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9-July-1997 
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    Notes About People 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
    The governing board of Stony Point Conference Center in New York has 
announced its appointment of the Rev. William B.H. Pindar as director.  He 
will join the Stony Point staff in mid- August. 
    Pindar has been pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in New York City 
since 1989.  Previously, he was pastor of Old Pine Presbyterian Church in 
Philadelphia. 
    Stony Point, one of three national conference centers of the 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1998. 
 
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    Gene Wells, 52, associate director for human resources for the 
Presbyterian Center in Louisville, died suddenly of a heart attack July 1. 
    Wells had served as human resources director for the church for just 
more than six months. 
    He is survived by his wife, Diane; a daughter, Tiffany D. Wells; and a 
son, Scott E. Robertson. 
    Funeral services were held July 5 at Trinity Presbyterian Church in 
Louisville. 
 
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    Legendary movie actor Jimmy Stewart, who died July 2 at age 89, was a 
lifelong Presbyterian.  Stewart was a member of Beverly Hills Presbyterian 
Church and helped raise funds for the National Presbyterian Church and 
Center in Washington, D.C. 
 
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    Mildred Brown, who served the Presbyterian Church for many years in the 
areas of women's ministries and racial/ethnic church growth and evangelism, 
died July 3 at the home of her son in Philadelphia.  She had been suffering 
for a couple of years with a rare form of skin cancer. 
    In 1996 Brown retired from the national staff, where she was associate 
for evangelism and racial ethnic concerns in the Evangelism and Church 
Development program area of the National Ministries Division. 
    Services for Mildred Brown were held July 8 at Berean Presbyterian 
Church in Philadelphia. 
 
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    The Rev. Kenneth Bailey, a retired Presbyterian missionary who served 
in the Middle East for more than 40 years, has been named Canon Theologian 
to the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. 
 
    Bailey is a graduate of Monmouth College and Pittsburgh Theological 
Seminary with a degree in Arabic language and literature from Cairo, Egypt. 
He was professor of New Testament at the Near East School of Theology in 
Beirut, Lebanon, where he founded and directed the Institute for Middle 
Eastern Studies. 
 
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    The Rev. John D. MacLeod Jr., 75, of Morganton, N.C., a longtime pastor 
and executive in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), died June 8 from 
injuries he suffered in an automobile accident June 6 in Meridian, Miss. 
    At the time of his death, MacLeod was interim pastor of Trinity 
Presbyterian Church in Meridian.  He previously served as executive of the 
former Synod of North Carolina and also served several presbyteries as an 
interim executive, most recently the Presbytery of Western North Carolina. 
    Memorial services have been scheduled for July 12 at White Memorial 
Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, N.C., and for July 22, during Western North 
Carolina Presbytery's meeting at First Presbyterian Church in Gastonia, 
N.C. 

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