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hether you are answering a call to ordination, to further your theological education or to obtain a terminal degree, there’s no better place than Nashotah House to drink the whole beauty of the Anglican tradition. Our curriculum comprehends the disciplines of Holy Scripture, Greek and Hebrew, Church History, Church Music, Liturgics, Pastoral Ministry and Ascetical, Historical, Systematic, Sacramental and Moral Theology. Accredited by the Association of Theological Schools, Nashotah House offers a variety of degree programs, each tailored to a different variety of student answering a specific variety of calling. But all of our programs share in the same tradition of classical Christian thought and spirituality, delivered by a faculty second to none.  Master of Divinity (M.Div.)  Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.)  M.A. in Ministry (M.A.Min.)  Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.)  Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.)

Pentecost 2009

Vol 25, No 4

A year.

s I concluded a six month sabbatical on May 1, it was

From the Professor Emeritus

From the Dean

a delight to return just in time for the events of our

Commencement week—the high point of the seminary’s

First of all, the “Nashotah House Classic,” our annual

Nashotah House and the age scale is quite wide.

is an event that should not be missed by anyone. I hope you will

make plans to be with us next year.

that their “totally new” scheme has some aged antecedents. One

Alumni Day saw 170 gather for a rich and enjoyable

does wonder what great theological tomes might have been written if all that energy and imagination had been channeled elsewhere.

restaurant. I am very thankful to the leadership of our Alumni

Then again, it may have been a blessing in disguise that those

Association for their excellent work in planning a day of

books have been left unwritten.

enjoyable activities.

the heart of it all. The Sacrament is reserved and some are found

Gold Game,” as returning alumni played (and beat!) our current

kneeling in the Corpus Christi Chapel every day. The sun rises

students in a close and exciting football game. It was heartening and beyond—return to show their enthusiasm for the work of the House.

It is always inspiring as we see each class graduate

and enter the ministries to which God has called them. At this

Commencement we conferred 24 earned degrees and diplomas. The outstanding quality of this class gives me great hope for the congregations and ministries in which they will serve.

We conferred honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees on

three outstanding leaders during our Commencement ceremony: The Rt. Rev. Paul E. Lambert, a son of Nashotah House and Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas; the Rev. Jonathan Baker, principal of Pusey House at Oxford University; and the Rev. Dr. J. I. Packer, Anglican theologian, author and executive editor of Christianity Today. A bishop and alumnus,

exercising his ministry in the finest tradition of Nashotah House; the head of the Anglican Communion’s preeminent Anglo-

Catholic house of studies; and a renowned Anglican Evangelical

theologian—these three honorees together offer a model of faithful Anglican comprehensiveness from which the whole Church can learn and be blessed.

Many people have commented about the inspiring

beauty of this year’s Commencement service. And as I sat in

that service, I thought, “If anyone has any doubt whether there

“Private” Masses are no more, but the essence of

Nashotah remains. Daily Mass, with Matins and Evensong, are

The afternoon of Alumni Day saw the first “Black and

to see so many alumni—from recent graduates to 50-year alumni

Student pranks continue, of course, with occasional

bursts of creativity. It might be disillusioning for some to learn

Alumni Luncheon and panel discussion at the Golden Mast

work assignments together, to the movies together, to just “hang

out” together. Now families vastly outnumber single students at

tournament on the spectacular golf courses at Kohler, Wisconsin,

almost everybody went to chapel together, to class together, to

behind Shelton Hall and it sets over the lake as the Psalms are is a hope and a future for Anglicanism, I wish they could see this!”

I am profoundly grateful to the Chairman of our

Trustees, the Right Reverend Edward L. Salmon, Jr., who served as Acting Dean during my sabbatical. His wise leadership has

served the House extremely well over these past six months. He has worked with the staff and faculty to plan for the future and

to explore ways we can organize more effectively to accomplish the work that lies ahead of us.

I look at my return from sabbatical as a new beginning

and a time when we need to build this seminary, now in its 167th

year, to prosper and march boldly toward its 200th anniversary. Nashotah House continues to hold fast to its distinguished

heritage and to the catholic and apostolic faith. At the same time, we find new expressions of our life together as a community that embraces the Benedictine balance of prayer, work, and

study, while being formed for ministry in the Church today. I am grateful to each of you who prays for and supports the work of Nashotah House and blessed by the opportunity to serve with you in this important ministry.

