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Gregory E. Thomas

Gregory E. Thomas

  • Class Year:
    1970
  • Induction Year:
    2000
  • Sport(s):
    Football

GREG THOMAS "70 was inducted into the Baldwin Wallace University Alumni Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2000. Greg was an outstanding football student-athlete for the Yellow Jackets.

His path began in Cleveland, where he attended the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church from childhood, graduated from John Adams High School and obtained his undergraduate degree from Baldwin Wallace College. Greg also did graduate work at Harvard Divinity School.

Greg met his future wife when both were working in government jobs in Canton. Soon after they married, he entered the ministry. He was ordained by a mentor, the Rev. Cornelius Bartley Sr. of New Hope Memorial Baptist Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and later served under the Rev. Robert E. Craig at Willing Spirit Baptist Church in Cincinnati.

A job at New England Life Insurance Co. brought Rev. Thomas and his family to Boston. He received a master's in theological studies from Harvard, a doctorate from Boston University's School of Theology, and was studying for another doctorate at Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Over the years, he taught at Harvard Divinity School, Goethe University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, and Lesley University, and he was minister-in-residence at Boston University's Center for Practical Theology. He served on boards including for Habitat for Humanity, Haverhill Housing Partnership, and the United Baptist Convention of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.

His honors included being named an Unsung Hero in 2013 by the Merrimack Valley Branch of the NAACP.