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Paul Smith

b. 1953 Person Name: Paul B. Smith Hymnal Title: African American Heritage Hymnal Composer of "ASSAM" in African American Heritage Hymnal

Person Name: John Clark Hymnal Title: Baptist Hymnal 1991 Author of "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 A pseudonym of William J. Reynolds, stanza 3 of "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus." --DNAH Archives

William Jensen Reynolds

1920 - 2009 Person Name: William J. Reynolds Hymnal Title: Baptist Hymnal 1991 Arranger of "ASSAM" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Pseudonyms include: Bigelow, James Buie, Dean Clark, John Day, Francis Dorff, Gregory Dorsey, Jane Drakestone, John East, Richard Eastis, Ellen Frye, Dan Gregory, Peter Harrold, Stan Hawk, John Horn, Ellen Ingham, Marie Jordaan, Jacques Keely, Grant Kije, Cyd Kringel, Cark Kuliami, Tiki [?] Lee, Wilbur Long, Richard Long, Robert MacDougall, Thom Madsen, Carl O. Monroe, Lou Munroe, June Reed, Ruth Rodgers, Lee Rosemont, David Ross, Don Saul, J. Crawford Sneed, Roger Wheeler, Annette Winston, Clyde York, Henry --Email from William Colson to Mary Louise VanDyke, 4 May 2005, DNAH Archives. Names taken from the program of Reynolds' retirement dinner. Colson notes, "The program has faded and the one designated with a question mark is not 100% certain."

Simon Marak

1877 - 1975 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author (attributed to) of "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" Simon Kara Marak A pastor, schoolteacher, and missionary in Jorhat, Assam, India. For more details, see the entry on "I have decided to follow Jesus" in the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology (http://www.hymnology.co.uk/i/i-have-decided-to-follow-jesus), UMC Discipleship Ministries (https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/articles/history-of-hymns-i-have-decided-to-follow-jesus), or Hymnology Archive (https://www.hymnologyarchive.com/i-have-decided-to-follow-jesus), all of which are based to some degree on an article by Sengbat G. Momin, “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back,” Garo Baptist Convention Sesquicentenary Souvenir, translated by Amanda Aski Macdonald Momin (A·chik Baptist Dal’gipa Krima (ABDK) Sabha, 2017), pp. 85–90. Chris Fenner / C.M. Hawn

Cliff Barrows

1923 - 2016 Hymnal Title: Complete Mission Praise Arranger of "[I have decided to follow Jesus]" in Complete Mission Praise Cliff Barrows was Music and Program Director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He was born in Ceres, California in 1923. He graduated from Bob Jones University in 1944 with a B.A. in Sacred Music. Dianne Shapiro, from Cliff Barrows Memorial website (https://cliffbarrowsmemorial.org) accessed 12/24/2017

Don Hustad

1918 - 2013 Hymnal Title: Complete Mission Praise Arranger of "[I have decided to follow Jesus]" in Complete Mission Praise

Dan Damon

b. 1955 Person Name: Daniel Charles Damon Hymnal Title: New Hymns of Hope Arranger of "ASSAM" in New Hymns of Hope Daniel Charles Damon (b. 1955) is an internationally published writer of hymn texts and tunes and is Associate Editor of Hymnody for Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, Illinois. Damon is also a jazz pianist and has played in many hotels and clubs in the San Francisco Bay area. He holds degrees from Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois (BME, 1977) and Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California (MDiv, 1987). He is an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church in the San Francisco Bay area and a life member of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Several single-author collections of Damon's hymns have been published: Faith Will Sing (Carol Stream, 1993), The Sound of Welcome (Carol Stream, 1998), To the Thirsty World (Nashville, 2002), Fields of Mercy (Carol Stream, 2007), and Garden of Joy (Carol Stream, 2011). He collaborated with text writer Gracia Grindal in A Treasury of Faith: Lectionary Hymns Series A (Colfax. 2012). Damon's hymns have been included in several major hymnals and supplements. He has also written hymn translations from Vietnamese, Portuguese, and Shona languages, and, with Patrick Matsikenyiri, edited Njalo, A Collection of 16 Hymns in the African Tradition (Nashville, 1996). He has released three recordings of hymns, carols, and traditional songs, and a solo piano recording of jazz standards (available at www.damonstuneshop.com). Damon has presented his work at national conferences of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts. He is a contributor to the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. In 2016, Damon was made a Fellow of the hymn Society, the highest honor The Hymn Society can confer. Dan Damon