Class Notes
These Class Notes run through July 2018. For the very latest alumni news, be sure to read Candler’s monthly newsletter emailed to alumni and friends on the first Thursday of each month. For those who prefer print, we’ll pick up where we left off in the next issue of Connection. | |
50s Thomas A. Summers 59T was presented with the 2018 Public and Community Service Award by the Atlantic Institute on April 11, 2018 at its Peace and Dialogue Conference in Columbia, South Carolina. 60s Willis H. Moore 64T was recognized for 26 years of service in the United States Air Force Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in a ceremony at Moody Air Force Base. 70s Beth Adams Bowser 71T was named “Distinguished Alumni of the Year” at Reinhardt University in March 2017. 80s [01] Joseph Tillman Reiff 80T 92G released Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society, the first full-length scholarly account of a civil rights-era statement written by 28 white Methodist pastors in Mississippi and its tumultuous aftermath. 90s Mark Youmans Alex Davies 92T is one of the 22 inaugural members of the UMC’s academic publishing imprint, New Room Books, which offers Methodist scholars and students a reviewed academic monograph series. 00s William James Abbott 01T married Rachel Abbott. | 00s, continued Emory Berry, Jr. 06T serves as pastor of Greenforest Community Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia. He previously served at Fourth Baptist Church in Church Hill, Virginia, and was recently inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College. [06] Shelvis Smith-Mather 06T 07T and Nancy Smith-Mather 08T welcomed a daughter, Nicole Kristi Smith-Mather, on October 13, 2016. She joins big brother Jordan and big sister Addie. Shelvis and Nancy were also selected for Emory’s 2018 list of “40 Under Forty” in recognition of their mission work in South Sudan. Sara Toering 06L 06T was selected for Emory’s 2018 list of “40 Under Forty” in recognition of her work as general counsel for the Center for Community Progress in Atlanta, a national nonprofit focused on transformational change in communities struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. 10s Kent Burel 74C 10T married Jeanette Adams Gravino on June 28, 2015. The couple lives in Hayesville, North Carolina. [07] Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling 10T received the 2017 Young Alumnus Award from her undergraduate alma mater, Drury University, for being the third woman ever to be hired as an NBA referee. She is married to fellow NBA ref Jonathan Sterling. AP photo by Carlos Osorio. Dominique Ayesha Robinson 10T 11T won the Beatitudes Society’s 2015 Brave Preacher Award. The Beatitudes Society recognizes and encourages emerging preachers who address social justice issues through the lens of the current cultural context and the biblical story. [08] Duncan Eric Teague 11T was recognized as an Atlanta LGBTQ trailblazer at the second annual “Our Founding Valentines” event, sponsored by Atlanta Pride and Touching Up Our Roots. Teague was honored for his work as an HIV educator and researcher. He was also honored by the Georgia House of Representatives for his advocacy and leadership in the African American Gay and Lesbian Alliance. Laura K. Brekke 12T is now Benfield-Vick Chaplain at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. [09] Sally Sarratt 14T(at left in photo) and her wife, Maria Swearingen, were called by unanimous vote in January 2017 to serve as senior ministers and co-pastors of historic Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, DC. Matthew P. Cavedon 14L 15T is a Constitutional Litigator for the Institute for Justice in Washington, DC. Theodore Adriel Goshorn 15T and his wife, Dana, welcomed their second son, Carter Arlen Goshorn, on September 8, 2015. |
Faculty Remembrances, 2015-2018
[01] James W. Fowler III died on October 16, 2015. He came to Candler in 1977 and served as the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development, as well as the director of the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development and the founding director of Emory’s Center for Ethics, where he worked until his retirement in 2005. His 1981 book, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning, has gone through more than 50 printings in its U.S. edition and remains required reading in many college and seminary courses. He was an ordained elder in the Western North Carolina Conference of the UMC.
[02] Channing R. Jeschke died on January 13, 2016. He was Margaret A. Pitts Professor of Theological Bibliography and served on the Candler faculty from 1971 to 1994. He received the Candler Dean’s Medal in recognition of his role in shaping Pitts as a world-class theology library by acquiring 220,000 volumes from Hartford Seminary, crafting Pitts’ collection development strategy, and nurturing relationships with notable donors. In 2014, Jeschke received Candler’s Centennial medal for extraordinary service to the school, society, and church.
