Two men from St. Alban's, "inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost," have entered the Episcopal priesthood. Following long custom, both were made Deacons in ceremonies at our church; they were the first two from this parish to receive Holy Orders.
The awesome responsibilities they assumed, witnessed by their friends and families, imparted a sense of the endless mission in which they and we hold shares. St. Alban's is honored, proud and humbled by their dedication.
The Rev. Culver L. Mowers graduated from the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., and was ordained to the Diaconate on June 14, 1968, by the Rt. Rev. Walter Maydole Higley. While serving the mission parishes of St. Paul's, Brownville, and All Saint's, Dexter, he was ordained a Priest in Trinity Church, Watertown, by the Rt. Rev. Ned Cole on May 28, 1969. He is currently serving St. Mark's, Candor, and St. Thomas', Slaterville Springs, in the Tioga-Tompkins Mission Field.
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| Clergy participating in the Ordination to the Diaconate of The Rev. Culver L. Mowers. Left to right: The Rev. Robert C. Ayers, Preacher; Mr. Mowers; Rt. Rev. Walter M. Higley, Ordainer; Rev. Roswell C. Williams, Litanist; and Rev. Donald R. Grindy, Presenter and Rector of St.Alban's. |
The Rev. William C. Redfield also graduated from the Episcopal Theological School. He was ordained a Deacon on July 11, 1976, by the Rt. Rev. Ned Cole. He is currently resident in the Diocese of Maine, where he was ordained a Priest by the Rt. Rev. Frederick Barton Wolf on June 4, 1978. In 1979 he served as assistant at Christ Church, Gardiner, Me., and was engaged in child and marriage counseling at Gardiner and Portland. He his now the rector of Trinity Fayetteville N.Y.
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| William C. Redfield is presented to the Rt. Rev. Ned Cole for Ordination as a Deacon by the Rev. Donald R. Grindy, left, Rector of St. Alban's who also preached the sermon, and Dr. William V. Redfield, father of the Ordinand and Senior Warden of the parish. |
| The Rev. Hamilton Hyde Kellogg; (St. Alban's 1924-25) later became Bishop of Minnesota. He was the second Central New Yorker to hold this post; the first being Missionary Bishop Whipple who founded that diocese. Bishop Whipple was a native of Adams, N.Y., and trained for the priesthood under the Rev. W. D. Wilson. | During the early years of this parish, the priest-in-charge also served Christ Church, Jordan, and later, St. Mark's, Jamesvile. |
| The Department of Mission, reporting to the 1930 Diocesan Convention, said, "Only one building was erected in the Diocese during the past year". . a church by St. Alban's, Syracuse. "Built of handsome Onondaga limestone at a cost of $20,000." | The first Eucharist in our parish was celebrated in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Horrocks, 504 Fellows Ave. |
The earliest memorial still in use is the large Alms Basin, given by John R. Wickes in memory of James Jones, son of a neighbor, who was killed in World War I.
| The site of our first church on Strong Ave. at Lenox is along an ancient Indian trail which led from the salt springs at Onondaga Lake to a major Onondaga village southeast of the present Jamesville. | The Rev. William S. Hayward, whose home became our first church, had a long career as a missionary, first in the Mississippi Valley, and later as Priest-inCharge at the Onondaga Reservation. His three daughters were lifelong members of our parish. |
| Furnishings for the church at 238 Strong Avenue were given by the Diocese from an extinct parish, St. Joseph's, in Rome, N.Y. The altar from that church is the one we use today. It was carved by Miss Ann Huntington, niece of the Rt. Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington, first bishop of Central New York. | The large reed organ we used from 1929 until 1969 has found a home
in the Musical Museum at Deansboro, N.Y., south of Utica. The organ used in the first church was the gift of St. Mark's, Syracuse, to "Dr. Wilson's new church." |
| In the '20's, Winifred Anglin and Frank Wilcox, stars of a summer stock company playing at the old Wieting Opera House and members of their cast were regulars in our choir on Strong Ave. Joe Spaid recalls that when word got around of their presence, the crowds filled the little church to overflowing. | The Rev.W. Delancey Wilson, founder of St. Alban's, was the father of W. Dexter Wilson, early member of this parish and a prominent layman in the Diocese. |
