Don Mackenzie

Don Mackenzie is a native of Chicago, Illinois and was raised on several college campuses in the mid-west. His father was a college dean and president and his mother is a musician. He is a graduate of Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota A.B. 1966, Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey M.Div., 1970, Th.M., 1971, and New York University, New York, New York Ph.D., 1978. At Macalester he developed four interests that continue: music, English literature, international travel and living, and theology. In the summer of 1965 he was a lifeguard at the Nile Hilton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt on a program through Macalester. In 1966 he and his wife, Judy traveled to Lebanon where he was a secondary school English teacher at Gerard Institute in Sidon, Lebanon. They were evacuated during the Six Day War in June of 1967 when he entered seminary in Princeton. After graduating he became Associate Director of Field Education at Princeton 1971-1980, Associate Minister at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton 1980-83, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 1983- 1995 and Minister and Head of Staff at University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle, Washington 1995 present. In addition he has served as adjunct faculty at Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine 1991-1995 and at Princeton Theological Seminary as an examiner for the Doctor of Ministry Program, 1980-1995.