Brewster Yale Beach

The center for Jungian Studies, founded by Beach in Rye, New York, seated at Wainwright House, built by Congressman J. Mayhew Wainwright Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, where Beach was deacon

Reverend Brewster Yale Beach (1925 – 2008) was an Episcopal minister, vicar and renowned Jungian psychotherapist in Manhattan. He became deacon of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, and canon by Bishop J. Brooke Mosley in Delaware. He founded the center for Jungian Studies in Rye, New York, and was elected director of Christian education for the State of Delaware.

Toward the later part of his life, he brought American-Mexican War documents to Associated Press's CEO Tom Curley, proving the founding of America's oldest news agency by his ancestor, Moses Yale Beach, rather than James Gordon Bennett Sr.

Biography

Brewster Yale Beach was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, on February 10, 1925, to Orlena Weed and Brewster Sperry Beach, members of the Beach and Yale families. His father was a reporter and head of the public-relations department of McKesson Corporation, while his grandfather, William B. Beach, a Cornell University graduate, was president of the Bridgeport Steam Heating Company.

His great-grandfather was politician Moses S. Beach, son of newspaper publisher Moses Yale Beach, founder of the Associated Press. His aunt Helen Kenyon was the first woman chair of Vassar College and member of the board of trustees. He was the founder and vicar of the Church of the Nativity, Manor Park, and was director of Christian education for the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware.

As an Episcopal minister, he gave various speeches in various states on Carl Jung's ideas, linking psychology with religion. and became the founder of the center for Jungian Studies in Rye, New York, seated at Wainwright House, built by Congressman J. Mayhew Wainwright.

In the late 1960s, he became the head and executive director of the Delaware Pastoral Institute under board directors Mrs. A. Felix du Pont Jr., Bishop J. Brooke Mosley, prelate Gordon T. Charlton Jr., William Henry Dupont, and others. The interdenominational Pastoral Institute, backed by the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware, was formed to assist the clergy in their ministry work, and to help with counselling services and access to psychiatrists. In 1983, he moved to Dutchess County and worked as a Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest.

In 2006, Beach donated Mexican–American War documents relating to his ancestor Moses Yale Beach, which brought new informations toward the date of Associated Press's founding, making it two years earlier, and crediting Moses Yale Beach for its foundation rather than James Gordon Bennett Sr. of the New York Herald as previously thought. The agency, founded in 1846, became the largest and oldest news organization in the United States. Historian Menahem Blondheim, adviser of Steven Spielberg, referred to the founding motivation as a decision to share news with rivals, rich or poor, to be on par with the speed of the telegraph during the war.