11 Called by God, pp. 154-155. N.B.: Hurd is listed by her husband’s initials, Mrs. S.N. Haskell, in the SDA Yearbook.
Called by God, p. 80.
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The GC changed the definition of licensed ministers relative to Internal Revenue Service requirements, thereby making women ineligible. This change is discussed in Called by God, p. 210 (fn. 2), as well as p. 135. 13
14 Gary Chudleigh noted in 2014 that before Merikay Silver’s lawsuits against the Pacific Press in the 1970s, “church policy enabled almost all Adventist Church entities in the United States…to balance their budgets by paying women a lot less than men, even for the same work.” His research is reprinted as Appendix B in Martin Hanna and Cindy Tutsch’s book, Questions and Answers about Women’s Ordination (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press Pub. Assn., 2014), p. 144. See also Merikay Silver, Betrayal: The Shattering Sex Discrimination Case of Silver v. Pacific Press Publishing Association (Austin, TX: Mars Hill Publications, 1985).
Georgia Anna Burrus Georgia Anna Burrus was born July 19, 1866. Despite family opposition, she joined the Adventist church at age 16 and enrolled as a working student at Healdsburg College in California. She then taught in the Bible Training School in Oakland. While engaged as a Bible worker, she responded to a call by S.N. Haskell for women to work in India. In 1893, the General Conference voted to send her and Myrtle Griffs to India. Georgia enrolled for the
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nursing course at St. Helena and then a special class
Sasha A. Ross holds a double B.A. in history and
at Battle Creek that prepared workers for foreign
French from La Sierra University and an M.A. in
mission service. Myrtle’s poor health led her to drop
church-state studies from Baylor University. From
out of her India plans. Georgia herself had some
2013-2016, she served as director of the Women’s
medical issues but recovered, and she took that as a
Resource Center and taught in the global studies
sign of God’s care and guidance.
program at La Sierra University. She lives with her family in Riverside, California.
Maria L. Huntley Maria L. Huntley was born on August 9, 1848, in Lepster, New Hampshire, to Albert and Lucy Huntley, both pioneers of the “Sabbath cause” in connection with the Advent Movement. Albert and Lucy had wed in 1840 and had four children, three of whom did not reach adulthood. Maria was the second child born to the couple, after they lost an infant daughter in July of 1847. By the end of 1887, Maria moved to California to take charge of the missionary department at
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Healdsburg College for the ensuing year, thus fulfilling W.C. White’s wish. After nearly a year
