Hugh Page reflects on career full of service

By BELLA LAUFENBERG notre dame news editor

h ugh p age, current vice president for institutional transformation and an advisor to the president, described his life as “a call to service” in an interview with The o bserver.

p age was raised as a member of the b aptist church while growing up in b altimore. h e went to a p resbyterian seminary first but ultimately discerned a call to be a minister in the e piscopal church.

b efore his life as a minister began, p age went to h ampton u niversity, where — because he was planning to go to law school — he began as a political science major.

“a s an undergraduate, i went to college intending to be a lawyer and was a political science major for, maybe, a year, and then i had a very interesting and impactful relationship with an advisor who was in the history department,” he explained. “[ h e convinced me that] being an historian provides me with a much more nuanced understanding of the law and circumstances that led to the evolution of our legal system.” w hen he was a senior, p age felt the call to be a minister because it was well in-line with his talents. h e spent a year at p ittsburgh Theological s eminary, which is p resbyterian, before