| Hygh named Calif. director by Melissa Lauber
UMConnection Staff Larry Ray Hygh Jr., associate director of communications for the Baltimore-Washington Conference, has been chosen to lead United Methodist communications in the southern California area. Hygh will become the new director of communications of the California-Pacific Conference, which includes southern California, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan. In this new position, he will lead efforts in community relations, the conference Web site and other electronic media, the conferences newspaper Circuit West, crisis management and the media center. Hygh has been associate director of communications in the Baltimore-Washington Conference since July 2000. In this position, he coordinated the conferences Igniting Ministry advertising campaign, oversaw the conferences video productions and developed a more comprehensive presence for the church on the Internet with the conference Web site www.bwconf.org. When Larry moves to California, he will leave behind here a strong commitment to Igniting Ministry and electronic media, said the Rev. Dean Snyder, director of communications for the Baltimore-Washington Conference. I am sure he will also take things he learned here with him to California. Larry is a diligent learner and a fine communicator who is having an impact across the denomination. According to the Rev. Bruce Jones, who chairs the conference Commission on Communications, Hygh has been a tremendous asset to the conference.Larry Hygh has brought his energy, enthusiasm and contagious personality, and added to the ministry of communications in the BWC. His work particularly around Igniting Ministry has been outstanding. We wish him the best, and all of Gods blessings as he goes to tell the story, in the California-Pacific Annual Conference. Before coming to Baltimore, Hygh served as director of communications for the Mississippi Conference from 1999 to 2000, and before that worked a year in the New England Conference as the first recipient of the denominations Racial Ethnic Minority Fellowship in communications. A certified lay speaker, Hygh is nationally known for his musical abilities. He plays the piano and alto saxophone. He serves on the coordinating committee for Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century Initiative and chairs its communications committee. He also serves on the General Commission on Communications. He is expected to begin his new position June 1. | 
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