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Retiring from Methodist Librarian Post: A Tribute to Ken Rowe's Sterling Era of Leadership
Ken Rowe, the Methodist Librarian, is retiring from the Library at the end of the 2001-02 academic year. He has graced Drew University for thirty-two years. His career is nothing short of remarkable. This special issue of Visions is the Library's salute to a talented and valued colleague.
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One of America's Foremost Methodist History Scholars
Kenneth E. Rowe is a consummate librarian, bibliographer, editor, historian, and colleague. All the knowledge, skills, and abilities represented by each of these roles have coalesced to form a career of unusual depth and distinction. Clearly we are dealing with a multi-faceted scholar with an abundance of gifts and talents. It has been said that bibliographers are those who build nests in which others hatch their scholarly progeny. In this regard, Ken has supplied many a scholarly bird with a fine nest in which to hatch his or her offspring.
He has compiled bibliographies over a wide range of subjects including worship and liturgy, women, African Americans and Methodism. The public his work has served ranges from students needing basic bibliographic guidance to doctoral candidates requiring expert consultation in forming their theses and seasoned scholars needing the expertise of one with a comprehensive knowledge of scholarly media.
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When Ken Rowe retires, he may well take Methodist history with him. When Ken Rowe retires, he may well take Methodist history with him. He has been our movement's librarian, historiographer, interpreter. The most public and well-known of these roles, that of interpreter, he has played in talks, sermons, workshops, lectures, articles, and books -– many, many of each. In all these media, he has endeavored to call our attention to the view from the pew and to the importance of our everyday lives as a movement -– to Sunday schools, popular hymnody, lay offices, architecture, women's organizations, caucuses, lay assemblies, protest movements, organizational developments, worship, and hospitals.
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Keeping up with Ken's vitality is a challenge. He also enjoys the unique and macabre, so one can imagine how he presents the Whitefield thumb and John Wesley death mask to a captivated audience. Students often comment that his sense of humor -– as when he calls Francis Asbury the "Chicken in the Attic" -– does much to enliven the study of Methodist history.
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Services and Resources for Worship on Historic Occasions. Lake Junaluska, N.C.: General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church, 1975.unmigrated-wiki-markup
_Methodist Union Catalog, Pre-1976 Imprints_, volumes 1\- \ [7\]. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975\- .
Methodist Women: A Guide to the Literature. Lake Junaluska, N.C.: General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church, 1980.
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Grimes, Ronald L. The Divine Imagination: William Blake's Major Prophetic Visions, 1972.
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Kring, Hilda Adam. The Harmonists: A Folk-Cultural Approach.1973.
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