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The year in Review

Pursuing mission, new and old, as Harry Attridge enters final year as Dean and Capital Campaign concludes. by Gustav Spohn

by Gail Briggs

Honor Roll of Donors and Gifts of Leadership

Partners on the Quad: Reports from ISM anD BDS

The Institute of Sacred Music launches the Congregations Project and Berkeley marks 40 years of collaboration with YDS. by Martin Jean and Joseph Britton

yds by the numbers: annual report Current student body profile, diversity statistics and financial summary.

Faculty Books

Another year’s worth of poignant and scholarly books by Yale Divinity School faculty has hit the shelves. by Micah Luce

Graduating Student Notes

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A SAMPLING OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY ALUMNI

THE CANDY BOWL IS FULL

A message from the Dean of Student Affairs. by Dale Peterson

YDS and the World

Profiles of YDS Alumni living and working around the globe. by Timothy Sommer

Ending Decade as Dean, Harry Attridge looks Back—and Ahead

A Letter from the Academic Dean by Emilie M. Townes

by Ray Waddle

Volume 11 Number 1 Winter 2012 Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Spectrum, a Report to Graduates and Friends of Yale Divinity School, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, is published once per year by the YDS Office of Publications. A monthly report is published online at www.yale.edu/ divinity/notes. All correspondence regarding Spectrum should be addressed to divinity. alumni@yale.edu or at the School’s mailing address. PUBLISHER Harold Attridge, Dean EDITOR Gustav Spohn ’73 M.A.R. DESIGN Jared Gilbert ’12 M.Div. CLASS NOTES EDITOR Joan Javier ’12 M.Div. Cover photo of Dean Harold Attridge by Michael Marsland, University Photographer. Other photos by Hawley Schneider, Reid Huntley ‘61 M.Div., Gustav Spohn ‘73 M.A.R., Sean McAvoy ‘11 M.Div., Joan Javier ‘12 M.Div., Elizabeth Rodrick ‘10 B.A., ‘12 M.A.R., Chloe Starr, Campbell Harmon ‘04 M.A.R., Jared Gilbert ’12 M.Div., Frank Brown, Kristen Forman.

s the time approaches for me to step down after nearly a decade at the decanal helm, I truly appreciate one last opportunity to participate in this annual review of life at YDS. The major events of this year stand in continuity with what has happened here in the 10 years of my deanship. As our roster of publications shows, faculty have continued to provide intellectual leadership in their various fields. Maintaining the strength of our teaching and research is absolutely essential to keeping YDS at the forefront of theological education. More than a dozen new colleagues have joined our ranks in the last decade, and it has been a delight to participate in the process that brought them here. During the past year two new senior staff joined the YDS community: Maggi Dawn, dean of Marquand Chapel, and Lucinda Huffaker, our new director of supervised ministries. Keeping an administrative team strong is one of any dean’s major tasks, and the team in place at YDS is second to none. As always, a new class of students annually renews the life of the school, and this year’s group has been no exception. It is a pleasure to serve them and to be inspired by their commitment and enthusiastic aspirations to provide intellectual and spiritual leadership for the global Church. During the last year we completed our share of the “Yale Tomorrow” development campaign, an effort to provide a firm foundation for future excellence. Through the generosity of our many loyal alumni and friends, with our partners at Berkeley Divinity School, we raised almost $38 million to ensure the future of theological education on the Quad. Enhancing the level of financial aid for our students, the major priority of my deanship, and making significant new faculty appointments will be possible because of the success of this campaign. I am pleased to leave to my successor a superb faculty, a vibrant and complex student body, and a firm financial foundation. The future will no doubt bring new challenges—financial, technical, and spiritual. Controlling the costs of graduate professional education will require the attention of our whole administrative team in the years to come. Adapting to how we acquire knowledge and insight in a rapidly developing digital age is

already something we do daily, but even more rapid transformation lies ahead. Providing a framework for residential theological education at YDS by replacing the Canner Street apartments will be a major priority. All these concerns pale in comparison to the challenge of our fundamental mission: to foster the knowledge and love of God through engage-

LETTER FROM THE DEAN ment with the traditions of the Christian churches. It will take special effort to do so in a secular society where ecclesial communities seem to be in decline and where the religions of the world increasingly interact with us and with each other, sometimes in abrasive ways. The life of Christian commitment has never been without challenges, and the future promises to be no different. During the last decade, a stable and renovated YDS has grown in stature within the University and within the wider world of theological education. This accomplishment has been a team effort, and I am enormously grateful to the support we have received from our many alumni and friends, from our dedicated staff and brilliant faculty, and from our wonderful students. To have played some small part in the story of YDS during these last 10 years has been a source of joy, both for me and for my wife, Jan. The YDS community will soon undergo a period of transition to new administrative leadership. I have every confidence that we will weather that moment well. Jan and I, after a sabbatical on some distant shore, look forward to transitioning back to the ranks of the regular faculty and participating, for as long as God grants us health and energy, in the life of this beloved community of faith and learning. Thanks to one and all who made the last decade possible.

Harold W. Attridge The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament

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The Year in Review P ursuing mission, new and old, as H arry Attridge enters final year as dean and capital campaign boosts resources by $37.4 million By Gustav Spohn, Director of Communications and Publications

n March 1, 2011, as part of a long-range planning process, the Yale Divinity School faculty approved a new mission statement that raises up YDS’s “commitment to social justice.” Just eight days later, on Ash Wednesday, YDS launched a multifaceted anti-poverty initiative, one of the most visible, sustained social justice efforts the Divinity School has undertaken in recent years. The timing of the two was purely coincidental, but their temporal proximity underscored the kind of theory-to-practice dynamic that has long characterized teaching at YDS. [For more on the new mission statement and long-range planning, see the article by Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Emilie Townes on Page 51.] The 40-day “Mobilizing Faith, Fighting Poverty” Lenten campaign, launched at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, issued a “call to arms” of sorts to the religious community, urging renewed commitment to the eradication of poverty.

The event was a model of staff/alumni cooperation. Co-hosting the launch was Washington-based International Relief and Development, headed by YDS alum Arthur B. Keys Jr. ’73 M.Div. Moderating a panel at the gathering was Linda Lader ’08 M.Div. The keynote speaker was U.S. Senator Chris Coons ’92 M.A.R., ‘92 J.D. of Delaware, who had been involved in one of the most closely watched and hotly contested Senate races in the country in 2010. There were over 100 attendees, half of them YDS alums. The anti-poverty challenge raised up on Ash Wednesday reverberated well beyond the Washington beltway. Following the launch event, marketing of the “Mobilizing Faith, Fighting Poverty” campaign continued via the internet. A special YDS “Poverty Teach-In” web site was created for the campaign, as well as a YDSsponsored “Mobilizing Faith, Fighting Poverty” Facebook page. Such outreach beyond the academy has been a hallmark of Dean Harold Attridge’s decade as dean, and as 2011 came to a close students, faculty, and staff were pondering what kind of style his successor might have—in the wake of Attridge’s announcement that he would step down as dean at the conclusion of his second five-year term on June 30, 2012.

ted to Levin, except that all were reputable scholars with administrative experience as well, and all were Protestants. The five-year Divinity Tomorrow capital campaign concluded on June 30, raising a record $37.4 million for numerous initiatives, including financial aid (increasing annual scholarship assistance from $1.6 million to $5.4 million); three endowed faculty chairs; and expansion of the school’s global reach with enhanced support for international students, international exchange programs, and travel opportunities. “The campaign has strengthened the Divinity School and will solidify its place among the world’s great divinity schools,” YDS China Travel Seminar participants said Attridge. “I am very grateful for the presentations were particularly relevant to YDS and its leadership generous support of our alums and friends. Your gifts have proin the midst of the long-range planning process intended to chart vided critical support for the future of YDS in several key areas, the school’s course over the course of the next decade and more. including scholarship aid, endowments for faculty chairs, and programs.” Three faculty members, all relatively recent newcomers to Sterling Of the $37.4 million total, YDS alumni contributed $10.8 million. Another $12 million came from alumni of the University’s other schools, including Yale College; $6.9 million from individuals who are not Yale alumni; $6.5 million from foundations; $122,000 from corporations; and $1.1 million from other organizations. Even as YDS appeared to be weathering the effects of the Recession, the YDS leadership boards continued to ponder questions related to the future of congregations at a time when mainline U.S. Protestantism—the traditional backbone of YDS’s constituency—is in steep decline. Presentations on that subject, with a keynote address by James Nieman of Hartford Seminary, were part of a May 4-6 series of meetings that included joint sessions of four YDS-related leadership boards— the YDS Alumni Board, the YDS Board of Advisors, the Board of Trustees of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and the Board of Advisors of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. The

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Theologian Kathryn Tanner ‘79 B.A., ‘85 Ph.D. was named the Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology, succeeding Thomas Ogletree as Marquand Professor. A proponent of “constructive theology,” her research focuses on how Christian thought might be brought to bear on contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural and feminist theory. A month prior to her being named to the Marquand chair, Tanner was chosen to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 2015-16. Previously, Tanner taught at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Jennifer Herdt is the new Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, succeeding Margaret Farley. Herdt joined YDS after 11 years on the faculty of theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary interests are in early-modern and modern moral thought, classical and contemporary virtue ethics, and contemporary theological ethics and political theology. Mary Clark Moschella now holds the Roger J. Squire Chair in Pastoral Counseling, an endowed chair that was elevated from junior to senior faculty status in 1999. Lee McGee ’69 M.A.R. held the chair from 1987 to 1997. A pastoral theologian accomplished in academe and experienced as a pastor in the United Church of Christ, Moschella came to YDS from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

On Dec. 19, a nine-member search committee for the new dean, led by Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation John Collins, submitted its recommendations to Yale President Richard Levin after sifting through an initial pool of about 100 candidates, winnowing the field down to two principal contenders. Then began a waiting game that was still in progress as Spectrum 2012 went to press. Hopes were high that a new dean would be in place by July 1. Little was revealed publically about the two primary candidates and three others whose names were also submit-

Divinity Quadrangle, were appointed to endowed chairs in 2011.

New staff appointments included Maggi Dawn as associate dean for Marquand Chapel, succeeding Siobhán Garrigan; Lucinda Huffacker, director of supervised ministries, succeeding Barbara Blodgett; and Sean McAvoy ’11 M.A.R., assistant director of admissions, succeeding Melissa Pucci ’04 M.A.R. James Nieman addresses YDS leadership

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During the first week of December 2010, five YDS students travelled to the Dominican Republic with Willis Jenkins, the Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, where they joined 40 Episcopal Church leaders from 10 countries in four days of discussion about the environmental justice impacts of climate change—and the challenges of addressing those impacts.

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Dawn, an accomplished author, musician, and theologian, came to YDS from the University of Cambridge, where she had responsibilities as chaplain at Kings College, then at Robinson College and taught in the Faculty of Divinity. Huffaker previously served as executive secretary of the Religious Education Association and as director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. McAvoy was co-chair of the Senior Class Gift Committee in 2011, for which he designed and implemented a multi-pronged, donor-centric strategy that resulted in a new record for class participation. Journey of the Universe, the sweeping documentary film about the nature of the universe produced by Yale Divinity School Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, a husband-and-wife team, was shown on scores of PBS stations in virtually every corner of the country during December. The 55-minute film is designed to inspire a new and closer relationship with Earth in a period of growing environmental and social crisis. As usual, YDS students had a busy year, punctuated by trips to China, Egypt, Tanzania, and the Dominican Republic. From May 6-19, 14 YDS students were in China on a travel seminar, accompanied by Assistant Professor of Asian Theology Chloë Starr and Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Anna Ramirez. They visited seminaries, rural and urban churches, Confucian temples, and mosques, in addition to famous sites such as the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Tomb of Genghis Khan.

The turmoil in Egypt forced an abrupt end to a trip that would have inaugurated a pioneering initiative between YDS and AlAzhar University in Cairo. Under the supervision of Joseph Cumming, director of the Divinity School’s Reconciliation Program on Christian-Muslim relations, seven YDS students arrived in Cairo on Jan. 26—ready to begin a semester-long course of study at AlAzhar in Arabic and Islamic thought. But by Feb. 1 the students were on a plane bound for Amsterdam, and on Feb. 4 they were safely back in New Haven.

Over 300 alumni and spouses, faculty, staff and others took part in Convocation and Reunions 2011, which featured several creative new elements—including reunions for “interest groups” like the Sacramental Winers, who celebrated their twentieth reunion, and the Ultimate Divinity Frisbee team; special lectures by YDS faculty; and reunion gatherings for recently graduated alumni. Combined with ever-popular fare such as the Beecher, Kavanagh and Pitt lectures, inspirational preaching, and alumni award celebrations, these new elements helped ensure that the Oct. 10-12 gathering had something for everyone.

The Tanzania trip, entitled “Catalysts for Social Change: The Quest for Social Justice through Music, Theatre, and Liberation Theologies,” was a collaborative effort between YDS and the Yale School of Drama. Eight students and three faculty members from YDS and Drama spent a preparatory week in New Haven, followed by a month in Tanzania in July. Through discussions with religious leaders, ethno-music historians, storytellers, poets, and public health administrators, students investigated the issues of marginalized communities.

Delivering the Beechers was Brian Blount, president of Union Presbyterian Seminary, on the subject Invasion of the Dead: Preaching Resurrection through the lens of Apocalyptic Eschatology.

The Yale Divinity School LGBTQ Coalition produced and released a short film featuring nine students telling their own stories of how, over time, life gets better for them as LGBTQ persons. The project was part of a global campaign by ItGetsBetter.org to reach out to queer youth who experience bullying or may be considering suicide. Long before the end of 2011, the film had gotten in excess of 16,000 “hits” on YouTube.

Tony Jarvis, director of the Educational Leadership and Ministry Program at Berkeley Divinity School, delivered the BDS Pitt Lecture on the subject The Worst of Times, The Best of Times.

Two student groups on divergent sides of the abortion issue now have official club status on Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. After the Community Life Committee (CLC) officially recognized the YDS Right to Life Fellowship (RTLF), making it the first officially recognized abortion-centric group on campus, Seminarians for Reproductive justice (SRJ) also applied for official club status, which was granted just a few months later. In a divisive sociopolitical-religious climate, the two groups hope a commitment to authentic humility can provide a foundation for fruitful dialogue. The YDS Ultimate Frisbee team offered up a resounding response to a challenge thrown down by Harvard Divinity School with a stunning 15-11 victory in April against their HDS counterparts. Following the contest, Peter Panagore ’86 M.Div., a co-founder three decades earlier of YDS’s original Ultimate Frisbee team, “Ultimate Divinity,” arranged to have official shirts made for the team, the back emblazoned with a quote from late Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Lansing R. Hicks.

Beecher Lecturer Brian Blount

and the Julia A. Archibald High Scholarship Prize. A total of 130 students walked up the Marquand Chapel steps to receive their diplomas. The class presented YDS with an Annual Fund check of $10,356, representing a record 72 percent participation rate for a graduating class gift.

At Commencement in May, Vernice (Hopie) Randall and Robert Holden, both students in the M.Div. program, received YDS’s top prizes for graduating students—respectively, the Henry Hallam Tweedy Prize for exceptional promise in pastoral leadership

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Don Saliers ’62 B.D., ’67 Ph.D., the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theology and Worship at the Candler School of Theology, gave the Institute of Sacred Music’s Kavanagh Lecture on The Failure of Language: Liturgy in a Time of Excess.

Faculty members who addressed alumni included Miroslav Volf, director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, who discussed his new book, Allah: a Christian Response; Willis Jenkins, the Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, who spoke about climate change as ethical challenge; and Robert Wilson, the Hoober Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Old Testament, who reflected on the life and legacy of Old Testament scholar Brevard Childs. Graduates honored with alumni awards included: Evalyn Wakusama ’01 M.Div., ’02 S.T.M., who founded a school in Kenya for children who are orphans or who have been affected by the AIDS crisis (Lux et Veritas Award); Barbara Rossing ’81 M.Div., professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Distinction in Theological Education); Otis Moss III ’95 M.Div., pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago (Distinction in Congregational Ministry); and Christopher Doucot ’08 M.A.R., founder and leader of St. Martin de Pores Catholic Worker House in Hartford, CT. (William Sloane Coffin ’56 Award for Peace and Justice).

Michael Norko addresses same-sex marriage conference

In addition, a special award, the first-ever Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service, was presented to Fred Brooks ’61 M.Div., who since 2008 has served as secretary for the Class of ’61, led his class’s 50th Reunion Planning Committee, served as YDS delegate to the Association of Yale Alumni, and has been instrumental in recruiting outstanding students to YDS. Just 10 days after Convocation and Reunions, YDS hosted the conference “Same-Sex Marriage and the Catholic Church: Voices from Law, Religion, and the Pews,” which brought to Marquand Chapel academics and activists, lawyers and parish workers, clergy and laity to examine Roman Catholic teaching on sexual diversity. Among the principal organizers of the conference were Michael Norko ’10 M.A.R., associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of New Testament Diana Swancutt, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Emilie Townes, and Professor Emerita Margaret Farley. Nine YDS alumni were among 149 clergy from around the country selected for the 2010 class of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s National Clergy Renewal Program, which provides Christian congregations with grants of up to $50,000 to support extended periods of intentional reflection and renewal for ministers. In the Nov. 2 elections, three Yale Divinity School alumni prevailed in Congressional contests. In a race that was prominent nationally, Chris Coons ’92 M.A.R., ’92 J.D. won the Delaware Senate seat formerly held by Vice President Joseph Biden. In the House of Representatives, YDS winners were David Price ’64 B.D., ’69 Ph.D. a longtime Congressman representing North Carolina’s 4th District, and Lois Capps ’64 M.A.R., who has represented California’s 23rd District for more than a decade.

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The ISM Congregations P roject: A Highlight of 2011

In the spirit of the ISM’s mission (and following the time-honored Yale tradition) to train leaders to be leaders, parishes

Martin Jean with Msgr. Torgerson, St. Monica Catholic Community, Santa Monica, CA.

from around the country were selected for this weeklong summer seminar based on their proposed projects employing worship, music, and the arts to effect change extending beyond their own parishes into their cities and regions. Some of the projects were works-in-progress; others were first conceived during the application process.

Ted Gibboney, director of music and organist at Idlewild Presbyterian Church, Memphis with faculty member James Abbington, Emory University.

ISM and YDS student Matt Cortese ’12 M.A.R., a liturgical studies concentrate, served as roving reporter during this week and made the following initial observations about the initiative. His full account will appear in the ISM newsletter Prism, but for now we hope his thoughts will inspire you to visit the Congregations Project website to learn more about this new ISM endeavor.

Lucas Grubbs ’07, St. Michaels Cathedral, Boise, faculty member Dorothy Bass, Valparaiso, Benjamin Stewart, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago.

Berkeley and Yale Divinity Schools M ark 40 Years of Mutual Collaboration by Joseph Britton, Dean, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale

he 2011 alumni Convocation marked the 40th anniversary of the full affiliation between Berkeley and Yale Divinity Schools. First established by Deans Michael Allen (BDS) and Colin Williams (YDS) in 1971, the relationship has over the years strengthened each of the two schools by making full advantage of their respective strengths in service of a joint mission “to foster the knowledge and love of God.” Dean Michael Allen came to BDS in 1970, called by the trustees in a time of financial crisis to “close the school without incident,” or if possible, to find an alternative means for its continuation. Dean Allen recalls that Yale Divinity School was also facing challenges at the time: its program of profes8

about a quarter to a third of the total number of each entering class. BDS also funds three professorships (patristics, liturgy, and pastoral theology), each of which represents one of the core disciplines in the curriculum. Moreover, BDS has taken a lead in developing the emerging joint degree program with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, having secured a pledge toward the establishment of a new senior faculty chair in religion and environSince the inauguration of affiliation, the mental stewardship. contributions of each of the two partners have continued to enrich one another. In addition, BDS brings to YDS some $8 Berkeley’s status as a seminary of the Epis- million in endowments to support financopal Church, for example, has consistently cial aid. Combined with other Episcopal helped to attract a critical mass of talented sources, this scholarship aid amounts to students to YDS, especially in the M.Div. about $770,000 annually. BDS also funds program, where Episcopalians are usually the Mulford Internships in Urban Ministry

sional formation was under scrutiny and needed more focused attention. As envisioned by the affiliation agreement, in the new partnership Berkeley would bring its strengths in preparing students for ministry in the church, while Yale would contribute the rigors of its superior academic instruction. The result would be a uniquely dynamic combination of academic and professional formation.

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ground had been won, some Christian zeal shared across geographical, generational, and denominational lines. I left that lunch table feeling more known, with a deeper sense of Christian solidarity.

There are few lunchtime conversations that effortlessly turn to the choice of hymns for one’s own funeral. Yet midway through the Yale Institute of Sacred Music Summer Seminar, the cornerstone event of its Congregations Project, there occurred just such a conversation as I found myself humming for a Lutheran music minister from Chicago the songs I’d chosen for my Resurrection Mass. Your average person—even your average Christian!—might find this topic unpalatable, disturbing, even worrisome from a healthy 24-year-old graduate student. My companion, however, did not bat an eyelash; indeed, she was equally eager to share her own Order of Service. Over a plate of skewered chicken, we contemplated our own liturgical eschatology, and I couldn’t help but feel that some common

While considering how best to share the Congregations Project Summer Seminar experience, the text of that funeral tune I hummed for my Lutheran friend that day has kept running through my mind. The song lifts its lyrics from Psalm 27:

by Matt Cortese ’12 M.A.R.

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mong the many concerts, conferences, readings, and projects hosted this past year by the Institute of Sacred Music was a brand new initiative: the Congregations Project in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts.

God’s House: A n Introductory R eflection on the Congregations Project Summer Seminar

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One thing I ask, this alone I seek, to dwell in the house of the Lord all my days. For one day within your Temple heals every day alone; O Lord, bring me to your dwelling! God’s dwelling—The House of the Lord. From their earliest days, Christians have used household and dwelling language, borrowed both from descriptions of the Jerusalem Temple and of the Roman paterfamilias, to describe the experience of Christian community, liturgy, and eschatology. John 14:2 comes to mind

immediately: “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?” The Congregations Project theme in 2011 was “Worshiping God in this Place.” Participants—both the congregations and the faculty—in the Summer Seminar experienced the church’s spaciousness, its embodiment in multiple local parishes with varied social and theological commitments. God has indeed prepared many rooms! Yet the participants equally experienced a unity of purpose, a harmony of hearts at prayer, a shared commitment to the Gospel. It was a privilege to be present with the seven lively and engaged congregations selected to gather at Yale this past June to pray together, hear lectures, speak with one another, and share their current projects in worship, music, and the arts. For a fuller reflection and more information on the congregations project, including a list of congregations and faculty, visit www.yale.edu/ism/congregations/.

And in the spring of 2012, BDS will focus its leadership colloquium on youth ministry, with an invitation to all YDS students and alumni to participate.

mitments that are represented by its faculty and students; yet within this mix, the presence of an entity such as Berkeley that exerts a self-conscious pull toward the ecclesial reality of the global church is a benefit to the whole school’s longstanding commitIn turn, YDS offers Anglican stu- ment “to know God more truly.” dents an opportunity to pursue the most academically rigorous, ecumenically diverse, and globally engaged formation for ministry available in the Episcopal Church. Indeed, the extraordinary Bishop Duleep De Chickera of Sri Lanka celebrates the Wednesday evening resources available to students Community Eucharist, according to the rite of the Church of South India. through Yale University serve to in the YDS Supervised Ministries program. ground their seminary education It likewise offers opportunities for spiritual with an intellectual depth and educational formation to all YDS students through the richness that can only be found in a univerAnnand Program, with mentors drawn sity environment. from a variety of denominational and religious backgrounds. Most recently, BDS Perhaps Berkeley’s most important contrilaunched the Educational Leadership and bution, however, is the consistent concern Ministry Program to encourage and train for the ministry of the church within the students from all denominations for voca- catholic tradition to which it bears witness tions in school and college chaplaincy. The within the larger life of the divinity school, Wednesday evening Eucharist in Marquand exemplified by the steady stream of guests Chapel, followed by dinner at Berkeley Cen- Berkeley brings to campus from around the ter, now acts as a cornerstone of fellowship world. One of the great strengths of YDS is throughout the divinity school community. the variety of vocational and academic comDinner at Berkeley Center for the YDS community.

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s the following statistics indicate, YDS continues to be a vibrant intellectual community, composed of students from a wide variety of religious traditions. Graduates use their theological education in a diverse array of settings including pastoral ministry, social service, and education. The ďŹ nancial condition of the school remains healthy, due in large measure to the generosity of our alumni and friends of theological education. We continue to meet our goals as a self-support school within Yale.

