The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-08-08
St. Paul's Church
Selects Leaders And
Officers for New Year

AT a meeting of the Fourth Quar-
terly Conference of St. PauPs Meth
odist church last evening, officials of
the church heard reports of the vari-
Gus activities of the church and
selected officers and leaders for the
coming conference year. DR.. Fred b.
Wyand, District Superintendent of
the Moorefield District, presided and
was very high in his praise of the re-
suits achieved this year. He was par
ticularly commendatorY of the Youth
Fellowship, the Woman's Society of
Christian Service, and the large
number received into the member
ship of the church.
Seventy nine have been received
this past year and DR.. Denver c.
PickenS, pastor, said that others had
already given their names to unite
with the church which would add to
this number Fourteen have died dur
ing the year and six have transferred
their membership to the churches
where they reside. There has been a
net gain of fifty nine which brings
the active membership of the church
to four hundred and twenty five.
The following were elected as new
members of the Official Board at the
meeting on last evening" Mrs. H.
G. Gortner. Mason Glotfelty, 0. T.
eraser, c. Melvin Right, Bceson
Snyder, and Robert Dewitt.
f. Ray Jones and Joseph f. Harmed
were reelected to the Board of
Trustees, and the following were re-
elected as members of the Board of
Stewards J. w. Butt, Harold H.
Harmed, Mrs. f. Ray Jones' Herbert
c. Leighton, George Littman, Paul
B. Naylor, Mark Moon, S. T. Naylor,
Daniel P Smousc, Frank E. Rathbun,
Ray Teets, Ralph Fauber, Reaford
Purbaugh, Mrs. S. II. Jackson, Lewis
R. Jones, Mrs. Grover Stemple, C. f.
Hammond, and Scott W. Shirer.
Other officers were Mrs. H. G.
Gortner, treasurer; Frederick A.
Thayer, Jr., treasurer benevolences;
S. r. Naylor, lay leader; Herbert c.
Leighton and Mark Moon, reserve
lay leaders; f. Ray Jones, church
school superintendent; Mrs. Russell
l.. Smith, president of the Women's
Society of Christian Service; Herbert
H. Leighton, president of the Youth
Fellowship; and Mrs. S. H. jackson
as Communion Steward.
Committees appointed last evening
were Membership and Evangel-
ism-Frank f. Rathbun, Mark Moon,
Beeson Snyder, Mrs. D. P. Smouse,
Mrs. Helen Right, Ralph Fauber,
Lewis X. Jones; Finance-Herbert c.
Leighton, Mason Glotfelty, Paul B.
Naylor, Reaford Purbaugh, Walter
DeBerry; Pastoral Relations Dr.
Joseph +. Harmed, E. Ray Jones, S.
T. Naylor, Daniel p. SmOuse, J. J.
Ashby; Nominations-Th pastor, J.
w. Butt Mark Moon, c. f. Hammond,
Mrs. H. G. Gortner; Auditing-IIar-
land l.. Jones, George Littman, Cecil
Smith; Church Records Frederick
A. Thayer, Jr., Mrs. Arthur Naylor,
Miss Susanna Porter; Board of
Christian Education-The pastor, f.
Ray Jones, Joseph f. Harmed, S. T.
Naylor, Mrs Paul Naylor, Mrs. Lewis
r. Jones, Richard Davis, Mrs. Grover
c. Stemple, Miss Barbara Smith,
Board of Missions and Church EXten-
sion-The pastor f. Ray Jones, Mrs.
Reaford Purbaugh. Mrs. Ray Teets,
Mrs. S. T. Naylor, Mrs. Melvin Right,
Richard Leighton.
Stewardship-Mrs, Harold H. Har-
ned, Mrs. Russell L. Smith, Prentice
DeBerry, C. Melvin Right, Playford
Ryan; Temperance-A. D. Naylor,
Scott w. Shirer, Willard Ryan; Music
"A. D. Naylor, Mrs. Frederick A.
Thayer Jr., Mrs. Harold H. Harmed,
julius B. Littman, Herbert c. Leigh
ton; Parsonage-Mr f. Ray Jones,
Mrs. c. f. Hammond, Mrs. S. H.
Jackson, Mrs Ray Tcets, Mrs. Fred
erick A. Thayer, Jr., Mrs. Russell l..
Smith; Property-S. T. Naylor, Mrs.
Carl Stone, Ray Teets Social Ser
vice-Mrs. j. w. Butt, Mrs. Margaret
Casteel, Mrs Ed Sincell, Mrs. Eliza
beth Smith; Altar Flowers-Mrs.
Herbert c. Leighton. Mrs. Scott w.
Shirer, Mrs. Harry Porter; Golden
Cross-Mrs. S. T. Naylor, Mrs Rich
ard Stemple, Mrs. C. F. Hammond