December 10, 2011

The 2011 Durstan R McDonald Teaching Award

Corinne Ware

Faithful teacher, insightful author, friend and guide to students, visionary administrator.

You served faithfully and with distinction as a member of the faculty of your alma mater, Seminary of the Southwest for thirteen years.

The 2011 Hal Brook Perry Award

Paul Benson Wehner

Priest, pastor, servant leader, comforter in word and deed. You were called in 2003 to lead Grace Church, Galveston, Texas not long after your graduation from this seminary. For five years, you led and cared for the congregation and its many ministries. Then, in 2008, a storm of great proportions dramatically intensified your leadership among the people you had been serving and the Galveston community.

The 2011 Hal Brook Perry Award

Kyle Dice Seage

Parish priest, diocesan leader, stewardship advisor, inveterate fundraiser. You have a passion for God’s work that has not waned since you first felt a call to ordained ministry as a youngster at Camp McDowell in Alabama, your mother diocese. After graduation from University of the South, you became Alumni Director at Millsaps College before heading to Seminary of the Southwest as a postulant from the diocese of Mississippi.