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Mrs. Ruth Irwin Rex

1902 - 2002 Person Name: R. I. Rex Author of "As Wise Men Brought Their Gifts" in The Hymnal for Boys and Girls

Nicolás Martínez

1917 - 1972 Person Name: Nicólas Martínez Translator of "Oh Padre de la humanidad" in Himnos de la Iglesia

Robert A. Happel

Author of "A Living Freedom Never Dies" in Little Psalterium

Author of "Within the Shelter of Our Walls" in Hymnal of the Church of God Lennen, Elinor. Born in Kansas. Graduate of Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma. Resident of Los Angeles, California; active in the Christian Education program of the McCarty Memorial Christian Church. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ========================= [Lennen] is a life-long member of the Disciples of Christ; and holds membership in the California Writers' Guild and the Poetry Society of Southern California. --Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns, 1959. Used by permission.

Miriam Dewey Ross

b. 1927 Author of "Give Me the Eyes to See This Child" in Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns Ross, Miriam Dewey. (1927-- ). Resident of Hanover, New Hampshire, and later Madison, New Jersey. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives

Harry Thomas Stock

1891 - 1958 Author of "O gracious God, whose constant care" in New Worship and Song

Samuel A. Keala

1906 - 1969 Person Name: Samuel A. Keala, 1906-1969 Translator of "KA HAKU, KA MAKUA E" in Na Himeni Haipule Hawaii

R. W. Keeler

Person Name: Ralph Welles Keeler Author of "Teach Us, Thou Shepherd" in Songs of Life

Edward M. Blumenfeld

1927 - 2013 Author of "O Christ, Wise Teacher by the Sea" in Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns Blumenfeld, Edward Martin. (Chicago, Illinois, September 23, 1927- ). United Church of Christ. After attending schools in Chicago, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee, he served in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, 1945-1946; graduated B.S. from Carroll College, 1949; studied at Marquette University's School of Medicine, 1949-1950; service in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, 1950-1951; worked for a year in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana; B.D., Hartford Theological Seminary, 1955; M.A. in religion, Garrett-Northwestern University, 1961. After serving student charges in Connecticut and Vermont while at the seminary, he was ordained in July, 1955, by the Congregational Conference of Vermont, a year after marrying an organist from that state, Flora Merriam. Subsequently he served federated or community churches in Vermont, Wisconsin, and Illinois. In 1980, he was pastor of the United Church of Christ in El Paso, Illinois. He began writing verse when his Grade 3 class were directed to copy from the blackboard a poem for the Mother's Day cards they were making; having a twin brother in the class, he wrote a verse of his own to spare his mother two identical cards. In medical school, he wrote verses about the bones of the body; as a minister, he wrote them to illustrate his sermons and to comprise a column in the local newspaper. Not being musical, he found the appearance of his lyrics in various hymnbooks mystifying but gratifying. --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives (based on information supplied by Blumenfeld)