Church Divinity School of the Pacific awards prizes to outstanding seminary students

May 30, 2007 [Episcopal News Service] Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) recently announced Michael E. Reid (M.Div.), Kathryn Ann Hopner (M.Div.), Michael William Kerrick (M.Div.), Deni Harding, Nancy Kerr, Shelley Denney and Philip Fackler as the 2007 student prize winners from this year's graduating class.

The Fran Toy Prize in Multicultural Ministry was awarded to Reid, from the Diocese of El Camino Real, for his exceptional field education work in a multicultural setting.

Winners of the Millard Prize for Excellence in Preaching were Hopner, and Kerrick, both of the Diocese of Northern California.

Recipients of the Trabert and Graebner Scholars' Resource Award for excellence in Greek and Hebrew studies were: Harding, from the Diocese of Northern California, and Kerr, from the Diocese of Utah, both winners of the Hebrew award; Denney from the Diocese of El Camino Real, and Fackler, from the Diocese of Chicago, both winners of the Greek award. The Award was established by Paul and Bertita Graebner, in memory of their fathers, L. Vernon Trabert and Martin L. Graebner, to recognize outstanding seminary students for theological studies in the Greek and Hebrew languages at CDSP.

CDSP's mission is to provide the highest quality Christian theological education in an environment of scholarship, reflection and worship, rooted in the Anglican tradition. It is a founding member of the Graduate Theological Union, an ecumenical and interfaith consortium based in Berkeley, California. Further information is available here.

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