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1-February-2000 
00050 
 
    Notes about People 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
    The Rev. David C. Meekhof has announced his resignation as president of 
financially troubled Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, effective 
June 30, 2000. 
    Meekhof came out of retirement two years ago to help refocus Sheldon 
Jackson's mission of serving native Alaskans and to strengthen the 
college's ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  Board of Trustees 
chair the Rev. David Dobler praised Meekhof's accomplishments in announcing 
his resignation. 
    Meekhof said that Sheldon Jackson needs an academic scholar, not an 
administrator, to lead it into the future.  Meekhof will re-retire to his 
home in Bellevue, Wash. 
 
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    "The Presbyterian Outlook" has hired Leslie Scanlon, who for 20 years 
has reported for the Louisville "Courier-Journal," as a Louisville-based 
reporter for the independent Presbyterian publication. 
    Scanlon, who is currently the religion writer for the 
"Courier-Journal," begins her new work March 1, though she will cover the 
Feb. 16-19 General Assembly Council meeting for the Outlook. 
    Scanlon, a native of Minnesota, is well-suited for her Outlook work. 
In addition to holding the religion beat for the "Courier-Journal" for 
several years, she was the reporter assigned by the paper to cover the 
relocation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to Louisville in 1988. 
 
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    Charles V. ("Chas") Clark, a Presbyterian who as a United States Air 
Force Colonel was assigned to keep inventory of the U.S. nuclear arsenal 
for 22 years, has written a gripping book on that experience entitled 
"Keepers of the Keys." 
    Clark, who has devoted his life to world peace issues since retiring 
from the Air Force after 28 years of service, details in his book the 
internal philosophical struggle between nuclear weapons as a deterrent to 
foreign aggression and the realization that in nuclear war there can be no 
winners. 
    "Keeper of the Keys" is available from Doran Publishing, P.O. Box 2123, 
Escondido, CA 92025; or by phone at (760) 743-5020. 

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