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Includesom e samples of yourw riting to dem onstrateyour skill. W rite:Arts E ditor,P hoenix, 395 A tlanticA ve.,B rooklyn 11217N o Calls PleaseA ll the News ofThe Arts EveryWeek in the PagesO f The PhoenixRead The Phoenix Every Week For Award-Winning Coverage of Real Estate and Business NewsRated Best in New York State in 1985For Coverage of Business andEconomic NewsBy the N Y State Press AssociationRev. W illiam H ow ard Melish was joined by w ell-w ishers at the com m em oration onSunday of the 50th anniversary of his ordination. Am ong those who were there to honorhim were: Oliver Burkson; Rev. W illiam Persell, current rector of St. Ann and Holy TrinityChurch; Craig Townsend; Rev. A rthur W alm sley, Bishop of C onnecticut; and FrankTouchet and Lewis Ferrara from Grace Church in Q ueens, the parish where M elish wasrector for ten years. (Phoenix/Pearson Photo)H onor to M elishContinued from Page Iment and civil rights. It was the same work that brought him into a clash with the then Bishop of Long Island during the %u201cRed Scare%u201d of the Fifties, a clash which brought him to national attention and cost him his pulpit.%u201cThe honor he had stripped away by events, here we have seen it returned to him,%u201d Walmley said. %u201cHe lead the way for us to be a parish that stands for justice and truth,%u201d Reverend William D. Pursell, the current rector added.Melish was bom in the rectory of the original Church of the Holy Trinity, now renamed, where his father was rector, and where he in 1939 began to serve as assistant rector. Melish then became acting rector from 1951 until 1957 when the Bishop of Long Island closed the church in disfavor of Melish%u2019s involvement with the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship, a group he founded in 1943 which subsequently landed on Senator Joseph McCarthy%u2019s list of alleged Communist organizations.The %u201cMelish Case,%u201d as it became known, was a protracted legal and media battle between parishioners who nominated Melish to succeed his father as rector of the church and those opposed to that nomination. The church was finally closed and the parish dissolved in1957 and was not reopened again for 12 years. It has since been renamed St. Ann and The Holy Trinity Church.Also acknowledging him for his work, Deborah Kartner from Borough President Howard Golden%u2019s office, presented the minister, who had returned to St. Ann%u2019s Church in 1982, with a proclamation proclaiming May 25, 1986, William Howard Melish Day. %u201cDuring one of our darkest decades of this country, the %u201cMelish Case,%u201d became a focal point for the struggle for civil liberties and right to dissent,%u201d Kartner read.At a reception after the service, old parishioners returned to greet the 76-year-old minister, and look at the picture memories which lined the walls to re-tell history for the over 100 people gathered. Many of those who came, old parishioners and new alike, spoke of his far reaching influence.%u201cMost of us were in the street gang the Pharo and he brought us in and opened our eyes to change,%u201d says Michael Bruno, now a public school teacher. %u201cHe opened our eyes to the civil rights movement. We picketed Woolworth%u2019s in the 1950%u2019s so they would hire more minorities before people were doing that. He fought vehemently for civil rights,%u201d he remembers.Doctor Meyer Kan ter summed up the whole history as Melish and his wife Mary Jane studied the scenes of their past mounted on the wall. %u201cHe laid the way for us. He is the foundation of everything we have done.%u201dSome of the Messages on Commemoration Day:These messages appeared in the churchbulletin for the special May 25 com m em oration of the 50th anniversary of the ordinationto the priesthood of the Rev. W illiam HowardMelish.W hen one created in God%u2019s im age says%u201c no%u201d to oppression all of creation is touchedby a new epiphany of G od%u2019s love. I give thanksthat I have known such a person as WilliamHoward Melish. I am grateful for his com m itment to justice, mercy and peace; for hisquiet, persistent resistance to all thatdim inishes God%u2019s children; and for his devotion to world peace and understanding between the USSR and the USA. In his life andministry I find a challenge to %u201cjudge the timesand respond in accordance with (my) mindand conscience.\God%u2019s com passionate way through WilliamHoward Melish. %u2014 The Rt. Rev. O tis Charles,Dean, Episcopal Divinity School, and Bishopof Utah.The Rev. W illiam Howard M elish has nowfor fifty years com bined the priestly vocationof presenting his com forting m essage ofChristm as and the Eucharist, that God is withus, with the prophetic vocation calling out forfreedom and justice. This courageousm inister was an interesting phenomenon tome in the 1950%u2019s when I was a sem inarian and,even then, a distant inspiration. In the 1960%u2019swe became friends and worked together and,when sometimes I felt isolation and fearedwhat I was doing was absurd, was folly, fromthis good man and from Mary Jane, I receivedstrength and wisdom . I saw that th e pulpitguidance, and priestly care, the publicwitness, was part of a private life style, of ahome and family open to include and shelterso many others. And I saw that the disciplined life of study and intellectual curiositythat is part of the ministry continued %u2014 andall surrounded by an enjoyment of art andmusic and life. As a white Southerner I cansay that William Howard Melish is a scholarand a gentleman; as a minister, teacher, andsom etim e freedom fighter, I know thatW illiam Howard M elish is part of a long linethat will still continue after all of us and that,truly, %u201cW e are surrounded by so great a cloudof w itnesses.%u201d Therefore \perseverance the race that is set before us.%u201d%u2014 The Rev. Edwin King, Civil rights activistand teacher, Jackson, Mississippi.I salute W illiam Howard Melish on hisvaliant and distinguished ministry in the service of Jesus Christ. His has been a ministrym arked by dedication, vision and rarecourage. His w itness has left its impact onthe whole Church, and all of us, whether weserve in the environs of St. Ann and the HolyTrinity or in the farthest reaches of theC hurch%u2019s life, are in his debt. H e has held higha torch that has guided and inspired all of uswho love the Church and that will burn brightly through long years to come. For him andfor his brave w itness, we give thanks to God.%u2014 The Rt. Rev. Robert M. Hatch, Bishop ofW estern M assachusetts, Rstired.During the years of struggle to survive atthe height of the McCarthy period, a testingtim e for many of us, the Rev. W illiam HowardM elish%u2019s courageous stand on the side ofpeace and freedom of speech was a beaconof light to the faint hearted. I salute him. Mayhis days ahead be filled with renewedstrength, robust health, and peace that comesfrom the knowledge of a life filled with lovefor mankind. %u2014 Dorothy K. Hunton, Workedwith her late husband, Aiphaeus Hunton, andW.E.B. DuBois on %u201c Encyclopedia Africans%u201d inGhanaMy association with Howard began at Harvard in 1926 where we were greatly influencedby Professor W illiam Langer w hile studyinghistory and government. Often we differedpoiiticaiiy but we mutually respected eachothers%u2019 private opinions. Common groundswere love of Wagnerian music and ourAnglican taith. Fifty years ago, just after hisordination, Father Melish married Viola andme at St. Luke's, Forest Hills. H e subsequently baptized our two sons. This friendship hasbeen a broadening and valuable experience.%u2014 W alter Koetzle, Secretary, Standing C om %u00adm ittee, Diocese of Long island.P ag e 36, T H E P H O E N IX , M ay 29, 1986