Nolan B. Harmon *20

NOLAN BAILEY HARMON, the nation's oldest living United Methodist bishop and leader of the group to whom Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," died June X, 1993, in Atlanta. He was 100. Rev. Harmon graduated from Millsaps College, worked as a teacher, attended Emory Univ., the Army Chaplain School during WWII, and received his master's from Princeton. He was the book editor of the Methodist Church, a position to which he was elected in 1940, and served as a trustee of Drew and Emory universities, and as a member of the executive committee of the Natl. Council of Churches. The author of several books, Rev. Harmon was also editor of the periodical Religion in Life, and was on the board of editors of the Interpreter's Bible. He is survived by a niece, Mrs. Ralph G. Lindsey, to whom we extend our sympathies.