Fred J. Shields

Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.

[3] After earning his master's degree from the University of Southern California, Shields went to Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho.

[2] After relinquishing the presidency at Eastern Nazarene, Shields taught at Connecticut Women's College in New London, Connecticut[6] before returning to his alma mater, Pasadena College, to teach education and psychology,[7][8] where he was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity in 1935.

[9] In 1935, after receiving his honorary doctorate from Pasadena, he returned to Eastern Nazarene to teach.

The first edition of the student yearbook at Eastern Nazarene, The Nautilus, was also dedicated to President Shields in 1922.