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CAPTAIN CHARLES G. REID
Master of the S. S. Brasil.
DESCRIPTION of Charles G. Reid’s career reads like a boy’s dream. As captain of the 557-passenger, American-flag liner S. S. Brasil, he travels to South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Scandinavia, and other exciting-sounding places more often than many people travel out of their home states.
He and his wife Rachael are active members of Community United Methodist Church in Jackson Heights, N.Y. But Captain Reid most often attends worship services on his ship, and encourages his passengers to do likewise. Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish services are held on board. From boyhood Captain Reid has loved the sea. A graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, he served in the Navy as a ship navigator and was stationed in the Mediterranean during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. The captain’s hobby is collecting old books. His Methodist treasures include a hymnal published in 1789, prefaced by Thomas Coke and Francis Asburv; and a Discipline of The Methodist Episcopal Church, published in 1825, which he purchased in Vermont for l(ty. The hymnal cost him $1J50.
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