Financial R eport Revenues and other support

Investment income Tuition and fees Contributions (current use) Grants and contracts Auxiliary enterprises (includes room revenue) Other sources

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL STUDENT PROFILE, 2011-12 Gr aduates by progr am, M ay 2011 M.Div. 56 M.A.R. 65 S.T.M. 7 Total 128

Student diversity Black Non-Hispanic 34 Asian or Pacific Islander 12 Hispanic/Latino 11 Multi-Ethnic 6 White Non-Hispanic 278

E nrollment by P rogr am and Gender Women Men M.Div. 110 88 M.A.R. 79 84 S.T.M. 12 9 Non-Degree 14 11 Total 215 192

E nrollment by A ge Under 25 111 25-29 145 30-34 40 35-39 23 40-49 30 Over 50 38

I nternational Students Austria 1 Bahamas 1 Brazil 2 Canada 7 China 2 Denmark 3 Egypt 1 Finland 1 Germany 3 Ghana 1 Hong Kong 1 Korea, South 17 Norway 1 Philippines 2 Poland 1 South Africa 1 Turkey 1 United Kingdom 6 Venezuela 1

A dmissions and Yield Fall 2011 M.Div. M.A.R. S.T.M. TOTAL Admit 40% 42% 28% 40% Yield 49% 56% 73% 54%

Total revenues and other support

M ajor Faith Tr aditions R epresented A.M.E. 4 Anglican 11 Assemblies of God 1 Baptist 18 Baptist, American 5 Baptist, National 2 Baptist, Southern 4 Buddhist 2 Church of God 1 Church of God in Christ 2 Churches of Christ 1 Congregational (not UCC) 1 Disciples of Christ 6 Episcopal 99 Evangelical 6 Hindu 1 Interdenominational 15 Jewish 5 Jewish, Reformed 1 Latter Day Saints 4 Lutheran 6 Lutheran, Evangelical (ELCA) 22 Lutheran, Missouri Synod 3 Mennonite 5 Methodist, Korean 3 Methodist, United 20 Muslim 3 Other 18 Pentecostal 6 Presbyterian (non-US) 6 Presbyterian, PCA 6 Presbyterian, USA 15 Quaker 1 Roman Catholic 44 Unitarian 2 United Church of Christ 19 Vineyard Christian Fellowship 2 Faith affiliations represented 37

$ 14,899,851 $ 7,105,726 $ 713,338 $ 878,384 $ 1,438,178 $ 511,856

58.32% 27.81% 2.79% 3.44% 5.63% 2.00%

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Expenditures Instruction Scholarships and fellowships Academic support Institutional support Operation and maintenance of plant Library Research Auxiliary enterprises Admissions Student services

Total expenditures Capital maintenance and operating reserves

$ 6,275,590 $ 5,077,000 $ 4,195,335 $ 4,083,786 $ 3,232,185 $ 1,307,542 $ 878,384 $ 691,711 $ 398,770 $ 406,394

23.64% 19.12% 15.80% 15.38% 12.18% 4.93% 3.31% 2.61% 1.50% 1.53%

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Gifts (for current operations) Student financial aid Other restricted Total restricted Unrestricted

$ 431,310 11.56% $ 232,134 6.22% $ 663,444 $ 340,275 9.12%

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et another year’s worth of poignant and scholarly books by Yale Divinity School faculty has hit the shelves at the Yale Divinity School Student Book Supply—a testament to the scholarship of professors writing furiously behind the scenes even as they take up the challenge of classroom teaching. by Micah Luce ’07 M.A.R., ’08 S.T.M., Manager, Student Book Supply

HAROLD ATTRIDGE, The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School & Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, has provided perhaps his final book while serving as dean of YDS, and it is no disappointment. Focused on two Christian masterpieces, his Essays on John and Hebrews (Mohr Siebeck, Feb 2011) places both biblical books in their religious and cultural contexts. With essays as varied as his chapter on ‘genre-bending’ in the Gospel of John, a feminist discussion of scholarship on Mary Magdalene, and the discussion of the use of Psalms in the New Testament, Attridge lays out fresh and captivating insights concerning the histories, rhetoric, and communities of John and Hebrews. Assistant Professor of Old Testament JOEL BADEN’s second book, Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis (Yale University Press, April 2012), is due for release in early April. While amending a centuries-old discussion of Hebrew Bible scholarship with some thorough and original research of his own, Baden spends his pages wisely, not only introducing the history of the debate, but also highlighting current trends and arguing convincingly for a practical new approach to help the reader understand how the redaction of the Bible’s first five books may have occurred. Leading God’s People: Wisdom from the Early Church for Today (Wil-

liam B. Eerdmans, March 2012), by Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics CHRISTOPHER BEELEY, takes an ancient topic and applies it to pastors and leaders in ways relevant for today. With the integrity of one who has personal experience in serving the church and educating future ministers, Beeley speaks to ministers and scholars alike. Touching on issues ranging from scripture to history, service, pastoral care, the sacraments, and more, this book is extensive in its scope without losing sight of the details that can help readers become more effective ministers, students, or church members. With Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History: Lifting a Veil on Liturgy’s Past (Ashgate, July 2011) by Professor of Liturgical Studies TERESA BERGER, we get an uncommon and valuable view of liturgy’s past through the viewpoint of gender history. The three sections—“Gendering Liturgy’s Past,” “Tracing Gender in Liturgy’s Past,” and “Gender, History, and Liturgical Tradition”—include not only the binary of male and female in her studies, but also give voice to the inter-sexed and non-sexed. This book is exceptional because it supplements the investigation of established issues in liturgical history with questions uniquely raised through a gender-sensitive lens. One of the newest members of the faculty is already-popular Associate Dean for Marquand Chapel MAGGI DAWN. Her new-

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est book, The Accidental Pilgrim (Hodder and Stoughton, Sept 2011), is beautifully written, highly accessible, and deeply insightful. Through personal references that are both transparent and honest, Dawn writes about ideas of pilgrimage ancient and modern while challenging the reader to rediscover this spiritual discipline. Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling M. JAN HOLTON makes her authorial debut with Building the Resilient Community: Lessons from the Lost Boys of Sudan (Wipf and Stock, Dec 2010). With her ethnographic and pastoral study focused on the Kakuma Refugee Camp and other groups, Holton encourages us to take a look away from our comfortable Western world to learn from a group of refugees far removed from our everyday realm of existence. By giving room to otherwise silenced voices, Holton offers a new and moving experience more important than many may have imagined. KENNETH P. MINKEMA, executive editor of the Jonathan Edwards Center, displays his mastery of Edwards once again in Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: A Casebook (Yale University Press, April 2010). A text designed for classroom use, this volume places the sermon in its original context while also providing applications for the modern reader. Through his elucidation of the original text of Edwards’s sermon (which is included in the book), along with questions for discussion and a helpful chronology of Edwards’s life, Minkema provides a resource not only for teachers and students in the classroom but also for general readers who simply want to understand more about one of the greatest American theologians. A book relevant for consideration in relation to the occupying Wall Street movement is Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise (Thomas Nelson, March 2011) by senior research scholar at the Center for Faith and Culture THEODORE ROOSEVELT MALLOCH. Malloch states that businesses that operate from specific ethical models of integrity not only equal but outperform their less thoughtful competitors. The author explains how a virtuous business that creates wealth is the most important contribution a group can give to society. Through the case studies and statistics in this book, Malloch gives the reader

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something to consider before condemning all big business as an evil. YDS newcomer and Lector in Biblical Hebrew ERIC D. REYMOND’s most recent title is New Idioms within Old: Poetry and Parallelism in the Non-Masoretic Poems of 11Q 5 (Society of Biblical Literature, March 2011). Covering the seven nonMasoretic poems of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the 11Q 5 name, Reymond provides a strong contribution to Second Temple period scholarship by considering how these poems inform and enlighten the field as a whole. In devoting a chapter to each poem, his study of grammar, syntax, problems, and relation to Hebrew scripture as a whole is nuanced and well-researched. A title that is a strong part of the James E. Annand Program for Spiritual Formation at Berkeley Divinity School is from Professor in the Practice of Spirituality and Ministerial Leadership JANET K. RUFFING. To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative (Paulist Press, March 2011) capitalizes on the human experience of sharing and hearing each other’s stories as a way of providing pastoral and personal direction. In discussing six past expressions of spiritual direction such as the desert fathers and Vatican II, Ruffing provides historical examples from which her readers can learn and recognize the mystery in their own spiritual journeys. Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures CAROLYN SHARP has edited Walter Brueggemann’s Disruptive Grace: Ref lections on God, Scripture, and the Church (Augsburg Fortress, Jan 2011). She provides introductions to each section of the book— one Hebrew Bible scholar writing about the work of another. Beginning with a discussion of Brueggemann’s theology in the introduction, Sharp then succinctly and helpfully describes his work on the Torah, Prophets, and the Writings in the three successive parts of the book. Sharp succeeds in helping readers glimpse important facets of Brueggemann’s scholarship. Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology BRYAN SPINKS’s book The Worship Mall: Contemporary Responses to Contemporary Culture (Church Publishing, Feb 2011) examines the multiplicity of worship 13

expressions among a postmodern generation. With a culture that provides nearly endless entertainment options, worshippers have come to expect much of the same from their churches. Spinks addresses hip hop, alternative rock music, the praise and worship movement, African masses, U2, Celtic worship, and others, providing a helpful cross section of the options available to worship-seekers. Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (Westminster John Knox, Oct 2011) is the most recent title edited by Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology EMILIE M. TOWNES. It is a part of Westminster John Knox Press’s highly successful Library of Theological Ethics. Combining previous and new essays from nine different African American women, the book includes theological work that provides insights from voices crucial to education and work in Christian scholarship for both today and the future. If any single book from this year’s crop most vividly reflects the character of its authors in the classroom, it just may be J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication THOMAS H TROEGER’s book Sermon Sparks: 122 Ideas to Ignite Your Preaching (Abingdon Press, Nov 2011). Organized, thoughtful, pastoral, and pertinent, Troeger’s newest book is structured around the threeyear lectionary cycles, giving the reader a hands-on approach to thinking creatively in the pulpit. With each “idea” confined to a two-page reflection, this book gives the reader simple and novel ways of improving one’s preaching without demand for a complete change in homiletical style. Journey of the Universe (Yale University Press, June 2011) was cowritten by Senior Research Scholar MARY EVELYN TUCKER. Starting with the “Beginning of the Universe” (the title of chapter 1), in language often poetic and creative, the book explores mysteries that continue to intrigue despite vast amounts of scientific knowledge about creation and evolution. Rather than pitting science and faith against each other, the authors have gracefully entwined the ideas of scientists and believers, East and West, developed and indigenous nations, past and present. A companion film to the book, bearing the same name, was featured in public television broadcasts across the country in December. For DENYS TURNER, Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology, Julian of Norwich deserves a place among the most important minds in the Medieval 14

Church. He strongly argues for this in Julian of Norwich, Theologian (Yale University Press, April 2011), one of the top sellers in the Student Book Supply in the past year. By looking at Julian’s account of her mystical encounter with God as well as her written reflections on this occurrence a couple of decades later, Turner beautifully balances Julian’s experience with her theological maturation. More than simply a biography, this book provides an accessible yet complex look at a woman who deserves to be studied, understood, and admired. The top-selling faculty title at the Student Book Supply from the past year is Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology MIROSLAV VOLF’s volume Allah: A Christian Response (Harpercollins, Feb 2011). The response that Volf calls for is one of new understanding and thoughtfulness. Volf unashamedly speaks from a Christian perspective while interacting with Muslim scholars to elucidate points of contact between the faiths. Whether cooperation is to be found religiously, politically, or socially, Volf urges that these religions need to work together in all of the complex facets of two of the world’s largest faith-groups. The belief that “Allah” and “God” are truly one and the same is the basis of his argument, and any careful Christian consideration of this claim would be lacking without reference to Volf’s book. With a focus that is more narrowly Christian, Volf’s second recent book is A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (Baker Books, Aug 2011). If Allah is his cry for Christians and Muslims to work together, this book is Volf’s encouragement for Christians in particular to relate well not only to other faiths but also to culture as a whole. Volf spends the first part of his book showing how Christianity has publicly “malfunctioned” in its past and present by failing to live up to its own standards. Then he calls for the reader to think of ways of countering these malfunctions in order to “live well in the world” in a way that includes many religions and ideologies under a single roof.

Photos, clockwise from top left: Enjoying a quiet moment on the Quad; Friends on the Marquand steps; voices raised in song in Marquand Chapel led by Emily Scott ’07 M.Div.; The Theodicy Jazz Collective, led by Andy

Barnett, ’12 M.Div., provided dinner music; 2005, 2006, 2007 Cluster reunion group at dinner; Lux et Veritas Award recipient Evalyn Wakhusama ’01 M.Div. and spouse, Samuel, at Awards Dinner

nder sunny skies and temperatures in the high 70s, hundreds of alumni and friends joined us on campus for Convocation & Reunions 2011. They came from Maine to California and as far away as Ireland and Nairobi, Kenya. They revisited their favorite spots on the Quad, enjoyed worship in Marquand, and

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All of the above books may be purchased at the Yale Divinity School Student Book Supply by calling 203-432-6101 or visiting divinity.yale.edu/sbs-main

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Photos, clockwise from top left: Faculty procession to Opening Convocation; Marquand Chapel entry; Class of ’61 reunion luncheon; Registration; Alumni-Student ultimate Frisbee match organized by Peter Panagore ’86 M.Div.; A warm introduction of Otis Moss III ’95 M.Div. by Dean Emilie Townes

Read more about Convocation and Reunions 2011 in “Year in Review,’ page 2.

connected with friends old and new over dinner in the Old Refectory. Longtime traditions held as junior faculty through emeriti processed into Marquand for the Opening Convocation, and were a warm presence on campus each day. Outstanding speakers and preachers lifted spirits with inspiring talks and sermons, and many students were on hand to offer their own special welcome.

Photos, clockwise from top left: 20th anniversary concert of Sacramental Winers; Bishop Laura Ahrens ’91 M.Div.; At Opening Convocation; Worship in Marquand Chapel; Professor Nora Tubbs Tisdale and Professor Yolanda Smith

We celebrated a milestone 50th Reunion with the Class of 1961 and introduced recent graduates (fewer than five years out) to their first reunion. Alumni took time to play and enjoyed a game of ultimate Frisbee with

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Honor Roll of Donors Photos, clockwise from top left: Professor Miroslav Volf on “Allah: A Christian Response”; Professor Willis Jenkins on “Climate Change and the Future of Christianity”; Beecher Lecturer Brian K. Blount with spouse Sharon in the Sarah Smith Gallery. Alumni dinner in the Old Refectory; Presentation of $75,000 check by Jim Waits to Dean Attridge from the Class of 1961 at their 50th Reunion; singing a favorite hymn in Marquand; Roving photographer, Reid Huntley ’61 M.Div., who provided many photos featured in this collection.

t is with great appreciation that we present the 2010-2011 Honor Roll of Donors. The donors listed herein have generously contributed in support of the students and programs at Yale Divinity School. The following pages record the names of Yale alumni and friends who made a gift, pledge payment, or new pledge of $250 or more credited to the 2010-2011 ﬁscal year. We also include recognition of the congregations, corporations and foundations that provided support to YDS.

YDS’s winning team, and everyone gathered for an anniversary concert by the Sacramental Winers. Time and again, alumni and friends, young and old, said, “It’s good to be back.”

Marquand Society $5,000 or more Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Mrs. Bradford E. Ableson Bernhard W. Anderson ’45 Div., ’45 Ph.D. * Carl T. and Betsy Neville Anderson ’97 M.Div. +#

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Henry Harman Edens III ’96 M.Div. #

Alonzo L. McDonald

Arthur R. Eikamp ’47 B.D. +

Philip F. McKean ’61 B.D. +

Janet and Ronald T. Evans ’70 B.D. +

Debbie McLeod Sears ’09 M.Div. +

Marion M. Gilbert ’03 L.H.D. #

Christine T. McSpadden ’95 M.Div. #

Jean McCarthy Graustein ’95 M.Div.

Andrew C. Mead ’71 B.D. +#

Brendan Griswold #*

Peter Corbin Moister ’95 M.A.R. +

G. William Haas ’71 B.A. #

William Owen Murphy ’96 M.Div. +

Frances Hall Kieschnick ’75 B.A.

Carol Pinkham ‘85 M.Div. and Jeffrey C. Oak ’85 M.Div., ‘86 S.T.M., ‘93 M.A., ‘95 M.Phil., ‘96 Ph.D. #

Harold W. and Jan Attridge

F. Lane Heard III ‘73 B.A., ‘78 J.D. and Margaret Ann Bauer ’86 B.A. #

George Bauer

Robin R. Henry #

J. Scott Pidcock ’82 M.A.R. +

Alan F. Blanchard ’61 B.A. #

Geoffrey M. Hoare ’82 S.T.M. +#

John F. Piper, Jr. ’61 B.D. +

John R. and Lynne M. Bolton

Eva F. ’61 M.A.T. and Peter C. Hodgson ‘59 B.D., ‘60 M.A., ‘63 Ph.D. +

Nicholas Tewkesbury Porter ‘86 B.A., ‘94 M.Div. #

John H. Branson III ’74 M.Div. # Joseph H. and Karla Britton #

Brenda G. Husson #

Deborah and Charles M. Royce #

Fred R. Brooks, Jr. ’61 M.Div. +

G. Hartwell Hylton #

David Segel ’86 B.A.

Kyoji Buma ‘54 B.D., ‘55 S.T.M. *

Kenneth L. Jacobs ‘76 S.T.M. +

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Steven E. Bush and Peggie Ann Findlay #

F. Washington Jarvis #

Frederick James Sievert ’11 M.A.R.

Marjorie R. Calvert

Kenneth S. Jones ‘51 M.Div. +

Alexander H. Slaughter ’60 B.A.

Samuel Glenn Candler ’82 M.Div. +#

Paul Tudor Jones II #

Murry and Dawn Marie Stegelmann ’08 M.Div. +#

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Joe R.Jones ‘61 B.D., ‘63 M.A., ‘70 Ph.D. +

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Stuart R. and Angela Webb Kensinger ’86 B.A. #

Clyde Cebron Tuggle ’88 M.Div.

Jack Lowell Clark ‘59 Div, ‘59 M.A., ‘62 Ph.D. *

Philip and Linda L. Lader ’08 M.Div. +

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Samuel W. Croll III ’75 M.A.R.

Patrick J. Landers ‘81 M.P.P.M.

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Ann and Thomas E. Dewey, Jr. #

Rebecca Peace Lenn ’10 M.A.R. +

James L. Waits ’61 B.D.

James K. Donnell ’58 B.D. +

D. Jeffrey Lenn ’69 S.T.M. +

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David R. Wilson #

+ Consecutive giving for last 10 years (or since graduation, whichever is shorter) # All or a portion of the donor’s giving was to Berkeley Divinity School at Yale * Deceased

Donor Recognition Levels Marquand Society $5,000 or more Edwards Circle $2,500–$4,999 Beecher Benefactors $1,000–$2,499 Bushnell Sponsors $500–$999 Stuart Associates $250–$499

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Lawrence T. Young ’62 B.D. +

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William Burton and Judith Kleinhans Holding ‘08 M.A.R.+#

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Kimberly Hornung-Marcy ‘80 M.Div. +

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Howard C. Benson ‘53 S.T.M.

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John and Julie C. Potter

Elizabeth Dibble Allen ‘78 B.A., ‘87 M.Div. +

Rhonda and William West Grant ‘54 B.A. #

David E. Price ‘64 B.D., ‘66 M.A., ‘69 Ph.D. +

Robeert M. Alves # Anne Stilson Alvord ‘94 M.Div. +

Kathryn Emily Greene-McCreight ‘88 M.Div., ‘89 S.T.M., ‘91 M.A., ‘92 M.Phil., ‘94 Ph.D. +#

Mrs. James E. Annand #

Mary H. Griffin #

Jeffrey P. ‘88 M.Div. and Lynn Eastman Rider ’89 M.Div.

Talitha J. Arnold ‘80 M.Div. +

Warren F. Groff ‘52 B.D., ‘55 Ph.D. +

Walter S. Robbins ‘51 B.A. #

Michael Anthony Baal ‘82 M.Div. +

John Daniel Groff ‘43 B.D.

Jeffery W. Rowthorn ’87 D.D.#

William R. Baird, Jr. ‘50 B.D., ‘52 M.A., ‘55 Ph.D. +

Daniel R. Heischman ‘76 S.T.M. #

Karen Free Royce #

Verlyn L. Barker ‘56 B.D., ‘60 S.T.M. +

Paul R. Hetrich ‘60 M.Div. +

John A. Russell, Jr.’53 B.D., ‘58 S.T.M.

A. Ralph Barlow, Jr. ‘59 B.D., ‘64 S.T.M. +

Matthew F. Heyd ‘95 M.A.R. #

Westina Matthews Shatteen #

Beth L. and Bennett H. Barnes, Jr. ’58 S.T.B., ‘94 D.D. #

Philip Bonner Hill *

Hallam C. Shorrock, Jr. ‘52 M.Div. +

Randolph Marshall Hollerith ‘90 M.Div. #

Robert F. Sieck ‘66 B.D.

Stephen P. Bauman ‘79 M.Div. +

Heather Steele Hopkins ‘92 M.Div. +

Walter Smedley IV ‘02 M.Div. #

William N. Beachy ’56 S.T.D. #

Joseph C. Hough, Jr. ‘59 B.D., ‘64 M.A., ‘65 Ph.D.

David H. Smith ‘64 B.D.

Ann M. Beams ‘80 M.Div., ‘91 S.T.M. +

Virginia and Mateo C. Jaramillo ‘04 M.A.R.

Harold Edwin Snow ‘77 M.Div.

John T. Bertsch ‘59 B.D. +

Thomas M. Johnston, Jr. ‘59 M.Div. +

Lynda Ivey Bigler ‘07 M.Div. +

Bethany and Russel Jones

Andrew A. Sorensen ‘62 B.D., ‘69 M.Phil., ‘71 Ph.D. *

Laurie Bilger

William A. Jones, Jr. ‘51 B.D. +

Robert M. Brashares ‘52 M.Div. +

Boardman Wright Kathan ‘56 B.D. +

Althea Marshall Brooks ‘01 M.Div.

Edward Hamilton Kicklighter ‘51 B.D. +

Raymond F. Brown ‘86 M.Div. #

Nominee M. Kim ‘08 S.T.M.

L. Eugene Brown ‘48 B.D. +

Kenneth H. Kindig ‘54 B.D. +

Katherine S. Bryant ‘06 M.Div.

Jerald L. Kirkpatrick ‘70 B.D.

Alice J. ‘49 B.D. and John Mc Elroy Byers ‘49 B.D. +

John Preston Kohl ‘67 M.Div.

Julie E. Calhoun-Bryant ‘88 M.Div. +#

Elizabeth M. Krentz-Wee ‘84 M.Div.

Peter J.B. Carman ‘85 M.Div. +

J. Kenneth Kuntz ‘59 B.D. +

Mark R. Clevenger ‘86 M.Div. #

Peter C. Laarman ‘73 Div, ‘93 M.Div.

Dane Andrew Collins ‘07 B.A., ‘10 M.Div.

Richard L. Lancaster ‘49 B.D. +

Martin Copenhaver ‘80 M.Div. +

Harold T. Lewis ’71 M.Div., ‘91 L.H.D.#

Joel Robert Cornwell ‘78 M.Div.

William W. Lindeman ‘72 M.Div.

Calvin E. Ratcliff ‘89 M.A.R. +

Linda M. Spiers ‘00 M.Div. +# E. Bevan Stanley ‘74 B.A., ‘83 M.Div. +# Virginia W. Stowe Elizabeth L. Strawn ‘04 M.A.R. + Kah T. Tan ‘99 M.A.R. Richard E. Tappan ‘53 B.D. + Judith and Robert E. Taylor ’69 M.Div.# Clayton L. Thomason ‘90 Div. # Deanna A. Thompson ‘92 M.A.R. + David Graham Thornton ‘66 B.D. + Paul E. Towner ’57 S.T.B.# Gene M. Tucker ‘60 B.D., ‘61 M.A., ‘63 Ph.D. Yoko Ueda ‘04 M.Div., ‘06 S.T.M. Hidekazu Utsunomiya ‘64 M.Div., ‘71 S.T.M.

Rebecca Thompson Crosby ‘02 M.A.R., ‘07 M.Div.

Mitchell James Lindeman ‘83 M.Div.

James E. Curry ‘85 M.Div. #

Kay and Leon Linquist

Carolyn F. Swearingen ‘47 Div. +

Mary T. ‘88 M.Div. and Thomas Spaulding Cushman ‘88 M.Div. #

Thomas V. Litzenburg, Jr. ‘61 B.D. +

C. Jan Swearingen

Paul Long ‘57 B.D.

Jamie G. Dance ‘05 M.A.R.

Susan Sonnenday ‘66 B.D. and John Richard Vogel, Jr. ‘66 B.D. +

Atsuko Takeda ‘03 M.Div.

William H. Low ‘74 S.T.M. +

J. Roderick Davis ‘63 B.D. +

Charles I. Wallace, Jr. ‘68 B.D. +

William B. Lupfer, Jr. ‘87 M.Div. #

Patrick Carroll Ward ‘08 M.Div. +#

Tracy Strong, Jr. ‘40 M.Div. + William K. Stuart ‘73 M.Div.

Mary D. Torrence ‘41 Cert PF

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J. Gordon Verplank ‘66 B.D. + Rebecca Mary Voelkel ‘96 M.Div.

Morris S. Weeden #

James G. Estes ‘61 B.D.

Samuel P. Lamback, Jr. ‘70 B.D.

Carol Seifrit Pepper ‘78 M.Div. *

Wayne S. Underhill ‘50 B.D. +

Training Ministries

Christopher Fenton Wood ‘90 B.A.

L. Allan Eubank ‘66 S.T.M.

Lucy Driscoll LaRocca ‘08 M.Div. #

Derenz M. Carson Perez ‘09 M.Div.

Richard P. Unsworth ‘54 B.D.

Trinity College

Roger A. Young #

Katherine Fagerburg ‘86 M.Div.

Ronald Glen LaRocque ‘03 M.Div. +

Alice de V Perry ‘80 M.Div.

Willard E. Uphaus ‘22 Div, ‘22 M.A., ‘25 Ph.D. *

The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust #

Doris Anne Younger ‘50 M.Div. +

Elisa V. Ferguson ‘95 M.Div.

Richard J. Larsen, Jr. #

Kenneth G. Peterson ‘49 M.Div. +

Richard F. Van Wely ‘72 S.T.M.

The Woodland Foundation #

Matthew Fong ‘56 B.D. +

Peter R. Lawson ‘53 S.T.B. #

Terry W. Pfeiffer ‘66 B.D., ‘68 S.T.M.

Lee VanBremen ‘64 B.D. +

Amy Forte ‘04 M.Div.

Jong-Hyeong Lee ‘75 S.T.M. +

Giovanna Marie Piazza ‘89 M.Div.

Javier Alexis Viera ‘00 S.T.M.

Planned Gifts and Bequests

David Fortune ‘90 M.Div. +

Delores J. Lewis ‘80 M.A.R.

J. Delton Pickering ‘60 M.Div. +

Kino Germaine Lockh Vitet, Sr. ‘11 M.Div.

Anonymous

David E. Allen #

Kristin M. Foster ‘77 M.Div.

Glenn M. Libby ‘95 M.Div. +

David Walker Plumer #

Elizabeth B. Vitton #

Mrs. Bradford E. Ableson

Noel Justin Onukwuforobi Amadi ‘68 B.D. +

Faith S.T. Fraser #

Gordon R. Lindsey ‘72 M.Div.

David H. Poist #

James D. Von Dreele #

Bernhard W. Anderson ‘45 Div, ‘45 Ph.D. *

Janet Edwards Anti ‘76 M.Div. +

Sara Ackerman Frey ‘54 Div. +

John H. Longley ‘53 B.D. +

Ingrid Bloomquist Pope ‘84 M.A.R.

David S. Wade ‘80 S.T.M.

Harold W. Attridge

Harry C. Applewhite ‘58 B.D. +

Eric A. Gass ‘59 B.D. +

Molly O’Neill Louden ‘83 M.Div.

Avery D. Post ‘49 B.D., ‘52 S.T.M. +

Richard Warch ‘64 B.D., ‘68 Ph.D.

Jan Attridge

Caroline S. Bacon ‘04 M.A.R.

Charles E.V. Geilker ‘87 M.A.R.

Janet P. Mackey ‘60 B.D.

Sara Lynn Potter ‘04 M.Div. +

Robert W. Watson #

Kyoji Buma ‘54 B.D., ‘55 S.T.M.

David Alan Baer ‘04 M.Div.

Brian G. Gentle ‘66 B.D.

Avery C. Manchester ‘62 S.T.M.

John Lee Powell ‘60 B.D. +

Theodore R. Weber ‘50 B.D., ‘56 M.A., ‘58 Ph.D.

Jack L. Clark ‘59 Div, ‘59 M.A., ‘62 Ph.D. *

C. William Bailey ‘67 S.T.M.

Greta Getlein ‘09 M.Div. +#

Darwin Mann ‘56 B.D., ‘57 S.T.M.

Edward A. Powers ‘52 M.Div. +

Evelyn Wheeler ‘11 M.Div.

Herbert F. Dabinett ‘35 Div

Stephanie Abbott Bailey ‘06 M.Div.

John A. Gettier ‘61 B.D. +

Marian E. Marks ‘94 M.Div.

Guy E. Pry ‘53 B.D. +

Jane White-Hassler ‘96 M.Div. +

Arthur R. Eikamp ‘47 B.D. +

Kempton Dunn Baldridge ‘88 M.Div.

Samuel T. Gladding ‘70 M.A.R. +

Christopher Harper Martin ‘90 B.A., ‘96 M.Div.

John H. Rains, IV ‘04 M.A.R. +

William H. Willimon ‘71 M.Div.

William McC. Haynsworth

Scott Barker ‘85 B.A., ‘92 M.Div. #

Francis Joseph Michael Goldkamp ‘11 M.A.R.

Deborah Mariah Martin ‘11 M.A.R.

C. Corydon Randall #

Antoinette C. Wire ‘59 B.D.

Philip B. Hill *

Sara Ann Bassler ‘03 M.Div. +

Alfred Theodore Halsted, Jr. ‘56 M.Div. +

William F. May ‘52 B.D., ‘62 Ph.D.

Ronald Ralph Ray ‘67 M.Div.

Scott W. Wood ‘63 M.Div. +

Kenneth S. Jones ‘51 M.Div. +

Angela Batie Carlin ‘07 M.Div. +

Donald Lee Hamer ‘00 M.Div.

Roy A. McAlpine #

Louise Reinecke ‘64 Div, ‘64 Ph.D. +

L. D. Wood-Hull ‘95 M.Div., ‘95 J.D., ‘98 M.A. +

Edwin B. Towle ‘45 B.A., ‘48 B.D. +

George W. Baxter, Jr. ‘51 M.Div. +

G. Holger Hansen ‘63 B.D., ‘64 S.T.M. +

Ronald W. McBride #

Howard Owen Reynolds ‘61 M.Div.

Sanford W. Wylie, Jr. ‘70 B.D.

Willard E. Uphaus ‘22 Div, ‘22 M.A., ‘25 Ph.D. *

Jill Beimdiek ‘04 M.Div.

David R. Harkness ‘76 M.Div., ‘78 S.T.M.

Dorothy W. McCabe ‘62 B.D. +

Syngman Rhee ‘65 S.T.M.

William J. Yoder ‘68 B.D. +

James L. Waits ‘61 B.D.

Ruby K. Belk +

Charles H. Harper ‘61 S.T.M. +

Myrtle E. McCall ‘80 M.Div. +

Daniel Roy Rice ‘68 M.Div.

Jun Yoshimatsu ‘93 S.T.M.

Cynthia C. Willauer ‘00 M.Div.

Robert Shaw Benson ‘95 M.Div. +

Stuart C. Haskins, Jr. ‘55 B.D. +

Stanley H. McCreary ‘82 S.T.M.

V. Bruce Rigdon ‘62 B.D., ‘63 M.A., ‘68 Ph.D. +

Hugh N. Blair ‘63 B.D. +

Gerald Robert McDermott

Jerome D. Roeske #

John H. Blume III ‘82 M.A.R., ‘84 J.D. +

Stanley Martin Hauerwas ‘65 B.D., ‘67 M.A., ‘68 M.Phil. , ‘68 Ph.D. +

John Lee McDougal ‘62 B.A. #

Jack A. Saarela ‘74 M.Div.

James H. Boice, Jr. ‘55 B.D. +

George A. Hearne ‘58 M.Div. +

Foundations, Corporations, & Organizations

Brian W. McGurk ‘92 M.Div.

