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June 29, 2009 - The Institute mourns the sudden passing of Martha Dewey, who was killed in an automobile accident this past Friday evening near Ithaca, New York. Martha is survived by her husband Kent Goetz. There will be a memorial service at Cornell University.

Martha Dewey was Artistic Director and a founding member of the Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble (CITE), a unique resource for education in diversity at Cornell University. The CITE theatre troupe utilizes the medium of interactive theatre to facilitate dialogue from multiple points of view on a wide variety of challenging issues, through its programming for faculty, students, and staff at Cornell and other academic institutions, for non-profit and corporate clients, and for conferences, seminars and workshops throughout the United States. Created in 1991 by the Office of Diversity & Faculty Development and the Department of Theatre, Film, & Dance, CITE's mission is "to give voice to a variety of points of view within the human experience, in order to facilitate a shift in culture towards greater honesty, trust, respect, and dignity."

As Artistic Director, Martha was responsible for program design, creation of scenario material, and leadership of training in interactive theatre technique. She was also an actor in the troupe. In 2005, she received the Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Award, honoring her contributions to changing the climate for women at Cornell. In 2001, the CITE troupe received Cornell’s James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony, awarded to the organization making the most significant contribution to furthering the ideal of community while respecting the values of diversity.

Prior to joining CITE, Martha served as adjunct faculty in the Religion & the Arts Program of YDS/ISM, developing the “The Lively Word” course with Peter Hawkins, and “The Parish Musician” with Robert Baker. She also taught at the University of Illinois-Urbana, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Ithaca College. She was a graduate of Kalamazoo College and Yale Divinity School (MAR, ’81).

Dale Adelmann (ISM MM ’86) continued his interdisciplinary studies post-Yale at the University of Cambridge, England, where his PhD dissertation and subsequent book uncovered the intimate connection between the Ecclesiological Society’s work to revive Gothic architecture in nineteenth-century England and the resulting revival of Anglican choral worship. He also became the first North American to sing in the renowned Choir of St. John’s College, and served as musical director of the Gentlemen of St. John’s, the semi-professional choral ensemble comprising the choral scholars of the St. John’s College Choir, conducting concert tours of Sweden, Northern Ireland, Wales, England, and the USA.

Since 2003 he has been director of music at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Beverly Hills, California, where he conducts an extensive season of choral services and sacred concerts, and has undertaken multiple recording projects with the semi-professional All Saints’ Choir. Last season he conducted the Los Angeles première of John Tavener’s monumental Lamentations & Praises. Prior to his appointment at All Saints’ he was organist-choirmaster of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo, New York, where he conducted the Choir of Men & Boys and the Cathedral Girls’ Choir in 175 choral services and concerts annually, oversaw all aspects of the choirs’ semi-annual tours to Britain, and garnered international acclaim for his work with the Cathedral Girls’ Choir. During his final two seasons in Western New York he was also music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and its Chamber singers, making his debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra conducting With Music Strong in the presence of its composer, Lukas Foss, and A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams. He is active as a guest conductor, and has conducted choral festivals, many of them for the Royal School of Church Music, in Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Birmingham, Denver, Greenwich, Hartford, New York City, St. Louis, Tucson, and Wilmington.

Dale Adelmann is a past president of the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM) and has served both as editor and consulting editor of the Journal of the AAM. His choral arrangements are published by Paraclete Press and Trinitas (Oregon Catholic Press), and his choirs have recorded for the Pro Organo (Zarex) and Gothic labels. He recently completed his first icon, written in the Russian liturgical tradition, and he is a firm believer in the value of interdisciplinary study to broaden one’s spiritual pilgrimage.

Bobby C. Alexander, PhD, conducts research and teaches in the area of sociology and sociology of religion at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is associate professor of sociology in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences. Currently he works on religion of the newest immigrants in U.S. society; his main project in this area is the contribution of their religion to change in gender roles for migrant Mexican Pentecostal women. He also is working on a collaborative project on asylum and the performance of credibility. His research has been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, CrossCurrents: Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, and the American Academy of Religion. Prof. Alexander took his PhD in religious studies at Columbia University. He holds a PhD in systematic theology awarded by Union Theological Seminary. Columbia also awarded him the MPhil, and Union Seminary the MDiv.

Prof. Alexander has made several gifts to the Yale community. Along with Yale ISM faculty, Alexander established the Richard Paul DeLong Prize in church music, which goes to graduates of ISM pursuing careers as practicing church musicians. He established the DeLong Papers at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale; the collection contains Mr. DeLong’s manuscripts of sacred music and related papers. The library also received Richard DeLong’s collection of sacred music recordings and books on music. To be donated to the Gilmore Library are recordings of Mr. DeLong’s church choirs; Richard DeLong was a church choir director and organist as well as composer of music for the church. Prof. Alexander donated the DeLong Hymnal Collection to the Yale Divinity Library. Following his earlier gift to ISM of Mr. DeLong’s harpsichord built by Richard Kingston, he recently donated Mr. DeLong’s Bösendorfer piano.

Dorothy C. Bass is the director of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith at Valparaiso University in Indiana (www.practicingourfaith.org). A graduate of Wellesley College, Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and Brown University, Prof. Bass has taught at several colleges and theological schools. She has authored Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time (2000) and edited Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People (1997). She has also co-edited Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life (2002) and For Life Abundant: Practical Theology, Theological Education, and Christian Ministry (2008). Ms. Bass is the mother of two college students and the wife of Mark Schwehn, who teaches in Christ College at Valparaiso University and is project director for the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts.

Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and Music at the University of Chicago, where he is also an adjunct faculty member of the Divinity School, and Honorarprofessor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. A pianist, he is the Artistic Director of the University of Chicago ensemble-in-residence, the New Budapest Orpheum Society. Phil was raised in rural Wisconsin, where his earliest studies were as a church musician, before he took his university studies in piano and ethnomusicology at the universities of Wisconsin and Illinois. His research and teaching include a wide range of subjects formed at the intersection of music and religion, from Jewish music to the music of American religious communities to ethnographic studies of pilgrimage and myth in South Asia. He has held numerous guest professorships, among them those at Berkeley, Bologna, Cornell, Freiburg im Breisgau, Humboldt University of Berlin, Newcastle upon Tyne, Vienna, and most recently at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Among his many publications are The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World (1988), The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936-1940 (1992), World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte (2005), and Music in American Religious Experience (2006; coedited with ISM alumna, Maria Chow, and Edith Blumhofer). Jewish Music and Modernity appears this fall in “AMS Studies in Music,” and Redemption and Revival: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity will appear in 2009. He and the New Budapest Orpheum Society record for Cedille Records. A winner of the Edward Dent Medal of the Royal Music Association and the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, Philip Bohlman is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him the Derek Allen Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Musicology in 2007. He is Past-President of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Quentin Faulkner is Larson Professor Emeritus of Organ and Music Theory/History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has presented numerous organ recitals throughout the U.S. and in Europe (in particular, on historically significant organs), and has also served for three semesters as visiting professor at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Halle, Germany. His research into aspects of J.S. Bach’s keyboard technique has produced the book, J.S. Bach's Keyboard Technique: A Historical Introduction (Concordia, 1984) and the edition Basic Bach (Wayne Leupold Editions, 1997), a volume containing the Orgelbüchlein and three free works, supplied with fingerings and information on performance practice. He will introduce his latest book, The Registration of J.S. Bach’s Organ Works (Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008) at the 2008 AGO National Convention in the Twin Cities, and he is currently completing a translation of Jacob Adlung's Musica mechanica organœdi (1768), the most comprehensive source on the organ in central Germany during Bach’s lifetime. He has also authored a book, Wiser than Despair (Greenwood Press, 1996) on the history of ideas in church music.

Dr. Faulkner and his wife, Dr. Mary Murrell Faulkner, have together served as church musicians for the Cathedral of the Risen Christ (R.C.) and for St. Mark’s-on-the-Campus Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Nebraska. They retired in 2006 and now live in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Rita Ferrone, MDiv, ’83, is an independent writer and lecturer on issues of liturgy, catechesis and Christian initiation in the Roman Catholic Church. Her background in parish and diocesan ministry has given her work a practical slant, and made her a much sought-after workshop leader in dioceses throughout the United States. Ms. Ferrone is the author of several books, including On the Rite of Election and Sourcebook for Sundays and Seasons 2006. She also co-authored the eighteen-volume series Foundations in Faith. Her most recent book is Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium, in the Paulist Press series, Rediscovering Vatican II. She is married and lives in Mount Vernon, New York.

Ena Heller is executive director of the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) in New York City. Dr. Heller has a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, with a specialty in medieval art and architecture. Prior to becoming the first director of MOBIA, she taught art history at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) and Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY), and was the founding director of the Gallery at the American Bible Society. Dr. Heller is contributing editor of the volume Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue (2004) and of the exhibition catalog Icons or Portraits? Images of Jesus and Mary from the Collection of Michael Hall (2001), and a contributor to the volumes Women’s Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church (2005) and The Art of Sandra Bowden (2005). She has presented papers at the conferences of the Society of Architectural Historians, College Art Association, and the Council of American Jewish Museums, at the Institute of Fine Arts, and at numerous museums and universities throughout the country.

Don E. Saliers recently retired as William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship and director of the master of sacred music program at Emory University. After attending Ohio Wesleyan University, he earned his B.D. degree and a Ph. D. from Yale University. Dr. Saliers is currently writing on liturgy and theological aesthetics. Previous publications include: Music and Theology (2007), A Song to Sing, a Life to Live (2004), coauthored with daughter Emily Saliers; The Conversation Matters (1999), coauthor; Human Disability and the Service of God (1998), coauthor; Worship Come To Its Senses (1996); Worship As Theology (1994); Christian Spirituality III (1989), coeditor with critical introduction; Handbook For the Christian Year (1986, 1992); K. Barth's Prayer (1985), coeditor with critical introduction; Worship and Spirituality (1984); and Soul in Paraphrase: Prayer and Religious Affections (1980, 1991).

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia.

He received his BA from Calvin College in 1953 and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. After teaching philosophy for two years at Yale, and then for thirty years at his alma mater, Calvin College, he returned to Yale in 1989 as the Noah Porter Professor in Philosophical Theology.

After concentrating on metaphysics at the beginning of his career (On Universals), he spent a good many years working primarily on aesthetics and philosophy of art (Works and Worlds of Art, and Art in Action). In more recent years, he concentrated on epistemology (John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology), on philosophy of religion (Divine Discourse, and, with Alvin Plantinga, Faith and Rationality), and political philosophy (Until Justice and Peace Embrace, and, with Robert Audi, Religion in the Public Square). He has just published Justice: Rights and Wrongs.

In the fall of 1993 Prof. Wolterstorff gave the Wilde Lectures at Oxford University (published as Divine Discourse), and in the spring of 1995 he gave the Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews University (part of which is now published as Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology). He has been president of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division), and of the Society of Christian Philosophers; and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

(Updated June 2009)