Yale Divinity School

Notes from 2008

Wallace Viets ’44 M.Div. has enjoyed his service as pastor of Methodist Churches in New York and Connecticut, a term as a Methodist District Superintendent and four short-term interim pastorates in retirement. He was privileged to have two books published by Abingdon Press in the 1960s. He and his wife have four children and five grandchildren. Wallace’s inability to participate in Divinity School activities is painful, but he has wonderful memories and prays for the continuing significant service rendered for our Master by the school.

Notes from 2007

Dennis Nyberg ’44 B.D. is a native of Minneapolis, MN and a graduate of Hamline University; he was also an adjunct professor and Trustee Emeritus there. Having been a Field Secretary for the Fellowship of Reconciliation in New England while at YDS, after graduation he spent twenty-five years as a United Methodist pastor in Minneapolis.  As a delegate to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church he served twelve years on the General Board of Social Concerns. He was also chair of the Minneapolis Mayor’s Commission on Human Rights and the first State Ecumenical Conference on Race; and he served on the Boards of the Minnesota and the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches.  In 1969 he was appointed as senior pastor of two churches in the San Francisco Bay Area. While there he was chair of the Pastor’s School and adjunct professor at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is the author of Advent - A Calendar of Devotions, several articles, and two church school curricula (with his wife Kaye).  As a guest preacher he has been heard in over one hundred churches around the county but has returned to MN since 1984. He has two sons, five grandchildren and three great grandsons (all above average).