The Very Rev. Canon Robert S. Munday, Ph.D. Dean & President

The 14th Dean of Nashotah House first arrived here in 1950 as an instructor in New Testament. He left Nashotah House in 1973 to become the sixth Bishop of Quincy. But the Rt. Rev. Donald Parsons has never been able to leave Nashotah House entirely behind him, and neither our students nor faculty have ever been prepared to let him go. He returned to us this spring as Adjunct Professor of Ascetical Theology—no less than his eighth such return to teach at the House since his “retirement.” Asked by the Missioner to reflect on some of the changes he has observed at Nashotah House over the last 59 years, Bishop Parsons had this to say:

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sung every evening.

Just this spring the west windows in the Chapel, for

many decades bricked over, have been uncovered, and light now streams in, most splendidly, as the afternoon advances toward

Evensong. That’s the way it was when I got here in 1950. It’s much brighter in the Court of the Gentiles now and the figures

on the Rood Screen are much better seen. In a way, the opening of those western windows is symbolic of Nashotah House—they have been restored to their former condition. Perhaps another

lumni often ask me, “What is it like to be back at

symbol of the same thing might be the Red Chapel. Long ago it

mixture of many memories of various flavors.

the trees, near the present faculty parking lot, where it began to

Nashotah House after so many years?” It is a

was removed from its original site and sat on bare ground under

Some things are happily the same as always. The beauty

rot away. Some kind donors made it possible for me to move the

our founders in selecting it. Though Delafield and Nashotah are

with solid foundations to prevent further deterioration. Where

retains its integrity, with remarkable privacy and safety. The bell

change—but sometimes they change only to become what they

priceless gift of worship in St. Mary’s Chapel.

the greatest change is not the result of some Dean’s plan but the

all ages and backgrounds and gifts and peculiarities. The first

was basically a group of single men, most of whom had just

and our three children enjoyed their childhoods here. No one of

to seven married men, whose families were living on the lower

unalloyed piece of heaven, but I pray that every other member of

of the lake setting does not fade, and we applaud the wisdom of

Red Chapel and the Blue House back to their present location,

no longer the little farm towns they once were, the campus itself

those buildings are now is very close to their original site. Things

rings out as it has for so many decades, summoning all to the

once were and were meant to be.

Some other things have, of course, changed. Perhaps

memories of various Deans, of many professors, of students of

result of changes in our society. In the 1950s the student body

eighteen years of our marriage were spent at Nashotah House

finished college. Out of about 70 students, there would be five

the Nashotah family can claim that every moment there was an

lake. Also, the great majority were about 20–23 years of age. So

the family can be as grateful for the House as I am today. 

For me, the campus is crowded with memories—

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Biddings & Bindings

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Ordinations & Appointments

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The Rev. David M. Adams, Jr., ’09, was ordained Priest on May 16, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman for the Diocese of Springfield. He is Chaplain Resident of the Roper Hospital System, 259 Belfast Rd., Charleston, SC 29407. The Rev. Colin M. Ambrose, ’09, was ordained Priest on May 16, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman for the Diocese of Springfield. He is Associate Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 315 Main St., Murfreesboro, TN 37133. The Rev. Edward B. Bartle, ’09, was ordained Priest on May 30, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. John W. Howe, Diocese of Central Florida. He is Assistant of St. Jude’s Episcopal Church, 815 E. Graves Ave., Orange City, FL 32763. The Rev. William L. Breedlove, ’09, was ordained Deacon on May 28, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence, Diocese of South Carolina. He is Assistant Rector of St. Michael and All Angels, 6630 Nall Ave., Mission, KS 66202. The Ven. Ernest Buchanan, ’09, is Archdeacon of CaledoniaWest in the Anglican Church of Canada. The Rev. William D. Dennler, ’09, was ordained Deacon on June 6, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. John C. Bauerschmidt, Diocese of Tennessee. He is Deacon of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 615 6th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37203. The Rev. W. Matthew Greathouse, ’05, is Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 576 Roscoe Rd., Newnan, GA 30263. The Rev. Christopher J. Guptill, ’09, was ordained Deacon on February 28, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker, Diocese of Fort Worth. He is Curate of the Church of the Good Shepherd, 3600 Fall Creek Hwy., Granbury, TX 76049. The Rev. Joseph R. Hermerding, ’09, was ordained Priest on May 16, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman for the Diocese of Springfield. He is Curate of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 8833 Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806. The Rev. Rodney S. Hurst, ’09, was ordained Priest on May 16, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman for the Diocese of Springfield. He is Rector of Grace Episcopal Church, 508 W. Fox St., Carlsbad, NM 88220. The Rev. Marcus A. Kaiser, ’09, was ordained Deacon on May 28, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence, Diocese of South Carolina. He is Assistant Rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter, 403 Dingle St., Sumter, SC 29150. The Rev. Dennis C. Lloyd, ’80, is Rector of Holy Apostles’, 1020 Remington Rd., Wynnwood, PA 19096. The Rev. Philip N. Mayer, ’08, was ordained Priest on December 6, 2008, by the Rt. Rev. James M. Stanton, Diocese of Dallas. The Rev. Michael W. Millard, ’08, was ordained Priest on March 7, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. D. Bruce MacPherson, Diocese of Western Louisiana. The Rev. Davidson R. Morse, ’03, is Assistant of St. Andrew’s, 917 Lamar St., Fort Worth, TX 76102. The Rev. J. Douglas Moyer, Jr., ’09, was ordained Deacon on January 31, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Paul V. Marshall, Diocese of Bethlehem.

