President Emerita, Wellesley College

Dr. Diana Chapman Walsh President emerita, Wellesley College

Diana Chapman Walsh was the twelfth President of Wellesley College, from 1993 to 2007, and the fourth alumna to head Wellesley, a leading college for women and one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges. During her tenure, the college undertook a number of successful educational initiatives, including a revision of the curriculum and expanded programs in global education, internships and service learning, and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. The faculty established new majors in environmental studies, quantitative reasoning, cinema and media studies, neurosciences, and astrophysics. Japanese, Arabic and Korean languages were added to the curriculum as well, and a new department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was launched.

Other important innovations included the opening of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, the establishment of the Religious and Spiritual Life Program, the creation of the Knapp Media and Technology Center and the Knapp Social Science Center, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, the annual Ruhlman and Tanner conferences, and other initiatives designed to strengthen the quality of campus intellectual life. Many of the college’s administrative structures were strengthened as well.

Also, under her leadership, the trustees approved a comprehensive campus master plan in 1998, the first since 1921, and implemented major landscape restoration projects across the campus. The college raised over $700-million in new gifts during this 14-year period, strengthened the management of the endowment and increased it four-fold, to over $1.6-billion.

In 2000-2001, Wellesley marked its 125th anniversary and launched a five-year $400-million comprehensive campaign, with a series of celebratory programs on the campus and across the country. The Campaign for Wellesley, completed in June 2005, significantly exceeded its goal (raising $472.3- million) and set a new record for liberal arts colleges.

The campaign culminated in the opening of an award-winning 11- acre complex comprising the Wang Campus Center, the Davis parking facility and a surrounding landscape, Alumnae Valley, which, according to the American Society of Landscape Architects (in the 2006 citation for its highest award) “totally transforms the campus and sends a very strong environmental message.”

Before assuming the Wellesley presidency, Dr. Walsh was Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she chaired the Department of Health and Social Behavior. She reinvigorated that department and founded the Program on Society and Health there. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she was at Boston University, as a University Professor, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health.

Diana Chapman Walsh is a 1966 graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in English. At Boston University, she earned an M.S. degree in journalism (1971) and a Ph.D. in health policy from the University Professors Program (1983). In 1994, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University. She received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Deree College, the post-secondary division of the American College of Greece, in 1995, from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1999, and from Northeastern University in 2000.

As a Kellogg National Fellow from 1987 to 1990, Walsh traveled throughout the United States and abroad studying workplace democracy and principles of leadership, and writing poetry. She has written, edited and co-edited about 50 articles and fourteen books, including a study of the practice of medicine within corporations, titled Corporate Physicians: Between Medicine and Management, Yale University Press, 1987. She is a co-editor of Society and Health, Oxford University Press, 1995, an analysis of social and cultural determinants of health and illness. Walsh currently serves on the board of Amherst College and the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, She was a director of the State Street Corporation from 1999-2007 and chaired the board of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Phi Beta Kappa.

Diana Chapman Walsh was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Springside School in Chestnut Hill. Her husband, Christopher T. Walsh, is the Hamilton Kuhn Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry at the Harvard Medical School. Their daughter, Allison Walsh Kurian, is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2002, and, in 2005, a fellowship in oncology at Stanford Medical School, where she is now assistant professor of medicine and health policy.

Dr. Jan Love United Methodist Church Candler School of Theology

Dr. Jan Love is the dean and professor of Christianity and World Politics for the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

She came to Candler in early 2007 after serving as the head of the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church. For 22 years before that she was a member of the faculty of the University of South Carolina. For many years she has been actively involved in the World Council of Churches.

She is a graduate of Eckerd College, and earned a masters and a Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University.

Anthony Cortese Co-Founder of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) From Leonardo da Vinci to Higher Education: Lead Us to Survive and Thrive Anthony Cortese, one of the nation’s longtime, pioneering leaders in greening higher education, is president and co-founder (with Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz) of Second Nature, a nonprofit working to make healthy, just, and sustainable action a first principle of higher education. He is a co- organizer of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and a consultant on institutionalizing sustainability principles and programs. Biography - Mark G. Davies, M.D., Ph.D. , M.B.A., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S.I. Dr. Mark Davies has been an associate professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at The Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical School since 2008. Prior to joining the faculty, he held assistant and associate professorships in Vascular Surgery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He is the recipient of many awards including the United States National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Research Training Program Fellowship and the Lifeline Foundation Research Award. Dr. Davies is active in cardiovascular research, including several past and present NIH-sponsored studies, and has a particular interest in gene therapy studies. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery, ARDMS, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, The Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Paul J. Fonteyn Paul J. Fonteyn began his service as the 7th president of Green Mountain College in July 2008. He previously served for six years as provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts Boston. One of his primary goals for Green Mountain College is to create a student body highly engaged in learning and in serving others.

