SERVICE OF HOPE
To Dedicate The Last Stained Glass Window
September 30, 2001

Participants

Rowan LeCompte, Stained Glass Artist

Suffering and Redemption, Israel in Exile by the Waters of Babylon, the final stained glass window of Washington National Cathedral, is also a summation of the life work of its acclaimed designer, Rowan LeCompte. As a thirteen-year-old boy visiting the Cathedral in 1939, he was awestruck by the north rose window, the masterpiece of artisan Lawrence Saint. LeCompte resolved that day to learn everything he could about stained glass.

Long conversations with Cathedral architect Philip Hubert Frohman led to his first Cathedral commission when he was just sixteen years old. He visited the Cathedral on January 2, 1942, to show Frohman his watercolor design for a little window in tiny St. Dunstan's Chapel (now the Cathedral Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage). Frohman marveled at LeCompte's sketch and LeCompte left that day with an offer from the Building Committee to create the window.

As a young Army soldier during World War II, he found himself standing in Notre Dame Cathedral. With him on that historic day was another soldier, Charles Matz, who would become the principal author of the iconographic scheme for the Cathedral's eighteen clerestory windows. When LeCompte returned home in 1946, he began his formal arts education studying with Ben Benn and at the New School of Social Research in New York. Further studies came at the American University and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Washington, D.C.

Rowan LeCompte recently offered this benediction upon the stained glass in his beloved Cathedral: "May all the windows work together to achieve a great visual music that will sing harmoniously with the architecture so to truly lift the heart and in every moment of daylight offer up its radiant prayer of passionate praise and gratitude."

Dieter Goldkuhle

Born in Widenbrueck, Germany, Dieter Goldkuhle came to the United States in 1962. Goldkuhle holds a Diploma of Stained Glass Artisan from the State Glassmaking School of Rheinbach. Since 1966, he has worked as a fabricator and restorer of stained glass windows in Reston, Virginia. Goldkuhle has made or

installed over ninety windows in collaboration with artisits Brenda Belfield, Albert Birkle, Ervin Bossanyi, Hans Kaiser, Rowan LeCompte, Robert Lewis, Eduard Renggli, Patrick Reyntiens and Rodney Winfield. He has restored numerous windows at the Cathedral. In addition to his work at Washington National Cathedral, he has restored medieval glass in The Cloisters, the Walters Art Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution.

The Very Rev. Nathan Dwight Baxter is the Dean of Washington National Cathedral. A third generation clergyman, he was elected sixth dean of Washington National Cathedral in November 1991. Previously he was Administrative Dean and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Dean and Associate Professor of Church and Ministry at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1976 with honors in homiletics and theology. He earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Lancaster Seminary in 1984.

He was a Chaplain and Professor of Religious Studies at St.Paul's College, Lawrenceville, Virginia and has served parishes in Virginia and Pennsylvania. He was designated as a Charles E. Merrill Fellow at Harvard Divinity School in 1998.

Dr. Michael Berenbaum is founder of The Berenbaum Group, a consulting firm specializing in the conceptual design of museums and the development of historical films relating to the Holocaust.From 1988 to 1993, he served as Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, overseeing its creation. He is the former directorof the United States Holocaust Museum Research Institute and President of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The author of twelve books, he was co-producer of One Survivor Remembers: the Gerda Weissman Story, which won an Academy Award.

Dr. Herman Berlinski has composed symphonic and chamber works, solo works for the organ, song cycles, numerous liturgical choral works and oratorios. Among his recent large-scale works is Ets Chayim (The Tree of Life), commissioned by Project Judaica Maskir Neshamoth (In Remembrance of the Soul), commissioned by the Library of Congress. Dr. Berlinski was born of Polish Jewish parents in 1910 in Leipzig, where he received his early music education. Forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1933, he became a student of Nadia Boulanger in France and later served in the French Army until 1941, when he fled Occupied France. He settled in New York, where he became the first person at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America to earn the degree of Doctor of Sacred Music. Now a resident of Washington, D.C., he was Minister of Music to the Washington Hebrew Congregation for many years.

The Right Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon is Bishop of Washington, pro tempore. She was consecrated in 1992 as Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was the second woman to be elevated to the office of bishop in the Episcopal Church, the third in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Since January 1, 2001, she has served as bishop pro tempore during the search and election of the eighth Bishop of Washington. Bishop Dixon attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College and earned her B.A. and M.A.T. degrees from Vanderbilt University, and a Master of Divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1981. She is president of the Board of the Interfaith Alliance and a member of the Board of Trustees at Virginia Theological Seminary. She is the 1996 recipient of the Margaret Brent Award given annually by St. Mary's College to the woman who has been a pioneer in her field.

