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30-September-1999 
99319 
 
    Notes About People 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
    The Rev. Jon Brown has been named associate director of program for the 
Montreat Conference Center.  He began his new work Sept 1. 
    Brown has assumed responsibility for the planning and implementation of 
a wide variety of Montreat conferences as well as oversight of the summer 
Clubs and Recreation program. 
    Brown, a graduate of Montreat-Anderson and Wheaton Colleges, received 
his Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. 
He has held parish positions in Orlando, Fla., Hampton, Va. and 
Hendersonville, N.C., and has served most recently as associate pastor of 
Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charleston, S.C. 
 
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    The Presbytery of Wyoming has announced its election of the Rev. Aaron 
A. Carland as interim executive presbyter, effective Sept. 15. 
    Carland, who has served in a variety of interim positions, primarily in 
the Pacific Northwest, was most recently interim executive for Alaska 
Presbytery. 
 
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    The Rev. Charles Brackbill of Mountainside, N.J., was honored for his 
professional contributions to religious broadcasting Sept. 29 when he 
received the second annual "Giants Among Us" award from the Tri-State Media 
Ministry, an ecumenical communications agency in the greater New York area. 
    Brackbill was an innovative producer of religious messages for radio 
and television who used his talents on behalf of the Synod of New Jersey, 
the New Jersey Council of Churches and as associate executive director of 
the Presbyterian Church's Division of Mass Media.  In the latter position, 
he collaborated with Stan Freberg on a series of radio spots that are 
legendary in religious broadcasting circles. 
    Brackbill was a co-founder of the American Values Institute and was 
instrumental in the creation of the North American Broadcast Section of the 
World Association for Christian Communication (NABS-WACC). 
 
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    The Rev. Larry Dean Tankersley, 64, director of the Southern Asia 
Office for Church World Service (CWS), the relief arm of the National 
Council of Churches since March 1994, died Sept. 15 in Indianapolis 
following a four-month battle with cancer.  
    A minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Tankersley 
had just concluded his service with CWS in New York City, taking disability 
leave in anticipation of retirement next year.  He and his wife, Betty, had 
just moved to Indianapolis from Englewood, N.J., to be close to their 
children and grandchildren. 
    An expert on Southern Asia and especially Indonesia, Tankersley had 
long pressed the case of the East Timorese people and was responsible for 
taking many delegations of church leaders to East Timor to educate them 
about the situation, most recently in 1998. 
 
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    The Rev. Robert Giles, longtime stated clerk of Homestead Presbytery 
until his retirement in 1998, died Sept. 21.  Tentative arrangements are 
for a burial at one of the rural churches he formerly served, followed by a 
memorial service at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska.   

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