UCC - Daniel named interim president of Lancaster Theological Seminary

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Daniel named interim president of Lancaster Theological Seminary

> Written by Staff and Wire Reports

> September 17, 2010

The Board of Directors of Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary has
appointed the Rev. Kenneth V. Daniel to serve as interim president
during the coming academic year.

"An interim period is a chance for an organization to identify and
connect with its strengths," says Daniel, an ordained UCC minister.
"Lancaster has a considerable number: a rich tradition of rigorous
education; a faculty whose scholarship is rooted in personal faith and
commitment to the school's mission; and a community of caring that is
obvious and sincere."

Lancaster Seminary, an affiliate of the UCC, is an ecumenical graduate
school of theology that prepares leaders for ordained ministry and
other Christian vocations serving church and society.

Daniel most recently has served as executive director at Ingleside at
Rock Creek, a Washington, D.C., retirement community affiliated with
the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has served in parish ministry and
was vice president of operations at Phoebe Ministries, a
UCC-affiliated group of retirement communities and services
headquartered in Allentown, Pa. He holds certification as a Fellow in
the American College of Healthcare Administrators.

"Through my work at Phoebe Ministries, I've been affiliated with
Lancaster Seminary over the years," Daniel says, "now I am privileged
to be directly involved in its leadership during this critical time of
transition."

A graduate of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in New
Brighton, Minn., Daniel holds a master's in pastoral counseling from
Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pa., and a master's in
public administration from Marywood University in Scranton, Pa. He has
been adjunct instructor in health care law and ethics at Muhlenberg
(Pa.) College's Wescoe School and has served on the Kutztown (Pa.)
University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Advisory Board.

Daniel was recently awarded Moravian Theological Seminary's Bishop
Edwin W. Kortz Award for his leadership in developing pastoral care
and counseling services at Phoebe Ministries. He is married to the
Rev. Dr. Barbara Kershner Daniel, senior pastor of Evangelical
Reformed United Church of Christ, Frederick, Md. They have two sons.