People Notes

Ronald Byars ’62 B.D., Professor Emeritus of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary, has published a new book, Finding Our Balance: Repositioning Mainstream Protestantism (Cascade Press, 2015).

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Lois Capps ’64 M.A.R., longtime Democratic congresswoman from California, announced she will not seek a 10th term.

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As a volunteer in the SCOPE Project (“Summer Community Organization and Political Education”) during the mid-‘60s height of the civil rights movement, Richard Hutch ’70 B.D. engaged in a massive voter registration drive throughout the South. Now a professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, Hutch recounted those experiences a half-century later in lectures at his university and Gettysburg College, his undergraduate alma mater.

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Adam Eckhart ’01 M.Div. was installed as Senior Pastor at First United Church of Christ in Milford, Ct., where he served as Associate for many years.  

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Martha Smalley, special collections librarian and curator of the Day Missions Collection at the Divinity Library, was featured in a New Haven Independent article for her special exhibit on religion and the environment.

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May 8, 2015