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30-August-1996 
 
 
96320            News of Theological Institutions 
 
                          by Alexa Smith 
 
RICHMOND, Va.--Union Theological Seminary in Virginia has announced the 
appointment of three new faculty members.  Joining the faculty this fall 
are the Rev. Dr. Brian A. Gerrish, who has been named distinguished 
professor of theology after his retirement from the University of Chicago 
Divinity School, and the Rev. Dr. Mark Valeri, who has been named the E.T. 
Thompson professor of church history and is currently an associate 
professor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.  The Rev. Dr.  Stanley 
Skreslet has been named the F.S. Royster professor of Christian missions 
and will begin work in the 1997-98 academic year.  Skreslet is currently 
missionary-in-residence for the Synod of Lincoln Hills in Champaign, Ill. 
 
CHICAGO--The appointment of three new faculty members has been announced by 
the board of trustees of McCormick Theological Seminary.  The Rev. Virginia 
Berglund Smith has been called as the Jean W. and Frank T. Mohr professor 
of ministry.  Smith is currently associate pastor at First Presbyterian 
Church in New York City.  The Rev. Sandra K. Edwards, who has served the 
Presbytery of Pittsburgh since 1992 as the associate executive for racial 
and social justice and mission, has been named director of African American 
Ministries Programs.  The Rev. Mark W. Wendorf, former executive director 
of the Presbyterian, Health, Education and Welfare Association (PHEWA), 
will direct the seminary's urban ministries programs. 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has received 
a $285,029 grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., for a two-year study of faith, 
families and congregations.  Heading the research project will be Dr. Diana 
Garland, former dean of the Carver School of Social Work and former 
director of the Gheens Center for Christian Family Ministry at Southern 
Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, and the Rev. Carol Eichling 
Lytch, a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University.  Garland's project will be 
national in scope and will examine congregations in four denominations: the 
National Baptist Convention, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Southern 
Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church.  Lytch's research will 
focus more closely on relationships among older adolescents, parents and 
clergy to attempt to determine what religious values are being communicated 
from one generation to another. 
 
SAN ANSELMO, Calif.--Dr. Eung Chun Park has joined the faculty of the San 
Francisco Theological Seminary as assistant professor of New Testament. 
Park served as assistant professor in New Testament at Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary in Seoul, Korea, 1992-1995. 
 
AUSTIN, Texas--Robert M. Shelton has been named acting president of Austin 
Presbyterian Theological Seminary, effective Aug. 1, and will hold that 
position until the next president takes office. Shelton currently serves as 
academic dean and Jean Brown professor of homiletics and liturgics.  He 
will continue as dean and professor. 

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