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Hannah Florence Flammer (1893-1987) was a radio personality and an active member of the Woman's Society of Christian Service (now known as United Methodist Women). She attended the New York School of Expression, affiliated with New York University.

In 1913, she married Fred W. Flammer (1891-1957). Hannah Flammer established and was proprietor of the Bacnel School of Expression, which trained radio and early movie celebrities. She conducted a program on radio station WOR-AM in New York.

Flammer was active in the Woman's Society of Christian Service, serving as local, district, and Conference president. She also held offices in the Northeastern Jurisdictional Society and was president of United Church Women in Newark. Flammer developed many multi-media programs based on Methodist activities.

William Angie Smith (1894-1974), American Methodist bishop, was born December 21, 1894 in Elgin, Texas. He graduated from Southwestern University in 1917 and was ordained elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1924. Smith served charges in several places, including El Paso, Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Nashville, Tennessee; Washington, DC; Birmingham, Alabama, and Dallas, Texas. In 1944, he was elected bishop by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference and assigned to the Oklahoma-New Mexico Area, which comprised of the Oklahoma, Oklahoma Indian Mission, and New Mexico Annual Conferences. Smith served these conferences for twenty-four years. He also served as president of the Board of Evangelism from 1952 to 1964 and as president of the Council of Bishops in 1957. Smith was also heavily involved with the World Methodist Council and the United States military chaplaincy program. Smith married Bess Owens in 1920 and had 3 sons: William III, Bryant, and Shelby. Mrs. Smith was also very active in the Methodist Church, particularly with the Bishops Wives Association. Bishop William Angie Smith died on March 15, 1974 at the age of 79.

Charles Coolidge Parlin, an American lawyer and business executive, was an important Methodist layman. He was born July 22, 1898 in Wausau, Wisconsin, the son of Charles Coolidge and Daisy (Blackwood) Parlin. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and received the LL.B. degree at Harvard Law School in 1922. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army as a private.

In 1923, Parlin was admitted to the New York Bar, practicing law in New York City with the Wall Street firm of Shearman and Sterling. Through the years he served on the boards of a number of major corporations, was the chief counsel of the First National City Bank and was an authority on taxation. He was president of the United States and Foreign Securities Corporation and served for a time as president of the Celanese Corporation.

Parlin was thought by some to be one of the most important Methodist laymen in the history of the American Methodist Church. He was a member of successive General Conferences in 1940, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1970. In the immediate post-World War II period he took a leading role in the establishment of the National and World Council of Churches. Long a supporter of the World Methodist Council, he was elected president in 1970. His roles were many in the work of the larger church. He was secretary of the Commission on Church Union, 1948-64; chair of the Committee to Study the Jurisdictional System, 1956-60; on the Ad Hoc Committee on the Union with the Evangelical and United Brethren Church in 1964, at which General Conference and its adjourned session in 1966 he presented the report of the Committee calling for union. He was a member of the General Board of the National Council of Churches and its first vice president from 1958-1961. He was chair of the U.S.A. committee which raised the money for the founding of the World Council of Churches. From 1962 to 1968 he was one of the presidents of the World Council.

During the McCarthy era Parlin gained considerable attention when he counseled Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam in a hearing before the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee and its investigation of communist influence in the U.S.

Parlin's interests were many. Among them was his chairmanship of the committee to restore Wesley's Chapel in London, securing over $1 million dollars. His own personal gifts were significant in developing the program of the World Methodist Council. Through his own Epworth Foundation he helped more than one hundred young people, many from minority groups and developing nations, obtain an education. He was a trustee of American University, Bethune-Cookman College, Drew University, Union Theological Seminary in New York, Wesley Seminary in Washington, D.C. and North Central College. Honorary degrees were awarded him by a number of colleges and universities.

