Financial Secretary Wagner to retire; Graydon Yearick to replace him.

Mr. Graydon Yearick has been hired as St. Mark's Financial Secretary, to replace Mr. Richard Wagner, who submitted his retirement resignation this month. He was interviewed by the Mutual Ministry Committee, and selected as the best qualified of the 16 applicants.

The staff of the congregation honored Mr. Wagner at a luncheon on July 18 and expressed its appreciation for his partnership in our work together in St. Mark's. He has served the congregation diligently for a number of years.

Mr. Yearick, for more than 20 years, worked with the development of a data processing facility for 15 community banks in central Pennsylvania, and before that was Vice-President for Operations at Williamsport National Bank for 16 years. He began his career as a Senior Programming Analyst at the IRS in Washington. With this extensive background, the committee thinks that he will have little trouble handling our bookkeeping duties.

There are several interesting circumstances. It happens that Mr. Wagner and Mr. Yearick are both members of the United Methodist congregation in Oval. In the interview process, we discovered that Mr. Yearick is the brother of our long-time member Connie Shaible.

Mr. Yearick will be in the office on August 1 to begin the transition with Mr. Wagner. We anticipate that when a person calls with a question or comment, they will be greeted by a man of friendly competence, just as we have had with Mr. Wagner.