1975 United Thank Offering Grants Announced
Diocesan Press Service. September 15, 1975 [75315]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Eighty-seven grants totaling $1,528,183.24 have been announced by the United Thank Offering (UTO) Committee of the Episcopal Church. This includes reallocated funds in the amount of $26,656.13, together with the 1975 offering in the amount of $1,501,527.11, which is the highest total since at least 1967. The total 1974 offering was $1,343,456.35.
The grants, ranging in amounts from $3,000 to $55,000, were made to projects in both domestic and overseas dioceses of the Episcopal Church, as well as programs which cross diocesan lines both in and outside the U.S.
The offering is allocated annually in the fall to be used the following year for mission and ministry projects in the Episcopal Church and other member churches of the Anglican Communion. The UTO committee is made up of one elected representative from each of nine provinces of the Church, plus two members from the former committee, and one from the Executive Council.
The 1975 grants were voted by the committee August. 24-28 at Seabury House, Greenwich, Conn. Members of the committee are: Elected by Provinces: I, Mrs. Stephen G. Nichols, Massachusetts; II, Mrs. Geoffrey C. Hazard, chairman, Long Island; III, Mrs. Earl Eisenhart, Jr., Washington; IV, Mrs. Clarence Ellis, Alabama; V, Mrs. Henry E. Ask, Northern Michigan; VI, Mrs. John O. Jones, Nebraska; VII, Mrs. William Davidson, West Missouri; VIII, Mrs. Richard W. Bond, Jr., Hawaii; and IX, Sra. Prudencia de Aristy, Dominican Republic; Elected from 1970-73 UTO committee: Mrs. Emil C. Polich, Colorado; and Mrs. Paul Roca, chairman-elect, Arizona; Appointed by the Presiding Bishop from the Executive Council: George Guernsey III, Missouri. Executive Council staff are Mrs. Richard R. Emery, coordinator, and Mrs. Creslyn Longsworth, secretary.
[For list of grants, please contact the Archives. -- Ed.]