The Reverend Harry B. Adams, the Horace Bushnell Professor Emeritus of Christian Nurture, has been appointed acting dean of the Divinity School, effective Jan. 1.

Adams will serve in the role until a new dean is named. The school's current dean, Richard Wood, will leave at the end of December to assume the presidency of the United Fund for Christian Higher Education in Asia.

A graduate of Yale College in 1947 and the Yale Divinity School in 1951, Adams began working at the University in 1956 as associate director of field work at the Divinity School. He joined the faculty there in 1960 and was named professor of pastoral theology in 1976. The University's chaplain from 1986 to 1991, he was master of Trumbull College for 10 years, served one year as acting master of Saybrook College, and was acting director of the Institute of Sacred Music on three occasions. He served for many years as an associate dean of the Divinity School.

Adams' eight books include "Preaching The Burden and the Joy," "What Jesus Asks," "God Confronts Man," and "Seekers of the Way."

In a letter to faculty, students and staff at the Divinity School President Richard C. Levin said of Adams, "He is one of the jewels of the University, always willing to assume major responsibility without hesitation. His loyalty and service to Yale are exemplary ..."

As acting dean, Adams will work closely with David Bartlett, academic dean at the Divinity School, Levin said.

In his letter, Levin also thanked Richard Wood for his accomplishments as dean.

"Dean Wood has played an important role in recruiting a new generation of distinguished scholars and in securing Yale's position as a leading center for theological scholarship and teaching," he said.

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