and valedictorian, and first president of Chicago Theological Seminary. Joseph H. George (1901-1906) Graham Taylor, interim (1906-1908) Ozora Stearns Davis (1909–1929), prominent Congregational minister, hymn writer, long-time president of CTS, and biographer of his close friend journalist Victor Freemont Lawson. Carl S. Patton, interim (1928-1930) Albert W. Palmer (1930–1946), Social Gospel reformer, peace activist, pastor Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr. (1946–1959), instructor, Fulbright scholar, professor, and church historian Howard Schomer (1959–1966), conscientious objector, United Nations Commission on Human Rights aide, civil rights activist, scholar, drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and editor-at-large for Christian Century.'' Edward Manthei (1967-1971) Thomas Campbell (1971-1973), Member of the National Inter-religious Task Force on Soviet Jewry, The American Jewish Committee Victor Obenhaus, interim (1973-1974) Union Theological Seminary (Manhattan) alumni, author, professor of Christian ethics, National Council of Churches leader, prison reform advocate. C. Shelby Rooks (1974–1984), Scholar, lecturer, administrator, and UCC leader Betty Reneker, interim (1984), Philanthropist, president of Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois, and president of the National Fellowship of Congregational Christian Women. Kenneth B. Smith, Sr. (1984–1998), pastor, founder of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago school board member, community leader Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite (1998–2008), Author, columnist, ordained minister, activist, theologian, translator of the Bible Alice Hunt (2008–2018), Minister, biblical scholar, Hubble Space Telescope computer programmer, and former Associate Dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School Donald C. Clark, Jr. (2017-2018), Counselor at law, entrepreneur, retired general counsel for the United Church of Christ, and past CTS board chair, served as Acting President while Hunt was on sabbatical. Stephen G. Ray, Jr. (2018-), Professor, theologian, author, writer, ordained minister, activist, former Neal F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Systematic Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Notable former faculty Samuel Ives Curtiss — Prolific Old Testament scholar and protege of Friedrich Delitzsch, great-grandson of Jesse Ives, and intercity missionary Clarence Beckwith — Author, minister, and professor at CTS Anton Boisen — Leading figure in the hospital chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education movements. Clara E. Powell — First female professor at CTS, and English teacher. G. Campbell Morgan — British evangelist, preacher and a leading Bible scholar (D.D., 1902) Graham Taylor — Minister, Social Reformer, Educator and Founder of Chicago Commons Settlement House which later became the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr. — Instructor, Fulbright scholar, professor, and church historian Arthur E. Holt — Author, professor,