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Worthley to retire from Congregational Library

June, 2004

The month of June will mark an important transition in one of Boston’s landmark institutions. The Congregational Library at 14 Beacon Street will see the retirement of its long time Librarian and Executive Director, Dr. Harold Field Worthley.

Worthley has served the Library since 1977. A church historian, he is a native of Maine and hold degrees from Boston University and Harvard Divinity School. Worthley is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Before coming to the Library he served churches in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and was an Associate Professor of Religion and College Chaplain at Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

An author and lecturer, Worthley is known as a humorist and raconteur of early Massachusetts history. He is also Executive Director of the American Congregational Association, which owns the library.

Worthley will be succeeded by Dr. Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, currently Professor of History at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, who will take up her position in August.

An article about her appointment appeared in the January/February issue of the Massachusetts Conference section, United Church News.