NCIW Elects Officers
Diocesan Press Service. January 26, 1973 [73027]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Episcopal Church's reorganized National Committee on Indian Work (NCIW) has elected its officers for 1973.
The Rev. Philip C. Allen, Northfield, Minn., is the new chairman, and Mrs. Marcia Pierce Steele, Syracuse, N.Y., is the recently elected vice chairwoman.
Under the NCIW charter, revised by the Executive Council in May, 1972, some of the work of the committee was decentralized with the establishment of six Regional Boards to which are assigned some of the responsibilities for functions which had previously been carried at the national level.
Each Regional Board has seven members elected by participants in regional conferences sponsored by the NCIW. The chairpersons and vice chairpersons are members and alternate members, respectively, of the NCIW.
Under the previous organization, the NCIW was composed of 10 Indian members elected by five regional conferences and five bishops appointed by the Presiding Bishop.
Mr. Allen, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is Indian Student Adviser at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn. He is chairman of the Great Lakes Regional Board. Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he received his seminary training at Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., and served as vicar in several missions in Utah, South Dakota and Iowa prior to his present position.
Mrs. Steele, a member of the Oneida Tribe, is chairwoman of the Eastern Regional Board. She lived on the Onondaga Indian Reservation in New York State until her marriage. She received her B.A. degree from Keuka College, Keuka Park, N.Y., and her M.Sc. degree in social group work from Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland.