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8-December-1998 
98405 
 
    News of Theological Institutions 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary librarian 
and professor of bibliography and research, Milton J Coalter, was elected 
president of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) at its 
annual June conference.  He succeeds Patrick Graham, director of the Pitts 
Theological Library at Emory University.  Coalter was elected to the ATLA 
board for a three-year term and will serve as president for one year. 
 
PITTSBURGH - "Thomas Merton: His Life and Thought" is the subject of a 
continuing education program Jan. 11-15 at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. 
New Testament Professor Bonnie Thurston will teach the course, which runs 
from 9 a.m. to noon each day.  The cost is $300.  Thurston was a founding 
member and president of the International Thomas Merton Society and has 
lectured widely on Merton in the United States and Europe. 
 
DUBUQUE, Iowa - The University of Dubuque Theological Seminary has received 
a one million dollar Lilly Endowment grant to develop a training program 
for lay pastors called "Strengthening the Ministry of the Church Through 
Lay Instruction: A Technological Approach to Distance Learning."  The grant 
is extended over five years.  "The goal is to offer instruction by 
technological means to laity who desire training to serve churches as lay 
pastors but live in places remote from theological seminaries," said 
assistant dean Ann Hoch, who coordinated the proposal.  According to Dean 
Bradley Longfield, the seminary intends that the program will enhance the 
school's mission of preparing Native Americans for ministry. 
 
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. - Charles Marks has been named chaplain and associate 
professor of ministry at the San Francisco Theological Seminary, beginning 
his work in August, 1999.  Marks is an associate with the National 
Ministries Division of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with 
responsibilities for ecumenical dialogue and conflict resolution, and he is 
pastor of the Witherspoon Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. 
 
RICHMOND, Va. - A cooperative program between Union Theological Seminary 
and the Presbyterian School of Christian Education and the Alamance 
Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, N.C., brought 11 pastors to the Richmond 
campus for an intensive evangelism workshop through the John Marshall 
Millard Scholars Program.  Stanley Skreslet, associate professor of 
Christian mission, served as facilitator of the program, with goals to 
gather participants with demonstrated gifts in evangelism, encourage 
contact between successful pastors at Union-PSCE students and make the 
seminary's faculty and library resources available to participants. 
Pastors in the program included ministers from Cambodian, Ghanian and 
Arabic-speaking congregations in the United States and a faculty member 
from San Pablo Seminary in Merida, Mexico. 

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