Footnote

c On September 24, 1945, H. C. Covington graciously declined to serve further as a member of the board of directors and as vice-president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, not as an evasion of responsibilities, but rather as an effort to comply with what appeared to be the Lord’s will for all the members of the directorate and the officers to be of the anointed ones, since his hope was that of one of the “other sheep.” F. W. Franz was elected vice-president in his stead. (1946 Yearbook pp. 221-224) Brother Covington has continued to head the Society’s legal department which has given such a brilliant lead in the Society’s fight to champion freedom of worship to keep the legal door open for the ministry. H. C. Covington, lawyer, was born in Hopkins County, Texas, in 1911; attended San Antonio Bar Association School of Law, and began preaching as one of Jehovah’s witnesses in 1934. F. W. Franz, scholar, born in Covington, Kentucky, in 1893, attended the University of Cincinnati and became a minister in association with the Society in 1913.