Background
Tippy, Worth Marion was born on November 8, 1866 in Larwill, Indiana, United States. Son of Oren and Mary Isabel (Carder) Tippy.
Tippy, Worth Marion was born on November 8, 1866 in Larwill, Indiana, United States. Son of Oren and Mary Isabel (Carder) Tippy.
Bachelor of Philosophy, DePauw University, 1891. Cornell Univercity, 1891-1893. Graduate student Sage School Philosophy.
Doctor of Divinity, DePauw, 1907, Baldwin U., 1907.
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1893. Pastor Dryden, New York, 1892, Lafayette, Indiana, 1893-1894, Oxford, Indiana, 1894, Centenary Church, Terre Haute, 1895-1900, Broadway Church, Indianapolis, 1900-1904, Epworth Memorial Church, Cleveland, 1905-1915, Madison Avenue Church, New York, 1915-1917. Executive secretary Commision on Church and Social Service, Federal Council Churches of Christ in American, 1917-1937.
Founder, Church Conference Social Work, 1929, Executive officer, 1929-1937, president, 1938-1939. First volunteer secretary Methodist Federation for Social Service, 1908, vice president, 1910. University preacher Indiana U., Cornell Univercity, Lake Erie College, Mount Holyoke College. Lecturer Boston University School Theology, Oberlin Seminary, Dowds Foundation (Ann Arbor), Iliff School Theology (Denver).
Author: The Socialized Church, 1909. The Church a Community Force, 1914. The Church in the Great War, 1918.The Methodist Church and Its Work (with P. B. Kern), 1919. How to Select and Judge Motion Pictures, 1935. American editor Stockholm, Geneva, 1918.Missioner, National Preaching Mission and University Christian Mission, 1937-1940, National Christian Mission, 1940-1941. Executive secretary Washington Federation Churches, 1941. General secretary, reorganizer Kansas City Council Churches, 1942-1943, Mobile, Alabama, 1944, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1944, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1945.Lecturer Spring Quarter, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1944.
Member National Conference Social Work, International Conference Social Work, American Academy Political and Social Science, American Association Social Workers, American Prison Association, Delta Kappa Epsilon.; Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Zella B. Ward, May 16, 1895. Children: Marian Ward (Mistress.