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April 3, 1997
Episcopal News Service
Jim Solheim, Director
212-922-5385
ens@ecunet.org

97-1731
News teams prepare to cover General Convention

by James H. Thrall
      (ENS) The news of the 72nd General Convention in Philadelphia
this summer will be covered by an experienced cadre of volunteer
reporters and editors working to produce the Convention Daily
newspaper and the daily releases for Episcopal News Service (ENS).
      Michael Barwell, director of communications for the Diocese of
Southern Ohio, will once again oversee the ENS team of volunteers as
editor, assisted by Diane Walker of Shaw Island, Washington, a free-
lance writer and former communications director for the Diocese of
Olympia. 
      The four reporters who will follow the daily twists and turns of
legislation in the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops for ENS
include two veterans of former conventions, the Rev. Jan Nunley, rector
of St. Peter's and St. Andrew's Church in Providence, Rhode Island, and
David Skidmore, director of communication for the Diocese of Chicago.
Joining them are the Rev. Walt Gordon, communications officer for the
Diocese of Minnesota; and Genie Carr, a free-lance writer living in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
      In addition, Art Stewart of Reputation Management will assist
James Solheim, director of the Episcopal Church's office of news and
information, and James Thrall, deputy director, with media relations.

Convention Daily staff named
      The Convention Daily team of volunteers will produce nine issues
of The Daily, which is distributed at the convention center and by first-
class mail to subscribers.
      Reporters for The Daily will include veteran Mary Lee Simpson,
editor of the Southwestern Episcopalian; Herb Gunn, editor of The
Record, newspaper of the Diocese of Michigan; and Sharon Sheridan
Hausman, a free-lance writer for Episcopal Life who lives in Flanders,
New Jersey. Dick Snyder of Carson City, Nevada, a free-lance
photographer for Episcopal Life, will serve as chief photographer,
assisted by a local photographic team.
      Jerry Fargo, art director for Episcopal Life, the national
newspaper of the Episcopal Church, will lay out The Daily. Jerry
Hames, editor of Episcopal Life, will oversee The Daily team as well as
the regular staff of Episcopal Life--News Editor Ed Stannard and
Features Editor Nan Cobbey--who will be preparing Episcopal Life's
convention coverage.

--James H. Thrall is deputy director of news and information for the
Episcopal Church.