Jack Alan Scott ‘62 B.D. +

Anderson Family Foundation #

Dane Ethan Boston ‘11 M.Div. #

Martha H. Hedgpeth ‘82 M.Div. +

Barnet Michael McKee ‘79 M.Div. +

Elmo B. Self ‘56 B.D. +

Association of Fundraising Professionals #

Mary Bowden

Frank R. Helme ‘59 B.D. +

Ellen Bacon McKinley ‘76 M.Div. +

Joseph Y. Seville ‘73 M.Div.

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

Anna H. Bowditch #*

Stephen G. Henderson ‘87 M.Div.

Robert C. McMillan ‘46 M.Div. +

James J. Shand #

Chiaroscuro Foundation

Robert E. Bowers ‘64 M.A.R. +

Ellen H. Hiatt ‘79 M.Div. +

Ann McNamara-Smith ‘79 M.A.R.

Nakyun Shin ‘69 M.A.R.

The Chilton Foundation

Jeffrey David Braun ‘04 M.Div. +

W. Scott Hicks ‘69 B.D., ‘71 S.T.M. +

Robert H. Millar ‘67 B.D. +

Ruth E. Shinn ‘55 B.D.

Crane Fund for Widows and Children

Henry G. Brinton ‘86 M.Div. +

John A. Holbrook III ‘70 Div, ‘71 M.A. +

John Franklin Miller ‘65 M.Div. +

Robert B. Simpson ‘55 B.D. +

Thomas E. Dewey Fund #

Sara Barrall Britton ‘80 M.A.R.

Cynthia Caravatt Holden ‘97 M.Div.

Susan A. Miller ‘73 M.A.R., ‘81 M.Div.

Robert E. Skeele ‘53 B.D. +

The Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Simon Benjamin Burce ‘04 M.A.R. +

Stephen Christopher Holton ‘11 M.Div.

Malcolm H. Miner #

Samuel N. Slie ‘52 B.D., ‘63 S.T.M. +

Durango Cancer Center, PC #

Joan Cooper Burnett ‘04 M.Div.

Archie V. Huff, Jr. ‘62 B.D. +

Patricia S. Mitchell ‘02 M.Div. #

Anne H. Smith

The Episcopal Church #

Ivan Blackwell Burnett, Jr. ‘65 M.Div. +

Franklin E. Huntress, Jr. #

Richard W. Moll ‘61 M.Div.

Roy G. Smith ‘60 B.D. +

Fairfield University

Ronald Preston Byars ‘62 B.D. +

Christopher Roy Hutson ‘89 M.Div., ‘93 M.A., ‘93 M.Phil., ‘98 Ph.D.

Joseph James Monachino ‘76 M.Div.

J. Philip Smith ‘66 B.D. +

Grubbs Family Fund #

Charles Howland Montgomery ‘56 B.A., ‘92 M.A.R.

Thomas G. Speers III ‘87 M.Div. +

Kent School Corporation #

Robert Gordon Mundle ‘03 S.T.M.

Gustav D. Spohn ‘73 M.A.R.

Samuel Kress Foundation #

William F. Murphey #

Robert B. Starbuck ‘53 B.D. +

Eli Lilly Foundation #

Joanne L. Neel-Richard ‘88 M.Div. +

Richard C. Stazesky ‘52 B.D., ‘53 S.T.M., ‘55 M.A. +

Louisville Institute

Roger Stewart Nicholson ‘52 M.Div. +

William P. Stevens, Jr. ‘63 B.D. +

The Henry Luce Foundation

Margaret Alice Niederer ‘01 M.Div.

Jane Stickney #

The John C. Markey Charitable Fund #

Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington, DE #

Stuart Associates $250-$499

L. Marshall Campbell ‘52 S.T.M. + Beryl Johanna Capewell ‘61 S.T.M. + Vincent M. Casanova ‘71 M.A.R. Christine Chakoian ‘83 M.Div. Joseph Francis Cistone ‘90 M.A.R. Janis A. Claflin ‘64 M.A.R. Roy C. Clark ‘44 B.D. + Leonard George Clough ‘43 B.D. Lillian Fant Daniel ‘93 M.Div. + David D. Daniels ‘79 M.Div. Fred Alexander Davie, Jr. ‘82 M.Div. Ellen F. Davis ‘84 M.A., ‘87 Ph.D. # Park P. Dickerson ‘58 B.D., ‘65 S.T.M. + Tommy Joe Dillon II ‘95 M.Div. # James F. Dowd ‘63 B.D. + Eleanore Whitla Drury ‘77 M.Div. Charles H. Dubois #

Ross B. Jackson ‘65 B.D. Anne Hislop Jensen ‘88 M.Div. + Frank A. Johnson ‘58 M.Div. + Earl Evans Johnson ‘76 M.Div. Scott Black Johnston ‘89 M.Div. Richard B. Jones ‘67 B.D. + Steven R. Jones ‘75 M.Div. + Barbara Ann Kapenga ‘81 M.A.R. Anne B. Kimball ‘86 M.Div. C. Kris Kirkpatrick ‘74 M.A.R. + Debra Jean Kissinger ‘92 M.Div. +# Stephen Barrett Klots ‘99 S.T.M. + David Jon Koehler ‘62 B.D. + Susan B. Krass ‘62 M.A.R. + Jennifer J. Krebs ‘99 M.A.R. Philip S. Krug ‘52 M.Div. + Dieter P.O. Kuchenbecker ‘75 M.A.R.

Stephen B. Edmondson ‘88 M.Div., ‘92 S.T.M., ‘99 Ph.D. #

Nai-Wang Kwok ‘66 B.D. +

Stephen Matthew Edwards ‘80 B.A., ‘83 M.Div.

George Allen La Montagne ‘94 M.Div. Robert C. Lamar ‘43 B.A., ‘46 B.D. +

Alida B. Wolfe ‘48 M.Div. * William R. Wolfe ‘48 B.D. * Lawrence T. Young ‘62 B.D. +

Congregations All Saints Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA # All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Jensen Beach, FL # All Saints Parish, Beverly Hills, CA # Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, PA # The Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Minneapolis, MN # Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, GA # Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC # Christ & Holy Trinity Church, Westport, CT # Christ Church, Alexandria, VA # Christ Church, Charlotte, NC # Christ Church, Harwich Port, MA # Christ Church, Saint Joseph, MO # Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati, OH # Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, IN #

Michael A. Norko ‘10 M.A.R. +

J. David Stinson ‘75 M.Div. +

The V & L Marx Foundation #

Christ Church Greenwich, Greenwich, CT #

Linda L. Northcraft ‘87 M.Div. #

Thomas W. Stoever, Jr. #

McAdams Charitable Foundation #

Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, VA #

William J. O’Brien ‘05 M.Div. +

Callie Shaver Stone ‘81 M.A.R. +

Meritas, LLC #

Church of the Holy Cross, Dunn Loring, VA #

Joel L. Olsen ‘74 M.Div.

Robert M. Stoppert ‘64 B.D. +

Metanexus Institute

Jennie Elizabeth Ott ‘06 M.Div. +

James F. Strange ‘64 B.D. +

Edward S. Moore Foundation, Inc. #

The Congregational Church of Greens Farms, Westport, CT

Kathryn Ann Palen ‘92 M.Div. +

Augustus E. Succop III ‘79 M.Div. +

Vincent Mulford Foundation #

Diocese of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, PA #

David Alan Palmer ‘78 Div

Edward Joseph Sweeney IV ‘99 M.Div.

New to You Shop #

Diocese of Chicago, Chicago, IL #

Richard S. Parker ‘55 M.Div. +

John Andrew Tirro ‘89 B.A., ‘09 M.Div.

Diocese of Connecticut, Hartford, CT #

Donald H. Parker #

Marie Elizabeth Tjoflat ‘11 M.Div. #

H. Boone & Violet M. Porter Charitable Foundation #

Geoffrey Fable Harris Parker ‘10 M.Div. +

David A. Travers ‘67 B.D. +

Rau Foundation #

Diocese of Easton, Easton, MD #

Grace Pauls

Robert and Nancy Treuhold #

Diocese of New York, New York, NY #

Arthur C. Pedersen ‘70 B.D.

Susan Power Trucksess ‘83 M.Div.

Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing

Thomas J.P. Pellaton ‘91 M.Div. #

Kathy A. Turner ‘69 M.Div. +

Albert M. Pennybacker, Jr. ‘56 M.Div. +

T. Gregory Turner ‘70 M.Div. +

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Shilling Family Foundation Inc. # John Templeton Foundation The Train Foundation #

Diocese of East Carolina, Kinston, NC #

Diocese of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC # Diocese of Rhode Island, Providence, RI # Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, Pensacola, FL #

First Church in Windsor, Windsor, CT First Church of Christ Congregational, Redding, CT

Saint Stephen the Martyr Church, East Waterloo, ME #

Raymond P. Morris, ‘51 B.D.

Saint Stephen’s Church, Richmond, VA #

Raymond Michael Neff

H. Richard Niebuhr ‘23 B.D.

First Congregational Church, Glen Ellyn, IL

Saint Thomas Church, Terrace Park, OH #

John Oliver Nelson ‘35 B.D., ‘35 Ph.D.

First Congregational Church, Granby, CT

Saint Thomas Church, Fort Washington, PA #

Lee Nocera

Fishers Island Union Chapel, Fishers Island, NY

Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, NY #

Marvin H. Pope ‘49 B.D., ‘49 Ph.D.

Grace & St. Peters Church, Hamden, CT # Grace Church, Carthage, MO #

Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, McLean, VA #

Grace Episcopal Church, Silver Spring, MD #

Saint Timothy’s Church, Fairfield, CT #

Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY #

The Cathedral Church of Saint Mark, Minneapolis, MN #

Holy Trinity Church, Fayetteville, NC #

Jason Michael Richardson ‘03 M.Div. Letty Russell Allen W. Swain ‘66 B.K.D. # Wallace T. Viets ‘41 B.A., ‘44 M.Div.

Second Congregational Church, Greenwich, CT

Sally C. Voreacos ‘54 B.D.

South Congregational Church, Middletown, CT

David J. Williams ‘64 B.D.

Trinity Cathedral, Portland, OR #

Philip E. Zanfagna, Jr. ‘61 M.Div.

Saint Alban’s Church, Syracuse, NY #

Trinity Church, Boston, MA #

Saint Alban’s Episcopal Church, Davidson, NC #

Trinity Church, Columbus, OH #

Honoraria

Saint Andrew’s Church, Kent, CT #

Trinity Church, New York, NY #

Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Edgartown, MA #

Trinity Church, Newtown, CT #

Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Millinocket, ME #

Trinity Episcopal Church, Concord, MA #

Saint Andrew’s Haw River, Haw River, NC #

United Church of Christ in Canton, Canton, MA

Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church, Greenwich, CT #

United Church of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Saint Brigid Episcopal Church, Nazareth, PA #

Union Memorial Church, Stamford, CT

Saint Claire of Assisi Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI #

Zion Episcopal Church, North Branford, CT #

Saint David’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, IN #

Memorial Gifts

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Auburn, AL # Saint Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA #

Saint Elizabeth’s Church, Ridgewood, NJ # Saint James Church, New York, NY # Saint James Church, Richmond, VA # Saint John the Evangelist Church, Dunbarton, NH # Saint John’s Cathedral, Denver, CO # Saint John’s Church, Ellicott City, MD # Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Watkins Glen, NY # Saint John’s Parish, Waterbury, CT # Saint Luke’s, Yanceyville, NC # Saint Luke’s Church, Fairport, NY # Saint Luke’s Parish, Darien, CT # Saint Matthew’s Church, Pacific Palisades, CA # Saint Matthew’s Parish, Wilton, CT # Saint Mark’s Chapel, Storrs, CT # Saint Mark’s Church, New Britain, CT # Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, New Canaan, CT # Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church, Houston, TX # Saint Matthew’s Church, Bedford, NY # Saint Matthew’s Church, Pacific Palisades, CA # Saint Matthew’s Parish, Wilton, CT # Saint Paul’s, Smithfield, NC # Saint Paul’s Church, Albany, NY # Saint Paul’s Church, Plainfield, CT # Saint Paul’s Church, Wallingford, CT # Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Fairfield, CT # Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Nantucket, MA # Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Shelton, CT # Saint Peter’s Church, Monroe, CT # Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, Milford, CT # Saint Simon the Cyrenian Church, New Rochelle, NY #

Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, CT # Trinity Episcopal Church, Southport, CT #

GIFTS OF LEADERSHIP T

he Divinity School’s Annual Fund campaign relies on the alumni who volunteer their time to help raise money for student scholarships. Because of these individuals, YDS raised $396,305 in the ﬁscal year ending June 30, 2011. The alumni o∞ce is most thankful for all of the volunteers who helped make this year’s campaign successful.

Harry B. Adams ‘51 B.D. Talitha J. Arnold ‘80 M.Div. Christopher A. Beeley ‘94 M.Div. Joseph H. Britton # Alice Platt Brooks Fred R. Brooks, Jr. ‘61 M.Div. Mildred B. Cannon ’53 B.D.

Honor Roll Of Annual Giving Volunteers

Susan P. Currie

L. Eugene Brown

92%

1948

A.B. Miller

62%

1950

volunteer qualifies for the Honor Roll if his or her constituency within the class achieved an annual giving participation rate of 60% or more in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, and the volunteer made a donation to the Annual Fund campaign.

Roger S. Nicholson

84%

1952

R.W. Ortel

83%

1954

Stuart C. Haskins, Jr.

79%

1955

Donald W. Preslan

80%

1956

John M. Bullard

72%

1957

G.R. Goldner, Jr.

67%

1963

Hugh N. Blair

75%

1963

Lillian Fant Daniel ‘93 M.Div. Alva G. Decker ’60 B.K.D. # Mary Decker #

Bradford E. Ableson ‘85 M.Div.

Robert B. Dell ‘55 B.D.

Diane V. Ahrens ‘54 M.R.E.

Tommy J. Dillon II ’95 M.Div. #

Ray L. Allen ‘27 GRD

Margaret Farley

David Annand #

Charles W. Forman ‘61 M.A.H.

James E. Annand ‘54 B.K.D. #

Joan Bates Forsberg ‘53 B.D.

Roland H. Bainton ‘17 B.D., ‘21 Ph.D.

Amy Forte ‘04 M.Div.

Name

William P. Baxter, Jr. ‘68 B.K.D. #

Rowan Greer #

Robert C. Lamar

62%

1946

Robert K. Loesch

60%

1966

Cynthia Brown ‘85 M.Div., ‘89 S.T.M.

Peter S. Hawkins ‘68 M.A., ‘75 Ph.D.

69%

1947

Graduating Class Agents

75%

2011

Ralph A. Cannon ‘53 B.D.

William Barney Huntley ’61 B.D.

Constance C. Thurber

Jonathan S. Carey ‘78 S.T.M.

F. Washington Jarvis #

William Sloane Coffin ‘49 B.A., ‘56 B.D.

Brandon D. Johnson ‘08 M.Div.

Alva G. Decker ‘60 B.K.D. #

Serene Jones ‘85 M.Div.

Martha L. Dewey ‘81 M.A.R.

Julie V. Kelsey ‘84 M.Div.

% Participation

# of Donors

% Participation

A nnual Gifts

1937

100%

100

James E. Dittes ‘54 B.D., ‘55 M.S., ‘58 Ph.D.

Chilton A.R. Knudsen #

1938

100%

432

Leonard W. Frey ‘52 B.D.

Marjorie Peace Lenn ‘70 M.A.R.

1939

33%

100

Marjorie Garhart

John Curtis Lombard ‘76 M.Div.

1940

60%

1942

33%

Class

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% Participation

A nnual Gifts

Class

1957

68%

6,580

1976

1958

49%

11,151

1977

1959

73%

7,214

1978

1,563

1960

61%

6,035

250

1961

50%

8,950

Class

# of Donors

Annual Fund Class Agents Chair Jessica Lynn Anschutz ’07 M.Div. CLASS OF 1946 Robert C. Lamar ’46 B.D. CLASS OF 1947 Constance Cronon Thurber ’47 M.Div. CLASS OF 1948 L. Eugene Brown ’48 B.D. CLASS OF 1950 A. Bertram Miller ’50 B.D.

% Participation

A nnual Gifts

# of Donors

% Participation

A nnual Gifts

31%

3895

30%

3305

1995

17%

11,815

1996

21%

29%

5,195

4,815

1997

16%

2,238

1979

40%

1980

33%

6757

1998

21%

5,083

12405

1999

14%

1,460

Class

Martha T. Goethals ‘51 M.A., ‘52 B.D.

Ann E. Markle ‘99 M.Div.

Rowan Allen Greer, Jr. ‘28 B.A.

Jane Stoneburner Moore ‘56 B.D.

1943

50%

1,000

1962

59%

8,006

1981

32%

11,005

2000

11%

1033

Norman L. Grover ‘51 B.D.

Agnes Kwoba Olusese ‘10 M.Div.

1944

44%

375

1963

53%

8,114

1982

24%

10,285

2001

16%

3,360

Genevieve D. Hall ‘54 B.D.

Marvin H. Pope ‘49 B.D.

1945

39%

1,820

1964

50%

7,285

1983

27%

5,275

2002

18%

2711

Edward Rochie Hardy #

J. David Stinson ‘75 M.Div.

1946

53%

1050

1965

40%

3,820

1984

28%

9,155

2003

18%

2898

Julian N. Hart ‘40 B.D.

Lucille G. Sullivan ‘54 B.D.

1947

58%

2,330

1966

47%

8525

1985

19%

7580

2004

24%

6736

Claire W. Herman ‘48 M.Div

Carolyn F. Swearingen ‘47 B.D.

1948

72%

2812

1967

43%

5805

1986

27%

3,635

2005

18%

2412

Paul Leroy Holmer ‘46 Ph.D.

Ralph R. Warren, Jr. ‘65 B.K.D. #

1949

56%

2,720

1968

46%

5750

1987

19%

3310

2006

26%

2582

Bonnie Kittel

Pamela S. Wesley #

1950

56%

3835

1969

42%

7143

1988

25%

3720

2007

30%

4888

Rosemary S. Keller ‘58 M.R.E.

YDS Women’s 2010 Reunion Planning Committee

1951

56%

3,655

1970

38%

6395

1989

17%

3600

2008

20%

7,260

Kenneth Scott Latourette 1905 B.A.

YDS Teachers

1952

84%

15,042

1971

40%

5,415

1990

21%

4585

2009

17%

3309

1953

64%

7,800

1972

33%

3,245

1991

20%

4,858

2010

16%

2603

1954

71%

5300

1973

40%

4,985

1992

21%

3170

2011

75%

9144

1955

71%

6298

1974

36%

4725

1993

17%

2975

1956

80%

10,715

1975

34%

16855

1994

22%

6,960

Marjorie Peace Lenn ‘70 M.A.R. Elizabeth J. Miller ‘47 M.Div William Stanley Mellish ‘46 M.Div. Paul S. Minear ‘32 B.D.

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Ki Joo (KC) Choi

Lillian Fant Daniel

Ann R. L. Dewey, Vice Chair

Joseph Francis Cistone

Ronald T. Evans

Judith K. Holding, Vice Chair

Cheryl Kay Cornish

Julie Smucker Fuller

Joseph H. Britton, President and Dean

James H. Evans Jr.

Nora Gallagher

Clark Evans Downs, Counsel

Kristin M. Foster

Roberto S. Goizueta

Clayton Thomason, Secretary

Elijah Heyward III

Adam S. Greene

David R. Wilson, Vice Chair for Financial Affairs

J. Kenneth Kuntz

Frances Hall Kieschnick

Harold Attridge

Arthur H. Latimer

G. William Haas

Christopher Beeley

Bert W. Marshall

F. Lane Heard III, Esq.

Steven E. Bush

CLASS OF 2009

Myra C. McNeill

Bryan J. Hehir

Stephen Carlsen

Michael F. Cagney ’09 M.A.R.

Jeffrey C. Oak

Jerry W. Henry

Marion M. Dawson Carr

Joshua A. Hill ’09 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1994

Jennie Elizabeth Ott

Judith Holding

Carolyn Daniels

Jennifer L. Miller ’09 M.Div.

Patrick J. Kucera ’94 M.Div., ’95 S.T.M.

Alice De V Perry

Megan S. Jessiman

John Denaro

Eun Joo Park ’09 M.Div.

Richard Spalding

Scott Black Johnston

Ian Douglas

CLASS OF 2000

Ruth L. Vaughan ’09 M.A.R.

Linda L. Lader

Whitney Z. Edwards

Charles-Ryan D. Duncan ’00 M.A.R.

Timothy R. Weisman ’09 M.Div.

Philip Lader

John Gedrick

Demetrius Solon Semien ’00 M.Div.

Elizabeth S. Wille ’09 M.Div.

Comprised of church leaders, major scholars and theologians, and laity leaders from various walks of life, including business, politics, law, health, and philanthropy, this group provides encouragement, counsel, and support for the school’s mission of preparing leaders for church and world.

Douglas M. Lawson

Howard Greene

Harold E. Masback

Daniel Gross

Debbie McLeod

G. William Haas

Peter C. Moister

Geoffrey Hoare

Joon Surh Park

Herman Hollerith

Stephen S. Peterson

Robert Kass

C0-Chairs Christopher Glenn Sawyer Barbara Brown Taylor

J. Scott Pidcock

Chilton Knudsen

David E. Price

Linda Lorimer

Barbara A. Shailor

Anne Mallonee

Chad W. Tanaka Pack ’10 M.Div.

Wesley D. Avram

A. Knighton Stanley

Nicholas Porter

Sarah Smith Warren ’10 M.Div.

George Bauer

Brenda J. Stiers

Joseph Seville

Emily P. Bakemeier

Nancy S. Taylor

Barbara Shailor

Stephen P. Bauman

Clyde Cebron Tuggle

Westina Matthews Shatteen

William R. Bell, Jr.

Michael P. Williams II

Bryan Spinks

Jeffrey D. Braun

2011-2012 Berkeley Trustees

CLASS OF 1952

CLASS OF 1989

Roger S. Nicholson ’52 M.Div.

Verlee A. Copeland ’89 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1954 R. Wade Ortel ’54 B.D. CLASS OF 1955 Stuart C. Haskins, Jr. ’55 B.D. CLASS OF 1956 Theodore A. Halsted, Jr. ’56 M.Div. CLASS OF 1958 James K. Donnell ’58 B.D. CLASS OF 1961 John F. Piper, Jr. ’61 B.D. CLASS OF 1963 Hugh N. Blair ’63 B.D. G. Russell Goldner, Jr. ’63 B.D.

Scott G. Morrow ’89 M.Div.

Mindy Robin Roll ’07 M.Div. CLASS OF 2008 Spencer Tyler Clayton ’08 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1990

Caroline B. Cupp ’08 M.Div.

Kristin Neily Barberia ’90 M.Div.

Myra C. McNeill ’08 M.Div.

Brigid Farrell Dunn ’90 M.Div.

Dawn M. Stegelmann ’08 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1992 Fredrick A. Wiese ’92 M.Div. CLASS OF 1993 Kristin B. Godlin ’93 M.Div., ’98 S.T.M.

Kathleen S. Turner ’08 M.Div. Patrick C. Ward ’08 M.Div.

Robert F.R. Peters ’63 M.Div.

CLASS OF 2001

CLASS OF 2010

David A. Purdy ’63 B.D.

Matthew T. Curry ’01 M.Div.

Amalie A. Ash ’10 M.Div.

Scott W. Wood ’63 M.Div.

Adam E. Eckhart ’01 M.Div.

John H. Boyles ’10 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1966

CLASS OF 2002

Robert K. Loesch ’66 B.D.

Jan D’Vonne Webster ’02 M.Div.

2011-2012 Board of Advisors

Joshua Clark ’10 M.A.R. Brent R. Damrow ’10 M.Div. Ryan C. Fleenor ’10 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1967

Class of 2003

Rebecca P. Lenn ’10 M.A.R.

Donald J. West ’67 B.D.

Cheree Chablis Johnson ’03 M.Div.

Agnes K. Olusese ’10 M.A.R.

CLASS OF 1968

CLASS OF 2004

Noel J.O. Amadi ’68 B.D.

Jeffrey D. Braun ’04 M.Div.

Jane C. Watkins ’68 M.A.R.

Philip Peter Corbett ’04 S.T.M.

CLASS OF 2011

Justin Matthew List ’04 M.A.R.

Terry James Archambeault, Jr. ’11 M.Div.

Marissa Ann Smith ’04 M.A.R.

Kazimierz Jan Bem ’10 M.Div., ’11 S.T.M.

Elizabeth L. Strawn ’04 M.A.R.

Gregory Griffin ’11 M.Div.

Carol Janson Welles ’04 M.A.R.

Sean P.C. McAvoy ’11 M.A.R.

CLASS OF 1969 George E. Harris ’69 M.Div. CLASS OF 1970 Cathie M. Cipolla ’70 B.D. Class of 1974

CLASS OF 2005 Benjamin David Hopkins ’05 M.A.R.

H. Timothy Halverson ’74 M.Div.

Cecelia Leebeth Jones ’05 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1975

Aaron Victor Skrypski ’05 M.Div.

J. David Stinson ’75 M.Div.

Jeffry Lynn Wells ’05 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1976 Lee C. Hardgrove ’76 M.Div. CLASS OF 1977 Kristin M. Foster ’77 M.Div.

Martha S. Korienek ’06 M.Div. Will Henry Mebane, Jr. ’06 M.Div. Elizabeth Marie Melchionna ’06 M.Div.

Jeffrey C. Oak ’85 M.Div., ’86 S.T.M., ’96 Ph.D.

Kaji Rosa Spellman ’06 M.Div. Jared Robert Stahler ’06 M.Div. Andrew R. H. Thompson ’06 M.A.R. CLASS OF 2007 Jessica Lynn Anschutz ’07 M.Div. Angela Carline Batie ’07 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1987

Paul Kang-Kul Cho ’07 M.Div.

Thomas G. Speers III ’87 M.Div.

Jeremy Reed Deaner ’07 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1988 Tambria Elizabeth Lee ’88 M.Div.

Matthew Coe Haugen ’07 M.A.R. Elijah Heyward III ’07 M.A.R. Micah Jonathan Luce ’07 M.A.R., ’08 S.T.M.

Ellyn Crutcher, Esq.

Ralph Warren, Jr.

Chair Carl T. Anderson

William H. Wright II

Samuel G. Candler, Vice Chair

Jesse Zink

Lisa Zaina

Shannon Marie Santangelo ’11 M.A.R. Marie E. Tjoflat ’11 M.Div.

The Y DS A lumni Board, elected a s a representative body, has as its mission to represent alumni to the School and the School to them: to connect, energize, and engage in support of YDS and its mission; to nurture and sustain relationships among alumni and with the faculty, administration, and students of the School; and to recognize alumni for their achievement and contribution to society.

Chan Sok Park ’06 M.Div., ’07 S.T.M.

Eugene C. McAfee ’85 M.Div.

Shakira L. Sanchez-Collins ’11 M.Div.

2011-2012 Alumni Board

Jennie Elizabeth Ott ’06 M.Div.

CLASS OF 1985

Martin Copenhaver

Craig T. Robinson ’11 M.Div.

CLASS OF 2006

Ronald L. Hooker ’79 M.Div.

Jerry W. Henry ’80 M.Div.

John W. Cook

Hannah Rose Peck ’11 M.Div.

Leslie Gesiene Woods ’05 M.A.R.

CLASS OF 1979

CLASS OF 1980

Timothy C. Collins

Charles Tyson

Notes From Graduating Students Lyvonne Briggs ’12 M.Div. “When you pray, move your feet,” says an African proverb. And since my time here at YDS, I have learned how to let my feet “do the praying.” I have learned that my prayer must not only be vocalized but also active in walking with and for those who are spiritually, physically, mentally, or otherwise oppressed.

President Jerry W. Henry Dwight Andrews Jessica Lynn Anschutz Talitha J. Arnold Matthew Banks Angela Batie Carlin

These prayers walk alongside those seeking to occupy the dream instead of the nightmare. While life can bloom with

Damon F. Bradley Joan Cooper Burnett

hope and joy, for many the harsh winter of societal oppression precludes and even destroys such flowering. The existential lacerations we receive require attentive care and concern. This is especially true of young girls and women who have suffered sexualized violence, the very ones whom I am called to serve. I am a firm believer in holistic healing; and it is with this heart for restoration that I intend to teach and pastor to both raise awareness of gender-based violence and help create spaces of healing for those in need. I also intend to pursue a Ph.D. in homiletics to further my academic study of, and intensify my passion for, preaching. The theological framework that I constructed while at YDS will sustain me in my vocational work as a minister, activist, artist, and conduit of God’s endless mercy and love. (continued on page 54)

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Yale Divinity School and the world: YDS alumni abroad by Timothy Sommer ’13 M.Div.

