Communicators Honor Colleagues
Episcopal News Service. June 11, 1981 [81178]
Sierra Madre, Calif. -- Episcopal Church publications, editors and writers were cited for their contributions to Church communication over the past year during a program midway through the annual meeting of the Episcopal Communicators.
Editorial, administrative and electronic facets of communication were represented among the 48 people who gathered at the Mater Dolorosa Center here for a week of workshops, panels, tours, a banquet, informal conversation and planning, highlighted by the presentation of the annual Polly Bond Awards. First presented in 1980, the awards honor the work and memory of a founder of the group. Mrs. Bond had served as diocesan communicator in Ohio for nearly 20 years before her death in 1979.
The entries were judged by members of the University of Southern California journalism school and certificates were awarded in five categories: Editorial, Bishop Robert L. DeWitt of The Witness; Feature, Virginia Adams in Mountain Dayspring of West Virginia; News, Lee Hickling of The Virginia Churchman; Layout, Cathedral Age, Nancy Montgomery, editor, and Episcopal Churchfacts of Western New York, Michael Barwell, editor; and Photography, The Episcopal News of Los Angeles, Ruth Nicastro, editor.
Churchfacts also won a second place honor for a piece on refugees by Dorothy E. Wynn and Newark's Bishop John Spong was also cited for editorial writing.
In a business session later in the week, the Communicators endorsed the Women's History Project and agreed to help the project through disseminating and collating information.
The group also authorized the executive committee to explore a worldwide meeting of Anglican communicators to be held before the meeting of the World Council of Churches in Canada in 1983. The U.S. group agreed to share planning with their Canadian counterparts and encourage other Anglicans to take part.
Theodore Baehr, executive director of the Episcopal Radio/TV Foundation, and Beverly Ross, communication director for the Diocese of Nebraska, were elected to the board and the Rev. Burtis Dougherty of Virginia was named treasurer.
The group will meet next during the September 1982 meeting of the General Convention in New Orleans.