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         Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470            March 25, 1997

United Methodist foundation
gives higher education awards

by Kathy Gilbert*

     NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) -- A United Methodist layman, a
campus minister, a college chaplain, and an outstanding educator
have been named to receive 1997 awards from the United Methodist
Foundation for Christian Higher Education.
     The foundation, based here, was established in 1964 to raise
money for the church's ministry in higher education.  It is
directed by a 25-member board of trustees.  Staff executive is
George Miller.
     Robert R. Osborne, a banker and businessman and longtime
member of Grace United Methodist Church in Olathe, Kan., has
received the foundation's Stanley S. Kresge Award.  The award
honors a United Methodist who embodies church membership and
unselfish support of United Methodist-related education.
     Daniel M. Lambert, president of Baker University, Baldwin
City, Kan., said Osborne made a profound mark upon the spiritual
life of the university by providing a $1 million gift to relocate
an abandoned Methodist chapel from the village of Sproxton,
England, to the Baker University campus. 
     "His thoughtful gifts to his city, his beloved home church --
Grace United Methodist -- and Baker University have affected
thousands of lives and ... eventually will affect hundreds of
thousands more," Lambert said.
     The award includes a medallion and a certificate of merit and
a $10,000 scholarship for the United Methodist-related school
where the recipient is a volunteer.
     The Rev. Odette Lockwood-Stewart, University of
California-Berkeley, is the recipient of the foundation's first
Campus Minister of the Year award. 
     In recommending her for the award, Lynn Rhodes, president of
the Wesley Foundation Board, and Bishop Melvin Talbert, San
Francisco Area, cited Lockwood-Stewart's work during the past
three years to rebuild the Wesley Foundation.
     "Odette has created a thriving program with very active
students, which includes co-operative ministry and covenants with
surrounding churches; programs in spiritual growth, justice,
action, Bible study and leadership development; a religion and the
arts program; and work with Korean-American and African-American
student groups as well as being the prime mover for a renovated
Wesley Foundation building," Rhodes said.
     She will receive an inscribed sculpture and a cash award of
$5,000 to further the development of programs sponsored by the
campus minister's office. 
     The Rev. Stewart Jackson, chaplain at Birmingham-Southern
College, has been named to receive the Chaplain of the Year award,
which honors an extraordinary chaplain of a United
Methodist-related institution.
     Jackson was nominated for the award by the Rev. Dale Clem,
chairman of the North Alabama Annual Conference Board of Higher
Education and Campus Ministry. 
     "Since he began his ministry as chaplain of the college in
1979, Stewart Jackson has built an excellent program that has
touched not only the lives of people in North Alabama but also has
significantly impacted communities worldwide," Clem said. 
"Stewart doesn't simply speak about his faith but lives his
faith."
      Jackson receives an inscribed sculpture and a cash award of
$5,000 to further the development of programs sponsored by his
office.
     Albertha Sistrunk-Krakue, a teacher at Claflin College,
Orangeburg, S.C., received the foundation's 1997 Outstanding
Educator of the Year award.  The award has been established to
honor teachers at United Methodist-related schools, colleges,
universities and theological schools whose accomplishments have
made an impact on their students, peers, academic institution,
church and community. Claflin College is one of the denomination's
11 historically black colleges.
     Claflin president Henry N. Tisdale nominated Sistrunk-Krakue. 
"Outstanding educators are really outstanding people," he said.
"They give, they guide, they make you laugh at your own foibles. 
They give future generations successful routes to travel, they
love and are loved.
     Sistrunk-Krakue receives an artistic replica of the Cokesbury
College bell and a cash award of $5,000. 
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     * Gilbert is staff member in the Office of Interpretation for
the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry.

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