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26-September-1996 
 
 
96373                   Notes about People 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
     The Rev. Roberta Hestenes, president of Eastern College in St. Davids, 
Pa., and a prominent evangelical  Presbyterian leader, has resigned in 
order to become pastor of Solano Beach Presbyterian Church, a 2,200-member 
congregation in San Diego Presbytery. 
     Hestenes has been chair of World Vision International, an associate 
professor at Fuller Theological Seminary and the first woman president of a 
member college of the Coalition for Christian Colleges and Universities. 
More recently, she served as chair of the 208th General Assembly (1996) 
Committee on Ordination and Human Sexuality. 
 
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     Chris Glaser, a leader in Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns 
and author of "Uncommon Calling--A Gay Christian's Struggle to Serve the 
Church," was featured in the Sept. 16 issue of "Newsweek" magazine. 
     In his essay, "Marriage as we see it," in the "My Turn" column of the 
magazine, Glaser reflects on the personal impact of the 208th General 
Assembly's proposal to place the current ban on gay and lesbian ordination 
in the "Book of Order" and of federal legislation signed by President 
Clinton that denies U.S. government recognition of same-sex unions. 
 
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     The Rev. Mary Newbern-Williams, pastor of Westminster Community 
Presbyterian Church in Long Beach, Calif., has been named associate for 
racial-ethnic schools and colleges in the Higher Education Program Area of 
the National Ministries Division in Louisville.  She begins her new work 
Oct. 1. 
     Newbern-Williams succeeds the Rev. George Conn, who resigned last 
spring to return to parish ministry in Virginia. 
 
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     The Rev. Henri J.M. Nouwen, an internationally famous theologian and 
author of more than 30 books on spirituality, died Sept. 21 in Hilversum, 
Netherlands, at 64.  The cause of death was a heart attack. 
     Born in the Netherlands in 1932, Nouwen was ordained a priest in the 
Roman Catholic Church and studied psychology and theology.  He taught in 
the United States at the University of Notre Dame, the Harvard Divinity 
School and the Yale Divinity School. 

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