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McCormick well represented at Melbourne Parliament
McCormick’s longstanding interest and investment in interfaith relations was again demonstrated powerfully at the Fifth Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, Australia.
Several students, faculty, alumni/ae, staff and former staff lent their academic, pastoral and administrative skills to an event drawing approximately 6,000 attendees from 200 countries.
Many involved in past Parliament events know of McCormick’s deep roots in the organization. Former president David Ramage was among the first individuals to be approached by the Hyde Park Vivekananda Society about its hope to hold a centennial Parliament in 1993 in the city where it all started on September 11, 1893.
Ramage recruited, among others, Presbyterian minister Dirk Ficca (M.Div., Class of 1981) to organize the centennial





