Raymond Rush Brewer (1889-1963)
Raymond Brewer was born on November 23, 1889 to Irvin and Mary Jane Winger Brewer in Sylvan, Pennsylvania. He attended the Dickinson Preparatory School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania before joining the full undergraduate class of 1916. At Dickinson, Brewer studied the Classical course, and was a member of Theta Chi, Union Philosophical Society, the Y.M.C.A., and Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation, he briefly attended Drew Theological Seminary, but the outbreak of the First World War interrupted his studies, and he withdrew to serve as a chaplain in the war. Eventually, Brewer received his bachelor of sacred theology from Boston University in 1921.