For much of his career, Dr. Fonteyn has worked to provide opportunities for students to pursue careers in both the environmental and biomedical sciences. At UMass Boston, he led the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Urban Massachusetts Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and established the Center for Science and Mathematics Education. He is currently the principal investigator of a $3.1 million NSF grant to establish a national network of neighbor science centers located in impoverished urban neighborhoods.

Dr. Fonteyn has been Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs at San Francisco State University and Associate Vice President for Research and Sponsored Projects at Southwest Texas State University. He received his B.S. degree in biology from the University of San Francisco and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has published his research in such prestigious journals as Nature and The Journal of Ecology, and has generated approximately $9.5M in extramural grants and contracts.

Having lived in Texas, Georgia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, Schrum has been an administrator at two major research universities and three liberal arts colleges. He is widely recognized as an author and speaker in the field of educational advancement and moral leadership in higher education.

Schrum graduated from John Foster Dulles High School, near Houston. Schrum received his B.A. in psychology in 1968 from Southwestern University, where he served as president of the Student Government Association. That same year, he enrolled in the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. While at SMU, Schrum and his spouse, Jane Woodman Schrum of Houston, served as residence hall parents for approximately 600 first-year male students.

In 1970, the Schrums returned to Southwestern where Schrum served as director of men's housing and associate chaplain. That same year he decided to pursue full-time work in higher education and was encouraged to finish his theological studies at Yale University. He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1973 with a Master of Divinity degree and immediately began his administrative career with Yale University--first with the Association of Yale Alumni, then with the Yale Alumni Fund. Schrum spent his last few years with Yale as a fundraiser for the Divinity School, playing a minor role in Yale's $370 million campaign (at that time the largest fundraising effort ever attempted by a college or university). At Yale Divinity School he also served as chaplain to the school's United Methodist students.

Schrum left Yale to become director of development at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Penn. In 1978 he returned to Texas to be the vice president of Texas Wesleyan College. Three years later, Schrum was asked by his alma mater, Southwestern University, to serve as vice president for university relations. As Southwestern's advancement program began earning a national reputation, Schrum was invited to become vice president for development and planning at Emory University. There, he directed the university's last major mega-campaign--the $400 Million Campaign for Emory. In 1991, having served at Emory for more than six years, Schrum was elected the 17th President of Texas Wesleyan University in Ft. Worth.

During his time at Texas Wesleyan, the university's endowment more than doubled from $22 million to $50 million, and the enrollment increased from 1,429 to 3,000 students. The annual fund also doubled from $450,000 to just over $900,000. A law school was acquired and fully accredited by the American Bar Association and a $12 million campus was built for the law school in downtown Fort Worth. A Weekend University, an MBA program, a distance-learning program in graduate education, as well as a bilingual education program also were established. Texas Wesleyan's budget grew from $11 million to $32 million in just eight years, and the university garnered resources amounting to almost $40 million.

Emerito P. Nacpil

Emerito P. Nacpil was born in Tarlac, the Philippines. Beginning with student appointments, Emerito served local churches. During this time he was ordained both deacon and elder by Bishop José Valencia and joined the Philippines Annual Conference. He received a Bachelor of Theology from Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines and a B.A. from Philippine Christian College. He then came to the United States to attend Drew University from which he received his Ph.D.

Returning home, Emerito Nacpil took up responsibilities at Union Theological Seminary, first as Professor, then Academic Dean, then President. During this time he was also Chairman of the Board of Ordained Ministry of the Middle Philippines Annual Conference.

In 1974 Emerito Nacpil was named Executive Director of the Association of Theological Schools in Southeast Asia and Dean of the Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology, the positions he was holding when the Philippines Central Conference elected him to the episcopacy in November, 1980. He had been Chairman of the Commission on Church Structure of the Philippines Central Conference for the past two quadrennia. Bishop Nacpil has also been very active in ecumenical affairs, serving on both the Faith and Order Commission and the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches.

