Roger Geffen ’40

Roger, a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and former rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in the Bronx, died March 7, 2007, in Needham, Mass.

Roger prepared at Lincoln School of Teacher’s College, Columbia University. At Princeton, he majored in mathematics and won the William Marshall Bullitt Prize in Mathematics. He was a member of Theater Intime, Camera Club, Triangle Club, and St. Paul’s Society, and was assistant for the Sunday Evening Society of the First Presbyterian Church and an instructor in the parish church school.

During World War II, Roger was in the Navy V-7 program, later acting as a missionary and licensed medical practitioner in the Bahamas. In 1950 he graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York City.

The Handbook of Public Prayer was edited by Roger and published in 1963. His skill in photography resulted in a one-man show at the Barbizon-Plaza Art Gallery. He served on the board of the Sumi-e Society of America Inc., which encourages appreciation of East Asian brush painting, and was president of the Boston chapter of the Association of Humanistic Psychology.

Roger was the father of four children, Paul, Christiana, Mieke, and Mark. His classmates offer their condolences to all the family.