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SPIRITUALITY PROGRAM OFFERED at Duke DIVINITY School DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL DUKE r SPIRITUALITY PROGRAM OFFERED AT DuKE DIVINITY ScHOOL Spirit of faith) come down) reveal the things of God) and make to us the God-head known) and witness with the blood. Charles Wesley ivinity School students will now have the opportunity to concentrate in the area of spirituality, thanks to D funding received from the Scarritt Foundation of Nashville, Tennessee. The grant will enable the Divinity School to undertake a five-year pilot project in spirituality in which students can further their spiritual life and their academic skills. Additionally, the program will allow chaplains and other per­ sons in ministry to complete a Master of Theology with a focus on spirituality. The program hopes to foster within ministers­ lay and ordained- those spiritual practices necessary to sus­ tain not only their work, but the work of the Church as well. Traditionally programs in spirituality for theological educa­ ,- tion center around Anglican and Roman Catholic disciplines; however, the Divinity School spirituality program will give attention to both the classics of Christian Spirituality and the disciplines of the Protestant tradition, including Wesleyan and other evangelical expressions. Courses such as biblical prayer, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, medieval women at prayer, spiritual disciplines, and the Lord's Prayer will be offered. Participat­ / - ing faculty will include John Westerhoff, Professor of Religion and Education; Frederick Herzog, Professor of System­ atic Theology; Geoffrey Wainwright, Professor of Systematic Theology; James Crenshaw, Professor of Old Testament; Ted Campbell, Assistant Professor of \. Church History; William C. Turner, Assistant Research Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies; and Susan A. Keefe, Assistant Professor of Church History. "We are grateful to the Scarritt Foun­ dation, and we welcome this inauguration of the Campbell-Dowse Program in Spirituality. The study and practice of the spiritual disciplines in a formal program will have a lasting impact on theological education, especially here at Duke Divinity School;' remarked Dean Dennis M. Campbell. The grant was announced by Dr. Walter N. Kalaf of St. Petersburg, Florida, president of the Scarritt Foun- continued on next page 2 SPIRITUALITY PROGRAM Continued from previous page dation. Scarritt Graduate School ceased its operations as a degree-granting in­ stitution in 1988. At that time it offered graduate degrees in Christian education and church music. Previously the insti­ tution had been successively a training school for women, a senior college, and a graduate school emphasizing domestic and foreign missions and Christian education. At one time it was hoped that the Scarritt programs in Christian Educa­ tion and church music would move to Duke Divinity School. When Scarritt closed, its assets were placed in the Scarritt Foundation. Among the assetts was the Campbell-Dowse Chair in Spir­ Front Left to Right: Kelli Walkerjones, Robert B. Bushonf? Patricia Alice ituality. The chair was a gift from an Rogers, Catherine Lee Wells Illinois foundation started by the father Back Left to Right: Robert G. Clarke, R. Michael Reed, Cynthia Anne Jones, Lawrence F Hays, Jr., Joseph R. Stains. of Melba Moorman Campbell and Bonita Moorman Dowse. Mrs. Camp­ bell and Mrs. Dowse, both of whom are United Methodist laywomen with DuKE tudent recruitment by Divinity a vital interest in spirituality, wanted School graduates will be strength­ the endowment used in a United Metho­ INAUGURATES ened in many parts of the nation dist degree-granting institution preparing S lay and ordained persons for ministry. ANSR thanks to the new Alumni Network for Student Recruitment (ANSR) developed They asked the Scarritt Board to place RECRUITMENT by Greg Duncan, director of admissions, the endowment at Duke. Should this and Wes Brown, director of development five-year project prove successful, an PROGRAM and alumni affairs, at the Divinity endowed chair in spirituality will be School of Duke University. established at Duke Divinity School An intensive training event October by the Scarritt Foundation. D 27-29 brought nine outstanding gradu­ ates back to Durham to prepare for leadership in the program. These ANSR coordinators are: Bob Bushong, '81 (Florida); Bob Clarke '52 (Ohio); Larry Hays, '75 (South Carolina); Cindy Jones, '78 (Illinois); Mike Reed, '76 (Indi­ ana); Alice Rogers, '86 (Georgia); Joe Stains, '79 (Pennsylvania); Kelli Walker­ Jones, '83 (Texas); and Cathy Wells, '79 (Mississippi). The ANSR coordinators were briefed by a team of faculty, staff, and students on all aspects of the current Divinity School community including the new Master of Theological Studies program and an innovative Master of Divinity degree curriculum, student life issues, admissions priorities and procedures, financial aid resources, the field educa­ tion program, and formation for min­ istry. They will act as expert liaisons between Duke and prospective students. Each is committed