are here for four years and most of you	23:24
	for four years only, we do this abnormal thing deliberately.	23:27
	We do not have one and only one preacher	23:34
	in this chapel pulpit.	23:37
	This is not like your home church, where one man preaches	23:39
	all the sermons, or almost all of them.	23:43
	Here we have the man whom we consider to be	23:47
	the greatest preachers in the world, representing all of	23:51
	the denominational and sectarian groups	23:56
	of Christian dom around the world.	23:59
	If we do not have the greatest preachers here,	24:02
	it is simply because we do not know	24:04
	who are the greatest preachers.	24:06
	We intend to have the best, and we think that we do.	24:08
	When I say best, I mean the people who are shaping	24:12
	and molding the life of the church around the world,	24:15
	the significant voices of the church.	24:19
	We want you to hear these men and women	24:23
	for some of them are women, while you are here at Duke	24:26
	during these four years.	24:31
	We do this on the assumption	24:34
	that if you do not hear them now while you're in college,	24:37
	the chances are you will never hear them.	24:40
	You will hear very few of them.	24:42
	Now, if we were to pick out the one of these preachers	24:46
	that you consider to be the greatest,	24:51
	we'd take the list of those we've had in recent years	24:53
	and we'll have in the next few years and ask you to pick	24:56
	the one that you consider to be the greatest.	24:59
	And then we were to bring him here or select him	25:02
	from our own list of Duke preachers,	25:04
	and you heard him every Sunday.	25:09
	This would be fine, but you still would not have heard	25:11
	these other voices of the church.	25:15
	And we feel that in view of the fact that college is	25:19
	an abnormal situation, you're not going to be living with	25:23
	a roommate in a dormitory all your life.	25:27
	You're not going to be eating dining hall food	25:29
	all your life.	25:31
	You aren't going to be writing term papers all your life,	25:32
	at least you hope not.	25:35
	And you are going to be doing it for four years though.	25:38
	This is an intentional, deliberate,	25:41
	abnormal four year period.	25:43
	And therefore, without any apology, we break the pattern	25:47
	of your local church back home,	25:50
	where one man preaches all the sermons, and we have	25:53
	a variety of the greatest man of all denominations.	25:57
	I could give you many of the names.	26:01
	You have found some of them in your religious life handbook,	26:03
	you have found some of them	26:06
	in the chapel preaching schedule that is a part	26:07
	of the bulletin today, and you will know of others.	26:10
	We hope that you will hear these men and women	26:14
	as they come here to preach.	26:18
	And now finally, the last distinguishing characteristic	26:20
	of this service of what we do here, we have time	26:24
	to mention this morning is that it is a service of worship	26:27
	without any sectarian or denominational label	26:30
	or tag upon it.	26:33
	This is not in any way to criticize or belittle	26:37
	a service of worship in the Methodist church	26:41
	or the Presbyterian or the Episcopalian	26:45
	or the Catholic or any other.	26:47
	These are at the present time, at least,	26:51
	and for the foreseeable future, the necessary way	26:53
	in which worship will be conducted in your hometown	26:57
	and the city to which you will go	26:59
	when you graduate from Duke.	27:01
	But rather in keeping with the aims of the university,	27:06
	we conduct a service here, which is for this period	27:09
	of four years in your life shun	27:12
	of its denominational affiliations.	27:15
	I would emphasize at this point, the difference between	27:19
	an interdenominational service	27:21
	and a non-denominational service.	27:23
	This is not a non-denominational service.	27:26
	It is an inter-denominational service.	27:30
	We invite members of the congregation to come here	27:33
	as members of their denominations.	27:37
	We invite preachers to come here and preach	27:40
	as members of their denomination.	27:42
	If a preacher had no church affiliation,	27:47
	very likely he would not be invited to preach here.	27:51
	And your attendance at this service in no way interferes	27:55
	with your church membership at home.	28:00
	We do not ask you to join a thing to attend this service.	28:02
	We do not want you to break your denominational ties.	28:08
	We feel however that for a period of four years,	28:12
	it will help you as the university aims say	28:16
	to discourage partisan and sectarian strife,	28:19
	which has been the curse of some countries,	28:23