The Rev. Joel A. Prather, ’09, was ordained Priest on May 16, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman for the Diocese of Springfield. The Rev. David M. Reamsnyder, ’09, was ordained Priest on June 9, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. William Millsaps, EMC. He is Curate of Mount Calvary Episcopal Church, 816 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore, MD 21201. The Rev. Donald R. Sackett, ’09, was ordained Deacon on June 9, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Walter Grundorf, APA. He is Curate of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Weaverville, NC. The Rev. V. Joseph Scalisi, ’07, is Rector of Trinity Church, 1818 6th Ave., Rock Island, IL 61201. The Rev. Richard C. Shippee, ’78, is Priest-in-Charge of St. Mark’s, 10 Turner Ave., Riverside, RI 02915. The Rev. Jeffrey A. Stubbs, ’09, was ordained Deacon on February 28, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker, Diocese of Fort Worth. He is Curate of St. John’s, 2401 College Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76110. The Rev. Lonell Wright, ’07, was ordained Priest on January 31, 2009, by the Rt. Rev. Charles E. Jenkins, Diocese of Lousiana. He is Priest-in-Charge of All Souls’ Episcopal Church, 5500 St. Claude, New Orleans, LA 70117.

editor The Rev. Steve Schlossberg associate editor Mr. Tim Kasza copy editor Mrs. Sandy Mills intern Ms. Lauren Anderson photographer Mrs. Shawna Collins archivist The Ven. Thomas Winslow address 2777 Mission Road Nashotah, Wisconsin 53058–9793 telephone 262.646.6500

Retirements The Rev. Lawrence W. Handwerk, ’69, has retired as Executive Director of All Saints’ Episcopal Conference Center, Leitchfield, KY. The Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl, Jr., D.D., ’74, has retired as Bishop of Northwest Texas, Lubbock, TX. The Rev. James A. Rogers, ’75, has retired as Rector of St. Mary Magdalene, Fayetteville, TN.

Necrology

publisher The Very Rev. Dr. Robert S. Munday

+May the souls of the faithful departed, by the mercy of God, rest in peace.+

The Rev. G. Colyer Brittain, ’45, died February 25, 2009, age 91. Hieromonk Barnabus (Wayne D. Bullock), ’80, died March 5, 2009, age 66. The Rev. Canon James P. DeWolfe, Jr., Associate, died January 28, 2009, age 90. The Rev. W. Keith Hedrick, ’79, died December 10, 2008, age 68. The Rev. Robert R. McMurtry, ’50, died February 11, 2009, age 86. The Rev. Norman G. Nicholls, ’76, died April 15, 2009, age 80. The Rev. Dr. Peter Toon, Associate Professor (1990–92), died April 25, 2009, age 69. The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Whipple, ’36, died February 20, 2008, age 95. The Ven. Canon Robert N. Willing, Jr., ’60, died February 20, 2009, age 74.

