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14-January-1997 
 
 
97027                   Notes about People 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
     The Rev. James D. Brown, former executive director of the General 
Assembly Council, has accepted a call to be pastor of Market Square 
Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, Pa.  Brown begins work in his new 
position at the 650-member church on Feb. 15. 
 
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     Heidi Hadsell, dean of the faculty, vice president for academic 
affairs and professor of Christian social ethics at McCormick Theological 
Seminary, has been named director of the World Council of Churches' 
Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland.  She is expected to take up 
her new duties in late summer of 1997. 
     Hadsell will be the ninth director of the Ecumenical Institute, 
founded in 1946, and the first woman to hold the position.  She earned her 
Ph.D. in ethical issues of third-world development from the University of 
Southern California in 1979.  Prior to going to McCormick Seminary, she 
lived and taught in Brazil.  She is completing a term of service on the 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. 
 
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     Lou Lyon, a longtime leader in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), most 
recently as moderator of the General Assembly Nominating Committee, died 
Dec. 22 in an Overland Park, Kan., long-term care facility.  Lyon had 
suffered a series of debilitating strokes in recent months. 
     Private burial was in Clinton, Iowa, on Dec. 28.  Milwaukee 
Presbytery, where Lyon lived and served for many years until her recent 
health problems, has tentatively scheduled a memorial service for April 19 
in nearby Waukesha.  Lou Lyon is survived by four sons -- Peter, Kim, Lynn 
and Terry.  

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