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Description:Leon Fanniel, Presbyterian musician, administrator, and minister, was born in 1930 in Kansas City, Mo., and graduated from Huston-Tillotson College (Austin, Tex.), George Williams College (Chicago, Ill.), and McCormick Theological Seminary. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Chicago in 1969. Fanniel was executive of the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii in 1971-1972, and became the first executive director of the General Assembly Mission Council, serving from 1972 to 1975. Fanniel served as pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) from 1975 to 1996. He died December 20, 2018 in Pasadena, California.Creator:Fanniel, Leon, 1930-2018. (interviewee), Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer)Subject names:National Black Presbyterian Caucus.Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:149653
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Description:Presbyterian Historical Society Records Archivist David Staniunas interviews Robert E. Wilson, vice-moderator of the 217th Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly in Birmingham, Alabama, 2006. Wilson was born on January 23, 1939 in Gastonia, N.C., and raised in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Barred from professional employment by segregation in North Carolina, Wilson found federal civil service work at the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, N.J., in 1961. He and Patricia Isles were married on June 17, 1961. The couple joined Ironia Presbyterian Church (Ironia, N.J.) in 1963. Wilson retired from the federal civil service in 1995. In 2001, he served as president of the National Council of Presbyterian Men.Creator:Wilson, Robert E., 1939- (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)Subject names:Wilson, Robert E., 1939-, Gray, Joan S. (Joan Standridge), 1952-Topics:African American Presbyterians.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116406