	which was the curse of the American colonies,	28:26
	and may again become a problem in the United States.	28:28
	The reason I say that is that something has happened within	28:32
	the last two years in our country, which raises a problem	28:35
	in the minds of many of us.	28:40
	Up until this time, there has been a great deal	28:44
	of interdenominational worship in America.	28:46
	This has taken place in our public schools.	28:49
	It has taken place in our baccalaureate services.	28:53
	It has taken place in the Congress of the United States	28:56
	where the Episcopalians and Methodists and Presbyterians	29:02
	and Baptists all sat down together for maybe	29:05
	a brief period of worship but we're accustomed	29:08
	to worshiping together as simply Christians,	29:11
	not as Methodists or Baptists.	29:15
	But we have had an official ruling of the Supreme Court	29:18
	that has struck down certain forms of this	29:22
	and many people have felt that this has meant that all forms	29:25
	of religious worship should end in our public schools	29:30
	and other public institutions.	29:34
	Now, this is not the time to discuss the constitutionality	29:37
	of this, or the legal aspects of this ruling.	29:41
	It is the time however, to point out that the effect	29:45
	of this will be that within a few years,	29:48
	most of the students who graduate from high school and come	29:52
	to college will be people who have had almost no experience	29:55
	in interdenominational worship.	29:58
	Practically, all of the worship they will have had,	30:01
	will have been sectarian in nature.	30:03
	In the days of the American colonies, all worship	30:09
	or virtually all worship was of this kind.	30:13
	And it led to sectarian strife and pride and competition	30:15
	and heated warfare between various churches.	30:21
	And so Thomas Jefferson, seeing this situation and knowing	30:26
	that we needed as a nation to be delivered from it,	30:31
	fashioned the first amendment to the constitution to bring	30:33
	an end to this, so that there would not be any one church	30:37
	that would be preferred over others.	30:41
	That all people could worship together	30:45
	or worship separately, but without artificial preference.	30:48
	And it may very well be that one of the greatest ironies	30:54
	of American history will be	30:57
	that what was originally conceived as an instrument	31:00
	to deliver us from sectarian strife will have been used by	31:03
	the judges in this day to plunge us back into	31:08
	the very Holocaust of sectarian bitterness from which	31:11
	that amendment originally delivered us.	31:16
	Be that as it may, the fact is clear that	31:19
	in such interdenominational services, as this one,	31:22
	there can be a tolerance and an understanding one Christian	31:28
	of another, and a joint worship of Jesus Christ,	31:34
	which our country will very sorely need	31:37
	in the generation ahead.	31:40
	Well, I say there are no denominational tags	31:43
	on this service, and that is true.	31:46
	It is not strictly a Protestant service.	31:50
	One of the figures at the front entrance	31:53
	to the chapel is that of Girolamo Savonarola,	31:55
	a great Roman Catholic preacher of Florence, Italy.	31:58
	We have invited Roman Catholic preachers to preach here.	32:03
	We're encouraged to believe that the day is not far off	32:06
	when this will be accepted.	32:09
	And of course, many of our Catholic students do worship here	32:11
	in the chapel.	32:14
	This is a Christian chapel dedicated to a faith	32:16
	in Jesus Christ, as the son of God.	32:20
	Well, whether you call this a sermon or not,	32:23
	and I am not concerned to decide whether it is,	32:26
	that is what we're trying to do here in the Duke chapel,	32:29
	in the university service of worship.	32:33
	Let us pray.	32:36
	Almighty God, our heavenly father.	32:43
	We thank thee that thou has to offered unto us	32:46
	and unto all men, thy love in Jesus Christ, our Lord.	32:48
	And we now each of us personally accept that offered love	32:54
	and that offered Christ in his name.	33:00
Man	And now I make grace mercy and peace	33:05
	from God the father, God the son	33:07
	and God the Holy Spirit be with you all	33:09
	(Choir singing)	33:18
	(bell ringing)	34:47
	(upbeat music)	34:59

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Title:

Howard C. Wilkinson - "What We Do Here" (September 20, 1964)

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September 20, 1964

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Wilkinson, Howard C.

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