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Episcopal institutions elect new leadership
2002-278-6
12/10/2002
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[Episcopal News Service]
A number of prominent institutions of the Episcopal Church have elected new leadership.
The Rev. Titus Presler was recently installed as the sixth dean and president of the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. Incorporating an international flavor -- Presler was born in India to missionary parents and is a former missionary and teacher in Zimbabwe -- a Festival Eucharist for the Mission of the Church featured five languages: Spanish, Dakota, Shona, Bengali and English. Bishop Mano Rumalshah, a Pakistani who is general secretary of the London-based United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, preached and Bishop Claude Payne, chair of the seminary's board of trustees, presided at the installation. (Sermon and photos are on the seminary web site at www.etss.edu/news.shtml).
The Rev. Jean Smith has been appointed executive director of Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) of New York and New Jersey, succeeding the Rev. Peter Larom who will become a special advisor. Smith becomes the first woman to lead the 169-year-old maritime institution. SCI provides pastoral care along 2,200 miles of America's inland waterways, as well as training centers in New York, Kentucky, and Texas. It also operates a Center for Seafarer's Rights, internationally renowned for its legal advocacy work.
Smith has been with the institute since 1990, supervising a seafarer's center, an international training program, and an innovative inland maritime ministry that stretches from Pittsburgh to Houston. Under Larom the institute, located in lower Manhattan, played a key role in supporting emergency workers in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the nearby World Trade Center. (Details on the institute web site at www.seamenschurch.org.)
The board of trustees of the Episcopal Media Center has elected Bishop Charles Duvall, who retired last year after 20 years as bishop of the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, to chair the board. Duvall established a reputation as an engaging storyteller, recording 'Biblical Stories Retold to Tickle the Ear and Touch the Heart' on audiocassette. While a parish priest in South Carolina, he helped place media center's 'One Reach One' on local television stations. He has also preached on 'The Protestant Hour' radio program. 'His leadership will be pivotal as we broaden our relationship with the whole Episcopal Church,' said the Rev. Louis Schueddig, president and executive director of the media center. (For more information go to the center's web site at www.episcopalmedia.org.)
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