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fall 1997 \ Obituarie_s ~ PA, from 1952 to 1954. He then served as associate pastor of Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church in Ferndale, MI, from 1954 to 1958. Additional pastorates include Cavalry Presbyterian Church in Logansport, IN, and the First Presbyterian Church in Lansing, MI. • William B. Abbot, 1950B William B. Abbot, a Presbyterian pastor and social worker, died on June 6, 1997. He was seventy-three years old. Ordained by the PCUS Presbytery of Orange on October 8, 1950, Abbot was pastor of Milton-Semora PCUS Church in North Carolina from 1950 to 1951. In 1952, he did his clinical pastoral training (CPE) at Philadelphia State Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, and then served as pastor of Berryville Presbyterian Church and Stone's Chapel Presbyterian Church, both in Berryville, VA. From 1957 to 1961, he was pastor of Oakdale Presbyterian Church in Norfolk, VA. He then served as youth pastor at the First Presbyterian Church (USA) in Anaheim, CA, until 1966. Abbot was also a social worker with the County Department of Welfare in Los Angeles, CA. He is survived by his wife, Betty, and his daughter, Margli Abbot Auclair. • M. Scott McClure, 1951B M. Scott McClure, a trustee of Princeton Seminary since 1987, died on August 30, 1997. He was seventy-three years old. Ordained by the Presbytery of Union on July 5, 1951, he was executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Union in Knoxville, TN, from 1951 to 1953. His pastorates included North Hills Presbyterian Church in Knoxville and the First United Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, OH, where he was associate pastor from 1956 to 1957. The following year he accepted a call as associate pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Knoxville; in 1964 he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Waukesha, WA. In 1967, he became pastor of Independent Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, AL, where he served for the remainder of his ministry. McClure served on many community and denominational committees and projects, including the 30 • inSpire denomination's Council on Theological Education and the Task Force on Evangelism and Church Growth. He is survived by his wife, Peggy; his sons, Scott and John ('84D); and his daughters, Jane, Marian, and Melissa. • William R. Grace, 1955B William R. Grace, a Presbyterian minister and a social activist trained in community organizing by Saul Alinsky, died on March 28, 1997. He was sixty-nine years old. Ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia on May 25, 1955, he first pastored the Mountaineer Mining Mission in Four States, wv, from 1955 to 1957. From 1957 to 1962, he was pastor of the First Presbyterian and Olivet Presbyterian Churches in Wilmington, DE, where he became active in the civil rights movement. In 1962, he became director of Urban Work in San Francisco, CA, where he served seven struggling inner-city churches until 1969. In 1969, he became director of the Center for Urban Encounter in Minneapolis, MN, where he served for the next thirteen years. During this period, Grace played a seminal role in the protests against the manufacture of cluster bombs by Honeywell, Inc. In addition, he became involved in labor disputes and community issues. Between 1985 and 1995, he worked with inner-city churches in both New York City and Chicago before his health began to deteriorate. During his life he was proud to say that he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, befriended Cesar Chavez in California, and went to court with the Black Panthers in San Francisco. He is survived by his former wife, Elizabeth; two sons, Andrew and Jeffrey; a daughter, Judith; and five grandchildren. • John O. Bolens, 1956B John D. Bolens died on September 20, 1996, following heart surgery in Tampa, FL. He was seventy-three years old. He was ordained on December 2, 1959, by the Congregationalist Christian Church, New Mexico-El Paso Association, Congregationalist Conference of Southern California and the Southwest. Bolens received his M.R.E. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1957 and served churches in the Southwest and the Northeast as a minister of Christian education. From 1959 to 1961, he was at the First Church in Albuquerque, NM; in 1961, he served at the First Church in Glendale, CA; and from 1963 to 1966, he was at Community Church in Williston, NY. In addition, Bolens worked as a salesman in both Ohio and California. • Ernest Colvin Baird, 19680 Ernest Colvin Baird, a Presbyterian pastor and educator, died on February 15, 1997. He was seventy-eight years old. Ordained on October 9, 1940, by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of Princeton, Baird was a graduate of both Cumberland Presbyterian Theological Seminary and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He first served as pastor of Fairfield Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in Fairfield, IL, from 1943 to 1945. From 1945 to 1947, he served as a chaplain in the US Army. He then relocated to Tennessee where he pastored Yorkville Presbyterian Church from 1947 to 1953 and Sharon Presbyterian Church from 1953 to 1955. In 1955, he became director of the Church Development Foundation in Mackenzie, TN, and a professor at Cumberland Presbyterian Seminary. In 1962, he became a professor at Memphis Theological Seminary where he also served as dean from 1977 to 1978 and president from 1978 to 1984. Despite his retirement in 1984, he served as pastor of Mr. Carmel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Laconia, TN, until 1990. He is survived by his wife, Thalia. In addition to those whose obituaries appear in this issue, the Seminary has received word that the following alumni/ae have died: W. Roy Bradley 1915b John B. Miller 1933b Albert Karnel! 1937B, 1939M Thomas S. Wood 1947b Dorothy J. Sapp 1959U Jane E. Magnan 1964E James W. Daniels 1978E Avuru Auda 1979M
