Office Hours: James Grimshaw

His office looks like it belongs to a religious studies professor—the one long wall lined with bookshelves, stacked with books on theology, philosophy and comparative religion, competing for space with manila folders overstuffed with 15 years’ worth of students’ papers.  

It doesn’t much look the office of a mechanical engineer, which was Grimshaw’s first career (he toiled at a GM plant in Ohio), until another, higher calling came along and he enrolled in seminary school, eying a second career as a Presbyterian minister. He served a year as a minister in Indiana but still had a feeling he wasn’t yet in the right place. He went back to school, to Vanderbilt University, where he obtained a Ph.D. and then here to Carroll, to teach. This is his 16^th year. “It’s a good fit for me,” he said. He has found his calling.