Parsons Selected New Chairman of Preachers' Board

The Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, executive secretary and director of the Massachusetts Baptist Student Foundation has been named new acting chairman of the Board of Preachers at Memorial Church, it was learned yesterday.

He succeeds the Very Rev. Charles L. Taylor, dean of the Episcopal Theological School, who has been acting chairman during the past year, since former Dean Willard L. Sperry's retirement.

Parsons will act in the position until June 30.

According to present plans, the permanent chairman, when appointed, will also fill a new University Professorship of christianity, and oversee Phillips Brooks House.

Permanent Chairman

The appointment of another acting chairman postpones once again the choice of a permanent clergyman to fill the vacant post at Memorial Church and the newly created University professorship. President Pusey announced in September that a permanent chairman will not be chosen "in the near future,"--at least not until a Dean of the Divinity School has been elected.

Ex-Provest Paul H. Buck suggested last spring that the new professor must not only be a qualified clergyman, but a scholar as well, able to hold his own with the other members of the faculty on the basis of his academic achievements.

Rev. Parsons was educated at Denison University and the Andover Newton Theological School.