Fred J. Shields

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Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.

Education

Shields earned his bachelor's degree from Nazarene University in 1915[http://www.abooklegacy.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=14312&keyword=carson+editor+esther&searchby=author&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_481=12361830954818d1fc22caa46ca0f81c Nazarene University "La Sierra" yearbook 1914] and master's degrees from the University of Southern California and Harvard University.{{cite book

| title = Harvard University Catalogue of Names

| publisher = Harvard University

| year = 1920

| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts

| pages = 266

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0ao1AAAAIAAJ

}} He also attended the University of California and the University of Chicago.{{cite book

| last = Cameron

| first = James R.

| author-link = James R. Cameron

| title = Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950

| publisher = Nazarene Publishing House

| year = 1968

| location = Kansas City

| pages = 150

}}

Career and ministry

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After earning his master's degree from the University of Southern California, Shields went to Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho. He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate, Rhode Island to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the Eastern Nazarene College on the advice of John W. Goodwin.{{cite book

| last = Cameron

| first = James R.

| author-link = James R. Cameron

| title = Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950

| publisher = Nazarene Publishing House

| year = 1968

| location = Kansas City

| pages = 142–143

}} When the college moved to Wollaston, Massachusetts, in Quincy, in 1919, Shields moved with the school.{{cite book

| last = Smith

| first = Timothy L.

| author-link = Timothy L. Smith

| title = Called Unto Holiness, The Story of The Nazarenes: The Formative Years

| publisher = Nazarene Publishing House

| year = 1962

| location = Kansas City

| url = http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/2501-2600/HDM2593.PDF

| isbn = 083410282X}} He was president of the college from 1919 to 1923. During that time, he attended Harvard Graduate School of Education. After relinquishing the presidency at Eastern Nazarene, Shields taught at Connecticut Women's College in New London, Connecticut{{cite book

| last = Cameron

| first = James R.

| title = Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950

| publisher = Nazarene Publishing House

| year = 1968

| location = Kansas City

| page = 260 }} before returning to his alma mater, Pasadena College, to teach education and psychology,[http://socal-yearbooks.com/1930/1934pasfac.html 1934 Pasadena College Yearbook] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202212445/http://socal-yearbooks.com/1930/1934pasfac.html |date=2014-02-02 }}[http://socal-yearbooks.com/1930/1935pasfac.html 1935 Pasadena College Yearbook] where he was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity in 1935.[http://www.pointloma.edu/Assets/PLNU/Academic+Affairs+Digital+Assets/Institutional+Research/Honorary+Degrees.pdf Point Loma Nazarene University Honorary Degrees list] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512202453/http://www.pointloma.edu/Assets/PLNU/Academic+Affairs+Digital+Assets/Institutional+Research/Honorary+Degrees.pdf |date=2008-05-12 }} In 1935, after receiving his honorary doctorate from Pasadena, he returned to Eastern Nazarene to teach. Shields took the pastorate at Bethany Nazarene Church in Rumford, Rhode Island in 1941,[http://www.bethanynazarenechurch.org/Site/History.html Bethany Nazarene Church history]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} after his return to Eastern Nazarene in 1935.

Legacy

Shields Hall, a residence hall for male freshman, on the campus of Eastern Nazarene College is named in honor of Fred Shields. The first edition of the student yearbook at Eastern Nazarene, The Nautilus, was also dedicated to President Shields in 1922.{{cite book

| last = Cameron

| first = James R.

| title = Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950

| publisher = Nazarene Publishing House

| year = 1968

| location = Kansas City

| page = 158 }}