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Robert H. Greenfield ’48

Robert Greenfield ’48, April 23, 1999, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied at Oxford University in England after graduating from Reed and earned a doctorate in divinity there in 1956. Returning to Portland, he had a parish in Raleigh Hills and was the rector for St. Helen’s Hall School, which later became Oregon Episcopal School. He also served as dean of St. Stephen in Portland. In 1980, he took the vows of poverty and joined the monastic society of St. John the Evangelist. He entered the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John in Cambridge, where he lived until his death.

Appeared in Reed magazine: August 1999

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