Bishop Nacpil was assigned to the Manila Area where he administered the Mindanao Annual Conference, the Philippines Annual Conference and the Southwest Philippines Provisional Annual Conference. He retired in 2001.

Angelina Baron del Rosario married Emerito P. Nacpil on April 16, 1956, when he was finishing his theological training at Union Seminary. She became a pastor's wife and mother of their two children, Newell and Cynthia.

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice was appointed Dean of the School of Medicine at Meharry Medical College in March 2006. Prior to her appointment, she served as Chair and Professor of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Meharry Medical College. Prior to her arrival at Meharry, Dr. Montgomery Rice served as Associate Professor of Medicine and Division Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. A medical degree graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Montgomery Rice received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology. She completed her internship and residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals and served a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Hutzel Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice is one of the newly emerging voices in the expanding field of reproductive endocrinology, and is a noted lecturer in the area of menopause. She has participated in national campaigns in support of low-dose applications, as well as, served as principal investigator on numerous clinical trials of low dose birth control pills and hormonal replacement therapies. She has extensive expertise in female infertility and gynecologic reproductive endocrinology including repetitive pregnancy loss, premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis, and menopause. She is the founder of the newly emerging Center for Women’s Health Research at Meharry Medical College. This Center is the first of its kind devoted solely to addressing diseases that disproportionately effect women of color. As a leader in women’s health, Dr. Montgomery Rice has served on national grant panels including the National Institute of Health Population Research Study Section, SWAN Review Committee, Cooperative Reproduction Center Study Section, Scientific Committee for NAMS, State of Missouri Life Sciences Committee, ACOG’s, Reproductive PROLOG Task Force on Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, 5th Edition, Hormone Replacement Therapy Advisory Committee, and the ASRM White Paper Committee on Hormone Replacement Therapy. She currently serves on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs and is a reviewer for several journals including Fertility Sterility, Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Menopause. Over the past ten years, Dr. Montgomery Rice has been awarded over 9.0 million in grants for research in different areas of obstetrics and gynecology with her most recent NIH award for the construction of the Center for Women’s Health Research, the first scientific research center devoted solely to women of color. Since her inception as Chair of OB-GYN at Meharry, Dr. Montgomery Rice re-established the residency training program in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Meharry, serving as the Program Director, spearheaded the newly establishment of a Medical Arts Center for Women’s Health. Her most recent awards include the National Institute of Health Supplemental Research Award and the Joy McCann Endowed Professor Award of which she was the first Meharry Medical College recipient. Dr. Montgomery Rice has participated in numerous national and internal symposia and post graduate courses. She has been an invited speaker to over 100 presentations, both nationally and internationally and is an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Montgomery Rice most recently was the principle investigator on a Double-Blind Randomized Placebo and Active Control Safety and Efficacy study of Baxedoxifene/Conjugated Estrogen Combination and Post Menopausal Women. She serves as an investigator on a project with the NIH funded Center for Research in Reproduction Grant at Meharry Medical College. Other research endeavors include the Women’s Health, Osteoporosis, Progestin, and Estrogen (HOPE) Study, a multi-center clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of low dose hormone therapies. Dr. Montgomery Rice has authored chapters on the subjects of infertility and surgery for gynecologic disorders in various textbooks and is a frequent lecturer, presenting to both lay and professional audiences. She has been the principal investigator in clinical trials of low dose birth control pills and hormonal replacement therapies. She has extensive expertise in female infertility and gynecologic reproductive endocrinology including repetitive pregnancy loss, premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis, and menopause. Dr. Montgomery Rice is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Medical Association, National Medical Association; American Medical Women’s Association and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and is a member of several state committees including the Scientific Committee for The North American Menopause Society. Dr. Montgomery Rice was recently appointed as a fellow to the Executive Leadership In Academic Medicine Program for Women (ELAM/2004). In July, Dr. Montgomery Rice received the Service to the Section Award 2004 at the National Medical Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Most recently, she was selected as the first Joy McCann Professor at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Rice is a leader in academic medicine having established a national reputation in reproductive medicine. Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice Executive Director Center for Women’s Health Research M. Douglas Meeks The Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair in Wesleyan Studies and Theology B.A., Rhodes (1963) B.D., Ph.D., Duke (1966, 1971) Professor Meeks teaches in the area of Constructive Theology, concentrating in modern and post- modern theology. His research interests focus on the relation of Christian doctrine to economic, social, and political theory. Current writing projects include an ecclesiological study of the church in the global market society and a christology in the post-modern setting. He received his B.D. and his Ph.D. from Duke University and studied as a Fulbright Fellow at Tübingen University. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt he was the dean and professor of systematic theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and professor of systematic theology at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis. Professor Meeks is the author, co-author or editor of 16 books, including Origins of the Theology of Hope (Fortress) and God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy (Fortress). He has authored numerous chapters, articles and reviews and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Great Britain. He is program chair of the American Theological Society and co-chair of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. For Twenty-five years he chaired the Working Group relating the Evangelische Kirche der Union and the United Church of Christ. His record of professional service includes membership on a variety of academic and ecclesial councils and commissions dealing with theology and economy, religion and science, liberation theology, points at issue between black and white theologies, and theological education. He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. Professor Meeks is the Director of Wesleyan Studies and the United Methodist Programs. Professor Rukudzo Murapa

