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Shirley Lewis Brown

Person Name: Shirley L. Brown Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "[Within the shelter of our walls]" in Contemporary Hymn Tunes

Albert Lehenbauer

1891 - 1955 Person Name: Albert Lehenbauer, 1891-1955 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Translator of "Creyentes todos, alabad" in Culto Cristiano

1900 - 1985 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "[We thank Thee, Father, for our homes] (Drury)" Miriam Drury (1900-1985) was a native of California and lived there most of her life. Her husband was a faculty member at San Francisco Theological Seminary. After retirement, she lived in Monte Vista Presbyterian Retirement Home, Pasadena, California. Her hymn "Walk Tall, Christian" was also included in The Worshipbook (1970). Drury composed many complete hymns (words and music), anthems, and poems for both children and adults. She was an award-winning composer for the Hymn Society of America and a number of her hymns were published by the society. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion 1993 ============================= Miriam Drury (Mrs. Clifford Merrill Drury) is a native of California where she has lived most of her life. Her home is in Pasedena. She has long been interest in writing stories, poems and songs for children as well as articles for adults. She is the author and composer of many Sunday School and Grade School songs. --Ten New Hymns on the Ministry, 1966. Used by permission.

D. H. Mansfield

Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "[There is an hour of peaceful rest] (Mansfield)"

Robert Wilfrid Callin

1886 - 1951 Person Name: Robert Wilfred Callin, 1886-1951 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "O Lord of every lovely thing" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes

Nancy C. Dorian

b. 1936 Person Name: Nancy C. Dorian, 1936- Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Dear Weaver of Our Lives' Design" in Singing the Living Tradition

Stanley L. Osborne

1907 - 2000 Person Name: Stanley Llewellyn Osborne Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "LLEWELLYN" in The Cyber Hymnal Stanley Llewellen Osborne, studied music at the University Toronto, and later, theology at Emmanuel College, and was ordained a United Church Minister in 1932. Dr. Osborne was co-editor of the United Church's Canadian Youth Hymnal (1939), and full-time secretary to the joint committee of the United Church and the Anglican Church of Canada for The Hymn Book, which they published together in 1971. In 1975 he completed If Such Holy Song, the story of the hymns in the Hymn Book 1971. --SICM (Summer Institute of Church Music, 03 July 2014.

Nathaniel D. Gould

1781 - 1864 Person Name: Nathaniel Duren Gould Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "WOODLAND" in The Cyber Hymnal Nathaniel Duren Gould 1781-1864. Born in Bedford, MA, into the Duren family, He was musically inclined and attended a singing school when young. He was also a master and teacher of penmanship and engraving. As a conservative music reformer he opened a singing school in 1799. He taught mostly Psalmody singing. He married Sally Andrews Prichard in 1801, and they had eight children: Nathaniel, Augustus, Charles, Mary Ann, (2 unnamed infants that died), Elizabeth and Sarah. He also formed the New Ipswitch military band in 1804 He was conductor of the Middlesex MA Musical Society in 1805. He took the name Gould in 1806 to qualify for an inheritance from an uncle. He taught music in NH and MA in some 115 singing schools over 50+ years and had more than 50,000 students. He also compiled and published music. He authored a number of books, one being “History of church music in America” (1853) about early singing schools. He noted traits and temperaments of many singers, some not really performing for the glory of God. He died in Boston, MA. John Perry