House Scholar Deirdre Jackson Jones, husband Lewis, and son Lawrence welcomed Lance Vincent Jones on August 31 at 8:57 p.m. Lance arrived weighing 7 pounds, 8.5 ounces and was 20 inches long. Congratulations to the entire family.

Congratulations to Jaime Polson (1999) and Zack Flanagin, who are the proud parents of Julia Madeline Polson-Flanagin. Julia arrived on September 16 at 6:06 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces and measuring 18.5 inches long joining sister Isabella who is now 21 months old.

Liz Myer (1998) and Matthew Myer Boulton together with Holly McKissick (trustee) have founded SALT, a not-for-profit project dedicated to reclaiming and sharing the beauty of Christian life through film, photography, music, poetry, and ideas. They "aim to build a community of conversation and resource-sharing that, like salt itself, preserves and seasons the best and most beautiful of the Christian tradition."

Beau Underwood (2006) was ordained to the Christian ministry on July 10, 2010, at his home congregation, First Christian Church of Princeton, Illinois. A number of his Disciples House colleagues traveled to Princeton for the service, as did ministers and members of his field education church, Jackson Boulevard Christian Church in Chicago; faculty from Eureka College where Beau received his undergraduate degree; Cynthia Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies at the Divinity School; and Dean Kris Culp.

Trustee Hubert G. Locke has been appointed to a three-month term, July 1 to September 30, 2010, as acting president of the Pacific School of Religion. Locke, who is the Corbally Professor Emeritus and former dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, previously served as PSR's acting president in 2003.

House Scholar Laura Jennison Reed served as as a delegate with the Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council (DECC) to the Uniting General Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council this summer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 18-28. The two groups are uniting to become the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC).

Sympathy to Howard Kennon, pastor of United Christian Church of Country Club Hills, on the death of his spouse, Doris Kennon, on July 8. Rev. Kennon and the congregation have supervised field education for a number of Disciples House students over the past years.

Daisy Machado (1989) became the Academic Dean of Union Theological Seminary on July 1, 2010, where she is also Professor of the History of Christianity. 

House Scholar Katherine Raley will serve Smyrna United Church of Christ in Canby, Oregon, this summer as an intern while their pastor is working in Africa with CARE. Also, she has been admitted to the School of Social Service Administration and will begin her third year of the joint MDiv/AM in Social Work degree program this fall.

Tod and Ana Gobledale (1975) have been called to serve St. Andrew's United Reformed Church and St. Michael's United Church (URC and Anglican) in Brockley, southeast London. They plan to move there in July.