ALUM SETS UP SCHOLARSHIP TO GIVE THANKS

Allan and Eloise Lee

Allan and Eloise Lee remember how profoundly the seminary experience shaped their lives and ministry. Coming from a conservative background, their time in Berkeley, coupled with service at Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland, significantly broadened their horizons.

They also remember how difficult these years were financially. One semester they were too poor to go to a college roommate's wedding in Arizona. "We didn't feel we had money for gas," recalls Eloise.

Thirty-six years later, after a career of ministry in American Baptist and United Church of Christ congregations, the Lees want to help students who face similar challenges at American Baptist Seminary of the West. They have established the Allan Lee Scholarship Fund to assist Asian American and Pacific Islander students.

The Lees grew up in the same Honolulu congregation, United Church of Christ-Judd Street. They came to the seminary, then called Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, in 1957. Allan was ordained at Lakeshore, where he did his fieldwork and served as youth pastor for two years.

Following graduation in 1960, the Lees moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., where Allan served as associate pastor for First Baptist Church for six years. After a four-year stint as minister of education for the Colorado Baptist Convention (forerunner to the American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains), Allan joined the ministerial team at Calvary Baptist Church in Denver, where he served for 16 years. Meanwhile, Eloise was the first woman to be principal of Denver's East High School.

In 1986, the Lees returned to Hawaii, where Allan became pastor of their home church. Seven years later he was called as senior associate minister of Honolulu's Central Union Church. He retired in 2000.

After 26 years of service in American Baptist life, the Lees were just as active in the UCC. Eloise recently completed a four-year term on the General Synod. And they live in a UCC-related retirement community.

They look back on their career with gratitude, especially for the life-changing experience of seminary. The scholarship fund, they say, is a way to give back to God all that they have received and ensure that the seminary continues to have a strong influence on others.

Winter 2006
Vol 29 Issue 1

From The President

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of New D.Min.

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