REV. DR. MARY JANE HITT

PASTOR

Rev. Dr. Mary Jane Hitt came to Scranton, PA in 2001  to serve as

pastor of Providence United Presbyterian Church.  A former

administrator in the President’s Office of West Virginia University,

Rev. Hitt left higher education in 1997 to pursue a call to ministry,

studying theology at Duke Divinity School.  In addition to serving

full-time as a local church pastor, she teaches a religion class at

Marywood University, advises a Protestant student organization

there, and serves on the board of various civic and religious

organizations.  In 1995, she was the first woman to be elected president of the Morgantown, West Virginia Rotary Club. 

Mary Jane’s husband of 37 years, Bill, a dentist, directs the Ed Dulworth Dental Clinic at the Scranton Primary Health Center in Scranton.  They have two grown children, Than (a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey) and Amanda (a marriage and family therapist), and two grandchildren.