James Michael Engels ’58

James Michael Engels ’58 passed away on April 9 in Rutland, Vermont. Jim was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in San Bernardino, California. At Dartmouth he majored in philosophy-languages and was active in the Forensic Union, Dartmouth Christian Union, and Le Cercle Francais. He said that his favorite professor was “that wonderful Christian rabbi, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.” After graduation he served in U.S. Air Force intelligence and later earned a master’s in English and a master’s in divinity, both at the University of Toronto. He was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1969 and served parishes in Auckland, New Zealand; southern California; Iowa; North Carolina; Massachusetts; and Buffalo, New York. In retirement he put his heart and soul into his book, God’s Mantra, and launched an interfaith television show, Why Not? In his 50th reunion book, he identified himself as Jimichael Engels and wrote a “Peace Manifesto” in which he maintained that “peace is real, and war ultimately isn’t [so] let us rename the Department of Homeland Security the ‘Department of Peace.’ ” Jimichael is survived by his husband, Airton, and four children, including Dominic ’94 and Hope ’98.