Rev. B. L. Shipman, who served as a minister in the Virginia Methodist Episcopal conference for eleven years, resigned in 1934, closing a case that had begun two years earlier when he was expelled from his position as pastor of Oak View Methodist Church for drinking two glasses of eggnog at a Christmas party. After his reinstatement by a Southern Methodist appellate court, Shipman declined reappointment and resigned from the clergy, instead entering the automobile business.

Source:

"Methodist Pastor Quits," New York Times, 30 October 1933, p. 3 6 .