Robert J. McMullen

Robert Johnston McMullen (May 18, 1884 – October 26, 1962) was an American pastor, missionary, and academic administrator. A graduate of Central University of Kentucky, now Centre College, and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, he was licensed to preach in April 1909 and soon left the country to begin a period of more than thirty years in Hangzhou, China. He worked as a Presbyterian missionary from 1911 to 1932 before joining the faculty of Hangchow Christian College and eventually becoming the school's president for four years. After a seven-month detainment in a Japanese prison camp, McMullen returned to the United States in 1943 and was elected president of his the next year. He began in the role in September 1944 as "co-president" alongside Robert L. McLeod, who had been away since December 1942 as a chaplain in the United States Navy. The war having concluded, both McLeod and McMullen resigned in November 1945, though McMullen stayed at Centre as its lone president until October 1946. After leaving Danville, he worked for the United Board for Christian Colleges in China before his 1953 retirement. Provided by Wikipedia