Scotty McLennan
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The Reverend William L. McLennan, Jr. — better known as "Scotty McLennan" — was born on November 21, 1948. He is an ordained minister, lawyer, professor, published author, and administrator at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Since January 1, 2001, McLennan has been the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University, where he oversees non-academic religious affairs on campus, is the minister of Stanford Memorial Church, and teaches undergraduate and Graduate School of Business courses.
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[edit] Academic and Professional Life
Originally from Lake Forest, Illinois, McLennan attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. He received a BA degree (Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Yale University in 1970, Master of Divinity and Juris Doctor degrees cum laude from Harvard Divinity and Law Schools respectively in 1975. He was ordained in 1975 as a Unitarian Universalist minister (though he considers himself a Unitarian Universalist Christian), and admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1975. After practicing church-sponsored poverty law in a low-income region of Boston for nearly ten years and founding the Unitarian Universalist Legal Ministry, he was appointed University Chaplain at Tufts University in Massachusetts from 1984 to 2000, and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School between 1988 and 2000.
[edit] Awards
In 1994, he was the reipient of The Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award, the oldest annual award given to Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae "to honor among its graduates one who exhibits a passionate and helpful interest in the lives of other people." [1]
McLennan was honored with the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Award in 2004. The award was "established to recognize leaders who promote peace and world reconciliation" by Morehouse College. [2]
[edit] Publications
McLennan's first book, "Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning," was published in 1999. His second book, "Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life," was co-authored with Laura Nash and published in 2001.
[edit] Personal Life
Scotty McLennan is married to Ellen McLennan. They wed in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts. They are the parents of two sons: Will McLennan (b. 1982) and Dan McLennan (b. 1984), both of whom are alumni of Stanford University.
McLennan's grandfather, Donald R. McLennan, co-founded the world's largest insurance brokerage, Marsh & McLennan, in 1905 in Chicago. Today, Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) is a US-based global professional services and insurance brokerage firm. In 2005, it had over 57,000 employees and annual revenues over $12 billion. [3] Both Putnam Investments and Mercer, Inc. (which includes Mercer Management Consulting) are subsidiaries of Marsh & McLennan Companies.
[edit] Trivia
McLennan was an inspiration for the cartoon character Reverend Scott Sloan in Gary Trudeau's Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoon strip "Doonesbury". The character is also based on the late William Sloane Coffin, McLennan's mentor and former Chaplain at Yale University, where McLennan and Trudeau were undergraduate roommates.
