Trustees

Board of Trustees

As an independent nonprofit organization, the Center of Theological Inquiry is governed by a Board of Trustees with fiduciary responsibility to elect its Director, ensure best practice in its nonprofit governance and management, steward its assets and expand its resources in advancement of its founding and enduring mission. The Board’s Trustees and Officers are:

Roy Lennox
Chair

Gayle Robinson
Vice Chair

Jon Pott
Secretary

Robert Wedeking
Treasurer

Fred Anderson

Darrell Armstrong

Bette Jane (B.J) Booth

Brian Fix

Robert Gunn

Douglas Leonard

William Storrar
Director

Jay Vawter

Charles Wall

In Memoriam

Judith Scheide

The Founders

  • James I. McCord

  • Roland M. Frye

  • Harold H. Helm

  • Henryk R. de Kwiatkowski

  • David E. Lilienthal

  • Henry Luce III

  • Robert E. Meyner

  • W. Beverly Murphy

  • William H. Scheide

  • William H. Sword

  • John M Templeton

James I. McCord (1919-1990)

An international figure in national and international church affairs, James I. McCord is remembered as man of unbounded energy and insight. Educated at the universities of Texas, Harvard, and Edinburgh, he was pastor of churches in New Hampshire and Texas, taught philosophy at the University of Texas, and served as Dean of the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary before assuming the presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary at age 39. He led the Seminary from 1959 until his retirement in 1983. During that time, he conceived of the Center of Theological Inquiry and, together with an eminent board of trustees, incorporated it with the State of New Jersey in 1978 as a nonprofit for interdisciplinary research on theology.