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Patrick Michaels

Person Name: Patrick Michaels (1954-) Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-10 Author of "Who Comes from God" in Common Praise (1998)

b. 1933 Person Name: Hal H. Hopson (1933-) Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-10 Arranger of "SALVE REGINA COELITUM" in Common Praise (1998) Hal H. Hopson (b. Texas, 1933) is a prolific composer, arranger, clinician, teacher and promoter of congregational song, with more than 1300 published works, especially of hymn and psalm arrangements, choir anthems, and creative ideas for choral and organ music in worship. Born in Texas, with degrees from Baylor University (BA, 1954), and Southern Baptist Seminary (MSM, 1956), he served churches in Nashville, TN, and most recently at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas. He has served on national boards of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and the Choristers Guild, and taught numerous workshops at various national conferences. In 2009, a collection of sixty four of his hymn tunes were published in Hymns for Our Time: The Collected Tunes of Hal H. Hopson. Emily Brink

Delores Dufner

b. 1939 Person Name: Delores Dufner, OSB, b. 1939 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-5 Author of "Like a Bird" in Gather (3rd ed.) Delores Dufner is a member of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota, with Master's Degrees in Liturgical Music and Liturgical Studies. She is currently a member and a Fellow of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, the National Pastoral Musicians (NPM), the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Monastic Worship Forum. Delores is a writer of liturgical, scripturally based hymn and song texts which have a broad ecumenical appeal and are contracted or licensed by 34 publishers in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and China. She has received more than 50 commissions to write texts for special occasions or needs and has published over 200 hymns, many of which have several different musical settings and appear in several publications. She is the author of three hymn collections: Sing a New Church (1994, Oregon Catholic Press), The Glimmer of Glory in Song (2004, GIA Publications), and And Every Breath, a Song (2011, GIA Publications). Delores, the middle child of five, was born and raised on a farm in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. She attended a one-room country school in which she learned to read music and play the tonette, later studying piano and organ. Delores was a school music teacher, private piano and organ instructor, and parish organist/choir director for twelve years. She served as liturgy coordinator for her religious community of 775 members for six years and as Director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of St. Cloud, Minnesota for fifteen years. She subsequently worked as a liturgical music consultant for the Diocese of Ballarat, Victoria in southeast Australia for fifteen months. At present, she is preparing a fourth hymn collection and assisting with liturgy planning and music leadership at the monastery. Delores Dufner

Michael Joncas

b. 1951 Person Name: Michael Joncas, b. 1951 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-5 Composer of "WAKE US" in Gather (3rd ed.)

Jean Holloway

b. 1939 Person Name: Jean Holloway, b. 1939 Scripture: Proverbs 9:5 Author of "Gather around, for the table is spread" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Colin Hand

Scripture: Proverbs 9:5 Arranger of "[Gather around, for the table is spread]" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Elliot Rose

1928 - 1994 Person Name: Elliot Rose (1928-1994) Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-10 Author of "Yours the Hand That Made Creation" in Common Praise (1998)

Paul B. Svenson

Scripture: Proverbs 1-31 Author of "Oh a Song Must Rise (A Song Must Rise)" in More Voices

Walter Farquharson

b. 1936 Scripture: Proverbs 9:5 Author of "When We Gather at the Table (Quand nous venons à la talbe)" in More Voices Farquharson, Walter Henry. (Rosetown, Saskatchewan, May 30, 1936- ). United Church. University of Saskatchewan, B.A., 1957; B.D., 1961 (St. Andrew's College). His single pastorate (1961- ) has been a "tentmaker" ministry" at Saltcoats, Sask., which he combined with teaching English in the town's high school, and which he has from time to time shared with other clergy, notably Margaret Joyce Dickin. Many of his hymns have been set to music by Ron Klusmeier. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives