Colonel Alva Jenning Brasted was appointed Chief of Army Chaplains in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt. At his farewell dinner, the following Resolution was given to him signed by more than sixty fellow chaplains and their wives.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS: Colonel Alva J. Brasted, Chaplain, U.S. Army, in accordance with the policies of the War Department, is to relinquish his post as Chief of Chaplains of the Army of the United States on December 23, 1937;
WHEREAS: The accomplishments of Chaplain Brasted in his exalted office have been marked by a superlative degree of success which but crowns a lifetime of devotion to God, his Country, and his fellowman; and
WHEREAS: His energy and industry, his broad charity, his absolute fairness and his understanding heart have endeared him forever to the affections of his co-chaplains, his brother officers of all branches of the service, and countless thousands of military and civilian companions with whom he has marched, shoulder to shoulder, on the road of patriotism and duty, with whom he has rejoiced in happiness and sorrowed in difficulty;
Therefore Be It Resolved: That we, his friends, assembled at the Hotel Raleigh in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, on this Ninth Day of December, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven, do hereby tender him our sincere congratulations upon his brilliant achievements as the religious leader of our gallant Army; do express our deep regret that his term of high office must now close; and with glad accord do voice the hope that many years of fruitful labor in the service of our common Father, God, may still lie before him.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS: Colonel Alva J. Brasted, Chaplain, U.S. Army, in accordance with the policies of the War Department, is to relinquish his post as Chief of Chaplains of the Army of the United States on December 23, 1937;
WHEREAS: The accomplishments of Chaplain Brasted in his exalted office have been marked by a superlative degree of success which but crowns a lifetime of devotion to God, his Country, and his fellowman; and
WHEREAS: His energy and industry, his broad charity, his absolute fairness and his understanding heart have endeared him forever to the affections of his co-chaplains, his brother officers of all branches of the service, and countless thousands of military and civilian companions with whom he has marched, shoulder to shoulder, on the road of patriotism and duty, with whom he has rejoiced in happiness and sorrowed in difficulty;
Therefore Be It Resolved: That we, his friends, assembled at the Hotel Raleigh in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, on this Ninth Day of December, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven, do hereby tender him our sincere congratulations upon his brilliant achievements as the religious leader of our gallant Army; do express our deep regret that his term of high office must now close; and with glad accord do voice the hope that many years of fruitful labor in the service of our common Father, God, may still lie before him.
Colonel Alva Jenning Brasted was appointed Chief of Army Chaplains in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt. At his farewell dinner, the following Resolution was given to him signed by more than sixty fellow chaplains and their wives.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS: Colonel Alva J. Brasted, Chaplain, U.S. Army, in accordance with the policies of the War Department, is to relinquish his post as Chief of Chaplains of the Army of the United States on December 23, 1937;
WHEREAS: The accomplishments of Chaplain Brasted in his exalted office have been marked by a superlative degree of success which but crowns a lifetime of devotion to God, his Country, and his fellowman; and
WHEREAS: His energy and industry, his broad charity, his absolute fairness and his understanding heart have endeared him forever to the affections of his co-chaplains, his brother officers of all branches of the service, and countless thousands of military and civilian companions with whom he has marched, shoulder to shoulder, on the road of patriotism and duty, with whom he has rejoiced in happiness and sorrowed in difficulty;
Therefore Be It Resolved: That we, his friends, assembled at the Hotel Raleigh in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, on this Ninth Day of December, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven, do hereby tender him our sincere congratulations upon his brilliant achievements as the religious leader of our gallant Army; do express our deep regret that his term of high office must now close; and with glad accord do voice the hope that many years of fruitful labor in the service of our common Father, God, may still lie before him.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS: Colonel Alva J. Brasted, Chaplain, U.S. Army, in accordance with the policies of the War Department, is to relinquish his post as Chief of Chaplains of the Army of the United States on December 23, 1937;
WHEREAS: The accomplishments of Chaplain Brasted in his exalted office have been marked by a superlative degree of success which but crowns a lifetime of devotion to God, his Country, and his fellowman; and
WHEREAS: His energy and industry, his broad charity, his absolute fairness and his understanding heart have endeared him forever to the affections of his co-chaplains, his brother officers of all branches of the service, and countless thousands of military and civilian companions with whom he has marched, shoulder to shoulder, on the road of patriotism and duty, with whom he has rejoiced in happiness and sorrowed in difficulty;
Therefore Be It Resolved: That we, his friends, assembled at the Hotel Raleigh in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, on this Ninth Day of December, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven, do hereby tender him our sincere congratulations upon his brilliant achievements as the religious leader of our gallant Army; do express our deep regret that his term of high office must now close; and with glad accord do voice the hope that many years of fruitful labor in the service of our common Father, God, may still lie before him.
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