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"UNITED METHODIST DAILY NEWS 97" by SUSAN PEEK on April 15, 1997 at 14:24
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CONTACT: Thomas S. McAnally                        227(10-71B){39}
         Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470            April 24, 1997

Health, Welfare Association recognizes administrators,
management personnel, volunteers, local congregation

     ATLANTA (UMNS) -- United Methodist Women of the Illinois
Great Rivers Annual Conference and The Chicago Temple were honored
here April 24 during the annual awards assembly of the United
Methodist Association of Health and Welfare Ministries.
     The association, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is a national
network of United Methodist-related retirement and long-term care
facilities, children and youth residential treatment centers and
family service organizations, community-based ministries and
hospitals and health care systems.
     The association also presented awards to a number of
administrators, a chaplain, a trustee and a philanthropist.
     Receiving the "Volunteer Group of the Year" award, United
Methodist Women of the Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference
were nominated by Cunningham Children's Home of Urbana, Ill.
     Nominating The Chicago Temple: First United Methodist Church
for the "Local Congregation Partnership of the Year" award was
Marcy-Newberry Association, a community-based ministry in Chicago.
     Other awards were:
     * Distinguished Service Award -- the Rev. John W. Caddey,
executive director, Berea (Ohio) Children's Home and Family
Services;
     * Hall of Fame in Philanthropy -- Fred M. Keller, Grand
Rapids, Mich., for his support of the older adult ministries at
Clark Retirement Community, Grand Rapids, and other United
Methodist ministries in the state;
     * Trustee of the Year -- Bernice Kilgore Giddings, a board
member of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, Baytown, Texas, and The
Methodist Hospital, Houston;
     * Administrator of the Year for Hospitals and Health Care
Systems -- Gary S. Shorb, president /CEO of Methodist Hospitals of
Memphis, Tenn.;
     * Administrator of the Year for Children, Youth, Family
Services -- Charles W. Nelson, president/CEO of Gateway-Longview,
Williamsville, N.Y.;
     * Administrator of the Year for Older Adult Ministries -- the
Rev. Edward Kester, president/CEO of Wesley Affiliated Services of
Mechanicsburg, Pa., and the Rev. Bruce Lenich, administrator of
Heritage Towers, Doylestown, Pa.;
     * Annual Conference Lay Leader of the Year -- Mary Carolyn
Tindall, a member of the Mississippi Annual Conference Health and
Welfare Ministries Committee;
     * Public Relations/Development/Marketing Director of the Year
-- Jessie K. Forney, vice president for public relations and
development, Gateway-Longview, Williamsville, N.Y.;
     * Chaplain of the Year -- the Rev. John A. Wilcher, Methodist
Hospitals of Memphis, Tenn.;
     * Individual Volunteer of the Year -- Faith Callahan,
volunteer at Wesley Homes, Des Moines, Wash.; and Nieves Graham,
volunteer at Evangelical Manor, Philadelphia;
     * President's Citation -- the Rev. Larry M. Curtis, a
district superintendent from Indianapolis, Ind., nominated  by the
United Methodist Children's Home of Lebanon, Ind., who bicycled
3,600 miles across the United States from Oregon to Delaware in 14
weeks as a fund-raising project for the home;
     * President's Citation -- Howard and Virginia Longmire, long-
time staff members at Otterbein Homes, Lebanon, Ohio.  Mr.
Longmire served 26 years, recently retiring as director of church
and community relations.  Mrs. Longmire currently serves as
Otterbein-Lebanon's director of admissions.  The husband-wife team
provide a unique music ministry at Otterbein where Mrs. Longmire
serves as organist and Mr. Longmire serves as choir director for
Otterbein United Methodist Church, located on the grounds of
Otterbein Homes.
     Presenting the awards was association president Dean W.
Pulliam.
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