I met John Senette in the nave of Grace Church, Hammond, Louisiana, at the diocesan convention held there, I believe, in 1985. He was a graduate of Nashotah House and had preached at my new rector’s, the then-Father Charles Jenkins’, ordination to the priesthood. Father Senette had been rector of Grace Church, St. Francisville, a Mississippi River town north of Baton Rouge. When he sat down, Charles was on the other side of me. John had just finished his coursework for a Ph.D. at Tulane University. At some point, he leaned over me and said to Charles, “You ought to hire me so I can finish writing my dissertation.” Charles looked at him with a big smile and said, “Good idea.” The deal was done then and there. Later, John was dean of Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans.
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