A letter from a reader about The Scottish, Presbyterian tradition
There was an abundance of interesting material in Merrell
Noden ’78’s
interview with
President Goheen. In his account of the president’s background, one fact
stood out: that the Goheen parents had been Presbyterian medical missionaries
in India. Later in the article, Noden quotes Princeton luminary Neil Rudenstine ’56
on Princeton’s four key presidents “who made an enormous difference
at particular pivotal moments”: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, Woodrow
Wilson, and Bob Goheen. Witherspoon was a Presbyterian Scot, McCosh was another
Presbyterian Scot, Wilson was the son of a Presbyterian minister, and it now
emerges that President Goheen was brought up in the very same Presbyterian tradition.
What could be more fitting than that Princeton today should establish a program in Scottish studies dedicated to the scholarly investigation of the religious, intellectual, and cultural contexts out of which its most significant presidents emerged?
ANDREW HOOK *60
Glasgow, Scotland
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