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Congratulations, Brother Bob and Ellen, on your 30th wedding anniversary!

Bob Stamps was ORU’s campus chaplain from 1968 to 1981. He married Ellen de Kroon, then the assistant to Corrie ten Boom, on Aug. 1, 1976. Brother Bob — “Dr. Robert J. Stamps” since 1986 — retired from the United Methodist itinerancy in June. He says he’ll now “be using my Ph.D. at last,” teaching in the U.S. and abroad. His thesis, “The Sacrament of the Word Made Flesh,” will be published this year.

“Thinking back to ORU,” he said, “the greatest experiences of all, besides the contacts and relationships established with students, were the worship services, particularly Friday-night Communion and Sunday-night Vespers. The happiest days of our ministry, bar none, were the years at ORU.”