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Bangor Theological Seminary announces new Trustees

 

President Kent J. Ulery is pleased to announce the following new members to the Bangor Theological Seminary Board of Trustees.
 

Dr. Paul Burlin is Founding Chair of the Department of History at the University of New England. His current research interest is in part in early 19th century missionaries to Hawaii (including BTS graduates Daniel Dole and Elias Bond), and his recent book is Imperial Maine and Hawai’i: Interpretative Essays in the History of Nineteenth Century American Expansion.

He has been executive director of the Maine Multiple Sclerosis Society, a management consultant with the U.S. Department of Labor, and a Peace Corps volunteer.
 

 

Rev. Phyllis A. Chaffee of Cape Porpoise, Maine,graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Master of Divinity degree from Colgate Rochester Divinity School.  Her ministry includes service for National Ministries of the American Baptist Churches/USA and for The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board.
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Now retired, Phyllis is an active member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Portland, the Kennebunkport Democrats, and the Cape Arundel Golf Club. She and her husband Don have four children and two grandchildren. She enjoys travel, golf, music, singing, and reading. She and Don are also sports enthusiasts and follow the Red Sox and the Patriots.

 

 

Dr. Benjamin Haskell is Executive Vice President and Academic Dean of the New England School of Communications in Bangor. He also has served as the Director of Education of the same institution. Mr. Haskell moved to Bangor in the summer of 1959, when he was 14, and when his father, Stanley, entered the Bangor Plan at BTS.

He has served in many volunteer capacities and is currently Chair of the Proclamation, Identity, and Communication Committee of the Maine Conference of the United Church of Christ.



Mr. Charles Miller of Portland taught high school at St. Mark’s School and Phillips Andover Academy before embarking on an international teaching career. He currently runs the East India Salvage Company and is founder and director of The Children’s Initiative, an organization that helps children in resource-poor areas around the world

 

Founded in 1814 Bangor Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ.  With campuses in Bangor and Portland, Maine, BTS is the only accredited graduate school of religion in northern New England.

 

  

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