how our conceptualization of the world and ourselves has direct practical repercussions in life.”
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divinity.classnotes@yale.edu JEANNETTE de BEAUVOIR is an awardwinning novelist, playwright and poet, who lives and works in an old sea captain’s house in North Truro Village, MA.
Marcia Riggs receives alumni award from Dean Sterling month to three other sites in the 13-county diocese of NW Pennsylvania to meet with clergy. Paul remains a member of the John Carroll Jesuit Community of the east side of Cleveland, OH. He visits there at the end of each month.
A year ago, ELIZABETH M. KRENTZWEE completed her first intentional interim assignment at St. Mark Lutheran church in Norwich, CT. She has now transitioned to focusing for a time on her vocation of spouse as her husband, Sam, had a mild stroke in January. They continue to blog through their journal at caringbridge.org/visit/samwee. Their daughter, Rebecca, a recent college grad, is at home as support and stay. Their son Adam married in 2010 and lives with his baby daughter in St. Louis.
A book by ROBERT NUGENT, SDS, Thomas Merton and Therese Lentfoehr: The StoContact us at divinity.classnotes@yale.edu if ry of a Friendship, you are interested in becoming a secretary was published by or if you have notes to submit. Alba House in June 2012. In June 2012, Robert participated in Class of 1983 Ecce Homo’s month-long Biblical StudSecretary, Paula K. Ritchie ies Program sponsored by the Sisters of divinity.classnotes@yale.edu Zion in the Muslim quarter of the city of RITA E. FERRONE enjoyed a mini-re- Jerusalem. He is presently working on a union this fall with Porter Hall friends biography of the priest-liturgist Robert Judy Chan ’82 and LINDA HIGGINS at W. Hovda. Linda’s new church in Pottstown, PA. In KIT WANG works with her congregation, June, she was delighted to share a meal in St. Stephen the Martyr in Waterboro, ME, New Haven with Margaret Farley and He- to bring the Rhythms of Grace program to lene Lutz ’81. In 2010, Rita won a Best of those for whom sensory or/and developthe Christian Press award from the Asso- mental issues make regular Sunday worciated Church Press for her article, “Virgil ship difficult. On the family side, son Jesand the Vigil,” published in Commonweal se turned 15 this summer and has entered in 2009. sophomore year, while spouse Sus (Ten-
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MARCIA Y. RIGGS, the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary, was honored with the alumni award for Distinction in Theological Education at Convocation and Reunions 2012. Cheryl Cornish ‘83 M.Div. introduced Riggs, praising her engagement in “interdisciplinary approaches that are critical for understanding and living in today’s world of complexity, diversity, and pluralism” and for “elucidating
nant) continues to minister in her work as a nurse in Salem, MA. DAVID WERTHEIMER, a deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, accepted the Private Sector Partner of the Year Award from the National Alliance to End Homelessness made to Funders Together to End Homelessness (the national philanthropic sector affinity
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group addressing homelessness), which he serves as board chair and president. After many years in England and Pittsburgh, ENID A. WOOD and Rick now live and work in Central Texas. Enid is in the process of retiring from teaching violin to children and is now teaching painting to adults (and teaching drawing to a 7-year old in Nigeria by Skype). Her paintings have been in shows from coast to coast, including the Pastel Society of America Open Exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City.
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Secretary, Eugene C. McAfee mcafee@post.harvard.edu ROBERT P. BARTLETT now serves as president of a consortium of private liberal arts colleges and universities in Michigan. Says Robert, “With a 5-year-old daughter (I know, a bit late), who someday will be an honors graduate of a Michigan faithbased college (with reduced tuition . . .), I find life both busy and remarkably rewarding.” In June 2012, DEB S. DeMEESTER became a full-time clinical faculty member at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, where she directs both an in-person cohort and online program for an M.A. in public safety and law enforcement leadership. “It is energizing to switch gears and work so closely with such a different community of professionals,” writes Deb. “I absolutely love it!” This fall DEBORAH C. DeWINTER accepted a call to serve as pastor of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poughkeepsie, NY under the Formula of Agreement/Orderly Exchange of Ministers with the United Church of Christ. “After spending the past 20 years ‘on the road’ in various ecumenical settings,” Deborah says, “I am delighted to be back in the parish and able to engage more fully in community life.” SERENE JONES is now in her fifth year as president at Union Theological Seminary in New York, a job she feels blessed to have and thoroughly enjoys, more and more, everyday! Her daughter, Charis, is 16 and, much to Serene’s surprise, a total New Yorker. The highlight of the year for EUGENE C. McAFEE was unquestionably leading a