The following persons are new appointments as Overseas Volunteers for Mission:
Mr. Hugh W.W. Darnley-Smith, an Englishman who comes to us by way of Frankfurt, West Germany, who will serve as a teacher of English as a second language based at Texas Military Institute in San Antonio, Texas and working out from there with refugees serviced by the San Antonio Literacy Council classes. Mr. Darnley-Smith also desires to test his vocation to the priesthood and will be counseled by the Rev. Canon A. Nelson Daunt, the Headmaster of Texas Military Institute in this regard. Texas Military institute is providing a small stipend for Mr. Darnley-Smith as well as his room and board.
The Very Rev. O.C. Edwards, Jr., Dean of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to teach courses at Emmanuel College, Ibadan and Trinity College, Omuwahia in Nigeria. In addition to teaching in these two seminaries he will be trying to get as good an understanding as possible of the system of theological education in Nigeria, so that he can make recommendations to the Fifth Province about how the partnership relation can focus on theological education. The Fifth Province is paying $5,000 of Dr. Edwards' expenses and Volunteers for Mission is contributing $1,000 toward his travel expenses.
The Rev. Dr. Alan Jones is appointed a Volunteer for Mission and is given a contribution of $1,000 toward his travel expenses in order to go to East Africa to hold retreats for some of our missionaries in that area. Dr. Jones is very well known in the area of spiritual direction and retreats and heads the Center for Christian Spirituality connected with General Theological Seminary.
Miss Kirsten Laursen is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to work in the Diocese of Haiti in the capacity of Health Communications Administrator at L'Hopital St. Croix, Leogane for a period of six months, commencing April 1, 1983. Miss Laursen has extensive background and training in the fields of Communications and International Affairs and extensive language ability.
Miss Nancy Monelli, who comes to us from the recreation department in Phoenix, Arizona and is a graduate of Kenyon College, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as the Administrator of the Diocesan Youth Center in the Diocese of Kigali, Rwanda. Miss Monelli brings extensive theatre arts experience as well as recreation experience to this job. She also has a good command of French. Her term will be for eighteen months, serving under Bishop Adoniya Sebununguri of the Diocese of Kigali.
Miss Margaret I. Short, a communicant of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Fullerton, California, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve in the Dominican Republic. She will serve in the Chaplaincy to university students at the University Central del Este, at the request of Bishop Isaac. Miss Short has great proficiency with languages, especially Spanish and French. She has lived in France and Paraguay and has traveled extensively in Europe and in Central and South America. Her term of service will be for one year.
Mr. Stephen F. Templeton, a communicant of Emmanuel Church, San Angelo, Texas and presently studying at the University of the South, will spend the summer as a Volunteer for Mission assigned to Monterrey, Mexico. Mr. Templeton will serve with the pastoral team made up of a priest and two indigenous seminarians in a small barrio called Niños Heroes. Mr. Templeton is fluent in Spanish and has spent a summer in Mexico studying Spanish and Mexican culture. He will be useful at the clinic in Niños Heroes as he also has training as an emergency medical technician.
The following persons have been appointed Domestic Volunteers for Mission:
Mrs. Barbara Ann Choate, an active communicant of Gethsemane Church in Marion, Indiana is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a nurse at the clinic at the Good Samaritan Center in San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Choate will relieve the Director of the Clinic, who will take a badly needed vacation. Mrs. Choate has an interesting arrangement in which she works three months and then volunteers for three months throughout the year. Previously she has served in Appalachia and we are glad to give her this new experience in the Diocese of West Texas.
Miss Sheryl McGrath, an active communicant of St. John's Church, Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York, is appointed a Domestic Volunteer for Mission to serve as a Chaplain's Assistant at St. Luke's Hospital, Boise, Idaho. Miss McGrath is a Professor of Nursing on sabbatical from Staten Island College's School of Nursing. She is interested in developing pastoral skills within a hospital setting. Her appointment is of interest also because St. Luke's Hospital in Boise is seeking exchange opportunities for their employees with hospitals and churches outside the Idaho area.
Mr. Charles R. Bradshaw, the son of an Episcopal clergyman and a communicant of the Church of the Advent in Boston, Massachusetts, is appointed a Domestic Volunteer for Mission to serve at the Long Island Refugee Project. Mr. Bradshaw will work in the resettlement of Haitian and Romanian Refugees served by St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Mr. Bradshaw is a graduate of St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and Harvard College. He has extensive ability in linguistics and slavic languages.
The following Volunteers for Mission have returned from the field:
Miss Gabrielle Beasley has just returned from an extensive trip through Africa and India, where she has photographed many of our appointees and volunteers in the field. Her work is now being brought into form as a photographic essay. We will be indebted to her for bringing together in photographic form this record of our missionary work.
Miss Joyce Elise Carlson has completed her work at the Church of the Messiah in Providence, Rhode Island where she worked as Program Director serving both the City Camp for Underprivileged Children and an outreach program of the Church. Unfortunately Miss Carlson had to terminate her ministry at the Church of the Messiah prematurely due to health reasons.
Mr. John C. Hauser has returned from his work as a Pastoral Team member in Managua, Nicaragua where he served with Dr. Robert Renouf. Mr. Hauser felt that he should return to the USA for reasons of physical and psychological security. We in the Volunteers for Mission Office were saddened by his resignation, but feel it must be honored.
Mr. Eric Naegel has completed his time as a Volunteer for Mission in the foreign student exchange program. Mr. Naegel served with distinction in Sri Lanka, where he worked extensively in ecumenical church work. He has developed symposiums and enlisted the aid of artists and theologians from all across Sri Lanka in an effort to define a relevant theology for Christian arts in Sri Lanka. He also produced a theological play which was given in conjunction with an Ecumenical Eucharist. This service was video taped and broadcast nationally by the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka. This is an excellent piece of work for an exchange student.
Returnee:
Mr. David Shanks has returned from Cuttington College in Liberia where he served as Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Mr. Shanks originally went to Liberia with the Order of the Holy Cross to set up 2-way radio communication between Liberia and West Park, New York. As a Volunteer for Mission, Mr. Shanks installed a computer at Cuttington College and has developed a curriculum of computer science.
Unfortunately, Mr. Shanks suffered a severely broken leg and had to be evacuated by air for treatment in the USA. (Since he was at the end of his term, he will not return to Liberia). He is presently recovering nicely under the care of the Order of the Holy Cross in West Park[; and be it further]
