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Episcopal News Service. March 14, 1990 [90065L]

The Rt. Rev. Craig B. Anderson, bishop of South Dakota, has been appointed by Govenor George Mickelson to the Govenor's Council for the Year of Reconciliation. As a member of the council, Anderson will join other state leaders in an effort to bring improvement in the relationship between South Dakota's Indian and non-Indian residents. There are approximately 20,000 Episcopalians in South Dakota, half of whom are Native American people living on the state's seven Indian reservations. Bishop Anderson has been an outspoken advocate for Native American issues, and a harsh critic of individual and institutional racism.

The Rev. Edward Lloyd Salmon, Jr., was consecrated and installed as the thirteenth bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina on February 24. Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning was chief consecrator, and was joined in the service by 21 bishops, including the newly designated Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Charleston. Salmon's consecration as bishop of South Carolina was held in the Citadel Square Baptist Church since the Episcopal Cathedral is undergoing repairs from damage caused by Hurricane Hugo. Bishop Salmon succeeds the Rt. Rev. C. FitzSimons Allison.

The Rev. Dr. Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., one of the Episcopal Church's foremost scholars and educators, died February 18, in Sacramento, California, at the age of 76. Shepherd taught for 15 years at Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and for 27 years as Hodges Professor of Liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. Shepherd served the Anglican Church as observer to the Vatican Council II in 1964, and was a member of the Liturgics Commission of the Roman Catholic Church for 14 years following the Vatican Council. He was instrumental in much of the writing of the revised Book of Common Prayer, which was adopted by the Episcopal Church in 1979.