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15-June-1997 
GA97020 
 
             George Hunt Receives "Presbyterian Outlook" Award 
 
                             by Van Marter 
 
SYRACUSE--"The Presbyterian Outlook" honored one of its own Saturday night 
when former editor George Laird Hunt was given the independent Presbyterian 
magazine's Ernest Trice Thompson Award. 
 
    A sell-out crowd of more than 600 at the annual Outlook Dinner heard 
current editor Robert Bullock call Hunt, who edited the magazine from 1976 
to1988, "a model former editor -- a colleague, friend, occasional 
contributor and one who offers ideas often but not too often." 
 
    Hunt said receiving the award "is one of the great honors of my life 
for two reasons: first is my great admiration for E.T. Thompson and second 
is that my time with "The Presbyterian Outlook" was the most enjoyable and 
meaningful of my career."  Hunt and his wife, Mary Alice, currently live in 
Lakeland, Fla. 
 
    Hunt described Thompson, who was the founder of "The Presbyterian 
Outlook" and the chairman of its board of directors and co-editor for 
nearly 60 years, as "a tireless progressive voice in the Presbyterian 
Church."  Hunt said Thompson "imbued the magazine with his gracious and 
courageous spirit, forging the Outlook into "a truly independent journal -- 
relying solely on its readers for support." 
 
    Hunt has served the Presbyterian Church as a pastor in Delaware, 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey; as an educator on the staff of the Board of 
Christian Education; as an historian, moderating the Committee for the 
Presbyterian Historical Society and contributing to Lefferts Loetscher's "A 
Brief History of the Presbyterians"; and as an ecumenist, serving as the 
first executive secretary of the Consultation on Church Union. 
 
At the dinner, Bullock also introduced his new associate editor, 
veteran Presbyterian journalist John D. Sniffen.  Sniffen was most recently 
director of communications for the Synod of the Mid-Atlantic and editor of 
the synod's newspaper, "The Mid-Atlantic Presbyterian."  He joins the 
Outlook staff July six. 
Jerry Van Marter 

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