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Notes about people
03183
April 7, 2003

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

Ann Gillies, a member of the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
since 1989, has been named associate director for communication for the
General Assembly Council.
	
She succeeds Gary Luhr, who resigned last fall.

Gillies, an elder at Springdale Presbyterian Church in Louisville and a 
commissioned lay pastor for the Presbytery of Mid-Kentucky, has been
coordinator for internet and media services in the Office of Communication
for several years. 

She began her church career as director of media services in the former
Stewardship and Communication Development Ministry Unit in the early 90s. She
served as staff to the Communication Task Group that created the Office of
Communication in 1994 as part of the "shape and form" restructuring of the
General Assembly Council. She served as acting associate director of the
office until Luhr was hired in 1995.
	
Prior to her church work, Gillies worked in television news in her native
Illinois.

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The Mission Personnel Committee of the Synod of Alaska-Northwest has
announced the resignation of the Rev. Rob McClure as associate synod
executive for stewardship and communication.
	
The resignation will be accepted formally at the next synod assembly in early
May.
	
McClure served the Presbyterian Church (USA) for many years with distinction.
He's one of the denomination's really good ones.

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The Rev. Richard H. Haynes, who devoted his entire 54-year ministry to small
churches in Geneva Presbytery, died March 10. He was 82.
	
Haynes, a graduate of Cornell and Hartford Theological Seminary, also served
as Geneva Presbytery's stated clerk for 47 years.
	
A memorial service was held March 15 at First Presbyterian Church of
Waterloo, NY. Dick Haynes is survived by a son, Richard; two daughters,
Harriet Anne Haynes  and Adah Jean Haynes-Vaughn; a sister, Ruth Capron; six
grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and six nieces and nephews. He was
predeceased by his wife, Harriet, who died March 16, 1994. 

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The Rev. Philip R. Gehman has been appointed regional representative for the
Synods of the Northeast and the Trinity for the Board of Pensions of the
Presbyterian Church (USA). Gehman was formerly vice president for student
life and dean of students at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA
since 1987. He also worked for two years as the seminary's Director of
Admissions and Placement. Between l972 and 1985 he served in pastoral
positions in Waynesboro, VA, and Greensboro, NC.
	
Gehman is a graduate of Wheaton (IL) and Columbia seminary. He earned his
D.Min. at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA.

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The Rev. Donald I. MacInnes, a third generation Presbyterian Church (USA)
stated clerk, retired Dec. 31 after serving 25 years as stated clerk of the
Synod of the Pacific. For many of those years, he also served as stated clerk
of the Presbytery of San Francisco. At the time of his retirement, MacInnes
was the senior stated clerk in the PC(USA) in years of service. He was
unanimously re-elected each time he stood for office.
	
MacInnes was also a gifted educator, serving as adjunct faculty at San
Francisco Theological Seminary and taught for several years at the
Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, VA.
	
He said the burden of an increasing volume of judicial cases finally became
too much. "With Permanent Judicial Commission business consuming almost all
of my working time, I no longer found joy or pleasure in the task of being
stated clerk," he said.
	
Shortly before his retirement, at age 70, the Synod's PJC adopted a
"Resolution of Appreciation for the Rev. Dr. Donald I. MacInnes, witnessing
to the whole Church of the love and esteem in which he is held by innumerable
fellow-servants, and thanking God for the grace and integrity of his long
heritage of ministry in Jesus Christ."
	
In retirement, he will turn his attention to his three great loves: music,
Scotland and trains.

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The Rev. Harry Purcell Phillips Jr., an innovative Presbyterian leader in
urban ministry and former executive presbyter for New York City Presbytery,
died March 14 in Durham, NC, of complications from Parkinson's Disease. He
was 79.
	
A native of Pittsburgh, Phillips graduated from Princeton University and
Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of
Edinburgh.
	
Phillips served pastorates in New Jersey, Missouri and Texas before serving
as executive presbyter for New York City Presbytery from 1974 until his
retirement in 1985.
	
Phillips' wife of 36 years, Joanna Beattie Phillips, died in 1987. His
survivors include a brother, the Rev. James M. Phillips of Hamden, Ct,; three
sons, Harry III, of Durham, NC, John, of Blacksburg, Va., and Bruce, of New
York; and five grandchildren. A funeral service was held March 22 Hilltop
Presbyterian Church, Mendham, NJ.

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