Mary Louise Bringle

Mary Louise (Mel) Bringle is the subject of an article in Blue Ridge Now, the on-line edition of the Time-News in Hendersoneville. She is chair of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song (PCOCS, "peacocks") which is developing a "new hymnal," in whatever form that may ultimately take. Mel is also president of the Hymn Society in the US and Canada. It was in that role that she helped lead the hymn sing at First Asheville last Sunday afternoon. She was joined by Hymn Society executive director Deborah Carlton Loftis in leading that festival service.