Bonner, Osborn Join Stewardship Staff
Episcopal News Service. April 9, 1987 [87087]
NEW YORK (DPS, April 9) -- Frederick H. Osborn III and the Rev. Robert H. Bonner have joined the Episcopal Church Center as staff officers in the stewardship unit.
Osborn, who was director of administration for the Diocese of Connecticut, will be staff officer for planned giving and Bonner will leave his position as rector of Trinity Church, Baytown, Tex., to become staff officer for congregational stewardship. Osborn succeeds Richard Tamport who was the first planned giving officer and left the Center to go back into business. Bonner fills a recently authorized billet.
As planned giving officer, Osborn has primary responsibility for developing, coordinating and directing the Church's programs in this area. This includes training and resource development with dioceses, parishes and related groups and working directly with potential donors to the established planned giving vehicles of the Church agencies. He will also create promotional materials and work with regional networks and ecumenical partners.
Osborn, 41, studied at Princeton University and Colby College and served in diocesan administration for 12 years, first as assistant treasurer of the Diocese of Maine, then administrator of Maine for six years and a similar period in Connecticut. His three years in the U.S. Army included service in Vietnam. A Philadelphia native, he is a member of Trinity Church, Hartford. He and his wife, Anne, have three children.
As the title implies, Bonner will focus his energies on helping congregational leadership respond to the Church's call for developing and enhancing year-round stewardship. He is also being asked to develop a major donor list with an eye to enhancing the potential for funding the mission of the Church.
Bonner, 55, chaired the diocese of Texas stewardship committee and has been a regional stewardship representative. He served in the dioceses of West Texas and Texas after his ordination as priest in 196n. He holds degrees from the University of Houston and the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest and was a partner in an office supply and printing firm before entering the priesthood.
He and his wife, Donna, have three children.