Staff Appointments Announced
Diocesan Press Service. December 21, 1973 [73277]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Four Executive Council staff appointments, effective January 1, 1974, have been announced by the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
The positions are in the new staff section, Mission Service and Strategy, which will coordinate the Church's program and grant concerns for racial and ethnic minorities.
The appointments include : the Rev. Winston W. Ching, interim head for six months of the new work with Asian Episcopalians; Ms. Fayetta C. McKnight, executive officer for Indian affairs and the National Committee on Indian Work (NC1W); Howard Quander, one of the two staff persons for the Committee for Community Action and Human Development (CAHD) ; and the Rev. Franklin D. Turner, coordinator of the new work among Black Episcopalians.
The Rev. Mr. Ching, 30, vicar of St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco since 1970, is a native of Honolulu. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Hawaii in 1965, his B.D. degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif., in 1968, and his S. T.M. degree from Pacific School of Religion in 1972.
Ordained to the priesthood in December, 1968, he has done chaplaincy work at Alameda County Juvenile Hall, San Leandro, Calif., and Herrick Memorial Hospital, Berkeley.
Ms. McKnight, 27, who lives in Norman, Okla., has studied at Chilocco Indian School, Northeastern State College in Tahlequah, Okla., and received her B.S. degree in education from Oklahoma University, Norman, in 1972.
Currently Ms. McKnight is executive director of the Native American Center, Oklahoma City. In this position she has developed programs in health, Indian education, counseling, cultural studies, social services, and recreation for urban Indians.
Her past experience includes consultant to the Oklahoma City board of education, counselor at the University of Oklahoma, teacher, secretary to the director of Child Development Programs and Head Start Regional Training officer, research library assistant, insurance clerk, and editor of an alumni newsletter.
She has a six-year-old child.
Mr. Quander, 41, a native of Harlem in New York City, at present is assistant to the director for program and administration in the Episcopal Church's General Convention Special Program (GCSP). The present GCSP will be phased out on December 31, to be replaced by the agency, Community Action and Human Development (CAHD), which will handle grant applications from community oriented projects in the Black community. The second staff appointment for CAHD will be announced later.
Mr. Quander received his education at St. Augustine's College, an Episcopal college in Raleigh, N.C., and the School of Business of the City College of New York.
He has worked with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Bronx Community Self-Improvement Association (BRONCO), and the Community Development Agency of the City of New York.
Mr. Quander has served on the staff of the Executive Council's Ghetto Loan and Investment Committee and the Council's Experimentation and Development Advisory Group. He has been a board member of Mothers Welfare Action Program, Friendly Homes, Inc., and Household Utility Workers Union.
He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, New York City. He and his wife, the former Shirley Short, have four children and a three-year-old grandson.
The Rev. Mr. Turner, 40, was born in Norwood, N.C., and received his B.A. degree in sociology and history from Livingstone College, Salisbury, N.C., in 1956. He received his M.Div. degree from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, New Haven, Conn., in 1965, and did graduate work in social work at West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va., in 1960-61. He has also received clinical pastoral training at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C., and special training in human relations, organizational development and design skills at the Mid-Atlantic Training Committee, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Turner was director of field relations and counselor of men at Bluefield State College, Bluefield, W. Va.; vicar at the Church of the Epiphany and chaplain at Bishop College, Dallas, Tex.; social worker with Riverdale Children's Association, New York City; part-time director of Christian Social Relations, Diocese of Washington; and rector of St. George's Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
Since 1972 he has been a member of the Executive Council staff of the General Convention Special Program as executive for consultative services.
He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Washington Episcopal Clergy Association, and is a member of the Union of Black Episcopalians.
Married to the former Barbara Dickerson, they have three children.
Bishop Hines has also announced the resignation and retirement of several staff members.
Dr. Howard Meredith, executive officer for Indian affairs and of the NC1W since 1971, has resigned, effective December 31. On January 1, 1974, Dr. Meredith will become a consultant for six months for the newly-created Committee on Records Collection, Preservation and Retrieval. The committee, which was authorized by the Executive Council in September, will handle the proper disposition of records from all segments of the Church, the development of criteria for the establishment of a records system, and the development of a regular disposition system for manuscript materials. The Church Archives in Austin, Tex., is one of the designated collection points for the material.
As staff consultant, Dr. Meredith will be directly responsible to the Presiding Bishop through Bishop Roger Blanchard, the Executive Vice President.
Bishop Hines also announced recently the retirement from the staff of Dr. and Mrs. Robert N. Rodenmayer, effective December 31.
The Rodenmayers have been members of the Executive Council staff since 1962. Robert Rodenmayer was the first head of the Division of Christian Ministries and later was associate director for program in the section for Professional Leadership Development. With the restructuring of the Council in December, 1970, Dr. Rodenmayer became the coordinator of the Ministry Council, an ad hoc group representing the committees, commissions and boards of the Episcopal Church which have to do with ministry.
Mrs. Rodenmayer (Betsy) is retiring as program officer for Professional and Ordained Ministries on the staff of the Council. Prior to coming to the Council staff, Mrs. Rodenmayer was professor of Christian education at St. Margaret's House, Berkeley, Cal., while her husband was professor of pastoral theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley.
The professional and ordained ministry office is not a funded program in 1974.