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Note #6546 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

5-June-2001
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Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

The Rev. Grant Lowe, a veteran of pastoral and executive service in the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), began work June 7 as interim synod executive
for the Synod of Lakes and Prairies. He succeeds the Rev. Margaret Thomas,
who resigned late last year.

Lowe has served pastorates in West Virginia, Ohio and Minnesota, and has
served as an executive for the presbyteries of Geneva, Northern Plains and
Northern Kansas. He is coming out of retirement to serve the synod.

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	The Rev. Harriet Nelson, moderator of the 1984 General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), received the Distinguished Alumni Award from
San Francisco Theological Seminary during the seminary's commencement
ceremony. Nelson, a former Presbyterian missionary to Africa and
vice-president of the seminary, was a laywoman when she was elected
moderator of the General Assembly. She subsequently graduated from San
Francisco Seminary in 1992 and was ordained into the ministry of Word and
Sacrament by Redwoods Presbytery.

# # #

	Nancy Halfmoon, a Presbyterian elder in Spalding, Idaho, has become the
first woman elected to the office of president of the Talmaks Camp
Association of the Nez Perce tribe. The association is composed of the six
Presbyterian churches on the Nez Perce reservation - in Kamiah, East Kamiah,
Stites, Ahsahka, Meadow Creek and Spalding. A key program of the Association
is the sponsoring of an annual two-week religious camp, which for 104 years
has provided religious, educational and social activities for people of all
ages on the reservation.

# # #

	The Rev. Edward T. Brogan, a United States Air Force chaplain, has been
named associate director for the Presbyterian Council for Chaplains and
Military Personnel, effective Aug. 1. Brogan, who holds the rank of Colonel,
is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Seminary and has a D.Min. from McCormick
Theological Seminary. A member of Susquehanna Valley Presbytery, Brogan will
retire from the USAF after 24 years of active duty to take up his duties
with the Presbyterian chaplains council.

# # #

	Another media luminary has been added to the list of scheduled speakers at
the upcoming General Assembly with the announcement this week that
award-winning journalist William C. Moyers Jr., the son of a more famous
father, internationally-known journalist Bill Moyers, will be featured
speaker at the June 12 Assembly luncheon sponsored by the Presbyterian
Network on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse. The younger Moyers is president of
the Johnson Institute Foundation in Minneapolis, an organization that
promotes understanding of addiction and recovery from addiction throughout
the country. In 1998 Moyers was honored by the National Council on
Alcoholism and Drug Dependence for his efforts. Before entering addiction
awareness work, Moyers, like his father, was an award-winning journalist,
working for CNN, Newsday and other newspapers around the country.

# # #

The Rev. John Wade, one of the founders of Presbyterians for Restoring
Creation, died May 16 in a fall while hiking in the Colorado Rockies.

Wade, 81, was a former chair of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Sierra
Club. During his life in the outdoors, Wade climbed 32 of the 54 Colorado
Rockies peaks that rise 14,000 feet or more. A Colorado native, he served
one pastorate in Utah before spending the rest of his career in his home
state.

He is survived by two sons, one in Massachusetts and the other in
Pennsylvania. His wife, Marian, died in 1995.

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