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In this issue:

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The Class of 2009 Graduates

The Class of 1959 Remembers

The Mission Goes to Peru

The Mission Goes To Prison

Biddings & Bindings

Garwood Anderson Elected Academic Dean

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pon Dean Robert Munday’s nomination, the faculty of Nashotah House elected Dr. Garwood Anderson Associate Dean of Academic Affairs on April 28, 2009. Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek, Dr. Anderson succeeds the Rev. Canon J. Douglas McGlynn, who has served as Academic Dean at Nashotah House since 2005, but who has long been eager to devote more time and energy to his ministry as Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Homiletics. “Fr. McGlynn has fostered a deeper collegiality, conviviality and hospitality among our faculty,” Anderson says, “and that sets a great foundation for us to build on. You will be hard-pressed to find a faculty more committed than ours to the mission of their seminary, or to each other,” he observes. “And I can’t imagine a faculty more devoted to the care, well-being and spiritual formation of their students.” Picking up where Fr. McGlynn has left off, the new Academic Dean is most interested in cultivating in our faculty “the gifts and graces that promise to make us more excellent as teachers, scholars and mentors.” While Nashotah House has always stressed that a theological education is something more than an academic exercise, Anderson finds that the House nonetheless offers an ideal atmosphere for rigorous scholarship. “Our Rule of Life,” he says, “and the daily discipline of corporate prayer, give us an uncommonly rich context for theological reflection. And there’s a constant iconic reminder here, in the Chapel and among our students, that our theological endeavors at the House are in the service of the Church.” 

Daniel Westberg Appointed to HOB Panel

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he Rev. Daniel Westberg, Nashotah House’s Research Professor of Christian Ethics and Moral Theology, has been appointed to a Theological Panel commissioned by the House of Bishops’ Theological Committee to submit reports on the issue of same-sex marriage. Chaired by Dr. Ellen Charry, Professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, the panel is composed of eight members, four of whom represent conservative theological views on sex and marriage, four of whom represent revisionist positions. The panel will submit two parallel documents to the Episcopal House of Bishops in January. “That the House of Bishops didn’t just appoint a token conservative to the panel,” Westberg says, “indicates that they are interested in seeing these issues given the theological reflection they deserve. And that we are not expected to produce a ‘blended’ or compromise position is even more hopeful yet.” The panel meets regularly to exchange draft positions, to critique each other’s arguments and to allow each side to more honestly and completely account for the positions they hope to answer in detail and depth. “We don’t imagine that we are going to change the mind of the Episcopal Church by ourselves,” Westberg says. “But we have been given an opportunity to engage these questions with careful theological thinking. And that represents a substantial improvement over what is too often our habit of yielding, in an unthinking way, to the influence of our culture today.” 

On the Cover:

What is the girl on the far right thinking, as she watches Mark Polley, ’11, and Jude Prather (in hat, son of the Rev. Joel Prather, ’09), walking with the children of Lima? For more about our mission to Peru, see page 6.

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Nashotah Past, Present House: Yesterday, & FutureToday and Tomorrow

The Class of 2009 The Class of 2009

Self-Denying Love

excerpts from an ordination sermon On January 5 of this year, one Son of the House, the Rev. Chip Prehn (‘85) preached at the ordination of another, the Rev. Philip Cunningham (’08), at St. John’s Episcopal Church in McAllen, Texas. The occasion marked the happy coincidence of two of our alumni, and Fr. Prehn’s sermon well-remembers the understanding of Holy Orders promulgated at Nashotah House and the reason the House forms her students as she does.

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Dean and President Robert Munday surrounded by the Class of 2009 (L–R): Saw Samuel Nyan Lynn, Andrew Joseph Hanyzewski, Virginia R. Martin Carr, Edward B. Bartle, Margaret Will Lee, Kent Howard Anderson, J. Douglas Moyer, Jr., Rodney Shane Hurst, David Morrison Adams, Jr., Marcus Adam Kaiser, Donald Randolph Sackett, Mark Eugene Evans, Frank Rosser Dunaway, III, Colin Moore Ambrose, David M. Reamsnyder, Jeffrey Allan Stubbs, William David Dennler, William L. Breedlove, Joel Allen Prather, Phillip L. Anderas, Joseph Robert Hermerding, Daudi Jonathan Ndahana, Cynthia DeLeon Hill and Christopher John Guptill.

