wfn.org | Youngil Cho Joins General Assembly Moderator Race

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19-October-1999 
99353 
 
    Youngil Cho Joins General Assembly Moderator Race 
 
    Former GAC Chair Is Endorsed by New Hope Presbytery 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Youngil Cho, a Korean-American elder from Raleigh, N.C. who 
led the General Assembly Council (GAC) through some tempestuous times, has 
been unanimously endorsed by New Hope Presbytery as a candidate for 
moderator of the 212th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
(U.S.A.). 
 
    Cho joins the Rev. John L. Herndon III of Huntsville, Ala., as 
candidates for the PC(USA)'s top elected office.  The moderator will be 
elected June 24, 2000, at the Assembly in Long Beach, Calif. 
 
    Cho, who is a professor of business and marketing at the University of 
North Carolina, was elected chair of the General Assembly Council in 1996 - 
just before that year's General Assembly refused to confirm the Rev.  James 
D. Brown for a second four-year term as the GAC's executive director. 
Earlier in the year, Brown's top deputy, G.A. "Pat" Goff had been forced 
out as director of the GAC's Corporate and Administrative Services (CAS). 
 
    As chair, Cho moved quickly, engineering the promotion of the Rev. 
Frank Diaz from GAC associate director for administration to interim 
executive director and tapping veteran banking executive Robert McKee, who 
has since died, to fill the CAS slot on a temporary basis. 
 
    Cho has also been active in Presbyterian Men, including a stint as 
chair of the organization's council, and chaired a committee that 
successfully raised $700,000 in 18 months to complete construction of the 
chapel in the Presbyterian Center in Louisville.  He has also chaired the 
National Asian Presbyterian Council, the National Cross Caucus and the 
National Korean Presbyterian Council. 
 
    Cho is a charter member and elder of DuRaleigh Presbyterian Church in 
Raleigh and has been the church's clerk of session since 1980. 

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