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. ==Later life==