Chaplains
If you have a religious, ethical or personal question you would like to discuss confidentially, the University Chaplain, the Catholic Chaplain, and the Jewish Chaplain are available to talk with you. Call for an appointment, or simply drop in. Regular private time for longer-term spiritual guidance and development can be arranged.
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Thomasina Yuille is our new Protestant and University Chaplain. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and has many fond memories of summers spent throughout her childhood and youth enjoying the steadfast bonds created in the fellowship of Plymouth Congregational Church. Even though she has lived in many regions of the country, she considers herself a Connecticut Yankee and claims New England as her home. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and taught Home Economics for two years in the inner city of New Haven, Connecticut before her acceptance to Yale University. A life- long learner, she earned Master of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology degrees from Yale Divinity School. After her ordination at the Dixwell Avenue United Church of Christ in New Haven, she had two civilian pastorates in Brockton, Massachusetts and Portland, Oregon. Then she responded to the needs of our military members domestically and abroad by joining the United States Navy. While on active duty, she earned a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College. Recently retired from a vigorous career, Reverend Yuille comes to Bucknell as an experienced pastor, counselor, administrator, educator and theologian who supports interfaith dialogue and facilitating the spiritual, moral and ethical empowerment of young adult populations.
As University Chaplain, she is available for students, staff, and faculty, to listen and respond to questions and concerns of a spiritual nature. |
Thomasina A. Yuille
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Father Fred Wangwe was born in the village of Bumalah in Uganda and second of the 7 brothers and one sister. He comes to Bucknell from St. Joseph's Parish in Mechanicsburg, where he has served as assistant parish priest since November 2006. He served as assistant parish priest of the St. Rose of Lima in York for the previous two years.
Father Wangwe studied in Kenya and Uganda in preparation for the priesthood and in 1993 received a diploma in philosophy from the Apostles of Jesus Philosophicum in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1995 he made his first profession of religious vows and in 1999, made his final profession. He was ordained a deacon in December 1999 at the Apostles of Jesus Shrine at Langata in Nairobi. In 2000, he earned a diploma in sacred theology from the Apostles of Jesus Seminary and received his bachelor of arts in sacred theology from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.
Father Wangwe served as assistant parish priest at the Sirari Catholic Parish and the Bunda Catholic Parish in Musoma Diocese of Uganda before coming to the United States. |
Fr. Fred Wangwe
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Rabbi Serena Fujita was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform Movement's seminary. Her first year of seminary was spent in Jerusalem and her four stateside years were at the New York campus. During her seminary studies, she worked as an intern for the Reform Movement's Commission on Interreligious Affairs and was the student rabbi in East Liverpool, Ohio and Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains, New York. She also worked as a student chaplain at New York Presbyterian Hospital for a summer. One of her main interests has been interfaith communication, and she participated in several ongoing dialogues with seminarians from many different faith communities.
Before entering the rabbinate, Serena was a Montessori School teacher. She taught in the elementary program at the Shrewsbury Montessori School and before that at the Cambridge Montessori School. Serena was also the director of the pre-school programs for Boston Community Schools. She has two grown sons, Ross and Craig, who reside in the Boston area, but will pop up on the Bucknell campus from time to time. |
Serena L. Fujita
