1952

David Duncombe, who, like Walt Grevatt is a Congregational minister, has no picture in our yearbook. During the Korean War, he was recalled into the army as a mountain trooper in Austria. He graduated in 1953 and went to Union Theological Seminary. He served as chaplain and religion teacher at the Taft School until 1960, then went to Yale until 1982, first as a student then a teacher and chaplain. His degrees included a doctorate in "Religion and Higher Education in Psychology of Religion," which was one of David's course offerings. He taught courses at the Yale Medical School where he served his chaplaincy.

In 1982 David, wife Sally, and their three children headed to a new career as chaplain to the University of California San Francisco Medical School. David has had a keen interest in ethics from his studies at Dartmouth and his activities with the Tucker Foundation, and the medical community was a fertile field. In 1993 he retired and moved to southern Oregon, where he keeps very active exercising skills he first learned in growing up on a farm in Westchester County: stonewall building, plumbing, and carpentry for homeless and needy people. His own habitat for humanity. He has a large garden, and he and Sally hike the wonderful Oregon countryside. Sally is Episcopalian, so they go one Sunday to her church and another Sunday to a nearby Congregational church. He leads a very ecumenical prayer group which is "very interesting," according to Sally. David meditates and has come to believe that one's choice of creed can be quite random.

Ed Sumner, one of four Episcopal priests in our class (with Pat Sullivan, the late John Mighell, and Dick Ellis), was also drafted into the army. He did time as an engineer and then volunteered as a chaplain's assistant, where he did everything the chaplain didn't. It was there that he had a "conversion to Christ." He entered general theological seminary and was ordained in November 1957. He became lowliest assistant at Trinity Cathedral in Trenton, N.J., where he met and married Linda May Master. From there he went to two small churches in south Jersey and then accepted a call as rector of Calvary Church in Flemmington to serve as rector until he retired in 1996. Divine Providence enabled him to put a downpayment on a home which is now free and clear and serves as his headquarters for an active life of occasional preaching and music.

Sadly, Linda died in 1994 and did not live to see retirement. Ed is now remarried to Carol. Between them they have seven children and many grandchildren. Music is still very much a part of Ed's life. He performed in jazz groups in college and now practices nearly every day. He will perform ad hoc in either classical or jazz mode but no longer solicits recitals. He sees fellow Episcopalian Pat Sullivan, who had a church nearby, from time to time. Did they swap sermons?

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David Duncombe worlds on Ins own habitat lor humanity, offering plumbing find carpentry for the homeless in Oregon. HENRY WILLIAMS '52