Alumni
Welcome Back!
Our UPSem Alumni team is dedicated to connecting graduates across generations.
Here, you’ll find the latest news and events to support your life and vocation — and you can reconnect with your seminary and PSCE classmates, current and former faculty, students, and friends across our Charlotte and Richmond communities.
UPSem Portal
Stay connected with us by joining our new Portal! In the Portal, you can update your name and contact information, give one-time or recurring gifts, save payment methods to make future giving easy, and view details about previous online and offline giving, including cash or checks. Let us hear from you and share the news of how we live and serve together by grace through faith!
Supervised Ministry and Vocational Planning
Supervised ministry extends beyond graduation, offering alumni opportunities and job postings to continue integrating theology with practice, deepen vocation, and grow in leadership and ministerial identity.
Alumni Library Access
Library resources to support lifelong learning at one of the widest and most extensive selections of licensed electronic resources available to alumni from any theological institution.
Facebook Groups
The official groups for Union Presbyterian Seminary Alumni. Places for us to support one another, converse, and stay in touch!
Black Alumni Association
If you are an alumnus or alumna of Union Presbyterian Seminary, you are invited to join the Black Alumni Association (BAA).
Your Alumni Team
In Memoriam
Joseph “Joe” A. Slane (D.Min.S. ’81) – October 21, 2025
Mary E. Swezey (M.A. ’59) – October 18, 2025
Charles H. Watkins (M.A. ’93) – October 11, 2025
Melany S. Hamilton (M.Div. ’78) – October 10, 2025
Eugenia “Jean” Goff (M.A. ’61) – October 4, 2025
Mitzi L. Lesher-Thomas (M.Div./M.A. ’99) – September 28, 2025
Nancy B. Detweiler (M.Div. ’95) – August 25, 2025
Robin D. Moffat (B.D. ’55) – August 27, 2025
Rick L. Hinchberger (M.Div. ’77) – August 19, 2025
J. Thomas Bashore (M.Div. ’93) – August 19, 2025
William “Bill” H. Jackson (B.D. ’65) – August 13, 2025
Roger K. Elliott (M.Div. ’59) – August 19, 2025
William P. Shackleford (D.Min.M.’80) – August 3, 2025
Larry C. Mills (UTS, ’64-’65) – August 3, 2025
Bernard K. Bangley (B.D. ’67) – June 21, 2025
Samuel M. Stone IV (D.Min.M. ’78) – June 6, 2025
W.M. Hudson (M.A. ’84) – May 29, 2025
Olivia LaMotte, spouse of alum John H. LaMotte (B.D. ’57) – May 23, 2025
Brian A. Gerrish, spouse of Dr. Dawn DeVries (Faculty Emerita – Union Presbyterian Seminary) – April 14, 2025
Bobbye J. Howell (B.R.E. ’56) (Former Board Member-Union-PSCE 2001-2009) – April 13, 2025
Roy Jackson “R.J.” Sadler (M.Div. ’59, D.Min. ’73) (Former Board – PSCE ‘92 – ’96) (Former PAC until 6/26/2018) – April 8, 2025
Glenn Edgerton, Jr. (B.D. ’64) – March 15, 2025
Jerold “Jerry” D. Shetler (B.D. ’61) (Former Board – UTS ’91-’97) (Former Board – Union-PSCE ’97-’98) – March 11, 2025
Callie McArthur Robinson, wife of deceased alum Leslie C. Robinson (B.D. ’54, Th.M. ’56, D.Min.M. ’73) – March 10, 2025
Irving A. Sparks (M.Div. ’59) – March 28, 2025
Holmes Rolston, III (B.D. ’56) – February 12, 2025
Constance Ismail (M.A. ’86) – January 20, 2025
Harold R. O’ Bannon (B.D. ’60) – January 12, 2025
Lindy M. Cannon (M.A. ’64) – January 10, 2025
Margaret M. Shaw (B.S. ’59, M.A. ’82) – January 8, 2025
Michael S. Weller (M.Div. ’89) – October 6, 2024
James H. McGill (B.D. ’60) – October 24, 2024
Elizabeth McMurray “Betty” Rand (M.R.E. ’52), spouse of Joseph O. Rand (B.D. ’53) – October 11, 2024
Ben A. Rice (B.D. ’58) – September 22, 2024
Andar Ismail (Ed.D. ’88) – August 25, 2024
William S. Metzel (B.D. ’54) – April 23, 2024
Richard A. Ray (B.D. ’61) – April 10, 2024
Evalyn Mebane Gordon Estes (PSCE ’45-’46) – March 26, 2025
William H. McLean (B.D. ’68, M.C.E. ’67) – March 23, 2025
Betty A. Anderson (PSCE ’51-’52) – March 31, 2025
Joseph W. Walker (B.D. ’54, Th.M. ’59, D.Min.M. ’76) – March 30, 2025
Edward Cox Wilson (B.D. ’65) – October 4, 2024
William L. Burnett (B.D. ’67, M.A. ’73) – June 17, 2025
John E. Miller (M.Div. ’74, Th.M. ’77) – June 22, 2025
Charles L. “Chuck” Aaron, Jr. (Ph.D. ’96) – November 29, 2023
Craig A. Buxton (M.Div. ’84) – February 20, 2023
Edward G. Connette (M.Div. ’56, D.Min.M. ’76) – December 10, 2024
Edward E. Crutchfield, Sr. (Former UTS Board Member ’91-’92) – January 2, 2024
Robert “Doc” L. Ellis (M.A. ’99) – September 1, 2023
Margaret A. Fox (M.Div. ’88) – December 21, 2023
Katherine “Kathy” Regan Harrold (M.A. ’73) – January 3, 2024
Sandra Lee Harris (M.C.E. ’69) – April 6, 2023
P. Douglas “Doug” Heidt (B.D. ’68, Th.M. ’69, D.Min. ’73), spouse of Sharon McGloshen Heidt(M.C.E. ’68) – February 20, 2024
Brent O. Johnston (D.Min.S. ’86) – May 26, 2023
Theodore “Ted” W. Kalsbeek (D.Min.M. ’80) – August 11, 2023
Fitzhugh M. Legerton (B.D. ’49) – February 7, 2024
Robert “Bob” Lewandowski (M.Div. ’99) – November 11, 2024
Philip G. Lockard (M.C.E. ’66) – December 9, 2023
Stephen G. Maling (D.Min.M. ’74, M.A. ’90) – July 17, 2022
Margaret McCutchen (PSCE ’63-’64) – April 7, 2024
Roger A. Nicholson (M.Div. ’72), spouse of Pamela M. Nicholson (B.C.E. ’69) – December 29, 2023
George L. Oehler (M.Div. ’72) – January 17, 2024
Timothy T. Pohmer (M.Div. ’57) – March 24, 2023
Robert H. Ramey, Jr. (B.D. ’54, Th.M. ’55, D.Min.M.’74) – October 18, 2023
Loren E. Scott (M.C.E. ’62) – December 24, 2023
Paul R. Snell (B.D. ’69) – February 27, 2024
June Francis Soud (M.A. ’60), spouse of Eugene S. Soud (M.Div. ’61, D.Min.M. ’73) – December 29, 2023
Donald R. Steele (M.Div. ’83), spouse of Kathleen “Kay” Deans Steele (M.Div. ’83) – January 24, 2024
Wilfred “Fred” B. Webb (M.Div. ’68) – September 23, 2023
Jerry R. Tompkins (UTS, ’51 – ’52) – December 19, 2022