Editor’s Note: There is no lack of well-known Yale Divinty School alumni who have made their mark overseas. In contemporary times, some of the more prominent names include theologian Charles Villa-Vicencio ’72 S.T.M, founder of South Africa’s Institute for Justice and Reconciliation; Joon Surh Park ‘69 B.D., president of Kyungin Women’s College in Incheon, South Korea; David Ford, ’85 S.T.M., Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University; Nai-Wang Kwok ’66 B.D., founder of the Hong Kong Christian Institute and former general secretary of the Hong Kong Christian Council; Setri Nyomi ’81 S.T.M., general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC); and Toshihiro Takami ’60 M.Div., founder of the Asian Rural Institute in Japan. But many other YDS aums are also engaged in creative work abroad. Following are just a few examples.

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ravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts,” wrote Mark Twain at the end of Innocents Abroad. For a number of YDS graduates, reaching the end of divinity school meant the beginning—or the continuation—of life overseas. With a Gospel message that’s fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, many YDS alumni are accomplishing exciting things around the globe. Across the pond in Europe are Dana English ’81 M. Div. in Italy; Christine Housel ’01 M.Div. in Switzerland; Erhard Gerstenberger ’60 S.T.M. and Dieter Kuchenbecker ’75 M.A.R. in Germany; and James Meredith Day ’80 M.Div. in Belgium. After ordination as a Presbyterian, undergoing a series of relocations on both U.S. coasts, and eventually becoming an active Episcopalian, English and her family moved to Rome in August 2009. As far as English can tell, she is the only ordained woman regularly preaching in Rome. She will be ordained an Anglican deacon on July 1 and become a priest at the Christmas following. “I participate in every ecumenical occasion and service that I can,” she said, placing particular emphasis on her call, in the seat of Roman Catholicism, “to be witness, in this place, to the existence of women in ministry.” Housel is ecumenically engaged as well, working just over the border in Geneva as general secretary of the World Student Christian Federation. Observes Housel, “I came to Yale Divinity School in 28

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part because I had the conviction that I needed to do my theological formation at an institution where ecumenism was a priority,” Kuchenbecker is a pastor in the parish of Schalmersdorf, about 40 miles north of Hamburg. His thriving church has 25-30 middle school confirmands a year, and he is president of the local American Society, offering expertise in the Reformation. Day is a professor of human development and the psychology of religion at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, but he has a hand in a slew of other things as well. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Brussels, a priest in the Church of England, and assistant chaplain at the Pro-Cathdedral of The Holy Trinity, Brussels. And, he is co-founder of Spiritualité et Vie, the Inter-Religious Dialogue Project at Louvain. Although retired, Gerstenberger continues some teaching and research at Marburg University, where he was on the faculty from 1985-97. Additionally, he lectures on Old Testament topics and is involved with parish work and adult education. His latest book, Israel in the Persian Period (2005), was just published in English. From 1981-85, he taught at the University of Gießen. Before entering German academia, he lived in Brazil and taught at the Lutheran Church Seminary in Sao Leopold. Duff Watkins ’80 M. Div. eventually found himself with one foot in Brazil as well. After leaving YDS, Watkins entered into parish ministry in Australia, only to change careers and become a director of Cornerstone International, an executive search firm based in Australia and Brazil. Despite the change in professions,

By Ray Waddle, Editor, Ref lections magazine

he year was 2002, alumni were restless, the post-9/11 world was convulsing, The Da Vinci Code would soon be all the rage, and Harold Attridge was named dean of YDS.

For five years already, Attridge had been on the YDS faculty, where he was perfectly happy teaching New Testament. But Yale needed a Divinity dean, and the pressures of the new century required the skills of a strong administrator and a public communicator. When Yale President Richard Levin set his sights on Attridge, there was nowhere to hide. “I didn’t exactly leap at the idea,” recalls Attridge, who will step down as dean in June after serving two five-year terms. “I had been a dean before (dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame) and really was satisfied to teach. But there was obviously a need, and they approached me …” Ten years later, Attridge, the first Roman Catholic to serve as YDS’s dean (other than Aidan Kavanagh’s brief stint as interim dean in 1989-90), can look back on a popular tenure—including some of the dramas of the decade—as well as venture a look ahead

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to some of the challenges awaiting YDS and the world of theological education. As new dean, Attridge was quite aware of matters that needed immediate attention. One was to reassure alumni after a turbulent stretch of years culminating in the departure of his predecessor after only one year in office. On the plus side, after years of debate that had put the very future of Sterling Divinity Quadrangle in jeopardy, the monumental $49 million renovation of the Quad was now well under way and rounding to a successful completion, a relief to loyal alums. “There was some reputational rebuilding to do,” he remembers. “Controversy around the renovation affected the confidence of alums and recruitment of students.” He sought financial stability. Barely two weeks after becoming dean, Attridge got YDS off on a new footing with the University by arranging self-support status for the school. The new status has given YDS more flexibility and freedom to dream, plan and execute without as much downtown control as long as the school proves able to support itself. 29

“I’d add another important element: the idea that reason and revelation are compatible and need not be inimical as we engage faith and social questions.” His reaction to being the school’s first permanent Roman Catholic dean? “My first thought was: it’s about time! Harvard had its first one a decade or two before. Maybe there were some raised eyebrows among traditional alums, but I think the skeptics were soon reassured by the direction we were taking the school.”

the discussion about The Da Vinci Code novel’s dubious biblical claims, spoke out against capital punishment, and hosted two YDS national panel conferences on poverty. In 2004, he revived Reflections magazine, the YDS magazine of theological and ethical inquiry. “Paying attention to that legacy of the school—an involvement in contemporary issues that confront church and society—was important,” he says. “Also, it was just fun.” Financial tasks continued as a theme throughout his tenure, intensifying since the Recession. One result was his leadership in the school’s historic $38 million capital campaign, which ended in June, and, among other things, boosted annual scholarship assistance from $1.6 million to $5.4 million annually. Attridge took the deanship with another mandate in mind as well—to broaden YDS’s global reach and reclaim for the school a public role as a voice on issues of the day. “The Divinity School used to have a more public presence as a force for good in shaping matters religious and moral,” he says. “We wanted to see what we could do to retrieve and revive that.”

in 2008 that brought together scores of leading Muslims and Christians from around the globe. “After 9/11, relations with Islam are critical to the fate of the planet,” Attridge says. “It’s so important for people just to get to know each other. Our thinking is, let’s find ways to live together despite religious difference—and let’s talk about our differences frankly. We sponsored a series of events here. But it will require sustained efforts into the future to keep people involved.” He threw himself into public debates with gusto. He joined

There was no shortage of such public issues. A conspicuous one was the tension between Islam and the West. Was there a way to contribute to reconciliation? YDS made national headlines in 2007 with its sponsorship of the “Loving God and Neighbor Together” statement that rallied Christian signatories around the biblical love commandment as a way to find theological agreement with Muslims. Attridge helped draft the statement and get it placed as a full-page ad in The New York Times. YDS followed up by hosting formal conversations among Christians and Muslims, including a major eight-day conference

Attridge’s tenure has been framed by society’s growing secularization, greater pluralism, and declines in mainline church inf luence. He has organized various approaches on the themes of evangelism, outreach, and church renewal. YDS representatives have studied churches in New York and elsewhere notable for their success in revitalization. This spring, a colloquium called “Youth Ministry Now” (sponsored by the Center for Faith and Culture and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale) will focus on conversations about how to strengthen congregational youth ministries. Attridge’s own identity as a Roman Catholic has given him perspective on the American religious scene, underscoring commitments to ecumenism and intellectual inquiry. “Two dimensions of Catholicism have personally shaped me,” he says. “I’m steeped in traditions that precede Vatican II—core values of appreciation for liturgy and symbols and incarnational theology. A second one is what Vatican II brought: an openness to ecumenical endeavors and an engagement with other traditions.

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His teaching career has notably exposed him to various historical Protestant academic subcultures beyond Yale—at Harvard (where he received a Ph.D.) and at Southern Methodist University (where he taught for eight years). He was also on the Notre Dame faculty for 12 years before coming to New Haven. “Here, there’s a heritage of Calvin and the Reformed tradition. At Harvard, the faculties, at least in my discipline of New Testament, were mainly Lutheran and German Reformed. Bultmann presided, fitting in well in the rationalist environment there. SMU was steeped in the Wesleyan tradition.”

A Dean’s Decade:

Accomplishments of the Attridge Years Increase in financial aid from $1.6 million to $5.4 million annually, and creation of 40 new endowed scholarship funds. Completion of Divinity Tomorrow capital campaign that raised more than $37 million for YDS. New partnerships with theological schools in Hong Kong and Singapore, expanding YDS’s student exchange program. Rededication of the renovated Quad, which was followed by additional renovations to the southeast and northeast corners. Appointment of more than a dozen senior scholars to the regular YDS faculty.

Creation of three endowed faculty chairs. Collaboration with Institute of Sacred Music on the $4 million renovation of Marquand Chapel, including replacement of pews with moveable chairs and installation of a new Baroque organ in the balcony. Expansion of YDS’s program in religion and ecology, highlighted by the strengthening of joint initiatives with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Revival of Ref lections magazine.

Series of conferences on a range of social issues, such as the environment, immigration, citizenship, poverty, women at YDS, and Christian/Muslim relations. Increased autonomy for YDS within the broader University through designation as a “self-support” school responsible for its own budget. Establishment of the Educational Leadership and Ministry program, in partnership with Berkeley Divinity School, to prepare students of all denominations for service in schools and colleges.

Formation of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.

Crucial to his identity, too, was his work as a scholar: despite a thousand administrative duties, he has taught courses in nearly every semester throughout his dean’s tenure. “I think the teaching enterprise keeps me grounded,” he says. “I’m not simply here to just balance books or worry about faculty appointments. I am here to do the task of theological education, and from my particular spectrum of expertise and interest … It’s important to keep in touch with students in front of the classroom – and to have the faculty know that I’m in the teaching trenches with them.” Perhaps remarkable given his busy schedule, Attridge can be found virtually every weekday morning at worship in Marquand Chapel. “Marquand is so important for fostering student community,” he says. “The worship there is a deeply meaningful experience aesthetically, liturgically, homiletically.” In his final months as dean, he will focus on various stated goals. One is to work with faculty to make key teaching appointments in core disciplines of theology, Bible and ethics. Another is to shepherd the school’s long-range self-study, which outlines the school’s goals for the next 10 years and will be presented to the Association of Theological Schools. Fundraising goals continue: he hopes to give attention to funding scholarships for Roman Catholic students and for students who are involved in the joint program in religion and ecology with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The dilemma of funding theological education in the 21st century continue to loom and threaten. Speaking recently to a group of Duke Divinity School faculty, Attridge spelled out the challenges facing virtually all theological schools, and the need to ease the financial pressure that students face: “Our basic predicament is that it costs much more to educate a stu-

We are also indebted to Harry’s wife, Jan, a steady, warm and gracious presence throughout the Quad. Not only has she supported Harry in Divinity School, University and community endeavors; she has continued established traditions and created new ones relating to YDS faculty, alumni, students, staff and emeriti, especially women. We will always be grateful for her presence and generosity.

“We could charge our students more and ask them to borrow more to pay for their education, but we are reluctant to do that, to impose, that is, a heavy burden of debt on an alumni population that is not likely to be in a high-income profession … Raising new friends for our institutions and convincing them of the importance of our enterprise is essential to our future.” When his tenure ends, Attridge will return to the full-time YDS faculty—but only after taking a nine-month sabbatical. His thoughts are turning to some relaxation, but also to the Gospel of John. “The plan is to ‘get out of Dodge’ and go to a far corner of the planet—Australia—and work on the Fourth Gospel as a reading experience, the literary power of the work. With John, there’s lately been a shift from literary-archeological approaches to one that focuses on the final product. However it was put together, someone was trying to make a statement—what kind of statement is it? All these features of the text that people took as redacted elements and then worried about the functions of these elements and the resulting tensions and riddles … maybe these features were intentional. That’s interesting—what is it about?” Students, staff, faculty and friends of Yale Divinity School will be happy to know that Harry Attridge, soon a former dean, will still be on the case on behalf of theological education and the Quad.

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dent than we are willing to charge in tuition. At YDS, our tuition is less than half what it is for a student in Yale College, Yale Law or Medical School, and most of our students receive some subsidy in the form of tuition scholarships …

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ing Your Own Life Story” (no one under 85!), and members are digging deeply into their own memory banks to share unique life experiences with their families. They attend the South Yarmouth United Methodist Church, where Doug was minister of Christian Education for 11 years (1975-1986).

“Chinese niece” now studying for a master’s degree in the UK, whom he met as a 12-year-old English student when Dick and his son were on a tour in China in 2001. He is now compiling the 59th annual YDS ’52 Class Letter and beginning to plan for the 60th class reunion at the 2012 Convocation.

ROBERT SEYMOUR and his wife, Pearl, are now in their 11th year of being residents at The Carol Woods Retirement Community of Chapel Hill, NH. Recently Pearl’s worsening illness required that she move to the health center. Bob celebrated his 86th birthday and remains active in the community. Their son is a physician in nearby Raleigh and their daughter is the CEO of The International Center for Forestry Research, based in Bogor, Indonesia.

FRANCIS AND VIRGINIA GEDDES continue to enjoy living in Santa Rosa in the heart of California’s wine country. Francis has a new book out (see Alumni Books section). Virginia has been studying Shakespeare’s sonnets and finding them quite stimulating. She reads and discusses poetry each month with a friend and finds that very satisfying. Her favorite book this year is The Greater Journey by David McCullough. Francis writes, “This year Virginia and I have had a full and rewarding time together. Given our years, we thank God that we have the opportunity to enjoy life as much as we do.”

ELIZABETH MACGREGOR BATES, known as Lib, is one of ten finalists out of more than 600 nominations for this year’s L.L. Bean Outdoor Hero Award. Lib is featured in the recently published book, Over the Hill Hikers, written by journalist Shirley Elder Lyons. Lib is the “Den Mother” of the Sandwich, NH-based hikers, many of whom, spurred by Lib’s dynamism, have, in Photo of Elizabeth MacGregor Bates Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu their sixties, seventies and by Constance Emerson Crooker eighties, braved the elements, At Convocation and Reunions 2011, CAROL ROSE bugs and rugged terrain in their quest to bag New IKELER was honored with a special plaque in recHampshire’s 48 highest peaks. At age 92, Lib no lonognition of her faithful service on ger climbs the big ones, but she still enjoys outdoor the Alumni Board. strolls to observe what’s in bloom.

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DOUG AND JAN DORCHESTER moved into a beautiful retirement center, Thirwood Place in South Yarmouth, MA, on December 7, 2009, and are now getting used to living in a retirement community after decades in a home of their own. Jan expects to publish her fifth genealogy this year, and she is active in the Thirwood Chorus and in the swimming program. Doug has been leading a group on “Writ-

DICK STAZESKY attended the 2010 Convocation and there met a Chinese post doctoral visiting scholar who teaches English and Christian culture at Renmin University in Beijing. They became close friends, and she is now his “Chinese daughter.” He also has a

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PAUL L. HAMMER celebrated his 85th birthday in March with a dinner with former seminary colleagues or their spouses and the gift of a book of heart-warming letters, cards, or e-mails from former students. Paul and his wife, Esther, also gathered with their children and grandchildren from Alaska, Virginia, Vermont, and Rochester in June at their Canadian cottage. These events were clouded a bit by a fire in the home of their daughter and Paul’s need for retinal surgery. Paul still enjoys a bit of preaching (in German), teaching in their retirement community, writing letters to the editor, and singing in the church choir. In October, Paul and Esther celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary with a trip to Niagara on the Lake with Carol Rose Ikeler with Dean Attridge

plays of Bernard Shaw. Paul would love to reconnect with friends at plhammer3@juno.com ROBERT E. CUTTINO is the only YDS minster of Baptist origin in South Carolina but, as Robert writes, “somehow they overlooked my Yankee connections and let me be president of the South Carolina Baptist Historical Society, South Carolina Baptist Convention, 25 years trustee at Charleston Southern University and North Greenville University.” He was the only pastor from South Carolina on the Southern Baptists’ “Peace Committee” of 22 from across the country. Robert is the pastor of a great fellowship in Hilton Head, “the tenth mission–turned-church the good Lord let me organize.” Robert’s wife, Molly, is still teaching and playing piano and sometimes organ. Their son, Robert, is head of institutional research at Brenau University in Gainesville, GA and daughter, Libby (Tilson), is head of the arts department at Charlotte’s Providence Day School and an organist-choir master at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Charlotte. Robert writes, “We would welcome seeing anyone with YDS ties coming this way. In thanksgiving for you and the whole YDS experience, I salute all of you.” WILL CAMPBELL has settled into a regular and predictable routine at Richland Place. He can often be seen navigating his own wheelchair slowly along the second-floor hallways, and once in a while he manages to get into an open elevator (though he doesn’t know how to make it go up or down). Mail and visitors continue to be the highlight of each day for Will, and he enjoys regular visits from Brenda, Penny, Webb, Bonnie, and all the rest of the family.

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Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu JAMES H. HARGETT and his spouse, Louilyn Funderburk Hargett, are retired at Pilgrim Place in Claremont, CA. James’s papers have been placed in the archives of the Amistad Research Center and are highlighted on the center’s blog and homepage.

DONALD F. BEISSWENGER lives in Nashville, TN. He married his current wife, Judy, after the death of Joyce. Donald writes, “It takes energy to keep in touch with 10 children and 13 grandchildren all over the world.” Don and Judy work with homeless folks and to stop funding for the School of the Americas in Columbus, GA. They have enjoyed trips to Scandinavia, Minnesota, and California. DAVID E. DURHAM has been a pastor for two years and parts of two others in Great Britain. This past year, he and wife Kathy were in England again when a colleague there died and David stepped into the breech as pastor of a Methodist congregation near Newcastle upon Tyne. MATTHEW FONG is on the fundraising committee of the San Francisco Chinatown YMCA and is an advisor for the Fong Family Association. His son, two daughters and their families, including five granddaughters, all live in San Francisco and are all enjoying good health. ROBERT GENTRY died August 2, 2011, in Sugarland, TX. He had a long record helping the weak and oppressed in his ministry as a United Methodist minister in Texas. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, and their three children: Felicia Gentry Davis, Gloria Gentry Awbrey, and Steve Gentry. JOHN GORSUCH, after years as a parish priest, teamed with wife, Bev, a psychotherapist, to found an ecumenical spiritual center in Seattle. They then spent eight years at the East-West ashram in California before moving to Bellingham, WA. They still do spiritual direction, retreats, and workshops. TED HALSTED helped dedicate a retreat lodge in memory of his parents, Rev. Alfred and Florence Halsted, at a United Methodist camp and retreat center in northern Michigan. He plays violin in a community orchestra and lives in Richmond, IN. Ted is engaged internationally. RUTH FERGUSON HOOKE received the Amherst, MA, Human Rights Commission award for “a lifetime of working for peace and social justice.” Ruth was cited, along with all the 1950s YDS women graduates, as “a woman of courage . . . a pioneer . . . a woman of faith who challenges the future.” Ruth does alternatives to violence work in a Connecticut prison and sings in three choral groups.

JIM PHILLIPS is fortunate enough to live in Hamden, CT, not far from YDS. Reports Jim, “I head over there from time-to-time to find out what’s going on. In that way, I keep from becoming (I hope!) a dinosaur.”

FREDERICK F. JOHNSON and his wife, Joan, live at the World Tennis Center in Naples, FL, and participate in the local Episcopal church.

ously for peace and justice. Nicholas does some supply preaching and teaches adult education courses. His wife is in the choir.

HENRY J. KEATING lives in Winston-Salem, NC. Hank says he has had “more good years with eight grands and six super adult brothers’ and sisters’ children.” Hank is engaged internationally.

DON PRESLAN has resigned as class agent after five years of faithful service in which the Class of 1956 posted an outstanding record of Annual Fund support. Don and wife, Jean, enjoy two months each summer at their cabin (which they built in 1962) in northern MN.

CHARLES A. KENNEDY teaches adult education at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH, and does supply preaching and work with the NH Bible Society. He created a web site “arabkitsch.com,” a database of popular American sheet music since 1790 that stereotypes Arabs, Turks, Persians, etc., “the other anti-Semitism.” WILLIAM R. MARLOW and wife, Betty, live in Riverwoods, a United Methodist retirement community in Lewisburg, PA. They are active in the local UM church, and Bill keeps in shape with water volleyball. He participated in a volunteer mission project in Guatemala and a Katrina project in the Gulf. GEORGE MITCHELL and wife, Genia, wish she didn’t have progressive cerebellar ataxia and that four-year-old grandson Isaac didn’t have PraderWilli Syndrome but are thankful they can do genealogy, enjoy Brit comedies, read P.G. Wodehouse, work in their yard, worship at 1st UMC in Denton, TX, and enjoy family visits. FRANK MULLEN, former class agent, now has an assisted living apartment in Friends Fellowship Community, a Quaker retirement community in Richmond, IN. Frank continues to be his cheerful self and sends classmates greetings. Frank and fellow FFC resident and YDS classmate Ted Halsted recently had a good visit. JOHN NUTTING has a new address and lives in Ormond Beach, FL. ALBERT PENNYBACKER recently relocated to Richmond Place in Lexington, KY, a multi-level independent living retirement community, which provides added care for Martha. He continues to direct the summer New Clergy Program at Chautauqua Institution in NY. NICHOLAS PIEDISCALZI lives in Aptos, CA. “We enjoy our new community, being close to children and grandchildren, and being members of a vibrant, open and affirming congregation that works continu-

JAMES A. SCOTT is retired in Vermont. He enjoys travel with his wife and attended her 55th Yale School of Nursing reunion. DAVID B. WAYNE lives in a house in Rowe, MA, that he and his wife (now deceased) built in the 1970s. For a number of years, he participated in the Pioneer Valley Symphony as a violinist. His son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild live in the Bronx, NY, and his daughter lives in California. He plans to attend a high school reunion in California. RONALD WOODRUFF lives in Woodstock, IL. Ron is senior fire chaplain of McHenry County in Illinois, has three grandsons and is active in Habitat for Humanity, a food pantry, and the Heifer Project. “I’m so busy I don’t have time to commit a decent sin!” ROBERT W. NORTHRUP writes, “After my work in Japan for 10 years and 20 years as executive for the Japan North American Commission on Cooperative Mission, I was the director of Sendai Student Center for a year.” Bob and Shio live in Chapel Hill, NC, and their community includes YDS classmate Lou Martyn and wife. BOARDMAN W. KATHAN served since 1986 as archivist of the Religious Education Association, with four collections at the YDS library; presented a paper on “Horace Bushnell and the RE Movement” for the R.E.A.; completed three entries for the website, “Christian Educators of the 20th Century,” (including Dean Weigle and Hugh Hartshorne); wrote a book on the 200-year history of his local Congregational Church; ran two national family reunions; celebrated his 59th wedding anniversary; returned to the Netherlands in 2003 with his wife and daughter.

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Secretary, John Bullard bullardjm@woffard.edu

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HAROLD C. DOSTER has completed a power-point presentation on the Brush Run Church, first church of the Disciples of Christ (site between Bethany, WV and Washington, PA). A voice narrative will soon be with these pictures and captions. He is also editing an on-line series of chapters in Echoes of Voices from Brush Run. Some eight to ten chapters are in place by noted Disciples authors in each of the specific “Voice” to “Echo” topics. When completed this will be an interesting glimpse of where the Disciples came from, where they are today, and where they are going. This will be published late in 2011. Harold would love to reconnect with friends at dosterhalann@tds.net

ELLEN ALTER’s husband, BOB ’55, died June 19, 2011. In April, while Bob’s quality of life was still good, they visited family and friends in northern India. “We had a wonderful three weeks with our oldest son, Steve, and his family,” writes Ellen. “Many old friends came to call. On Easter we attended the church of which we used to be a part when we lived and worked there.” VERLYN L. BARKER lives in Denver, CO, and keeps active in a local UCC congregation, the Westar Institute and Center for Progressive Christianity, Democratic politics, and support for President Obama. She enjoyed a week in Denver with NICK PIEDISCALZI ‘56 and a mutual friend.

RICHARD HIERS has written an article, “Ancient, Yet Strangely Modern Laws: Biblical Contract and

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Tort Jurisprudence,” that is to be published this fall in the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review. The article is a revised version of a chapter in his book Justice and Compassion in Biblical Law (Continuum, 2009). It compares biblical contract and tort laws with modern legal counterparts, finds many similarities, and demonstrates that such biblical laws are not so archaic as is usually assumed. Also, Richard has just completed a term of several years as chair of the Advisory Committee for the Journal of Law and Religion.

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Secretary, Paul E. Schrading pcschra@verizon.net JUSTO GONZALES has a new book out (see Alumni Books section). The Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH) has just opened a Justo L. González Center for Latino/a Ministries, now being housed at the Orlando Campus of Asbury Theological Seminary. The Center, being officially inaugurated in October, is particularly interested in finding ways to make theological education more readily available (and more relevant!) to Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. and has begun explorations in that direction with the Association of Theological Schools as well as with a number of seminaries and universities. TED KLEIN retired in 2001 after 38 years teaching philosophy at TCU. He moved from a fairly large home near TCU to a condo in downtown Ft. Worth. It is in the block just north of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in which Ted grew up. Ted and wife Wini transferred their membership there from University Christian Church. Both of them became very active, and after a few years Ted was called to be the associate minister. He accepted and is still serving. Wini has just been called to be a trustee.

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Secretary, J. Kenneth Kuntz ken-kuntz@uiowa.edu Hello, classmates, and greetings from Iowa City. I hope that things are going well with you, that you are experiencing the richness of God’s blessing and embracing life’s challenges and opportunities as they come your way. I doubt that for most of us our senior years have as yet become an imposing burden. I’m in the University of Iowa dental clinic more often than I’d prefer, but I don’t consider these moments as the building blocks of a crisis. Perhaps it was because my letter inviting the prose of classmates left less time for reply than is sometimes the case, the responses were rather few.

some regularity they see their daughter Nancy (bipolar) who resides in a group home near Fayette, IA, about 100 miles north of where they live. Ken still feels well connected with YDS since he remains on the Alumni Board and functions as its secretary. He continues to be impressed by the quality of persons who selflessly serve on that board. Ken continues to be profoundly grateful for his years at YDS. PETER C. HODGSON and wife Eva attended Peter’s 55th reunion at Princeton on May 26-29. It was his first college reunion in 55 years and a very rewarding experience to see old friends and meet new ones. In April they participated in a Road Scholar program, tracking the Impressionists from Paris to Normandy to Provence and providing an excellent exposure to three regions of France. Peter has a new book out (see the Alumni Books section). Peter would love to reconnect with friends at peterchodgson@aol.com RALPH BARLOW responded to Yale President Levin’s invitation to address the search committee looking for a new Divinity School dean. He recommended that the new dean build on Dean Harry Attridge’s contributions and move in the direction of preparing YDS grads for a new world, specifically a new North American continent in which Christianity is recessive, not dominant. Also absorbing Ralph’s time and energy in the past year was an academic paper he delivered to Dodeka -- a group of professionals and business folk in the Providence area. His paper compared the control mechanism in Winston Churchill with the servant mechanism in Mohandas Gandhi. Ralph and Evone also attended Ralph’s 55th Reunion at Haverford last May, somewhat disappointed by the diminishing return of alums in his class, but enjoying the input of current faculty. Within their family, Ralph and Evone have tried to be present for sisters and brothers-in-law—far distant from Rhode Island—who experienced loss and physical illness the past year. In retirement, BOB GARTMAN and his wife, Patty, report that their children and their families are doing well. Both have now been retired for 12-15 years. Bob writes, “It’s been a good time of life. We’ve traveled much, enjoyed having our children and grandchildren near at hand. We both read a lot, take an interest in current affairs, volunteer work, church work and staying in touch with friends near and far. Our health continues good even though we’ve both had replacement parts like a hip for Patty and a knee for me. We’ve all lived through difficult times - some of achievement and others of struggle. We’ve tried to be on the progressive side of the issues of our times. Are things getting better? Sometimes I think not, what with endless war, schisms of all sorts with little hope of solution or compromise. Sadly, our grandchildren now in college may face a more difficult world than we. Our prayers are for their generation and global issues even more crucial than those of our times.”

