FACULTY

PRESIDENTS
 

1836        ♦THOMAS MC AULEY                1840

1840        ♦JOEL PARKER                           1842

1873        *WILLIAM ADAMS                       1880

1880        'ROSWELL DWIGHT                    1837
HITCHCOCK

1887        •THOMAS SAMUEL HASTINGS   1897

1897        •CHARLES CUTHBERT HALL  1908

1908        •FRANCIS BROWN                       1916
 

917
 

•ARTHUR  CUSHMAN
MC GIFFERT
 

1926
 

1926        •HENRY SLOANE  COFFIN         1945

Born New York City. Jan. 5. 1877; Yale
University. 1897; New College and Univer¬
sity of Edinburgh. 1897-99; University of
Marburg, 1899; Union Theological Seminary,
1899-1900, Bachelor of Divinity; resident
graduate, ditto, 1900-01; ordained (Presby¬
tery of New York}. May 2, 1900; pastor
(Bedford Park), New York City, 1900-05;
pastor (Madison Avenue), ditto, 1905-26;
assistant professor (Homiletics), Union
Theological Seminary, 1904-09; associate
professor, ditto, 1909-19; associate profes¬
sor (Pastoral Theology), ditto, 1919-26;
Brown professor (Homiletics and Pastoral
Theology), ditto, 1926-45; president of the
Faculty and director, ditto, 1926-45; Presi¬
dent Emeritus, ditto, 1945-54; died, Lakeville
Conn., Nov. 25, 1954;  Moderator, General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
U.S.A.. 1943-44; Joseph Cook lecturer to
India and China 1946-47. D.D., New York
University, 1906, Yale University, 1915,
Harvard University, 1922, Columbia Univer¬
sity, 1925, Princeton University, 1925, Uni¬
versity of Glasgow, 1926, Union College, 1928,
Episcopal Theological School. Cambridge,
Mass., 1935; Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, 1937, Bowdoin CoUege, 1944;
D. Theol., University of Marburg, 1930,
Faculte libre de Th^ologie protestante de
Paris, 1938;  Litt.D., College of the Ozarks,
1931, Western Reserve University, 1937,
Hamilton College, 1938; L.L.D.. Amherst
College, 1927, University of St. Andrews,1934.
 

1945       HENRY PITNEY VAN DUSEN       1963
Born Chestnut Hill, Phila, Pa, De 11, 1897;
PrincetonU, 1919; New College & U Edinburgh,
1921-22, 1930-32, PhD; Union Theological
Seminary, 1922-24, BD; ord {Presby New
York), Ap 27, 1924; student dept, YMCA, NYC,
 

1924-26; assoc exec sec, do, 1927-28;  inst
(Systematic Theology & Philosophy of Reli¬
gion), Union Theological Seminary, 1926-28;
asst prof, do, 1928-31; assoc prof, do, 1931-
36; Roosevelt prof (Systematic Theology),
1936-59; prof (Christian Theology), do, 1959-
63; dean of students, do, 1931-39; president
of the Faculty, do, 1945-63; pres. Auburn TS,
1945-63; traveling prof, UTS, 1963-; prof
emer & pres emer, do, 1963-    ; pres, AATS,
1942-44; pres, Union Settlement Association,
1945-63; vice-pres, Bd of Foreign Missions,
PresCh, USA, 1949-52; pres, Amer Theol
Soc, 1952-53; chairman, Joint Com WCC £
Internatl Miss Council, 1954-61;  chairman,
Div Foreign Missions, NCC, 1956-63; exec
com, Inst Rel & Social Studies, JTS, 1963-     ;
chairman. Long Range Planning Comm, Inter-
church Ctr. NYC, 1964-      ; vice-pres, do,
1964-    ;  STD, NYU, 1945, WestminsterTS,
1956, ColU. 1956; DD, AmhC, 1946, Edinburgh
U, 1946, OberlinC, 1947, YaleU, 1947, Heidel-
bergC, 1950, QueensU, 1952, HarvardU, 1954,
Dartmouth, 1956, ColgateU, 1960, Prot Episc
TS, Va, 1963, PacSR, 1963, BucknellU, 1964,
UpsalaC, 1965, AssumptionC, 1968; LittD, JTS,
1958;  LHD, BatesC, 1959;  res, Princeton, NJ.

1963        JOHN COLEMAN BENNETT        1970

Born Kingston, Ont, Canada, Jl 22, 1902;
WilliamsC, 1924; MansfieldC, Oxford, England,
1924-26; University of Oxford, BA 1926; MA,
1930; Union Theological Seminary, 1926-27,
BD; do, 1927-29, STM; asst prof (Systematic
Theology & Philos of Religion), UTS, 1927-29;
inst. do, 1929-30;   asst prof {Christian Theology),
Auburn Theological Seminary, 1930-36; assoc
prof, do, 1936-38; prof (Christian Theology),
Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Cal, 1938-
43; ord (Cong Christian, Bay Association, Cal),
Jn 13, 1939; prof (Christian Theology and
Ethics), Union Theological Seminary, 1943-57;
William E. Dodge, Jr. prof (Applied Christianity),
do, 1957-60; dean of the faculty, do, 1955-63;
Reinhold Niebuhr prof (Social Ethics), do,
1960-70; President, do, 1963-70; DD, Church
Divinity School of the Pacific, 1940, Pacific
Sch Rel, 1943, Williams C, 1947, Franklin &
MarshaU C, 1962, Yale U, 1965, Harvard U,
1965, Lafayette C, 1966, Princeton U, 1966,
Colgate U, 1967, U Glasgow, 1967, Wesleyan U,
1968, Huron C, London, Ont. 1969; STD,
Oberlin C, 1961, Columbia U, 1964,
Kenyon C, 1966;  LED, Boston C, 1964,
Manhattan C, 1964, Holy Cross C, 1964, St.
Peter's C, 1964, Fordham U, 1966, Jewish
Theological Seminary, 1967.