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Episcopal News Service. July 10, 1990 [90184Y]

Murray Somerville will become the organist and choirmaster at Harvard University in September. He is currently choir director at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Orlando, Florida. During his 10-year tenure at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Somerville, 42, also founded the Orlando Deanery Boychoir in 1981 and directed Orlando's Bach Festival Choir.

Arthur Simon, president of Bread for the World, a national Christian group that works to reduce hunger through public policy, announced on June 26 that he will be leaving the organization no later than the end of 1991. Simon founded the agency in 1972, after serving as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church on New York City's Lower East Side. Under his leadership, the group grew from a handful of activists to an ecumenical membership of 45,000. Bread for the World has played an integral role in securing the passage of a number of legislative measures, including the $250-million congressional increase in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children. A search process for Simon's replacement is now underway.

The Rev. Frank J. "Jeff" Terry was elected bishop of the Diocese of Spokane on June 2. He was selected on the seventh ballot of a special diocesan convention. Terry, 51, has served as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Richland, Washington, for the past 10 years. He will be consecrated in late October and will assume his office on January 1, 1991, upon the retirement of the present bishop, the Rt. Rev. Leigh A. Wallace. The Diocese of Spokane includes eastern Washington and northern Idaho.