MINISTER, EDUCATOR, AND DIPLOMAT: REV. JAMES T. LANEY, Yale 1950:
Educated at Yale University (BA-Economics, MDiv, PhD), Brother Laney taught at Vanderbilt University, Yale University, and Harvard University. Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and later President of Emory University, Brother Laney is credited with much of the responsibility for Emory University 's development into a world-renowned University. Named the United States Ambassador to South Korea in 1993, Brother Laney is credited with playing a key role in the diffusion of the 1994 nuclear crisis with North Korea. A Methodist Minister, Brother Laney has also received honorary degrees from over twenty universities throughout the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Korea.
EDUCATION: DOUGLAS C. NORTH, University of California 1942:
1993 Nobel Prize in Economics Recipient.
URBAN MINISTRY: REV. ROBERT R. PARKS, University of Florida 1940:
Working within the urban scene, first in Jacksonville and then as rector of New York's wealthy downtown Trinity Church from 1971 to 1986, Brother Parks founded a ministry to aid the aged and to serve the poor. Under his leadership, the church has given thousands of people housing, education, and spiritual aid.