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Walker Taylor Heads Unit for Diocesan Services

Diocesan Press Service. May 5, 1968 [65-1]

Walker Taylor, Jr., of Wilmington, N.C., an Episcopal layman, has been appointed Director of the Unit for Diocesan Services on the staff of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church according to an announcement by the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop. The appointment is effective May 1, although it will be some weeks before Mr. Taylor will be able to devote full time to it because of his business responsibilities.

As Director of this Unit, Mr. Taylor's primary responsibility will be to provide a coordinated group of the principal services to dioceses developed by the Council to help them in their work and in the training of diocesan leaders. An important part of the work of this Unit will be the strengthening of two-way communication between the dioceses and the national Church to enable the Executive Council to understand and respond more effectively to diocesan and parish needs.

The Unit for Services to Dioceses is one of four program unite now replacing the core of the old departmental structure as a result of the recent reorganization of the Executive Council staff. The other three Units are Professional Leadership Development, Experimental and Specialized Services and the General Convention Special Program.

An active layman in the Diocese of East Carolina, Mr. Taylor took a leave of absence from his insurance business in October of 1965 to serve as Executive Officer of the Mutual Responsibility Commission. He returned to his business on November 1, 1967 at the expiration of his term, and has since been serving as an elected member of the Executive Council and as Secretary of the Mutual Responsibility Commission. As Executive Officer of the Mutual Responsibility Commission he visited 22 dioceses in the United States and nine abroad. For the present, Mr. Taylor plans to take an extended leave of absence from his business in North Carolina.

Mr. Taylor has been deputy to the last three General Conventions. He is serving as Chairman of his diocesan Department of Communication and was a member of the diocese's Special Committee on Race Relations. He was a delegate to the world-wide Anglican Congress in Toronto in 1963.

A graduate of Davidson College and of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, Long Island, Mr. Taylor served as a ship's officer during World War II and was with destroyer forces in the Far East during the Korean War,

He is married to the former Ethel Avera and they have four children.

The Taylor family plan to move to the New York area this summer.

(A photograph of Walker Taylor is enclosed.)