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March 8, 2001	News media contact: Linda Green·(615)742-5470·Nashville,
Tenn.     10-71B{117}

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Six United Methodists have been named 2001-2002
recipients of two annual scholarships offered by the United Methodist Board
of Higher Education and Ministry.

The awards, made through the board's Office of Loans and Scholarships, go to
United Methodist campus ministers and undergraduate students participating
in campus ministry. The agency is providing $24,700 in assistance through
the Baker Graduate Awards and the Allan Jerome Burry Scholarship.

Baker Award recipients will receive a total of $23,500 for advanced study.
They are:
·	John P. Colatch, a doctoral student at Colgate Rochester Divinity
School in Rochester, N.Y.;
·	James A. Daniely, a doctoral candidate at Union Theological Seminary
and Presbyterian School of Christian Education, both in Richmond, Va.
·	Julie F. Parker, a student at Yale University Divinity School, New
Haven, Conn.;
·	Harold V. Hartley, a doctoral candidate at Peabody College of
Vanderbilt University in Nashville; and
·	Theta Wagner Miller, a campus minister from Kansas City, Mo., who
plans to take a sabbatical for studies.

The Burry Scholarship winner receiving $1,200 is:
·	Tiffany Knowlin, a junior at Columbia (S.C.) College.

The awards named for the late James C. Baker are given to campus ministers
continuing their education through a full-time degree program or
certification, a certified non-degree program or an independent studies
program. Baker began the program for college students attending the
University of Illinois in 1913. He named it the "Wesley Foundation," and it
became the model for denominational ministry at public universities across
the United States.

Colatch, a two-time Baker Award recipient, is chaplain at Allegheny College
in Meadville, Pa. 

Daniely, a two-time Baker recipient, is director of the Wesley-Westminster
Center at Virginia State University and a member of the Virginia Annual
Conference. 

A three-time Baker recipient, Parker hopes to teach the Bible as a college
chaplain or professor. She is a member of the New York Annual Conference.

Hartley, a first-time Baker Award recipient, is director of student
ministries in the Campus Ministry Section at the Board of Higher Education
and Ministry.

Miller, also a first-time Baker recipient, is the campus minister at United
Campus Ministries of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Longview
Community College and Maple Woods Community College. She plans to use her
sabbatical study time to complete a doctoral program at the University of
Missouri, interweaving the disciplines of religion and geography.  

The Burry Scholarship honors a former campus ministry staff person at the
Board of Higher Education and Ministry who died in 1990. The award
recognizes a student's academic performance, leadership skills and
involvement in a United Methodist-related campus ministry or chaplaincy
program.

Knowlin, a member of Springfield United Methodist Church in Marion, S.C.,
volunteers on campus and at a nursing home. She aspires to become ordained
in the United Methodist Church. She will receive her award during the 2001
Student Forum of the United Methodist Church, set for May 24-27 at Ohio
Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.

Information about educational scholarships and loans in the United Methodist
Church can be found online at www.gbhem.org/gbhem/loans2.html or by
contacting the Office of Loans and Scholarships, P.O. Box 340007, Nashville,
TN 37203-0007; scholarship phone: (615) 340-7344; loan phone: (615)
340-7367.

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