Introduction to the Vice-Presidential Address

Todd E. Johnson, President

It is my privilege to introduce to you our Vice-President, Dr. Glenn Byer. A native Canadian, Glenn was raised in the plains of Alberta and its agricultural and farming culture, raised in a family with both French Canadian and German roots, but with common roots of faith. It this foundation of faith together with Glenn’s musical talents that led him to be a church organist at age sixteen.

Interest in faith, music, and liturgy would lead Glenn to purse an MA from the University of Notre Dame, and then a Doctorate from the Pontifical Athenaeum of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome, where he wrote on Carolingian Baptismal Letters.

Glenn has spent his career evenly between academics and publishing, currently serving at Oregon Catholic Press and the faculty of the University of Portland. Glenn’s books and articles are at the same time pastoral and scholarly, representing the breadth of our academy, the theological and theoretical, and the practical and pastoral.

As a member of our academy, Glenn contributes to the Problems in the Early History of Liturgy seminar. Glenn also contributes and has contributed to our academy as a willing volunteer, Academy Committee Member, and though his genuine hospitality. Glenn will now contribute his paper, “Shall We Gather” as his Vice-Presidential Address.

Please welcome our Vice-President, Glenn Byer