Robert A. Seiple

Robert A. Seiple (born December 6, 1942) is an American non-profit executive, and former military officer, university administrator, and diplomat. He served as the athletic director at Brown University from 1975 to 1979. He was president of Eastern College—now known as Eastern University— in St. Davids, Pennsylvania and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary—now known as Palmer Theological Seminary— in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1987. In December 1986 he was named president of World Vision International,[1] serving from 1987 to 1998.[2] Seiple served as the first United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2001. He was succeeded by John Hanford.

Robert A. Seiple
Biographical details
Born (1942-12-06) December 6, 1942
Harmony, New Jersey
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1975–1979Brown
United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
In office
1999–2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byJohn Hanford

Early life

Seiple joined the United States Marine Corps as an officer. He flew combat missions as a pilot in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

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gollark: I am talking meta-level here; I'm not saying "culling is unhelpful" but "it doesn't actually help anything to try and shove things into the culling box".
gollark: It might not be *technically wrong* by a strict definition to say that trying to improve health standards and whatever to reduce population growth is culling, but it's not... helpful? As in, it doesn't really matter whether the relevant actions fit into [bad and emotionally charged category], but whether they're actually bad.
gollark: "Culling" is generally meant to mean something more like actively going out and killing people.
gollark: It probably comes out net-positive, if they vaccinated a lot of people and didn't have too many issues.

References
  1. Chandler, Russell (December 13, 1986). "New World Vision President Named: Robert A. Seiple, 44, Will Replace Ted W. Engstrom, 70". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  2. "De-Seiple-ing World Vision". Christianity Today. June 15, 1998. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
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