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18-June-1997 
GA97065 
 
                     OFFCENTER AT THE ONCENTER 
 
 
SYRACUSE--Trying to count votes in the Ecumenical Relations Committee 
Monday afternoon, committee assistant Garnett Foster, clearly exasperated 
(and believe me, Offcenter knows exasperated), told timid committee 
members: "Some of you are bad hand-raisers -- you never would have gotten 
to the bathroom in elementary school!" 
 
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    Overheard at the information booth in the Exhibit Hall late Monday, 
uttered by an overworked volunteer (and believe me, Offcenter knows about 
overworked): "By Friday we will have all the answers to questions that will 
never be asked of us again." 
 
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    Who says Presbyterians don't know a good fight when they see one?  The 
marquis on the Harrison Street side of the War Memorial "Welcomes the 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)" while the Montgomery Street entrance 
advertises "World Class Boxing -- Return to Glory." 
 
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    In the Assembly Committee on the Office of the General Assembly meeting 
Monday evening, YAD Travis Claver of Great Rivers Presbytery rose in 
support of an invitation from Philadelphia Presbytery to host the 2006 
General Assembly (the 300th) with the ringing endorsement: "I think we 
ought to do it -- a 300th anniversary doesn't happen every day!" 
 
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    Small world, close family dept., part II: Bill Williamson Jr. (Middle 
Tennessee Presbytery) and his sister, Sissy Almand (Flint River 
Presbytery), are both commissioners to the 209th.  Not only that (and 
Offcenter thinks that is enough all by itself), every member of their 
immediate family has now been a General Assembly commish: father Bill Sr. 
(Concord Presbytery), mother Virginia (Concord, also) and brother Charles 
(Charlotte Presbytery).  

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