The Rev. Morrow replaces the Rev. Wauters in July.
By: Lea Kahn
The Lawrenceville School counts Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, Catholics and Protestants among its students, and in her upcoming role as the school’s Protestant chaplain, the Rev. Sue Anne Steffey Morrow welcomes the opportunity to help those students learn about and develop respect for varied religious beliefs.
The Rev. Morrow has worked toward that goal at Princeton University for many years, where she serves as Associate Dean of Religious Life. She initiated the Interfaith Council and, later, the Religious Life Council at Princeton.
The Rev. Morrow will now get a chance to foster understanding between religious groups at The Lawrenceville School. She is poised to assume the position of Protestant chaplain and religion master at the private school July 1.
"I have a very strong commitment to strengthen all of the faiths on campus Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Sikh and Protestant," she said. "The opportunity to witness to the world that people of all faiths respect each other is enormously important at this point in history."
In her new role as Protestant chaplain, the Rev. Morrow will lead Protestant worship and guide other aspects of religious life at The Lawrenceville School. An ordained minister and Elder in the United Methodist Church, she also will teach in the school’s religion department.
Much of the work at The Lawrenceville School is similar to the work she did at Princeton University working with students and enjoying their imagination, the Rev. Morrow said. The new aspect is being able to teach, which she did not do at Princeton.
"I am very excited about teaching," the Rev. Morrow said Tuesday morning. "I am very excited to be working with this age group. It’s an opportunity to be in a new academic community that is excellent in all ways."
The Rev. Morrow has worked at the Office of Religious Life at Princeton University, beginning in 1981 as assistant dean. She was acting dean for a year and then in 1989, she assumed her present position of Associate Dean of Religious Life.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Skidmore College in New York and a master of divinity degree from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She began her ministry as associate pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Pittsburgh.
She became dean of admissions and student affairs at Duke Divinity School. She served as senior pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church in Chicago before taking the job at Princeton University.
The Rev. Morrow is married to David Morrow, an attorney in private practice. The couple has three children Jake, who is a junior at Boston University; Sam, who is a freshman at St. Lawrence University; and Ruth, who is a sophomore at Princeton High School.
The Rev. Morrow had announced her plans to leave Princeton University in mid-January, after 22 years at the college’s Office of Religious Life. At about the same time, the Rev. Will Wauters, who has served as the Protestant chaplain at The Lawrenceville School since 1996, also announced his plans to leave the school. He will leave the school June 30.
The Rev. Morrow said she sought the job after several people contacted her to ask if she was interested.
"I feel privileged to come to a school that has created a vision that is so important to me," the Rev. Morrow said. "The role of the chaplain is to support and strengthen all faiths at The Lawrenceville School, and to model mutual understanding and respect for each other.
"It is also important to be responsive to the students to the seekers and the doubters, to help them to come to an understanding of their own spiritual lives (that is) perhaps apart from the religious community."

