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CONTACT: Thomas S. McAnally		    	682(10-31-71B){494}
         Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470	   Dec. 5, 1997

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Church’s South Central Jurisdiction
names first black, lay, woman executive

	DALLAS (UMNS) --  Thalia F. Matherson, a Dallas public school educator and
administrator, has become the first lay person, woman and African American to
serve as executive of the eight-state South Central Jurisdiction of the United
Methodist Church since its creation in 1940.
	She will assume her new position in Dallas June 1, succeeding the Rev. Ray
Branton who is retiring after six years in the position.
	Matherson, a member of Warren United Methodist Church in Dallas, is currently
principal of a Magnet Middle School in the Dallas Independent School District.
 She is former executive director of the Principals’ Training Program for the
Dallas Public Schools.
	She chairs the church’s North Texas Conference Board of Church and Society
and has twice led the North Texas Conference lay delegation to General
Conference.  She is a member of the executive committee of the governing board
for the United Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tenn.
	Matherson earned a BA degree from United Methodist-related Huston-Tillotson
College in Austin, Texas; an MA degree from Southern Methodist University in
Dallas; and a Doctor of Education degree from East Texas State University,
Commerce.
	As executive director of Mission and Administration for the jurisdiction’s
Mission Council, Matherson will have primary responsibility for coordination,
planning, administration and creative visioning, according to the Rev. Don M.
Pike.  Pike, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Arlington, Texas, is
chairman of the council.
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