wfn.org | Communications agency seeking third ethnic fellow

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Oct. 25, 1999 News media contact: Linda Green·(615)742-5470·Nashville, Tenn.
10-31-32-33-34-71B{561}

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - United Methodist Communications is accepting
applications for the agency's third Racial Ethnic Minority Fellowship.

The full-time, salaried, one-year fellowship will be given to a recent
college or seminary graduate for a 12-month period beginning Aug. 1.
Deadline for applications is March 13.

The fellowship offers hands-on experience and mentoring in annual conference
communications, with the aim of building communications leaders of racial
ethnic minority background within the United Methodist Church. The program
was begun in 1998 to address the under representation of racial ethnic
minority communicators in the church's 66 U.S. annual (regional)
conferences.

Applicants must be United Methodist with an educational background in
communications and an interest in exploring annual conference communications
as a possible career. 

The fellowship will provide a salary of $30,000 plus benefits, moving and
travel expenses.

The recipient will be placed in one of the church's U.S. annual conferences
to work alongside an experienced communicator in a variety of media. A
stipend is provided for the annual conference communicator serving as a
mentor to the fellow.

Larry Hygh Jr., of Marshall, Texas, was the first fellowship recipient. He
served in the New England Annual Conference and was mentored by Director of
Communications Michael Hickcox. Near the end of his fellowship year, Hygh
accepted a position with the Mississippi Annual Conference as director of
communications.

The 1999-2000 fellowship recipient is Eunice Dharmaratnam. She is working
with Lynne DeMichele in the Indiana Area Communications Office of the United
Methodist Church.

For more details, contact the REM Fellowship Committee, c/o Conference
Resourcing Team, United Methodist Communications, P.O. Box 320, Nashville,
TN 37202-0320. Phone: 1-888-CRT-4UMC; e-mail REM@umcom.umc.org; Web site:
http://crt.umc.org/rem.
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