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19-November-1997 
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    Notes about People 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
    The Presbytery of Greater Atlanta has elected the Rev. Edwin Willard 
Albright Jr. as its new executive presbyter and stated clerk.  He will 
succeed the Rev. William A. Adams on Jan. 1, 1998, as Adams concludes 25 
years as executive presbyter, stated clerk and treasurer of the presbytery. 
    Albright has served on the staff of St. Augustine Presbytery in 
Jacksonville, Fla., since 1972, having served as associate presbyter from 
1972 to 1981 and as executive presbyter since 1981.  He previously served 
pastorates in Jacksonville and Perry, Fla., and is currently chair of the 
General Assembly's Special Committee on Middle Governing Body 
Relationships. 
 
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    The Rev. David C. Meekhof will be installed as the 11th president of 
Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, on Dec. 4. 
    Meekhof, who has had a long career as a pastor and middle governing 
body executive, was most recently interim executive for the Synod of 
Alaska-Northwest. 
 
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    The Rev. Harold Jackson, who had announced his retirement as executive 
for the Synod of Living Waters, effective Dec. 31, has accepted an 
assignment to be interim associate director for middle governing body 
relationships at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, effective Jan. 1. 
Jackson's is a joint appointment by the General Assembly Council and the 
Office of the General Assembly. 
    The synod, meanwhile, has named the Rev. J. William Giles as its 
interim executive.  Giles is retiring as executive presbyter for the 
Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley, a position he has held since 1989. 
 
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    Susan Grubbs Hickok has been named executive coordinator for the 
Committee on Local Arrangements for the 210th General Assembly (1998) in 
Charlotte, N.C.  She will begin work Dec. 1 as an employee of the Office of 
the General Assembly, responsible for serving as primary staff to the 
committee that will host the Assembly next June 13-20. 
    Hickok, who heads her own interior design firm, is a native of 
Charlotte and a lifelong Presbyterian.  She is an elder at Covenant 
Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. 
 
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    On Nov. 4, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa., 
honored the Rev. Robert D. Young with its Outstanding Ministry Award. 
Young is pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Chester, Pa. 
    The award is given annually to a person who demonstrates outstanding 
and significant Christian service in the pastorate, mission, Christian 
education or chaplaincy ministry.  The main criterion is that the recipient 
evidence exemplary service to the church and community. 
    Young, a member of Donegal Presbytery, has been pastor of Westminster 
Church for 31 years. 
 
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    Episcopal bishop Craig Barry Anderson, rector at St. Paul's School in 
Concord, N.H., was installed Nov. 12 as president of the National Council 
of Churches (NCC).  He will serve a two-year term beginning Jan. 1, 1998. 
    The president is the highest unsalaried leadership position in the NCC, 
which is made up of 34 denominations representing some 52 million 
Christians. 
    Anderson, who has been on the NCC governing board for nine years, has 
also served as a seminary president and dean and for nine years as the 
Episcopal bishop of South Dakota. 
 
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    Patricia L. Mosley, a Presbyterian elder from Gainesville, Fla., who 
was active at every level of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), died Oct. 30 
after a five-year battle with cancer.  She was 73. 
    Mosley was a leader in Presbyterian Women, the Presbytery of St. 
Augustine (and its predecessor, the Presbytery of South Florida, which she 
served as moderator), and the Synod of South Atlantic (and its predecessor, 
the Synod of the South), and served on the General Assembly Council 
following reunion.  While on the Council, she chaired its Audit Committee. 
    Mosley is survived by her husband, Robert; two children, Melanie and 
Brian; and one grandchild, Chase. 

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