Church attorney Ralph K

Church attorney
Ralph K. Helge,
four others, retire

The Worldwide Church of God honors the following church employees who have retired.

Ralph K. Helge

Ralph K. Helge

Ralph K. Helge, who has served the WCG for 46 years, most of that time as the church’s general counsel, retired Feb. 25.

Mr. Helge received his law degree from DePaul University in Chicago in 1954. In 1958, he was baptized and moved to Pasadena to attend Ambassador College. He began work as a church attorney in December of that year.

Mr. Helge was instrumental in defending the WCG from the unconstitutional receivership imposed by a California deputy attorney general in 1979 and the successful settlement of a major lawsuit involving WCG copyrighted material in 2003.

Earle Reese

Earle Reese has worked for the church since 1963, first in what later became the Mail Processing Center. In 1968 he began to work in the Legal Department and during that time became a paralegal. He was ordained an elder in 1989.

Gene Michel

Gene Michel has worked for the church for 51 years.

He came to Ambassador College in 1951 and graduated in 1953. He married Betty Bates, the first Ambassador graduate, in 1952.

He was hired full-time in the business office Sept. 1, 1953. He became property manager in 1973, a position he filled until his retirement.

Bill Kubon

Bill Kubon, a former New York City police officer, was hired as a patrol officer for the Security Department in 1988. He became department manager in 1994.

He was ordained an elder in 1986.

Gerald Chapman

Gerald Chapman served in the church’s press and publishing departments from 1963 to 1995. He was laid off in 1995 and rehired as a patrol officer in the Security Department in 1997.

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