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17-March-1999 
99111 
 
    Notes about People 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
    Gary Payton, coordinator of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, has 
resigned in order to move to Sandpoint, Idaho, where his wife, the Rev. 
Nancy Copeland Payton, has accepted a call as pastor of First Presbyterian 
Church. 
    Payton, who has headed the peacemaking program for three years, will 
conclude his work on General Assembly staff at the conclusion of the 
upcoming General Assembly this June in Fort Worth, Texas. 
    Payton also won near-universal respect for the perspectives he brought 
to Presbyterian peacemaking efforts from his previous experience 
as a U.S. military intelligence officer. 
 
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    "Presbyterians Today," the magazine of the Presbyterian Church 
(U.S.A.), has been awarded one of only eight "best in class" 
DeRose-Hinkhouse Awards by the Religion Communicators Council, an 
interfaith network of more than 500 communicators across North America. 
    The magazine won its award in the Graphic Design, Art, & Photography 
category for "People, Places, Relationships: The Year With Latin 
Americans," a photographic essay that appeared in the June/July 1998 issue 
of "Presbyterians Today." 
    The editor of "Presbyterians Today" is Eva Stimson.  Managing editor is 
Catherine Cottingham, art director is Linda Colgrove Crittenden and the 
assistant editor is John D. Filiatreau. 
 
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    Ian Barbour, a physicist and theologian who launched a new era in the 
interdisciplinary dialogue between science and religion more than three 
decades ago and is now one of the world's most forceful advocates for 
ethics in technology, has won the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in 
Religion.  Barbour, professor emeritus of science, technology and society 
at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., will receive a prize of $1.24 
million. 
    The prize was inaugurated in 1972 by global investor and Presbyterian 
philanthropist Sir John Templeton.  Others honored by the prize include 
Billy Graham, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and Charles Colson.  The first 
recipient was Mother Teresa. 
    Barbour first drew attention to the issue of the relationship between 
science, technology and religion with his groundbreaking 1965 book, "Issues 
in Science and Religion."  He has since written or edited more than a dozen 
books on science and religion.  Two collections of lectures, "Religion in 
an Age of Science" (1990) and "Ethics in an Age of Technology" (1993), 
received the 1993 book award of the American Academy of Religion. 
 
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    Ann Newbold, wife of former General Assembly associated stated clerk 
Robert Newbold, died March 12 of complications from Parkinson's Disease. 
    A memorial service was held March 17 at Bethel Presbyterian Church in 
Plainfield, N.J., where she was a member.  Ann Newbold was buried in her 
home state of Alabama. 

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