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Joseph Morris

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Translator of "The Daily Cross." in Favourite Welsh Hymns

1855 - 1935 Person Name: Claude W. Foss, 1855-1935 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Translator (from Swedish) of "To Realms of Glory" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: August 28, 1855, Geneva, Illinois. Died: February 8, 1935, Rock Island, Illinois. Son of Swedish immigrants, Foss attended the Red Wing College institute at Red Wing, Minnesota, then entered Augustana College at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1879. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in June 1883. In 1884, he became professor of history and political science at Augustana College. In 1888 he became vice-president of the college, and served until 1900. On the death of Dr. T. N. Hasselquist he was acting president until the election of Dr. Olof Olsson as president in 1891. Upon Olsson’s death, Foss again served as acting president until Dr. Gustav Andreen became president. In addition to his academic positions, Foss was on the board of directors of the Augustana Book Concern, the Board of Home Missions for the Augustana Synod, and was treasurer of the Synod’s Board of Foreign Missions. In 1908, the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America sent him as a commissioner to inspect its mission field in southern India, where he traveled extensively (1908-09). Upon completing his work in India, he inspected the Synod’s mission in Persia in 1909, and traveled in Egypt, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, southern Russia, and south and central Europe. Foss also found time to edit the Lutheran Quarterly Review, the Augustana Journal, and the Olive Leaf, and contributed to various other magazines and periodicals. His largest literary work was Glimpses of Three Continents, a travelogue through India, the Bible lands and Europe (Augustana Book Concern, 1912). Foss belonged to the American Institute of Civics, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Historical Association, and the Swedish Historical Society of America. He was a member of the Grace Lutheran Church in Rock Island, Illinois. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

John Gray Rhind

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Author of "Christ of the Centuries, Lord of Today" in Twelve New World Order Hymns Rhind, John Gray. Professor of Bible and assistant to the president at Carroll College, Wisconsin. Held pastorates in Chicago, Iowa City, and Columbus; poetry editor of the Presbyterian Tribune. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives

Hugh Clark Stuntz

1891 - 1991 Person Name: Hugh C. Stuntz Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Author of "Thanks Be to Thee, O God" in New Hymns for America Dr. Hugh C. Stuntz, now living in Florida, is a former Methodist missionary in Montevideo, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Argentina, and more recently served for thirteen years as president of Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennessee. --New Hymns for America, 1976. Used by permission.

William Watkins Reid

1890 - 1983 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Author of "Lord, Who Didst Choose in Galilee" in Ten New Hymns on the Ministry Reid, William Watkins, Sr. (Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, October 15, 1890--February 18, 1983, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania). Methodist. Parents were William Reid, a native of Moneymore, near Belfast, and Sarah Watkins of Londonderry. Came to the United States in 1900. Attended New York University (bachelor's degree, 1915; master's degree in journalism, 1917). Served The Hymn Society as President, Executive Director, and Editor of The Hymn from 1966 to 1976. Authored the Hymn Society's 40th anniversary history, Sing with Spirit and Understanding. Also edited The Pastor's Journal for the Methodist church and worked as its director of the News Service of the Board of Missions. Also: Caulfield, Benjamin. --From DNAH Archives ============================== William Watkins Reid, of Whitestone, Long Island, was president of the Hymn Society of America from 1942 to 1945, and is now a member of its Executive Committee. Used the title of "My God is There, Controlling," the Society has published 65 of his hymns, and several others were published in the Society's "searches", for new hymns. He is the author of the Society's history of its first forty years, and also of the added period of ten years (1962-1972). --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

Charles Louis Fouvy

b. 1928 Person Name: Charles Louis Fouvy, b. 1928 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Harmonizer of "WORSLEY" in Singing the Faith

Spencer

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Composer of "BRIGHTON (Spencer)"

Charles John Dickinson

1822 - 1883 Person Name: C J Dickinson Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Composer of "BENEDICTION" in Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship Dickinson issued a collection of his own tunes in 1861, and contributed five tunes to The Irish Hymnal. The 1881 census lists him as Vicar of Bodmin, Cornwall. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Henry Lyle Lambdin

b. 1892 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Author of "Thy Faithfulness to Men of Old" in Fifteen New Bible Hymns Lambdin, Henry Lyle. Professor of homiletics at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. A native of Tennessee, all of his ministerial experience was in New Jersey. A member of the Northern New Jersey Methodist Conference, he served as pastor of the First Methodist Church of Summit, as District Superintendent, and a pastorate at Morristown Methodist Church. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ============================== [Lambdin' has been a member of three General Conferences and four Jurisdictional Conferences of The Methodist Church, and is author of the Newark Conference Centennial Hymn. ----16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.