Women's Deployment Network Developing
Episcopal News Service. March 29, 1984 [84065]
NEW YORK (DPS, Mar. 29) -- Seventeen women from eight provinces attended a four-day workshop sponsored by the Church Deployment Board and the Women's Ministries Office and held here Feb. 28-March 2. The purpose of the workshop was to train clergywomen to work with other clergywomen in matters of deployment. The use of the computer profile, resume design and interviewing skills were the main focus of the training. In addition the women worked to identify factors that are of unique concern to ordained women and other professional church women.
The training was done by the Rev. Jim Hanisian and the Rev. Dick Ullman from the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Hanisian is one of the authors of the computer profile guide "More Than Fine Gold", and both of them serve as deployment personnel in the diocese. Church Deployment Board members the Rev. Barbara Schlachter and Mary Lou Lavalle served as consultants to the conference.
The women attending were the Rev. Mary Beale and the Rev. Marsue Harris of Province I, the Rev. Judith Upham and the Rev. Elizabeth Habecker of Province II, the Rev. Jane Dixon, the Rev. Mary McLeod and the Rev. Gayle Harris of Province III, the Rev. Claiborne Jones and the Rev. Nancy Sibley of Province IV, the Rev. Mary Mail, the Rev. Faith Perrizo and the Rev. Jane McDermott of Province V, the Rev. Sandra Ann Holmberg of Province VI, the Rev. Elizabeth Masquelette of Province VIII and the Rev. Victoria Hatch and the Rev. Mary Goshert of Province VIII.
These women were selected by the presidents of the Provinces and on returning to their dioceses and provinces, will work with the bishops and diocesan deployment officers and other ordained women to help them in the deployment process. They are available to do workshops with groups or provide individual consultation for women engaged in a job search.
Board member Schlachter reported that "the workshop surpassed our highest hopes for such a gathering. The ordained women of the Church have been provided with a wonderful network of active aid and support."