1:12 p.m., June 21, 2010----The National Campus Ministry Association has inducted the Rev. Laura Lee C. (Wilson) Morgan, former executive director and campus pastor of the Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry at the University of Delaware, into the 2010 Hall of Fame.

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Morgan served on the University of Delaware campus from 1991-2005. Prior to coming to UD, she was the coordinator of religious and spiritual life at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md.

During her tenure at UD, Morgan established the “midnight breakfast” at the Newark United Methodist Church for any student on campus who needed a break from studying for exams. Beginning in 1992 with 15 students in attendance, this end of the semester event continues with the University Religious Leaders' Organization offering a late night feast every semester to 300-plus hungry students.

Morgan was instrumental in the founding of the University Religious Leader's Organization and the Religious and Spiritual Life Concerns Caucus. These organizations assisted the campus community with multi-faith educational and worship experiences. She led many of the vigils held on The Green bringing together students, faculty, staff and administrators.

Morgan recalls officiating at many weddings, baptisms, and memorial services for the campus community.

While at UD, Morgan served on numerous campus committees. She was an adjunct instructor in the Women's Studies program, teaching a course in women and religion, and during her last year at UD taught in the study abroad program in New Zealand and Australia, focusing upon a comparison of culture, religion and the treatment of women in the Maria and Aboriginal cultures.

In 1994 Morgan was awarded the Francis Asbury Award for Fostering United Methodist Ministries in Higher Education for the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference and was the first woman to receive the Francis Asbury Award for the northeastern jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. In 1995 she received the Gained Notoriety as Outstanding in Ministry and Education award from the National Campus Ministry Association. She served and held leadership positions on the local, national and international level of campus ministry.

Morgan graduated from Western Maryland College, cum laude, with high honors in Religious Studies. She earned her master of divinity degree and her doctor of ministry in campus ministry degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Her compassion for the University of Delaware and her love of the people entrusted to her to walk among them enabled her to share her faith and her belief that we are all God's children.

After retiring from campus ministry in 2005, Morgan was appointed to serve a local church in Randallstown, Md. She retired from the itinerate ministry in 2009 and lives with her husband Ralph H. Morgan in Littlestown, Pa.