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August 17, 2004 - Tuesday, To note: Brief items in the news

Olympics: Athletes, Athens, Anthem

-- ADD TO THE OLYMPICS LINE-UP: Among Episcopalians participating in the 
Olympic Games in Athens is swim team member MARGARET HOELZER, a lifelong 
parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Huntsville, Alabama, a parish 
colleague reports.
	As previously reported by ENS, other athletes with ties to Episcopal 
congregations and affiliated schools also include: swimmers DIANA MUNZ, who 
grew up at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Chagrin Falls, Ohio; Kenyon 
College swimmers ANDREJS DUDA (Class of 2006), AGNESE OZOLINA (Class of 
2004) and MICHELLE ENGELSMAN (Class of 2001); and Jacksonville, Florida, 
Episcopal High School graduate JORGE OLIVER, who is swimming on the Puerto 
Rican team.

-- ATHENS CHAPLAINCY AIDED BY UNITED THANK OFFERING
	A $35,000 grant from the United Thank Offering -- an ongoing ministry

coordinated by the national Episcopal Church Women -- has helped the 
Greater Athens Anglican Chaplaincy in serving the needs of the athletes and 
others attending the Olympic Games now under way in Athens.
	St Paul's Anglican Church in Athens received a grant to make upgrades
to 
the church for the chaplaincy ministry during the 2004 Summer Olympics, 
UTO's Patty Tourangeau reports. The grant paid for air conditioners, an 
emergency exit door, and renovations to make a restroom accessible to 
persons with disabilities.
	Appreciation for the grant has been conveyed to UTO officers by the
Rev. 
Canon Malcolm Bradshaw on behalf of St. Paul's, Athens.
	Funding for UTO grants is raised largely from coins and bills placed
in 
small blue boxes familiar to many across the Episcopal Church. More on the 
work of UTO is available from coordinator JoAnne Chapman at the Episcopal 
Church Center in New York, 212.922.5130, jchapman@episcopalchurch.org.

-- AND DID YOU KNOW? Each time "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played when 
U.S. athletes win gold medals at the Olympic Games, the music brings to 
mind the national anthem's words written by an Episcopalian -- Francis 
Scott Key -- who was active in the support of Virginia Theological 
Seminary. Further information is posted on-line at www.vts.edu and at 
www.gospelcom.net/chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps106.shtml.