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ore than 500 alumni, trustees, friends and guests of Nashotah House attended our 164th Commencement Exercises, held this year at St. Jerome Catholic Church in nearby Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The Rev. Dr. J. I. Packer (left), Anglican theologian, author of (among many countless other titles) Knowing God and executive editor of Christianity Today, served as preacher. Twenty-four students graduated, representing Episcopal Dioceses and Anglican jurisdictions as various as Bethlehem, Central Florida, Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Fort Worth, Hpa-an (Myanmar), Quincy, South Carolina, Springfield, Tennessee, Western New York, Western Tanganyika (Tanzania), the Anglican Province of America and the Episcopal Missionary Church. 

hilip! There’s something you need to know: I’ve never preached an ordination sermon before. But in nearly 25 years of ministry I have preached a wedding sermon or two, and I’ve decided that the two things are related, weddings and ordinations, and that gives me confidence that I might deliver your ordination charge: First, remember that the first martyr was what you are right now, a deacon. We celebrated his feast a few days ago. Be then as bold as blessed Stephen, Philip, and proclaim before the rulers of this world the Good News that is Jesus Christ— that He is the Son of God and the promised Light to the Gentiles. And be prepared, my brother, to pay with your life for your bold proclamation of the Gospel, within as well as without the walls of Zion. Second, remember that your first ordination made you a deacon indelibly. If it is God’s will, you will be priested in a few minutes, but you will always be a deacon. For the rest of your life, your vocation and your glory will be the obedient service you render to God and to every single person you encounter. Third, always bear in mind that the sacrament of Holy Orders, like the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, is not first of all for happiness but for holiness. The joy of ordination is not about “self-realization” or “self-fulfillment”; it is about the self-denying love that is the essence of the Gospel. In every challenge, in every perplexity, and (especially) in every triumph, look to the Cross: that is your Clue about the right thing to do in every perplexity or problem or challenge. Self-denying love for others is always the right way to go. Never in the history of the Episcopal Church has self-denying love been more important than right now, when our church is filled with self-regarding and self-asserting pride. And what’s true of the Episcopal Church is surely true of the world, which is growing smaller and smaller than ever. Thus, you must come to this Altar to meet God’s ordaining hands, not with pride, but with humility, recognizing that the consecration is a blessing because the consecrated person realizes that he can do nothing without God’s grace. That is wisdom—to know that there is no way for you to fulfill the vows you make tonight without divine help. This is a good thing! Empty yourself by grace, that you might gain what God wants to give you rather than what you would presume to receive from God. Never forget that Christianity is about Christ, for without him you can do nothing. Christ within you, Christ behind you,

L-R: The Rt. Rev. Gary R. Lillibridge, Bishop of West Texas, ordains Philip Cunningham to the Sacred Order of Priests as Fr. Prehn looks on.

Christ before you, Christ beside you, Christ to win, comfort and restore you. You will be nothing without Christ—at least nothing worthwhile for Christ. Do not fall into the delusion that you are your own Mediator. Christ Jesus is everything: this night you enter into a new relationship with him. Count on him, Philip, and you will count with joy the souls that he is saving. And this brings me naturally to my last charge: remember that if God has you, Philip, then you have everything. I say this because you and I live in a culture gone mad with consumption. We live in a wild, out of control “consumer society.” And this culture is so powerful that it’s inhabited the Church, and even Christians have let their appetites and even their spiritual desires run amok. And out of our addiction to consumption, we ask for things from the God who took only a cloak for his journey. Oh yes: the consumer society is also the society of the Church, and you’d better be beware of it. Just remember that God has already given you your greatest possession in life—your life. If with all your heart and might, you will give God one man in this world, one person who is truly and utterly his, then you don’t need anything else. This will mean that you have made yourself available, Philip; that you have really given yourself to the Lord’s service. If God has you, then you will be as fruitful, as obedient and faithful as Abraham was for a new beginning of things. What a blessing for those to whom you will minister and among whom you will serve. Anything else you need will be added to the one single man God can count on because God has you. If God has you, you have everything. Let it be so! Let it be so! Amen. 

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The Mission in Mission:

Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution

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s seniors Phillip Anderas and Colin Ambrose reflected But Anderas doesn’t see this as an addendum to the on their experience at Nashotah House this winter, they mission of Nashotah House; he sees it as an intergral part of realized that for all the many rich things they had her tradition. “It’s just like back in the good old days,” he says, enjoyed at Nashotah House, one thing was conspicuously “when Nashotah sent her students out on the road and into the missing. world on local preaching missions. We’re just doing what the “We weren’t doing anything,” Anderas says with a House has always done.” laugh. “We weren’t practicing any of The preaching mission started by the pastoral or preaching disciplines Anderas and Ambrose has since been we’d been given, and we weren’t doing adopted by the House’s chapter of anything to carry the gospel into the the Brotherhood of St Andrew, whose world.” With the advocacy of Dean pro president, Brad VanDeventer, ’11, joined tempore Bishop Salmon, then, the two Anderas on a mission to KMCI in May. undertook a preaching mission to the “As soon as you walk through those Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, gates, you know that you’re completely a medium-security prison about an hour out of control,” VanDeventer says. “You Brad VanDeventer and Phillip Anderas away from the House. know you’re no longer a free man. But It was an enlivening experience when you see those men enter the chapel for the students, Anderas says, and a perfect complement to the and you hear them sing and pray, you’re looking at men who are spiritual formation for which the House is famed. “It got us out enjoying freedom.” of our own heads,” he says. “It got us liturgy-loving, Church “They sing with joy, with strength,” Anderas says. “It’s Father-loving, Eucharist-loving men out into the world preaching like when the walls of Jericho fell down.” to men, and preaching to rough men. If we’re not prepared to do The Brotherhood of St. Andrew will next visit KMCI this that, then what have we been preparing for, anyway?” summer and will begin a schedule of monthly visits this fall. 

Distinguished Past, PresentAlumni & Future Awards Presented

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he Rev. Canon John Philip Talmage, ’53, and the Rev. Canon James Andrew Kaestner, ’59, were each recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of Nashotah House, in proclamations delivered during the Alumni Mass in the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin on May 13, 2009. The awards—the first such conferred by the Alumni Association— recognize alumni of the House whose lives and ministries set forth outstanding examples of Christian leadership and ministry reflective of Nashotah House and the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Holy Orders. At the Alumni Association luncheon later the same day, the Rev. Donald M. Lloyd, ’36, the eldest living alumnus of the House, was proclaimed Honorary Chaplain of Nashotah House in recognition of “a life exceptionally well spent in faithful service to our God, His people and the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.” The proclamation was accepted on behalf of

Good Life Portraits

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Fr. Lloyd, who lives in Mississippi, by his cousin, Mrs. Dorene Krueger. Upon receiving the plaque, Mrs. Kruger said, “After seeing how you pray this morning [at the Alumni Mass], now I understand why Donald is the kind of priest he is.” 

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Above: Bishop Ackerman and ordinands (L-R) Fr. Rod Hurst, Fr. David Adams, Fr. Joel Prather, Fr. Joseph Hermerding and Fr. Colin Ambrose. Left: Mr. Tim Kasza, Director of Development, and Nashotah House seminarians presenting Bishop Ackerman with a gift from the House at the Bishop’s February retirement party in Peoria. A framed print of an 1874 oil painting of Nashotah House, the gift “is only a small token of our gratitude for Bishop Ackerman’s ministry,” says Dean Robert Munday. “As a most distinguished Son of the House, a most faithful trustee, and the episcopal sponsor of so many of our seminarians, Bishop Ackerman has done more, and continues to do more, for his alma mater than we can ever adequately thank him for.”

Left: The Nashotah House Alumni Association Officers and our distinguished alumni (L-R): The Rev. Canon Charles Hough, III, the Rev. Canon John Talmage, the Rev. Canon Sandy Herrmann, the Rev. Canon James Kaestner and the Rev. Canon Edward Monk.

The Class of ’59 Remembers

Springfield Five Ordained to Priesthood

he Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman, D.D., ’74, Assisting Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield, ordained five men to the Sacred Order of Priests in the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin on May 16, 2009. As the Bishop of Quincy, from which See he has since retired, Bishop Ackerman had ordained each to the Sacred Order of Deacons in the same chapel last November. The five priests are answering calls within the Episcopal Church.

The Class of 2009

The Sinners Cross today, overlooking Upper Nashotah Lake, at whose foot many of the very rocks placed by the class of ’59 remain.

