Mark Peake:  

Life After highschool I went to Elizabethtown College and graduated with a BA in History/Law and a minors in Philosophy/Art. At the end of college I took a sort of right turn and ended up in Seminary rather than law school. College was a great time of pilgrimage for me and the call of faith and its community was very loud. From there it was off to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with a year at Harvard Div to study the Ancient Near East. While in grad school I met my wife, a Hebrew student, in of all places, a Hebrew Language class. We lived in the Boston area until 2000 and then headed to Santa Cruz California, her home town, to work and search for Jobs. At the end of that year i was invited to become one of the pastors at the Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church on Grosse Ile Michigan. (It's a small island in the Detroit River just as it opens up to lake Erie. Now I work and she has returned to school for another M.A. (this one in education) at U. Mich Ann Arbor. Let's Go Blue! Update: Moved to New Jersey in May 2005 to become head of staff of the Presbyterian Church of Pleasantville NJ. Send me an email if you get the chance! I'd love to re connect with country dayers and etowners alike. School I look back on Country Day with great nostalgia. I often wish that I could go back and do it again knowing what I know now but still, the memories are fond. you know, all the good stuff, first love, loss of innocense, great games and championships, parties and the feeling of imortality. I remember Mr. Smedly, Smeds and Model UN. It was Smeds who taught me that history is a living thing and...Expand for more