 Soon after his ordination, he attended to the spiritual needs of students as chaplain at Ohio Northern University, while simultaneously serving as rector of a church in Bellefontaine, Ohio.In 1965, Hathaway was appointed as one of five associates of Christ Church, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he served until 1971.A third child was born, October 14, 1969, a girl, Melissa Ann Hathaway.