12/17/2014

Fred Renwick, Former ELCA Board Member, Dies

Fred B. Renwick, a former member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Board of Pensions and the ELCA Foundation board, died Dec. 4 at his home in New York City. Renwick, 84, suffered a stroke in January and had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure.

Renwick had been a member of Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in New York City since 1965 and served as congregation president from 1980-1984. He was a founding member of Saint Peter’s Trust and was its chair for more than 20 years.
In the late 1970s, Renwick served on the board of the Lutheran Church in America Foundation. The Lutheran Church in America merged with the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches and The American Lutheran Church to form the ELCA in 1988. Renwick also was a founding member of the Wartburg Foundation, where he served 10 years as chair of the Foundation Board.

A member of the faculty at New York University since 1965, Renwick was a retired professor of finance at the university’s Graduate School of Business Administration. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Morehouse College and in 2012 was made a lifetime honorary Trustee of the college. The honor was bestowed by President Barack Obama.