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Selma B. Wesley began work in the Spring to fill the staff vacancy in the Breitmeyer Memorial Ministry following the resignation of Henry Hall on February 15. Selma received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from Central College where she was also president of her class. She was awarded the Masters degree in Social Work in 1975 at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Selma Wesley has grown up as a member of the United Methodist Church in St. Louis and holds membership along with her mother at LaSalle United Methodist Church. In high school days she was president of the North District Youth Fellowship and for three summers during college worked in the Summer Program of Metro Ministry. Her experience includes working as a Social Worker for the St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education in the Follow-Through program and prior to that at Fulton State Hospital where she worked in the maximum security unit for the criminally insane.
Selma also has had considerable experience with the St. Louis Department of Recreation in Summer Program.
Kingdom House was an important part of her childhood experience and at the age of 15 Selma put in 365 hours of volunteer work at that United Methodist institution. She also has had experience as a juvenile officer for the Jackson County Juvenile Court where she conducted family clinics for juvenile offenders and their parents. As a member of LaSalle United Methodist Church she has had considerable experience working with senior citizens.
The appointment of the Rev. Merle S. Wood as Associate Minister at Grace has been announced. Merle will move into the Friendship House personage on June 9 and his first Sunday will be June 12.
Mr. Wood comes to Grace Church following a three year pastorate at Licking, Mo. He comes with great enthusiasm for a return to the urban scene and the prospects of working in a metropolitan type church and in a staff situation.
Merle was born in Baton Rouge, La. in 1940 but grew up in Webster Groves attending that school system from kindergarten through twelfth grade. He attended two years at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. and then transferred to Washington University where he received his Bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1965.
He served two years in the U.S. Army in the Signal Corps, one year of which was in Vietnam from December, 1965 to December, 1966.
Following service in the army, Merle served as a full-time lay pastor for one year at Elvins, Mo. and then attended St. Paul School of Theology. As part of his seminary experience he spent one month on a European Theological Study Tour in 1971.
Merle has been active in the camping program of the Conference serving as counselor both at Arcadia and Blue Mountain Camps. This summer he will serve as Dean of the Dean of the Junior High camp at Blue Mountain from July 25-July 30.
Merle’s parents are retired and live in Naples, Florida where they are active in the United Methodist Church there. He also has one brother, Fredric E. Wood, who is a member of Grace Church.
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Selma B. Wesley. Photo from The Grace Reporter, reprinted in The Paper, September 1977, page 2.
Originally published in The Paper, September 1977.
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