[03] Manfred Hoffmann died on March 15, 2017. He served as professor of church history and historical theology and was on Candler’s faculty from 1960 to 1997. When he arrived at Emory, he joined a cadre of young scholars including Bill Mallard, Ted Runyon, Ted Weber and Hendrikus Boers, who helped transform Candler from a regional, denominational seminary into an international, ecumenical school of theology. After retiring, he became theologian-in-residence at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta. He was an ordained elder in the UMC.
[04] Theodore H. Runyon, Jr. died on May 11, 2017. A member of Candler’s faculty from 1958 to 1998, he served as professor of systematic theology. His 40 years at Candler were integral to the school’s growth as a leader in university-based theological education, including the establishment and cultivation of an exchange program with the University of Göttingen, and the development of Emory’s Graduate Division of Religion as one of the premier programs in the nation. Runyon was the first recipient of the Campus Outstanding Faculty Award (1967), and also received the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching at the Graduate and Professional Level (1973).
[05] Gene Tucker, died on January 4, 2018, at the age of 82. A professor of Old Testament, he taught at Candler from 1970 until his retirement in 1995. When he joined Candler, he was already recognized as a warm and engaging teacher, an accomplished scholar, and a highly respected administrator, having previously taught at the University of Southern California and Duke Divinity School. An ordained elder in the North Texas Conference of the UMC, he authored or co-authored four books, including Form Criticism on the Old Testament, widely used in colleges and seminaries. In 1981, he joined the New Revised Standard Version Bible Committee. From 1985 to 1990, Tucker chaired the Research and Publications Committee of the Society for Biblical Literature, and later served as SBL president.
[06] Bevel Jones III 46C 49T died on March 6, 2018. Jones pastored six churches in the North Georgia Conference of the UMC and was elected bishop in 1984, serving the Western North Carolina Conference until his retirement in 1996, when he returned to Candler as bishop-in-residence. In 1957, he was among the signatories of the famous “Ministers’ Manifesto,” a statement issued by 80 white members of the Atlanta Christian Council discouraging city officials and citizens from pursuing a course of massive resistance to federal authority in the integration of public schools. A longtime member of Emory's board of trustees, Jones also served as a special assistant in Candler's development office and a trustee emeritus of the university. Candler established the L. Bevel Jones III Chair in the Practice of Ministry in his honor.
[07] Gail R. O’Day 83G died on September 22, 2018, at the age of 63. She taught at Candler from 1987 to 2010, serving as A.H. Shatford Professor of Preaching and New Testament and senior associate dean of faculty and academic affairs. An authority on John, O'Day contributed numerous books and articles to New Testament studies and preaching that are widely used by scholars and ministers, including Revelation in the Fourth Gospel, commentary on the Gospel of John in The New Interpreter's Bible, and The Word Disclosed: Preaching the Gospel of John. She also served as the general editor of the international Journal of Biblical Literature and on the editorial board of The New Interpreter's Bible. In 2010, she became dean and professor of New Testament and preaching at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
[08] John Lynn Carr, associate professor emeritus of church ministries and former director of Continuing Education, died on October 9, 2018. He served at Candler from 1976 to 1998, focusing on the pastor as educator and adult education, especially teaching the Bible. He and his wife, Adrienne, also on faculty, co-authored nine adult education programs used by small groups around the globe, along with other notable writings for the United Methodist Council of Bishops. Together, the Carrs led new initiatives at Candler for integrating theological theory and ministry practice across the curriculum, strengthened the school’s program in Christian education, and nurtured relationships between Candler and local churches. He was an ordained elder in the UMC.
