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Susan Gladin - new director for Johnson intern program Watson A. Bowes, Jr., Johnson Intern Program Board Chair The Board of Directors of the Johnson Intern Program announces
with pleasure the appointment of the Rev. Susan Gladin as its new
executive director. Following the resignation in April of Mary
Agnes Rawlings, who was director of the program during the past
three years, a search for a new director resulted in more than 40
completed applications from throughout the country. A number of
highly qualified individuals were interviewed for the
position. Ms. Gladin, who has a Master's of Divinity degree from Duke
University, is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.
As the former executive director of the Orange Congregations in
Mission, she has extensive experience managing a non-profit
organization. In that position she established and directed 10
service programs affiliated with 35 member congregations. She is
also an accomplished writer, having won awards for her fiction, and
writes a regular column for the Chapel Hill
Herald. Susan and her husband, Peter Kramer, live in
Hillsborough, where he is a social worker with Family Counseling
Services. They have two daughters who are young adults. Susan
brings many talents and much enthusiasm to her position as Director
of the Johnson Intern Program, Inc. Although the Johnson Intern Program, Inc., recently became a
tax-exempt not-for-profit corporation, it maintains close ties with
the Chapel of the Cross, receiving both in-kind contributions of
office space and vestry-approved financial support. Importantly,
the rector appoints members to the board of directors, although all
members are not parishioners. The major goals and mission of the
Johnson Intern Program remain the same: to provide young adults a
10-month experience of spiritual development (living in Christian
Community), vocational discernment (working in community non-profit
service agencies), and leadership training. We have every
expectation that the program will flourish under the leadership of
its new director. I trust that all members of the congregation will
welcome Ms. Gladin and pray for the continued success of the
Johnson Intern Program, Inc. Send
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