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DR. CHAMBERLIN RESIGNS WHITE CHURCH PASTORATE

JUNE, 1927
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DR. CHAMBERLIN RESIGNS WHITE CHURCH PASTORATE
JUNE, 1927

Dr. Roy Bullard Chamberlin, pastor of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth since 1921, has resigned his pastorate to accept a position as Fellow in Religion on the faculty of the College. As Fellow in Religion Dr. Chamberlin will devote all of this time to religious activities of the College, continuing in charge of the arrangement of chapel programs, and acting as counsellor in religious matters. His resignation from the pastorate of the White Church is dated to take effect October 1, following the opening of the next, college year.

Dr. Roy Bullard Chamberlin was born at Kingston, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1887. He received his early schooling there, and graduated from Wesleyan with the degree of A. B. in 1909. The next year he was given the M. A. by his alma mater, and in 1915 he was graduated from Union Theological Seminary. Wesleyan honored him with the D. D. degree in 1926.

Following his graduation from college he taught at the Tome School for one year and at the Taft School for two years. Dr. Chamberlin was called to the Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake in 1915, where he stayed two years, leaving to enter French Y. M. C. A. work during the war. At the close of the war Dr. Chamberlin accepted an executive position in the United War Work Campaign.

Wesleyan called him back to Middletown as Alumni Secretary in 1918. Dr. Chamberlin was called from this position to the pastorate of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College in 1921. In 1925 he was appointed Chapel Director at Dartmouth and he has carried this work for the past two years in addition to his pastorate.