Questão 14 - UNIEVA Medicina 2019/2

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Rena Karefa-Smart, 97, Leader in Ecumenical Movement, is Dead. By Katharine Q. Seelye Feb. 1, 2019

The Rev. Dr. Rena Joyce Weller Karefa-Smart attending a meeting of the World Council of Churches in 1954.

After achieving firsts for a black woman at Yale and Harvard, she was a leader in the international movement to bring churches closer together.

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The Rev. Dr. Rena Joyce Weller Karefa-Smart, the first black woman to graduate from Yale Divinity School and a leader in the international movement to bring churches closer together, died on Jan. 9 at her daughter's home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. She was 97. Her death, under hospice care, was confirmed by the daughter, Dr. Suzanne Karefa-Johnson. In addition to her achievement at Yale from which she graduated in 1945, when black women on any college campus were extremely rare - Dr. Karefa-Smart was the first black woman to earn a doctor of theology degree from Harvard Divinity School, in 1976. She was also the first female professor of any color to receive tenure at Howard University School of Divinity, in 1979. "It is impossible to measure the distance you've traveled and how you've helped Yale Divinity School to travel," Elijah Heyward, a divinity school graduate, said in 2017 when he presented her with the school's Lux et Veritas alumni award. "The inspiration you've stirred for generations of African-American women at Yale Divinity School and beyond is incalculable." Dr. Karefa-Smart was ordained as an Episcopal priest and as a minister in the A.M.E. Zion Church. She attended the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches and was an ecumenical officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and an associate of the Center for Theology and Public Policy there. She was also affiliated with Wellesley College, Boston University and Princeton Theological Seminary. After Yale, her career was shaped largely by that of her husband, Dr. John Albert Musselman Karefa-Smart, whom she married in 1948. A medical doctor and minister from Sierra Leone, he went on to become a prominent diplomat and politician. He helped bring about Sierra Leone's independence from Britain in 1961, served as the country's first foreign minister and led its delegation to the United Nations. That meant the couple lived for many years in Africa and Europe, which accounts for the 30-year gap between her degrees from Yale and Harvard. Greg Sterling, the dean of Yale Divinity School,

presented the Lux et Veritas alumni award to Dr. Karefa- Smart in 2017. She was the school's first black female graduate in the CreditYale Divinity School. Rena Joyce Weller was born on March 2, 1921, in Bridgeport, Conn. Her father, Sailsman William Weller, a Jamaican immigrant, was an ordained A.M.E. Zion minister. Her mother, Rosa Lee (Lawry) Weller, was something of a role model. The daughter of a woman, Fannie M. Lawry, who had been born into slavery, Rosa Lee graduated from the historically black Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. Rena and her two sisters and brother moved often with their parents to different parishes, mostly around New England. Rena skipped two grades at a public high school in Connecticut, was inducted into the National Honor Society and entered college at 15 - all highly unusual for a black woman in that era. She received a bachelor's degree in education in 1940 from Teachers College of Connecticut (now Central Connecticut State University), followed by a master's degree in religious education from Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey in 1942.

Disponível em: hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/obituaries/rena- karefa-smart-97-dead.html. (Adaptado) Acessado em 18 nar.2019.

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