Class Notes
| Alumni Name | Class Year | Note | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Hafner DeWinter | 1985 |
I look back on my years at YDS with awe and deepest gratitude. It seems like a dream to have shared sacred space and time with the likes of Bonnie Kittel, Roland Bainton, Letty Russell, Harry... |
April 16, 2019 |
| Ane Fitzgerald | 1986 |
Hello YDS. Happy Easter. |
April 15, 2019 |
| Gary Ahlskog | 1970 |
A decade ago, I managed to fulfill the requirements for ordination in the UCC. My ministry proposal, “Hypnosis in Death Preparation,” would have offered hypnosis within a network of NYC... |
April 15, 2019 |
| Stewart Albert Newman | 1964 |
I have been enjoying retirement from full-time Pastoral Ministry (1964-1999). I served Presbyterian congregations in Lynchburg, Virginia; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Wayne, New Jersey; and Albany,... |
April 15, 2019 |
| David Carradini | 1986 |
Let nothing disturb you, |
April 14, 2019 |
| Sherry Jordon | 1986 |
I just completed 25 years teaching Theology and Women's Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. I really enjoy my students. My most recent research project has involved... |
April 14, 2019 |
| Kristen Leslie | 1986 |
I'm coming to the end of my 22st year of teaching MDiv students (13 at YDS and 9 at Eden Theological Seminary) and continue to enjoy learning with my students. In June I will travel with a... |
April 14, 2019 |
| Dean Lindsey | 1986 |
Since 2013, my wife Peggy (M.Div., 1985) and I have lived in State College, PA where I am the pastor of the State College Presbyterian Church. Previously, I had the blessing of serving churches... |
April 14, 2019 |
| John Traphagan | 1986 |
John is Professor of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and in the program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin where he is also a Mitsubishi Fellow. He is also... |
April 14, 2019 |
| Anne Stanback | 1985 |
I’ve learned that in many ways, retirement looks very much like non-retirement. It still includes creating Doodle polls, attending meetings, and still not getting my closets fully Kondo-ized. In... |
April 12, 2019 |
| Gregory Bancroft | 1978 |
My wife, Sally, and I moved to Nashville, TN in 2015 where we now live in a 3-gen family with our daughter, Betsy, and her husband, our two grandchildren, three cats, and a German Shepherd the... |
April 12, 2019 |
| Larry Buxton | 1978 |
This June will mark my 3rd year of 'refirement' (or 'retunement'). After 41 years under appointment in the VA United Methodist Conference, we bought a townhouse in Ashburn,... |
April 12, 2019 |
| Geoffrey Gneuhs | 1978 |
Geoffrey Gneuhs is a figurative and representational artist and will be exhibiting in June 2019 at the Bowery Gallery in New York City, where he lives. He also continues serving at... |
April 12, 2019 |
| Richard Steele | 1978 |
Although I am now formally retired from itinerant ministry in the United Methodist Church, I continue to be employed full time as Professor of Moral and Historical Theology at Seattle Pacific... |
April 11, 2019 |
| Greg Turner | 1970 |
I think my primary achievement in seminary was finding and marrying Kathy Lantis. We were among the few clergy couples at that time (1966) who were aiming at ordained ministry before we met.... |
April 11, 2019 |
| Susan Walker Graybill | 1967 |
Since greeting classmates at our 50th Reunion in 2017, David and I have continued to enjoy retirement in Wilton, CT, celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary last summer. Contact information... |
April 11, 2019 |
| Ron Byars | 1962 |
Jim Halfaker (his wife is Louisa “Sandy”, YDS 1961) writes, “We live 4 days a week in our Seattle home, and 3 days at our small farm on Whidbey Island. Maintaining both places, mowing, cutting... |
April 11, 2019 |
| Steve Petrica | 1985 |
I was fortunate to make a month-long pilgrimage to Israel this past winter and visit many of the sites at the heart of our faith -- the temple mount, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Capernaum, Qumran, and... |
April 10, 2019 |
| Jan Hamill | 1980 |
Retired? No, only pensioned. after 30 years of parish and school ministry, now working with Episcopal Service Corps in Baltimore CIty (https://www.escmaryland... |
April 10, 2019 |
| Don Motaka | 1978 |
The judge explained that if I pleaded out, I could choose to go to a monastery. Otherwise, it would 3-5 at the Federal Minimum Facility at Allenwood. I had to think about it because Allenwood is... |
April 10, 2019 |