Class of: 1954, 1968

Yap Kim Hao

Yap Kim Hao (STH’54,’68) of Singapore, a longtime advocate of interfaith dialogue, had a named professorship endowed in his honor at Yale-NUS College of Singapore. The Yap Kim Hao Professorship in Comparative Religious Studies will enhance the academic study of religions at Yale-NUS, Singapore’s first liberal arts college. Yap is the former vice president of the Inter-Religious Organization, convenor of the Singapore Interfaith Network on AIDS, chairman of Chen Su Lan Trust, and pastoral advisor of Free Community Church. He was the first Asian bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore and Malaysia.

From the Fall 2014 issue.