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Description:Produced by the WRC-TV Community Affairs Department in association with the National Presbyterian Center and the Council of Churches of Greater Washington. Guests of Dr. Lowell R. Ditzen, host, include: Rear Admiral Richard G. Hutcheson, Jr.; Chaplain, Colonel Simon H. Scott, Jr.; Rev. A. Ray Appelquist.Creator:Ditzen, Lowell Russell, 1913-1987. (speaker), Hutcheson, Richard G., 1921-2012. (speaker), Scott, Simon H. (speaker), Appelquist, A. Ray. (speaker)Subject names:National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.), Council of Churches of Greater Washington (D.C.), WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)Topics:Military chaplains.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116517
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Description:Presbyterian Churchman Receives Medal for Merit -- Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson presents the Medal for Merit to the Reverend William Barrow Pugh, D.D., of Philadelphia, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., for his services to the United States during the war. As chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, Dr. Pugh was instrumental in bringing two thousand clergymen into the chaplaincy. The ceremony took place in Mr. Patterson's office, Pentagon, Washington D.C., July 8, 1947.Subject names:Pugh, William Barrow, 1889-1950--Medals., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly. Stated Clerk (1938-1950 : Pugh)Topics:World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5640
