Thomas McAnally:
CLASS OF 1958
Marietta High SchoolClass of 1958
Marietta, OK
Thomas's Story
Thomas Sidney McAnally
Personal
Born April 13, 1940, Burneyville, Oklahoma
Present address: 3348 Hillsboro Pike., Nashville, TN 37215
Married: Charlotte LaWanda McDaniel, June 8, 1962
Children:Melissa Marie (husband Howard) McAdory, born May 15, 1964;
James Forest (wife Valerie Childers) McAnally, born Sept. 8, 1967.
Grandchildren:
Meredith Marie McAdory, born May 9, 1995; Cullen David McAnally,
born Jan. 8, 1999; Coleman Thomas McAnally, May 22, 2003.
Employment
Pratt Food Stores, Marietta, Okla., 1952-1958 (part-and full time.)
Oklahoma Tax Commission, Oklahoma City, 1958-61 (part-time 27 months;
full-time nine months)
Daily Oklahoman, occasional work during college years at Oklahoma City
University.
Public Relations Office, Oklahoma City University, 1961-62 (part-time nine
months, interim director for three months)
New York Press Association, Syracuse, N.Y. (part-time, nine months)
Director of Public Relations and Methodist Information, Nebraska Annual
Conference, Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 1, 1962-Dec 31, 1968.
Director, Nashville News Office, United Methodist Communications,
Jan. 1, 1969 to 1983
Director, United Methodist News Service, April 1983 to Dec. 31, 2001.
Retired Dec. 31, 2001
Education:
High school: Marietta, Oklahoma, graduated 1958
Undergraduate: Oklahoma City University, graduated 1962 (Bachelor of Arts
Degree in Journalism.)
Graduate: Syracuse University, graduated 1963 (Master of Arts Degree in
journalism and mass communications.)
Post-graduate: Courses in art at University of Tennessee-Nashville, and
Nashville Tech.
Study leave: summer of 1979, Richmond, Va., served as an observer at the
Times-Dispatch newspaper and NBC-TV affiliate, WWBT, and took
course in public opinion at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Memberships:
University of Nebraska Wesley Foundation Board of Directors.
Epworth Village Board of Directors, York, Neb.
Chairman, Department of Radio and Television, Nebraska Council of Churches,.
Lay member of 1968 United Methodist South Central Jurisdictional Conference;
First reserve lay delegate to 1968 uniting (EUB-Methodist) General Conference
in Dallas.
Religious Public Relations Council (Now Religion Communicators Council);
president of national RPRC, 1988-90;
president, vice president and treasurer of the Nashville chapter;
editor of the national newsletter, The Counselor.
Calvary United Methodist Church, Nashville, Tenn....Expand for more
, lay leader, council on
ministries chairman, worship and communications committees, Sunday
school teacher, choir.
Honors and Awards
Four-year Banning Scholarship to Oklahoma City University.
Blue Key National Honor Fraternity
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Oklahoma City University
Received Oklahoma City Rotary Leadership Trophy as ¿Outstanding Senior
Man.¿
Writing and photography awards from Religious Public Relations Council
and United Methodist Association of Communicators.
Distinguished Alumni Award, Oklahoma City University, 1985.
United Methodist Association of Communicators ¿Communicator of the Year,¿
1989.
Inducted into United Methodist Association of Communicators Hall of Fame
October 14, 2006.
Publications
Numerous articles in church-related periodicals and curriculum.
Editor of OCU¿s weekly Campus newspaper.
Managing editor of Syracuse University¿s Religious Journalism Newsletter.
Edited Sharing, bi-monthly newsletter of the Commission on Public Relations
and Methodist Information.
Edited the National RPRC quarterly newsletter, The Counselor.
Questions & Answers About the United Methodist Church, Abingdon, 1995
(Sold nearly 200,000 copies).
Bishop With a Pastor¿s Heart: Kenneth W. Copeland, Providence House
Publishers, Franklln, Tennessee, 2006.
Travel
London, England, 1966, World Methodist Council/Conference
The Netherlands, 1966
Israel, World Methodist Council, 1974
Mexico, 1978
England, four weeks in summer of 1981
Amsterdam, July 12-21, 1983, assistant managing editor for news room at
International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists sponsored by Billy
Graham Association.
England and Scotland, 1987
Nicaragua, Jan. 1989, Mission of Peace with 16 United Methodist bishops.
Switzerland, 1990
Zimbabwe, 1991, groundbreaking for Africa University.
Bulgaria/Germany, World Methodist Council executive committee and
uniting conference in Germany.
South Korea, 1995, meeting of Methodist bishops and heads of Wesleyan
denominations.
Brazil, 1996, World Methodist Council/Conference.
Russia/Switzerland ¿ United Methodist General Council on Ministries.
France, 2000
Ireland/Wales, 2001
Brighton, England, 2001, World Methodist Council/Conference
Caribbean Islands, 2001
Norway, 2002
Austria, 2003
Spain, France, Italy, Greece Croatia, 2004
Australia and New Zealand, 2005
England, Germany, Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, 2007.
England
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