to serve for two years. The Divinity School has inaugurated ANSR to enhance its already effective network of alumni and alumnae who, as pastors, professors, and chaplains, identify and encourage individuals exploring the ministerial vocation to consider theological education at Duke University. D 3 FIFTY YEARS magine a gift, presented in 1939 as a permanent resource with only OF I interest earnings to be expended, ENDOWMENT which, having been managed carefully over the years, now provides scholar­ SuPPORT ship funding each year equal to more than half the original gift amount. Such CELEBRATED a gift was given by Mr. N. Edward Edgerton. The remarkable value of endowment support was celebrated by the Divinity School in 1989 marking the fiftieth an­ niversary of the establishment of the N. Edward Edgerton Fund, the first endowment fund expressly for the School of Religion (later to be called the Divin­ ity School). A gala dinner to be held in honor of Mr. Edgerton was scheduled ' for Duke University's Founders' Day Weekend, December 9, 1989, but was cancelled due to a major ice storm in Dean Campbell presents N Edward Edgerton Deans Club certificate. the area. Mr. Edgerton, now 91 years of age is a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina.D .I ALUMNI record crowd of 220 Divinity support of the Divinity School. Among School graduates and spouses the several great historical/hysterical REUNION A from class years ending in 4 moments shared with the group were REPORTS and 9 gathered on October 30 for the stories of librarian Donn Michael Farris Class Reunion Dinner at Duke during creatively silencing a class bell in the the Convocation and Pastors' School. early 1960s, more apocryphal legends Ruth Harper, D'79, Alumni Association about several former deans, and the President, led the event. "miracle" of Emmett Diggs', D'79, ad­ The Class of 1939 (Mac Richey, co­ mission. Professors and classmates were ordinator), celebrating fifty years, had fondly remembered. The Class of 1949 especially strong representation as did (Harold Hipps) even prepared a special the Class of 1984 (Susan Norman booklet. The newest Half-Century Alum­ Vickers). Alumni came from all over ni were honored with the presentation the nation, but honors for the greatest of certificates and thirty-seven of them distance traveled went to Fred Gomendo, attended a breakfast on November 1. D'84, who lives in Harare, Zimbabwe, The next alumni meetings will be and directs the work of the United regional and linked with United Metho­ Church of Christ there. dist Annual Conferences in May and Maness Mitchell, coordinator for the June. More than thirty-five gatherings Class of 1944, announced the intention will be scheduled. A Class Reunion of his class to establish, by the time of Dinner for class years ending in 0 and their fiftieth reunion in 1994, an endow­ 5 is set for the evening of Monday, ment of at least $25,000 for unrestricted October 29, 1990.0 4 BISHOP ative North Carolinian W. Upon his retirement, Goodson ac­ Kenneth Goodson, Bishop-in­ cepted an invitation to become Bishop­ GooDSON N Residence at Duke University in-Residence at Duke Divinity School. AwARDED Divinity School, has received the fourth As such, he counseled students about annual University Medal for Distin­ career and personal concerns. UNIVERSITY guished Meritorious Service. The Uni­ Bishop Goodson remarked, "Yester­ versity Medal is the highest award given day [December 7] was one of the most MEDAL by the university. thrilling days of my life. I love Duke The medal was awarded by Duke University with a passion. The two great President H. Keith Brodie during institutions in my life are the United Founders' Day Convocation in Duke Methodist Church and Duke University. Chapel, December 7, 1989. The con­ To be honored by Duke is an honor I vocation celebrated the signing of the shall never forget. I was thrilled beyond Duke Indenture by industrialist and expression, and I am grateful beyond philanthropist James B. Duke. words to all who were involved in it." Goodson, a native of Salisbury now "Bishop Kenneth Goodson is one living in Winston-Salem, graduated from of Duke University's greatest friends;' Catawba College and Duke Divinity commented Dean Dennis M. Campbell School. He had served 27 years as a concerning Kenneth Goodson's service. parish minister in the Western North "The Divinity School has always been Carolina Conference when he was elected a special love of his within the Univer­ to the episcopacy in 1964. Bishop Good­ sity. His service has been extraordinary son labored for civil rights in Alabama in every way; as University Trustee, during the 1960's. He is a former presi­ Trustee of The Duke Endowment, and dent of the Council of Bishops of The member of the Board of Visitors of Bishop Kenneth Goodson United Methodist Church. the Divinity School. In recent years In 1978, he became the first clergy­ his service as Bishop-in-Residence has man to become a member of the Board endeared him to a generation of stu­ of Trustees of The Duke Endowment, dents who will have a strong impact established by the late James B.
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