George Peter Hutchinson (1938-2013) was a graduate of Princeton and Oxford Universities and had five earned degrees. A retired minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, he served as Executive Director of Church Planting International, traveling extensively preaching and training pastors in India, Russia, Africa, and elsewhere. As founding dean of the German Theological Seminary in the 1970s, he left a legacy in Giessen, Germany of an indigenous and self-supporting institution which continues today. He died in a traffic accident while on a mission trip in Kampala, Uganda.