Charles Parlin was married twice. His first wife, Miriam Boyd of Philadelphia, was born 1924 and died 1972. Before their marriage, she was a missionary to China. Three children were born of that marriage: Charles C. Jr., Blackwood B., and Camilla. After Miriam's death, Parlin married Kaye Chiang. Together they had a step-daughter, Jean Chiang. Charles Parlin died on November 15, 1981.

Orrie Orland Arnold (1884-1959) was a minister and editor who also had a long, prolific speaking and writing career.

On July 24th, 1884 he was born in Darke County, Ohio, but his family soon moved to Oregon. There he received his call to ministry, and was licensed by the Oregon Conference of the United Brethren Church in 1906. In 1909, he was received into the Ohio Miami Conference, in which he served several pastorates, remaining in Ohio for the rest of his life.

From 1917 through 1957, in addition to his pastoral duties, Arnold wrote for Sunday school publications. In 1941, he became an associate editor of his denomination's Sunday school press, and was subsequently elected editor of the Evangelical United Brethren Sunday school publications at the time of church union in November 1946. He retired from this position on December 31, 1958, only a few days before his death.

Arnold also served his denomination as chairman of the Rural Life Commission, a member of the General Board of Christian Education, the Commission on Christian Social Action, the Inter-Board Education Committee, and the General Board of Evangelism. He was active interdenominationally as a member of the Committee on Adult Work, the Committee on Administration and Leadership, the Committee on Uniform Lessons, and the Committee on the National Christian Teaching Mission of the National Council of Churches.

He participated in community organizations, helped to organize the Community Chest in Germantown, Ohio, and also was an active member of the Rotary Clubs in Germantown and Greenville. He was thrilled when the Germantown Press named him Father of the Year in 1956.

Arnold married his wife, Bessie, in 1911. They had three sons and three daughters. Arnold died on January 2, 1959.

William Burt (1852-1936), an American pastor, missionary, and bishop, was born in Padstow, Cornwall, England, on October 23, 1852. His family immigrated to the United States. Burt graduated from Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1879, and from Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey, in 1881. Eventually, he received honorary doctorates from Grant, Wesleyan, and Syracuse Universities and Dickinson and Allegheny Colleges.

Joining the New York East Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1881, Burt served St. Paul's Church and De Kalb Avenue Church in Brooklyn before being transferred to the Italy Annual Conference in 1886. In 1888 he moved to Florence, establishing a theological school, and became superintendent of the Italy Mission. Coming to Rome in 1890, Burt was instrumental in establishing the Methodist Building, the Boy's College, a Theological School, Publishing House, and Young Ladies College. He also led in building several churches and schools in other parts of Italy.

On May 20, 1904, Burt was elected a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and appointed resident Bishop of Europe. While in charge of the work in Europe, he organized the France Mission Conference, the Austria- Hungary Mission Conference, the Russian Mission Conference, and the Denmark and Finland Annual Conferences. In 1910 he organized all the Methodist work in Europe into the European Central Annual Conference.

On several occasions the Board of Bishops designated Burt to be an Episcopal visitor in other areas of the world. In 1906 he was Fraternal delegate to the British and Irish Wesleyan Conference, and in that same year made the Quadrennial visit to Methodist missions in Africa. In 1917 he visited the Methodist work in the Orient including China, Japan, the Philippines, India, Korea, and the Malay Peninsula. Finally in 1919 Burt was called upon to study post-war conditions in Europe with the purpose of rebuilding Methodist Episcopal churches.

Burt's contributions and honors were many. He wrote ten books and translated the Discipline into Italian. King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy knighted him in 1903. He was received by the kings of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden as well as by the queens of Italy and Bulgaria, the Emperor of Germany and the Shah of Persia.

Bishop Burt returned to the United States in 1912 assuming episcopal leadership of the Buffalo, New York area. He retired in 1924 and died at Clifton Springs, New York on April 9, 1936. He is buried in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Burt married Helen Bartlett Graves (born April 14, 1856) on April 14, 1881. They had five children.