Disciples Divinity House

W. Clark Gilpin and April J. Lewton have been elected to the Board of Trustees. Clark Gilpin, an alumnus and former dean of the Disciples Divinity House and of the Divinity School, is the Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology in the Divinity School. Mr. Gilpin also leads the Disciples History and Thought Seminar at the Disciples Divinity House. April Lewton, an alumna of the Disciples Divinity House and the Divinity School, is Director of Annual Giving and Community Engagement at Chicago Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Ms. Lewton is known for her generous and incisive leadership in the general, regional, and local church. She is the former Moderator of the North American Pacific Asian Disciples (NAPAD) and a current member of the General Board of the Christian Church and its Administrative Committee.

amyAmy A. Northcutt concludes eighteen years of service as a trustee in December. She was President of the Board from 1998-2004; recently she chaired its scholarship committee. During her presidency, the Board grappled with increased stress on endowment resources due to accelerating tuition costs and needed capital expenditures; over $2 million in estate or planned gifts were completed; a long range planning process clarified the work of the House; and a new model for the Board’s work was developed. An alumna who is Deputy General Counsel of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Ms. Northcutt recently has been named Acting Director of NSF’s Office of Information and Resource Management.