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April 29, 2002	News media contact: Linda Green7(615)742-54707Nashville,
Tenn.     10-71B{189}

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Seven campus ministers have been named 2002-2003
recipients of an annual scholarship offered by the United Methodist Board of
Higher Education and Ministry.

The agency is providing $25,000 in assistance through the Baker Graduate
Awards, provided through the board's Office of Loans and Scholarships.

Baker Award recipients receiving money for advanced study are:
7	Harold V. Hartley III, a doctoral candidate at Peabody College,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
7	Theta Wagner Miller, a campus minister from Kansas City, Mo.
7	Quincy D. Brown, a doctoral candidate at the Interdenominational
Theological Seminary, Atlanta.
7	Jennifer Copeland, a doctoral student at Duke University, Durham,
N.C.
7	Donald and Marjean Ehlers, doctoral students at the University of
Missouri-Columbia.
7	Tom Wall, a doctoral candidate at Drew University, Madison, N.J. 

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 a 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.

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

Miller, a two-time Baker Award recipient, is on leave from her position as
the United Methodist campus minister at United Campus Ministries of the
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Longview Community College and Maple
Woods Community College. She is taking a sabbatical and plans to complete a
doctoral program at the University of Missouri.

Brown is the Elizabeth Walker Lanier Campus Minister at United
Methodist-related LaGrange (Ga.) College and is its first full-time endowed
chaplain.

Copeland is the United Methodist campus minister at Duke University.

The Ehlers oversee 12 United Methodist or ecumenical campus ministries in
Missouri, and they work directly with students at Northwest Missouri State
University.

Wall is the United Methodist campus minister at the University of South
Carolina in Columbia.  

Information about 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;
phone: (615) 340-7342.

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