Class Notes

Alumni Name Class Year Note Posted
Hope Menninger 2010

Hope (Stephenson) Menninger graduated from the Saint Louis University Physician Assistant Program with a Master of Medical Science degree in December 2017 and received the David W. Wagner Award of...

March 1, 2018
Jean Wood 1964

The photo I uploaded is Barry and me before we moved from Williamsville to live near one of our sons in the Chicago area seven years ago. After having Parkinson's Disease for 20 years, he...

March 1, 2018
Horace Ballard 2010

Horace Ballard, Ph.D. lives in Pownal, VT and is faculty in the graduate program in the history of art at the Sterling and Fracine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is also...

February 27, 2018
Rev. Kristen Provost Switzer 2015

Kristen was proudly called back to her hometown of Newtown, CT to serve as Minister of Youth and Mission at the Newtown Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in August, 2016. Prior to...

February 26, 2018
Allen Reynolds 2015

I am grateful for YDS and the way it helped open me up to different ways to think about people, problems, and theological possibilities. I became a better pastoral caregiver because of the people...

February 26, 2018
Clark Downs 2010

Clark Downs ‘10 is a licensed lay preacher and worship leader in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Clark is looking forward to singing Evensong for ten days this August in the Cathedral in...

February 26, 2018
Daniel Klimek 2010

Daniel Klimek '10 entered religious life, joining the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order of Penance, and is living in Steubenville, Ohio, teaching at the theology department of the...

February 26, 2018
Andrew Petiprin 2010

Andrew Petiprin is Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. He and his wife, Amber, and their two children, Alex and Aimee, live in Nashville. Andrew continues to write for...

February 26, 2018
Sandy Smyth 2010

Living in Naples, Florida with retired husband, Hal. Digital Paintings showing at the East West Fine Art Gallery in the Bigham Galleria, Naples. Sandy's online galleries at SandySmythDesigns2...

February 26, 2018
Lydia Sohn 2010

Greetings all!

James and Lydia and our baby-now-toddler-but-who-will-always-remain-our-baby Hugh continue life in southern California, where Lydia is going onto her third year as the...

February 26, 2018
Andrew Doss 2017

Hey gang! I'm back in New Orleans. Just got through a splendiferous Mardi Gras, basking in the love of my hometown. I'm working now on the transition team for the first female Mayor-...

February 22, 2018
Debra McLeod 2009

Since graduating from YDS I have been working with foundations and programs that empower women and girls. Much of that work has been direct funding of schools with some focus on documentary films...

February 22, 2018
Jack Snyder 1985

After over 28 years together, in late 2016 my partner David Kemp and I were married in a small ceremony in our hometown of Arlington, VA. A second major life change is pending, as I plan to...

February 22, 2018
Timothy Ng 2015

Shortly after graduating in 2015, my wife and I became parents with our firstborn son's arrival at Yale-New Haven hospital. In the Fall of the same year, I took a position at Google's HQ...

February 20, 2018
Ed Thwaites 1957

Originally part of the Class of '56, I did a pastoral internship in a larger parish in Texas before returning to become a part of the Class of '57. Since graduating from YDS, I have...

February 15, 2018
Kelsey Dallas 2014

Kelsey Dallas is a national religion reporter at the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. She covers the intersection of faith and politics, tracking the Trump administration's religious freedom...

February 14, 2018
Rev. Robert Dell 1955

Joyce and I, together with three sons, have lived in Sandwich since 1962 - she being a now retired classroom teacher. I keep in touch with Jack Kelly and John Moyer; the three of us, along with...

February 14, 2018
Cheryl Bundy 2015

Cheryl Bundy is the Chaplain and Spiritual Counselor at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT. She teaches Spirituality and Mindfulness classes, runs the Hospital Chapel and provides pastoral...

February 12, 2018
Mindy McGarrah Sharp 2001

Mindy McGarrah Sharp, PhD, has joined the faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care.

February 13, 2018
Judy Chan 1982

She published her first book in October 2017: No Strangers Here: Christian Hospitality and Refugee Ministry in Twenty-First- Century Hong Kong. It is available from Wipf and Stock Publishers.

February 12, 2018

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