At the close of the annual Witherspoon Society Awards Luncheon, Kent Winters-Hazelton convened the organization's annual meeting, with some 50 members present.

The chair of the Nominating Committee, Lynne Reade, reported the election by mail-in ballot of the slate that was presented by the committee.

The newly elected officers are:

President is Kenneth R. Smith, who has served as Vice President for the past four years. Before that, he was one of the officers of Semper Reformanda.   [Ken Smith introduces himself on another page.]

Vice President Jake Young has served as Member at Large and Membership Coordinator. He is an Associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, IL.

Membership Coordinator John Harris currently serves as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Buckhannon, WV, and Special Presbyter for Quadrant Minister - Quadrant 2 of West Virginia Presbytery.

New Members at Large are Vanessa Aja-Sigmon, a second-year student at McCormick Seminary, living with her husband in Chicago, and Chuck McLain, an Honorably Retired member of San Francisco Presbytery and a Commissioner at G.A. in Richmond.

The newly elected officers are taking office at the close of the General Assembly in Richmond.

The full executive committee now consists of:

To contact any of these officers, you can send an e-mail note to dougking2@aol.com, or use the addresses and phone numbers published on the back cover of every issue of Network News.

Gene TeSelle expressed the appreciation of the whole group to outgoing president Kent Winters-Hazelton for his service as president and in other roles before that. Gene recalled Kent's leading role in planning and carrying out a series of regional "mini-conferences" reflecting on the Confession of 1967, and the subsequent national conference held in the spring of 2003.

A new Nominating Committee was named for the coming year, including:

Heather Shortlidge, this year's Wareham Intern, who will serve as convener of the group

Donald Purkey

Jeanne Rodenbough

Bruce Tjaden

John Harris, Executive Committee liaison

The members present voted to allow the Executive Committee to suspend the By-Laws as needed, to make adjustments in the election process and terms of office, in light of the two year period between General Assemblies.

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