Background
Fiske, George Walter was born on June 3, 1872 in Holliston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Batchelder and Ada M. (Perry) Fiske.
Fiske, George Walter was born on June 3, 1872 in Holliston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Batchelder and Ada M. (Perry) Fiske.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1895, Master of Arts, 1898, Doctor of Divinity, 1925. Bachelor of Divinity, Hartford Theological Seminary, 1898. Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, 1919.
South. (Mistress Margaret F. Hilliard). Ordained Congleton ministry, 1898. Pastor, Huntington, Massachusetts, 1898-1900, South. Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, 1900-1903, High Saint Church, Auburn, Maine, 1903-1907.
Professor practical theology and religious education, 1907-1937, emeritus since 1937, junior dean, 1908-1921, acting dean, 1928, Graduate School of Theology of Oberlin College.
Study and lecturing in the Near East, 1933. Exchange professor American University of Beirut, Syria, Near East School of Theology, 1937-1938.
Member Commision on Worship and Committee on Marriage and the Family, both of Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Member American Sociological Society, American Country Life Association, Religious Education Association, American Association of University professors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa (president Oberlin College chapter, 1937), Theta Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Gamma Museum.
Married Alice M. Stewart, August, 1898.