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Marie J. Post

1919 - 1990 Versifier of "O LORD My Rock, in Desperation" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Marie (Tuinstra) Post (b. Jenison, MI, 1919; d. Grand Rapids, MI, 1990) While attending Dutch church services as a child, Post was first introduced to the Genevan psalms, which influenced her later writings. She attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied with Henry Zylstra. From 1940 to 1942 she taught at the Muskegon Christian Junior High School. For over thirty years Post wrote poetry for the Grand Rapids Press and various church periodicals. She gave many readings of her poetry in churches and schools and has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies. Two important collections of her poems are I Never Visited an Artist Before (1977) and the posthumous Sandals, Sails, and Saints (1993). A member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee, Post was a significant contributor to its array of original texts and paraphrases. Bert Polman

Bland Tucker

1895 - 1984 Person Name: Francis Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Translator of "Father, we thank thee, who hast planted" in Together in Song Francis Bland Tucker (born Norfolk, Virginia, January 6, 1895). The son of a bishop and brother of a Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, he was educated at the University of Virginia, B.A., 1914, and at Virginia Theological Seminary, B.D., 1920; D.D., 1944. He was ordained deacon in 1918, priest in 1920, after having served as a private in Evacuation Hospital No.15 of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. His first charge was as a rector of Grammer Parish, Brunswick County, in southern Virginia. From 1925 to 1945, he was rector of historic St. John's Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Then until retirement in 1967 he was rector of John Wesley's parish in Georgia, old Christ Church, Savannah. In "Reflections of a Hymn Writer" (The Hymn 30.2, April 1979, pp.115–116), he speaks of never having a thought of writing a hymn until he was named a member of the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal in 1937 which prepared the Hymnal 1940

Bessie Porter Head

1850 - 1936 Person Name: Bessie P. Head Author of "O Breath of Life, Come Sweeping through Us" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) [Elizabeth Ann Porter Head] Head, Elizabeth Ann (`Bessie'; née Porter) b. Belfast: 1850 d. Wimbledon, Surrey: 28 June 1936 She was the youngest daughter of Tobias Porter, manager of John Alexander's flour mill in Belfast. Of her early life nothing is known; but in 1894 she became secretary of the YWCA in Swansea. She then served with the South Africa General Mission from 1897-1907, mostly in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg, helping to found several branches of the YWCA. With the chairman of the Mission and a fellow missionary she toured North America in 1906-7; her intended return to South Africa in November 1907 was cancelled in favour of marriage, on 17 December, to the chairman, Albert Alfred Head (1844-1928), a wealthy - and generous - insurance underwriter who had been widowed three years previously. With her husband she continued actively to support both the SAGM and the Keswick Convention, with which the mission was closely associated. She was a frequent speaker for both organizations and a prolific contributor, in prose and in verse, to their publications. A collection of her writings, Heavenly Places, & Other Messages, was published in 1920. Invariably known as Bessie Porter before her marriage, she later styled herself Bessie Porter Head. After her husband's death in 1928 she moved into the SAGM house in Wimbledon, where she died. --www.canamus.org/Enchiridion

Emily R. Brink

b. 1940 Person Name: Emily Brink Harmonizer (alt. harm.) of "SPIRITUS VITAE" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) 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/

J. E. Seddon

1915 - 1983 Person Name: J. E. Seddon (1915-1983) Adapter of "Thank you, O Lord of earth and heaven" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) James E. Seddon (b. Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, 1915; d. London, England, 1983) received his musical training at the London College of Music and Trinity College in London and his theological training at the Bible Churchmen's Theological College (now Trinity College) in Bristol. He served various Anglican parishes in England from 1939 to 1945 as well as from 1967 to 1980. Seddon was a missionary in Morocco from 1945 to 1955 and the home secretary for the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society from 1955 to 1967. Many of his thirty hymns are based on missionary themes; he wrote some in Arabic while he lived in Morocco. Seddon joined other Jubilate Group participants to produce Psalm Praise (1973) and Hymns for Today's Church (1982). Bert Polman

Alan Gaunt

b. 1935 Person Name: Alan Gaunt (b. 1935) Author of "Come, living God, when least expected" in Ancient and Modern

Mary J. Hammond

1878 - 1964 Person Name: Mary Jane Hammond, 1878-1964 Composer of "SPIRITUS VITAE" in Together in Song Born: 1878, England. Died: January 23, 1964, Hilligdon Nursing Home, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Near the end of her life, Hammond lived in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Iona MacLean

b. 1954 Person Name: Iona Maclean, 1954- Author (v. 4) of "O Breath of life, come sweeping through us" in The Book of Praise MacLean, Elsie Mary Iona (Huntingdon, Quebec, September 21, 1954-- ). Presbyterian. Dalhousie University (Halifax), B.A., 1974; Knox College (Toronto), M.Div., 1977. Pastorates at Colborne, Ontario (1977-1980); Laurel Lea St. Matthew's, Sarnia, Ont. (1982-1992); ARCT in Voice (Teacher & Performer), 1984; Pastorate at First, Pictou, NS, 1992- . The two years between Colborne and Sarnia she studied full time at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. Author of "Like the Sun Shining Down on the World." Also authored "Credo" published in Celebrate, a follow-up to Praise Ways published by The Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1983, as well as verse 4 of "O Breath of life, come sweeping through us" published in The Book of Praise by The Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1997. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives and email to Tina Schneider 24 September 2014.