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Episcopal News Service. June 30, 1999 [99-099R]
Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann and Dr. Louie Crew were recently conferred honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wylie-Kellermann, co-editor and co-publisher of The Witness magazine, was cited "for significant contributions to the struggle for a just church and a just society." She has been editor of the newspaper of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan and wrote Poletown: Community Betrayed, a book describing the decision to condemn a Polish and Black community in 1980 to make room for a Cadillac plant and the creativity of residents' opposition.
Crew, associate professor of English at Rutgers University, was cited "for courageous contributions to the struggle for a just church. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1974 he founded Integrity to promote the dignity, rights and vocations of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered members in the Episcopal Church. Crew has also authored nearly 1,300 books, essays, and reviews, including the first openly gay materials ever published in such journals as Chronicle of Higher Education, The Living Church, and Southern Exposure.
The Reverend Canon D. Bruce MacPherson was elected Dallas' sixth Episcopal Bishop Suffragan on June 5.
MacPherson, currently canon to the ordinary and executive officer of the Diocese of Dallas, gathered 84 percent of the clergy vote and 77 percent of the lay vote at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in North Dallas.
MacPherson is Dallas' first bishop suffragan since Bishop Robert E. Terwilliger (1975-1986).
Coleen Stevens-Porcher joined the staff of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief (PBFWR) as director of development and public relations on June 21. Stevens-Porcher has been contracted for one year to help develop annual and capital campaigns aimed to increase the amount of funds raised for relief and development programs around the world. She will also work to upgrade PBFWR publications and promotional materials.
Prior to joining the PBFWR, Stevens-Porcher was staff liaison for the recently-completed capital campaign at the Church of Heavenly Rest and public relations manager/speechwriter for David N. Dinkins, former mayor of New York City.
Roderick Dugliss, Ph.D., was recently elected dean of the School for Deacons in Berkeley, California.
Dugliss, a licensed lay preacher of the Diocese of California, has an extensive background in education. He taught at Stillman College in Alabama and at the University of the Pacific. He has also held administrative positions at Lone Mountain College and at Omega Performance Corporation, a corporate training firm.
In the 1960s, Dugliss served as a missionary, of the Episcopal Church to Japan, where he taught at the International Christian University.
The Very Reverend Wesley Carr, dean of Westminster Abbey, has appointed James O'Donnell as organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey.
O'Donnell, currently musician at Westminster Cathedral, will be the first Roman Catholic to hold this post.