Commencement Honors Breakfast

Photos by Joel Bock

Recipients of commencement awards, fellowships, and scholarships.

Front Row (left to right): Matthew Parker Wrzeszcz, Kyung Chun Kye, Anita Wright, Lydia Casey, Megan DeWald Kline, President Torrance, Eun Bee Ham, Kathryn Mulligan, Amy Conner, Sheree Jones

Second Row (left to right): Eddie Martin Jr., Byron Benton, Andrew Harmon, Kristy LaBarge-Kliewer, Aretha Campbell, Emma Hayes, Cindy Schwartz, Kelly Nieto, Michael Nieto, Erin Heisler, Jill Rumpf, Justin Farrell, Ryan Bonfiglio, Christopher Pritchett

Third Row (left to right): Martin Erhardt, Michael Lovaglio, Matthew Bollinger, David Berge, Jonathan LaBarge-Kliewer, Craig Pope, Ryan Timpte, Abraham Kim, Cambria Kaltwasser, Lucas Novak, Brian DiPalma, Nathan Stucky

Fourth Row (left to right): Samuel Lacy, Erin Raska, Kathryn Taber, Matthew Bingham, Jason Tucker, Eric Sunderland, Chris Stratton, Michael Chen, Thomas Seat, Joseph Collazo, Daniel Escher

Professor of Theology and Science J. Wentzel van Huyssteen presents awards during the Commencement Honors Breakfast.

Erin Heisler (middle), recipient of the Robert K. Kelley Award in Youth Ministry, pictured with Delores Kelley (left) and D. Robbin Kelley.

Trustee Francisco O. Garcia-Treto, Professor of Old Testament literature and exegesis Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, and M.Div. senior Ryan Bonfiglio

M.Div. graduate Daniel Escher, recipient of The Bryant M. Kirkland Award for Excellence in Practical Theology, with his family

President Torrance presents an award certificate to M.Div. senior Joseph Collazo.

Jack McAnlis, director of planned giving, chats with Chester Polk, associate director of field education, and his wife, Mildred.

Th.M. graduate Christopher Pritchett

Commencement 2009

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M.Div. graduate Sarah Illiff will serve in Presbyterian campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Incoming Chair of the Board of Trustees Bob Bohl speaks with outgoing Chair Mary Lee Fitzgerald.

M.Div. graduate Andy Newgren with his daughter, Grace Anneke, and his wife, Becky White Newgren, Class of 2007

Graduate Matt Parker Wrzeszcz with his wife, Jennifer, and their daughter, Emma, pose outside the Princeton University Chapel.

M.Div. graduate Cherice Bock and her husband, Joel, one of the Communications/Publications Office student photographers.

PTS faculty members prepare to proces into the chapel.

Darrell Guder, dean of academic affairs and professor of missional and ecumenical theology (left), and Janice Smith Ammon, minister of the chapel, enjoy the afternoon sun while waiting for the Commencement exercises to begin.

Graduate Marcus Branch plans to serve as a chaplain in prison ministry.

The Class of 2009 lines up outside the Princeton University Chapel.

Graduate Sam Lacy, recipient of The Edward A. Dowey Jr. Award for Excellence in Reformation Theology, and the Samuel Robinson Foundation Award, will travel to Meinz, Germany, on a Fulbright scholarship.

Graduating clergy couples (from left to right): Michael and Kelly Nieto, Brent and Erin Raska, Sara and Austin Hill, Kristy and Jonathan LaBarge-Kliewer, Meagan and Geoffrey Helton, and Caroline East and Chris Berardi

Geddes W. Hanson carries the Seminary mace while processing into the Princeton University Chapel.

Trajan McGill, Class of 2007 (center) and John Gilmore, senior vice president, chief operating officer, and treasurer

Dual-degree student Kelly Roman

Th.M. graduate Emily Dumler

Deborah Davis, director of field education

Eddie Martin, moderator of the student government, reads from the Old Testament.

Fellow graduates and Communications/Publications Office student photographers Matt Parker Wrzeszcz and Matt Nickel smile for the camera.

M.Div. senior Daniel Escher

President Iain R. Torrance addresses the graduates.

Justin Farrell and Daniel Escher will continue their studies in Ph.D. programs at Notre Dame University.

President Torrance and Daniel Migliore, professor of systematic theology, converse outside the Princeton University Chapel.

Ph.D. graduate Campbell Goodloe Hackett with her son, Harrison, and her parents, James and Deb Goodloe

Luke Powery (left), assistant professor of homiletics, and Charles Bartow, profesor of speech communication in ministry

Derrick Chambers (center), M.Div. graduate and former professional football player, and Th.M. graduate Vince Campbell

M.Div. graduate Crawford Brubaker with his mother, Patricia Morrison Kitchen, Class of 1993

Th.M. graduate and student photographer for the Communications/Publications Office Sung Hwan Kim.

M.Div. graduate David Wright receives a congratulatory hug from Barbara Chaapel, director of communications/publications.

From left to right: J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Daniel Migliore, Th.M. graduate Emily Dumler and her husband, M.Div. graduate Travis Winckler

M.Div. graduates Patrick Jinks, Brian Russo, Russell Mowry, and Deepak Nair

Fellow graduates Joe Ford and Craig Pope will serve as pastor to churches in Houston, Texas, and Savannah, Georgia.

Shellie Saunder-Aseltine will be pastor of music and preaching in a United Methodist Congregational church.

M.Div. graduate Ben Robinson, who plans on serving in a church in Cairo, Egypt, poses with his father, Bill, president of Whitworth University and a PTS trustee. Bill’s daughter Brenna, Class of 2008, serves as associate pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho.