Date/Time
04/15/2016
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
CACW
Guerney and Harriet Hunt have been married since 1981, have five children and two grandchildren. Although coming from very different backgrounds, they have founded their family on a common faith in the Lord and on his word.
Guerney Douglass Holloway Hunt was born in 1952 Nashville, Tennessee, the second of four children into an African American family (African, Native American, and European heritage). His parents divorced when he was about five years old. Guerney’schildhood was very difficult and accented with multiple moves within and between cities. Guerney attended public schools in Orlando, FL; Nashville, TN; and Ann Arbor and Marquette, MI. He graduated from Marquette Senior High School, has a BS in mathematics from Michigan Technological University (1973), and a MS (1975) and PhD (1995) in computer science from Cornell University. The most important change in his life, becoming a Christian, occurred during college. Although he grew up in a family that was traditionally Christian, his lasting personal commitment was made during his first year of college. He struggled significantly with this choice, but by the time he graduated from college, his relationship with God through Jesus Christ was the most important influence on his life. The second most important thing that occurred in his life was meeting Harriet, his future wife at Cornell in 1975. Guerney has had a long career with IBM and been a research scientist in computer science at the T.J. Watson lab in Yorktown since 1995.
Harriet was born in 1953, the second of two children in what was at that time, a typical Conservative Jewish family in New York City. Her family kept a kosher home, celebrated Jewish holidays at home, but never went to synagogue and was essentially atheistic. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, she attended Cornell University, graduating in 1975 with a BA in chemistry. While in her sophomore year at Cornell, she received Yeshua (Jesus) as her messiah. In her senior year she met her future husband, Guerney Hunt. After graduating college and prior to getting married, Harriet worked a number of different jobs, the last one for NCR, testing software.After getting married, Harriet was a full- time stay-at-home mom, homeschooling their five children for over twenty years. Upon retiring from this career, Harriet has been taking classes at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, NY, focusing on the biblical languages.
Guerney and Harriet’s four daughters were born in 1983, 1985, 1987, and 1989, and their son was born in 1994. Two of their daughters, Sarah and Abigail, were valedictorians of their respective high schools. Ruth and her husband have two children, with a third on the way. Ruth graduated from Princeton University (sociology) and has a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania; Anna graduated from Columbia University (English, creative writing), has a MSW from the University of Pennsylvania, and is now a LCSW; Sarah graduated from California Institute of Technology (chemical engineering) and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota (biomedical engineering); Abigail graduated from Franklin & Marshall College with a BA in sociology; and Guerney (iv) is a junior (mechanical engineering) at LeTourneau University. All five children are following the Lord as adults.