PAST IRAS PRESIDENTS

Over the decades, many distinguished men and women have served IRAS in the capacity of president. On this page we recall their years of service.

1954-59: Edwin Prince Booth, Professor of Church History, Boston College

1968-69: Carl Bihldorff, Minister, First Parish, Brookline, Massachusetts

1976-77: Malcolm R. Sutherland, Jr., Pres., Meadville/Lombard Theological School

1984-86: Philip Hefner, Prof., Theology, Lutheran Schl. of Theol. at Chicago

1996-99: Karl E. Peters, Professor of Philosophy & Religion, Rollins College

2005-08: John Teske, Professor, Psychology, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA

1960-62: Harlow Shapley, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University

1969-71: Hudson Hoagland, Director, Worcester Fndn. of Experimental Biology

1977-79: Solomon H. Katz, Professor of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1987-89: Ward Goodenough, Prof. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1999-2002: Christopher Corbally S.J., Astronomy, Vatican Observatory

2008-11: Ted Laurenson, Attorney at Law, New York, New York

1962-67: Sanborn C. Brown, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1971-73: Jerome Malino, Rabbi, United Jewish Center, Danbury, Conn.

1979-81: Philip Hefner, Prof., Theology, Lutheran Schl. of Theol. at Chicago

1989-92: Marjorie Hall Davis, Minister, United CofC, Granby, Connecticut

2002-04: Michael Cavanaugh, Retired Lawyer, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2011-13: Varadaraja Raman, Em. Prof., Physics & Humanities, Rochester Inst. of Tech.

1967-68: Malcolm R. Sutherland, Jr., Pres., Meadville/Lombard Theological School

1973-75: George A. Riggan, Professor of Systematic Theology, Hartford Sem. Fndn

1981-83: Solomon H. Katz, Professor of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1992-96: Ursula Goodenough, Professor of Biology, Washington University

2004-05: Barbara Whittaker-Johns, Minister, Arlington, Massachusetts

2013- : Barbara Whittaker-Johns, Minister, Unitarian Universalist

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