According to an interview which appeared in the February 25 issue of Akron Beacon Journal, The Rev. Charles Ausherman recalls that during his junior and senior years in seminary, he was assigned to Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan. At that period in time, the senior pastor was the world-famous minister Norman Vincent Peale, who attracted the most famous and wealthiest New Yorker’s – including the parents of presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
Ausherman was in charge of the Sunday school and because of that he figures “at age 11, Donald was most probably a member of the Sunday school that was under my charge as a seminary intern.” The Sunday school was not large compared to the size of the congregation, but it included Peale’s two daughters – who certainly had Ausherman’s full attention. That is why today Charles cannot be certain that Donald was in his classroom. “My only excuse is that I favored the Peale kids in hopes that they would say nice things about me to their father, who was my boss.”
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Dorthea R Ausherman
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6:30 pm on May 22, 2017
Are you the Charles ausherman that grew up in Chicago, and was a cousin of Paul ausherman
Chuck Ausherman
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10:12 pm on April 1, 2016
It was our goal to help these kids to become good Christians and to be civil in their relationships with others. Obviously we tried to do our best but we regret that things didn’t always work out the way we had hoped they would.
Sorry about that.
Chuck Ausherman