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Note #6345 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

25-January-2001
01021

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	The Rev. Janice Elizabeth Catron, associate for adult curriculum
development in the Congregational Ministries Publishing area of the
Congregational Ministries Division, has been named editorial director of
Geneva Press, one of the two imprints of the Presbyterian Publishing
Corporation (PPC). PPC also publishes books under the Westminster John Knox
Press imprint.
	Catron begins her new work with PPC March 1. She succeeds the Rev. Tom
Long, who recently left PPC to return to teaching at Candler School of
Theology in Atlanta.
	In addition to bachelor and master degrees in English, Catron holds an
M.Div from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and is a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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	Former General Assembly stated clerk William P. Thompson will be given the
Lazarus Project's Lazarus Award Feb. 24 at the project's annual awards
banquet in Pasadena, Calif.
	The Lazarus Project is a ministry of reconciliation between the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered
persons. It is a mission of West Hollywood (Calif.) Presbyterian Church, the
Presbytery of the Pacific and the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii.
	Its Lazarus Award is given annually "to a person outside the project who
has either sought reconciliation between the church and the gay and lesbian
community, or who has advanced the spirituality of the gay and lesbian
community."
	Thompson, who was stated clerk from 1966-1984, was a staunch defender of
the PC(USA)'s policy banning the ordination of "self-afffirming practicing
homosexuals" that was adopted in 1978.  Since 1984, he has become
increasingly vocal in declaring that the denomination erred in adopting that
policy.

                    # # #

	Jim Gittings, Presbyterian journalist, poet and legendary General Assembly
party host, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Gittings received a
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Presbyterian Writers Guild, honoring his
five decades of writing for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
	Well wishes may be sent to Jim Gittings, 209 Marksmen, Greenville, SC
29687.

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