Frances Screnock Adeney (Ph.D. '88) is an associate professor of evangelism and global missions at the Louisville Seminary in Kentucky. She is married to Bernard Adeney (Ph.D. '82).

Barbara Baumgarten (Ph.D. '92) has a new book out this fall from Morehouse, Teach Us to Number Our Days, a spirituality craft book for the season of Advent. She taught systematic theology and worship at Bishop Barham Divinity College in Uganda from January to April of 1998.

Pamela Cooper-White (former director, Center for Women and Religion) has been appointed associate professor of pastoral theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadephia.

Douglas Kerr (M.A. '96) welcomed a son, Elijah Charles, born on May 1, 1999. Kerr has received a five year fellowship at Stanford for a Ph.D. in English literature.

Duane H. Larson (Ph.D. '93) took office this summer as president of Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. Wartburg is one of eight seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Larson had served as a professor of systematic theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., since 1993.

Robert R. Orpinela (Th.D. '69) retired this year from teaching in the Philosophy and Psychology departments at University of the Pacific. He has been fighting cancer (lymphoma) for more than a year. He's greatly respected by students and colleagues.

Rebecca Button Prichard (Ph.D. '90) returned to California in June to become designated Pastor for the Tustin Presbyterian Church. Her book Sensing the Spirit: The Holy Spirit in Feminist Perspective will be published this fall by Chalice Press. She lives in Santa Ana.

Jennifer Rycenga (Ph.D. '92) has been awarded tenure at San Jose State University, where she is an associate professor in comparative religion. Her article, "Maria Stewart, Black Abolitionist, and the Idea of Freedom" will appear in the forthcoming volume Frontline Feminisms (Garland), which she co-edited with Marguerite Waller.

Clayton J. Schmit (Ph.D. '94) finished a 1998–99 post-doctoral fellowship at Duke Divinity School during which he taught homiletics and liturgics and wrote a book on the aesthetic nature of worship and preaching. He has been awarded a second Duke fellowship for 1999–00 and expects again to teach and research extensively in both areas.

David Wheeler (ThD, '84) has accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Los Angeles. For the past fourteen years he has been a professor of theology and ethics at the Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City. His previous pastoral experience includes positions in Elizabeth, N.J.; San Francisco; and Flushing, N.Y. Wheeler's return to the pastorate reflects his belief that "theology and the theologican must be intimately related to the life of the local church and the living of the Christian life in the larger world."

GTU congratulates
Anita de Luna, Michelle Gonzalez, and Chong Pae, GTU doctoral students who received 99-00 fellowships from the Atlanta-based Fund for Theological Education.