Panel Launches Nomination Process
Episcopal News Service. September 4, 1986 [86194]
EVERGREEN, Colo. (DPS, Sept. 4) -- The Joint Standing Committee on Nominations held Its first meeting of the 1985-1988 triennium at the Evergreen Conference Center, here, in mid-August. Convened by the Rt. Rev. Craig Anderson, bishop of South Dakota, the committee elected as officers for the triennium: the Rt. Rev. Richard M. Trelease, Jr., bishop of the Rio Grande, chairman; the Rev. Jesse F. Anderson. Jr., Diocese of Connecticut, vice-chairman; and George Guernesy, Diocese of Missouri, secretary-treasurer.
Vice-Chairman Anderson and Marlene Evans, Diocese of the Virgin Islands, both of whom served on the 1982-1985 Nominating Committee, warned of the handicap facing that committee with the paucity of nominations received, which resulted in a flurry of nominations from the floor at the General Convention in Anaheim.
As a result, the 1985-1988 committee decided to begin immediately to solicit recommendations for nominations from the Church at large, to improve the form for making proposed nominations and to work in subcommittees based upon the offices for which nominations are to be sought.
Offices for which nominations will be made to General Convention by the Committee are: 12 persons for six-year terms on the Church Pension Fund, to be elected in the House of Deputies and confirmed by the House of Bishops; ten members of the Executive Council -- two bishops, two clerics and six lay members for six-year terms; 11 members of the General Board of Examining Chaplains -- two bishops, three presbyters with pastoral cures, three theological seminary faculty or members of other educational institutions and three lay persons; and six members of the Board of General Theological Seminary -- two bishops, two clerics and two lay persons.
The committee plans to have the nominating form ready for Trelease to take to the House of Bishops at its interim meeting this month. Systematic attempts will also be made to solicit nominations from diocesan administrative officers, diocesan commissions on ministry, all church-related organizations and all ethnic groups within the Church.
Because of the constraints put upon all interim bodies by an earlier Convention in 1988, the Committee's work must be completed and its report submitted by Feb. 1, 1988 for inclusion in the Blue Book. Therefore, the deadline for the first screening of recommendations for nomination will be Feb. 1, 1987. (No proposed nominations will be considered after Sept. 1, 1987.)
Any member of the Church may propose nominees to the committee, but proposers are asked to remember that in submitting names to the committee they are making recommendations and not actually nominations. Forms for making proposals may be obtained from either the diocesan bishop or from the chairman of the committee, the Rt. Rev. Richard M. Trelease, Jr., 4304 Carlisle, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87107.
Other members of the committee are the Rt. Rev. Frank H. Vest, Jr., Diocese of North Carolina; the Rev. Barnum McCarty, Diocese of Florida; the Rev. Canon Roswell Moore, Diocese of California; Pamela Chinnis, Diocese of Washington and vice-president to the House of Deputies; and Joseph T. Hargrove, Diocese of Western Louisiana; Dixie Hutchinson, Diocese of Dallas; and Catherine Saucedo, Diocese of Western Mexico.
The next meeting of the Committee is scheduled for March 31-April 1, 1987.