Marge Cassin Retires

Marge Cassin, who retired June 18 after 25 years as parish secretary of Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown, was honored at an event that brought together many former rectors and curates. From left: the Very Rev Jim Kowalski, dean of the cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City and first curate at Trinity Church; the Rev Kathie Adams-Shepherd, current Trinity rector; the Rev Carol Westpfahl, current assistant rector at Trinity; the Rev Pat Hames, rector, St Mark’s Church, New Britain and formerly curate, associate rector, and interim rector at Trinity; the Rev Frank Dunn, current rector of St Stephen’s Church in Washington, D.C., who served as the 23rd rector at Trinity; the Rev Dr Anne Brewer, canon at the  cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City, who was ordained a priest at Trinity 20 years ago, and the Rev Kent Smith, retired, who began his ordained ministry as a curate at Trinity.