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Fred Kaan

1929 - 2009 Person Name: Fred Kaan (b. 1929) Author of "We meet you, O Christ, in many a guide" in More Hymns and Spiritual Songs Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregational Church in Barry, Glamorgan. In 1963 he was called to be minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth. It was in this congregation that he began to write hymns. The first edition of Pilgrim Praise was published in 1968, going into second and third editions in 1972 and 1975. He continued writing many more hymns throughout his life. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary written by Keith Forecast in Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fred-kaan-minister-and-celebrated-hymn-writer-1809481.html)

Erik Routley

1917 - 1982 Composer of "DURHAM 72" in Ecumenical Praise

Gerre Hancock

1934 - 2012 Person Name: Gerre Hancock (b. 1934) Harmonizer of "HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION" in More Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Carl Schalk

1929 - 2021 Person Name: Carl F. Schalk Composer of "STANLEY BEACH" in The United Methodist Hymnal Carl F. Schalk (b. Des Plaines, IL, 1929; d. 2021) is professor of music emeritus at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, where he taught church music since 1965. He completed graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. From 1952 to 1956 he taught and directed music at Zion Lutheran Church in Wausau, Wisconsin, and from 1958 to 1965 served as director of music for the International Lutheran Hour. Honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, Schalk was editor of the Church Music journal (1966-1980), a member of the committee that prepared the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), and a widely published composer of church music. Included in his publications are The Roots of Hymnody in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1965), Key Words in Church Music (1978), and Luther on Music: Paradigms of Praise (1988). His numerous hymn tunes and carols are collected in the Carl Schalk Hymnary (1989) and its 1991 Supplement. Bert Polman

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles H. Webb Composer (descant) of "STANLEY BEACH" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement II

Walter Stanton

1891 - 1978 Person Name: Walter Kendall Stanton, 1891- Composer of "SHERSTON" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Stanton, Walter Kendall; d. 1978; British conductor and educator