In Memoriam, 2015-2018
Joe T. Melton 42T Felix A. Sutphin 44T Ben C. Alexander 45T Charles J. Hurlock 46T James Grigsby 47T C. Douglas Mayo 47T A. Ray Adams 48T Edward Laney Davidson 48T Charles W. Hancock 48T Theodore W. Jennings 48T Walter N. Kalaf 45C 48T Allen D. Montgomery 48T Warren E. Pittman 48T William E. “Bill” Curl 49T Patricia G. Inge 49T C.J. Lupo, Jr. 49T Franklin W. Ray 49T Gordon H. Strickland 49T Donald G. Chandler 50T W. Glenn Dorris, Jr. 50T John James Miller 50T J. Thomas Sofge, Jr. 50T David K. Switzer 50T William S. Ferguson 51T Carol D. Jones 51T Evelyn Laycock 51T 84T Marion M. Pierson 49C 51T Sidney Sandridge 51T 52G Omar R. Fink, Jr. 52T Roy Gamblin 52T Emory C. Gilbert 52T William R. Kinnett 52T H. Warren Landis 52T C. Edward Reeves, Jr. 49C 52T James D. Benson 53T Robert B. Bridges, Sr. 50C 53T Beth J. Conerly 53T Thomas Oliver Crosby 53T Frances Raburn Duncan 53T William Jeryl Fink 53T John M. Fletcher 53T Donald K. Funderburk 53T Don W. Gray 53T Donald J. Hall 53T William B. Jones 53T P. Glenn Pearce 53T James C. Rowan 53T Ryan H. Seawright, Jr. 53T Ashland D. Shaw 53T Frank T. Stoff, Jr. 53T James Robert Styles 53T George W. Wannamaker 53T Charles H. Williams 53T Lander L. Beal 54T 65T James W. Chester 51C 54T Roy A. Eaton 54T Harry M. Goewey 54T William H. Granberry 54T Joseph J. Hauser 54T Raymond E. Pierson 54T James E. Powell, Jr. 54T George V. Puster 54T Ennis Sellers 54T R. Harold Strader 54T Eugene R. Woolridge, Jr. 54T Robert E. Zimmerli 54T Donald H. Anderson 55T Duncan A. Clark 55T Hawkins Westmoreland Clark 55T General Horace Couch 55T Phillips King Foote 55T Langdon Howard Garrison, Jr. 55T K. Edwin Graham 55T Ted P. Griner 52C 55T Henry Stuart Irvin, Sr. 55T Sale T. Lilly, Jr. 55T Oliver Hamilton Scott, Jr. 55T J.B. McNeil 55T John M. Minter 50OX 52C 55T Kenneth C. Verran 55T Joseph W. Adams 54C 56T Chester Bolton, Jr. 56T J. Harley Cecil 56T Dewey Dark, Jr. 56T Betty S. Griffin 56T Howard B. Albury 57T Max E. Barlow 57T John B. Bass 57T Sam H. Coker 57T Paul Featherston Douglass 57T Eugene C. Holmes 57T William Richard Floyd 54C 57T Walter E. Kilburn 57T John Mendez 57T Jack E. Ray 57T Leon E. Strunk 57T Reinaldo Toledo 57T Lucy Grace Fisackerly Whitehead 57T Charles Huber Clarke, Jr. 58T Howard E. Collins 58T D. Ross Denslow 58T | Charles A. Farr 53OX 55C 58T Charles E. Frazier 58T Boyce Huffstetler 58T Gene Brown O’Quinn 58T James Price 58T William J. Vines 58T Charles Walker 58T Lucene Williams 58T Dan G. Adams 59T John Y. Bacon 59T Carol Hayton Bradley 59T William K. Coble 59T Robert M. Copeland, Jr. 59T Robert C. Gillespie 59T Bernard K. Henry, Sr. 59T James E. Hunter III 59T 60T 75T Charles E. Lippse 59T Hunter P. Mabry 59T Julian L. Tucker 59T Sam E. Yearby, Jr. 59T Norman E. Booth 60T Jim DeBardeleben 60T Richard H. Finney 60T Tommy Dee Gilbert, Sr. 60T Dean Head 60T J. Harold Headrick 60T William E. McTier, Jr. 56C 60T Robert Walton Milby, Sr. 60T Ivester Pope 60T Jack T. Sanders 60T Claude E. Smithmier 60T Robert Temple 60T Mark F. Wimmer 60T Rudolph R. Baker, Jr. 61T William Bowling 61T O.C. Brown 61T Nelson D. Chasteen 61T Ernest L. Dover 61T Cecil W. Dudley 61T Denson N. Franklin, Jr. 61T Danny E. Harrison 61T Charles C. Hays, Jr. 61T 79T Arthur B. Holmes, Jr. 61T Joseph W. “Bud” Howell 61T Janis R. Kenney 61T Charles W. Nicholson, Sr. 61T Herbert A. Owen 61T W. Guy Parrish, Jr. 61T Andrew Jackson “Jack” Brown, Jr. 62T Rupert