The following is a list of notable people associated with Drew University:
This is a list of notable alumni of Drew University, listing the school of Drew University that they attended, the highest degree obtained, the year of graduation or last year of attendance, and a brief description of the person. [1] The following abbreviations are used for schools and degrees.
CLA = College of Liberal Arts
Grad = Graduate School
Theo = Theological School/Seminary
BA = Bachelor of Arts
BD = Bachelor of Divinity
DMin = Doctor of Ministry
DLitt = Doctor of Letters
MA = Master of Arts
MDiv = Master of Divinity
MFA = Master of Fine Arts
MLitt = Master of Letters
PhD = Doctor of Philosophy
ThD = Doctor of Theology
Name | School | Degree | Year | Description |
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William F. Anderson | Theo | BD | 1887 | Methodist bishop |
Henry Appenzeller | Theo | BD | 1885 | Missionary who helped introduce Christianity in Korea |
Thomas J. Aquilino | CLA | BA | 1962 | Federal judge on the United States Court of International Trade |
Raymond LeRoy Archer | Theo | MA | 1923 | Methodist bishop |
David B. Audretsch | CLA | BA | 1976 | German and American economist |
Albert Baez | CLA | BA | 1933 | Mexican-American physicist, and father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña |
Holly Bakke [2] | CLA | BA | 1973 | New Jersey Commissioner of Banking and Insurance |
Joseph Blotner [3] | CLA | BA | 1947 | Biographer of William Faulkner |
Clint Bolick [4] | CLA | BA | 1979 | Founder of the Institute for Justice |
Jared Sutton | CLA | BA | 2018 | Two-term student government president and public policy analyst |
Calvin O. Butts | Theo | DMin | 1982 | Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of State University of New York at Old Westbury |
Charles I. Carpenter | Theo | BD | 1931 | First Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force |
Kathy Chan | CLA | BA | Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor | |
James E. Cheek | Grad | PhD | 1962 | Theology professor and president of Howard University |
Emerson Stephen Colaw | Theo | BD | 1947 | Methodist bishop |
Deedee Corradini | CLA | BA | 1965 | Mayor of Salt Lake City; president of the US Conference of Mayors, the International Women's Forum, and Women's Ski Jumping USA. |
Fred Pierce Corson | Theo | BD | 1920 | Methodist bishop and president of Dickinson College |
John T. Cunningham [5] | CLA | BA | 1938 | Journalist and historian |
Peter Deunov | Theo | BD | 1892 | Bulgarian spiritual leader and founder of the Universal White Brotherhood |
Damon DiMarco | CLA | BA | 1993 | Author and oral historian |
Joseph DiSarro | Grad | MA | 1972 | Political analyst and professor at Washington & Jefferson College |
Ernest T. Dixon | Theo | BD | 1945 | Methodist bishop and president of Philander Smith College |
Ed Ferrara | CLA | BA | 1989 | Television writer, actor, and professional wrestling personality |
James Fiorentino | CLA | BA | 1999 | Sports artist |
Maria Mazziotti Gillan | Grad | No degree | 1980 | American poet |
Marshall Gilmore | Theo | MDiv | 1960 | Methodist bishop |
William H. Gray | Theo | MDiv | 1966 | Congressman from Pennsylvania, and president of the United Negro College Fund |
Robert E. Hayes | Theo | DMin | 1997 | Methodist bishop |
Leroy Charles Hodapp | Theo | BD | 1947 | Methodist bishop |
Dennis Hollinger | Grad | PhD | 1981 | President of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary |
Fred Garrigus Holloway | Theo | BD | 1921 | Methodist bishop and president of Drew University |
Karen Hunter | CLA | BA | 1987 | Journalist and publisher |
