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The Rev. James D. Glasse — who served as a pastor, college and seminary professor and seminary president in a career in Presbyterian Church (USA) ministry that spanned more than 50 years — died July 11 in his home in Orinda, CA.
Born in Prosser, WA, in 1924, the pastor’s son graduated from high school in Juneau, AK and attended Willamette College in Salem, OR, before enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. After military service, Glasse completed college at Occidental College in Los Angeles and seminary at Yale Divinity School.
Ordained in 1950, Glasse served pastorates in North Carolina and Tennessee before embarking on a teaching career that took him to Warren Wilson and Tusculum colleges. He subsequently served on the faculties of Yale Divinity School and Vanderbilt’s Divinity School. From 1970-1982, Glasse served as president of Lancaster (PA) Theological Seminary, an institution of the United Church of Christ. Following his retirement there, he served interim pastorates throughout the country, concluding his professional career in San Francisco Presbytery.
A memorial service was held July 24 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Oakland, CA.
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The Rev. Charles McKee, a Presbyterian missionary in the Congo for 27 years, died July 24 in Greensboro, NC, at age 81.
The son of Presbyterian Congo missionaries, McKee was born there in 1923. After finishing high school in Congo, military service in China, and higher education at Davidson (NC) College and Columbia Theological Seminary, McKee and his wife, Anne, returned to Congo in 1949 as missionaries, teaching evangelism and other pastoral skills. After returning to the U.S. in 1976, McKee served pastorates in Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana, before retiring to Greensboro.
He is survived by his wife, four children, and six grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled for Aug. 1 at New Creation Community Presbyterian Church in Greensboro.
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Dr. Eugene McKelvey, a Houston physician who president of the board of trustees of the Medical Benevolence Foundation (MBF), has agreed to be the organization’s interim executive director, effective Aug. 12. He will serve until the MBF executive search committee has found the successor to the Rev. Daniel L. Force, who is retiring Sept. 1, though his last day in the MBF office will be Aug. 6.
MBF vice-president Jimmy Hite will serve as acting president while McKelvey serves as interim director on a volunteer basis.
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