Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly Moderator Clinton Marsh Records
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Clinton M. Marsh was born in 1916 in Annemanie, Alabama; his parents, Thomas and Sadie Marsh, were both Presbyterian mission schoolteachers in that state. He earned a BA at Knoxville College in 1939 and went on to graduate from Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary in 1944. He served as pastor at churches in Chase City, VA (1944) and Indianapolis (1946-63). He served on the boards of various Presbyterian and community organizations, of the National Council of Churches, and the Board of National Missions. He was moderator of the Indiana and Indianapolis Presbyteries and of the Second Synod. From 1965-1970, he directed the Ecumenical Program for Emergency Action in Africa. His Indianapolis congregation sup-ported his nine-month administration of the 1963 Organizing Assem-bly of the All-Africa Conference of Churches; Marsh was responsible for organizing this first large international conference ever held in Africa.
Marsh went on to serve as General Assembly moderator from 1973-74 and was later appointed a member of the Task Force to Document the History of Former All-Black Governing Bodies.
RG 126 consists of official files from Marsh's year as General Assembly moderator, 1973-1974. For the most part these are correspondence files, although they include a few publications and articles. In addition to the regular correspondence there are two folders of letters written in protest over a 1973 issue of Trends magazine which dealt with homosexuality and the Church. Marsh's reply to these protests is included at the beginning of the first of these two folders (Box 2, Folder 7).
SERIES 1: MODERATOR'S CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-1974
SERIES 2: PROTEST LETTERS, 1973
Collection processed: 1976
Frederick Schalow, Records Researcher
Collection rehoused and new finding aid prepared: March 1991
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to RG 126 | |
| SERIES 1: MODERATOR'S CORRESPONDENCE, 1973-1974 | |||
| 1 | 2 | May 1973 | |
| 3 | June 1973 | ||
| 4 | June 1973 | ||
| 5 | July 1973 | ||
| 6 | August 1973 | ||
| 7 | September 1973 | ||
| 8 | October 1973 | ||
| 9 | October 1973 | ||
| 10 | November 1973 | ||
| 11 | December 1973 | ||
| 12 | December 1973 | ||
| 13 | January 1974 | ||
| 14 | February 1974 | ||
| 15 | February 1974 | ||
| 16 | March 1974 | ||
| 17 | March 1974 | ||
| 18 | April 1974 | ||
| 19 | April 1974 | ||
| 2 | 1 | May 1974 | |
| 2 | May 1974 | ||
| 3 | June 1974 | ||
| 4 | July 1974 | ||
| SERIES 2: PROTEST LETTERS, 1973 | |||
| 5 | Protest Letters, 1973 | ||
| 6 | Protest Letters, 1973 |