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8-December-1999 
99412 
 
    Notes about People 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
    The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, soon to retire as general secretary of 
the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC), has been 
named director of the Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution 
in New York. 
    Campbell, who concludes her nine-year term as head of the NCC at the 
end of the year, will begin her new work no later than April 15, 2000. 
    The Chautauqua Institution, founded in 1874, conducts a variety of 
programs in religion, education, arts and recreation.  Its Department of 
Religion offers many services of worship, lectures and educational programs 
that communicate the wide range of contemporary religious thoughts and 
theological ideas. 
 
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    The Rev. Gordon Hermanson, president emeritus of Davis & Elkins 
College, died Nov. 21 at age 83 after a long illness. 
    A native of Chicago, Hermanson served Davis & Elkins as its ninth 
president from 1964 until his retirement in 1982.  Earlier he had served as 
a pastor, Christian educator, presbytery and synod staff member, college 
administrator and as a Presbyterian missionary to the Cameroon. 
    Hermanson is survived by his wife, Mary Louise, two sons, two daughters 
and five grandchildren. 
 
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    German theologian Jurgen Moltmann has been awarded the 2000 Louisville 
Grawemeyer Award in religion for his book "The Coming of God: Christian 
Eschatology." 
    The $200,000 prize, presented by Louisville Presbyterian Theological 
Seminary and the University of Louisville, recognizes outstanding and 
creative works that promote the understanding of the relationship between 
human beings and the divine. 
    Moltmann's optimistic book, published in 1996, argues that God's coming 
presence is a promise, not an interruption to history - a continuation of 
God's conversation with creation and humanity.  As Moltmann writes, "God is 
not interested in the destruction of the world but in its fulfillment." 

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