KEN KUNTZ and Ruth keep busy with reading, travel, committee assignments, and coping with ROY NYERE continues to be involved in the lotheir inbox of emails. Also in their retirement resical church and especially in interfaith activities. dence (Oaknoll) they take part in a water aerobics Roy calls himself a “progressive Christian,” as over class thrice weekly, and Ken enjoys playing the against the Republican Party approach that Roy piano. At the end of 2010 Ken completed a lengthy article about Psalms scholarship since 1993. To be published in the July 2012 issue of Currents in Biblical Research, it’s a long article that may be of interest to at least a few readers. Ken and Ruth had a splendid trip to Europe in March 2011 and in October 2011, they attended a Road Scholar [Elderhostel] program in Oregon. Several times a year they Contact us at divinity.classnotes@yale.edu travel to Houston to visit their son Dave, if you are interested in becoming a secretary for your class daughter-in-law Julia, and little grandson or if you have notes to submit. Jack [he was two in May 2011]. And with

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claims “wants to take us back to medieval times.” Roy and his wife attended an interfaith remembrance of 9/11 at a local Jewish temple with Muslim, Christian, and other religious support. Roy writes, “This is a great time to be alive. Bishop Spong is my hero!” ANNE WIRE and husband Hugh were in Korea and China this summer, giving some lectures and teaching rural teachers oral English, respectively. Anne has a new book out. (see Alumni Books section). They still live in Berkeley just north of the campus. DON SKINNER spent the summer globe-hopping and church-salvaging. His local church, a small UCC congregation, verges on coronary arrest, and he’s been engaged in the ecclesiastical version of CPR. Don writes, “Sadly, the 800-pound gorilla in the room that no one wants to address is a pastor who arrived 16 years ago believing he was an interim. But the congregation thought they’d hired a new minister; and neither one ever clarified the relationship. Whether we survive remains to be seen. Check the next issue!” Don’s brother belongs to a dynamic Presbyterian congregation in Scottsdale, AZ, with a vibrant choir. Every three years those desiring to join in launch a week-long concert tour of a different country. The 2011 venue was Spain, so Don imposed himself on the pilgrims and sang along. It was just splendid. Don and his brother toured Scotland for a week before joining the choir in Spain. From cold, wet, and windy to hot, dry, and windy -- and Don loved them both.

Ph.D., U.N.C.-Chapel Hill (four years); professor of English, Ohio University—Athens (36 rich and adventurous years) including Fulbright visiting lecturer—University of Madras and throughout India (one year); visiting professor, Maharishi International University—Iowa (one term); special studies teacher, and Writers’ Center lecturer—Chautauqua Institution, NY (five summers); and, since age 15 till now, both (3) photographer, and (4) writer.

daughter and son and their families nearby. Daughter, Susie, is a self-described “in-the-car mom,” and son, John, is an associate pastor at one of the Moravian Churches in Winston-Salem. Two grandchildren, 10 and 14, provide much joy, and Graham and Sybil now eagerly await the addition of twins forecasted for April.

RICHARD L. DODDS continues a busy and exciting life in “retirement.” He just completed his 14th season since retirement as a National Park Ranger at the Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA. He is now serving a four-year term on the Penney Farms, FL, Town Council (through Dec. 2012) having also served as mayor of the town. He is discovering in both jobs many things that YDS didn’t teach!

REG STACKHOUSE still teaches part-time at Wycliffe College in the Toronto School of Theology and for the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. His number one activity is to be a caregiver for his wife of 60 years, Margaret, who remains in a Neil and Sandy Topliffe chronic care hospital because of a massive berg. As of August 31, 2011, he migrated into “emeristroke three years ago. They celebrated their tus” standing at Emory University, but he has found Diamond Wedding Anniversary at her hospital in a home in retirement in a small but completely sufJune. Both look back on the Yale time as among the ficient cubicle in the Emory University main library. happiest of those 60 years.

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At Convocation and Reunions 2011, FRED BROOKS was honored with the f irst-ever Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service in recognition of his service to YDS over many years.

We note with sorrow the death last April of our classmate Andrew Sorensen. He had retired from the presidency of the University of South Carolina and was about to become president of the Ohio State University Foundation. Our sympathy to Donna.

G. HOLGER (HOGIE) HANSEN and wife Anne celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary in August. They still live in Swarthmore, PA, and are active in the Swarthmore United Methodist Church, where they also sing in the choir. Volunteer activities include their respective Rotary clubs and the local Rotary district. Hogie serves on The Rotary Foundation committee seeking funds to endow Rotary’s World Peace Centers located in several countries around the globe.

KYOKO KOMATSU ISHIKURE had a very successful charity art auction for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami. Kyoko is very grateful for all the artists who donated their works of art, 20 from Switzerland, eight from the UK, two from the USA, and 35 from Japan. Kyoko writes, “I would like you to know that I am living a very full life, helping others and being helped by them.”

The Brothers Huntley celebrate ‘Nana Papa’ via His Saved Pipes. Betts, Reid, John, and Bill Huntley

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BILL HUNTLEY has been the chaplain and professor of reli- Eldon Irving and spouse, Gloria gion at Westminster College in the ones he wishes he could have performed, like for Fulton, MO. He is now professor of reliAdam and Eve, and for Chelsea Clinton. gion at the University of Redlands (CA), still teaching full-time: Old Testament, CHARLES H. HARPER retired in 2000, after 39 Hebrew (language), Asian Religions, and years of pastoral ministry. This year he celebrated GR A H A M RIGHTS has freshman seminars. His passions are travhis 53rd anniversary with wife, Pat. Charles has a been facing the move of eling with wife Helen for several weeks in new book out (see Alumni Books section). his wife, Sybil, who has Fred Brooks with Dean Attridge the summers to a Greek island, and taking Alzheimer’s Disease, to the ELDON L. IRVING served in the local church for California students for short or long trips Special Care Unit at Salem45 years, the last 28 years as senior minister of First to China, Japan, India, Austria, or Great Britain. Bill towne (a Moravian retirement facility in WinstonChristian Church in Duncanville, TX, a suburb swims every day of every season of the year. OccaSalem). She adjusted to her new location the very of Dallas, before retiring in 2004. In 2011, he was sionally he fills in for the minister, preaching in his first day and has gained 30 pounds since the change. awarded “The Distinguished Minister’s Award” by Redlands Presbyterian Church. His two daughters Graham visits frequently and enjoys being part of Brite Divinity School. His published works include have recently returned from decades of teaching this wonderful community. Involvements in church The Life of Christ in Masterpieces of Art and PersonaliEnglish in Taiwan. The topic of Bill’s recent writand community organizations continue as well as ties in the Pews (Stories of Inspiration and Humor). His ing has been weddings: the ones he performed, and responsibilities resulting from being a bishop of the wife, Gloria, who has a degree in art, illustrated the Moravian Church. Graham is blessed to have his latter book. GAVIN MUNRO worked for many years in higher education after returning to New Zealand in 1961. He taught New Testament at the College at Glen Leith and at Knox Theological Hall serving as principal of the college for 10 years until the college closed in 1972. He shared in the faculty of theology of the University of Otago teaching for the B.D. degree and serving two three-year terms as dean of the faculty. Ecumenical activities featured highly throughout Gavin’s career. JIM DAVIS worked at an historically black college, Wilberforce University, after two years as a UCC minister. He has served the University of Denver for 40 years as administrator, professor, and, now, dean of University College, the college of professional and continuing studies.

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DAVID KOEHLER writes that he and Mary Beth are turning their 50th wedding anniversary celebration into a “Jubilee Year” of mini-celebrations before, and six months after, their wedding anniversary. Both plan to attend the class’s 50th year reunion in October 2012.

JIM WHITE of Colorado Springs joined KENT KELLER of Estes Park for backpacking and fly-fishing in Rocky Mountain National Park in August. Jim caught two trout, while Kent scaled two summits. Spouses Patti and Janet enjoyed lunch with other backpackers’ wives. DON SALIERS writes, “My wife, Jane, died in March after a four-year illness. Though emeritus, I have been back teaching and lecturing, writing and playing chamber music. Daughter Emily joined me in France following a Societas Liturgica Congress in Rheims.” LARRY YOUNG continues to enjoy international builds with Habitat for Humanity, most recently in Guatemala. After a lifetime of mental exertion he finds physical activity refreshing and values the camaraderie of these builds. Locally he continues to be “on call” for occasional pastoral duties. BILL GODDARD reports, “I am retired, living in Florida after 57 years in the pastorate. I have published three books: Wonderful Words of Life by Hope Publishing Co., The Seven Voices of God and Just Say The Words, both by Xlibris Press. God is good.” GEORGE DELLBRUEGGE reports that after three years of college teaching in the U.S., he returned to Germany where he served as a pastor, then as a theology professor, including two years in Tanzania. He and Sybille live in Neuendettelsau. JIM HALFAKER is a board member of Northwest Harvest, a food bank system in Washington State that distributed 26,000,000 pounds of food last year. Jim also mentors new development professionals. Having survived two major medical traumas this summer, he is “grateful to be alive to enjoy my grandchildren.”

REID HUNTLEY has integrated four “callings” (a la Richard Niebuhr’s definition of a call) in his career, including: (1) campus minister—special training at YDS; Danforth Foundation campus minister intern, University of Denver (one year); Presbyterian campus minister—College of William & Mary (three happy years); (2) professor of literature:

ALLEN HOLT and his wife, Katherine, live in Canby, OR. “We have three each, of offspring, in-laws, and grandchildren. We attend the church I served from 1962 to 1966 and are looking forward to our 50th anniversary in 2013.”

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ROB PETERS continues to consult with two congregational capital campaigns and to volunteer with the Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ. His remaining time is devoted to his woodshop, reading, and exploring family history in the 19th century, including that of three of four great grandfathers who were pastors in the Christian Connection, an antecedent to the UCC.

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Secretary, Jane Hanger Seeley divinity.classnotes@yale.edu J. BARRIE SHEPHERD is publishing his fourteenth book, Faces By the Wayside (Wipf and Stock, 2012). Following his Faces at the Manger and Faces at the Cross, this volume places the reader in the paths that Jesus walked to experience Jesus’ gospel ministry through the eyes, minds, and emotions of folk whose lives were transformed as Jesus walked their way. Between Mirage and Miracle, collected poems, is under contract from the same publisher. IAN SIGGINS used Xlibris (October 2009) to self-publish his latest book, A Harvest of Medieval Preaching. The Sermon Books of Johann Herolt OP (Disciplulus).

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Secretary, Neil E. Topliffe ntopliffe@comcast.net BROOKS HOLIFIELD was elected in April as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He spoke recently at the University of Frankfurt and will speak in October at the University of Heidel-

DOT KWOK is still a substitute teacher for 12 schools in Florida with students of varying racial and ethnic backgrounds including some from Latin America. Dot writes, “We hope to enlighten our students to be responsible global citizens.” KEN SEBESTA has lived in Rhode Island since 1970. He met his wife, Helen, at Austin College, and they have now completed 45 years of marriage. Ken worked in a mental health center for over 16 years. He now works in Boston as comptroller of the Fund for Public Interest. He and Helen have three children— Erik, Leif and Sherry—and four grandchildren. Neil TOPLIFFE continued to enjoy traveling in the past year with the highlight being two weeks in Italy. Time with family in the Rocky Mountains was also enjoyable. He is active in volunteer activities at church and mentoring recovering alcohol/drug addicts in Grand Rapids. ROBERT TILLER serves on the boards of directors of Churches for Middle East Peace and the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. He is also a member of the Commission on Aging for Montgomery County, MD. He enjoys playing softball, growing tomatoes, and writing letters to the editor. Bob and Elaine reside in Silver Spring, MD. RUTH BENNETT has become an Episcopalian since graduating from YDS. Having spent so much time in the UK in the last 40 years, she gradually made her way from the Methodist church there to the Episcopal Church (USA), and is very happy. She is a member at Grace Episcopal in Madison, NJ, and Hampstead Parish Church, also called St. John’s Hampstead, in London NW3. Essentially she is in New Jersey from the end of September to the end of May and then resides in London the remaining four months. In London, most of her time centers around groups at Hampstead Parish Church and classes in Sacred Art at The National Gallery, usually followed by an art history trip to France or Italy. Back in the States, she is involved in church and art activities, too. This April, after four years of discernment, Ruth became a companion in The Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross, a world-wide Episcopal women’s organization. At Grace she is part of a vibrant centering prayer group. The Metropolitan Museum of Art substitutes for The National Gallery’s wealth of classes while she is here in the U.S.

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Secretary, D. Elaine Tiller tiller64@rcn.com DICK NOLAN and partner/spouse Bob Pingpank continue to live in retirement in the 64-acre John

Knox Village, an inclusive, independent, continuing care retirement community in Pompano Beach, FL. They continue to expand www.philosophy-religion. org and www.nolan-pingpank.com. In 2012 they will celebrate their 57th anniversary as a couple and their third as legally (CT) married. Dick teaches mini-courses in religious/philosophical studies in the Village. In the Greater Fort Lauderdale region they participate in a variety of associations and with friends, such that each day is as full or laid back as one wishes. Dick is somewhat limited by medical nuisances, although Bob enjoys very good health. They attend a monthly Episcopal service held in the Village. YDS alumni are invited to be their luncheon guests in the dining room, especially if interested in this unique type of living; residents are 62+ and live independently or in the assisted living & nursing home residences. Their Scrapbook website includes many pictures. Email them at canon@rtnolan.com if you’d like to visit.

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Secretary, Wylie S. Quinn III vquinn@thechapelofthecross.org

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Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu BONNIE SCOTT JELINEK received a D.Min. from Andover Newton and postgraduate certification in psychodynamic psychotherapy after graduating from YDS. She has served several churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts and is presently one of the pastors at the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church in Wellesley, MA. She has five children and eight grandchildren and no plans for retirement yet. HENRY M. SMITH journeyed to Montgomery, AL, on a beautiful weekend at the end of April to participate in a wonderful celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Southern Poverty Law Center (with about 2,000 other souls) and its impressive accomplishments/victories. He also did his annual sojourn in France (August) where he spent three delightful days out in Bayeux (Normandy) with a lovely French family; took in an excellent exhibition on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (50 years ago!) at the fine Holocaust Memorial in Paris; spent quality time with French friends; and translated an editorial in Le Monde (3 Aug.) titled, “After the debt, stagnation threatens Mr. Obama.” He also spotted a t-shirt, which read: “Life is today.” He was a lecturer in French at UNH (1988-2006) and continues to reside in Durham, NH. WALTER GAFFNEY retired in February 2011 from the Connecticut Department of Social Services as its chief of staff. He is currently working with a federal grant at the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut as the program’s project coordinator. The grant calls for capacity building in the New Haven Public Schools by 10 VISTA members who will expand tutoring services for literacy in the city’s schools. Walter is married to Cheryl Gaffney and they have five children. They reside in Madison, CT.

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Secretary, Jerald L. Kirkpatrick mrstardad@yahoo.com DON CHANDLER owns a piano service business, serves as organist-choirmaster at an Episcopal church in Maryland, and has recently decided to resume his doctoral work in Japanese studies.

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CATHIE KOUTSOGIANE CIPOLLA retired from high school teaching but is now teaching English to a combined class of 7th and 8th graders. PAUL HARRIS spent nine months as the teaching/ missions pastor at Easter Lutheran (ELCA) in Eagan, MN, and three months teaching church history at Tumaini University in Iringa, Tanzania. Paul also serves as project advisor for Radio Furaha and the Microfinance Institute at Tumaini. JOHN HOLBROOK completed an M.A. in administrative sciences at Yale after his studies at YDS, then an M.D. at Harvard. He practiced two years in public health at the New Mexico State Penitentiary; practiced emergency medicine for 20 years in Springfield MA; hospital administrator 1990-1996; software designer 1999-2001; medical analyst for life insurance companies over the last 10 years. He is married and has two grown sons. JERRY KIRKPATRICK is retired but engaged in interim ministry. GARY AND LYNN MILLER are both retired. Gary has retired from a career in college teaching and chaplaincy and, Lynn, from college teaching and school administration. JUDY PUGH STONE is retired from her social work career in New Haven. KERMIT WESTERBERG is semi-retired and doing some consulting. JOE CASE has been dean of financial aid at Amherst College for the past 30 years. He recently ended 15 years on the editorial board of the Journal of Student Financial Aid, the last four as executive editor. SANDRA FORRESTER DUFRESNE leads a quiet life in retirement. She continues to respond well to chemotherapy plus prayer, in equal doses, to combat her metastatic cancer. She stays as often as possible at her place in Rehoboth Beach, DE, including riding out Hurricane Irene in August. She lives in Philadelphia with her younger daughter and travels often to California to visit her older daughter, who is expecting the first grandchild in January. BOB EMMAUS is completing 30 years of servant leadership in the nursing home industry, reading David Kelsey’s Eccentric Existence and participating

in an emerging Yale Divinity ministry at St. Andrew’s Episcopal in Greensboro, North Carolina. RON EVANS and wife Janet retired in 2007 to “Pilgrim Place,” Claremont, CA, an international community of clergy and academics. They enjoy music, lectures, college courses and engaging conversations. They travel east for YDS Advisory Board meetings and to visit New England every so often. SAM GLADDING continues to chair the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University and to be active in his local United Methodist church where he occasionally preaches. His youngest son, Timothy, is a junior at Yale, so they make regular trips to New Haven. SAM LAMBACK continues to work part-time in retirement for the South Georgia United Methodist bishop with opportunities for banjo picking, Bible teaching, and projects around the house. Two grandchildren are in Atlanta and two in Germany. Gini continues teaching English as a Second Language to Japanese in Macon. SANDY WYLIE retired to 3 Wembly Circle in Bella Vista, AR, on June 1 after a 44-year career in the United Methodist Church. Wife Susan continues to work three days a week in Tulsa. Life is good.

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Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu WILL WILLIMON is looking forward to retirement in a couple of years after long service as a university chaplain and now a United Methodist bishop. RICH REIFSNYDER is a Presbyterian pastor in Pennsylvania. BOB JONES is serving a church in Dayton, OH and undertaking intentional interim ministry training. DEAN DENNISTON, JR. is retired from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, where he was director of civil rights. DAN AND SUSAN ‘69 GARRETT are now both retired from serving as United Methodist clergy.

it hosted an internabroad continued tional art auction to support victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami. “It is my hope the gallery functions as a small oasis in this troubled world,” says Ishikure.

Also in South America is Andrew McMillan ’80 M.Div., who has been in Colombia for almost a quarter century. The main church he and his wife, Kathy, planted in Medellin is rocking with 6,000 people, and they have planted another 14 churches round about.

Also in Japan is Hidekazu Utsunomiya ‘64 M.Div., ‘71 S.T.M., retired in Tokyo. In 2007 he started editing a small independent monthly journal in which retired teachers and workers can write anything relevant to their interests and serious concerns in their lives. “There are so many retired people in Japan who do not know how to live their second life after retirement,” writes Utsunomiya. “Each contributor types, proof reads, and pays for the expense. I edit and return two copies, and they copy them again and send them to their friends.”

Four thousand kilometers away, in Darwin, Australia, lives Jana Norman ’93 M. Div. Norman first went overseas to take a break from work but eventually found herself working for the Iona Community in Scotland, then in congregations in London and Australia. “A most satisfying development,” she reports, “was an ‘alternative resource community’ in Darwin, which now buzzes with a permaculture community garden, coffee shop, and recycled goods store all based on practices of sustainability, hospitality, discernment, connectivity, and spaciousness.” For over 50 years Bill Yoder ’68 B.D. has been working in Thailand as an educator. In 1985 he was appointed dean of the McGilvary College of Divinity at Payap University, in Chiang Mai, retiring as dean emeritus in 2006. “The high points of my career,” writes Yoder, “have been the rebuilding of the College of Divinity between 1989 and 1992 and the institution of the International Master of Divinity program taught in English in 2003. Yoder is now retired, living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Under the auspices of the Beijing Yale Club, Jennie Ling ’61 M.A.R. and George Ling ’60 B.D. became been involved with the Kickstart scholarship program in 2005, which George serves as co-chair. Designed for rural high school graduates who have gained admission to universities but cannot afford the cost of attendance, Kickstart gives selected scholars the first year of full tuition, helps them find work-study jobs for the other three years, and mentors them all four years. Also in Beijing, since August 2011, is Peter Petite ’87 M. Div., a founding faculty member of the International Division of Beijing No. 2 Middle School (“middle” being equivalent to “senior high”). He teaches English to Chinese students who are committed to attending university in the United States. Two alumni have taken their faith and ventured into the international art world: William Ng ’05 M.A.R. in China and Kyoko Komatsu Ishikure ’59 M.R.E. in Japan. Ng is a Franciscan friar now living in Hong Kong. “I have been privileged to put my YDS experience into practice,” writes Ng. “With theological training in the study of religion and the arts, I am able to design and consult on creative services to various local church projects.” He feels that his engagement with formation ministry and itinerant preaching is greatly enriched by his orientation to spirituality in arts.

BENJAMIN AUNE is president and CEO of Operation Access, a San Francisco nonprofit that arranges donated surgical care for low-income, uninsured

Ishikure runs an art gallery in Tokyo that is mostly focused on assisting young artists to exhibit their works. Additionally, the gallery hosts various humanitarian events. Last spring, for example,

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Duff says he’s “still finding people and offering them a better life.” While living between Sydney and Sao Paulo, Watkins has also found time to serve as governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia and, until recently, as president of the Yale Club of Sydney.

Further west, in North East India, recent graduate Kedo Peseyie ’11 S.T.M. is the chaplain at Baptist College Kohima. There, he works with eight small groups in discipleship and leadership development, offering certificate-level courses and overseeing four weekly chapel services. In addition to his chaplaincy and involvement in local church life, Peseyie is publishing a collection of short stories that reflects on the religious, social and cultural life in Nagaland. “I am immensely grateful to YDS,” writes Peseyie, “for the training I received and to the financial sponsors who made it possible.” In Africa are Evalyn M. Wakhusama ’01 M.Div., ’02 S.T.M.; Aidan Kwame Ahaligah ’11 S.T.M.; and Victor AttaBaffoe ’93 S.T.M. Wakhusama is the founder/executive director of the Women’s Initiative in Knowledge and Survival (WIKS), a Kenyan NGO that, among other things, in 2009 established the Nambale Magnet School in Nambale, Western Province, Kenya for children orphaned or made vulnerable by the AIDS crisis. Also in Kenya, Ahaligah currently teaches theology at the Presbyterian University of East Africa, near Nairobi. “Having served as a pastor in some of the poorest communities in Ghana prior to my coming to YDS,” writes Ahaligah, “my studies put into perspective what it entails to be a minister and theologian in communities whose aspirations to break from the shackles of injustice are inextricably linked to their faith in Jesus Christ.” In Ghana is Atta-Baffoe, dean of St. Nicholas Seminary, in Cape Coast. He is a member of the Inter-Anglican Doctrinal and Theological Commission, chairman of the African Network of Institutions of Theological Education Preparing Anglicans for Ministry (ANITEPAM), and served on the Inter-Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission. This is just a glimpse into the lives of some of the many YDS alumni who have followed a call that locates them beyond the borders of America— bespeaking the fact that YDS is an internationally sensitive institution with a global reach and impact, and a mission that holds alumni together across time and space. Perhaps Goethe put it best when he said, “The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”

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patients living in the Bay Area. Since OA’s founding in 1993, over 8,000 patients have received free care through the OA network, which includes 90 community clinics that refer patients, 33 participating hospitals where the donated care is provided, and over 1,100 medical volunteers who donate their time and skills to help others. Recently, OA was selected by the San Francisco Business Times as the 2011 winner of the Health Heroes Award for community impact by an organization. DAVID L. WHEELER is senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Portland, OR. He has taught systematic theology in the U.S. and Latin America. Wife Carol has worked in mental health administration. Children Clare and Micah are musicians in New Orleans. WESLEY H. POLING finished a 10-year stint as president of Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, KY, in the summer of 2004. Since then, he has been serving as director of capital giving for the graduate school as a member of the Yale Development Office staff. Wesley writes, “It has been greatly rewarding and enjoyable to return to Yale after an 18-year sojourn away.”

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Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu BRUCE SCHUNDLER and wife Sara are still working as seasonal park rangers for the National Park Service. They retired from the “real world” in 2005 when The Schundler Company was sold. Bruce had been President/CEO of the company for 27 years. “We were hoping to retire early. And we so did!” Bruce and Sara have worked at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and at Mesa Verde National Park for two years, and now are at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island for the second year. They get to live in different areas of the country for a few months while working very hard for 4-6 months . . . and then retire again every fall! “During the summers, we get to work with thousands of people every day and end up each day with memories of how we’ve been able to help others enjoy our national parks and monuments. In so many ways, we’re living our dream!” JIM TURNER retired as chief counsel of the Committee on Technology in January 2009 and immediately joined the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities as senior counsel and director of energy programs. See www.linkedin.com/pub/jimturner/0/a92/685 for his other activities and what he has done since YDS. He and his wife, Betty Lee Turner ’71, live in McLean, VA. BILL SOMPL ATSK Y-JA RM A N was recently awarded the William Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership in Environmental Justice by

Presbyterians for Earth Care. His work in caring for God’s creation dates back to 1988 when he was asked to carry the first staff portfolio on Environmental Justice for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). “It has been a labor of love. Courses at the then Yale School of Forestry on the History of Conservation and Sociology of Natural Resources during my years at YDS helped plant a seed.” Now, Bill is the coordinator for Social Witness Ministries in the PCUSA Compassion, Peace, and Justice Ministry that includes environmental ministries. BRAD HOLT is a college professor in

Minneapolis. WILLIAM S. BEERY is “tapering down” into retirement by building a house with a dock on the coast of North Carolina, close to the Intra Coastal Waterway (the gateway to the Atlantic). He does part-time consulting in executive and organizational development, mostly with a European client, allowing nice trips with his wife, Ellen. He assists with their local parish and supplies regularly to parishes that cannot support full-time clergy. William will soon start some counseling as a pastoral counselor. Two of his four children are married, and they will soon have grandchild number four. William sings baritone with a barbershop chorus, races sailboats, and is learning to play golf.

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Secretary, Kenneth W. Clapp kclapp@catawba.edu

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in human rights and outreach in Latin America for 28 years with International Christian Solidarity for Human Rights in Central America and the Caribbean. Tom received the YDS Alumni Award for Distinguished Congregational Ministry in 2006 and has received 14 human rights and service awards for his continued human rights efforts in Latin America.

Secretary, Richard O. Johnson roj@nccn.net

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Secretary, Paige L. Smith PaigeLSmith@aya.yale.edu Hail ’76ers! Your Class of ’76 Secretary Paige Lindsey Smith received a LOT of news this year from you guys! Keep in mind that our 35th Reunion and Convocation will be Wednesday through Friday, October 24-26, 2012. We have a Cluster Reunion with ’77 and ’78. Now here is the news . . . RICHARD COGLEY has just completed a lengthy tenure as chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University where he teaches the history of Christianity in Europe and North America. Before coming to SMU, he taught at North Carolina State University, Loyola Marymount, and Reed College. JEANNE DEVINE is now at Berkeley United Methodist Church in Austin, TX, and is thrilled to be near her grandchildren. As an alumna of Yale College ’72, she volunteers with the Yale Alumni Schools Committee to recruit high school seniors for Yale. Jeanne is still singing Sacred Harp music and was introduced to that by Mary Kay Will back in the YDS Common Room. Doesn’t THAT bring back memories, y’all!? Another of the original Sacred Harp Singers, Ray Kiser, is at Lake Travis United Methodist Church in Austin. Jeanne sees David Johnson on a regular basis since he teaches at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and recently sent Jeanne a great intern from APTS.

WILLIAM L. MARTIN retired in 2010 from St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Westborough, MA, where he served as priest for nearly a decade. He and his wife, Gail, have moved to Jim Thorpe, PA, and William currently serves as part-time priest-in-charge at St. Brigid’s Episcopal Church in Nazareth, PA.

NORMA COOK EVERIST returned to Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, IA, in autumn 2011 after a guest professorship at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, last spring. This will be her 33rd year as professor of church and ministry. Norma has two recent books out, Transforming Leadership (Fortress, 2008) and Church Conflict: From Contention to Collaboration (Abingdon, 2004). Follow her blog, “Conversations on the Church’s Vocation in the Public World.”

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Secretary, Joseph M. Freeman jfreeman@christthesavior.org

DOUGLAS HALVERSON lives as an C. ARTHUR BR ADLEY served for Norma Cook Everist Anglican Benedictine in Menomonie, 20 years in pastoral ministry in ConWI. He served until spring 2011 as the Oxford Uninecticut. At YDS Arthur’s studies in American civil versity Alumni Society secretary for Minnesota/ religion and black and women’s theology proved Western Wisconsin and has been a university chaphelpful in the second half of his career as he moved lain, professor, and Benedictine monk. He sends from pastoral ministry to denominational ministry kind greetings and loving thoughts to every one of in Central Illinois. Arthur is retired and living in a the YDS Class of ’76. retirement center in Connecticut. [In the 2011 Spectrum, C. Arthur Bradley was incorrectly identified. We regret the error.] JACK A. SAARELA began a term in August as interim pastor at the Lutheran campus center at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania after completing a two-year stint as the interim Lutheran pastor at Luther House at Yale. This marks his 26th year in campus ministry. He continues to live in Wyncote, PA, near Philadelphia. MICHAEL HEATH has launched a new website, www.revmichaelheath.com, as part of his counseling center, Pine Ridge Pastoral Counseling Services, that allows visitors to more easily access his mental health segments on 9WSYR television’s Bridge Street.

