Worth Marion Tippy papers

Dr. Worth Marion Tippy was an 85 year old retired Methodist minister and distinguished interchurch leader when he founded the Archives of DePauw University and Indiana Methodism in 1951. Twice recipient of honorary degrees from DePauw and an 1891 DePauw graduate, Dr. Tippy served as minister of numerous Indiana churches, then Cleveland's Epworth Memorial and New York's Madison Ave. Methodist churches early in his career. From 1917 to 1937, he was executive secretary of the church and social service commission of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, now the National Council of Churches. He founded the Methodist Church Conference on Social Work in 1929 and after eight years as its executive officer he became its president in 1938. A former lecturer at Boston University, Oberlin Seminary and Iliff School of Theology, he also had been a campus minister at several colleges. Author of many church works, he wrote a biography of Bishop Robert Roberts, Frontier Bishop, which was published in 1958. Dr. Tippy served as first director of the DePauw archives from 1951 to 1957, when he retired and went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Ray M. Walker, in Laurel, Mississippi. He died on October 2, 1961.