Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the

Eastern Nazarene College The Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a private, Christian college in Quincy, Massachusetts. Established as a holiness college in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1900, the college moved to Rhode Island for several years. With its expansion to a four-y ...

Education

Shields earned his

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from the Nazarene University in 1915 and

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

s from the

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and

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. He also attended the

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and the

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Career and ministry

After earning his master's degree from the University of Southern California, Shields went to

Northwest Nazarene College Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is a Private university, private Church of the Nazarene, Nazarene university in Nampa, Idaho. History Eugene Emerson organized a combination grade school and Bible school in 1913 as Idaho Holiness School. It ...

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. He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate,

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to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the

on the advice of John W. Goodwin. When the college moved to

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, in Quincy, in 1919, Shields moved with the school. He was president of the college from 1919 to 1923, during which time he attended

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. After relinquishing the presidency at Eastern Nazarene, Shields taught at Connecticut Women's College in

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before returning to his alma mater,

Pasadena College Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college with its main campus on the Point Loma oceanfront in San Diego, California, United States. It was founded in 1902 as a Bible college by the Church of the Nazarene. ...

, to teach education and psychology, where he was awarded an honorary

doctor of divinity A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ran ...

in 1935. 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

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in 1941, after his return to Eastern Nazarene in 1935.

Legacy

Shields Hall, a residence hall for male freshman, on the campus of the

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.

Notes and references

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