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14-August-1996 
 
 
96284    New Staff for Curriculum Program Area Announced 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--The Congregational Ministries Division (CMD) has announced 
that most of  the staff positions for its newly formed Curriculum 
Publishing Program Area have been filled and that new staff began their 
work July 22. The new positions are primarily in the areas of production, 
marketing and customer service. 
 
     Donna Blackstock, the new associate director for the Curriculum 
Publishing Program Area, heads up a team with the following leadership: 
managing editor, the Rev. Lynn Penny; production manager, Nancy Roseberry; 
and manager of marketing and customer relations, Brenda Hooks. 
 
     Blackstock assumes her position after having served for eight years as 
the coordinator of resource development and 12 years as an editor with the 
former United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. She is a member of both the 
Bible Discovery Steering Committee and the Presbyterian Reformed 
Educational Ministry (P.R.E.M.) Cabinet. 
 
     Blackstock has a B.A. in education from Los Angeles State College and 
an M.A. in education administration from New Mexico State University. She 
also holds a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 
New York. 
 
     Penny will assume the responsibilities of managing editor for the 
editorial program team of curriculum publishing. She is a graduate of San 
Francisco Theological Seminary and has a B.A. in journalism from the 
University of Oregon. 
 
      Penny joined the Christian education staff  in 1994 as associate for 
curriculum development, young children and electronic resources. She brings 
10 years of management experience as city editor and managing editor for 
The Napa (Calif.) Register. The editorial staff working with Penny has been 
in place as the Resource Development Team. 
 
     Roseberry has been chosen as production manager for curriculum. She 
brings eight years of managing experience in Presbyterian publishing, four 
and a half of those years in curriculum production.  She has a B.A. from 
Wheaton College and an M.A. in linguistics from the University of 
Louisville. 
 
     Hooks will serve as the new manager of marketing and customer 
relations. She is well known in the church for servicing the denomination's 
4,000 standing order customers and for being a resource person to many 
churches as they use Presbyterian curriculum. 
 
     Hooks has 17 years of experience in curriculum, customer service, and 
was  formerly a Presbyterian Church in the U.S. staff member in Atlanta. 
She will soon finish her bachelor of general science studies at Indiana 
University Southeast in business, humanities and social studies. 

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