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Title: Leon Fanniel interviewed by Beth Shalom Hessel, 2017.
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 Name(s): Fanniel, Leon, 1930-2018. (interviewee), Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer)
Date Created: 2017, August 28, 2017, August 28, 2017
Name Subject(s): National Black Presbyterian Caucus.
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians.
Geographic subjects: United States--California--Pasadena
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 17-0902; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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Identifier (local): 17-0902_fanniel_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:149653

Title: Jerry Andrews oral history, 2017.
Description: Jerry Andrews, Presbyterian minister, was born and raised in Detroit, Mich. He was senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) from 1992 to 2009, and of First Presbyterian Church (San Diego, Calif.) since 2009. From 1992 on, Andrews was an organizer and moderator of conservative Presbyterian groups, the Genevans, the Fellowship of Presbyterians, and ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians.
Creator Name(s): Andrews, Jerry, 1953- (interviewee), Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer)
Date Created: 2017, August 24, 2017, August 24, 2017
Name Subject(s): Andrews, Jerry, 1953-, Genevans., Presbyterian Coalition.
Topical Subject(s): Evangelicalism--Presbyterian Church., Christian conservatism--United States., Religious institutions.
Geographic subjects: United States., North and Central America--United States
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 17-0902; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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Identifier (local): 17-0902_andrews_04
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:141950

Title: Joanna Adams oral history, 2017.
Description: Joanna Moseley Adams, Presbyterian minister, was born October 17, 1944 in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended Columbia Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1979. She served Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), North Decatur Presbyterian Church (Decatur, Ga.), and Trinity Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), before spending two years as co-pastor alongside John Buchanan at Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.). From 1996 on she was an organizer for and moderator of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians. She retired in 2010.
Creator Name(s): Hessel, Beth Shalom. (interviewer), Adams, Joanna. (interviewee)
Date Created: 2017, August 16, 2017, August 16, 2017
Name Subject(s): Adams, Joanna., Covenant Network of Presbyterians., Trinity Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.), North Decatur Presbyterian Church (Decatur, Ga.), Central Presbyterian Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Topical Subject(s): Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of gays., Ordination of lesbians., Presbyterian women., Ecumenical movement., Social justice--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Interfaith worship.
Geographic subjects: North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Fulton--Atlanta, North and Central America--United States--Georgia--DeKalb--Atlanta
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 17-0902; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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Identifier (local): 17-0902_adams_04
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:286239

Title: Robert Ervin Wilson oral history.
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 Name(s): Wilson, Robert E., 1939- (interviewee), Staniunas, David. (interviewer)
Date Created: 2017, June 29, 2017, June 29, 2017
Name Subject(s): Wilson, Robert E., 1939-, Gray, Joan S. (Joan Standridge), 1952-
Topical Subject(s): African American Presbyterians.
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 17-0516, SPP 128; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Robert Wilson papers, 2006-2008.--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=107933
Identifier (local): 17-0516_robert-wilson
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:116406

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