Professor Rukudzo Murapa is an accomplished academic and a former Vice Chancellor/President of Africa University and has held a number of senior university management positions (Head of Department and Executive Deanships). An accomplished academic, Prof. Murapa has taught at several universities in Africa (Univ. of Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe) and in the USA, (Cornell University). He has acted as External Examiner at the Institute of Social Studies (the Hague) and at a number of African universities. His areas of specialization include Public Sector Management, Political Science and Peace and Leadership Studies. Prof. Murapa has also worked as a senior international civil servant for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), the World Bank and the United Nations. He is currently a partner in a major regional consulting firm, Khulisa Management Services based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

M. Garlinda Burton, General Secretary, General Commission on the Status and Role of Women

M. Garlinda Burton is a member, trustee, soloist and children's ministry team member at Hobson United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tenn. (Tennessee Conference). She is also general secretary of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, which has offices in Chicago and Nashville

Jeffrey Kuan Ph.D., Emory University M.T.S., Southern Methodist University B.Th., Trinity Theological College (Singapore) Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan became Dean of the Theological School and Professor of Hebrew Bible in 2011. A scholar of ancient Israelite and Near Eastern history, Dr. Kuan’s current research addresses Asian and Asian American hermeneutics, as well as approaches to biblical instruction for the churches. He is currently completing a commentary on the biblical book of Joshua. Kuan began his career serving as an associate pastor from 1980 to 1983 in Malaysia. In 2002, he became an ordained elder and full member of the California-Nevada Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. Since 2008, he has served as the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the UMC’s General Board of Higher Education and Ministry. In 2004, the Reconciling Ministries of the California-Nevada Annual Conference named him the winner of the Turtle Award for “sticking his neck out” for the LGBTQ community. Dean Kuan previously served on the faculties of the Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and the South East Asia Graduate School’s Regional Faculty. He also served as Old Testament Editor for the multi-volume New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible from 2006 to 2009. He currently serves on the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature.

James E. Swanson Sr. Resident Bishop Holston Conference of The United Methodist Church Alcoa, Tennessee

Bishop James Swanson Sr. was elected to the episcopacy in July 2004. At the time of his election, he was Superintendent of the Savannah District of the South Georgia Annual Conference. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Bible College and Master of Divinity degree from C. H. Mason Seminary, ITC, Atlanta, GA. He is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry Degree in Evangelism at Perkins School of Theology, SMU.

His most recent pastoral appointment was St. Mary's Road UMC, a congregation that grew from sixteen active members to a membership of 950 with an average attendance of over 525. He has served as Chair of the Board of Commissioners, Housing Authority of Columbus, GA. He received a Hope VI Grant to revitalize a depressed community in Columbus and headed the Mayor's Task Force on Gangs. He is a popular preacher, teacher, and leader within our connection.

He was elected as an Emory trustee in 2009.

