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Ruth Boyer Peck

Author of "One in Christ! This Our Joy!" in Nine Hymns for Human Relations Day

Joanne Reynolds

Author of "Lord, We Ask You" in Hymns for a Pilgrim People

Nick Fawcett

b. 1957 Author of "For the days when you feel near" in Anglican Hymns Old and New (Rev. and Enl.)

W. I. Knapp

Person Name: W. Knapp Author of "Hay perdon con Jesus" in Himnario de la Iglesia Metodista Episcopal

Author of "From Creation's Timeless Word" in Discipleship Ministries Collection The Reverend F. Richard Garland is a retired United Methodist pastor. He and his wife, Catherine Sprigg, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, live in North Kingstown, RI. Dick was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is a lifelong Methodist. A graduate of Garrett Theological Seminary, he interned in Chicago and then served churches in Indiana, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. He continues to preach on occasion, provide coverage in emergency pastoral situations, and write a monthly essay, "From Where I Sit" for the newsletter of the North Kingstown UMC. He has been a contributor to The Upper Room. Dick is a lifelong hiker who still climbs in the mountains of New Hampshire. At home, he spends a great deal of time in his flower gardens. He has sung with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra and is a member of the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts. Dick wrote his first hymn, a children's song, in a seminary music class with Austin C. Lovelace, and he has written poetry for many years. He began writing hymns for use in his churches about twenty years ago, but did not submit them for publication until 2006, after being encouraged to do so by a classmate and friend. Many of his texts are inspired by the seasons of the church year, particularly Christmas and Easter, and by Scriptures from the Lectionary. In April of 2007, an appeal from a clergy colleague for a memorial hymn in response to the shootings at Virginia Tech University resulted in the creation of his hymn, In Grief and Aching Sorrow, set to the tune, Passion Chorale by J.S. Bach. Once, his pastor, frustrated in trying to find enough hymns to go with the Good Samaritan story in Luke 10:25-37, asked him to write a new hymn for a service. The result was his hymn, "When We Would Neighbor Be." On a dare from a colleague, he revealed a whimsical side by writing a hymn for Groundhog Day, "Praise the Lord for Woodland Creatures." His hymn, "I Have a Dream," was written to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the address by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He has written a series of texts based on the selections from the Letters to the Ephesians and to the Philippians found in the New Revised Common Lectionary. F. Richard Garland

Clotilde Falcón de Náñez

1908 - 1998 Person Name: Clotilde F. Náñez , 1908- Translator of "Por la Hermosa Extensión" in Himnario Metodista Clotilde Falcón de Náñez, a seventh generation Tejano, was born in Rio Grande City, Texas in 1908. She studied at Westmoreland College in San Antonio and graduated cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1932) where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Clotilde Náñez later attended SMU, receiving a Master of Arts degree in Ibero-American civilization in 1970. Her work as an educator included teaching in public schools and serving fourteen years as Head of the Spanish department at Saint Mary’s Hall, a private, college preparatory school in San Antonio. She also taught at Trinity University, San Antonio, in the SMU School of Continuing Education, Dallas, and at Pan American University, Edinburgh, Texas. Clotilde Náñez served the church as an author, compiler, and translator of Sunday School curriculum; as hymn writer, translator, and hymnal committee member; and as a School of Christian Mission instructor. She was a member of the Women’s Division of the Board of Missions of The Methodist Church from 1964 to 1968. Falcón de Náñez was elected to many leadership positions in the Woman’s Society of Christian Service (WSCS), today’s United Methodist Women. From 1975 to 1977 she served as president of the Rio Grande Conference WSCS. Clotilde Náñez’s published writings include hymn texts and translations, Sunday School lessons for students and teachers, and articles in church-related periodicals. For twenty-six consecutive years she and her mother, Élida García de Falcón, translated the WSCS annual program books into Spanish. Falcón de Náñez was the author of “Hispanic Clergy Wives: Their Contribution to United Methodism in the Southwest,” a chapter in the 1981 book Women in New Worlds. With her husband she co-authored “Methodism among the Spanish Speaking People of Texas,” a chapter in The History of Texas Methodism, 1900-1960. In 1986 The Women’s Division of the General Board of Global Ministries honored Clotilde Náñez by including her biography in the book, They Went Out Not Knowing… An Encyclopedia of One Hundred Women in Mission. The 2000 Rio Grande Annual Conference memorialized her with these words: “Hermana Clotilde Falcón de Náñez fue para nuestra Conferencia una matriarca, columna, y discipula ejemplar.” (“Sister Clotilde Falcón de Náñez was for our conference a matriarch, pillar, and model disciple.”) Clotilde Falcón and Alfredo Náñez met in 1926 and were married in Brownsville, Texas in 1934. They had three children: Guillermo Náñez, Ph.D., Marta Consuelo Harris, and Rolando Antonio Náñez. “Clotilde Falcón Náñez.” Minutes of the Rio Grande Conference. 2000.

Ray Capo

Author of "Love divine, quell now our fear" in Discipleship Ministries Collection

Sarah Slinn

1758 - 1831 Author of "God with us! oh, glorious name!" in The Primitive Methodist Church Hymnal Slinn, Sarah. In the Gospel Magazine for July 1779 a hymn in 9 stanzas of 4 lines was given beginning "God with us! 0 glorious Name;" headed "Emanuel; or, God with us. By a Lady," and signed "S. S—N." In Rippon's Baptist Selection, 1787, st. i. ii. vi. iii. iv. with alterations, and in the order named, were given as No. 174, but without signature. In J. Dobell's New Selection, 1806, the same text is repeated as from Wood's Collection The same text was again repeated to modern hymnbooks, and is that now in common use. From D.Sedgwick's manscripts we find the signature "S. S—N." was filled in as Sarah Slinn by him, but his papers do not furnish any authority for the name, nor for the date of 1777 which he has attached thereto in his manuscript note to Dobell's New Selection. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)