David R. Mace

traveler, internationallv known journalist in the field of W ORLD family life, helpful counselor, creative teacher, popular lect u r e r - D a v i d R. Mace wins our plaudits as "Man of The Month" for his indefatigible labors and his single-minded devotion on behalf of the family. Born in Scotland in 1907, the son of a Methodist minister, he was schooled at the Royal Academy in Inverness, the Hynland Secondary School in Glasgow, and Westminster College at London University, where he completed the 13. Sc. degree. He earned the B. A. in theology and an M. A. from Cambridge University. Entering the Methodist ministry he served four years in one of London's worst slums; three years as chaplain of Wycliff College, a boys' school; and three years as Superintendent of Archway Central Hall, a community center in North London. Becoming deeply concerned with the human problems encountered in the parish, he spent a year studying sociology at Bristol and then took a P h . D . degree at Manchester University, writing his thesis on "The Origin of the Christian Sex Ethics." In 1938 he helped launch the Marriage Guidance Council in England. In 1942 he accepted an invitation to become General Secretary of the Council, resigning from the parish ministry to assume this Th~ wider service, eventually spending seven years .i Af t ~ l J in this position. This work brought him into U l UiiU direct contact with the several ministries of

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(Continued from page 8) of U N E S C O with headquarters in Paris. In 1949, feeling that his work in England was completed, he accepted an invitation to teach at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where his wife had taken her M. A. degree during the war. There he is Professor of Human Relations. H e quickly won recognition in the United States, attending the White House Conference on the Family in 1947 by special invitation, and being a delegate to the White House Conference on ~ Children and Youth in 1950. H e is a member of the American Association of Marriage Counselors, a director of the National Council on Family Relations, a regular contributor to " W o m a n ' s Home Companion" and to "McCall's Magazine," with several articles appearing in

"Reader's Digest," as well as in professional journals. In 1954, A B C developed a daily radio program around some of his case material. In 1953 Dr. Mace Was appointed chairman of an International Commission on Marriage Guidance set up by the International Union of Family Organizations at its annual conference in Lisbon. In I954 he spent six months in South Africa under the Department of Social Affairs and the University of Witwatestrand in Johannesburg, helping to establish a National Council for Marriage and Family Guidance. Later that year h e traveled through East Asia, sharing in the leadership of a ten country conference on family life in Manila. I n 1956 he visited Australia, New Zealand, and India in the interest of marriage guidance. I n the spring of 1957 Dr. and Mrs. Mace, who has worked closely with hiw~, accepted a three-year appointment as Field Consultants in Home and Family L i f e to the International Missionary Council, taking a ieave of absence from Drew to survey the mission fields and to assist the younger churches in working out policies and programs in this field. A m o n g his books ministers will be most familiar with Whom God Hath Joined, a pastoral aid book published by Westminster Press in 1953, and Hebrew Marriage, a sociological study, published the same year. Unquestionably he is one of the world's preeminent statesmen in the field of marriage and family life, and its most widely known interpreter. As one who has been a colleague on a theological faculty for the past eight years I can testify to the warmth of his personality, the integrity of his character, and the depth of his sincerity. W e wish him well in his new venture. - - F A U L B. MAVES