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30-August-1996 
 
 
96313                   Notes about People 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
     The Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program has announced the 
appointment of two new staff members. 
     Eric A. Moore is the new director of loan operations.  After a career 
spanning 17 years in the banking industry, Moore spent the last 12 years as 
associate executive for finance for the Synod of the Northeast. 
     Jerie Britton of Houston will become director of marketing effective 
Sept. 15.  She has worked as a regional consultant with The Bicentennial 
Fund, as director of administrative services with Houston Metropolitan 
Ministries and as business administrator for Central Presbyterian Church of 
Houston. 
     The Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program has been established to 
provide capital loans to new churches and other church-related institutions 
from investments made by members and governing bodies of the Presbyterian 
Church (U.S.A.). 
 
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     Beulah Travis,  a dedicated urban missionary for First Presbyterian 
Church United of Syracuse, N.Y., since the 1940s, celebrated her 90th 
birthday Aug. 20.  After she "retired," she was instrumental in starting 
the Exploring Your World youth program, a neighborhood preschool, 
afterschool and summer program for children with disabilities, neighborhood 
children and selected "typical" children. The after-school program supports 
two neighboring elementary schools and the summer program takes in children 
ages 3 to 14.  
 
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     "New York Times" religion reporter Gustav Niebuhr, a Presbyterian, has 
been given the prestigious 1996 Religious Freedom Award by the Associated 
Baptist Press (ABP).  The award was established in 1994 to honor 
individuals whose work promotes the principle and practice of religious 
freedom, particularly in the field of journalism.  In announcing the award, 
ABP executive editor Greg Warner said Niebuhr "has made religion front-page 
news by demonstrating the influence of faith on society and vice versa. 
And he has done so with consummate fairness and uncanny insight." 
 
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     The Department of History of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has 
announced the appointment of the Rev. James H. Moorhead as editor of the 
department's journal, "American Presbyterians: the Journal of Presbyterian 
History," effective July 1.  He succeeds the Rev. James H. Smylie, who was 
the journal's editor for 28 years. 
     Moorhead is professor of American church history at Princeton 
Theological Seminary.  He is a graduate of Westminster (Pa.) College, 
Princeton Theological Seminary and Yale University (Ph.D.). He has been 
associate editor of "American Presbyterians" since 1988. 
     The journal, the oldest denominational historical journal in the 
country, began publication in 1901. 

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