We are pleased to announce the election of Jean Stark Hebenstreit, C. S. B., of Kansas City, Missouri, effective December 1, as a Director of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Hebenstreit succeeds our beloved colleague and friend, Lenore D. Hanks, C. S. B., who has retired from the Board of Directors, effective December 1. Mrs. Hanks, who has served as a Director since 1968, has expressed a desire to return to the full-time teaching and practice of Christian Science in Portland, Oregon. She has our heartfelt appreciation for all she has contributed to this Board and to the Christian Science movement during her service in this post. Mrs. Hanks has been interested in Christian Science since her earliest years. She joined a branch church in 1935 and The Mother Church two years later. She received Primary class instruction in 1939 and entered the public practice in 1955. She became an authorized teacher of Christian Science in 1958. Following her election to The Christian Science Board of Lectureship in 1963, she traveled widely in the United States and overseas, giving many lectures at colleges and universities.
Mrs. Hebenstreit is a fourth-generation Christian Scientist. She is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music of the University of Missouri and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas. After a brief career in real estate management, she entered the full-time public practice of Christian Science and became listed in The Christian Science Journal in 1955. She became an authorized teacher of Christian Science in 1964. Both Mrs. Hebenstreit and her husband, William, have been active in branch church work for many years, and both have served as Readers of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Kansas City. For the past two years Mrs. Hebenstreit has served The Mother Church as vice-president of the Board of Education. She is well known to teachers and practitioners because of her participation in two Teachers' Conferences at headquarters, and the practitioners' meetings that were held in the Field. Mr. Hebenstreit is transferring the base of his business activities to the New England area, and Mrs. Hebenstreit will continue to teach her classes and conduct her association meetings in Kansas City.
