The committee met seven times during the year to do research, extract old documents from the scrap books where they had been filed, copy them, and file them by subject. In the scrap books they were by date. This also includes a series of The Bulletin which is of an odd size that precludes binding into volumes. We believe we have found and dismantled the last scrap book. We are also collecting current information as we go.

The Rev. Henry Hurd Breul was born in 1926. A native of Bridgeport, CT, he was the great-grandson of P.T. Barnum, a fact which explains (in part) his abundant zest for life and rich humor. (He did, after all, commission the Marimekko flowered chasuble from his friend, the Rev. Vienna Anderson, a maker of liturgical vestments and former rector of our sister parish, St. Margaret's.)

Our Parish has a beautiful stained glass window dedicated to the memory of our former rector, Rev. Henry Breul. Depicting a Phoenix Rising, this window symbolizes our parish and its ability to thrive through a difficult time.  This article examines the history of the symbol of the phoenix as St. Thomas' icon.