Calvin Synod Herald, 1979 (79. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1979-07-01 / 7-8. szám
8 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD ELIZABETH DAVIS KONDOROSSY WINS AWARDS Mrs. Elizabeth Kondorossy who has been Music Director and Organist at the First Hungarian Reformed Church in Cleveland, Ohio, for 23 years, has received the “Betty A. Murphy” Teacher of the Year Award from the Council for Exceptional Children of Greater Cleveland. Mrs. Kondorossy received her Special Education Degree from Kent State University and is listed in the “World Who’s Who of Women” (England), “Who’s Who of American Women,” “Who’s Who in the Midwest” (U.S.A.), and ‘Who’s Who of Music and Musicians” (England). In the picture, Betty A. Murphy (left) is presenting the award to Elizabeth Davis Kondorossy (right). Church of God and Saints of Christ and the United Seventh Day Brethren. Number of Clergy Jumps, Creates Tight Job Market The number of clergy in the U.S. jumped by 11,132 during 1977, reaching 490,360. Meanwhile the number of clergy serving parishes fell by 17, to 271,456, though the number of churches rose by 112 to 333.175. “The increasing number of young people becoming ordained poses a problem for placement and eventual promotion in local churches for a number of mainline denominations,” Jacquet noted. “The problem of oversupply, studies have shown, exists in such denominations as the United Church of Christ, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and the Episcopal Church, while other denominations are approaching oversupply. This development may signal the continued growth of nonstipendiary clergy and of ordained clergy working in allied profession, such as chaplaincies or counselling.” Black denominations, on the other hand, still face a serious undersupply of clergy. And Yearbook figures on black seminary students, provided by the Association of Theological Schools in the U.S. and Canada, indicate the problem will continue. While the total number of black theological students in the two nations continues to rise — from 1,759 in 1977 to 1,919 in 1978 — blacks remain only 4.1 percent of the total seminary student population. The situation is similar for Hispanic and Asian-Americans. Though the number of Hispanic theological students has more than doubled since 1972, the 1978 total of 681 is still only 1.5 percent of total enrollment. For Asian-Americans the figure is 1.1 percent. Women have made more and faster headway. Since 1972 the number of women has increased by 167 percent, compared to 26 percent for men. During this period the proportion of women among seminary students has almost doubled, going from 10.2 percent to 19.3 percent. Once they graduate, however, women theologians have had rough sledding. The Yearbook points out that fewer than half of all U.S. Christian religious bodies ordain women to the ministry, and in those that do, women compose only four percent of all clergy. The Association of Theological Schools also reports that total seminary enrollment is stabilizing after several years of rapid growth. Fall enrollment in 1978 was up only 2.7 percent, compared to 8.1 percent in 1974, 11 percent in 1975 and just over five percent in 1976 and 1977. N.C.C. News, May ’79 RULES GIVEN FOR CLEAR WRITING The following rules for communicating in print have made their way through several publications in North America. We believe they originated in a newsletter of the US Navy. 1. Don’t use no double negative. 2. Make each pronoun agree with their antecendent. 3. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. 4. About them sentence fragments. 5. When dangling, watch your participles. 6. Verbs has to agree with their subject. 7. Just between you and I, case is important too. 8. Don’t write run-on sentences they are hard to read. 9. Don’t use commas, which aren’t necessary. 10. Try to not oversplit infinitives. 11. Its important to use your apostrophe’s correctly. 12. Proofread your writing to see if any words out. 13. Correct spelling is esential. Ed’s Cl. July/August 1979 LIGONIER MEETINGS: September 1-2:. ELDERS' CONFERENCE September 2-3: MINISTERS' CONFERENCE — P lease Attend ! —
