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	Following his retirement in 1980, Scholes served a string of interim
pastorates in New Mexico.	He is survived by his wife, June; two sons, Edmund
and Keith, and two daughters, Karen Hayhurst and Jean McLain.

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	A Lynchburg (Va.)First Presbyterian Church youth, Graham Gilmer IV, is a
finalist in the nationally-syndicated Teen Jeopardy Contest airing on
television May 10-11.

	Graham comes from a line of well-known Presbyterian ministers. Both his
grandfather and great-grandfather graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and
Union Theological Seminary in Virginia before embarking on lifelong careers
in ministry. Graham is headed for Stanford University next fall.

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	Bryan M. Reiff has been hired into a new position in the Worldwide
Ministries Division (WMD) entitled associate for congregational relations.
He formally worked in the division's Partnership in Mission Office.

	The new office was created to assist and resource local congregations
seeking to establish church-to-church relationships with congregations of
overseas PC(USA) partner churches; to be a liaison between PC(USA)
congregations and WMD area offices, helping to provide information about
Presbyterian mission around the world; and to assist and enable Area Offices
to offer quick, knowledgeable, efficient responses to PC(USA) individuals,
congregations and middle governing bodies and to facilitate communication
and information-sharing among national offices and those with interest in
specific geographic regions.

	For more information, contact the Office for Congregational Relations at
EcuPartners@ctr.pcusa.org.

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 	Well-known Presbyterian lay leader Thomas P. Stewart died April 23 in
Edmonds, Wash., of an abdominal aortic aneurism. He was 72.

	A native of Kansas City, Mo., Stewart joined First Presbyterian Church of
Sanford, Fla., in 1960 and remained active in the PC(USA) his entire life,
despite moving all around the country throughout his career in the U.S.
Navy. He was ordained an elder by Monterey (Calif.) Presbyterian Church
while attending the Naval Postgraduate School.

	Upon retiring from the Navy in 1978, Stewart served as interim presbytery
executive for Presbytery of North Puget Sound, as mission funding counselor
for the Synod of Alaska Northwest, and as stated clerk of North Puget Sound
Presbytery for many years until retiring in December of 2000. In 1987-1988,
he served on the General Assembly's task force that produced "Christian
Obedience in a Nuclear Age."

	Stewart is survived by his wife of 50 years, Beverly Harris Stewart;
daughters Christie Stein of Mt. Vernon, Wash., and the Rev. Linda
Stewart-Kalen of Myrtle Point, Ore.; son Rick Stewart of Longmont, Colo.;
and seven grandchildren.  A memorial service will be held at Terrace View
Presbyterian Church in Mountlake Terrace, Wash., on May 12.

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