Dr. R. Benjamin Dobey is Minister of Liturgical Music at the St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Annandale, Virginia. Dr. Dobey was assistant music director of the Cathedral Choral Society from 1985 to 1993, during which time he was also assistant director of the Washington Bach Consort. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, he received his advanced degrees from Eastman School of Music. Most recently, Dr. Dobey was organist and choirmaster at Our Lady of Grace in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

The Rev. Canon Barbara T. Duncan has been the Cathedral's Missioner since April 2000 and Canon Pastor prior to that. Previously, she served as associate rector at St. Columba's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., In the Diocese of Delaware, she was associate for youth education at Christ Church in Greenville, interim rector of St. Matthew's Church and canon missioner of the Cathedral Church of St. John in Wilmington, and chaplain of the Women's Correctional Institution, as well as coordinator of criminal justice ministries for the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Canon Duncan holds her baccalaureate degree in Music Education from Virginia State College and a Master of Music degree from West Chester University (Pennsylvania). She earned a Master of Divinity degree from Lancaster Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Dr. Dennis Edelbrock has been a member of the United State Army Band and a member of the Army Quintet since 1975. A graduate of the University of Iowa with advanced degrees from The Catholic University of America, Dr. Edelbrock is currently adjunct professor of trumpet at George Mason University. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Washington Opera, Washington Chamber Orchestra and Cathedral Choral Society Orchestra. As the United States Army's Senior Special Bugler, Dr. Edelbrock represented the nation in Kuwait playing "Taps" in 1994 for Operation Desert Peace.

Dr. Graham Elliott is interim Director of the Choirs at Washington National Cathedral. He conducted the choral music at the Presidential Prayer Service, which was held in the Cathedral on Friday, September 14, the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. Dr. Elliott has been Director of Music at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, in Washington, D. C., since November 1999. He has established an arts festival located on the 100-acre glebe that surrounds St. Paul's, the oldest church in the District of Columbia and the city's only colonial church. A native of the British Isles, Dr. Elliott was Organist and Master of the Choristers at St. Asaph Cathedral for ten years and Master of the Music at Chelmsford Cathedral for eighteen years before his move to the United States.

The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsberg is Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she attended Cornell University and the law schools at Harvard and Columbia, later becoming the first tenured female professor at Columbia Law School. Prior to that appointment, she clerked for the U.S. District Court of Appeals in New York and taught at Rutgers University School of Law. Justice Ginsberg was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. President Clinton nominated her to the United States Supreme Court in 1993.

The Rev. Canon Peter F. Grandell is Precentor of Washington National Cathedral, where he oversees the Worship Department, including Music and the Altar Guild, and the approximately 1,800 services held in the Cathedral each year. Canon Grandell came to the Cathedral from General Theological Seminary in New York City where he served as assistant director of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd and was a teaching assistant in homiletics. Previously, he was the chief sacristan at General Theological Seminary (1994­1995), when he was graduated with a Master of Divinity degree. Before coming to the Cathedral, Canon Grandell served several churches in both ordained and lay capacities. He graduated cum laude from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York, with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 1981.

The Reverend Fuad Khouri is a Presbyterian minister serving as pastor of the Arabic Church of the Redeemer in Washington, DC. Jordanian by birth and a naturalized American citizen, Pastor Khouri earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the American University and a Master of Divinity degree from the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, Lebanon. He received a Master of Sacred Theology from Gettysburg Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Prior to emigrating to the United States, he served fifteen years as a pastor of the National Evangelical Church in Beirut. He also served congregations in Pennsylvania for ten years before coming to Washington in 1996 to establish the Arabic Church of the Redeemer.

Dr. J. Reilly Lewis has been Music Director of the Cathedral Choral Society since 1985. A native of Washington, DC, he received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School of Music. He has conducted the Cathedral Choral Society several times at the Kennedy Center and has presided over many premiere performances with the Choral Society. He is founding music director of the Washington Bach Consort and organist and choirmaster at Clarendon United Methodist Church in Arlington, Virginia.

His Eminence, Theodore C.McCarrick is Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia. On February 21, 2001, just seven weeks after he was installed as the Archbishop of Washington, Archbishop McCarrick was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II. He is Chancellor of The Catholic University of America and President of the Board of Trustees of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. He has visited many nations, including China, Cuba, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, Rwanda, and Burundi, as a human rights advocate and to survey humanitarian needs. Cardinal McCarrick was one of three American clerics invited to visit China in January 1998 to discuss religious freedoms in that country. In December 2000, President Clinton presented him with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.

Ms. Linda Mabbs, soprano, is professor of voice at the University of Maryland School of Music. Earlier this year, she performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. She holds her bachelor's and master's degrees in voice from Northwestern University. Ms. Mabbs has sung with noted conductors such as Sir Georg Solti, Sir Neville Marriner, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Shaw, Leonard Slatkin, and Margaret Hillis and has appeared frequently with the Cathedral Choral Society in concert.

