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Former Stated Clerk William P. Thompson honored with
launching of scholarship fund
by Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS
September 14, 2000
 Thompson
will be received the Lazarus Project's Lazarus Award on Feb. 24, 2001.
Former General Assembly moderator and stated clerk and
world ecumenical leader William P. Thompson and his wife, Mary, were
honored Sept. 5 by a surprise party which launched the William and Mary
Thompson Ecumenical Scholarship Fund.
More than 70 friends attended the fete near the
Thompsons' home in La Grange, Ill. The event was hosted by the Thompsons'
pastor at First Presbyterian Church of La Grange, the Rev. Steve Koski,
and the scholarship fund in their honor was inaugurated with
contributions totaling $20,000.
The scholarship fund idea arose from Jane Dempsey
Douglass, former president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
and retired professor of church history at Princeton. For more than
three years, Bill Thompson had been putting all his efforts into
successfully generating the Eugene Carson Blake Endowment Fund for
Ecumenical Leadership Development in honor of Blake.
Current General Assembly stated clerk the Rev. Clifton
Kirkpatrick said, "No living Presbyterian has contributed more to
the ecumenical movement than Bill Thompson. And this is a commitment
that Mary shares with him. This scholarship is an excellent way to see
that the ecumenical movement, so dear to Bill and Mary, will be passed
on to future generations of Presbyterians."
Persons wishing to contribute to the scholarship fund
may send donations designated to the William and Mary Thompson
Ecumenical Scholarship Fund, to: The Ecumenical Trust, 475 Riverside
Drive, Rm. 915, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY, 10115.
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