Planning for 1976 General Convention Begun
Diocesan Press Service. March 22, 1974 [74087]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- The Joint Committee on Agenda and Arrangements for the 1976 General Convention of the Episcopal Church has begun preliminary planning for the next meeting of the triennial Convention.
The committee set September 11 -23, 1976, as the dates for the 65th convention, which will be held in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.
At its organizational meeting the following officers of the committee were elected: Bishop Willis R. Henton, Northwest Texas, chairman; the Ven. O. Dudley Reed, Springfield, vice chairman; and Mrs. Henry N. Somsen, Minnesota, secretary and liaison with the Diocese of Minnesota.
The committee organized itself into seven sub-committees to work on specific details of the convention, including such concerns as worship, issues, structure, and space.
The members of the committee, appointed jointly by the presidents of the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, are:
Bishops: Bishop Willis R. Henton, Northwest Texas, chairman; Bishop Wesley Frensdorff, Nevada; and Bishop Francisco Reus-Froylan, Puerto Rico;
Presbyters: The Rev. Jesse Anderson, Jr., Washington; the Very Rev. Allen Bartlett, Kentucky; and the Ven. O. Dudley Reed, Springfield, vice chairman;
Lay Persons: Bryan Jones, Utah; Byron Rushing, Massachusetts; the Hon. George T. Shields, Spokane; Mrs. Henry N. Somsen, Minnesota, secretary; Malcolm D. Talbott, JD, Newark; and Mrs. J. Wilmette Wilson, Georgia.
Consultants to the committee are: James M. Winning, Springfield; the Rev. William F. Maxwell, Oklahoma; and the Rev. Austin R. Cooper, Sr., Ohio.
Ex officio members of the committee are: the presidents and vice presidents of the two houses of Convention; the bishop and general chairman of arrangements of the host diocese; the secretaries of the two houses; the chairmen of the committees on the dispatch of business of the two houses; and the presiding officer of the Triennial Meeting of the Women of the Church.
Presiding Bishop John E. Hines is president of the House of Bishops and the Rev. John B. Coburn, New York City, is president of the House of Deputies. The Rt. Rev. Scott Field Bailey, Suffragan Bishop of Texas, is Executive Officer of the Convention; the Rev. Canon Charles M. Guilbert, New York City, is Secretary-Treasurer; and Bob N. Wallace, Louisville, Ky., is Manager.