Dr. Douglas Major is Organist at Washington National Cathedral, where he has been on the staff since 1974 and has enjoyed watching almost all the nave clerestory windows come to life during their installation in the Cathedral. As performer on the organ, Dr. Major travels throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East in recital and concert. His seventh and eighth solo organ compact discs, entitled Masterworks by Bach and French Masterpieces, have recently been released on the Gothic label. As a composer, Dr. Major's works include 40 anthems, two settings of the Communion Service, canticles, and more than 20 psalms for choir as well as organ solo music. Larger works include Miserere mei, for choirs, organ and brass, and Psalm 150, for large choir and brass ensemble. Last summer, Dr. Major composed especially for this service of dedication At a Window, which bears the inscription "In Thanksgiving for Rowen Le Compte."

Dr. Sulayman S. Nyang is Professor of African Studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. From 1975 to 1978, he served as Deputy Ambassador and Head of Chancery of the Gambia Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Following his diplomatic tour, he immigrated to the United States and returned to academic life at Howard University, where he was department chair from 1986 to 1993. He also serves as co-director of Muslims in the American Public Square, a research project funded by The Pew CharitableTrusts. Professor Nyang has written extensively on Islamic, African and Middle Eastern affairs. His book, Islam in the United States ofAmerica, was published in 1999

Mr. Lev Polyakin, violinist, holds the Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair as Assistant Concert Master of The Cleveland Orchestra. He studied in his native Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and attended the Moscow Conservatory. Before immigrating to the United States in 1980, he was a member of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. A talented jazz violinist, he has recorded his own album, "Russian Blue."

Rabbi Fred N. Reiner is Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel in Washington, D.C. and President of the Washington Board of Rabbis, an organization that offers rabbis of all denominations the opportunity to work together in areas of common interest and to participate in various efforts within the community in the name of rabbis of Greater Washington.

Mark Talisman is President of Project Judaica Foundation, a clearinghouse whose primary mission is to help document and, through exhibitions, save the cultural legacy of Eastern European Judaica. After graduating from Harvard University, Mr. Talisman became chief of staff for Ohio Congressman Charles Vanik, where he authored legislation sponsored by the congressman to allow millions of Jews to emigrate from the former Soviet Union to the United States, Israel and Europe. In 1980, President Carter appointed Mr. Talisman

Founding Vice Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, a post he held until 1986. During his tenure, he oversaw the establishment of the annual Holocaust Remembrance Days and the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Rabbi Jeffrey A. Wohlberg is Senior Rabbi of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. A native of New York, he was graduated from the Akiba Hebrew Academy, received his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master's degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, from which he was ordained in 1966.

For seventeen years, he served as the Rabbi of Beth El Temple in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he was chairman of Pennsylvanians for a Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust.

He serves on many boards in the Washington, D.C. area.

The Washington National Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, founded in 1909, is one of only two choirs of men and boys in the United States maintained by a cathedral with an attached choir school. The 20 boys singing treble are aged 9­14 and attend Saint Albans School, the Cathedral school for boys, on singing scholarships. The men of the choir are professional musicians from the greater Washington. Under the direction of James Litton, Interim Choirmaster, the Cathedral Choir sings for the principal Cathedral services, radio and television broadcasts, and concerts. Each year they participate in special services of national and ecumenical importance, such as the memorial service for Princess Diana, the Celebration of Full Communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, or the National Prayer Service on September 14, 2001. The Choir has made a dozen recordings for various labels. Concert tours have taken the Choir throughout the United States. It has made concert appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, New York, under conductors such as Rostropovich, Dorati, Bernstein, Mehta, and Fruhbeck de Burgos.

The Cathedral Choral Society, founded in 1941, is the resident symphonic chorus of Washington National Cathedral. Since 1985, J. Reilly Lewis has conducted the Society in musical masterpieces from plainchant to contemporary works. In addition to concerts at Washington National Cathedral, the chorus has performed in venues around the city and on nationwide radio and television. In addition to its subscription concert series, the Society sponsors educational and community events. Six recordings made by the Cathedral Choral Society in Washington National Cathedral are currently available. The 2001­2002 season will include a joint anniversary concert with the Washington Bach Consort featuring the Berlioz's Te Deum, the popular annual "Joy of Christmas" concerts, Handel's Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and a William Walton centennial celebration featuring Belshazzar's Feast.

Acknowledgements With special gratitude to the following leaders for their unstinting support of this special ceremony:

Albert Abramson

Norman and Diane Bernstein

Melvin and Ryna Cohen

Estelle Gelman

Abe and Irene Pollin

Frank Ridge

Mark and Jill Talisman

Project Judaica Foundation, Inc.