CHRIS THOMFORDE '69: Former star forgoes hoops for higher calling

Monday, November 26, 2007
By Peter Tucci Princetonian Staff Writer

For most basketball players, making the NBA is a dream come true. But when Chris Thomforde '69, a former All-Ivy center on the men's basketball team, got offers to play for the NBA's New York Knicks and the ABA's New York Nets, he turned them down.

Instead, the six-foot, nine-inch Thomforde chose to pursue his other passion — his Lutheran religion. In August 2006, after three decades as a Lutheran pastor and scholar, the basketball star-turned-academic became the 15th president of Moravian College, a small Lutheran liberal arts college in Bethlehem, Pa ...

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