1985 SDA Hymnal Committee

 

CHARLES L. BROOKS, Chairman

Associate Secretary, General Conference Sabbath School Department. Pastor; singing evangelist; Chapel Records recording artist; chairman, General Conference Music Committee.

 

WAYNE HOOPER, Executive Secretary

Academy and college music teacher; singing evangelist; composer; arranger and singer; baritone of King's Heralds Quartet; music director for Voice of Prophecy.

 

MELVIN WEST, Chairman, Tunes Subcommittee

Organist, Faith for Today; college administrator and organ teacher; minister of music for Adventist and many other churches; concert artist; lecturer on worship and the arts; Fellow, American Guild of Organists.

 

HAROLD LICKEY, Chairman, Texts Subcommittee

Tenor, Faith for Today Quartet; academy and college voice and choral teacher; college music administrator; chairman of sacred music, SDA Theological Seminary.

 

MERLE WHITNEY. Chairman, Worship Materials Subcommittee

Pastor with special study in worship and hymnology; composer.

 

CHARLES KEYMER, Chairman, Organization and Indexes Subcommittee

Singing evangelist; pastor; conference president; chairman, music committee for General Conference sessions.

 

JAMES BINGHAM

High school and college choral director and administrator; church organist/choirmaster for Adventist and Congregational churches; composer.

 

ALMA BLACKMAN

Public school elementary teacher; church organist/choir director; college teacher of voice, piano, theory, choir and English.

ROBERT COWDRICK

Layperson (apple grower); hymnologist of many years of experience.

ALLEN W. FOSTER

Coordinator of social services, early childhood division in public school district; composer and recording artist; evangelistic pianist; organist; minister of music in Adventist and Baptist churches; academy music teacher.

RONALD D. GRAYBILL

Adventist historian; researcher; E. G. White Estate; university history teacher; lecturer on early Adventist worship and hymns, and writer.

FRANK B. HOLBROOK

Theologian; SDA Biblical Research Institute; pastor, writer; violinist.

ROCHELLE LAGRONE

Academy teacher of French, piano, choir; minister of music/organist for SDA churches.

SAMUEL D. MEYERS

Pastor; evangelist; Associate Secretary, General Conference Ministerial Department.

JOHN W. READ

Academy and college teacher of voice, composition, elementary school music, and choir; conference coordinator of church music; minister of music for SDA church; President, SDA Church Musicians' Guild; composer; music publisher.

J. ROBERT SPANGLER

Pastor; evangelist; Secretary, General Conference Ministerial Department; book author

OTTILIE F. STAFFORD

College professor of English (specialty in American literature); music teacher; organist.

MICHAEL H. STEVENSON

Pastor; youth leader; Associate Secretary, General Conference Youth Department.

RAYMOND H. WOOLSEY

Pastor; evangelist; book editor, Review & Herald Publishing Association.; book author.