Times-Advocate, 1984-02-01, Page 12SUPER SPECIAL I
Page 12 Timm -Advocate, February. 1, 1984.
New Lutheran pastor to be
The road that led Lutheran
minister Donna Kyllonen
from a conservative Finnish
childhood in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, to the pulpit of St.
Peter's Lutheran Church in
Zurich, Ontario, has been long
and arduous, not always
clearly visible, ' with many
twists and turns and uphill
limbs on the way.
"But looking back, it's been
a beautiful pattern," the new-
ly ordained pastor said
recently.
Miss Kyllonen Was been
sure of God's call since age 12.
As a direct route from her
B.A. in history from
Augsburg College, Min-
neapolis, through a Lutheran
seminary to ordination was
blocked by the prevailing pre-
judice against women pastors
(and she knew her call was as
a miinister rather than a
deaconess, youth director or
director of religious educa-
tion) Miss Kyllonen decided
to further pursue her interest
in history at Georgetown
University in Washington,
D.C., where she eventually
earned her M.A. in history.
What turned out to be
almost two decades in
Washington profoundly
shaped the future pastor's life.
"I'm a legacy of the Ken-
nedy era," she says now.
Motivated by the altruistic
aura engendered by the
dynamic, youthful president
with a gift for motivating his
fellow countrymen, Miss
Kyllonen used her credentials
to obtain a teaching job in an
all -black high school where
hers was the only white face
among a student and staff
population of 3,500.
She took part in the civil
rights movement, marching
through city streets, sitting at
breakfast many times with
Martin Luther King Jr., and
forming friendships that have
lasted through the interven-
ing years. Here she found out,
from those who had suffered
unbelievable discrimination
simply because they were
born black, how to love
people.
The realization that many
of her students were not In-
herently "dumb", but
hampered by learning
disabilities led Miss Kyllonen
to take courses in special
education. She was then ask-
ed to accept a position
teaching physically handicap-
ped young people plus pa-
tients from Walter Reed
Hospital. She likens it to a
one -room school environ -
FUTURE PROFESSIONALS — The kindergarten class at Zurich Public School dress-
ed up for Careers Day otthe school. Shown (back left) are Jennifer McGee, Jessica
Brown, Holly Steinmann, Chad DesJardine, Ryan Oesch, Tim Estep, Shelley Miller,
Alicha Crete and (front) Jayne Westlake, Dana Rowan, Valerie Gingerich and Jessica
Gaud.
•
ASPIRATIONS — Students at Zurich Public School were asked to dress in a man-
ner depicting the future profession they hoped to follow. Shown during Careers Day
are (back left) Terri Farquhar, Sherry Ferguson, Ken Barker, Mark Watson, Gustav
Goud and (front) Heather Westlake, Kathy Schenk, Joy Keupfer, Steve Shantz and
Murray Deblieck .
or .set for late July
Whether or not to continue
the 119 -year-old Zurich Fair
was one of the first items to be
dealt with when the Zurich
Agricultural Society met on
Monday.
Jim Love's comments on
the hours of hard work put in
by a few people and his obser-
vation that "if everyone in
this room would donate $10
and stay the h---' home the
agricultural society'would be
further ahead" were greeted
with understanding laughter.
Gerry Thiel, chairing the
meeting in the absence of
society president Ted
Lansbergen, pointed out that
"the basic idea is not to make
a lot of money...the actual
function is to bring rural and
urban people together"
Thiel commented the
dedication of all involved in
presenting such an event, and
said no one i.; in it for the
money. He cited the example
of Haflinger exhibitors, who
bring their horses from all
over for no more than gas
money, *and wouldn't part
with a ribbon won at a fair for
$100.
Members voted to continue
holding an annual -
agricultural fair.
During discussion of com-
mittee reports from last
year's fair, members agreed
some things should be drop-
ped or changed. Attendance is
slipping badly at the talent
show, and the number of
sheep and cattle were down
due to the hot weather.
On the other hand, gate
receipts were up slightly from
the previously year, and cost-
cutting in certain areas had
enabled the fair to show a
balance of $1,009.98.
John Geiger said the.Exeter
Horse and Rider Club would
be interested in coming to the
Zurich Fair, but only if there
were more classes and more
ribbons.
Thiel reported that events
like the kids' penny hunt, the
mil' ing contest and the
watermelon -eating which
were brought back last year
proved to be very popular,
and the arm wrestling is a
perennial favourite.
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The fair date will be moved
further into July. The Com-
mittee will check with Exeter
to see when their Heritage
Days are planned; if there is
no conflict, the Zurich Fair
will be on July 27 and 28.
Otherwise, it will be held the
weekend of July 20, 21.
The current executive was
returned to office for another
year, with the exception of
Herb Klopp, who will be
replaced by son Paul.
The board of directors will
examine their agreement
leasing part of their land for
a ball diamond at their next
meeting on February 27 at
8:00 p.m.
Town Topics
Congratulations to Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Rader who were
married Friday evening at
the Lutheran Church in a
ceremony conducted by Rev.
Jack Dressler. A reception
followed at the Zurich Com-
munity Centre. The
newlyweds will honeymoon in
Florida.
