Fred J. Shields

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Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.

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Education

Shields earned his bachelor's degree from the Nazarene University in 1915 [1] and master's degrees from the University of Southern California and Harvard University. [2] He also attended the University of California and the University of Chicago. [3]

Career and ministry

Shields Hall on the main campus of the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts ShieldsHall.jpg
Shields Hall on the main campus of the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts

After earning his master's degree from the University of Southern California, Shields went to Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho. He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate, Rhode Island to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the Eastern Nazarene College on the advice of John W. Goodwin. [4] When the college moved to Wollaston, Massachusetts, in Quincy, in 1919, Shields moved with the school. [5] He was president of the college from 1919 to 1923, during which time he attended Harvard Graduate School of Education. [2] After relinquishing the presidency at Eastern Nazarene, Shields taught at Connecticut Women's College in New London, Connecticut [6] before returning to his alma mater, Pasadena College, to teach education and psychology, [7] [8] where he was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity in 1935. [9] In 1935, after receiving his honorary doctorate from Pasadena, he returned to Eastern Nazarene to teach. [6] Shields took the pastorate at Bethany Nazarene Church in Rumford, Rhode Island in 1941, [10] after his return to Eastern Nazarene in 1935.

Legacy

Shields Hall, a residence hall for male freshman, on the campus of the Eastern Nazarene College is named in honor of Fred Shields. The first edition of the student yearbook at Eastern Nazarene, The Nautilus, was also dedicated to President Shields in 1922. [11]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Nazarene University "La Sierra" yearbook 1914
  2. 1 2 Harvard University Catalogue of Names. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. 1920. p. 266.
  3. ↑ Cameron, James R. (1968). Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House. p. 150.
  4. ↑ Cameron, James R. (1968). Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House. pp. 142–143.
  5. ↑ Smith, Timothy L. (1962). Called Unto Holiness, The Story of The Nazarenes: The Formative Years (PDF). Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House. ISBN   083410282X.
  6. 1 2 Cameron, James R. (1968). Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House. p. 260.
  7. ↑ 1934 Pasadena College Yearbook Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ 1935 Pasadena College Yearbook
  9. ↑ Point Loma Nazarene University Honorary Degrees list Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Bethany Nazarene Church history [ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ Cameron, James R. (1968). Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House. p. 158.
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