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Michael Joncas

b. 1951 Person Name: Michael Joncas (1951-) Scripture: Song of Solomon 2 Composer of "FENN HOUSE" in Common Praise (1998)

Edward Jones

1761 - 1836 Person Name: Edward Jones (1752-1824) Scripture: Song of Solomon 2 Collector of "ARFON MAJOR" in Common Praise (1998) Also: Edward Jones, Maesyplwm.

George Black

1931 - 2003 Person Name: George Black (1931-) Scripture: Song of Solomon 2 Harmonizer of "ARFON MAJOR" in Common Praise (1998)

1905 - 1981 Person Name: Edna Fay Grant (1905-1981) Scripture: Song of Solomon 2 Author of "Walk Softly In Springtime" in Common Praise (1998) Grant, Edna Fay. (Rockland, Ontario, October 27, 1905--1981). Baptist. She moved with her parents to British Columbia, where she worked in various occupations until the onset of diabetes threatened her eyesight. Her doctor stimulated her not only to learn Braille, but to widen her range of interests. In 1942, she became national field secretary for Canada of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; after 1948, when blindness ruled out steady travelling, she continued at the WCTU's Toronto office until 1974, when she retired in theory if not in practice. She published privately two books of verse: Walk softy in springtime (1962) and All the trimmings (Christmas, 1973). The former has as its keynote her best-known hymn, which won second place in a Hymn Society contest for children's hymns. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives ============================ Edna Fay Grant has a special distinction; she is the first of the Society's new hymn writers who is blind. This limitation, however, does not keep her from a very active life. Her home is in Toronto, Canada, where she is Field Secretary for the Toronto W.C.T.U. She has six groups of children every week, and also directs a Camp during the summer. She has spoken to various groups from time to time in Schools, Sunday Schools, and other youth groups as well as working among adults. She is presently taking a course on Poetry Enjoyment from the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, Illinois. --Twelve New Hymns for Children, 1965. Used by permission.

Frederick Alan Reesor

Person Name: F. Alan E. Reesor (1935-) Scripture: Song of Solomon 2 Composer of "MARCHE DOUCEMENT" in Common Praise (1998)

Priscilla Jane Owens

1829 - 1907 Person Name: Priscilla J. Owens Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:12 Author of "Little Flower Bells" in Tried and True Owens, Priscilla Jane, was born July 21, 1829, of Scotch and Welsh descent, and is now (1906) resident at Baltimore, where she is engaged in public-school work. For 50 years Miss Owen has interested herself in Sunday-school work, and most of her hymns were written for children's services. Her hymn in the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, "We have heard a joyful sound" (Missions), was written for a Sunday-school Mission Anniversary, and the words were adapted to the chorus "Vive le Roi" in the opera The Huguenots. [Rev. James Bonar, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix II (1907) ========================= Owens, Priscilla Jane. (July 21, 1829--December 5, 1907). Of Scottish and Welsh ancestry, she spent her entire life in Baltimore. She was a public school teacher there for 49 years. She was a member of the Union Square Methodist Church and took particular interest in its Sunday School. Her literary efforts, both in prose and poetry, appeared in such religious periodicals as the Methodist Protestant and the Christian Standard. --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives