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In International Women's
Year, nothing, that WIMP 40 ll
surprising 'anymore. But there
are still areas in the career world
that are strongly doirninated by
men, areas where women are
outstanding if only by reason of
career choice and performance.
They are not necessarily
"women's libbers," but they are
persons .of great determination.
One such woman is Wilena
Brown.
For Wilena Brown is the
"Reverend" Brown, an ordained
minister of the United Church
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who will be serving the Bluevale
and Whitechurch congregations.
starting in August. A woman
minister may not be remarkable
now, but the concept wastill suf-
ficiently innovative, when Miss
Brown was first starting on her
career.
Miss Brown says she felt called
to the ministry when she was just
15 years old, just graduating
from high school. "My calling
was the classical kind ... at a
young people's rally. The speaker
made a very direct appeal for
ministers and I felt a very strong
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a
compulsion to answer . . . My
parents just thought it Was a no -
den ... very many careers in-
terested me... At the time, they
contacted the minister to make
sure I wasn't doing. anything
irrevocable. My father con-
sidered it a waste of time and
money ... Everybody was sure I
was going to get married."
But Miss Brown's determina-
tion, born at the rally, was not
moved by all the opposition and
cynicism. "It just didn't touch me
... I had a feeling that this was
something different ... I really
didn't ever want to do • anything
else,
In 1953, Miss Brown, an Tager
23 -year -sold, graduated from Eta
Manuel College, an affiliate of
Victoria University, in Toronto,
to start her chosen work asall :fad.,
dained minister. "By the time
got in," she says, "people might,
question the wisdom but not the,
legality of it ... Full ordination.'.
for women is perfectly logical."
But there were very few wofna>il+.
ministers in those days, deSpitc•
the fact that the' first pioneer,"
Lydia Greechy, had paved the -
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a N in the 1930's in Saskat-
chewan. The Marititirie Con-.
y;ferences, Miss rown's birth-
4)lace, didn't admit. a . woman
,minister until abbOti,t' I960.
The young Nova Scotian was
assigned to her first ministry in
Consort. Alberta, and it was a jet)
to try any one. When Miss Brown
started in August, a polio
epidemic had struck in the area.
About 14 persons were affected
-by the disease, two or three of
them permanently, Miss Brown
remembers.
"My first baptism and my first
funeral were related to the .epi-
demic ... It was a very difficult
beginning in some ways ... but
many people got more familiar
with me faster."
But even under normal circum-
stances, the job was not easy. "It
was a very heavy church," Miss
Brown explains. She had the help
of two summer students for a
while.
After four years in Consort,
Miss Brown transferred to the
Robertson Church in Edmonton,
"A very large, very wealthy con-
gregation," where she became
assistant minister. There were
over 1,900 families there: "It was
a very fine congregation ... but a
budget of over $i00,000! I found I
liked preaching but I didn't like •
the power."
It was at this job that Miss
Brown suffered a heart mal-
function that wasn't discovered
until. much later.
From Edmonton, she went to
the Princeton Theological
Seminary in New Jersey to work
on her master's degree In
Pastoral Theology. Her work
there has helped her many times
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over, Miss Brown says "but Mor' '
in terms of awareness, as Mich
of yourself as of other things In'
people. Your perception changes,
•
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r youexperit becomwe inte
,at il'rineegrated,"
and -the early laboratory trainIng..
carnlps of the Canadian Girls in •
Training were to beconic very'
ilfiportant in Miss yB,a .wn'ts
career: "This'onlly f inion a, y.
one can live wjth are the o
he
snakes himself . 1 :aro. Hat a.
shepherd guiding my Bockin
very concrete way . . Grows. <IF
most important, with people do,
ing their own thing," These are
the concepts and precepts limit
Brown now uses int her work.
After Princeton, Miss Broom ,
returned to Toronto to finish her
-
master's thesis. And the heart -
malfunction finally struck. It was
diagnosed as e{ ndocarditisr, .
The disease was a serious
handicap in Miss Brown's WOrk,.
but her determination, the help,Of.
a specialist -and a stroke of luck
carried her through: The NOW.
break, believe it or not, was an>:
outbreak of\ the flu. ."The docior
gave nie a ,double a9tibiotic for',
the flu ... and all of a sIxdden f got
better ... I didn't get fevers ,so;
often or so badly."
The heart specialist who
examined Miss • Brown, had no_
explanation. for the phenomefon,,
but' admitted that something had:,
finally jarred the immunity 1•
system into action The .heart
condition was not cured, butMs
Brown was once more abt+ to'
continue her work.
Many years have passed spice:
Miss Brown's first calling at the.
age of 15, but there has bee# no
wavering of faith or deter -i-,
mination in•':this remarkable �,.
person, even through the hard
days of the heart trouble. ,
And marriage? Yes, Nl.iss `,, -
Brown, admits, • there have been
opportunities. "One chooses what,
is most importaiit at the moment..
I said I would never marry if' it
meant giving up the ministy► . -
I love housekeeping and children"
... but at the time I was having to
make a decision, ,a woman did
have to he willing to give up' her '
.'wt1 sense of personhood . .. :L '
sensed very early that' marriage'
involved a submersion of the'
person to the ego. It was much too
touch of a threat to what had real
meaning to ins.'.' .:..: b
The. difficulties= ;ofc, . f
woman Minister?' Miss Brown
admits they existed, 'and still
exist to a certain degree, "I -
honcstly can't say that anyone
has ever intentionally hurt me .. .
and I feel more secure now than 1
did then, when I was first starting
People don't like the idea of a
woman minister, but once they
face the reality and realize you're
capable of doing the work, it's no.
problem"
Miss Brown says she feels
being a woman is often an ad-
vantage: "People relate much -
inore easily to a woman in cer-
tain areas ... particularly things
they are feeling guilty about and
a loan might tend to scoff at."
And then there's the added
dimension of being a minister:
"There's an intensity ... a kind of
almost -transformation when
you're in the ministerial role .. .
sort of an added dimension . . .
it's an authority greater than that
of just a person."
in August, Miss Brown will
start her work at theBluevale and
Whitechurch United Churches.
The soft-spoken safely middle-
aged ( her words, not ours)
wi.-nan still retains many of the
impressions of her youth and
growth through experience in the
church and through her illness.
"1 do still hay ' limits," she says
quietly, "hut I have every reason
to feel I'll he able to do my job ...
There are so many people like me
who need a chance to try."
She is overjoyed with the
potentialities of her new job: "I
!lave been very pleased with the
response of the people in this area
it's ideal in many ways .
These people ar^ willing to
gamble on me . . . They're
marvelous."
And the enthusiasm that
characterized that eager young
girl in 1953 still shines in her face
as she softly exclaims: "I have a
tremendous sense of joy ... It's
really wonderful what you can do
if you're given a chance."
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