"A Dream for the Millennium"
Yale University Library will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., on Monday, January 17, 2000 with a special talk, A Dream for the Millennium, by the Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, University Chaplain and Senior Pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale. The Church of Christ in Yale is the oldest college church in America founded in 1757 and a member of the United Church of Christ.
His talk will take place in the Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall, 128 Wall Street, from 12:30 pm-2:00 pm. All members of the Yale and New Haven community are welcome to attend. Bring your lunch. Light refreshment will be provided. Be part of a special celebration following the Chaplain's talk.Chaplain Streets is a native of Chicago, Illinois and graduate of Ottawa University (Kansas). He met Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he was a teenager, an experience that has profoundly changed his life. He now holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School, a Master of Social Work and Doctor of Social Welfare degrees from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University in New York City.
Rev. Streets is also an adjunct member of the faculty at Yale Divinity School and Clinical Professor of Social Work at the Yale Child Study Center.Throughout his professional career as a Pastor, Educator and Clinical Social Worker, Chaplain Streets has been an advocate for the welfare of children and building bridges between people of different ethnic, class and religious backgrounds. He is committed to theological education and scholarship in the practice of ministry in a religiously pluralistic and multi-cultural secular society.
- The University Chaplain is appointed to serve the entire Yale community and to foster religious life and concern for ethical issues on campus. The Chaplain works with religious and non-religious student groups, and counsels students, faculty and staff on personal and spiritual matters.
- Current Activities of Dr. Rev. Jerry Streets.
Photo: Michael Marsland,
Yale University Office of Public Affairs
Recommended Reading:
A Testament of Hope, edited by James M. Washington
Additional links re: Martin Luther King
For the works of Howard Thurman, a strong influence on King, choose ORBIS on the Web to search the Yale collection.
