Executive Council Minutes, Nov. 16-18, 1983, New York, Pp. 54-62
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1976-2020 Title: New and Returned Volunteers for Mission Citation: Executive Council Minutes, Nov. 16-18, 1983, New York, pp. 54-62. Committee: World Mission Resolved, The following persons be acknowledged as new appointments as Overseas Volunteers for Mission: Mrs. Katherine Bailey, a resident of Chappaqua, NY, and a communicant of St. Paul©s Darien, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve at the Clinica Medical Familia, San Juan in Reynosa, Mexico. Mrs. Bailey is a school nurse and is taking her vacation time to serve six weeks as a consultant and nurse in this very important clinic on the border of Mexico with Texas. Since this appointment happened over the summer, she has already served and returned. A report is in the Returned from the Field list; Mr. Kedron Barrett, of Concord, New Hampshire and a graduate of St. Paul©s School in Concord, and a student of Yale University is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a Fraternal Worker with the Evangelical Church of West Berlin. We are anxious to see how this appointment goes, for it may indeed be a source of many appointments in the future if positive; Miss Ann Frances Benton, a graduate of Harvard University and a ®rst year medical student at Columbia University, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a medical student assistant in hospitals and clinics in the Diocese of Central Tanganyika. This appointment is a summer appointment, and Miss Benton has already served and is returned to her studies at Columbia University; Miss Deanna Ruth Dickerson, a communicant of the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC is appointed to serve as a teacher at Holy Trinity School, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, she holds a degree in Education with a concentration in Spanish language. She also speaks French and Creole, and we know will do an excellent job there in Haiti; Mr. Ian Theodore Douglas, postulant of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, holding both M.Div. and Master of Education degrees, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve pastoral internship at the Centre de Darbonne in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He will work under Pere Lafontant doing all sorts of pastoral work and ministry to young people; Mrs. Bonnie Jean Fisher, a communicant of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Kingman, Arizona, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve a one year term of service as a teacher at St. John©s School in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Mrs. Fisher has taught with distinction in the schools in Arizona; Mrs. Christine Geer, a student at the Virginia Theological Seminary, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve for the summer as an Administrative Assistant to Bishop Yohanda Madinda of the Diocese of Central Tanganyika. In this assignment, Miss Geer hopes to gain valuable insight into the mission of the church, and also to establish more ®rmly her calling to be a minister of our church; The Rev. Robert E. Hood, professor of Church and Society at the General Theological Seminary, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve a three months Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 1 of 7 period at the Institute of Church and Society and the Center for Applied Religion and Education in Nigeria. Professor Hood will serve as a visiting lecturer and researcher in the area of African Religion and Spirituality. We look forward to his report on his return; The Rev. Joshua Soichi Kominami, a priest of the Diocese of Kobe, Japan, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as the assistant to the Rector of St. Mary©s Parish, Los Angeles, California, with special assignment as missioner for the Japanese-speaking ministry of that parish and of the Diocese of Los Angeles. This is an excellent example of how a Church overseas can act as partner to the Episcopal Church, USA; The Rev. Darry Kyong Ho Lee is appointed a Volunteer for Mission from the Diocese of Los Angeles to the Diocese of Busan Korea. Father Lee will serve as a priest in the diocese, and will learn cultural and language skills for use among Korean persons on his return to the USA; Mr. Eric Linder, of the Diocese of Michigan is appointed a Volunteer for Mission, to serve as a teacher at St. John©s School in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. He will also serve as Assistant to the Headmaster of the school. Mr. Linder has an excellent record as a teacher at the University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Mr. John Ashley Null, a student at Berkeley Divinity School from Salina, Kansas, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a summer missionary in the Diocese of West Buganda, Uganda. Mr. Null expects to work among the youth of the Diocese of West Buganda; Miss Karen Panton, a communicant of Grace Episcopal Church in Flushing, New York, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to work with Cross Roads Africa on a building project team that will be working on a primary school in Wusi, in the Taita Hills of Kenya. Miss Panton is a student at Barnard College in New York City; Miss Michelle Rougeau, a nurse from Detroit, Michigan and a communicant of the Church of the Messiah in Detroit, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a nurse at the Christian Health Center in Ilesha, Nigeria. She will serve a term of six months beginning in mid July 1983. The ®rst six months of Miss Rougeau©s term will be an experiment to see if she would like to stay longer. We are anxious to hear the results; Miss Ana Maria Soto, the daughter of Onell Soto on the staff of the Episcopal Church Center, and a communicant of St. James Episcopal Church in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve in the Christian Education Program of the Diocese of Central Brazil. Miss Soto will have the opportunity of moving from church to church and working among social programs in order to gain a maximum amount of experience and to add her special gifts and talents in a broad area of the diocese. Miss Soto is a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee; The Rev. Henry H. Sturtevant, former Vicar of St. Clement©s Episcopal Church in New York City and a Youth Counselor at Covenant House in New York City, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission, to serve as Director of "Project Cultural Diversity & Cultural Unity" of the Diocese of Nicaragua in Managua. Fr. Sturtevant will involve himself in many ways with government and church and cultural institutions to seek ways to use indigenous culture as a medium in worship. He is already hard Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 2 of 7 at work and has won many friends both among the church people and in the community; Mr. Vincent A. Tarducci, a communicant of Emmanuel Church, New Port, Rhode Island, and a Deacon in training in the Permanent Deacon©s program of the Diocese of Rhode Island, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve a six months internship as a Deacon in Training under the supervision of the Venerable A.H. Huggins, Archdeacon of Grenada, St. George©s, Grenada, West Indies; Miss Kyshia Alexandra Whitlock, of Charlotte, North Carolina is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a teacher at La Escuela Del Espiritu Santo in Tela, Honduras. Miss Whitlock is an elementary school teacher and has ®nally been able to gather enough support to make her volunteer service a reality in Honduras; and be it further Resolved, That the following persons have been appointed Domestic Volunteer for Mission: Miss Katherine M. Aiken, a student at Wellesley College, from the Diocese Massachusetts is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as Coordinator of the City Camp of the Church of the Messiah in Providence, Rhode Island, which takes place during the summer. Miss Aiken has had a variety of experiences working with young people in both parish and community settings. She is the second volunteer to hold this position; Mrs. Carol Barton, a communicant of St. George©s Episcopal Church in Grif®n, Georgia, and a teacher at Barnesville Academy is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a Community Worker at the Highland Educational Project for a period of three months. If all goes well with this appointment, Mrs. Barton is considering overseas appointment; Mr. E. Gray Beasley, a graduate of Oklahoma State University, and a communicant of St. Luke©s Church, Bartlesville, Oklahoma is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve for a year as a Community Work at Emmaus House in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Beasley will work with children and tutoring, and will also assist in various projects in the neighborhood around Emmaus House; Mrs. Joyce Callaghan, a communicant of the Cathedral in Boise, Idaho, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve at the Long Island Refugee Resettlement Project in Brooklyn, New York and later as a Child Care Worker at St. Jude©s Ranch for Children in Boulder City, Nevada. Mrs. Callaghan has already served successfully as Rector/Secretary and Program Assistant at the Long Island Refugee Resettlement Project, and is presently preparing for her new assignment at St. Jude©s Ranch; The Rev. Ernest W. Cockrell, Rector of St. Gabriel©s Church in Marion, MA, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as an Interim Rector for St. John©s Church, Idaho Falls, Idaho for the summer of 1983.