Rev. Lynn Baker-Dooley

56 Upper College Road Kingston

RI 02881

URI Pres. Office - 401-874-2444

[email protected]

Lynn graduated from Bethel College in Minnesota with her bachelor’s degree in English and political science and a minor in music. She went to the seminary and graduated from Andover Newton and became a pastor at multiple parishes in western Massachusetts. Lynn spent about 15 years in Massachusetts, first as a graduate student at the Andover Newton Seminary. She is married to a man she met on a blind, David Dooley, President of the University of Rhode Island. The Dooleys have two grown children, Christopher and Samantha, and a dog they’ve named Rhody.

CHILDREN’S NAMES AND AGES:

Christopher Baker Dooley (age 29) Samantha Baker Dooley (age 26)

PROFESSION (WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THESE PAST 40 YEARS)

I have pastored 5 American Baptist Churches in Massachusetts and Montana before serving as a Hospital and Hospice Chaplain and now a campus chaplain.  We have always lived in university communities, as my husband was a chemistry professor, department head and provost. In 2009, we moved to Rhode Island when Dave became the president of the University of RI. We have been married 35 years and our children are our greatest accomplishments. Chris works in LA for Disney, Interactive & Applications division and Sam is beginning her 4th year at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, anticipating “match day” in March 2014 for a residency in OB/GYN or Pediatrics.

Personal, what have you been up to since we last saw you? COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, HOBBIES, INTERESTS…

I have continued to be a huge Emily Dickinson fan, serving as a volunteer docent at the Homestead in Amherst, MA for over a decade while we lived there and now, as a member of the Development Committee of the Emily Dickinson Museums. My scholarly interest is her friendship with the famous Presbyterian preacher, Rev. Charles Wadsworth.

I have also been very active over the years with Habitat for Humanity and currently serve on the board of the South County Habitat for Humanity and co-chair of the URI Old North Village Build. With our students commitment of hours and dollars, we are building a 4 house development near the URI campus. This fall So. County will be building 5 houses at the same time, a new record for us!

I am also a huge supporter of URI’s Women Athletes so we were at Henley last year and in Indianapolis this June for the NCAA Women’s Rowing Championship with our URI rowers.

We will be at a family wedding in LA on August 10, so I will unfortunately miss our reunion but send you all my greetings!