Director of Service to Dioceses Resigns
Diocesan Press Service. July 10, 1970 [89-2]
NEW YORK, N. Y -- Mr. Walker Taylor, Director of Service to Dioceses for the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, has announced his resignation effective July 31.
He will return to Wilmington, N. C., to resume a business career from which he had taken a two-year leave of absence.
Prior to serving on the national staff of the Episcopal Church, Mr. Taylor had been elected to the Executive Council by the 62nd General Convention in 1967, a position he resigned in 1968 in order to serve in an executive capacity on the Council staff.
He will serve as a Deputy at the 1970 General Convention at Houston, Tex., October 11 - 22, representing his home Diocese of East Carolina. He has also served as a Deputy at Conventions in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1969.
During the 1964-67 triennium Mr. Taylor served as executive officer of the General Convention's Mutual Responsibility Commission.
He is a senior partner in his family's insurance brokerage business and is a member of the board of managers of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company of Wilmington.
He was educated at Davidson College and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and served as a ship's officer in World War U and with the U.S. Navy in the Korean War.