DICK CLAY practices law in Louisville KY. His wife, Elizabeth, a graduate of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, is active at Louisville’s Second Presbyterian Church. They have a son at Connecticut College, one at Columbia College in Chicago, one still playing high school football, and a daughter, a recent Davidson graduate, who teaches English and coaches field hockey. Dick serves on the board of the Speed Art Museum and on the board of Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, KY. He invites us all to visit the best-preserved Shaker village in the country, well worth an overnight visit. BEVERLEY A. NITSCHKE, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in liturgical studies and historical theology, has served for years as a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in both campus and congregational ministries. Beverley is now pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Petawawa, Ontario (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada). EARL E. JOHNSON served as the national spiritual care coordinator for the American Red Cross from January 2002 until summer 2011. He deployed 53 chaplains via the American Red Cross Disaster Response to the tornado-stricken Midwest and South. An ordained Disciples minister and board-certified chaplain, Earl has also served Disciples and UCC churches in Missouri and New York. He helped develop the Psychological First Aid curriculum and its version for military families and the National Guard. Earl is now in the doctoral program at the Pacific School of Religion and is one of several YDS religion bloggers for Huffington Post. LEE HARDGROVE has retired from United Methodist ministry and U.S. Army chaplaincy after three years of active duty including a tour in Afghanistan. He and his wife have moved to Rhode Island to be near family. They enjoy touring the Newport mansions and are involved with the International Tennis Hall of Fame—but not, he adds, because of their tennis talents. Lee helps with family support for the US Navy in Newport, volunteers at the local senior center, and leads “Spirituality and Recovery” sessions at an addiction treatment facility. PAIGE LINDSEY SMITH enjoyed time spent with Janet Edwards in September when she attended son Fitz’s Pittsburgh wedding, a Buddhist-MexicanNative-American-and-even-sorta-Jewish ceremony in the back yard of the kids’ rehabbed house in North

KENNETH L. JACOBS is assistant general counsel at Crane Co. in Stamford, CT. Last year he established the Kenneth L. and Elizabeth H. Jacobs Scholarship to support YDS students preparing for the pastoral ministry. BRUCE GROB is the executive director of the North Florida Susan G. Komen affiliate. Previously, he spent five years implementing an HIV and AIDS prevention education program through the Anglican Church in South Africa. He has been involved in nonprofit work, education, and health care for most of his career. TOM NEILSON is currently senior pastor of First Congregational UCC, Council Bluffs, IA, after two years of semi-retirement in Texas. He has worked

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Braddock, PA. Fitzhugh’s dad, F. Lewis Shaw ‘77, now in Boulder, CO, attended with his wife, Tina. Paige is currently very active with the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Society of Alabama Archivists. RICH ISRAEL has spent most of the last 35 years in Cleveland, OH, in ministries relating to social justice including working for school desegregation and public education, advocating for the elderly in longterm care, and running an agency that sent chaplains to hospitals and other institutions in Northern Ohio. Currently, Rich is the associate rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, a position made possible by the Lutheran-Episcopal agreement, “Called to Common Mission.” Rich is married to Lois Annich ’78. They have a son, Tim, and a daughter, Molly, who are both artists and studying in Pennsylvania. Rich believes that they intend to maintain the family vow of poverty! He asks any of us who come to Cleveland to give Lois and him a call.

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Secretary, Susan W. Klein Susanklein51@earthlink.net The class of 1977 continues its sojourn through life, offering gifted leadership in many areas of church and society. Warm greetings to each of you, and keep sending me your emails. BETSY DAVIDSON SLOANE is working in Cambridge, MA, on the staff of King’s Chapel Boston. She is married to writer/ teacher Wic and has two adult children, both of whom live in the Boston area. KRISTIN FOSTER AND FRANK DAVIS celebrated the marriage of their older daughter, Tyler, this summer in Minneapolis. Kristin is now serving on the YDS Alumni Board. CHRIS GLASER started a weekly blog in February entitled, “Progressive Christian Reflections.” He posts on Wednesdays at www.chrisglaser.blogspot. com. He contributed an article on lections for World AIDS Day to a new lectionary, Preaching God’s Transforming Justice, and has been asked to contribute to Feasting on the Word. He has published 12 nonfiction books and hopes to publish the novel he’s currently writing. He’s enjoyed renewing his friendships with classmate Kim White and Marie Fortune ’76. See www.chrisglaser.com for more information. BRUCE SYLVESTER, another of our prolific writers, says, “I write to you today from Trieste, Italy, where I am spending the week for no good reason except that it is here, on the Adriatic, and my house in Hungary is lovely but landlocked. So I see sea this week and head back to the countryside on Sunday to continue my internet-based life as a medical journalist. No one knows/cares where I am, and most people think I live in Florida, my last USA stop. My young grandsons in Florida wish I lived there instead of here, but since I was only half-alive there, I will stay here—perhaps ‘for the duration.’” ANN OWENS BRUNGER writes that after graduation she was ordained in the Presbyterian Church USA. She’s had diverse ministries and began as the director of an older adult center in Ridgewood, Queens. Moving to Tennessee, she was pastor of Highland Presbyterian Church in Maryville for 20 years, hospice chaplain for six years, and is now interim minister at Graystone Presbyterian Church in

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Knoxville. When she visits her father-in-law, also a YDS grad, in Claremont, she loves visiting with Joan Forsberg, the mentor for so many of us women in our class (and beyond). LEONARD HUMMEL sends warm greetings to our class from Gettysburg, PA, where he is professor of pastoral theology and pastoral care at the Lutheran Theological Seminary. Teaching both in the areas of religion and health, as well as pastoral formation, he has three manuscripts in process. Lenoard will soon have a new book out, Chance, Necessity, Love: An Evolutionary Theology of Cancer, which will be published by Westminster/ John Knox Press. An article, “Formation Amidst War and Peace: Strategies for Theological Integration in the Battlefield and Borough of Gettysburg” will appear soon in the Wabash Journal. Another book is in the working stage, Increased Devotion: The Religious Meanings of Gettysburg. DIETER KUCHENBECKER is a pastor in the parish of Schalmersdorf, about 40 miles north of Hamburg, Germany. He is married to Hannelore, an architect. Their daughter, Irene, is 15 years old. He hopes to be present for our 35th cluster reunion in 2012. PATRICIA LULL is now the executive director of the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches, a Minnesota nonprofit that connects congregations around justice and anti-poverty concerns. She writes, “I’m so grateful for this opportunity to live out my Christian convictions in an interfaith context and wouldn’t be here without my theologically broadening experience at YDS.” WILK MILLER wrote on one of the occasionally rainy days in San Diego that the church he pastors, First Lutheran Church, serves a morning meal each Friday for 266 persons, and another meal on Mondays. In addition, this compassionate community offers free medical, acupuncture, dental, legal, social services, and a hospice program, for those afflicted by poverty and homelessness. He writes, “We strive to be ‘the heart of Christ in the heart of the city’, but this is not newsworthy, it is simply the day-byday gift of doing ministry in Jesus’ name—that, of course, is newsworthy.” STEVE SPRINKLE is in his 18th year at Brite Divinity School and is enjoying a sabbatical year. Steve has a new book out (see Alumni Books section). In addition to his work with the Academy of Religious Leadership and the Association of Theological Field Education, he is serving as theologian in residence at the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas. He and his partner of 12 years, Rob, have a great English bulldog,

Winston. Steve was the first openly gay scholar at Brite—and the first to be tenured.

in the nation cultivating and promoting awareness of fine craft.

SUSAN KLEIN had a great sabbatical at Eden Seminary in St. Louis as pastor-in-residence and is now back at St. Alban’s Church in Westwood, across the street from UCLA. Among other ministries, she is now ministering in the largest women’s jail in South Central L. A. Her daughter has moved back to L. A., which is a delight.

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ELEANOR SCOTT MEYERS has been retired for years and lives at Pilgrim Place, an ecumenical community of retired persons in Claremont, CA. She reports that people come to PP from many walks in life; however, everyone there has been in some form of life-long service and outreach to others. “It is a soul-filled, inspiring place where 320 of us share a common commitment to social justice, peaceful living and prophetic environmentalism during this special time of our lives.” Her years as a theological educator continue to bring Eleanor a sense of gratitude for the opportunities for good work in years past. She gives thanks daily for the skill and time to be an active painter, as she hopes to place the beauty of the land before us as a reminder of the creative spirit that shines forth for us in the midst of whatever we meet on life’s journey. She is well and happy and invites classmates to drop in and visit at Pilgrim Place!

Secretary, Jerry W. Henry jerry.henry@fundraisingcounsel.com

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A SAMPLING OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY ALUMNI By Timothy Sommer ’13 M.Div.

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JAN HAMILL is trying some new ministries after 30 years of parish ministry with the Episcopal Church. She writes, “As chaplain at Copper Ridge, an EMA facility for the memory impaired, I am experimenting with Godly Play story telling methods with the residents. It’s a Contact us at divinity.classnotes@yale.edu new way of doing church for me! And, as direcif you are interested in becoming a secretary for your class tor of Episcopal Service Corps-Maryland, I am or if you have notes to submit. re-discovering the energy and imagination of young people committed to a volunteer year in the City of Baltimore. Mark Gatza and I live in KENDRICK NORRIS graduated in May from the Bel Air, MD and have two wonderful young adult C.G. Jung Institute of New York. He is now a cerchildren, Meg and John.” tified Jungian Analyst and continues as the senior DAVID B. WHEELER has been leading the charge minister of the First Congregational Church of Guilfor the Draw the Line Minnesota Citizens Commisford, CT, where he has served for 34 years. sion with 18 statewide public hearings on congressional and legislative redistricting. Final maps and a report will be submitted to the judicial panel. Secretary, Vaughan D. McTernan mcternav@gmail.com JAMES MEREDITH DAY is professor of human development and the psychology of religion at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is coeditor of the Archive for the Psychology of Religion: Secretary, Barbara Kay Lundblad The Journal of the International Association for the lundblad@uts.columbia.edu Psychology of Religion, senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of CUNY, RON HOOKER preached at Bethany Memorial and has been a frequent speaker on the Faith and Church (Disciples of Christ) in Bethany, WV, where Life series at The Memorial Church, Harvard Uniclassmate SCOTT THAYER serves as pastor and versity. James is married to Birte, from Germany, a chaplain at Bethany College, to open the 2011-12 acateacher of religion and international policy analyst, demic year. He also talked to religion majors at the and father to Julia, Jonathan, and Jacob. He recently college who are interested in continuing their edureconnected, joyfully, with Yalie Charlotte Still cation at the seminary level. Noble, via Facebook! http://uclouvain.academia. Hooker’s favorable review of edu/JamesMDay/About. the book The Shack, by WilANDREW MCMILAN has been in Colombia for alliam Young, was printed in most a quarter of a century, planting churches. Marthe book and generated exried to Kathy, the couple have two sons in college. tensive communication with YDS classmates.

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Secretary, Paul E. Stoble TER RY THOM AS PRIM ER is pes2@uackron.edu entering her 16th year as a chaplain with Springpoint Senior Living, FR EDERICK DAV IE joined the largest provider of senior adult Union Theological Seminary on Barbara Rossing with Dean Attridge housing in New Jersey. She proAug. 15, 2011 as executive vice vides spiritual care for a continuing president. In this capacity, he care retirement community and two assisted living serves as an adviser and assistant to the president for communities. In 2007 she completed a D.Min from the structure and administration of the executive ofWesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. fice, strategic planning, institutional advancement, Her dissertation topic was “God’s Oldest Friends: and vision implementation. He also serves as the adAging and Spirituality.” Since graduation, she and ministrative center for all the work of the president, a D.Min. colleague were invited to teach a summer coordinating the efforts of executive office staff and intensive class, Introduction to Chaplaincy, in 2010 senior staff in relation to the president. He came to and 2012. She has a strong interest in spirituality and Union from the Arcus Foundation, where he served creativity that has led to diverse projects with staff as interim executive director and senior director of and residents to deal with grief. In addition, a sethe social justice and LGBT programs. lection of her quilts is hanging in the community as well as in Scheide Hall at Princeton Seminary as part of a rotating exhibit. Her husband, Ben, continues Secretary, Paula K. Ritchie as head of Rare Books and Special Collections at the divinity.classnotes@yale.edu Princeton University Library, and her two sons are almost finished with college.

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JIM HACKNEY is managing partner of Alexander Haas, a nonprofit fundraising consultancy, and has become a trustee of the American Craft Council, the oldest nonprofit

theran School of Theology at Chicago, was honored with the alumni award for Distinction in Theological Education

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Secretary, Mary-Jo Romberger Cliff divinity.classnotes@yale.edu At Convocation and Reunions 2011, BARBARA ROSSING, professor of New Testament at the Lu-

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Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu ELIZABETH KRENTZ-WEE completed 12 years as pastor of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in New Canaan, CT and then went on disability for a time. She trained with the Interim Ministry Network and is now in her 13th month of her first interim. She is back to chairing her local Lutheran Candidacy Committee. She is expecting a grandchild in December 2011. LARRY GOLEMON has been appointed the executive director of the Washington Theological Consortium, which works with over a dozen theological schools and institutions from Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical traditions. It offers cross-registration between hundreds of courses per year, one of the largest library sharing programs in the country, and diploma programs in ecumenical and Muslim-Christian studies. Golemon, a Presbyterian, co-authored the Carnegie Foundation study of theological education, “Educating Clergy,” and promises to bring enhanced research and pedagogical skills to the Consortium’s work. GREGORY C. HIGGINS recently published Profiles in Discipleship (Paulist Press). The book explores 12 “images” or types of Christian discipleship that have guided the thought and action of two-dozen influential figures in the Christian tradition. Combining history, theology, and spirituality, the book draws upon the riches of the Christian tradition to shed light on the crucial question of how to live a life of faithful Christian discipleship in today’s world.

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Secretary, Eugene C. McAfee mcafee@post.harvard.edu Members of the class of 1985 reunited on the Quad last October for our 25th reunion, and great was the rejoicing! We discovered that the years have taken their toll in some undeniable ways, but also that grace has abounded in our lives, and the balance has tipped in our favor. We continue to serve congrega-

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O. WESLEY ALLEN JR. ’90 M.Div. edited The Renewed Homiletic (Fortress, 2010). In the book the pillars of the New Homiletic movement of the 1970s and 80s (David Buttrick, Fred B. Craddock, Eugene L. Lowry, Henry H. Mitchell, and Charles L. Rice) revisit their accomplishments and consider their relevance for preaching in the early 21st century. Two younger homiletical scholars respond to each essay. A DVD of sermons by representatives of the New Homiletic is included. HUGH BARBOUR ’52 Div., ’52 Ph.D. contributed the article entitled ‘The Sermon on the Mount in the Radical Reformation’ to the Festschrift publication honoring Larry Ingle called Keeping Us Honest, Stirring the Pot (Kimo Press, 2011). MICHAEL BARNWELL ’99 M. Div, ’05 Ph.D. published his first book, The Problem of Negligent Omission: Medieval Action Theories to the Rescue (Brill, 2010). Barnwell argues that negligent omissions are philosophically problematic since they seem not to qualify as voluntary despite their being blameworthy. To solve this problem, he constructs a model for explaining the voluntariness of negligent omissions, resulting in an original solution to the problem that also demonstrates the utility of appealing to historical approaches to solve philosophical and theological problems. DIANNE BILYAK ’06 M.A.R. recently released a book of poems, Against the Turning (Amherst Writers and Artists Press, 2011). The book was written in memory of Bilyak’s advisor, the late ISM Professor Lana Schwebel, and the cover photo was taken by Joseph Primo ’06 M. Div. The poems grapple with what happens when we fail to love or love fails us. Bilyak has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and excerpts of her interviews with poets are on the PSA’s website: www. poetrysociety.org. Her website is www.inthewayback.com. BARBARA BLODGETT ’87 M.Div, ’00 Ph.D. has a new book out, Becoming the Pastor You Hope to Be (The Alban Institute, March 2011). The book urges pastors to develop practices that will help them become more excellent ministers. After serving as director of supervised ministries at YDS, Blodgett joined the national staff of the United Church of Christ, where she is minister for vocation and formation. DAVID R. CARTWRIGHT ’65 B.D., recently published a volume of cycle B sermons for Pentecost through Proper 12, entitled Eyes of Faith (CCS Publishing, 2011). JAIME CLARK-SOLES ’93 M. Div, ’00 Ph.D., has published Engaging the Word: The New Testament and the Christian Believer (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). Clark-Soles invites seminarians, laity, and church leaders to find common doctrinal ground by considering the various debates, the reasons they persist, the implications of each, and how they pertain to Christian identity and faith within the larger contemporary culture. PETER COOKSON ’10 M.A.R. is co-author of the book Hearts on Fire (Hummingbird, 2011) written with Jill Iscol. The book tells the stories of twelve visionaries “igniting idealism into action.” MARY DEELEY ’78 M.Div. has two recently published books. Mothers, Lovers, Priests, Prophets, and Kings: What the Old Testament Tells Us About God and Our-

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selves (Liguori Press, 2010) explores the world of the Hebrew Scriptures to provide a deeper appreciation of the nature of Scripture as a Living Word, a greater understanding of the connection between God in the Old Testament and God in the New, and a better awareness of the multifaceted nature of God’s interaction with us. Daybreaks Advent 2010: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas (Liguori Press, 2010) is part of Liguori’s popular Daybreaks series, offering a reflection for every day of the Advent and Christmas season. Reflections are not lectionarybased so can be used again and again. JONATHAN DUDLEY ’09 M.A.R. was much in the news after publication of his book Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics (Crown, April 2011), which argues that faith groups that “use” the Bible to condemn homosexuality are using self-serving double standards. JUDITH DUPRÉ ’11 M.Div. is the author of Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, Art and Life (Random House, 2010), which won a Catholic Press Association award for “Best Book on Spirituality.” Dupré takes the reader inside the Virgin Mary’s world in ancient Palestine while showing how thoroughly she inhabits the twenty-first century. She touches on Mary’s Jewish roots, veneration by Muslims, and powerful presence in Hispanic communities. The joys of friendship, nature of surrender, and dignity of work are explored in 59 illustrated essays. HARRY EBERTS ’51 B.D. and his brother PAUL EBERTS ’56 B.D. followed up their 2009 book The Early Jesus Movement and Its Parties with the 2011 release of The Early Jesus Movement and Its Congregations (YBK Publishers). The book builds on their first book to trace how these major parties struggled with each other and various Roman civil and other authorities in building permanent congregations (ekklesia) in six major Eastern Mediterranean cities—Jerusalem, Rome, Alexandria, Ephesus, Philippi, and Corinth. CHARLES FARHADIAN ’91 M. Div. edited Introducing World Christianity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), an interdisciplinary introduction offering a global overview of the worldwide spread and impact of Christianity. It contains detailed historic and ethnographic material, showing how broad themes within Christianity have been adopted and adapted by Christian denominations within each major region of the world. BECKY GARRISON ’92 M.Div. published three books in 2010 and 2011: Jesus Died For This? (Zondervan, August 2010) is a travelogue of a religious satirist’s search for the risen Christ. Starting From Zero With 0$ (Seabury Books, September 2010) describes how leaders with a heart for alternative ministries fund their passion and build communities that will last. And Ancient Future Disciples (Seabury Books, October 2011), a follow-up to Starting from Zero with 0$, raises the question that, while fresh expressions of church may offer a fresh take on ancient Anglican tradition and worship, what difference are they making for the people who call them their church home? FRANCIS GEDDES ’52 B.D. published a new book, Contemplative Healing: The Congregation as Healing Community, with the online publisher iUniverse.com (February 2011) Marcus Borg wrote the Foreword, and Larry Dossey, M.D. wrote the Afterword. Jesus introduced healing into the Judaism of his day, and during (continued on page 45)

tions great and small, and our various ministries take us to hospitals, hospices, assisted-living facilities, schools, radio, and the Internet. We share our lives with our spouses and partners, children, grandchildren, stepchildren, and pets, and we seek to live out God’s call to justice and peace in our neighborhoods, communities, states, and provinces.

the church’s first 300 years healing was an important spiritual practice. Geddes shows that everyone can be a healer, science and healing need not be at odds, and that healing is grounded in love. Chris Glaser ’77 M.Div. has written another book, The Final Deadline: What Death Has Taught Me about Life (Morehouse, 2010). John Shelby Spong writes that this book “ultimately transforms [death’s] sting into a stimulus for a renewed commitment to living.” Glaser views death as The Final Deadline, one that insists we “get it” or “get it done”—whatever “it” is—during our lifetimes. The book comes on the heels of his 2009 book, As My Own Soul: The Blessing of Same Gender Marriage (Seabury).

MARION KANOUR currently serves as the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Boonsboro, a small, affirming congregation in the Lynchburg, VA area. She and her partner live in Nelson County, VA on a small farm (three Jerseys, 12 laying hens, and several acres of organic gardens). Marion is the dean of convocation (2nd term) and a member of the Commission on Ministry. GENE MCAFEE nears the eight-year mark as pastor of Faith UCC in Richmond Heights, OH, an eastern suburb of Cleveland. In addition to pastoring duties, he also is dean of the Western Reserve Association Lay School of the Church, and chair of the Discernment of Call Working Group of the WRA Department of Church and Ministry, both of which are very rewarding. PHILIP B. OLMSTEAD on his 58th birthday quietly celebrates and reflects on the many blessings great and small that continue to sustain him: his wife, Winifred, and 20 years of dynamic married life, i.e., three stepchildren—William, Matthew, and Meredith, all college graduates pursuing professional vocations—and a boy of his own, Benjamin, who is now entering his sophomore year at Hartwick College. Since he left YDS 26 years ago, in a red Fiat 128 with campus mutt Argos and gas money furnished by Mike Mageau in exchange for a coveted pair of white bucks, he has developed a lay vocation as a steward of old houses and the people who inhabit them, having painted as many houses in as many years. He aspires to become a registered nurse, develop a solo act as a folk musician (Remember Ultimate Frisbee: “Not just a game, but a way of life!” said Lansing Hicks, and the first concert on the Quad: “Beer not Bombs!”), to become a better writer and a “citizen of the world” in good standing with the hereafter. ANN SALMON has just started her fourth year as Anglican incumbent and Lutheran pastor at Good Shepherd Barrhaven, an Anglican Lutheran Ministry in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ann enjoys the challenge of not only serving in two denominations at the same time, but also serving a congregation that meets in a school gym.

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Secretary, M. Lise Hildebrandt lisehild@yahoo.com SHERRY JORDON teaches Reformation theology and women’s studies at University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. With BILL EAVES ’87 she loves canoeing and hiking in summer, snowshoeing and drinking tea by the fire in winter. HENRY BRINTON has been senior pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in VA since 2001. Married to Nancy Freeborne, a professor at George Mason University, with a daughter, Sarah, in San Diego and a son, Sam, at Lafayette College. Henry is publishing his upcoming book, The Welcoming Congregation: Roots and Fruits of Christian Hospitality, with Westminster John Knox Press (2012). This guidebook unpacks the “roots” of hospitality, looking at hospitality in the Bible and in church tradition before highlighting specific practices to welcome and nurture people. The book then explores the “fruits” of

In 2010 HarperOne published updated, revised editions of volumes one and two of JUSTO GONZALEZ’s ’58 S.T.M., ’61 Ph.D. The Story of Christianity. Gonzalez is the the author of over 100 books.

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hospitality, describing how congregations rooted in hospitality are able to grow in reconciliation, outreach, and ever-broadening perceptions of God. MARY COMMERFORD is a psychologist and psychoanalyst and the director of the counseling center at Barnard College. Mary also has a small private practice in NYC and is very interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis and spirituality. LISE HILDEBRANDT is exploring community, environmental and economic sustainability, poverty, urban farming, and maybe life outside the church. Yoga. Music. Sourdough bread baking. Her kids are doing great: Karin—Brown University, Tae Kwon Do, environmental engineering; Becca—Hampshire College, Chinese, circus arts, education. LYNN CARMAN BODDEN is now a “Coach~ Consultant~Interim Minister!” after 25 years of ministry experience. She is also teaching regularly for the Interim Ministry Network. Lynn and Peter (Carman) relocated two years ago to Durham, NC, and both sons are urban teachers. SUNNY HALLANAN has been called as rector of All Saints, Waterloo, Belgium (where Kempton Baldridge was rector!) after 16 years as rector of St James’ Episcopal, Collegeville, PA. Sunny’s son attends St Olaf College and, her daughter, Birzeit University (occupied Palestine). JANELLE BUSSERT teaches religion and women’s studies at Augsburg College. She has also worked as a Hospice Music Therapist since graduation from YDS. She lives with her partner, Anita, their dog, Toby, and cats, Isabel and Alphonso in St. Paul, MN. PAT REUSS and her husband, Bob, are now both retired and living in Oak Ridge, TN. They also have a small place in Venice, FL. They do a good deal of supply work in the Diocese of East Tennessee. Pat and Bob are happy and relatively healthy (considering our ages) and keep quite busy. Pat looks forward to being at the 25th reunion. PETER PANAGORE: Maine life. Married daughter. Musical son. Teacher wife. Author. Stilt walker. Yogi. TV personality. Storyteller. Double-diamond skier. Friends. Near Death Experience revealed. Rural hearted. City minded. Community oriented. Ocean swimmer. Summertime oarsman. Sailor. Tech headed, creative. Cutting my own path.

RUTH BROOKS has been chaplain at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital for 23 years and is hoping to retire ASAP. She loves three young granddaughters and is considering something in peace and justice next. She writes: “I walk every day. It is my church. I keep it sacred by picking up the trash.” TIMOTHY K. VANCE is now seeking new (nonparochial) challenges—a job with an “OFF” switch— after medical disability retirement in 2006. He volunteers at a hospice and cancer institute in Great Falls, MT, and works sporadically on an STM thesis at the University of the South. FrVance@earthlink. net STEPHEN PHELPS moved to Brooklyn in 2009 and served First Presbyterian Church as interim senior pastor. Now he is interim senior minister at The Riverside Church in NYC. He and Dr. Beth Mount recently married and are expecting . . . to be happy. JAN JORGENSEN of Montreal, Quebec, serves one-quarter time at Willsboro Congregational UCC in the Adirondacks. “How are you, dear professors, former classmates, disarmament affinity group members, alums of 33 Canner Street Community?” pastorjorgensen@gmail.com SCOTT AND ANNEMARIE (CHAPIN) SMITH have been married 24 years and are part of a wonderful Christian agricultural community in (droughtstricken) Central Texas. They have five children: Noah, Aaron, Samuel, Grace and Mark. ANE KVALE FITZGERALD works as a therapist at a community hospital and does clinical consulting for Catholic Charities. She has been married to Joe 28 years and has great kids—her son and daughter are students at Carleton College. Together, she and Joe own an organic grain farm. God is good! LARRY SCOFIELD: “Into the regions beyond”:` Suburban New York boy finds God’s call in rural small town ministry in Missouri and Pennsylvania; curate, vicar, rector, healing prayer ministry, School For Ministry dean, fire chaplain. Now: retired supply priest, wife has cancer.

