Thompson, Betty (Personal Name)

A chance to change: women and men in the church, 1982: Title page (Betty Thompson); back cover (Associate General Secretary, Education and Cultivation Division, Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, USA. A distinguished journalist, she served for a period on the staff of the World Council of Churches, and is at present one of the officers of its Communication Committee.)

Fifty years of The South Atlantic Quarterly, 1952: Page [375] ("Thomas Wolfe: two decades of criticism" [by] Betty Thompson), footnote (Miss Thompson, formerly director of publicity at Wesleyan College, Georgia, now lives in New York)

First for Women, Wesleyan pioneering the way, viewed Aug. 7, 2015: Betty Thompson, Class of 1947 (In 1994, the United Methodist Association of Communications (UMAC) saluted Betty Thompson '47 as their Communicator of the Year ... in her native Georgia ... for twenty-two years from 1965 to 1987, Thompson was responsible for publishing both New World Outlook and Response, the mission magazines of The United Methodist Church ... She was a prophetic force in religious journalism for more than four decades. Before her retirement at the end of 1994, she gave thirty-five years of distinguished and dedicated service to the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM) ... graduate study in literary criticism at Kenyon School of English in Gambier, Ohio, where she was a Rockefeller Scholar ... Beginning in 1950 ... Thompson worked five years as staff writer for the Methodist Board of Missions ... returned to New York in 1956 and served as the WCC [World Council of Churches] public relations director until 1964 ... She rejoined the GBGM in 1965 ... Betty served first as assistant general secretary for communications (1965-74) ... Later, she served as associate general secretary for Mission Education and Cultivation (1974-87) ... her final role, as director of public relations (1987-1994), http://www.wesleyancollege.edu/profiles/bettythompson.cf