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Three inducted 
into Hall of Fame

     
     WASHINGTON (UMNS) -- Three names were added to the United
Methodist Communicators Hall of Fame Nov. 22 during the United
Methodist Association of Communicators' (UMAC) annual meeting
here.
     The 1996 inductees were Nelson Price, the Rev. G. Ross
Freeman and the late Rev. Bruno Caliandro.
     UMAC administers the Hall of Fame program with identical
plaques listing the names of Hall of Fame honorees at United
Methodist Communications in Nashville, Tenn., and at the
churchwide Commission on Archives and History in Madison, N.J.
     The  Communicators Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who
have given outstanding professional service to communications in
the United Methodist Church and who are retired or deceased.
     Caliandro, a clergyman, educator and an award winning
television and documentary producer who died suddenly June 11 was
posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame. 
     He was employed by United Methodist Communications but also
worked for other denominational and ecumenical agencies. He
produced and directed numerous nationally recognized television
programs for United Methodist Communications, including "Catch the
Spirit," an award-winning, 30-minute, weekly television program,
and two radio series, "In Good Faith" and "Guideposts with Norman
Vincent Peale." 
     He also produced several "after school specials" broadcast on
ABC TV.
     Price, Syracuse, N.Y., former president of the Faith and
Values Cable Network, now Odyssey, told the communicators that in
order to be successful they must "gather the best people, join the
best team and run like hell to keep up."
     A former staff executive of United Methodist Communications,
his leadership was instrumental in the development of the church's
approach to mass media and programming. He also served on several
ecumenical or interfaith boards and commissions.
     Freeman, Conyers, Ga., is a "communications pioneer whose
career has spanned approximately 54 years of preaching, teaching,
writing, editing, publishing and broadcasting in the state of
Georgia and in the southeast." He was the editor of the Wesleyan
Christian Advocate, newspaper of the Georgia United Methodist
Church, for nine years.  
     He made an imprint in Georgia communications in the 1970s
with the launch of "Good News Television," the only full-time
television broadcasting station related to the United Methodist
Church. Although Freeman retired in 1993, he has remained active
in communications, working in local television programming.
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