Evangelical Seminary to Get New Dean
Episcopal News Service. July 13, 1978 [78189]
PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- The Rt. Rev. Alfred Stanway, the first Dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry has announced his retirement effective October, 1978.
Upon Bishop Stanway's retirement, the new Dean of the Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry will be the Rev. John Rodgers, Th. D. who, before his appointment as Dean, was senior Professor at the seminary.
Bishop Stanway's most recent post before coming to Trinity was as Deputy Principal of Ridley College of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, he had served as Bishop of Central Tangayika from 1951 to 1971. Bishop Stanway's work there has been described in Bishop Stephen Neill's book, Call to Mission. Bishop Stanway's reputation not only as a recognized evangelist, but as a disciplined organizer made him the perfect choice to be the first dean of the evangelical new Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Although the school did not open officially until 1976, Bishop Stanway came to America in 1975 to plan and organize for the seminary's first classes the following year. At that time there were seventeen full-time students. On opening day this Fall (1978) at least fifty students are expected.
The selection of The Rev. Dr. Rodgers to replace the retiring dean was made by a unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees of the seminary.
Dr. Rodgers graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1954 and, after serving in the Marines for one year, he resigned to study for Holy Orders at the Virginia Theological Seminary and obtained his Doctor of Theology degree in 1963 from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Rodgers is Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Canterbury Press and the author of Theology of Peter Taylor Forsyth published in London in 1965.
Before coming to Trinity in 1976, Dr. Rodgers had been Professor of Systematic Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary since 1963. In 1975-76 he was Chaplain and Associate Dean of Students at Virginia.