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SUSAN LOCHRIE GRAHAM ’90 M.Div. has published The Flesh Was Made Word: A Metahistorical Critique of the Contemporary Quest of the Historical Jesus (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010). This book uses a ‘metahistorical’ approach to read four representative historical Jesus writers, analyzing the theological and cultural meanings embedded in all historical Jesus writing. It concludes with fresh answers to questions about both the methods and the social implications of the contemporary quest of the historical Jesus and proposes different directions for future research. CHARLES H. HARPER ’61 S.T.M. has a new book of poetry out, Making A Life (2010), following its precursor, Sorting Things Out (Xlibris, 2008). He thinks of poetry as being “in the Incarnational and Natural Theology traditions of the Church, metaphysics firmly grounded in the physical.” The books are available by contacting charles-harper@comcast.net. RANDALL HESKETT ’94 S.T.M. authored Reading the Book of Isaiah: Destruction and Lament in the Holy Cities (Palgrave Macmillian, 2011), using both historical criticism and a form-critical approach to analyze and assess lamentation and the restoration of destroyed cities as oral traditions of ancient Israelite prophetic genres. He also co-edited, along with Brian Irwin, Bible as a Human Witness to Divine Revelation (T & T Clark, 2010), which represents the attempts of several major scholars to respond to the historical problems presented throughout the biblical testimony and their description of what this means for reading scripture. PETER C. HODGSON ’59 B.D., ’63 Ph.D. coedited and translated G. W. F. Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2011) with Robert F. Brown. This is the first critical edition of these lectures to be published in English. It contains the manuscripts of the Introduction and the complete transcription of the Lectures of 1822-3. Coming this spring is Hodgson’s monograph on the topic Shapes of Freedom: Hegel’s Philosophy of World History in Theological Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2012). LYNNE HOLDEN ’83 M.Div. has a new book out, The Pastor Has Gorgeous Legs, (AuthorHoue Publishing, June 2011) about her 30 years in the ministry. DAVID JENSEN ’94 M.A.R. has written a concise introduction to eschatology from a Reformed perspective called Living Hope: The Future and Christian Faith (Westminster John Knox, 2010). It explores major themes of Christian hope, including the reign of God, the resurrection of the body, and the new creation as well as reflections on the often-sensationalized topics of rapture, heaven, hell, and antichrist. A second new book by Jensen is Parenting (Fortress, 2011), which explores how central Christian convictions inform the age-old practices of parenting and how the experience and practice of parenting shape Christian faith today. PAUL JONES ‘54 B.D., ‘60 Ph.D. has published his twelfth book, A Different Kind of Cell: The Story of a Murderer Who Became a Monk (Eerdmans 2011). In the Forward, Sr. Helen Prejean calls the book “the most powerful case of all against the death penalty.” It is the story of Clayton Fountain, a murderer condemned to a life of solitary confinement in a specially constructed underground cell. Fountain ultimately became a Trappist monk and died in his cell, which had been blessed as a monastic hermitage. PAUL MATHENY ’83 S.T.M. is the author of two new books, a textbook for seminarians, pastors and lay ministers serving in Asia, The Theology of Christian Churches (New Day Publishers), and a book that advocates use of contextual methods in theology, Contextual Theology: The Drama of our Times (Pickwick Press, June 1, 2011). The books are intended to be resources for theological formation programs around the world and make a plea for a revival of ecumenical thinking in theological formation. The latest book by WILLIAM F. MAY ’52 B.D., ’62 Ph.D. is Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics (Georgetown University Press, 2011). This book examines two contending identities—contractual and covenantal--at play in the country’s founding and in its current politics. A contract, grounded in

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self-interest alone, does not adequately contain runaway fears and appetites and bind a people together. A covenant, embedded in the affirmation, “We the people of the United States” draws on a deeper history to help citizens resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites. TYLER MAYFIELD ’05 M.A.R. used the Tübingen press Mohr Siebeck for the 2010 release of his first book Literary Structure and Setting in Ezekiel. This study addresses structure and setting to read Ezekiel as a work of literature, a prophetic composition with a highly structured form and an intentional placement of units. It examines the role of literary structural markers and proposes a literary structure based on two formulas: the chronological formula, which divides the book into 13 units, and the prophetic word formula. KEVIN B. MCCRUDEN ‘94 M.Div., ‘95 S.T.M. coedited with Eric F. Mason Reading the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Resource for Students (Society of Biblical Literature, 2011). This volume provides an introduction to contemporary scholarship on Hebrews. With contributions from leading scholars on Hebrews and in related fields, it reflects the most recent trends in the study of Hebrews and is designed for classroom use by students in both undergraduate and graduate programs. LARRY MINEAR ’62 B.D., the former director of the Humanitarianism and War Project at Brown and then at Tufts University, published Through Veterans’ Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience (Potomac Books Inc, 2010). The book presents a composite narrative of the experiences of U.S. service personnel. SCOTT MORRIS ’79 M.Div., a medical doctor, wrote the book Health Care You Can Live With (Barbbour Publishing, 2011). This book looks at a Biblical view of, and the historical role the church has played in, health care, and then uses the experience of the Church Health Center in Memphis to outline a new way of looking at health and health care in today’s world. He also published a daily devotional series, 40 Days to Better Living (Barbour Books, July 2011). STEPHEN BUTLER MURRAY ’98 M.Div. recently published Reclaiming Divine Wrath: A History of a Christian Doctrine and Its Interpretation (Peter Lang, 2011), in which he seeks to identify and correct the prolific misuse and abuse of the concept of divine wrath in church pulpits following 9/11. He investigates how “the wrath of God” has been interpreted in Christian theology and preaching and argues for the reclamation of a theological paradigm of divine wrath that approaches God’s love and God’s wrath as intrinsically enjoined in a dynamic tension. KATHRYN OTT ’00 M.A.R. edited Faith, Feminism, and Scholarship: The Next Generation (Palgrave Macmillian, 2011) with colleague Melanie Harris of Texas Christian University. The book engages third wave Womanist, Latina, Asian, Black and White feminists discussing their approaches to religious scholarship, teaching strategies and participation in communal and social activism. The volume looks at major themes in feminist religious scholarship and engages feminist and womanist theory, post-colonial thought, critical race theory, and gender studies. SYLVIA WALSH PERKINS ’61 M.A.R. translated, for the first time in English, Soren Kierkegaard’s Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (Indiana University Press, 2011). KENNETH E. ROWE ’62 B.D. emeritus professor of church history, Drew University Theological School, co-authored The Methodist Experience in America, (Abingdon Press, 2010) with Russell Richey of the Candler School of Theology at Emory and Jean Schmid of Iliff School of Theology. It provides an up-to-date survey history of Methodism in North America that brings into the core story a wealth of previously ignored or marginalized voices and themes.

JOHN SHEVELAND ’99 M.A.R. recently published Piety and Responsibility (Ashgate, 2011). This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes “piety” and “responsibility” as integral to each other. Each theologian expresses a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbor. Sheveland explores this unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical. DOUG SHOWALTER ’73 M.Div. concluded his 24 years of UCC ministry at First Congregational Church of Falmouth, MA, with a self-published, two-volume history of the church: Chapters on the History of the First Congregational Church of Falmouth, Massachusetts of the United Church of Christ (November 2010). STEVE SPRINKLE ’77 M.Div. published his third book, Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LBGT Hate Crimes Victims, in 2011 with Resource Publications. DANIEL R. STREETT ’03 M.A.R. is the author of They Went Out from Us: The Identity of the Opponents in First John (ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing, 2011), part of the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wis(continued on page 47)

BEAU WESTON has been married 30 years to Susan and has three kids, the eldest at Yale Law School. He has spent 22 years teaching sociology, now in an endowed chair, at Centre College, Danville, KY. Beau has written five books, mostly about the Presbyterian Church and is now studying happiness in society.

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Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu RICK KING is in his fourth year as senior minister of First Congregational UCC in Longmont, CO, and in April received a Healthy Community Award from Boulder County Public Health for his work with the St. Vrain Valley Safe Schools Coalition, promoting schools free from bullying and harassment for all students, particularly LGBTIQ. On Sept. 17 his church hosted an “Out in the Silence” community event with Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer. Rick can be reached at: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1500 Ninth Avenue, Longmont, CO 80501, rking@ucclongmont.org, www.ucclongmont.org

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Secretary, Margaret B. Hatch doxandmeg@yahoo.com TOM VAN TASSELL is in his 15th year as co-pastor of the First Congregational Church of Spencer, IA. He co-pastors with his wife, Wendy. Tom is serving as chair of the Congregational Foundation for Theological Studies for the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches. CAROLINE STACEY is currently serving as rector of St. Luke in the Fields Episcopal Church in the West Village in NYC. She married Scott Askegard, a research scientist in microbiology currently working for a biotech company in Long Island. They live in the church rectory in the West Village and enjoy their life together in that busy and fascinating city. They also love getting away for rest and renewal to their little cottage in Michigan. ELIZABETH RIPLEY transitioned from a long career in the hospital field to serving as executive director of the Mat-Su Health Foundation in 2008. This foundation shares ownership in the local hospital and makes grants to improve the health of borough residents—in an Alaskan borough the size of West Virginia. Other projects that keep Elizabeth engaged in ministry include serving as lay leader of the local United Methodist Church; serving on an ecumenical board called PLUME (Presbyterian, Lutheran, United Methodist, and Episcopalian) involved in mainstream theology-based outreach to the outskirts of her vast borough; and working with local churches to form a faith-based community organizing agenda and framework. Elizabeth writes, “My education at Yale Divinity School has well prepared me for a varied and interesting faith journey that continues on. Any YDS graduates who make it to AK should give me a call or drop me an email so that I can share some Last Frontier hospitality with them.”

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EMILY GIFFORD received an MA in modern U.S. history from Central Connecticut State University in May of this year, and in November, she appeared on “Jeopardy!” and became a one-day champion. She shares, “Unfortunately, my winning game aired on Nov. 1 when, like most of Connecticut, I had no power, so I didn’t get to see myself win. Being on the show was a wonderful experience and I met a lot of great people.” JOSEPH CISTONE received his D.Min. form Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis in May. Joe writes, “Living on Mount Desert Island, Maine this academic year as my spouse Alyne serves as a visiting professor in human rights law at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor.”

MARK TOTTEN ’99 M.A.R., ’06 Ph.D., ’06 J.D. gives careful consideration to when the first use of force may be morally legitimate with his debut book First Strike: America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition (Yale University Press, 2010). He offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive force through the lens of the just war tradition and concludes that moral tradition provides a principled way forward that reconciles American values and the demands of security. DANIELLE TUMMINIO ’03 B.A., ’06 M.Div., ’08 S.T.M. wrote a book about the undergraduate course she taught at Yale College, God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction In An Ivy League Classroom (Unlocking Press, December 2010). Classes of ’90, ’91, ’92

STEVEN C. BOGUSLAWSKI was reappointed to a second term as president of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology at the Dominican House of Studies, effective June 9, 2011.

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Secretary, David Bryce RevDBryce@aol.com DAVID BRYCE is in his third year as senior minister of The First Church In Belmont, Unitarian Universalist in Belmont, MA. He is currently taking a class in the supervision of student ministers at (gasp!) Harvard Divinity School; but he wears his Yale blue robe every Sunday morning—and once openly carried it across Harvard Yard. David Williamson is the pastor of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Hermitage, PA. A heart attack in March 2010 hasn’t slowed him down—he’s also the chaplain of the fire department, police department, and the local Boy Scout camp, and a grand chaplain of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. His wife of 21 years, Julia Hinshaw Williamson ’89, ’00 is pastor of Slippery Rock Presbyterian Church in Ellwood City. Their son, James, is a senior in high school. Friends are always welcome to stop by. If you’re headed west on Interstate 80, we’re the last exit before you get to Ohio! KEVIN CORCORAN earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, got a job in the philosophy department at Calvin College (where Nick Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus, taught before moving to YDS in ’89 and where current Noah Porter Professor John Hare also taught before moving on to YDS in 2003. He has been at Calvin since 1997. He has two children, Shannon (17) and Rowan (14). Kevin has authored many articles that have appeared in scholarly journals and authored, co-authored or edited the following books: Soul, Body and Survival, In Search of the Soul, Rethinking Human Nature, and Church in the Present Tense. MARK RIGG earned an S.T.M. at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia in 2008 on the way to being ordained in January of this year. Ordination marked the end of an 18-year teaching career and the start of parish ministry. Mark serves Advent Lutheran Church outside Reading, PA, and is genuinely enjoying the new vocation. He and wife Sue have two children – Mary and Paul, ages 11 and 9. The highlight of his fall was the YDS Reunion and Convocation, and he writes, “This is my early pitch for the Class of 1991 and those clustered around it to start thinking about attending the 25th in 2016.”

JANE NEWALL and partner Debbie celebrated the birth of their fifth child, Adian Cadel, born August 29, 2010. In June 2011, Jane left Rainbown Cathedral MCC and relocated to Woodstock, CT. She is currently the chair of the National Clergy Advisory Board of Planned Parenthood. SCOTT BADER-SAYER completed his Ph.D. at Duke under Stanley Hauerwas, taught for 12 years at the University of Scranton in Scranton, PA (yes, home of “The Office”), and is in his third year as professor of Christian ethics and moral theology at the Seminary of the Southwest (Episcopal) in Austin. He is married with three boys, ages 12, 9, and 6. They are loving Austin and are very involved with a new Episcopal church plant, St. Julian of Norwich, in the northwest part of the city.

MARK VALERI ’79 M.Div. focuses on the economic culture of New England from 1630 to 1750 in his recent book, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America (Princeton University Press, 2010). It views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing on their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes. The American Society of Church History awarded Heavenly Merchandize the Philip Schaff Prize for the best book in the History of Christianity written by a North American author over the past two years. LANNY VINCENT ’78 M.Div. published Prisoners of Hope: How Engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating (Westbow Press: December 2011). The book explores the intersection of faith and innovation by redefining an a-religious faith as the distinguishing characteristic of innovators, re-examining some classic biblical stories such as David and Goliath, The Burning Bush, The Aborted Sacrifice of Isaac, The Good Samaritan, and The Prodigal Son. WILLIAM B. WESTON ’86 M.A.R., ’88 Ph.D. recently won a Kentucky History Award from the Kentucky Historical Society for his book Centre College: Scholars, Gentlemen, Christians (Centre College, 2010), a history of Centre College

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in Danville, KY, where Weston serves as Van Winkle Professor of Sociology.

DAVID WILEY ’61 M.Div., along with his colleague Robert S. Grew, edited International and Language Education for a Global Future (Michigan State University Press, August 2010). The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of U.S. Title VI and associated Fulbright-Hays programs in establishing more than 150 centers of excellence for modern foreign language and area studies in more than 60 U.S. universities. LESLIE WINFIELD WILLIAMS ’11 S.T.M. used Yale Divinity School as a setting for her murder mystery The Judas Conspiracy (JoSara MeDia, December 2010), which delivers a vivid rendering of the more harrowing side of scholarship, recounting the unearthing of the “Gospel According to Judas,” an ancient Gnostic text, in a professor’s New Haven basement. ANNE WIRE ’59 B.D. has a new book on Kindle or in print called The Case for Mark Composed in Performance (Wipf and Stock Press, 2011). In this book Wire asks the questions, “Is it possible to make a case that the Gospel of Mark was not composed by a single man from scattered accounts but in a process of people’s telling Jesus’ story over several decades? And what can we say about the tellers who were shaping this story for changing audiences?” Anne welcomes any feedback. NORMAN WIRZBA ’88 M.A.R. served up a theological delight, outlining the framework for assessing eating’s significance with Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, (Cambridge University Press, May 2011). This book employs a Trinitarian theological lens to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today’s industrial food systems. Wirzba combines the tools of ecological, agrarian, cultural, biblical, and theological analyses to draw a picture of eating that cares for creatures and that honors God. In The Missional Church in Perspective (Baker Academic, 2011) Craig Van Gelder and DWIGHT ZSCHEILE ’98 M.Div. map and seek to deepen the burgeoning missional church conversation. The concept of “missional” is critically explored in light of its historical and theological roots and use in contemporary literature. Resources are offered for enriching and expanding the theological frameworks, discussion of culture, and understanding of church life and leadership.

Class of 1992

Secretary, Fredrick A. Wiese pastorfritz@coslutheran.org BECKY GARRISON has three new books out (see Alumni Books section). Also, she is a panelist with the Washington Post’s “On Faith” column. MAGNUS T. BERNHARDSSON lives with his wife, MARGARET MCCOMISH ’93 in Williamstown, MA. They have two children, Benni (14) and Karen Magnea (11). Magnus teaches Middle Eastern History at Williams College and Margaret is director of planned giving at Williams.

JENNY ARTHUR was ordained by Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in May 2011. She serves as minister of pastoral care. DAHN DEAN GANDELL has been rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Honoeye Falls, NY, for 10 years. She is missioner for global companionship and chair of the Rochester deputation for General Convention in 2012. She is a certified yoga instructor. LISA B. HAMILTON is a member of the CREDO spirituality faculty.

DAVID C. MAHAN is the director of the Rivendell Institute at Yale. He is a guest lecturer with ISM. RICHARD BUGYI-SUTTER is master-general of the Society of St. Michael, an Anglo-Catholic priestly fraternity, and convenes the “Anglican Use Society in Colorado,” a local response to Anglicanorum Coetibus. DAVE STROHMAIER serves on the City Council in Missoula, MT and works as an historian for Historical Research Associates. He has written two natural history books on fire in the West, and is currently a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Scott Barker was consecrated the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Nebraska on Oct. 8 at the La Vista Convention Center in Omaha, NE. Ecumenical and interfaith guests were included in the gathering, considered a “homecoming” for Barker, 48, an Omaha native who had served congregations locally and in upstate New York prior to his June 4 election.

PAM TYLER and Charles own San Geronimo Lodge, which they are remodeling as a retreat center. She serves St. James Episcopal Church in Taos, NM.

Class of 1993

S H AW N T H E A M O N R O E MUELLER is senior minister at Plymouth Church (UCC) of Shaker Heights, OH. She has written two books, one co-authored with classmate Shannon Craigo-Snell. She sits on the board of the Deaconess Community Foundation.

GR ETCHEN STROHM AIER is a bereavement counselor for Hospice in Missoula, MT and is the church school director at Holy Spirit Episcopal Parish.

Class of 1995

CHRISTINE TR AINOR MCSPADDEN is canon for cathedral life at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA.

Secretary, Carla D. Januska cjanuska@aya.yale.edu

Secretary, Kristen A. Fairey kristenfairey@gmail.com

JULIE REUNING-SCHERER is pastor of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Newington, CT.

Secretary, James D. Ebert james_ebert@hotmail.com

Secretary, Stephanie K. Wethered revmothers@gmail.com

Class of 1994

Secretary, Amy G. Heller rev_amy_g@att.net

Secretary, Anisa P. Cottrell Willis anisacottrellwillis@aya.yale.edu

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At Convocation and Reunions 2011, OTIS MOSS III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, was honored with the alumni award for Distinction in Congregational Ministry.

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KAREN L. MULDER is an art and architectural historian who continues teaching in the masters’ programs at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC, as well as James Madison University’s Art History Department. She has spoken on post-WWII German reconstruction, late 20thcentury glass design, and preservation issues from a multidisciplinary perspective in a number of venues. This past year, she contributed to glass designer Sarah Hall’s book, Launching Transcendence, and a chapter titled “Architecture” in the Veritas Press/Veritas Academy multi-volume history series, and is also publishing art criticism in Image Journal, architectural criticism in 2A: Art + Architecture (Dubai) and a reassessment of preservation theory in the journal Preservation Education Research (Texas A&M).

Class of 1998

Secretary, Paula Jenkins eligaucho@yahoo.com

Class of 1999

Class notes to: divinity.classnotes@yale.edu ANTHONY CERULLI won an EURIAS Fellowship, with affiliation at the Insitut d’études avancées-Paris, for 2012-13. He has also been awarded an NEH Fellowship for 2012-13. Currently an ACLS fellow, he teaches at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and is managing editor of the Journal India Review. His first monograph, Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature, is forthcoming with SUNY Press.

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The Spectrum 2010 Class Notes referred to Taminobu Takasago as “she.” As classmates know, Taminobu is actually a “he.” We regret the error.

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Secretary, Samuel Charles Blair scblair@aya.yale.edu At Convocation a nd R e u n ion s 2011, E VA LY N WAKHUSAMA, who founded a school in Kenya for children who are orphans or who have been affected by the AIDS crisis, was honored by the A lu m n i Boa rd with the Lux et Veritas Award.

LYNNE MIKULAK was certified as a full supervisor by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., at the annual conference in Salt Lake City, UT, in the spring. An ordained United Church of Christ minister, she is the coordinator of pastoral care and education at the Payne Whitney Westchester Psychiatric Division of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, in White Plains, NY. She runs summer and extended CPE units at the Westchester Division. JOSEPH PAE serves as a missioner in the Diocese of Long Island at Great Neck Episcopal Ministry (GEM), which is a collaborative ministry of three congregations: St. Paul’s, All Saints, and St. Joseph’s Korean Church. He is the father of two children, Ethan (3) and Evelyn (10 months), and would enjoy getting in touch with any other alumni/ae in the Long Island/NYC area.

Class of 2002

Secretary, Stephanie Bingham Doss sbdoss@gmail.com JULIE FAITH PARKER completed her Ph.D. in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Yale. She is now teaching Bible as a visiting assistant professor at Colby College in Waterville, ME. Julie also teaches at YDS during the Summer Study program, so come take a class. KELLY MCGANNON graduated from the Holistic Studies Institute in NYC in January 2011 and opened her healing practice, Bridge Between Two Worlds (www.bridgebetweentwoworl d s.com), where she helps clients rediscover a sense of wholeness and play in their lives. She continues to train with shamans and traditional healers around the country. When not walking the world, Kelly can be found in the DC metro area working on a work of fiction.

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Secretary, Jennifer S. Dunfee jennifer.dunfee@aya.yale.edu Secretary, Lisa L. Jeffcoat lisajeffcoat@aya.yale.edu

LISA JEFFCOAT teaches at Myers Park High School. She sings at Myers Park Presbyterian, where she is a member, and with Oratorio Singers of Charlotte, NC. CHRIS JONES is the new clinical director of the Eating Disorder Program at Rebecca’s House. He and wife, Elena, married in 2008 after years of travelling the world together. They live in Orange County, CA. ZACK MABE and Melissa have two sons, Joshua, 4, and Connor, almost 2. Zack is in his third year in the Hartford Seminary D.Min. program. AUDREY SCANLAN received her D.Min. from Hartford Seminary and had her first volume of lesson plans published last summer. In August 2011 she became canon for mission collaboration in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. MARK SCOTT is visiting assistant professor of Christianity at the University of Missouri. He and Esther have three children: David, born Nov. 8, 2010; James, 5; and Hannah, 3. Mark explores Origen of Alexandria’s creative, complex, and controversial treatment theodicy in his upcoming book entitled Journey Back to God: Origen on the Problem of Evil (Oxford University Press, June 2012). He argues that Origen’s layered cosmology functions as a theodicy that discerns deeper meaning beneath the apparent injustices of the world.

Juliet Ide and friend.

SIDNEY SYMINGTON is in his third year at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Henrietta, NY. He serves as a chaplain at the University of Rochester Medical Center/Strong Memorial Hospital, teaches writing at SUNY Geneseo, and continues to work in theater. Sid sends his greetings and love to old pals! Kurt Levensaler serves as associate priest at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Danville, CA. He and Leighanne enjoy watching Luke, now 3, continue to dazzle them with his amazing vocals, his impressionistic art, and his zest for life. JULIE SMUCKER FULLER and her spouse, Marcus Dean Fuller, announced the opening of their feature film this fall (’11), entitled “One Fall.” Alums can check out “One Fall” on Facebook and Netflix. EMILY BENNETT wed Benjamin Waller in Hastings, NE on July 17, 2010. Both are instructors at Hastings College, where Emily teaches philosophy and religion and Benjamin teaches English. Both are also pursuing Ph.D.’s.

JAMES CLEMENT VAN PELT coordinates the programming for Yale’s Initiative in Religion, Science & Technology, which he co-founded in 2003-04.

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Secretary, Elizabeth R. Zagatta liz.zagatta@vanderbilt.edu TYLER WIGG-STEVENSON resides in Toronto with NATALIE ‘05, where Natalie teaches at Emmanuel College. Tyler continues to lead the Two Futures Project, is chairman of the Global Task Force on Nuclear Weapons, and is completing his second book for InterVarsity Press. In January Tyler will begin the Th.D. program at the University of Toronto. MERCEDES NALLS and her husband, Luke, both successfully defended their dissertations this past spring (’11). Mercedes plans to continue publishing her research while teaching online for EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University and American Public University.

ROB LEACOCK and his wife, Stefanie, moved to Austin, TX in 2010 when Rob became high school chaplain at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. He teaches religion, leads chapel and goes to a lot of sporting events. Stefanie is a lecturer in biology and genetics at the University of Texas. Their son, Weston, who turned three in October, is categorically awesome, according to his father. Quips Rob, “Medical professionals are studying Weston’s awesomeness in an effort to make the world a better, more awesome place!” NATA LI E W IGG -STEV ENSON and TYLER WIGG-STEVENSON ’04 recently moved to Toronto, ON (Canada), after Natalie finished her Ph.D. in theological studies at Vanderbilt University. She is now serving as the director of contextual education and lecturer in theology at Emmanuel College, a United Church of Canada seminary at the University of Toronto.

Julie Smucker Fuller and spouse, Marcus.

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JOHN ROHRS and ANDIE WIGODSKY ROHRS are enjoying life in Norfolk, VA. John is serving his third year as the rector at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Andie is chasing after their one-year-old twins, Tom and Will, and their three-year-old, Anna, as well as doing some ministerial supply work.

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MOL LY FI EL D JA M ES and her husband, Reade, welcomed their daughter, Katherine Pearce James, on October 16, 2010. They are having lots of fun with her, including traveling to England in July 2011, for Molly’s graduation, where she received her Ph.D. in theology from the University of Exeter. Molly is currently serving as an adjunct professor at Hartford Seminary and as a supply priest in Connecticut.

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JEFF WELLS is still serving Community United Methodist Church in Massapequa, NY. The congregation is growing (spiritually and in numbers) as together they strive to follow Jesus. This fall, they started a weeknight “recovery worship” to reach and serve the several hundred folks who come through the doors each week for NA, AA, and Al-Anon meetings. Most weeks, he still loves to write and preach. He loves life and his wife, Diane, and he just began writing a novel.

PALADIN PRESENTS A COMPASS ENTERTAINMENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH MARLEN HECHT DEAN SILVERS PRODUCTION “ONE FALL” MARCUS DEAN FULLER ZOE MCLELLAN SEAMUS MULCAHY JAMES MCCAFFREY MARK LA MURA MARK MARGOLIS CASTING CAROLINE SINCLAIR DOMINIC FUMUSA AND PHYLLIS SOMERVILLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MUSIC ORIGINAL DESIGNER TIMOTHY WHIDBEE SUPERVISOR TYLER SILVERS MUSIC BEN TOTH DIRECTOR OF EDITED PHOTOGRAPHY ALICE BROOKS BY MARLEN HECHT & WILLIAM HENRY LINE ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ROBYN K. BENNETT PRODUCER FORREST SILVERS CO-PRODUCED EXECUTIVE BY JULIE S. FULLER MARCUS DEAN FULLER PRODUCER RICHARD K. SMUCKER WRITTEN BY MARCUS DEAN FULLER RICHARD GREENBERG PRODUCED DIRECTED BY DEAN SILVERS MARLEN HECHT BY MARCUS DEAN FULLER FACEBOOK.COM/ONEFALL

Secretary, Elizabeth Marie Melchionna elizabeth.melchionna@gmail.com WILL MEBANE has been appointed canon of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, OH with responsibilities for congregational care, neighborhood and social justice ministries.

MATTHEW KUSTENBAUDER received an M.A. in history from Harvard University, where he is currently a third-year Ph.D. candidate in African history. His chapter on the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda was published in an edited volume, War and Peace in Africa, published by Carolina Academic Press, and his review of Robert Kaplan’s latest book, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, appeared in The Washington Times, both in 2010. GINGER STRICKLAND has finished five years at the American Church in Paris, France and has ac-

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cepted a call to serve at Church of the Incarnation in New York City. DIANNE BILYAK has a new book out (see Alumni Books section). Also, for the next year, excerpts of her interviews with poets about religion and writing will appear on the Poetry Society of America’s website. AMANDA KUCIK has finished five years at Church of the Incarnation in New York City and has accepted a call to serve at Holy Comforter in Charlotte, NC.

Class of 2007

Andrew Crowell Nurkin andrew.nurkin@aya.yale.edu ALICIA BROOKS completed a Master of Science in pastoral counseling from Loyola University, Maryland in May 2011 and was licensed as a graduate professional counselor in Maryland in September 2011. In December, she is beginning work as a family therapist for Catholic Charities in Baltimore, MD. She is continuing to make her way through the ordination process in the United Methodist Church. She lives in her hometown of Annapolis, MD, where she is active in her home church and a local running club. In 2011, Alicia completed her second marathon (NYC) and her first triathlon. She blogs about counseling and running at http://aliciatheactivelistener. blogspot.com. MEGHAN HENNING is finishing her Ph.D. in New Testament at Emory University. While writing her dissertation, she has been living in Boston with her husband, Doug, and their dog, Barkli. In addition to writing, Meghan has been teaching as adjunct faculty at Boston University and Lesley University.

MATTHEW BENTON and Laura welcomed Iris Marie Benton, born August 21, 2011 in Berkeley, CA. Her parents and big brother Lennox, are smitten with her. Matt expects to complete a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers University in spring, 2012. CHRIS COCCA started a new call as director of mission at First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, PA, on July 1, 2011. In this newly created ministry role, he has the pleasure of working with an amazing staff dedicated to re-imagining a large church’s missional call to neighbor in the city. He continues to write religion essays for the Huffington Post and graduated last May with a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction from The New School.

