IN MEMORIAM For many years, Reid hosted various

radio call-in programs and talk shows on Jamaican radio stations, was a longtime columnist

with the Daily Gleaner

newspaper and moderated a political debate leading up to a general election. A graduate of Calabar Theological

Clarence “Sam” Reid, a vice president

of the Baptist World Alliance from 1995- 2000, died on April 18, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He was 78 years old. Reid played leading roles in church life

in Jamaica, the Caribbean and the broader global Christian community. He was president of the Jamaica Baptist Union from 1971-1974 and again from 1983- 1985; president of the Jamaica Council of Churches from 1977-79; a former chair of the board of the United Theological College of the West Indies; and was a longstanding member of the Continuation Committee of the Caribbean Conference of Churches. Reid served on the BWA General

Council, the Executive Committee, the Membership Committee, the Resolutions Committee, the Human Rights Award Committee, the Commission on Freedom and Justice, Baptists Against Racism and

the Mission and

Workgroup. He pastored Calvary Baptist Church

in Montego Bay from 1969 until his retirement in 2003. Prior to that, he was pastor of Moss Side Baptist Church in Manchester, England, from 1962-1965; pastor of Bethany Circuit of Baptist Churches in St. Ann, Jamaica, from 1965-1967; and chaplain of Calabar High School between 1967 and 1969. A public personality in Jamaica, he served as an independent member of the Jamaican Senate between 1972 and 1976 and from 1983-1988. He also served on various

public bodies, including

as a member of the Teachers Service Commission and the National Advisory Council on Crime and Justice from 1984- 1989, and chair of the boards of governors of both the William Knibb Memorial High School and Westwood High School.

College in Jamaica and Oxford University in the United Kingdom, Reid authored the pioneering work, Samuel Sharpe: From Slave to National Hero and Church Morality and Democracy. He was recognized with the Order of

Distinction by the Jamaican government, and received a Gleaner Honour Award in 1980.

Reid was predeceased by his wife,

Carmen, in 2005. He leaves daughter, Susan, and son, David.

Funeral service was held May 2 at the Calvary Baptist Church in Montego Bay.

Workgroup, as well as the Theological Assistance Group. Fluent in eight languages, Hopper earned degrees from Southeastern Louisiana University, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in California and Southwestern Baptist Theological Sem- inary in Fort Worth, Texas, all in the US. After retirement, the Hoppers lived in

San Antonio, Texas, in the US. Hopper leaves wife, JoAnn, and sons,

John Jr., Joel and Timothy. A memorial service was held February

3 at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas.

Dorothy Neal, a former president of Evangelization

John Hopper, former president of the International Baptist

Seminary (IBTS) in Europe, died on January 10. He was 80 years old. Hopper and his wife, JoAnn, spent 32 years as missionaries, from 1965 to 1997, predominantly in Eastern Europe. He was known widely for his work with IBTS in Rϋschlikon, Switzerland, where he taught from 1965 until 1970 and served as president from 1988 to 1997. IBTS was relocated to Prague, Czech

Republic, in 1997 and then to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2014. Hopper and his wife were among

the first missioners appointed by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in the United States after its formation in 1991. For a number of years, Hopper was

a member of the Baptist World Alliance Academic and Theological Education

Theological

the North American Baptist Women’s Union and a vice president of the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department (WD) from 1982-1987, died on May 18, in Ontario, Canada. Other than her vice presidency of

the BWA WD, Neal was a longstanding member of the department’s Finance Committee and of the Search Committee to select a new executive director for the department. Neal served the BWA in other

capacities as well, including as a member of the General Council, the Commission on Ministry to the Laity and the Promotion and Development Committee. In her native Canada, she was president

of the Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec from 1979-1981 and treasurer of the same body between 1993 and 1998. Both Neal and her husband, Ralph,

who was also active in the BWA, played leading roles in hosting the Baptist World Congress and the Women’s Leadership Conference

in Toronto in 1980, with

Dorothy Neal serving as chair for the (Continued on next page)

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