Congratulations to the
Zurich Bantams for finishing
the regular hockey season in
first place. The team had 13
wins and only one loss. They
nowget a bye in the play-offs.
Next they will take on the win-
ners of the Hensall Elma-
Logan game.
Tickets are still available
for the St. Boniface Parish
Dance February 4 from Wen-
dy Masse at the Zurich Com-
munity Centre with music by
Mozart and the Melody
Makers. When you are all
danced out you can join the
parish for their skating party
Sunday from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
A winter carnival was held
at St. Boniface School last
Tuesday. The students spent
the whole afternoon outside
playing hockey, volleyball
and several other outside
activities.
ment, teaching this mix of
students divided Into grades
going from grade 7 to the
final, grade 12.
"It was a painful and
wonderful time", she says
now.
During the seven years
Miss Kyllonen was instilling a
love of learning in her pupils,
her friends often asked why
she was expending all her
energy on people who might
not live another day.
Her reply was "you _grab
the moment, which is what
the gospels talk about..:.when
You see a child's eyes light up,
learning about history, being
a good citizen, learning how to
think, how to talk, how to
have fun with words, you
know those are so lasting that
even if he died the minute he
walks out of the room, what
you have had together is
much more important."
Miss Kyllonen was devoting
more and more time to seek-
ing a solution to the problem
of what to do with these
special students after they ob-
tained their high school
diplomas. She refused to ac-
cept "just dropping them in-
to a pit until they died."
She had served on the
President's committee on
installed b bishop .February
employment yment for the
han-
dicapped for most of her
Washington years, and in 1971
was asked to implement the
newly legislated programs for
disabled and yolfare clients
in the District' of Columbia
government.
During this time Miss
Kyllonen had been periodical-
ly testing the waters to see if
now was the time to enter a
seminary, even though
assured by male ministers
that what she was experienc-
ing was "not really a call but
a wrong number, as God
doesn't call women."
Despite little encourage-
ment, and a great deal of op-
position from people she lik-
ed and respected, Miss
Kyllonen enrolled in the
Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1978.
Women comprised only 15
percent of her first year class,
and half of those were head-
ed for roles other than the
ministry. By the time she
graduated four years later,
women made up 30 percent of
the incoming class.
The training was severe,
designed to weed out any but
the most determined female
pastoral aspirants. Yet Miss
Kyllonen considers her choice
of this seminary, in the heart
of the Pennsyleinia Dutch
milieu, one more predeter-
mined part of her preparation
fbr the Zurich pulpit.
After graduation In June
1963 the new pastor marked
time assisting another
woman minister ih a four -
charge rural parish, working
one summer as chaplain in a
state park, turning down op-
portunities, for teaching posi-
tions, and being interviewed
for calls. She knew none of
these was what God had for
her, and worked and waited.
While visiting a friend in
Lynwood near Kitchener last
year, she met the Bishop of
the Eastern Canada Synod,
who informed her of a crisis,
a lack of pastors in this area,
Ten pulpits in the synod were
vacant, and the Bishop was
considering bringing in
pastors from the U.S. Would
she consider being one of
them?
"Me? A city girl?" was her
first reaction in an interview
with the Bishop. "It was crazy
enough it was probably right.
The only One who does these
really bizarre things is God!„
She drove to Zurich one
Sunday in August, preached a
sermon, and was informed in
October that she was
accepted.
Zurich's newest pastor left
for her first charge in the
middle of an ice storm, driv-
ing a car with a stick shift for
the first time in her life. She
says with a merry laugh she
is glad she saw this country in
the summer, or she would
never believe roads and pave-
ment exist under all that
snow.
Rev. Donna Kyllonen
assumed her pastoral duties
with a service of Morning
Prayer in St Peter's on
Donna Kyllonen
Epiphany Sunday, January6.
Since then she has been kept
so busy with her ministerial
duties, funerals, weddings,
and being on the receiving
end of a vast amount of
warmth and good will from
other pastors, her congrega-
tion and her community that
she hasn't even had time to in-
dulge in a favourite hobby,
reading, or baking batches of.
Scandinavian breads.
Another hobby, caring for
houseplants, is temporarily in
limbo. She had to leave her
treasures behind because of
customs regulations, and
especially misses her prized
asparagus fern.
Miss Kyllonen compares
her position to an arranged
marriage. '"God has put us
together. I may not fit the
Zurich congregation's im-
agined picture of what they
wantlfor a pastor, or this may
not be where I would have
thought a few years back I
would be.
The congregation of St.
Peter's now are to me my
greatest treasure, other than
the gospel. We are engaged,
and will be married on
February 5. We have to stay
there together for the dura-
tion of this marriage and it
will have its upj} and
downs... the whole tis to
stay in there to witnes1 to the
faithfulness of God to us."
Miss Kyllonen will 1?e of-
ficially installed as pastor of
St. Peter's by the Right Rev.
William D. Huras,
Bishop of the Eastern Canada
Synod of the Lutheran Church
in America at a service of
Evening Prayers beginning
at 4:00 p m. All are welcome.
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REV. DONNA KYLLONEN
Pastor
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