fall 1997 investing in ministry The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, enacted into law last summer, touches on many issues of importance to the American taxpayer. Among them are a number of provisions that relate to charitable giving. They are, in the main, quite positive and encouraging to those for whom support of the Seminary and other charitable causes is an important expression of their stewardship. For example, the amount of charitable giving you can deduct from your taxable income remains unchanged, with carryover privileges as in the past; gifts of appreciated securities and/or other property held for more than one year continue to receive favorable tax treatment; and the amount you can leave through your estate to charities you wish to remember continues to be unlimited. The Reverend Chase S. Hunt is the Seminary's director of planned giving. Under this act, there is an important new distinction that is helpful when making a charitable gift using appreciated property. Take securities as an example. The benefits, from a tax standpoint, of making a gift to the Seminary of appreciated securities held long tern; (more than one year) are two-fold: first, you can deduct the gift for income tax purposes at full fair market value at the time of the gift; and second, you avoid the capital gains tax you would otherwise have to pay if you sold those securities instead of donating them. The distinction made in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 has to do with the maximum rate of the capital gains tax and the length of time appreciated property is held. For securities owned longer than eighteen months, the maximum tax rate is now 20 percent, while the maximum rate for those owned between one year and eighteen months ("mid-term property") is 28 percent. As a result, when choosing appreciated securities for use in charitable giving, a greater tax savings is experienced by selecting from among those falling in this "mid-term" group, all else being equal. You may wish to keep that in mind when selecting securities to use in year-end giving and/or for funding life income gifts. For further information about this legislation as it pertains to charitable giving or life income opportunities available through the Seminary's planned giving program, you are welcome to contact me. Gifts This list includes gifts most of which were made between June 10, 1997 and October 14, 1997. In Memory of The Reverend Dr. Carlton C. Allen Jr. ('36B) to the Annual Fund Mrs. Celia Boden to the International Students Scholarship Endowment Fund Dr. Henry Seymour Brown (1900B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Louis E. Campbell ('39B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Alexander T. Coyle ('30B) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend Dr. Joseph C. Dickson ('30B) to the Annual Fund Dr. Paul L. Diefenbacher to the Annual Fund The Reverend James L. Ewalt ('40B) to the Annual Fund Mr. Charles W. Farber to the Benjamin Franklin Farber Jr. Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Dr. William H. Felmeth ('42B) to the Annual Fund Joan M. Ferguson to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend Dr. Lawrence E. Fisher ('37B) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend Dr. Orion C. Hopper ('22B) to the Reverend Dr. Orion C. Hopper Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Dr. Edward J. Jurji ('42B) to the Annual Fund Mrs. Bernice Kirkland to the Annual Fund The Reverend J. Arthur Lazell ('37B) to the Annual Fund Mrs. Kathryn S. Ledward to the Robert W. and Kathryn S. Ledward Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. John S. Linen to the John S. and Mary B. Linen Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mrs. Mary B. Linen to the John S. and Mary B. Linen Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend Kirsten E. Lunde ('86B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call Mr. Frank Marsh to the Annual Fund Mr. J. Andrew Marsh to the Annual Fund The Reverend Dr. C. Frederick Mathias ('57B) to the C. Frederick and Cleta R. Mathias Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mrs. Cleta R. Mathias to the C. Frederick and Cleta R. Mathias Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund The Reverend James M. Moore Jr. ('53M) to the Class of 1953 Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. and Mrs. Tomas Perez-Prendes to the Annual Fund The Reverend Irving Phillips ('49B) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend Dr. Stuart R. Schimpf ('44B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend Alan E. Schoff ('40B) to the Annual Fund The Reverend William M. Sparks ('63B) to the Alumni/ae Roll Call The Reverend Dr. Daniel C. Thomas ('44B) to the Reverend Dr. Daniel C. Thomas Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. O. Carl Wartenburg to the Class of 1942 Scholarship Endowment Fund Dr. David A. Weadon to the Dr. David A. Weadon Memorial Endowment Fund Mrs. Marian Lawder O'Brien Whitman to the Lawder Scholarship Endowment Fund Mr. Steven Warren Wilson ('90B) to the Scholarship Fund The Reverend George Robert Wirth to the Charles J. Reller Abiding Memorial Fund Award and the Scholarship Fund
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