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19-June-1997 
GA97078 
 
 
              Assembly Honors Three Seminary Presidents 
 
                          by Jane Hines 
 
 
SYRACUSE--The Committee on Christian Faith and Life and Theological 
Institutions led the General Assembly here June 18 in recognizing three 
presidents of theological institutions affiliated with the Presbyterian 
Church (U.S.A.). 
 
    Honored were Dr. James Costen, retiring president of 
Interdenominational Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Ga.;  Dr . Wayne 
Boulton, who is resigning as president of the Presbyterian School of 
Christian Education (PSCE) in Richmond, Va.; and Dr. Robert Shelton, 
newly-appointed president of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 
Austin, Texas. 
 
    Costen, who will retire at the end of this year, said he plans to work 
with the Presbyterian Church in Africa as a volunteer with the Partners in 
Mission Program. He urged the denomination to continue to support the 
denomination's seminaries prayerfully and financially. 
 
    "We must have the continuing support of our seminaries if we are really 
going to vindicate the position that theology matters," Costen said. 
 
    Boulton, who served a five-year term as president of PSCE, will resign 
in light of the recent federation with its sister school, Union Theological 
Seminary in Virginia (UTS). Dr. Louis B. Weeks, UTS president, has been 
elected president of the federated institution. Boulton described his 
successor as "a man of great integrity and high caliber." 
 
    Shelton, who is the eighth president of Austin Presbyterian Theological 
Seminary, has served the school 26 years, the last 14 as dean.   

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