Busching, Howard C.
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BUS CHING
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Busching was born in Versailles,
Indiana, June 2, 1913, whose father was in the
restaurant business, later was elected to the office
of county clerk, after which he engaged in the greenhouse vocation.
Howard was
educate ~
in the Versailles schools,
tncluding high school, attended Indiana University
1930- 32, and the University of Michigan 1932-34,
receiving from the last named his degree of Bachelor
of Arts in law in 1934.
During his senior year
Mr. Busching decided to change from the law professim
to the Gospel ministry.
In June, 1934, he was married to Miss June
Currie of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the First Methodist
Church of that city, Dr. Fred B. Fisher performing
the ceremony.
That summer Mr. Busching worked for
Dr . Fisher in his office and home and helped him
move when he was appointed pastor of Central
Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan.
In September 1934, Mr. and Mrs. Busching went
to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended the
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Boston University School of Theology, receiving the
degree of Master of Arts in 1936 and the degree of
Bachelor of Sacred Theology, cum laude, in 1937.
The first year he had the Margaret Kraus Ramsdell
Fellowship awarded to him at the University of
Michigan in 1934.
During his second year he had a
scholarship which involved doing work with boys clubs
in the Boston Young Men's Christian Association; he
was also assistant pastor of the Epworth Methodist
Church. Cambridge, and director of the Harvard
University Wesley Foundation.
During his third
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he was the minister of the Myricks Methodi st Church
in the New England Southern Annual Conference.
Mr. and Mrs. Busching became the parents of a
son, Bruce, who was born December 19, 1936, in
Myricks, Massachusetts.
Mr. Busching has been active in Christian work
from boyhood.
He joined the Methodist Church in
Versailles, Indiana, and worked in the Sunday school
and Epworth League; while at Indiana University and
the University of Mi chigan he was an officer in the
Wesley Foundation, serving as pr esident at the
latter in 1933-34.
He was received into the Detroit Annual Conference in 1937 on trial and into full connection in
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1939.
His appointments have been as follows:
1937, Ann Arbor , West Side; 1939, Ann Arbor, West
Side and Vfuitmore Lake; 1941, Farmington.
October 1, 1941, Mr. Busching was appointed
director of religious education for the Ann Arbor
, District for the conference year.
The foregoing was written in 1942.
Busching, Howard C.