“We thank thee at this 50th Anniversary. Fifty years ago our people came here harboring nothing but hostility. Since then, we have made great progress.” The Rev. Benjamin Brave, Sr. — better known as Ben Brave — spoke these words on September 3, 1932, at Standing Rock Reservation on the North Dakota border. A group had gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival of “the hostile bands” in 1882.
Freda Gardner, Moderator of the 211th General Assembly in 1999 and the first woman full-time faculty member at Princeton Theological Seminary, was memorialized Saturday during a Service of Witness to the Resurrection at First Presbyterian Church in Albany, New York.
Freda Gardner, who was elected Moderator of the 211th General Assembly in 1999 and was the first female full-time faculty member at Princeton Theological Seminary, died Saturday, May 9, at age 91.