The board of the national Episcopal Women's History Project, meeting in Anaheim, has elected three new board members, including Lynn Hoke, the ECW of NC's archivist and historian.

Susan Johnson of the Diocese of West Texas (pictured here), is president of EWHP, one of three affiliated Episcopal women's organizations represented at the ECW Triennial. (The other two are the Church Periodical Club and the United Thank Offering.)

The Episcopal Women's History Project was organized in 1980 by a handful of Episcopal Church Women in New York City. Formed to raise the consciousness and conscience of the Episcopal Church to the historic contributions of its women, EWHP has continued to gather the life stories of Episcopal Church Women. It has inventoried written source materials, gathered oral histories, published a newsletter, supported research, given grants, and encouraged interest at all levels through conferences and workshops.

Since going to work for the ECW in 2007, Lynn has, among other things, professionalized our archives at Diocesan House, advised women in parishes throughout the diocese about ways to preserve their history and tell their story, and envisioned and organized the well-received Bishop Tuttle School Day at Saint Augustine's College in Raleigh, one of three historically black Episcopal schools in the country.

Congratulations, Lynn!