H. Lyman Stebbins (1911-1989)
of New Rochelle, New York; 1st President of Catholics United for the Faith
He was born in New York City and graduated from Yale. He became a Managing Partner in the Securities firm connected to his family, DeCoppet & Doremus. He converted to Catholicism through the literary works of C.S. Lewis, and on retiring from Wall Street in the 1960s he became a Lay Activist and a Knight of St. Gregory. In 1951, he founded the Mount Savior Monastery at Elmira, New York, and he was a Member of the Board of Morality in Media, and a Trustee of Magdalen College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was a founder and the first President of Catholics United for the Faith, an international organization dedicated to furthering the church's teachings. He kept a summer home "Bagatelle" in North Hatley, Quebec, and was survived by his second (Swiss) wife, Madeleine Froelicher, and three children (two sons and a daughter).
