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Note #6809 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

24-August-2001
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Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	The Rev. Patricia McClurg, executive presbyter for New Castle Presbytery
for the past 10 years, will retire Sept. 30.

	A native of Bay City, Texas, Pat attended Austin (Texas) College, the
Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond and Austin
Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Pat was staff to the Mission Board of the
former Presbyterian Church in the United States from 1975 until shortly
after Presbyterian reunion in 1983. In 1984, she was the search committee's
nominee to be General Assembly stated clerk, but was defeated on the floor
by the Rev. James E. Andrews.  McClurg was president of the National Council
of Churches from 1987-89.

	McClurg will be honored at the 762nd Stated Meeting of New Castle
Presbytery on Sept. 25 in Georgetown, Del.

# # #

	Peter L. Wilkerson has been appointed deputy director for the southern
regional office of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Department of
History/Presbyterian Historical Society, located in Montreat, N.C. He begins
his new work Oct. 22, succeeding Michelle Francis, who resigned in March of
this year.

	The Department of History/Presbyterian Historical Society is an agency of
the Office of the General Assembly. Its headquarters is in Philadelphia.

	Wilkerson was most recently head of archives and library services for the
South Carolina Historical Society. He holds degrees from the University of
Kentucky, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and The Citadel.

# # #

	Margaret Merrick has joined the Louisville staff of the Department of
History of the Office of the General Assembly as records manager. She began
work July 2.

	Merrick was formerly an archivist for the University of Louisville and for
the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives.

# # #

	The Rev. Hector Rodriguez, formerly pastor of El Redentor Presbyterian
Church in Oviedo, Fla., has been named associate for Hispanic congregational
enhancement in the Racial Ethnic Ministries Program Area of the National
Ministries Division in Louisville. He began his new work Aug. 6.

	In addition to pasturing the El Redentor church, one of the fastest-growing
Hispanic congregations in the country, Rodriguez has been in high demand as
an evangelism conference speaker and trainer.

	He is a graduate of the Inter-American University and the Evangelical
Seminary of Puerto Rico and has a D.Min. from McCormick Theological Seminary
in Chicago.

# # #

	Less than a week after preaching his first sermon as pastor of the
Community Presbyterian Church of Treasure County in Hysham, Mont., the Rev.
David P. Weamer, 55, died of a brain aneurysm on Aug. 18 in a Billings
hospital.

	Weamer, a native of Grosse Pointe Wood, Mich., graduated from Alma (Mich.)
College and San Francisco Theological Seminary, where he was this reporter's
roommate for two years. He was ordained by Nevada Presbytery in December
1971. He later received a masters of fine arts degree in theater from Utah
State University while serving as campus minister there.

	Weamer also served as a campus minister in Reno, Nev., and Columbia, Mo.,
and served pastorates in California, Missouri, Montana and Nevada. He also
taught drama and English at Wasatch Academy, a PCUSA-related secondary
school in Utah.

	Services will be held this month in several of the Presbyterian churches he
served.

# # #

	John W. Elrod, an active Presbyterian who was the 22nd president of
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., died July 27 of kidney
cancer. He was 61.

	During Elrod's 18-year tenure, Washington and Lee experienced its most
comprehensive faculty and facility growth. In 1999, he presided over the
university's 250th anniversary celebration. Washington and Lee is the ninth
oldest university in the country.

	A graduate of Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., Elrod was active at
Lexington Presbyterian Church throughout his time at the university. A
memorial service was scheduled for Aug. 25 in the university chapel, with
the Rev. William M. Klein, pastor of Lexington Presbyterian Church
presiding.
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