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Episcopal News Service. September 26, 1997 [97-1964M]
Carlson Gerdau, canon to the ordinary of the Diocese of Chicago, was named assistant to Presiding Bishop-elect Frank Griswold. Griswold announced his decision in a letter to clergy and lay leaders of the Diocese of Chicago on July 31. Gerdau has been canon to the ordinary and director of deployment, ministry development and communications in Chicago since Griswold succeeded Bishop James Montgomery as diocesan in September 1987. He was born in New York and graduated from Harvard University in 1955. At the national level, he has served on the Church Deployment Board, the Joint Standing Committee for Planning and Arrangements for General Convention, and the Standing Commission on the Church in Small Communities. At the General Convention last July, he was elected a trustee of the Church Pension Fund.
David Harvin, a Houston attorney, is the new chair of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. He is the first lay person to chair the trustees in the seminary's 45-year history. He joined the seminary board of trustees in 1996 and served on its long-range planning committee.
Fred Osborn, director of development programs for the Episcopal Church Foundation, recently resigned from his position to serve as development director for the New York State regional office of the Nature Conservancy. Osborn was with the foundation for 11 years.
Ann Gordon retired from her position as executive director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools on September 1. She served in that post for 14 years.