Hae Jong Kim | Theo | DMin | 1984 | Methodist bishop |
John Lowden Knight | CLA | BA | 1939 | President of Nebraska Wesleyan University, Baldwin-Wallace College, and Wesley Theological Seminary |
Peter Leone | CLA | BA | 1984 | United States Equestrian Team member, and 1996 Olympic silver medalist |
John Wesley Lord | Theo | BD | 1930 | Methodist bishop |
Roger H. Martin | CLA | BA | 1965 | History professor and president of Randolph-Macon College |
J.B. Matthews [6] | Theo | BD | 1923 | Educator, political activist, and anti-Communism expert |
Malcolm Maxwell | Grad | PhD | 1968 | President of Pacific Union College |
Jackie McCullough | Theo | DMin | – | President of Beth Rapha Christian College and Theological Seminary |
Kevin Murphy | CLA | BA | 1989 | Television writer and producer |
John Gardner Murray | Theo | No degree | 1881 | Episcopal bishop |
Floyd W. Nease | Theo | No degree | 1930 | Minister and the president of Eastern Nazarene College |
Debra L. Ness | CLA | BA | 1977 | Health and public policy advocate |
Dale Peck | CLA | BA | 1989 | Author and literary critic |
Harold L. Peterson | CLA | BA | 1945 | Historian of arms and armor, curator of National Park Service |
Soon-Yi Previn | CLA | BA | 1995 | Daughter of composer André Previn and wife of director Woody Allen |
Robert M. Price | Grad | PhD | 1981/1993 | Jesus myth theologian, author, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Higher Criticism |
Sarah Price (aka S.Nice) | CLA | BA | 1990 | Author and inspirational speaker |
Aileen Quinn | CLA | BA | 1994 | Actress who played Annie in the 1982 motion picture |
Nathaniel Raymond | CLA | BA | 1999 | Human rights investigator and anti-torture advocate |
John Edward Robinson | Theo | BD | 1874 | Methodist bishop |
Noah Rothman | CLA | BA | 2004 | writer, author, editor, former MSNBC commentator, senior writer for National Review |
Teresa Ruiz | CLA | BA | 1998 | New Jersey state legislator |
David Seamands | Theo | BD | 1945 | Methodist pastor and self-help author |
George Selgin | CLA | BA | 1979 | Libertarian economist |
James Simester | Theo | BD | 1896 | Methodist missionary and president of S.L. Baldwin School of Theology |
Jeff Smith | Theo | MDiv | 1965 | Minister, cookbook author, host of The Frugal Gourmet |
Craig Stanford | CLA | BA | 1978 | Professor and director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California |
Stephen Stetler | Theo | MDiv | 1974 | Member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue |
Manuel Sykes | Theo | MDiv | President of the St. Petersburg chapter of the NAACP | |
Bertrand M. Tipple | Theo | BD | 1897 | Founder and president of Methodist International College |
Arturo Valenzuela | CLA | BA | 1971 | United States Assistant Secretary of State |
James Van Der Beek [7] | CLA | No degree | 1995 | Actor (star of Dawson's Creek ) |
Peter Veniero | CLA | BA | 1981 | New Jersey Attorney General and New Jersey Supreme Court justice |
Herbert George Welch | Theo | BD | 1890 | Methodist bishop and president of Ohio Wesleyan University |
Woodrow Whidden | Grad | PhD | 1989 | Seventh-Day Adventist theologian and author |
Olive Winchester | Theo | ThD | 1925 | Nazarene theologian and first female ordained minister in Great Britain |
Philip Chase | Grad | PhD | 2001 | Professor of English, Author of The Edan Trilogy academic and author |
Wendy Mass | Grad | DLitt | 2013 | American novelist |
* Stefan Passantino (born 1966), lawyer
This is a list of notable faculty and staff members, the years that they were employed by Drew University, and a brief description of the person.
