Alumni Class Notes
Class of 1986
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...
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...
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...
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....
ELLEN DAWSON is a book designer and typographer, parent of college-age son Aaron and high-school-age daughter Abigail, spouse of Earlham College president David, companion of standard poodle Balto, sailor, current resident of Haverford, PA,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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?” ...
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....
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...
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 (...
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...
SCOTT AND ANNEMARIE (CHAPIN) SMITH have been married 24 years and are part of a wonderful Christian agricultural community in (drought-stricken) Central Texas. They have five children: Noah, Aaron, Samuel, Grace and Mark.
Class of 1985
Peter John Bodden Carman recently moved from Rochester, NY, to sunny North Carolina, where he is now enjoying ministry as minister of Binkley Baptist Church of Chapel Hill. “The Great Theological Treatise remains scattered notes,” writes Peter, “but the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Class of 1984
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...
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...
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...
Class of 1982
FREDERICK DAVIE joined Union Theological Seminary on Aug. 15, 2011 as executive vice president. In this capacity, he serves as an adviser and assistant to the president for the structure and administration of the executive office, strategic...
Paul Stroble teaches part-time at Eden Theological Seminary. He still writes for FaithLink, the curriculum for the United Methodist Publishing House. His big writing project this year was the curriculum “Faithful Christian Citizen,” to be published by the...
Class of 1981
At Convocation and Reunions 2011, BARBARA ROSSING, professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, was honored with the alumni award for Distinction in Theological Education
Class of 1980
JAMES MEREDITH DAY is professor of human development and the psychology of religion at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is co-editor of the Archive for the Psychology of Religion: The Journal of the International Association...
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...
ANDREW MCMILAN has been in Colombia for almost a quarter of a century, planting churches. Married to Kathy, the couple have two sons in college.
TERRY THOMAS PRIMER is entering her 16th year as a chaplain with Springpoint Senior Living, the largest provider of senior adult housing in New Jersey. She provides spiritual care for a continuing care retirement community and two assisted...
DAVID B. WHEELER has been leading the charge for the Draw the Line Minnesota Citizens Commission with 18 statewide public hearings on congressional and legislative redistricting. Final maps and a report will be submitted to the judicial panel...
Class of 1979
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 in the nation cultivating and promoting awareness of fine craft.
RON HOOKER preached at Bethany Memorial Church (Disciples of Christ) in Bethany, WV, where classmate SCOTT THAYER serves as pastor and chaplain at Bethany College, to open the 2011-12 academic year. He also talked to...
Class of 1977
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
KENDRICK NORRIS graduated in May from the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. He is now a certified Jungian Analyst and continues as the senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Guilford, CT, where he has served for 34 years....
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...
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...
Class of 1976
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
DOUGLAS HALVERSON lives as an Anglican Benedictine in Menomonie, WI. He served until spring 2011 as the Oxford University Alumni Society secretary for Minnesota/Western Wisconsin and has been a university chaplain, professor, and Benedictine...
