Mrs. Nilah Tripp, wife of the Reverend Arthur Tripp, an appointed missionary in Guatemala, has been appointed to serve as Administrator for the Episcopal Theological School of the Diocese of Guatemala. She will be responsible for the day to day administration of the school, including maintaining academic records. Mrs. Tripp comes from Ft. Worth, Texas and she and her husband have recently moved from Bluefields, Nicaragua to Guatemala City.
Dr. Robert Walton and his wife Laura, a plastic surgeon and nurse from San Francisco, California, parishioners of St. John's-in-Montclair, Oakland, are spending a month serving in three hospitals in Kampala, Uganda. They will be caring for a prearranged group of patients in need of plastic surgery, and giving lectures and seminars dealing with basic surgical problems. Dr. Walton is Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Co-director of Burn Unit, at San Francisco General Hospital. Mrs. Walton has experience in pediatric intensive care and as obstetrics and gynecological office nurse.
The Rev. Julio Torres and his wife Mrs. Katherine Pettus have been appointed Volunteers for Mission with Project Link in the Diocese of Nicaragua. Deacon Torres, canonically resident in the Diocese of Ohio, is a native of El Salvador, and will be working with the refugee program. Mrs. Pettus will be serving as needed with a particular interest and concern for the effects of war and refugee status on the women and children.
Mr. John Hauser, son of the Rt. Rev. Stanley F. Hauser, of San Antonnio, Texas is serving as a Volunteer for Mission with Project Root Cause in Nicaragua. After serving several times as a medical technician with Los Amigos de las Americas in Central America, Mr. Hauser will be assisting with the medical team serving Puerto Sandino.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Mock of Virginia, Minnesota are serving as Volunteers for Mission at Bukedi Primary Health Center, Diocese of Bukedi, Uganda. Dr. Mock is a surgeon with extensive general practice and he and Mrs. Mock will work with both the central clinic and outstations.
Jacklyn Wilkes and Bettie Jean Allen of Springfield, Illinois, amateur wine makers of substantial experience in a small wine making operation, spent two weeks of a holiday in Africa, in the Diocese of Bukedi, assisting Bishop Okoth and the small staff already making communion wine for the Church of Uganda. They helped organize, worked on cleanliness, racking and mixing wines for better taste, and Miss Allen wrote a booklet for future use.
