Duke to retire from Pastoral Center
Ellery Duke, a licensed psychologist and executive director of the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center, is retiring from the center in December after 37 years as its chief executive. Under his tenure, the center grew from one therapist and a handful of clients in 1979 to a multimillion-dollar nonprofit organization with 26 counselors serving more than 4,000 individuals annually including children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. It also trained more than 100 graduate level psychotherapists since 1980.