Alumni Class Notes for June 2018

Ken Garnsey (History ’66) writes, “It’s been 52 years since I graduated with a degree in History. First, there was a successful marriage to Sandy, who gave us three children who each have two children and successful careers. We settled in our hometown of Montrose, Pa. where I taught and coached for 35 years. I was offered a buyout and two weeks before retirement, a former student called me and asked if I’d fill the pulpit in a ‘picture postcard’ Presbyterian church that sat 120 ‘thin’ folks. God then called and I spent eight wonderful years as their pastor while my talented wife was music director to our congregation which averaged 75 wonderful people. Several factors—a heart attack, Sandy losing her job due to technology, our oldest daughter and her family moving to Florida, and my 93-year-old pastor dad being here—made us look at Lakeland, Fla. and retirement. God saw fit to put me to work as an associate pastor in one church and then we transferred to another church where we are both involved in ministry. I look back at my Bible courses at King’s and how God used my four years in Briarcliff to prepare me for a wonderful Bible-centered life. By the time you read this, I will have bicycled over 25,000 miles and walked 7,000 miles since retiring from teaching. God is faithful and only asks us to be faithful to Him.”

Martha Kitchen (NBC ’66) passed away on June 11, 2018. Her husband Don writes, “I write to tell you with both the most profound human sadness and yet highest eternal joy that my beloved wife, my partner in life and ministry for over 54 years, went to be with the Lord at 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning, June 11, 2018. After a nine-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, which ravaged her body but never touched her spirit, she is now ‘absent from the body and present with the Lord.’ She dearly loved and served the Lord with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength. There are no words sufficient to describe either my sense of loss, or at the same time the grace, peace, hope, and joy Martha and I are both experiencing in the steadfast and sure promises of God, she in heaven and me here.”

Sharon Brain Eelman (’71) writes, “My sister Deborah Jean Brain Miller Stark (TKC ’73) entered the gates of heaven on Easter Sunday April 1, 2018. Her years at King’s, where she made lifelong friends, were years of great joy to her. She served many years as a missionary with Navigators in Burlington, Vt., Miami, Fla., and in Achen, Germany. After leaving her ministry she moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa where she lived until her homegoing. She and her husband Arthur (Buck) Stark owned a Home Instead franchise in Iowa City, Iowa. She fought a five-and-a-half year fight against multiple myeloma. Throughout her life, her desire was to tell others of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”

Lee Pelletier (’76) graduated with an M.A. in professional counseling from Liberty University School of Behavioral Sciences. Rev. Pelletier previously earned an M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1987. He also was recognized as a “Military Graduate” in recognition of his service in the United States Air Force.

Josh Craddock (PPE ’13) graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He has accepted a judicial clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Noah Heinz (PPE ’13) graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He has accepted a judicial clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Luke Trouwborst (PPE ’14) and Alessandra (Haynes) Trouwborst (PPE ’14), along with their daughter Lila, recently welcomed a second daughter, Lucy Ilse Joy Trouwborst, into the world on May 28th, 2018.

Isaiah Hale (’15) is deploying as a platoon leader / first lieutenant in the 1/18 Cavalry Squadron that performs “reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition.” He will be deployed for a year in the Middle East.