Background
William Maynard Pittendreigh, Junior., was born in Greenwood, South Carolina, February 6, 1954, son of Bill and Earline Pittendreigh.
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Pittendreigh attended Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina, Ware Shoals (South Carolina) High School, and received his Bachelor degree at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from Erskine Theological Seminary and his doctorate from Columbia Theological Seminary. He also attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, where he earned a Certification as a Church Business Administrator.
Career
As a minister, he has been a pioneer and leader in a movement toward multi-cultural/racial congregations, and in developing early Internet-based ministries. He suffered a severe speech handicap as a child, but was able to overcome the disability through surgery and several years of therapy. Prior to entering the ministry, Pittendreigh worked as a photojournalist, restaurant manager and as a teacher/counselor in a state prison.
As a child he worked as a fashion model for J.C. Penney.
He appeared in the 2008 Karl Bardosh film, "Out of Balance" and appeared in the credits as having played the character Peter Dray Maynard. In the past he has served congregations on Estero Island, Florida.
Atlanta, Georgia, and a church in Miami, Florida. Pittendreigh has been a lifelong active amateur astronomer and wrote several articles about astronomy in the United States and the United Kingdom.
His work, "Pittendreigh"s Law of Planetary Motion" was published in Sky and Telescope magazine in February 1994.
During the early years of the Hubble Space Telescope, Pittendreigh was on an international team of amateur astronomers allowed to work with National Aeronautics and Space Administration in using the space telescope in a study of asteroids. The name of their study was "Transition Comets -- Ultraviolet Search for Ohio Emissions in Asteroids." He has also done extensive work in the area of Arp peculiar galaxies.
Membership
As an ordained minister, he has worked as a police chaplain in Abbeville, South Carolina, as the Associate Executive Presbyter of Trinity Presbytery, as a religious technical advisor for several films, and as a member of the credentialed press for various religious publications including being the editor of the Church Ad-Ministrator Magazine.
