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27-July-1998 
98227 
 
    Department of History Establishes Endowment, 
    Hires Development Officer 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-The Presbyterian Church's Department of History has 
established a full-time development office to build an endowment to fund 
its staff and programs in Philadelphia and Montreat, N.C. 
 
    The Department of History - and its affiliated Presbyterian Historical 
Society - is an agency of the Office of the General Assembly.  At its two 
sites, the department houses vast archives, research facilities and display 
space for numerous historical artifacts related to Presbyterian history. 
It also publishes "The Journal of Presbyterian History." 
 
    "The Department of History has been moving slowly but surely toward 
this goal [of a full-time development office] for the past five years," 
said Frederick J. Heuser, associate stated clerk of the General Assembly 
and director of the Department of History.  "We recognized in the early 
1990s that it would be necessary for us to assume a significantly larger 
share of the financial responsibility for our support."  The Department of 
History is funded by the per capita budget of the General Assembly. 
 
    In early June, Heuser announced the appointment of the Rev. Nancy E. 
Muth as vice president for institutional development for the department. 
Muth, a graduate of Princeton and McCormick Theological Seminaries, has 
been a campaign consultant with Church Financial Campaign Services since 
1990.  She began her new work June 15. 
 
    The goal of the development effort is a $30-35 million endowment. 
Working closely with the Presbyterian Foundation, the department has 
established an initial endowment of more than $1 million. 
 
    "We feel tremendously blessed and are encouraged by the level of 
support we have received thus far," Heuser said.  "Presbyterians do care 
deeply about their heritage.  We feel confident they will continue to 
support our ministry in the next century as they have since our 
establishment in 1852." 

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