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PLAINFIELD - The Rev. Tracey L. Brown, senior pastor of Ruth Fellowship Ministries, has been named the first Black woman to serve as New Jersey State Police chaplain. I hope I m not the last. It s always and honor to be the first, but it s also a great honor to be a part of an organization like the State Police chaplains, she said.
As a chaplain, Brown volunteers her time to provide troopers, their families and the community with spiritual counseling, religious referral and general character guidance through the various religious denominations within our society, according to the New Jersey State Police.
I have set the dial for our Georgia history wayback machine to Thursday, Nov. 12, 1811 and our landing spot is a section of town locals would have known then as âupper townâ or Yamacraw. We find ourselves sitting in one of the many taverns in the area which were popular with sailors from all over the world looking for a drink or two and other âentertainmentsâ after spending several weeks at sea.
Suddenly an American sailor stands and brags in a loud voice that he has just signed on with the crew of âLa Vengeance,â a French privateer. The man boasts he is excited at sharing the spoils of privateering, but he is instantly met with shouts of indignation as many of the American sailors felt the man should not be joining a foreign crew taking the spoils of a war where the United States was not involved. In 1811, a state of war existed between France and Great Britain. Both governments would grant permission to private ships to wreak havoc with the enemy incl
2020 saw two books by Survey team members appear in print.
The Oxford handbook of English grammar, edited by Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova, provides a wide-ranging and authoritative critical survey of current knowledge of the grammar of the English language, and competing research methodologies that may be applied to it.
Sean Wallis’s monograph
Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research focuses on a single perspective. Whereas ‘statistics’ is frequently associated with bottom-up ‘number-crunching’, he shows how a cyclic methodology in Corpus Linguistics, with the linguist in control, may be combined with statistically sound argumentation. Such a perspective places a greater burden on the linguist, however.
SHELEK-FURBEE
BETHANY The West Virginia Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers has recognized Bethany College professor emerita Kathy Shelek-Furbee as the West Virginia Social Worker of the Year.
The annual award recognizes significant contributions in the field of social work and to West Virginia.
“It’s very humbling, and I’m very grateful to have received this honor. We all know that one is honored, but many contribute,” Shelek-Furbee said during a digital ceremony conferring the honor.
She noted that her colleagues were with her along the way.
“I’ve been doubly blessed both as a social worker and an educator that I’ve got to do two things that I really love to do a lot, and most people can’t say they get to do one,” she said.
Dec 31, 2020
BETHANY The West Virginia Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers has recognized Bethany College professor emerita Kathy Shelek-Furbee as the West Virginia Social Worker of the Year.
The annual award recognizes significant contributions in the field of social work and to West Virginia.
“It’s very humbling, and I’m very grateful to have received this honor. We all know that one is honored, but many contribute,” Shelek-Furbee said during a digital ceremony conferring the honor.
She noted that her colleagues were with her along the way.
“I’ve been doubly blessed both as a social worker and an educator that I’ve got to do two things that I really love to do a lot, and most people can’t say they get to do one,” she said.