Alumni Class Notes for January 2017

Ruth Elaine (Seashore) Hryshkanych ’71 writes, “Any news update would be too long to cover what the Lord has done in the 40+ years since King’s. Life has been full, married to Mike Hryshkanych, a full-time Bible camp director in the northeast corner of Wisconsin and raising 2 kids there. We retired in 2015 after 40 years at the camp, watching the Lord take it from a small ministry to a year-round operation filled with His blessings. Just a few months after retiring, and volunteering at other ministries to encourage them as volunteers encouraged us for so many years, Mike was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. He is now in the last portion of his life, waiting for the Lord to take him Home, to see his Savior face to face, having finished the course laid out for him long ago. Our son is in a sports ministry in Colorado – UWSports – with his wife and our granddaughter. Our daughter is the receptionist at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, where Mike and I met at the seminary and married in 1975. God has blessed our lives in thousands of ways, through the tough and rough times of ministry and health; we have seen thousands of people of all ages meet the Savior and grow in Christ.”

Mark Newell NBC ’74 writes, “I postponed graduating from Northeastern a bit in order to keep playing soccer, but came out with both a B.A. and a Th.B. I later taught all the history courses there as well as Bible. Mitch Glaser was a classmate. I remember him with long hair, granny glasses, and overalls. As for me, I currently serve as the only non-Chinese member of my church in Newark, doing some of the teaching and preaching. After years of college teaching, I’m now back in the job market. Blessings to you all.”

Chelsea Guffy ’10 was awarded the 2016 Spence-Chapin Impact Award for her legal work in Adoption Compliance. Chelsea works for Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, a leading adoption agency in New York City, founded in 1908.