The United Methodist Church and the field of Methodist history lost two great scholars in the last year: Rev. Dr. Kenneth E. Rowe and Rev. Dr. Charles Yrigoyen Jr. The work of these two men overlapped in the halls of the United Methodist Archives and History Center on the campus of Drew University. In 1982, Yrigoyen and Rowe oversaw moving the denomination’s repository from Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, to Drew University’s campus in Madison, New Jersey. They knew that when the United Methodist denomination’s materials were housed in tandem with Drew University’s prodigious Methodist collection, it would create a world-renowned collection of global Methodism, which is still unprecedented.
Over the last forty years, this building has been the home of the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. Under the twenty-three-year leadership of Yrigoyen, GCAH expanded its programming to focus on funding, researching, and promoting the...
