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07131 March 7, 2007
Notes about people
by Jerry Van Marter
May S. Denham, one of the first Native American women to hold leadership positions in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), died Feb. 11 in Albuquerque, NM. She was 82. Born to Apache and Navajo parents, Denham was adopted into a Presbyterian missionary family. She graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1944 and worked for the university until her marriage to Roy D. Denham in 1948. Denham was a longtime member and elder of Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque and was active at all levels of the Presbyterian Church. In 1979 she was a candidate for moderator of the 190th General Assembly of the former United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The Assembly elected the Rev. Howard L. Rice, Jr. Earlier Denham was national president of Presbyterian Women from 1970-1973 and also served on the General Assembly Mission Council, including a term as vice-president of the Program Agency Board.
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The Rev. Melany Hamilton has been named co-executive director of Presbyterian Elders in Prayer. She joins the Rev. Nancy Abiera of Rockford, IL, in that role. A graduate of Longwood University and Union Theological Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, VA, Hamilton has served churches in Baltimore and Blackhawk Presbyteries. Currently, she is interim pastor of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Loves Park, IL. Her office will be in Rochelle, IL, where her husband, John is pastor of First Presbyterian Church.
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The Rev. Robert F. Drinan, the first Roman Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of the U.S. Congress, died Jan. 28 in a Washington hospital. He was 86. Drinan represented Massachusetts as a Democrat for a decade starting in 1971. He was one of three Catholic priests to serve in Congress prior to a Vatican edict preventing priests from holding elected office. Drinan, a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War, held moderate views on abortion and school prayer, countering attempts to overturn Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s that outlawed organized prayer in public schools. Drinan left Congress - reportedly with "regret and pain" - in 1980. He was succeeded by Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat who continues to hold that seat.
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In anticipation of the August 2007 retirement of the Rev. Dr. Jane A. Spahr, who has served as the founding minister-director of That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS), the national board of TAMFS has named Lisa Larges to the position of minister-coordinator. Larges has been the TAMFS regional partnership coordinator since 2002. She has been active for many years in efforts to make the PC(USA) fully inclusive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, including their ordination as church officers. Though she has completed all the requirements save one (G-6.0106b of the Book of Order), the San Francisco Theological Seminary graduate has not been ordained as minister of word and sacrament in the PC(USA).
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The Rev. Russell R. Morgan, a longtime activist in the Witherspoon Society and the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, died Jan. 25 of a pulmonary embolism.
A memorial service was held Jan. 30 at Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Dandridge, TN, Morgan's home church.
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