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Episcopal News Service. April 29, 1991 [91108Y]

Herb Gunn will succeed Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann as editor of The Record, the newspaper of the Diocese of Michigan, when Wylie-Kellermann assumes the editorship of The Witness magazine in August. During the last three-anda-half years, Gunn edited the publication of MICAH, a Detroit-based human rights organization focusing on Central America. He was previously a volunteer in Nicaragua with Witness for Peace and an intern with the Interfaith Council for Corporate Responsibility in New York. Gunn, a native of Fayetteville, Arkansas, said, "I look to journalism as a way to connect people with other people, communities with other communities so that we are able to better understand the concept of living in a global village."

Bishop Edward Randolph Welles II, the fourth bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri, died April 15 in Kansas City at the age of 83. A native of Cincinnati, Welles had retired in 1972 after serving as diocesan bishop for twenty-two years. People on both sides of the ideological fence saw him as a man "not afraid of controversy." Welles was a strong proponent of ecumenical relations, and he raised his voice sharply against racial bias. In 1974 -- two years before the church approved women's ordination -- he participated in the irregular ordination of the first Episcopal women priests, one of whom was his daughter, Katrina.