TITLE:    Henry Williams Sherrill, Obituary, March 21, 2001,

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Henry W. Sherrill 

PEORIA, Ariz. - Henry Williams Sherrill, 78, a retired Episcopal
minister and innovator on the governance of nonprofit institutions, died
on March 21, 2001, near Phoenix, Ariz. He suffered a brief illness. 

Mr. Sherrill was the eldest son of the late Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill,
presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 1946 until
1958, and Barbara Harris Sherrill. 

He served as the first executive officer of the Diocese of Southern Ohio
from 1965-69, was a co-founder of Consultation Search, and co-founder
of the Cheswick Center in 1971. He served as chairman of the Cheswick
Center until his retirement in 1991. 

Both as a clergyman and consultant, Mr. Sherrill was committed to the
service of others. Among the Cheswick Center projects he was involved 
with were the innovative Board Mentor Program, in conjunction with the
Association of Governing Boards and Universities, and the Program for
the Public Service Management of Religious Institutions at the General
Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif. He also consulted with the
Menniger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, the Department of Psychiatry of
the University of Cincinnati Medical School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the
Clorox Company. 

He served as president of the Good Samaritan Foundation in
Wilmington, Del. and on the boards of the Corporation of the
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Center of Effective
Philanthropy, Cambridge, Mass.; the Children’s Home, Cincinnati, Ohio;
the Slingerland Institute, Seattle, Wash., and the Arizona branch of the
International Dyslexia Society, among many others. Born in Boston,
Mass. on Nov. 14, 1922, he graduated from Milton Academy and Yale
University, class of 1945. He was a member of the Yale Swimming
Team. 

He served in the Army during World War II. He attended Union
Theological Seminary and following graduation from the Virginia
Theological Seminary, Mr. Sherrill served as assistant minister at Christ
Church, Grosse Pointe, Mich., and as rector of the Church of the
Redeemer in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

He is survived by his wife, Martha Sinclair Weeks; three children,
Rebecca S. More of Providence, R.I., Barbara H. of Issaquah, Wash.,
and Henry Sinclair of Cambridge, Mass.; seven grandchildren and one
great-grandchild; two brothers, the Rt. Rev. Edmund K. of Rio de
Janiero, Brazil and the Rev. Franklin Goldthwaite of Center Harbor; and
a sister, Barbara Prue Wilson of Asheville, N.C. A memorial service will
be held at 11 a.m. on April 20 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Boston.
Burial will be private. 

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