Luke Levensaler at 21 months.

NUNZIO D’ALESSIO recently began work on a Certificate in Theological Studies at the Washington Theological Union. He has been active locally as a liturgical musician and composer, and his original choral setting of the poem “Drop Slow Tears” has been accepted for performance. He currently resides and works in Baltimore, MD.

CHRISTIANA PEPPARD finished up as scholar in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC and received her Ph.D. from Yale University in May 2011. She has since been thrilled to be hired as assistant professor of theology & science at Fordham

Andrea Olsen Lam and Alan Lam, were married in April 2010. Andrea Olsen Lam and spouse, Alan Lam

University. Together with her husband, Michael ‘03 (now an assistant professor of New Testament at Fordham) and daughter Montana (4 years old in November), she moved to Riverdale, where they have settled in and had a striking view of the swirling clouds of hurricane/tropical storm Irene.

Secretary, Leslie Gesiene Woods leslie.woods@aya.yale.edu

JULIET IDE enjoys teaching high school English literature and language at a bilingual Hong Kong school. She is Church Council secretary at Emmanuel Church.

Secretary, Terese Elaine Cain terese.cain@aya.yale.edu

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GWENDOLYN K EHAUNANI HILL pastored Koloa Union Church in Hawaii for seven years. She is presently doing pulpit supply. In May 2010, she completed her D.Min. in preaching from Chicago Theological Seminary.

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studies in Hannam University, South Korea. He will stay in Sydney, Australia for his sabbatical year during the next academic year from March 2012.

MINDY ROLL has had a busy year! Mindy was called as Lutheran Campus Pastor to Texas A&M and Blinn Colleges in September of 2010, was ordained in November, engaged in January of 2011, installed in March, and finished her S.T.M. in May. But her favorite news: she got married in May to Tom Ham! From Mindy & Tom: If you find yourself in Texas, come visit! We’ve got a guest room just for you! ANDREW NURKIN completed his M.F.A. in poetry at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems recently appeared in the North American Review, Rattle, and Drunken Boat, among other places.

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Secretary, Jason Peno jpno82@gmail.com

YDS Friends at the wedding. Derek Bodenstab, Jenny Gregg ‘07 (and baby Noelle), Jessica Anschutz ‘07, Alicia Brooks ‘07, Mindy Roll ‘07, Tom Ham, and Emily Kuhn ‘07.

TRAVIS SCHOLL and wife Jenny ’07 M.S.N. welcomed into the world Evan James, born on Aug. 15, 2011 and reborn a child of God on Oct. 30. Evan joins a proud big brother, Justin, 3. Everyone is healthy and well, living in St. Louis, MO.

Class of 2008

Secretary, Elizabeth L. Wilkinson elizabeth.wilkinson@aya.yale.edu OBY BALLINGER has now served for two years at Community United Church of Christ in St. Paul Park, MN. Oby also serves on the board of directors for the Minnesota Conference of the United Church of Christ. Husband Javen Swanson ’09 and Oby are very active in the Minnesota effort to stop an anti-marriage constitutional amendment so that one day the marriages of all loving couples in Minnesota will be recognized. SCOTT CLYBURN is currently teaching as an adjunct professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Portland (Portland, Oregon). ABIGAIL COOPER is enjoying life with 3-year-old Lucy and 1-year-old Alice and writing her dissertation on slave religion in Civil War refugee camps as a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania. DAN BINDER is teaching religion and philosophy at Episcopal High School in Houston, TX, and working toward a D.Min. in educational leadership at Virginia Theological Seminary.

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At Convocation a nd R eu n ion s 2011, C H R IS TOPHER DOUC O T, fou nd er and leader of St. Martin de Pores Catholic Worker House in Hartford, CT, was honored by the A lu m n i Boa rd with the William Sloane Coffin ’56 Award for Peace and Justice.

LINDER L A DER followed the suggestion of fellow YDS alumna AMALIE ASH ’10 (currently administrator for the Presbytery of Tropical Florida), in early 2011 and was called as temporary supply pastor to the Second Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Linda was ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in March, and after fulfilling the call in Florida, has re-

turned to the pastoral staff of The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC. CAMERON RANDLE is an Episcopal priest serving in the Diocese of Southern Virginia. On Nov. 13, 2011, Cameron was instituted as rector of the churches of St. George’s Parish, a colonial-era faith community established in 1636. He is priest and pastor to St. George’s Church in Pungoteague and St. James’ Church in Accomac, both on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Cameron is a member of the diocesan Church Planting Commission and the R-1 (anti-racism) Task Force. Previously, he served as associate rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Hollywood, CA. Cameron lives in a 200-year-old rectory with his wife, Angelica, and their daughter, Angie, who is recording for Warner Bros. Records during a gap year prior to attending Bennington College in Vermont.

Class of 2009

Secretary, Kimberly Bauser divinity.classnotes@yale.edu LAURA OLSEN is finishing her Lutheran residence year at Gettysburg Seminary in Gettysburg, PA. She is in the approval and assignment process for a call to a Lutheran parish, hopefully next year. Laura is concurrently pursuing an S.T.M. at Gettysburg Seminary. GRETA GETLEIN is now the director of studies for Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. So many chapel services, so little time... K AREN SCHNEIDER KIRNER is now in her fourteenth year of working in campus ministry at the University of Notre Dame. She directs various choirs and serves as one of four full-time organists for the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. She just published a new “Mass for our Lady” with colleague Steve Warner for the Roman Catholic Church. When she’s not thinking about sacred music, she enjoys life with husband Scott, nine-year old twins Emma and Clair, and sixyear old son Joseph.

HOPE STEPHENSON is living in Atlanta, GA and pursuing ordination as a deacon in the United Methodist Church. She is currently taking courses at Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

JASON PENO is the general manager for both Blue State Coffee houses in New Haven, CT. Life is super busy, and Jason is hoping for a change of scenery come next July, but he’s enjoying his friends and exploring a variety of hobbies. NICK SHELTON writes, “I am enjoying life on the West Coast, working out of Google’s headquarters in northern California. I’m using my background in religious studies to create community and an interest in religion at one of the world’s best places to work. If I’m not enjoying eating at one of Google’s 25 gourmet cafeterias, I am usually in San Francisco or another beautiful spot in the Bay Area, where I am taking time to enjoy the beauty of God’s creation. This December I will run my third marathon since graduation, in hopes of qualifying for the Boston Marathon in April (allowing me to plan an East Coast trip in which I travel through New Haven). My girlfriend, Ellen Ray (Yale College class of ‘09) and I will be celebrating our two-year anniversary this January and are looking forward to our future together. REBECCA HENRIKSEN is in her first year of the Ph.D. program in theatre arts and performance studies at Brown University. She is studying contemporary evangelicalism, gender, and sexuality through the lenses of ritual and performance theory. She is enjoying finding running trails in Providence, working on her French, and doing lots of reading. PETER W. COOKSON, JR. lives in Washington DC and has published two books this year (See Alumni Books).

for his Ph.D. program in theology at Claremont Graduate University, and Lydia is continuing her ordination process within the United Methodist Church and working fulltime at a small Episcopal Seminary. STEPHANIE JOHNSON was ordained an Episcopal Priest in September 2010. She is working for Province I (New England dioceses) as energy Stephanie M. Johnson steward minister, helping congregations reduce their carbon footprint. She is still finishing her requirements for an S.T.M. in environmental ministry, so she has never really left the “Quad.” The entire Johnson-Hinshalwood family has decided that New Haven is great so they have decided to live in East Rock permanently. ANDY SMITH is the director of administration and finance at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC. In this capacity, he’s responsible for overseeing budget, endowment, and operating activity of the seminary and facilitating the institution’s planned 2012 merger with Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC. He also writes and edits work for Pilgrim Journal (http://pilgrimjournal.com/ ) of New Haven, CT. CRISTINA CABRERA recently started her Ph.D. in cultural studies at the Excellence Cluster of the Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) in Giessen, Germany. So far she has been able to enjoy beautiful locations and great museum exhibitions in Germany. Additionally, she hopes to travel wherever her research and interests might take her! Kazimierz Bem was ordained on Sept. 11, 2011 at Center Church on the Green in New Haven, with his guests flying in from all over the globe. He still almost can’t believe that he was called as pastor of First Church in Marlborough MA. He finished his S.T.M. in 2011 and is now putting all that liturgi-

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Secretary, Angela Wiggins writewiggins@comcast.net A NGEL A SHELL EY W IGGINS is remaining in New Haven for the year while she applies for doctoral programs in liturgical studies. In January, she’ll begin an extended CPE unit. As one of the millions of unemployed, she also hopes to have a paying job in the mix. DAVID CHOULES is finishing his first semester at the University of Pennsylvania law school and living in Philadelphia. He is still married and has one boy who is now 15 months old. KIM ABEEL (now Kim Abeel Coelho) married Nickholas Coelho, an accountant from NYC. They are living in Summit, NJ, where Kim directs the ethics programs at The Ethics Institute at Kent Place School. Kent Place is a non-sectarian girls’ day school. Kim and Nickholas also adopted a dog, Lucy. MICHAEL KELLEY SHEPHERD moved to the DC area where Kelley found work with Cambridge Associates. He reports that he loves “watching global markets move, and finance genuinely feels like ‘the calling.’” RACHEL DUNCAN is living in New Haven and is the pastor of Canaan United Methodist Church in Canaan (not to be confused with New Canaan), CT. This summer, Rachel rode her bike from Seattle to New Haven in hopes of getting some more education for ministry. Rachel writes, “My advice to all M.Div.’s: take lots of Bible classes and take extra preaching classes!”

Following are acknowledgments of deaths not previously published in Spectrum, including all notifications received as of December 31, 2011

Lydia Sohn and James Rogers

Classes of ’08, ’09, ’10, ’11

CHRISTOPHER ALLISON is a firstyear Ph.D. student in the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University. His family is slowly, but surely, settling in to Bostonian life, and enjoying the new place and new friends.

In Memoriam

LYDIA SOHN and JAMES ROGERS got married on June 11, 2011 in Claremont, CA. Lydia writes, “Many of you know that we met at BTFO! We are now settling into married life and loving it.” Lydia and James live in a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Claremont with a fireplace and a 100 lb. Akita. James is now in his final semester of coursework

MICHAEL KOCHENASH started his Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian origins at Claremont Lincoln University/Claremont School of Theology this fall. S A M U E L C H EON i s working as dean of the graduate school of theological interdisciplinary

cal knowledge to use at his parish. He is happy to report that his congregation is still alive.

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John G. Manter ’36, March 9, 2011 Robert L. James Jr. ’37, January 6, 2011 Joseph M. Smith ’37, January 15, 2011 Julian N. Hartt ’40, November 29, 2010 James L. Martin, Jr. ’41, June 12, 2011 Eleanor Mattes ’42, January 8, 2011 Burton Allan MacLean ’42, January 12, 2011 Elizabeth M. Crooker-Bates ’43, October 21, 2011 A. Waldo Farabee ’43, September 11, 2011 Carol Jean Stifler ’43, July 5, 2011 Walter M. Clarke, Jr. ’44, October 9, 2009 Harold A. Durfee ’44, October 15, 2011 Gerald L. Ericksen ’44, January 9, 2011 Dennis F. Nyberg ’44, September 2, 2011 Harry A. Brunger ‘46, August 15, 2011 Eleanor W. Foxworth ’46, January 31, 2011 Carl V. Harris ’46, August 9, 2011 Shirley L. Parker ’46, January 18, 2010

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Harry N. Peelor ’46, January 25, 2011 Chester L. Wickwire ’46, August 31, 2008 Fred O. Doty ’47, January 8, 2011 Ernest W. Seckinger ’47, August 22, 2011 Elmer A. Talcott, Jr. ’47, July 19, 2011 Edwin T. Cornelius, Jr. ’48, February 3, 2011 Grant W. Hanson ’48, November 25, 2011 Thurman R. Poston, Jr. ’48, June 29, 2009 E. Luther Copeland ’49, November 19, 2011 Donald S. Lamka ’49, January 22, 2010 William Randolph Sengel ’49, October 17, 2011 David E. Thomas ’49, March 10, 2011 John D. Worrell ’49, July 24, 2010 # Robert H. Bates ’50, September 20, 2011 Donald H. Bishop ’50, March 25, 2011 Kenneth R. Coleman ’50, January 25, 2011 Jo-an R. Glasse ’50, August 3, 2011 Earl A. Pope ’50, October 18, 2011 Robert J. Cummings ’51, September 20, 2010 Gordon Kaufman ’51, July 22, 2011 Walter C. Righter ’51, September 11, 2011 # Warren R. Tropf ’51, August 11, 2011 Franklin F. Beach ’52, March 1, 2011 Charles Donald Beisheim ’52, February 8, 2011 # DeWitt T. Farabee, Jr. ’52, December 26, 2010 Robert J. Kasper ’52, May 6, 2011 John M. Mills ’52, September 30, 2011 # Hideyasu Nakagawa ’52, April 26, 2009 Donald E. Ryder ’52, September 26, 2010 Theodore M. Atkinson, Jr.’53, March 26, 2011 John F. Collins ’53, July 24, 2011 # Billy Joe Hannon ’53, May 7, 2010 Theodore E. Leidenfrost ’53, February 3, 2011 George W. Shafer ’53, April 22, 2005 H. Richard Bucey ’54, September 7, 2011 Robert Alter ’55, June 19, 2011 Robert J. Fries ’55, November 22, 2010 Laurence Kirkpatrick ’55, December 23, 2010 William B. Lawson ’55, August 25, 2011 # Richard S. Parker ’55, July 12, 2011 Edward J. Hummel, Jr. ’56, August 31, 2011 Robert Charles Gentry ’56, August 2, 2011 Leonard F. Neils ’56, July 30, 2011 # Marion I. Plendl ’57, January 6, 2011 Sidney L. Kelly, Jr. ’57, January 18, 2011 Ian J. McCrae ’58, May 12, 2011

A. Hugh Fleetwood ’59, July 17, 2011 Charles M. Furlow III ’59, July 30, 2011 # Eric A. Gass ’59, December 10, 2011 Robert Glasgow Patterson, Sr. ’59, March 18, 2011 David J. Loomis ’59, July 12, 2010 John Beverley Butcher ’60, June 18, 2011 # Alva G. Decker ’60, March 24, 2011 # Lawrence C. Foard, Jr. ’60, January 7, 2011 Robert M. Anderson ’61, May 3, 2011 # Lee W. Backman ’61, December 17, 2003 Joyce T. Collins ’61, February 24, 2008 William G. Daniels, Sr. ’61, January 24, 2011 # Robert R. Hackler ’61, December 30, 2010 James Frederick Harris ’61, April 27, 2011 C. Benton Kline, Jr. ’61, June 20, 2011 Gilbert E. Marsh ’61, April 27, 2011 Norman W. Spellman ’61, September 10, 2011 Ross T. Bender ’62, April 21, 2011 L. Fredrik Buss ’62, July 19, 2011 John Teele Pratt Jackson ’62, February 8, 2011 # Andrew A. Sorensen ’62, April 17, 2011

Robert J. Cummings ’63, September 20, 2010 # Robert F. Davenport ’63, April 9, 2011 Richard H. Davis ’63, September 22, 2010 David C. Duncombe ’63, June 11, 2011 Larry D. Lavelle ’63, November 25, 2010 Withers McAlister Moore ’64, March 23, 2011 Ralph R. Carskadden ’65, September 13, 2011 # William Kelly, Jr. ’65, October 24, 2011 David W. Abbott ’66, September 15, 2011 Thomas A. Dillard, Jr. ’66, March 21, 2011 # Allen W. Swain ’66, August 12, 2010 # Roland A. Delattre ’66, April 17, 2007 William C. Mielke ’67, December 16, 2010 Edith Johnson Tinder ’67, January 3, 2011 William Baxter, Jr. ’68, January 13, 2011 # Robert C. Hall, Jr. ’68, April 13, 2011 # George W. Hunt ’68, February 25, 2011 Richard E. Neubauer ’69, July 3, 2011 Barbara A. Allen ’71, February 6, 2011 Roy F. Brown ’71, August 12, 2009 Joseph E. Thomas ’71, October 29, 2011

Peter L. Benson ’72, October 2, 2011 David L. Saurer ’73, November 12, 2010 # William H. Chidester ’74, May 21, 2011 Margie J. Mayson ’77, November 8, 2011 Carol Seifrit Pepper ’78, June 16, 2011 Jerrald Townsend ’81, February 26, 2011 # Carl R. Becker ’85, February 10, 2011 Janet G. Meeker ’85, November 15, 2011 Arumugam Sundaram ’85, Unknown Martin C. Parkins ’86, April 4, 2011 Kevin Arnold Barry ’87, November 5, 2011 Robert D. Greenlee ’87, April 19, 2011 Pamela P. Chinnis ’90, August 24, 2011 # Edmund L. Bobbitt ’92, February 19, 2008 Maxine Foster-Durham ’92, May 2, 2011 Rosemary Dysart Baue ’98, October 23, 2011 Peter Gomes ’00, February 28, 2011 # Margaret Greer Nosenzo ’03, March 31, 2011 Erin Lynn McGrath ’04, November 11, 2011 # indicates BDS alumni

A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS: THE CANDY BOWL IS FULL

by Dale Peterson, Associate Dean of Student Affairs

he Candy Bowl is full, and folk are coming by to say hello and grab a piece of candy. Students, faculty, staff, visitors, friends, children, prospective students, security staff... it seems that everyone stops by at some point during the day to take a candy break. The conversations around the bowl run the gamut: summer plans; weekend plans; the exam in New Testament; the Town Hall meeting in the Common Room on diversity; the student sermon preached in Chapel that morning; the Super Bowl; the Saints & Sinners party sponsored by the Lutheran Student Fellowship; the Fatted Café sponsored by Berkeley; BTFO Coordinator applications; Commencement. Some folks are on task and get candy as they take care of business: collecting supplies for Coffee Hour; getting the credit card from my office colleague Mike Giaquinto to purchase food for the International Student Fellowship social; submitting receipts for the last Community Dinner; ordering music for the Bible Belters; looking for a lost water bottle in lost and found; asking how one goes about sponsoring a documentary film presentation in Niebuhr Hall; completing work-study forms for jobs with the Women’s Center or the Yale Black Seminarians; turning in a cell phone found in the Commuter Lounge; asking about where to find a particular classroom; wondering whom to ask about a nagging problem.

Most folk, though, are on their way to some place else, and the exchange is brief: Schola rehearsal in the Great Hall; UCC-DOC weekly worship in Nouwen Chapel; daily Marquand Chapel worship; Gospel Choir rehearsal; Wednesday evening Berkeley Eucharist; the Sacramental Winers concert; a soccer match between the YDS Paracleats and the Med School Biohazards; the Uganda travel seminar class meeting; a resume-writing workshop or business etiquette class; an interview for a summer internship. For those of us who have been around for a few years (as for me, 12 years, to be exact), every encounter around The Candy Bowl is a reminder of all the many wonderful people who have been here before. Those who visited the bowl outside my office in Porter Hall, those who stopped by when my office was flanked by Registrar Detra MacDougall on the one side and Academic Dean David Bartlett on the other, and those who come by now that my office is at the end of the hall—next door to my office colleagues Mike Giaquinto and Julie Kelsey, dean for pastoral initiatives. The candy is good, but the company around me is even better . . . company that includes all who have been a part of this school and who yet linger in memory and conversation. My friends, please know that you are remembered fondly, and that the positive contributions you made to this place in past years contributed to making this the lively and dedicated place it still is today. Know, too, that The Candy Bowl is always full and always ready for your return visit to campus. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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A LETTER FROM THE ACADEMIC DEAN

by Emilie M. Townes, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology

uring the 2010-11 academic year, faculty, staff, and students of Yale Divinity School spent hundreds of hours engaging a long-range planning process guided by a key question: “What should YDS look like by the year 2025?” The answer, in part, came through adoption of a dynamic new mission statement that affirms the school’s historic commitments but at the same time acknowledges the shifting contours for mission in the 21st century. “Our challenge was to say more in fewer words. To do so, it was helpful The self-study proto think hard about what makes YDS cess, mandated distinctive. That meant highlighting by the Associaour Yale University identity but also tion of Theological calling attention to the centrality of Schools, was orgaworship to the community and the nized around six place of the arts in what we study and task forces—Purdo. We agreed unanimously that our pose, Planning and commitment to fostering ‘the knowlEvaluation; Curedge and love of God’ remained our riculum; Student gold standard.” Peter Hawkins Affairs; Research and Faculty Development; Outreach; and Development and Finance. Each engaged in a comprehensive look at where YDS is today and where we need to be in order to remain a faithful and relevant center for theological education in the twenty-first century. With survey input from alumni/ae, faculty, staff, and students, the long-range planning process has provided an excellent picture of YDS past and present and has identified new avenues to explore as well as ways to strengthen and deepen the historic mission of our school.

force—and later, the full faculty—felt it critical to re-emphasize the school’s enduring commitment to “foster the knowledge and love of God,” to welcome diversity, and to train leaders for church and world, recognizing that an everchanging world demands leaders who can respond to these changes. Along with Tisdale, a principal drafter of the statement was Peter Hawkins, professor of religion and literature. In its entirety, the statement says: “Yale Divinity School has an enduring commitment to foster the knowledge and love of God through scholarly engagement with Christian traditions in a global, multifaith context. Participating in the vibrant life of Yale University, the Divinity School is uniquely positioned to train leaders for church and society given its ecumenical and international character, engagement with music and the arts, and commitment to social justice. Rigorous scholarly inquiry, corporate worship and spiritual formation, and practical engagement in a variety of ministries enable students to develop their knowledge and skills in a community that welcomes and affirms human diversity.

“The Divinity School pursues its mission of training students for service in church and world through three principal activities: (1) it prepares people for lay and ordained Christian ministries; (2) it shares with the Graduate School in educating scholars and teachers for The new mission statement, adopted unanimously by the faculty at its March 1, 2011 meeting, captures much of the ethos theological schools and departments of religious studbehind the long-range planning process and provides a strong ies; (3) it equips people preparing for public service or guiding hand for how YDS will shape other careers to understand more fully the theological dimensions of their itself for the next ten years and beyond. “We solicited input from a variety vocations.” of people in the YDS community— Drafted by the Purpose, Planning, and including faculty, students, staff, Evaluation Task Force chaired by Nora In the years forward, the new mission and alumni/ae—in giving shape to Tubbs Tisdale, the Clement-Muehl statement provides a wonderful model the new mission statement, and Professor of Homiletics, the mission for the way tradition can inform an instithat process definitely strengthstatement supersedes the 20-year-old tution. It preserves the part of our heriened it. We also tried to walk a statement from April 1991. It is shorter tage that will continue to serve us well in balance between stating clearly this day and age, and it express our aspiand makes explicit YDS’s “commitment and fairly who we are, while also to social justice” and to engagement in a rations for who we must be as we prepare acknowledging who we aspire to “global, multi-faith context.” However, students for vital, informed, and faithful become.” Nora Tubbs Tisdale alongside these new elements, the task ministries in the twenty-first century.

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Graduating Students, continued Carmelo Sorita ’12 M.A.R. I am second-year year M.A.R. student at YDS, with a concentration in Bible. A native of the Philippines, I have worked as a youth missionary, a college philosophy/theology teacher, and as a Jesuit Volunteer at the National Bilibid prisons, where I designed and implemented a rehabilitation program for soon-to-be-released inmates. I have an M.A. in theological studies from the Ateneo de Manila University and am the author of The Son of Man as Jesus and his Messianic Community (Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2005). At YDS, I have done exegetical work on the poor widow of Mark 12:41-44 and the Good Shepherd metaphor of Ezekiel 34. I thank God every day for the blessings of (1) having world-renowned biblical scholars and theologians as mentors and advisers who exhibit great scholarly erudition and genuine pastoral care, and (2) having true friends from amongst fellow students, faculty and administration, who all came to share in my grief when I lost my mother to lung and brain cancer last year. After YDS, I plan further training in formal ministry and doctoral studies in theology, focusing on the ethical interpretation of Scriptures.

Carlene Demiany ’12 M.Div. I am originally from Palm Springs, CA, and after graduating from UCLA I worked for one year at a charter high school in downtown Los Angeles and also signed up to work for one month as a volunteer in Cusco, Peru. I immediately fell in love with Peruvian culture and ended up spending 15 months with a volunteer organization in Cusco. While there, I received the call to ministry and applied to various Master of Divinity degree programs. I ultimately decided to attend YDS. Nearing the completion of my time here, I am grateful to have considered myself a member of this vibrant community. The YDS community finds itself preciously balanced between rigorous academic institution and ecumenical community of faith. It is wonderful to have classmates challenge your intellectual proclivities but also offer spiritual guidance and support. I am currently seeking ordination in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 54

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I will dedicate my future to urban ministry and am grateful that YDS is actively training me for this calling. As I prepare to graduate, I plan to continue my studies at YDS by developing a ministerial project in the Master of Sacred Theology degree program. The ministry I envision would form a community of reconciliation in a conflict-ridden urban setting. I would bring youth from diverse backgrounds together and engage them in contemplative practices to promote and inspire reconciliation. I am grateful that YDS has both nourished and sculpted my vision of manifesting God’s justice in our broken world.

“My husband and I saw our gift annuities as part of our overall financial planning. By making gifts that gave payments back to us, we were able to make much larger gifts than we ever thought possible.”

Nathan Rutenbeck ’12 M.A.R., ’12 M.F. I come to Yale Divinity School most recently from Downeast Maine, where I continue to own and operate a diversified organic farm business with my wife and family. I earned a B.A. from Bard College in 2003, in the Religion Department, with scholarship focusing on the Albigensian Crusade. At YDS I am in the M.A.R. ethics program, where I study social and environmental ethics, particularly the contributions that scholastic theology and biblical literature can make to these fields. Under the joint-degree program, I am also enrolled at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where I am working toward a Master of Forestry degree, studying northern temperate and boreal forest ecology and management. Following graduation, I will pursue doctoral studies in forest ecology and silviculture at the University of Maine, working to develop ecology-based forest management systems. Over time I hope to integrate my interests in ethics and ecological science into a career helping people and institutions think more fully about the “why, what, and how” of social and environmental responsibility. When not wrapped up in forests, philosophy, or farming, I enjoy music of all kinds, boating, hiking, and playing with my daughters.

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“Since I was a YDS scholarship student, I feel a responsibility to give back to the school that gave me so much. I started simply by making YDS the sole beneficiary of a retirement savings plan. Now, I’m working on other options as well. The planned giving staff make the process easy.”

Dodie Younger ’50 M.Div.

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Summer study At Yale Divinity SChool 2012 For the first time, summer courses are being organized under weekly themes: “Bible Study and Interpretation Week,” June 11-15, and “Tools and Timely Topics Week,” June 18-22. Summer Study will begin with “Summer Symposium: Religion and Environmental Stewardship,” June 5-7. Each week at informal lunchtime gatherings, students and faculty from all of the classes can come together for presentations and discussion of topics

Week 1, morning June 11-15, 9:00-11:30 am

Preaching From the Lectionary David Bartlett and Robert Wilson Testifying in the Shadow of Empire: the Hebrew Scriptures, Postcolonial Criticism and the Contemporary Church Carolyn Sharp Reading the Bible through Literature, Music and Art Maggi Dawn Musical Skills and Vocal Development for Parish Ministry Patrick Evans

Week 1, afternoon June 11-15, 1:30-4:00 pm

The Book of Revelation Harry Attridge Renewing Congregational Song Patrick Evans

of common interest. Go to http://summerstudy.yale.edu for further information or contact Joanne Van Vlack at joanne.vanvlack@yale.edu or 203.432.6550. From May 22-July 3, language courses will be offered in elementary biblical Hebrew, elementary New Testament Greek, and ecclesiastical Latin. Information about language courses is available from Mary Ann Carrieri at maryann.carrieri@yale.edu or 203.432.5311.

The Bible Through Art & Artifact Julie Faith Parker The Historical David: Fact or Fiction? Joel Baden

Week 2, morning June 18-22, 9:00-11:30 am

The Great Awakening: Context and Text Ken Minkema & Adriaan Neele The Virtues of a Marketplace Theology Ted Malloch The Courage to Be: An Introduction to the Theology of Howard Thurman and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Jerry Streets What’s Christian about Harry Potter? Danielle Tumminio

Practical Liturgy Maggi Dawn Composition for Church Musicians Dan Locklair

Week 2, afternoon June 18-22, 1:30-4:00 pm

Religion and the Arab Revolutions Sallama Shaker The Economy and Christian Ethics Fred Simmons Complicated Issues in Death, Dying and Grief Jan Holton Augustine’s Confessions Christopher Beeley Writing Workshop Ray Waddle Icon Writing Workshop Vladislav Andrejev (9:00am-4:00 pm)