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19-November-1997 
97445 
 
    News of Theological Institutions 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
SAN ANSELMO, Calif.-- All new or increased gifts to San Francisco 
Theological Seminary's Annual Giving Campaign will be matched this year by 
the Harvey P. and Frances H. White Foundation, according to seminary 
officials.  White is a member of the SFTS board of trustees. The matching 
agreement applies to donations given through June 30, 1998.  The Whites are 
active members of the Solana Beach Presbyterian Church in Solana Beach, 
Calif. 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and 
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (LPTS) have signed an 
agreement approving LPTS as an officially approved institution for 
candidates seeking ordination in the AME Church.  The agreement follows a 
decision last year by the AME Church's General Conference to require 
ministerial candidates to enroll only in approved seminaries for 
ministerial training.  "In Kentucky, we have never made an agreement of 
this kind with any other educational institution," said Wallace L. Garner, 
director of ecumenical affairs of the Western Kentucky Conference of the 
13th Episcopal District.  LPTS president John M. Mulder and the Right Rev. 
H. Hartford Brooks, bishop of the 13th Episcopal District, signed the 
agreement Sept. 19 at the AME General Conference meeting. 
 
DECATUR, Ga.--M. Genevra Kelly has been named vice president for 
institutional advancement at Columbia Theological Seminary.  She is the 
seminary's first woman vice president and she will organize and implement 
the seminary's annual fund, capital campaign, planned giving and the 
endowment.  Kelly comes to Columbia from Union Theological Seminary in 
Virginia, where she served as director of development for six years. 
 
RICHMOND, Va.--Rebecca Harden Weaver has been named the John Q. Dickinson 
Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. 
Weaver has taught European church history at Union since 1983 and has 
previously been a professor of church history.  The professorship was 
established in 1918 with a gift from Dickinson. 
 
PRINCETON, N.J. --The Karl Barth Society of North America has voted to 
locate the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, 
according to Thomas W. Gillespie, seminary president.  Barth scholar George 
Hunsinger has been appointed director of the new center and he comes to the 
position from the faculty of Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine. 
"Princeton," he said, "has had a long-standing interest in Barth studies, 
and it is ideally situated to develop a special collection that will be of 
interest to theologians and scholars throughout the world." 
 
CHICAGO--The board of trustees of McCormick Theological Seminary has 
appointed Ronald D. Gunden as vice president of seminary relations and 
development.  Gunden comes to McCormick from Goshen College in Goshen, 
Ind., where he led a $48 million comprehensive development campaign to a 
successful conclusion, obtaining commitments totaling $50.7 million.  At 
McCormick, he will be responsible for the seminary's funds development 
programs, plus its offices of alumni/ae relations and communications. 

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