Name | First Year | Last Year | Description |
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William Campbell | 1990 | Present | Awarded Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 |
Bernhard Anderson | 1954 | 1963 | Old Testament theologian and dean of the Drew University Theological School |
Robert L. Chapman | 1966 | 1986 | Lexicographer, editor of Roget's Thesaurus, and English professor |
Robert S. Corrington | 1991 | Present | Founder of the philosophy of estatic naturalism, and professor of philosophical theology |
Will Herberg | 1955 | 1976 | Jewish theologian, conservative columnist, and professor of philosophy and culture |
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz | 1991 | 2012 | Founder of mujerista theology, and professor of ethics and theology |
Catherine Keller | 1986 | Present | Process theologian, theopoetic scholar, and professor of constructive theology |
George Kelsey [8] | 1950 | 1976 | Baptist minister, teacher of Martin Luther King Jr., and professor of Christian ethics |
Anne Marie Macari | 2007 | Present | Poet and founder of Drew University's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in poetry program |
John Miley | 1873 | 1895 | Scholar of Christian atonement, and professor of systematic theology |
Dika Newlin | 1952 | 1965 | Musicologist, child music prodigy, and founder of the music department |
Thomas C. Oden | 1980 | 2004 | Founder of paleo-orthodoxy religious movement, and professor of ethics and theology |
Ira Progoff | 1959 | 1971 | Psychotherapist, developer of the Intensive Journal Method, and researcher of depth psychology |
Richard Stonesifer | 1965 | 1971 | Dean of the DU College of Liberal Arts, president of Monmouth University, and Woodrow Wilson professor of humanities and social science |
James Strong | 1868 | 1893 | Author of Strong's Concordance and professor of exegetical theology |
Leonard Sweet | 1995 | Present | A leader of emerging church movement, professor of evangelism, and vice-president of Drew University |
Andrea Talentino | 2009 | 2011 | Ninth president of Augustana College |
The following is a list of the presidents of Drew University from its founding in 1867 to the present, including the years that they served as president, and a brief description of the person. [9]
# | Name | First Year | Last Year | Description |
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1 | John McClintock | 1867 | 1870 | Professor of practical theology, editor of Methodist Quarterly Review, and co-founder of the Theological Seminary |
2 | Randolph Sinks Foster | 1870 | 1873 | Professor of systematic theology, and after Drew presidency became a Methodist bishop in Cincinnati, Ohio |
3 | John Fletcher Hurst | 1873 | 1880 | Professor of historic theology, and after Drew presidency became a Methodist bishop in Des Moines, Iowa |
4 | Henry Anson Buttz | 1880 | 1912 | Professor of Greek and New Testament exegesis for 50 years, and led Drew through a major expansion. |
5 | Ezra Squier Tipple [10] | 1912 | 1929 | Professor of practical theology, admitted women to Drew on a limited basis, and oversaw founding of the CLA |
6 | Arlo Ayres Brown | 1929 | 1948 | Led Drew through World War II, and oversaw major changes in degree programs, student body, and campus design |
7 | Fred Garrigus Holloway | 1948 | 1960 | Oversaw the founding of the Graduate School, and after Drew presidency became a Methodist bishop in West Virginia |
8 | Robert Fisher Oxnam | 1961 | 1974 | Led Drew through a major expansion of the student body and the turbulent social changes of the 1960s |
9 | Paul Hardin | 1975 | 1988 | Oversaw the founding of the Methodist Archives Center, the RISE program and Drew's computer initiative |
10 | Thomas H. Kean | 1990 | 2005 | Former Governor of New Jersey who oversaw a major expansion of the Drew's endowment, and chaired the 9/11 Commission |
11 | Robert Weisbuch | 2005 | 2012 | Former president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation who made admission to Drew SAT-optional |
12 | Vivian Bull | 2012 | 2014 | Former president of Linfield College in Oregon, economics professor and dean at Drew for 32 years, oversaw financial restructuring of Drew University. |
13 | MaryAnn Baenninger | 2014 | 2020 | Former president of the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota, and psychology professor, was first full-term female president of Drew University. |
14 | Thomas Schwarz | 2020 | 2023 | Former president of Drew University. |
15 | Hilary L. Link | 2023 | current | Current president of Drew University. |
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