N. Caviness, Jr. 62T Lamar M. Davis 54C 62T Belon O. Friday 62T Jene C. Greer 62T Gerald A. Jacobson 62T David Bingham Knight, Sr. 62T William R. Lampkin 62T Aleck G. Poolos 62T Donald D. Rieder 62T William L. Rhoads 62T Ralph Lynwood Smith 62T Joe H. White 62T James Lee Collins 63T Lenox A. Mallory 63T Judson P. Nelson, Sr. 63T Queon Paul Smith 63T Robert “Buck” Ward 63T R.C. Warren 63T William R. Wells 63T Robert M. Blasingame 64T Robert W. Combs 64T Randle B. Dew 64T Alan P. Gorsline 64T Philip L. Green, Jr. 64T Dewey W. Griffin 64T John Hayes, Jr. 64T Clara C. Huguley 64T Cranford E. Johnson, Jr. 64T Robert A. Pardue 64T James A. Starnes 64T James Warren Tinney 64T Albert F. Turnell 59OX 61C 64T Albert L. Askew 65T Larry E. Cook 65T Robert T. Edmonds, Sr. 65T James S. Pollock 65T Leland Bagwell 66T Edison F. Burleson 66T L.C. Guthrie 66T Lawson E. Jolly 66T Harold W. Lyda 66T Carl Rabon Stephens 66T John B. Williams III 66T Edwin C. Carter, Jr. 67T Carl F. Hall 67T Richard M. Harris 67T Lee W. Hubbard 67T Harry G. Lewis 67T Robert S. Patterson 67T Jack E. Summers 67T Sara L. Whetstone 67T William Hampton Wolfe 67T 81T Douglas A. Bowling 68T | Varney A. Graves 68T R.F. Johnson 68T Melvin Bucky Jordan 68T Harold D. Shaffer 68T Kathryn Sandefur White 68T Powell G. Williams II 68T Thomas G. Harris 69T James H. Loy 69T Joe E. Luther, Jr. 69T Jerry B. Newsome 69T Herbert F. Spencer 69T Samuel A. Storey, Sr. 69T Fred A. Bowers 70T Earl C. David, Jr. 70T Charles L. Grovenstein, Sr. 70T Charles W. Larsen 70T C. Henderson Rasberry 70T Harvey H. Walters 70T Hoyt A. Allen 71T James L. Britton 71T Charles Gillespie 71T R. Steven Lisenby 71T Bill Self 71T Hugh E. Shirah 71T Charles E. Zimmerman, Jr. 71T Dan Atkinson 72T George Raymond Cousar 72T Thomas A. Dunbar 72T Fred C. Lofton 72T Alfred Dudlow Norris 72T William B. Springer 72T John Daniel Williamson 72T Donald L. Botten 73T Charles J. Davis 73T John G. Galloway 73T John H. Harper 73T James D. Harrison 73T Guss J. Shelly 73T Robert L. Shook 73T Charlie G. Dudley 74T Perry Sandifer 74T Hugh S. Bird 75T John Dickenson 75T James Sanders 75T >R. Hollis Gause 75G Lawrence A. Creel 76T James K. Rowland 76T J. Ferrell Drummond 77T Wallace F. Fowler 77T Larry Bruce Hall 77T Donald W. Legler 77T Douglas Ross Seymour, Sr. 77T Steven A. Wiley 77T Michael L. Dusing 79T Lyle Dean Linder 79T Edwin Gayle Burch 80T Miriam Hayes Holland 51G 80T James David Reep 80T H. Wayne Webster 80T Jean French Russo 81T Robert Frederick Hupka 82T P.T. McCutchen, Jr. 54C 59L 82T Barry E. Sullivan 82T Furman Norris 83T David T. Bryson 84T James O. Harper 85T Jeffrey A. Johnson 85T Leamon Paul McWhorter 85T Michael E. Brown 86T Julia Thomas Gary 58G 86T John W. Gibson 87T Larry Leslie Pearson 87T Jerry E. Sims 87T Lonzy Fitzgerald Edwards 88T Bryan T. Scarbrough 88T Joan Radford Biles 89T Fred A. Goodwin 89T Pamela S. McMillan 89T Raymond C. Deese 90T G. Coleman Odom 90T Helen Berenthien 91T Samuel O. Morris III 91T Kathleen B. Cowart 92T Kenneth Marcus 92T Marcia L. Zull 92T Margaret Louise Reeves 93T Charles Mikel Benson 94T Mary Burton McKenzie 94T Charles Swaney 94T Molly E. Fulford 95T Richard Muth 95T Jane Vinson Dorman 96T Roland Hartley, Jr. 96T Anne Collins Musselman 97T Richard Alan Young 97T Angelia Lanette Hayes 99T David J. Brown 00T Diana Lynn Jones 00T Paul Garnett Willis 02T Jessica Leigh Newsome 09T Malcolm Hassan Stephens 10T Walter Darrell Wiggins 19T |