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Betty Pulkingham

1928 - 2019 Person Name: Betty Pulkingham, b. 1928 Arranger of "ALLELUIA NO. 1" in With One Voice Betty Carr Pulkingham was born in 1928 in Burlington, North Carolina. She received a B.S. in Music in 1949 from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and she did graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music. She was Instructor of Music Theory at the University of Texas. In 1951, she married a seminarian Graham Pulkingham. They ministered together in various places in the U.S., England and Scotland; they were founding members of the Community of Celebration, an Anglican religious order. She travelled widely with "The Fisherfolk," an outreach music ministry connected with the Community of Celebration. Betty Pulkingham was a well known composer and arranger. She co-edited and published a number of songbooks and books on worship; and served on the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Church Music from 1988-1994. She and her husband returned to Burlington and then she later moved to Austin, Texas to live with family. She died in Austin, May 9, 2019 at the age of 90. Dianne Shapiro, from Obituary (https://www.richandthompson.com/tributes/Betty-Pulkingham) (accessed 6-21-2019)

Darryl Nixon

Arranger of "ALLELUIA NO. 1" in Voices United

Donald Fishel

b. 1950 Author of "Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray)

Andrew Moore

Arranger of "[Jesus is Lord of all the earth]" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

George Mims

b. 1938 Arranger of "ALLELUIA NO. 1" in The Worshiping Church

Charles Mallory

b. 1950 Arranger of "ALLELUIA NO. 1" in The Worshiping Church

Angela Reith

b. 1952 Composer (descant) of "ALLELUIA NO. 1" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Eric Welch

Harmonizer of "ALLELUIA NO. 1" in Common Praise

Emily R. Brink

b. 1940 Arranger of "CHURCH STREET" in Songs for Life Emily R. Brink is a Senior Research Fellow of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Adjunct Professor of Church Music and Worship at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her main areas of responsibility are conference planning and global resources. She is program manager of the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship, which draws more than 70 presenters and 1600 participants from around the world. She also travels widely to lecture and to learn about worship in different parts of the world, especially in Asia, where she has lectured in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan. Her areas of interest include congregational song from all times and places; psalmody; hymnal editing. She was editor of four hymnals and consults with a wide range of churches on worship renewal issues. Dr. Brink is active in the American Guild of Organists, serving in both local and national offices, as well as in the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (president from 1990 1992) and named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in 2004 in recognition of distinguished services to hymnody and hymnology. --internal.calvinseminary.edu/