lumni Day this year saw five classes celebrate reunions at Nashotah House, including the 50-year class of 1959, whose reunion captain, Fr. James Kaestner, offers these reflections on his experience at the House with his classmates: Our class, just like those before and after us, knew that we had one thing in common, praying the Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer every day and ministering with everything we had learned. Fifty years later, the things we held in common then hold us together now. Our seminary was a “laboratory” of prayer, and the disciplines we learned at the House sustained us throughout our ministries, through our struggles and our triumphs. Two of our class members founded religious communities and discovered ways of ministering not only to the spiritually hungry but also those homeless and hungry. Two entered the Benedictine life. One became a Bishop. Another was awarded an honorary doctorate from Nashotah House in tribute to his work in civil rights. Several went on to support their Bishops in their diocesan offices. Some went into secular work but continued to exercise their priesthood in small or intermediate parishes. Our parishes grew and prospered and so did we. We preached well but we did not rely on sermons. We relied on sermons that were lived out in our communities. As we gathered for our 50th reunion we not only sang the grace in Latin, as we had as students, but we remembered performing Murder in the Cathedral in the gymnasium of Kemper Hall. We remembered Abishag, the stray cat we hid in Kemper Hall. We remembered planting trees that are now giants near the cemetery. We remembered taking stones to the cross overlooking the lake. It had a plaque, Crux est Mundi Medinia—the Cross is the Medicine of the World. It is. 

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The Mission in Mission:

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Peru

even members of the Nashotah House community

spent ten days this April in Peru, whose Missionary

Bishop, the Rt. Rev. William Godfrey, is an old friend

mountains to reach remote missions, joining local priests as

of Nashotah House, and with whose thriving diocese the House

they made pastoral visits to their people. Anointing with oil and

has formed deep bonds of affection. This was the Jackson

laying hands on the sick, praying with broken families, praying

Kemper Missionary Society’s second visit to Peru in two years,

over premature babies with jaundice, praying with a family

and this mission was concentrated on serving Bishop Godfrey’s

who had recently resorted to bringing their sick child to a witch

Peruvian seminarians in Lima. Drawing on their own Benedictine education and experience at Nashotah House, the four students on

the team shared the privilege of teaching classes every evening

By day, the mission team traveled the Diocese, visiting

shanty towns, playing with children, repairing churches, scaling

doctor—the mission team did more than teach in Peru. They photos by Tammy Prather

learned what it means to be a priest.

Bearing gifts of altar linens, stoles and chasubules from

on the Rule of Life, its place in Anglican spirituality and its vital

Nashotah House, the mission team also purchased a Chalice,

“Evangelical in its zeal and mission, catholic in its

we were to provide these basic but incredibly meaningful needs

power of the Holy Spirit, and thoroughly Peruvian in its identity,”

that when they gather around the Lord’s Table, there will be these

Missionary Society, describes the Diocese of Peru. Small wonder,

cherish.”

diocese and such a good mentor in its missionary Bishop.

visit nashotahmissions.blogspot. com. 

importance to those answering a call to Holy Orders.

Paten and cruets for the seminary. “I can’t tell you how blessed

worship and sacraments, charismatic in its expectation of the

for our dear brothers and sisters,” Prather says. “And to know

is how the Rev. Joel Prather, President of the Jackson Kemper

symbols of our partnership which we at Nashotah House truly

then, that the House has found such a natural friendship with the

For more information about the 2009 mission to Peru,

The Mission in Mission:

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The Peru Mission Team from Nashotah House (L-R): the Rev. David Reamsnyder (’09), Mrs. Ana McGlynn (the team’s Spanish interpreter, who happens also to be the wife of our Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Homiletics, the Rev. Canon Douglas McGlynn), Mrs. Tammy Prather, Master Jude Prather, the Rev. Joel Prather (’09), Mr. Mark Polley (’11) and the Rev. David Adams (’09).

his January, Dr. Bill Breedlove and Deacon Andrew Hanyzewski, both members of the class of ’09, led a group of University of Wisconsin students on an eightday mission trip to Jeanette, Haiti, in cooperation with the Diocese of Milwaukee. The team carried hygienic and school supplies to the Anglican mission of St. Marc, which includes a church, a medical clinic and a K-12 school of 650 students, and Deacon Hanyzewski was bowled over by the incredible variety of ministries to which it falls to St. Marc’s priest to perform.“Pere Lazar is the mayor, the doctor, banker, taxi driver, school board leader and the spiritual shepherd of his people,” Hanyzewski says. “In a place like Haiti,” says Breedlove, “where the needs are overwhelming, and you’re there for such a short period of time, you sometimes feel useless. You wonder what effect you can have on the lives of the people you serve. But seeing how members of the Body care for each other—the way those college students, and our whole team, cared for each other spiritually—left a deep impression on me.” 

Above (L-R): Dr. Bill Breedlove, Fr. Lazar, and the Rev. Andy Hanyzewski. Below: Deacon Hanyzewski building new desktops with students at St. Marc’s school.

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