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Dale Wood Peterson

Associate Dean of Students

dale.peterson@yale.edu
(203) 432-5310
Seabury N117

B.A., University of Virginia
M.Div., Southern Seminary

The Reverend Peterson is an ordained minister of the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., and served as pastor of the United Church of Stonington, Connecticut, a congregation affiliated with the American Baptist Churches and the United Church of Christ (U.C.C.). Currently, he serves as pastor of the First Baptist Church of West Haven, Connecticut. He served as Baptist Chaplain of Yale University for thirteen years before coming to the Divinity School as Dean of Students in February 2000. Previous ministry positions include college chaplaincy at Dartmouth College, nursing home chaplaincy in Texas, and high school teaching and church youth work in Nazareth, Israel. He is a member of Yale Religious Ministry and serves on the boards of the Alliance of Baptists, the American Baptist Churches of Connecticut, and the Nazareth Baptist School, Nazareth, Israel.