ill Rolland is chaplain of Church in the Forest at Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California.  A native of Scotland, Chaplain Rolland began his ministry in Falkirk.  He first came to the Unites States in the late 1960s to complete his Master of Divinity in Kansas City, Missouri.  In 1987 he earned his doctorate in thanotology, the study of how to assist people who are grieving, from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.  During that same time period, Pastor Rolland was also a clinical pastoral counselor at Abbott-Northwest Hospital, and associate pastor of the 3,000-member Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis.  It was here, he says, that he found his Scottish home in America.  At Westminster, Dr. Rolland helped organize a monthly series of town hall forums that featured, among many others, internationally renowned figures Elie Weisel, Kurt Waldheim, and poet Maya Angelou.   In 1990, sunny California beckoned and he accepted a position as senior pastor and head of staff at Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church in the San Francisco East Bay region.  Seven years later it was back to Scotland for continued spiritual growth and the world of academia when he became a visiting scholar at the University of St. Andrews.  In August of 1998, he was called to accept the position of minister at Church in the Forest.  In addition to his ministry, Dr. Rolland is a Rotarian and has served many years as Master of Ceremonies at the Macalester College Scottish Highland Games in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He is a collector of clocks and other antiques and enjoys stamp collecting, golf, gardening and working on his 1960 Morris Minor convertible.  He has three grown children.

 
     
      The board of directors for Hospice Foundation are:
    Suzanne Johnson, Chair
    Larry Daniels, Vice Chair
    Gerry Ray, Treasurer
    Beverley Ambort
    Paul Bianchi
    Karen Boothroyd
    Bill Dalhamer
    Gerald Griffin, M.D.
    Sharon Higashi
    Laurie Massa
    Susan Merfeld
    Steven Merrell
    Mikel Ann Miller
    Tom Reddy
    Bill Rolland
    Ralph W. Thompson, III
    Jean Duff, Emeritus
     
   


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