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like the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Holy Name Society 

 and of other organizations for the promotion of purity; he 

 was active in the development of a moral stage and the 

 elimination of immoral plays ; in fact, in the encouragement 

 of the clean and decent in the drama, in musical farce comedy 

 productions, etc. 



Surely this busy lawyer and peerless Christian gentleman 

 was well engaged in the work of higher education, before he 

 was chosen a Regent of the University. 



He found time, too, to promote the welfare of the Slavic,^ 

 Hungarian and Italian emigrants on their coming to the 

 United States ; to write for periodicals and to give public 

 addresses about Russia, the Slavic peoples and the Eastern 

 Church. He was accomplished as an Oriental scholar, familiar 

 with the Slavic language, oral and written, and with the 

 civil laws of those eastern peoples and the religious tenets, 

 discipline and ceremonials of the Eastern Church. Many 

 times he visited these peoples in^their homeland, where he 

 was impressed by their spirit, their piety and integrity, love 

 of music and of knowledge. He knew their conditions 

 their home and church life, and was imbued by their h 

 hopes and aims. 



Lawyers will be interested to know ; the refined, the 

 scholarly and the seekers for truth and admirers of achieve- 

 ment will be no less interested when informed that it was 

 the tact, diplomacy and legal knowledge of Andrew J. Ship- 

 man which brought into harmony and unity followers of the 

 Greek rite in the United States with the authorities of the 

 Roman Catholic church. 



The Slavic people are growing in numbers in our great 

 cities, and have been numerous in the coal and ore mining 

 districts of the United States. From the Atlantic coast to 

 the Mississippi, yes to the Pacific coast, our sleeping associate 

 is revered by followers of the Eastern rite. In their native 

 land in the east Mr. Shipman was known and honored and 

 among his choicest possessions when he died were the medals 

 and decorations bestowed upon him by church dignitaries of 

 the Greek rite and by Ruthenians who loved him. They will 

 be treasured mementoes for the bereaved wife, so sympa- 



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