UMNS Daily Digest - April 15, 2011 (Dorothy Height, Titanic, Board of Global Ministries, Meharry Med

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       UMNS Daily Digest - Produced by United Methodist News Service
                           Friday, April 15, 2011
                [5]Post office honors Dorothy Height's memory
                     [6]Titanic musicians were Methodist
               [7]Global Ministries' directors approve changes
             [8]Meharry doctors support Haiti tuberculosis clinic


   [9]Profile: Dorothy Height»


   [10]Leadership Summit Survey Results»


   [11]Ties to the Titanic: Methodist Band Members»


   [12]Ties to the Titanic: Methodists on the Titanic»


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   "She played a far more important role in influencing race and social justice
   in America than many realize. ... No gathering of national civil rights
   leaders was complete without her presence." - Retired Bishop Woodie White
   remembering Dorothy Height.

Post office honors Dorothy Height's memory

   WASHINGTON (UMNS) - Throughout the U.S. civil rights movement, Dorothy I.
   Height often kept to the background and worked tirelessly behind the scenes
   for racial equality and women's rights. But now the longtime United
   Methodist's name is front and center on a U.S. post office. The post office
   is the first federal building in the District of Columbia to bear the name
   of an African-American woman, according to The Associated Press.

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Titanic musicians were Methodist

   LONDON (UMNS) - This year marks the 99th anniversary of the sinking of the
   RMS Titanic, and as the centennial draws nearer, interest in the event is
   ramping up. A recently released book by music journalist Steve Turner
   detailing the lives of the band members cites the Methodist heritage of
   bandleader Wallace Hartley and cellist John Wesley Woodward, and speculates
   how their faith influenced their decision to play until the last.

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   [19]Reflections on the Titanic: Historian Phil Gowan»



Global Ministries' directors approve changes

   STAMFORD, Conn. (UMNS) - Directors of the United Methodist Board of Global
   Ministries took steps during their April 11-13 meeting toward becoming more
   flexible, effective and cost-efficient in response to contemporary mission
   opportunities. Actions included reducing the number of directors by
   two-thirds, from 92 to 32, while retaining a strong balance among members
   from the United States and the denomination's central conferences in Africa,
   the Philippines and Europe.

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Meharry doctors support Haiti tuberculosis clinic

   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - While curing 600 patients a year of tuberculosis,
   Hopital de l'Universite d'Etat d'Haiti is also training medical students
   from Haiti and around the world to treat the dreaded disease.

   Physicians at Meharry Medical College, a United Methodist-related school in
   Nashville, established the tuberculosis program at the hospital after the
   January 2010 earthquake. The hospital is the main referral tuberculosis
   center in the country. The United Methodist Committee on Relief is working
   through the United Methodist Tennessee Annual (regional) Conference, which
   coordinates support for the program, to supplement operational costs for the
   tuberculosis clinic throughout 2011. Gifts to [21]Haiti Emergency, Advance
   #418325, support UMCOR's recovery work in post-earthquake Haiti.



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