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Notes about people
03272
June 23, 2003

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	
The Rev. Robert H. Bullock, Jr., editor of The Presbyterian Outlook for the
past 15 years, has announced his retirement, effective Oct. 31. His last day
at the Outlook's Richmond office was June 20.
	
Bullock hinted at retirement at the Outlook's General Assembly dinner May 24,
where he received a special award from the Outlook's board of directors. The
executive committee of the Presbyterian Outlook Foundation accepted Bullock's
resignation June 9. Board president R. Jackson Sadler said the search for a
new editor will begin immediately, with a new editor expected to be elected
at the board's February 2004 meeting.
	
The magazine will continue in the interim under the direction of Associate
Editor John Sniffen, business manager Pat Gresham and Interim Chief
Operations Officer Ed Nugent.
	
A graduate of Austin College and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary,
Bullock holds advanced degrees in political science from the University of
Michigan and in religion from Princeton University. Prior to going to the
Outlook in 1988, he served as director of an ecumenical ministry in Fulton,
MO, and as a pastor in Virginia and Texas.

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Cynthia Wooloever, associate for congregational research in the Research
Services Office of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and director of the largest
profile ever taken of worshipers in the United States, has been named
professor of sociology of religious organizations at Hartford (CT) Seminary.
She will also be part of the seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion
Research. She begins her new work July 1.
	
Woolever, who has been with the PC(USA)'s research arm since 1996, formerly
taught at Midway (KY) College and Phillips University in Enid, OK.
	
In Louisville, she directed the landmark U.S. Congregational Life Survey,
which polled more than 300,000 worshipers in more than 2,000 U.S.
congregations in April 2001. The survey included Jewish, Greek Orthodox,
Roman Catholic, Buddhist, Unitarian and Protestant denominations. Its purpose
was to develop resources to help congregations better understand themselves,
identify their strengths, assess their ministries and relate more effectively
with their communities.  
	
With co-editor Deborah Bruce of the Research Services Office, she released a
book on the survey's findings this year entitled A Field Guide to U.S.
Congregations. A second book will be released soon on the study's findings 
about factors related to congregational effectiveness.

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The Rev. Raafat Zaki has joined the Worldwide Ministries Division staff of
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as area coordinator for Central, South and
Southeast Asia.
	
Zaki, a native of Sudan, had been serving in a term position as associate for
racial ethnic recruitment in the Churchwide Personnel Offices of the National
Ministries Division. He also has been pastor of congregations in Sudan,
Indiana and Ohio and worked for World Vision in Sudan.
	
Zaki holds the bachelor of theology degree from Evangelical (Presbyterian)
Seminary in Cairo, Egypt; the master of arts degree from the Asian Center for
Theological Studies and Missions in Seoul, Korea; and the master of divinity
degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is a candidate for
the doctor of philosophy degree at Chicago Theological Seminary.

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Three Presbyterians have been named to positions at Yale Divinity School. 
	
As previously reported, the Rev. Martha L. Moore-Keish will be an assistant
professor of liturgical studies. Ordained in 2000, Moore-Keish has been
serving as associate for worship in the Theology, Worship and Discipleship
office of the Congregational Ministries Division in Louisville.
	
The Rev. David W. Miller, formerly at Princeton, will be executive director
of the divinity school's new Institute for Faith and Culture.  Miller came to
theological education after a career in the business world, in marketing with
IBM and in investment banking with several major firms.  
	
The Rev. Susan Olson will join the Admissions Office as new assistant dean
for admissions and career counseling.  Olson has been involved in college
chaplaincy work at Wilson College, a PC(USA)-related school in Chambersburg,
PA and Wesley College in Dover, DE. 

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