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Six theology students receive Dempster fellowships
Mar. 31, 2004
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - Six students preparing for careers in
theological education have received Dempster Graduate Fellowships from
the United Methodist Church for the 2004-05 academic year.
The awards, $10,000 for single students and $11,000 for married
students, are the largest offered by a Protestant denomination,
according to the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry
in Nashville. The scholarships are given through the board's Division of
Ordained Ministry.
The annual fellowships have helped graduate students move toward careers
in theological education for the past five decades and represent the
United Methodist Church's commitment to theological education both in
the United States and around the world, according to the Rev. Robert
Kohler, a staff executive in the division.
The 50-year-old fellowships are named for John Dempster, a 19th-century
Methodist preacher who helped establish three denominationally related
seminaries.
Selection for the Dempster award is based on intellectual competence,
academic achievement, promise of usefulness in teaching careers,
personal qualities, and clarity of spiritual purpose and commitment.
The 2004-05 recipients are:
ˇ The Rev. Sharon Lynn Betsworth, an ordained elder in the Iowa
Annual Conference and a graduate of Luther College, Wesley Theological
Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary. She is a third-year
doctoral candidate specializing in the New Testament at Graduate
Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.
ˇ James Davidson "Jason" Byassee, a probationary member of the
Western North Carolina Annual Conference and a graduate of Davidson
College and Duke Divinity School. He is in the fifth year of a doctoral
program at Duke University in Durham, N.C., specializing in systematic
theology.
ˇ Beth Felker Jones, a certified candidate in the South Indiana
Annual Conference and a graduate of DePauw University and Duke Divinity
School. She is in her fourth year of a doctoral program at Duke
University, specializing in systematic theology.
ˇ Jane Ellen Nickell, an elder in the West Virginia Annual
Conference and a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College and
Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is enrolled in her first year of a
doctoral program at Drew University in Madison, N.J., and will
specialize in the sociology of religion with specific interests in
religious pluralism in higher education.
ˇ WooYoung Park, a candidate in the New York Annual Conference, is
a graduate of Yonsei University and Methodist Theological Seminary in
Seoul, Korea, and Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is
a fourth-year doctoral student specializing in social ethics at Union
Theological Seminary in New York City.
ˇ Hwa Young Chong Will, an ordained elder in the Northern Illinois
Annual Conference, is a graduate of Ewha Women's University and Hankuk
University of Foreign Studies in Seoul and Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. She is a fourth-year doctoral
student specializing in systematic theology at Garrett.
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United Methodist News Service
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