eleine, three daughters, and nine grandchildren. After YDS, GLENN I. MILLER received an S.T.M. at New York Theological Seminary and a D.Min. at Columbia Theological Seminary. Following eight years of serving United Methodist churches in Connecticut, he served 21 years as a Navy chaplain. He then served 11 years as pastor of an interdenominational church in Pinehurst, NC. He is presently serving as the national chaplain and member of the board of Military Officers Association of America. He is married, has three children and five grandchildren, and resides in Bluffton, SC. T. MELVIN WILLIAMS, Jr. retired on March 4, 2012, from Watts Street Baptist Church following 24 years as pastor. Since graduating from YDS, he has had the honor of serving in numerous remarkable, maverick Baptist Churches—among them, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC; Oakhurst Baptist Church in Decatur, GA; and Watts Street Baptist in Durham, NC. For his next adventure, he will work part-time as director of End Poverty Durham, an interfaith coalition seeking to alleviate poverty in Durham.
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Secretary, Jerald L. Kirkpatrick mrstardad@yahoo.com SAM GLADDING published Groups: A Counseling Specialty, 6th Edition (Pearson) in 2012 and has a seventh edition of his Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession (Pearson) forthcoming in 2013. The content of Groups includes sections on group development, diversity, creativity, ethical and legal aspects of groups, groups throughout the lifespan, and theory, history and trends in groups. Counseling’s contents include sections on professional foundations of counseling, theories and skills, core activities in various settings, and counseling specialties. T. JAMES KODERA is glad to share what he’s been doing since his time at YDS. After completing a Ph.D. from Columbia and Union, James taught for three years at Oberlin, then moved to Wellesley College. After tenure, James went back to school to prepare for ordination and became the first Asian American ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Since 2000 he has been
Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Hudson, MA. James is married to a former missionary from the Philippines, and they have two children, both in high school.
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divinity.classnotes@yale.edu After 24 years, JAMES W. CAMPBELL retired in December from his position as librarian and curator of manuscripts at the New Haven Colony Historical Society. He continues to serve as a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Now married a year to Carmen, WALTER R. RIEDEL resides in Hobe Sound, FL, just north of Palm Beach County, and has been serving as pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Stuart. ROYAL W. RHODES, the Donald L. Rogan Professor of Religious Studies, has been appointed by the trustees of Kenyon College to serve on the presidential search committee charged with selecting Kenyon’s 19th president. While officially retired in San Luis Obispo, CA with his wife of 40 years, Ruth, JOHN ROLLEFSON is currently part-time interim pastor at Bethania Lutheran Church in Solvang. This summer John participated in a Lilly Endowment-funded writing workshop at the Collegeville Institute at St. John’s Abbey and University where he completed work on an article entitled “Justification in Literature,” to be published in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies.
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teer as docents at ECHO, an experimental farm in North Fort Myers, FL that trains agricultural advisors and provides seeds, technology, and information to help subsistence farmers in third-world countries. LESTER KURTZ’s Gods in the Global Village was published in a 3rd edition by Pine Fore Sage (www.sagepub.com/ books/Book235370) with a new chapter on indigenous religions and a new section on religion and sexuality. The 2nd Edition was published in Chinese by Beijing University Press.
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Secretary, Kenneth W. Clapp kclapp@catawba.edu MICHAEL S. BRUNER, with Joshua Frye, coedited a new book on food studies, The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power (New York & London: Routledge, 2012). Through International Relief and Development (IRD), which he founded and heads as CEO, ARTHUR KEYS has given out $3 billion in aid to the world’s poorest families. IRD continues to hand out about $500 million in aid annually. Because poverty and need are highest in countries handicapped by conflict, Keys has helicoptered along with the aid into some of the world’s most dangerous areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, and Pakistan. After more than 25 years of service in the Pocono Mission District, representing the bishop of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA, GLENN L. SIMMONS is
JOHN CHANE, retired bishop of the Episcopal Dicocese of Washington, was honored at Convocation and Reunions 2012 with the Lux et Veritas award, given in recognition of “excellence and distinction in applying the compassion of Christ to the diverse needs of the human condition through the wider church, institutional ministries, ecumenical organizations, not-for-profit organizations, government, or industry.” In 2010, WILLIAM M. GAYDOS retired from Old Goshenhoppen Reformed Church in Pennsylvania in 2010 after 38 years of pastoral work. William now spends half the year in Maine and half in Florida. His wife, Jacki, and he volun-
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John Chane at Alumni Awards ceremony with Dean Sterling