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Falling to the floor of the Skippack Golf Course snack shop on June 14, Irvin A. Kunzman Jr. ’57 had few thoughts of his recent election to the Manchester Who’s Who Executive and Professional Registry.
Kunzman, founder and chief executive officer of Church Management Consultants International (CMCI), had been cited by Manchester for his professional and charitable deeds. But that June day, an emergency crew from Lansdale, Pa., rescued him from what is technically called coronary death.
Six days later, he was discharged from Montgomery Hospital after a remarkable rebound.
“God was watching over me,” says Kunzman, a born-again Christian. His attending physician, Dr. Harinder Sharma of Cardiac Consultants of Philadelphia, told him, “You are a lucky man. Few have experienced what you have and lived to tell the tale.”
By the end of July, Kunzman had completed his cardiac recovery and had resumed all but his swimming routine at Greater Plymouth Community Center. He recently made his lifetime-lowest 18-hole golf score, 80 at par 66 Pleasant Hills Golf Course on Route 222 near Reading.
Kunzman and his wife, Ginny, began CMCI on their own, following his 35-year career in software development and engineering management.
In 2003, he spearheaded a broad relief effort that raised more than $25,000 to save 100 starving extended families in Malawi by providing them food and, later, seed and feed for the following year’s maize crop. He tries to maintain his ministry’s reputation in partnership with several bishops and other church leaders in Malawi. He also has worked in the western African nation of Ghana.
Kunzman, who now calls himself “Nurvy Urvy,” attributes his personal and professional success to his faith. He got involved in his current profession after serving as a speaker on management techniques and traveling to Africa to teach pastors of emerging churches how to help their flocks discover and use their spiritual gifts, and how to utilize Western leadership techniques to better lead their growing parishes.
An electrical engineering graduate, Kunzman also has a master’s degree in the same field from University of Pennsylvania. He is an honorary member of Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical engineering equivalent to Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Kappa Sigma social fraternity.
From 1981-89, he was adjunct professor of software engineering in the graduate departments of computer science at Villanova and Pennsylvania State universities.
His awards include the 1975 Honeywell SWEATT Technical Award for Operating System Software Project Management and the 1995 Liberty Ministries Prison Volunteer of the Year Award.