[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0412]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Head of 11.5 million Methodists is Bishop W. Angie Smith, right, Oklahoma City, new president of the council of bishops of the Methodist Church. He is shown receiving the gavel from his predecessor, Bishop W. Earl Ledden, Syracuse, N. Y., at the annual meeting in Cincinnati."
Date: April 25, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0373]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "New officers of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church, elected April 25, 1957, in Cincinnati, Ohio, are Roy H. Short, Nashville, secretary; W. Angie Smith, OKC, president; and G. Bromley Oxnam, Washington, D. C., president-designate for 1958, from left to right."
Date: April 25, 1957
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History