In September of 1937, a small article ran in a local newspaper informing the public of a staff change at Wesley Methodist Church. Miss Nina McCash, lately of Colorado Springs, Colorado, had been named as the new assistant to the minister by pastor Rev. Hugh B. Fouke.
She would be replacing Rev. S. Lewis Stockwell, assistant pastor, who was moving on to Trinity Methodist in Hutchinson, Kansas.
It was noted Miss McCash - actually Miss Nina McCosh - was a graduate of the "Kansas City Methodist Training School" and had formerly been a "helper" at Guthrie for five years.
This is an interesting item due to the period of the 1930's and women's struggles to achieve ordination in Methodism. In 1933 a proposal for the ordination of women in the M.E., South had been denied. An order specific to women had been in place for many decades: the Order of Deaconess. The K.C. school had originally been the " Kansas City National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries." In 1933, it went under the briefer name noted in the news piece.
Here we see a tiny glimpse of the presence of women leader's in early 20th Century Oklahoma Methodism and hints as to the attitudes of women in leadership roles at Wesley Methodist Church.
Here we see a tiny glimpse of the presence of women leader's in early 20th Century Oklahoma Methodism and hints as to the attitudes of women in leadership roles at Wesley Methodist Church.
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