Class Notes
| Alumni Name | Class Year | Note | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell Harmon | 2004 |
I am now in my 11th year performing as Edgar Allan Poe for libraries, schools, museums, and some stage venues in and around the New England Area. Check my website for my upcoming shows at ... |
February 17, 2020 |
| Antipas Harris | 2002 |
After graduating from Yale Divinity School, Antipas L. Harris earned a D.Min. and a Ph.D. He now holds a dual appointment as the founding president-dean of Jakes Divinity School and one of the... |
January 20, 2020 |
| Jim Bortell | 1965 |
I retired as a United Methodist minister in Central Il. and then served part time a Mennonite USA church for ten years. I conceive my last ministry is environmentally centered. I am a certified... |
January 14, 2020 |
| Ann Bonner-Stewart | 2006 |
After more than ten years as a school chaplain, the Rev. Ann Bonner-Stewart accepted a call as rector at Saint Mary's Episcopal Church, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. |
December 30, 2019 |
| Mary (Becky) Rebecca Garrison | 1992 |
Becky Garrison’s next book Roger Williams’s Little Book of Virtues will be published by Wipf & Stock on March 2020. |
November 30, 2019 |
| Holly Wilson Whitcomb | 1978 |
Rev. Holly Wilson Whitcomb has just come out with her fifth book, “The Practice of Finding: How... |
September 16, 2019 |
| Carol Adams | 1976 |
Carol Adams reported that her book Burger appeared in Bloomsbury’s “Object Lessons” Series last year and received a number of glowing reviews! She has also had several essays in the ... |
September 16, 2019 |
| Scott Fruchter | 1976 |
Since YDS days, Scott earned an MBA from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Louisiana State University. He has worked for the Lutheran Church, the Circuit Courts as a Sentencing... |
September 16, 2019 |
| Peter Shidemantle | 1976 |
Peter has retired after 26 years at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church in Syracuse! |
September 16, 2019 |
| Chuck Wildman | 1970 |
Anne and I are celebrating one year in residence at Linden Ponds, South Shore, Boston. The move from Cape Cod was challenging but worth the effort. We downsized the stuff but upsized the... |
September 11, 2019 |
| Jeff Matsler | 2015 |
Chaplain (MAJOR) Jeff Matsler recently retired from the US Army. His final position was as the US Army Medical Command Bioethicist, the only uniformed bioethicist in the Department of Defense,... |
August 13, 2019 |
| Vanessa Falgoust | 1980 |
I am honored to serve as Chaplain for the Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties in New York State just north of New York City. I am ever grateful to my YDS teachers David Duncombe and Henri... |
July 21, 2019 |
| Kenneth Kline | 1975 |
This year has been one of great change, with the loss of my wife, Joane, in September, 2018, and then Open Heart Surgery in January, 2019. I am most of the way through the STM Degree at YDS... |
June 25, 2019 |
| Allen McSween | 1969 |
I am not a 'true' member of the class of 1969. After graduating from Union Theological Seminary in VA in 1968, I did an STM degree at YDS, finishing in 1969. My wife Susan and I had our... |
June 11, 2019 |
| Talitha Arnold | 1980 |
I continue to serve the United Church of Santa Fe, a United Church of Christ congregation in New Mexico whose commitment over the past 30 years has been to "Love God. Love Neighbor. Love... |
May 26, 2019 |
| Lisa Jean Hoefner | 1978 |
Still doing interim ministry at Lake Tahoe UMC & Retreat Center - expect to be back in Portland, OR in Nov 2019, and back to active retirement. |
May 15, 2019 |
| Kate Heichler | 2004 |
Kate is serving as rector of two parishes in Southern Maryland, a region due south of DC, living on the water and enjoying a fruitful ministry. |
April 30, 2019 |
| David Oli Jenkins | 1980 |
My partner, David Spivey, and I moved from Atlanta to Asheville, NC, following my retirement from the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, last summer. David will continue to practice... |
April 30, 2019 |
| Jill Edens | 1978 |
Jill and Richard Edens have relocated to Weston, MA to be closer to their daughter, Ruth, and her family. They are the Designated Term Co-Pastors at the Congregational Church of Weston, UCC and... |
April 24, 2019 |
| Richard Miller | 1964 |
My life after graduating from Yale Divinity School in 1964 is divided into two halves: twenty years as a married presumably heterosexual Christian minister and now twenty-four years since “coming... |
April 24, 2019 |