Holyoke, Mass

Minister’s Daughter Will Follow Father

by Laurel | May 18th, 2010

May 18, 1925

Grace church has sent invitations to the Congregational churches of the valley and various officials in the theological seminaries to act as a council in the ordination of Miss Dorothy Robinson, daughter of Rev. E. B. Robinson, who is to be graduated this spring from the Hartford Theological seminary.

Miss Robinson is a graduate of Mount Holyoke college and is a licentiate of the Hampden association Congregational churches and has served as church pastor for two summers . She has been appointed an instructor at Mount Holyoke college and will take up her duties there in September.

From The Springfield Republican.

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