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Mrs. Bailey Endorsed For Deputies Presidency

Episcopal News Service. August 25, 1976 [76282]

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Mrs. Seaton G. Bailey of Griffin, Ga., has been endorsed for President of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies by Diocese, the official publication of her home Diocese of Atlanta.

"Mrs. Bailey is eminently qualified for the position, having served the Church in every conceivable position for many years," a front page story in a recent issue stated.

The 912-member House of Deputies -- four lay and four clergy representatives from each of the Church's 114 jurisdictions -- will elect a president for a three-year term at its September 11-23 meeting in Minneapolis/St. Paul, to take office immediately upon adjournment of the 1976 Convention at noon on September 23.

Mrs. Bailey has been an active leader in the Episcopal Church at the local, diocesan, and national level for many years. In 1967 she was the presiding officer of the Triennial Meeting of the Women of the Church, which meets concurrently with the triennial General Convention.

The Convention in 1967 elected her one of six women members of the Executive Council and in 1970 she was reelected to a six-year term.

During the 1967 General Convention in Seattle she was given the honor -- the first woman ever so honored -- of addressing the General Convention on the occasion of the first passage of a resolution which would permit women to serve in the House of Deputies, which is one of the two Houses of Convention. The House of Bishops is the other body.

As a follow-up to that event, when the seating of women deputies was given final approval at the 1970 Convention, Mrs. Bailey was one of 29 women to be the first to be seated officially in that House.

Mrs. Bailey has been active in her home parish, St. George's, Griffin, and has served as president of the diocesan Episcopal Churchwomen and as a delegate to several Triennial Meetings. She has served as chairman of the department of Christian education of the Diocese of Atlanta and a member of the executive board of the diocese. She is chairman of the Laity Development Committee of the Diocese of Atlanta.

She serves as chairman of the sub-committee on Program of the General Convention's Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance.

On the Executive Council her committee assignments have included personnel, development, and finance. Recently she served as chairman of an ad hoc committee on seminary funding.

A native of LaGrange, Ga., Mrs. Bailey attended LaGrange College. She has one son, David.