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[PCUSANEWS] Notes about people


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Date Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:28:25 -0400

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07544 August 31, 2007

Notes about people

by Jerry Van Marter Presbyterian News Service

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) has announced the appointment of Richard Cozzone as the new PDA Presbyterian Village coordinator. Cozzone will oversee the operation of five volunteer villages across the Gulf Coast from Gautier, MS, to Houma, LA, outside New Orleans. He succeeds Elizabeth Little, who is returning to North Carolina after 15 months of service in the gulf region.

Cozzone, who first got involved with PDA and gulf relief as a volunteer from the Presbytery of the Western Reserve, has served as both a volunteer village manager and a worksite assignment manager for PDA. A Presbyterian elder, he has been active at all levels of the PC(USA). He is a retired teacher and administrator in the Ohio public school systems.

Cozzone will have a busy fall. A new cadre of Young Adult Volunteers arrives in early September to assist with the management of the villages. In addition, PDA is in the midst of creating a sixth volunteer village, this time in Orleans Parish of New Orleans at the former Eastminster Presbyterian Church. The new village is being called Olive Tree.

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The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has announced the appointment of Patricia M. Haines to lead its combined Benefits Team beginning in October. She succeeds Margaret M. Mellen, who retired in July.

Haines is currently senior vice president for the Employee Benefits Division of Commerce Banc Insurance Services. She has previously worked in the employee benefits field for CIGNA, Coopers & Lybrand, and VIRTUA Health.

Information for this story was furnished by Jennifer L. Schoettle, the BOP's director of communications and public relations.

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Cora A. Wayland, a retired PC(USA) mission worker, died Aug. 29 at The Pines in Davidson, NC.

The daughter of Presbyterian missionaries in China, Wayland was a career missionary in Korea until her retirement in 1985. Her family was full of Presbyterian missionaries and ministers.

A memorial service was scheduled for Sept.1 at Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Huntersville, NC.

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Services were held Aug. 27 in Louisville for William J. McAnulty, 59, the first African-American judge to serve on the Kentucky Supreme Court. McNulty died Aug. 23 of brain cancer less than a year after being first appointed and then elected to the state's high court.

McAnulty, a member of Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, was a tireless advocate for the poor, particularly children. Throughout his life he was an active supporter of the Presbyterian Community Center in the Smoketown neighborhood of Louisville, one of the city's poorest. McAnulty served as a judge for more than 30 years.

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