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George Teaz Jamieson interviewed by Alfreda Hinn, May 12, 1980.
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- speakerMy
- speakername is Reverend George Teaz
- speakerJamieson. I was born in
- speakerPhiladelphia on February the twenty six nineteen hundred and
- speakerseven. Was educated in the Philadelphia public
- speakerschools and after graduation from high
- speakerschool, having no intention of going to
- speakercollege, I secured a job in the actuary Department of the Penn Mutual Life
- speakerInsurance
- speakercompany. And, after a few years there.
- speakerI went to a Charka Corporation of
- speakerPhiladelphia, which are steamship terminal
- speakeroperators and was a cost accountant
- speakerthere. I decided to turn my
- speakerlife over to the ministry of Jesus
- speakerChrist and in nineteen thirty- two enrolled at Temple
- speakerUniversity in
- speakerthis school of theology
- speakerthere. And, almost immediately ever hired by the Union
- speakerTabernacle Presbyterian Church
- speakeras a lay assistant to the
- speakerminister on a full time basis.
- speakerAfter graduating with a bachelor
- speakerscience and theology and S.T.B. I
- speakermean and
- speakera Bachelor of
- speakerEducation. At the same time, having earned a master in theology and a
- speakerdoctorate in theolgy,
- speakerI was called to the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield
- speakerat Flourtown, Pennsylvania in the old Philadelphia Presbytery North.
- speakerI was ordained on October the fifth nineteen thirty
- speakerseven. From thirty-seven to forty three having
- speakerserved at Flowertown,
- speakerI was decided to volunteer for the United States Army
- speakerchaplaincy. And, I was called in forty three and served till forty six
- speakeras a transport
- speakerchaplain and post chaplain at Fort Lawton in
- speakerWashington. After retirement from the
- speakerArmy to nineteen. [Hinn] There was a special name for
- speakerthat sort of occupation. Weren't
- speakeryou on the Navy ships and you were called
- speakerWhat? A saildier. [Jamieson] We called ourselves saildiers because we sailed with the
- speakerNavy all the time, and our post office
- speakeraddress was a United States Fleet Post Office, but I was in the army
- speakernevertheless. After retiring from the
- speakerArmy, I was called to the Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church in Marshallton, Delaware, and
- speakerdown that
- speakerin Newcastle County,
- speakerwhere I served until nineteen sixty-two.
- speakerDuring that time I had served the church as Moderator of presbytery. Moderator of the synod,
- speakerin all the base committees of the presbytery and synod.
- speakerNine hundred sixty two, I resigned there. and [Hinn]
- speakerWell before you go on from there. What kind of people were in that church? Were
- speakerthey farmers
- speakeror businessmen or what? [Jamieson] They were wealthy
- speakerfarmers and scientists of the Dupont Company.
- speakerAlmost fifty fifty doctors and farmers.
- speaker[Hinn] Which. What would you say was one of your
- speakermust. Interesting experiences in that church?
- speaker[Jamieson] I don't think there is any more than any
- speakerpastorate, execpt I was able as in Flowertown to build an educational building
- speakerand to
- speakerredecorate model which was church sanctuary church itself.
- speaker[Hinn] What kind of programs did you put on at that time in that
- speakerchurch? [Jamieson] You know the same as every other
- speakerminister worship
- speakerservices youth programs men's work women's
- speakerwork the same as in any ordinary Prebyterian
- speakerChurch. Nothing
- speakerunusual. After I retired
- speakerfrom there, I went to
- speakerRosemont Presbyterian village under Philadelphia Presbyterian Homes to serve as the superintendent
- speakerthere, where I continued till I retired.
- speaker[Himm] What age group of people was that at Rosemont Village? [Jamieson] Well, it is a
- speakerretirement village. It
- speakerwent from sixty five to ninety
- speakerfive. [Hinn] And how many were in the
- speakergroup? [Jamieson] about eighty five. [Hinn] Did you have
- speakerany thing especially interesting happen there?
- speaker[Jamieson] Not especially [Hinn] did you.
- speakerI know that you put on some programs that were especially
- speakerinteresting like once a year having
- speakera tea and inviting people out,
- speakeror wasn't it a tea?
- speaker[Jamieson] I don't know what you mean. We had continuous programs all year round
- speakerbut picnics
- speakerparties and social functions in which the volunteers of the Ladies Auxilliary
- speakerwere always invited to
- speakerand all the residents and workers and so
- speakeron we were continuously in motion.
- speakerI. Did you have
- speakerthe musical
- speakerprograms? What kind of programs did you
- speakerhave? [Jamieson] We had entertainment of all kinds. Choral
- speakergroups, solo groups, instrumental
- speakergroups. We had weekly Bible
- speakerstudy, weekly religious
- speakerservice Holy Communion
- speakerevery two months. It was a
- speakercontinuous program every night of the
- speakerweek. Card parties, birthday parties,
- speakerand all the rest of
- speakerit. [Hinn] But, there was one special event each
- speakeryear in which you invited people in from the
- speakeroutside, wasn't there? Maybe donors or
- speakerI something like that? [Jamieson] Well, not so often. They were invited to
- speakerall the Fourth of July picnic and the Halloween party.
- speaker[Hinn] There wasn't any special event that they were invited
- speakerto? [Jameison] No. The Women's Auxiliary put on their greatest fashion show
- speakerfor all the Homes once a year. [Himm] Maybe that's what are. [Jamieson] There were all the
- speakerhundreds and hundreds came and they raised thousands of
- speakerdollars for the homes. And, they still do that every year. [Hinn] Sounds
- speakergreat! [Jamieson] They do it at some big hotel
- speakeror eating
- speakerplace. [Hinn] What did you do when
- speakeryou left there? [Jamieson] I retired, that's it. [Hinn] But you're still working I
- speakerknow. [Jamieson] But, that's just past
- speakertimes. I don't work in ministry except on
- speakerthe men's work Committee of the
- speakerpresbytery. [Hinn] How many years were you in each
- speakerchurch? [Jamieson] Well,
- speakerI was assistant at Union Tabernacle for five
- speakeryears. I was in Flower
- speakertown six years. I was in the
- speakerArmy for over three
- speakeryears. And, I was in Marshallton for fifteen
- speakeryears, and at Rosemont for ten years. Approximately.
- speaker[Hinn] Well, that sounds very good. You can't
- speakerthink of any special experience you had in one of these places that you'd like to tell us
- speakerabout some interesting happening here
- speakeror something. Nothing except once in
- speakerawhile in Delaware. I happen to be a minister
- speakerof what is called the governor's
- speakerchurch because in the state of Delaware
- speakermost political leaders and governors had come from that church in seventeen
- speakertwenty and we had a governor's night. One time where we
- speakerhad three governors present for about.
- speakerWith several hundred
- speakermen but that was only because it was pretty over church.
- speakerSounds very
- speakergood. And, is there anything else you can think of that interesting that
- speakerhappened in any one of your churches?
- speaker[Jamieson] No I've nothing is exciting except every
- speakerday. [Hinn] That's is a good attitude to have.
- speakerThank you very much. We
- speakerappreciate your telling us about your work
- speakerand what happened. And the
- speakerHistorical Society will be glad to have this information. It will
- speakerbe filed under
- speakertheir special program
- speakerfor oral
- speakerhistory and we do thank you very much.
- speakerI will hear playback and see what you think of
- speakerit.
- speakerThis is Alfreda Hinn interviewing
- speakerGeorge Jameson for the breast and Historical
- speakerSociety.
