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Mrs. Howard Bingley Appointed Head of PBF

Diocesan Press Service. February 5, 1974 [74039]

GREENWICH, Conn. -- Mrs. Howard O. Bingley has been appointed executive director of the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief by the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop. She was recommended to this position by a nominating committee of the Board for the Fund.

Mrs. Bingley has served as acting secretary for world relief since the Rev. Raymond Maxwell left the post in February, 1972.

The world relief program of the Episcopal Church responds to disasters, to the needs of millions of refugees and supports church-related social service, education, and development around the world.

Her responsibilities include disseminating information and interpretation of all facets of the program -- response to disasters, post-disaster relief and rehabilitation, refugee services, material aid, and long range development projects. She is also responsible for program assistance to dioceses and parishes in developing diocesan world relief programs.

A native of Connecticut, Marion Burton Bingley was raised in Boston. She is a graduate of Vassar College and later attended Windham House, a national training center for Churchwomen in New York City, while gaining a master's degree in Christian education at Columbia University.

For two years she was director of youth and Christian education for the Diocese of West Missouri, while also serving as youth advisor to the Seventh Province.

Since her marriage in 1952, she has served for two years as a member of the department of Christian education of the Diocese of New York. She also taught for three years at St. Mary's School for Indians in Springfield, S.D.

During World War II Mrs. Bingley served in the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve as a Link Instrument Instructor in North Carolina and Virginia.

Mrs. Bingley's husband, the Rev. Howard O. Bingley, is rector of St. John's Church, Clifton, Staten Island, in the Diocese of New York. They have two teen-age daughters.

(NOTE: A photograph of Mrs. Bingley is enclosed.)