Fellows of the Society

Recognizing a person as a Fellow of the Hymn Society is the highest honor The Hymn Society can confer. Honorees may include authors of hymns, composers of hymn tunes, editors of hymn books, and recognized scholars in the field of hymnology. Honorees are selected by the Executive Committee and are announced at the Annual Meeting.

We are excited to announce our four newest Fellows:

 

Full List of Fellows
  • *William Walker Rockwell, 1942
  • *Harry Thacker Burleigh, 1944
  • *Clarence Dickinson, 1946
  • *Helen Adell Dickinson, 1946
  • *Henry Wilder Foote,  1952
  • *Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1952
  • *J. Vincent Higginson, 1952
  • *John Haynes Holmes, 1952
  • *William Pierson Merrill, 1952
  • *Luther D. Reed, 1956
  • *Ruth Ellis Messenger, 1957
  • *Walter Edwin Buszin, 1962
  • *Leonard Ellinwood, 1962
  • *Armin Haeussler, 1962
  • *Earl E. Harper, 1962
  • *Thomas Tiplady, 1962
  • *Deane Edwards, 1966
  • *William Watkins Reid, 1967
  • *Phillip Sidney Watters, 1968
  • *David Hugh Jones, 1970
  • *Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr., 1972
  • *Shirley Lewis Brown, 1972
  • *George Litch Knight, 1972
  • *Jean Woodward Steele, 1972
  • *Jan O. Bender, 1975
  • *Ralph Mortensen, 1975
  • *Francis Bland Tucker, 1980
  • *Fred Pratt Green, 1982
  • *Frank Von Christierson, 1982
  • *James Rawlings Sydnor, 1983
  • *Anatasia Van Burkalow, 1983
  • *Erik Routley, 1985 (posthumously)
  • *John Whitridge Wilson, 1985
  • *Austin Cole Lovelace, 1986
  • *Stanley Llewellen Osborne, 1986
  • *Jaroslav Jan Vajda, 1988
  • *Donald Paul Hustad, 1989
  • *Mary K. Oyer, 1989
  • *George Herbert Shorney, 1990
  • *Hugh Thomas McElrath, 1991
  • *William Jensen Reynolds, 1992
  • *Carl F. Schalk, 1992
  • *Margaret Clarkson, 1993
  • *Carlton R. Young, 1993
  • *Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, 1995
  • I-to Loh, 1995
  • *Mary Louise VanDyke, 1996
  • *W. Thomas Smith, 1996
  • *Sylvia G. Dunstan, 1996 (posthumously)
  • *L. David Miller, 1997
  • *Timothy Dudley-Smith, 1997
  • *Alice Parker, 2000
  • *Frederik Herman Kaan, 2001
  • Brian A. Wren, 2001
  • *Harry L. Eskew, 2002
  • Emily R. Brink, 2004
  • *Herman Gustav Steumpfle, Jr., 2004
  • Paul H. Westermeyer, 2004

      * denotes the individual is deceased

      Fellows of The Hymn Society in attendance
      at the 2024 Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA

      (back row, left to right) Daniel Charles Damon, C. Michael Hawn, Mary Louise Bringle, Adam M. L. Tice
      (center row, left to right) Jacque Browning Jones, Carl P. Daw, Jr, David E. Eicher, Emily R. Brink, Jan Kraybill
      (front row, left to right) Deborah Carlton Loftis, Cynthia A. Wilson, Sally Ann Morris, Mark Miller