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Episcopal News Service. February 24, 1993 [93038O]
Senator John C. Danforth (R-Mo.), ordained an Episcopal priest 30 years ago, has announced that he will retire from the U.S. Senate at the completion of his current term in 1995 and concentrate on his vocation in the church. In his announcement, Danforth said that he had "an unfulfilled commitment to the church," and revealed that he has been in conversations with Missouri Bishop Hays Rockwell about returning to a more active role. Danforth is not likely to return to parish ministry, but may work "in that dimension of the church that is its social ministry," Rockwell said. "As the church strives to make itself more compassionate and a more just place, certainly his experience would be enormously important." Danforth graduated with honors from Princeton University and received both his divinity and law degrees from Yale. Prior to his service in the U.S. Senate, Danforth was Attorney General of Missouri from 1968-1976. He has served on the staff of several churches in Missouri, is an honorary canon at Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis and has served as an honorary associate at St. Alban's Church on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral.
Ruth Nicastro, editor of Episcopal News in the Diocese of Los Angeles, has announced her retirement, effective July 1. For the past 17 years Nicastro held the dual post of diocesan missioner for communications and editor of the News. In announcing her decision to retire, Nicastro said, "Much as I love this ministry, which has become so much a part of me, I felt it was time, at my tender age (67), for me to enter a new stage of my life where I will have more time to spend with my family." Nicastro will continue to serve as an editorial advisor to the newspaper and communications consultant to the diocese. "It is my wish and Ruth's," Bishop Frederick Borsch said, "that the Episcopal News continue to be the leading church publication it has become under her guidance. I am grateful that she will be available during the transition to a new editor and missioner and is willing to serve in an advisory capacity." Borsch has appointed a search committee to seek a new missioner/editor.
The Episcopal Church Foundation announced the choice of four new fellows for the academic year 1993-94. As Foundation Fellows, each of the new scholars intends to pursue a teaching career in an Episcopal seminary in the United States after graduation. The fellows are: Sharon L. Ciccarelli, recipient of the Dorothy A. Given Memorial Fellowship, who is awaiting acceptance to a doctoral program; Alexander C, Irwin, recipient of the John Victor Herd Fellowship, who will attend Harvard University; J. Christopher King, recipient of the Eugene W. Stetson Fellowship, who will attend Oriel College, University of Oxford; and The Rev. Paul F.M. Zahl, recipient of the William B. Given, Jr. Memorial Fellowship, who will attend the University of Tubingen, Germany.