Beauty Rosebery Maenzanise Faculty of Theology, Africa University, Zimbabwe Beauty R. Maenzanise if the Dean of the faculty of Theology at Africa University. She currently serves as a committee member of the United Methodist Faith and Order Committee. Her publications include The Church and Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle (Methodist History, Vol XLVI No 2, Jan 2008) and The Contribution of Women of Color and the Global CHurch (www.gbhem.org 2006)

Dr. Sergei Nikolaev Dr. Nikolaev is an ordained elder in the Russia United Methodist Church. Before coming to the United States for his doctoral studies Nikolaev served as pastor of Perovo UMC and the Director of the Moscow Evening Bible School for Laity. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Christian Tradition. During his doctoral studies Dr. Nikolaev served as a visiting professor to the Russian Seminary. In 2005 he was appointed the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism in the Ruediger and Gerlinde Minor Chair at the Russia United Methodist Theological Seminary, a position he held while finishing his dissertation research and writing. In 2006 Dr. Nikolaev, with the support of the Episcopal office and the Foundation for Evangelism, initiated the Competition for the Best Project of Evangelism, encouraging responsible evangelism in Russia and the former Soviet Republics. The Central Russia Annual Conference recognized his leadership by electing him this year as a delegate to the General Conference in 2008. At the recent Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies he was elected a co-chair of the Institute. Nikolaev has been a member of ongoing Orthodox-Wesleyan Consultations since 2000. He specializes in the fields of evangelism; interchurch relations; the history and theology of the Methodist Church, especially in Russia; the Russian Orthodox Church; and the history of Christian thought. He has presented papers on these topics at academic conferences in the US, Russia, and Europe. His articles and book chapters have been published by professional journals as well as by the Russia UMC. His current academic projects include revision of his dissertation for publication, editing of John Wesley’s standard sermons for publication in Russian, and preparation of a volume of essays commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of state recognition of Methodism in Russia.

Bishop Neil L. Irons Neil L. Irons, born in Elkins, West Virginia, is a graduate of Davis and Elkins College. While in school, he served the Belington Circuit of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in West Virginia. After receiving an M. Div. from United Theological Seminary, he was ordained by Bishop J. Gordon Howard and appointed to First Church in Huntington, West Virginia. Neil then began matriculating at Vanderbilt University with a major in Biblical Studies, especially the Old Testament, and a minor in History of Religions. He earned both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. During this period he served the Epworth Church in the Tennessee Conference. He was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana for three years and then transferred to the West Virginia Annual Conference where he was pastor of the Chapel Hill Church in Buckhannon, as well as a part-time assistant professor at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He was later appointed as the Romney District Superintendent. He was elected to the episcopacy in 1984 by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference. He has been awarded honorary degrees by Davis and Elkins College, Centenary College (NJ), West Virginia Wesleyan College, Albright College, and Shenandoah University. In 1999 he was honored as Davis and Elkins College's alumnus of the year. In 2002 he was honored as United Seminary’s distinguished alumnus.

Neil was the preacher at baccalaureate services at Davis and Elkins, West Virginia Wesleyan, Lycoming, Albright, and Centenary Colleges, and Shenandoah University: opening convocation speaker for LaGrange College and Drew University School of Theology; speaker at the inauguration of the president of United Theological Seminary. Currently he is on the Board of Trustees of Lycoming College.

From 1996-2001 Neil was president of the North American Section of the World Methodist Council. He was a member of the WMC presidium, serving until 2006. In 1995, Neil represented the American religious community at the Service of Reconciliation in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England commemorating the end of WWII. He was also one of five international religious representatives to attend the state dinner sponsored by Queen Elizabeth II on the previous evening for visiting international heads of state and the British representatives. In 2000 he was one of the World Methodist Council's officers to go to South Africa to present the World Methodist Council Peace Award to Nelson Mandela. In 2004 he was selected to become a member of the Order of Jerusalem, WMC.

Bishop Irons has served on the General Commission on Archives and History as president; on the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry; the University Senate; General Commission on Theological Education as chairperson; member of the planning team of IAMSCU (International Association of Methodist Schools, Colleges and Universities). In Pennsylvania he serves as the chairperson of the Future Action Team and is a member of the governing board of the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. Neil retired in September, 2004 after serving as resident bishop for the New Jersey Area (1984-1996) and for the Harrisburg Area (1996-2004). In 2009, he began serving as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Bishops, with his office in Washington, DC. Personal interests are pipe organ, piano, and hiking. He has been published as a writer of articles for magazines and books.

His wife, Inez, died in 1993, and they have two children, Andrew and Anne. In 2002, he married Susan Thomas. Susan has two children, Jim and Elizabeth. Susan and Neil make their home in Mechanicsburg, PA.