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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) was a Methodist minister and university administrator. Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim was born on May 11, 1911 in Nashville, Tennessee. He died on November 1, 1995 in Cockeysville, Maryland.
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Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim was born in 1911 to Jesse Lee & Maud Merrimon Cuninggim in Wesley Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where his father was a professor in the Biblical Studies Department. Cuninggim received his B.A. from Vanderbilt in 1931. He received his M.A. from Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, attended Oxford University in 1933 where he received a B.A., M.A., and Diploma in Theology. He became an intercollegiate tennis champion in Britain, held national ranking in the United States, and reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. In 1936 he returned to the United States where he became Director of Religious Activities at Duke University. In 1939 Cuninggim married Annie Whitty Daniel and began studies at Yale University, where he earned a B.D. and Ph.D. in Religion and Education. His academic honors included Phi Beta Kappa, of which his father had also been a member, and a Kent Fellowship in the Society for Values in Higher Education. Merrimon and Whitty had three children, Lee, Penelope, and Terry.
Cuninggim's career consisted of two primary fields of work: higher education and philanthropy. In the early 1940s Cuninggim was a professor of religion, first at Emory and Henry College in Virginia and then at Denison University in Ohio. An ordained Methodist minister, he was a chaplain in the Navy from 1944 to 1946, serving aboard the battleship Tennessee. From 1946 to 1951 he was a professor of religion at Pomona, the Associated Colleges of Claremont, California, where he was also the chaplain of The College Church. In 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Under his leadership Perkins became the first graduate school in the South to desegregate, two years before the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, 1954. This was the professional accomplishment of which Cuninggim said he was most proud.
In 1960 Cuninggim began what became the second accomplishment of which he was most proud. When Cuninggim became the Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, the institution had a growing national outlook that matched his own view of philanthropy. In 1961Cuninggim said that he wanted to expand and develop the genuine concern which the Danforth Foundation had in regard to the national character of their educational grants. Throughout his tenure at Danforth, he consistently held this position and under his guidance, both the national reputation and influence of the foundation grew substantially as did its resources. By the time Cuninggim resigned in 1972 the Danforth Foundation had reached the rank of eighteenth in resources among the nation's 25,000 foundations.
From 1973 to 1975 Cuninggim served as an advisor on program management to the Ford Foundation. McGeorge Bundy, then president of the foundation, said in his recommendation to hire Cuninggim: "I have met most of the senior philanthropic professionals now at work in the country. I have no hesitation whatever in saying that outside our own staff the man most respected for intelligence, integrity and humane wisdom is Merrimon Cuninggim."
In 1976 Cuninggim became the President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, one of the oldest institutions for the education of women in the United States. He served in this capacity until 1979.
From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations, largely on management problems, counting among his clients Duke Endowment, Lilly Endowment, National Endowment for the Humanities, Association of Governing Boards, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.
In 1981 he and 15 other professional people, all of whom had extensive experience in foundation work, formed the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management. Working with grantors only, the CEP offered expert evaluation and improvement suggestions in reports that focused on efficient and effective management, organization, program development, and grantee relations. The CEP published occasional papers by its members on various aspects of foundation management and held seminars/colloquiums for foundation trustees, officers, and staff, frequently in cooperation with other agencies such as the Council on Foundations.
Cuninggim served on various boards of directors including St. Louis Community Foundation, Association of Governing Boards (a trade association of trustees of colleges and universities), and the Society for Values in Higher Education. He sat on the board of trustees of Duke University, Vanderbilt University and the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest. At Vanderbilt, he served as consultant to the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center, so named for his sister who served as Dean of Women and Dean of Student Services from 1966 to 1972.
During his career, he authored eight books: The College Seeks Religion (1948), Freedom's Holy Light (1955), Christianity & Communism (with others, 1958), The Protestant Stake in Higher Education (1961), Private Money and Public Service: The Role of the Foundation in American Society (1972), Church-Related Higher Education (with others, 1979), Letters to a Foundation Trustee: What We Need to Know About Foundations and Their Management (1991), Uneasy Partners: the College & the Church (1994). He was awarded seven honorary doctoral degrees.
Merrimon Cuninggim died in 1995.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) was a Methodist minister and university administrator. Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim was born on May 11, 1911 in Nashville, Tennessee. He died on November 1, 1995 in Cockeysville, Maryland.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) served as the dean of Perkins School of Theology from 1951 until 1960. During his tenure Dean Cuninggim oversaw the purposeful integration of the student body, making Perkins the first desegregated graduate school in the American South. In the article reprint shown here, Cuninggim relayed the story in 1956, one year after the first African American ministers completed their degrees at Perkins. On April 25, 1957, he addressed the Conference on Christian Faith and Human Relations in Nashville, Tennessee. Cuninggim’s speech, “…. To Fashion as We Feel,” directly preceded Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s keynote address: “The Role of the Church in Facing the Nation’s Chief Moral Dilemma.”
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The Correspondence Series, which comprises about one-half of the collection, and the Writings and Speeches Series form the bulk of the Ramsey Papers. The Correspondence Series consists chiefly of office correspondence including letters from theologians and professors, institutions and organizations, and journals, such as the Journal of Religious Ethics, for which Ramsey served as chairman of the editorial board. Among the correspondents are the American Medical Association, Roland Herbert Bainton, Emil Brunner, Daniel Callahan, James M. Gustafson, Van Austin Harvey, Orrin Hatch, the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, Henry M. Jackson, Journal of Religious Ethics, Ernest W. Lefever, Richard A. McCormick, Rollo May, Abraham John Muste, the National Council of the Churches of Christ, the National Council on Religion in Higher Education, The New England Journal of Medicine, H. Richard Niebuhr, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard M. Nixon, Liston Pope, Quentin L. Quade, Warren T. Reich, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Sargent Shriver, John Edwin Smith, Elton Trueblood, Richard Preston Unsworth, Henry Pitney Van Dusen, and Worldview.
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Also known as Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim.
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Robert Lee Sutherland Papers, 1937-1973
Papers concern the career of Sutherland (1903-1976), founding director of The University of Texas Hogg Foundation of Mental Health, author, and sociology professor at UT. Materials include speeches, correspondence, notes, annual reports, newspaper clippings, literary productions, brochures, memoranda, committee reports, student papers, charts, and photographs.
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The Duke News Service informs the public and the university community about research, programs, and events at Duke. The collection consists of biographical files of Duke University faculty, staff, alumni, and others compiled by the News Service. The files contain primarily clippings and also curricula vitae, photographs, and other printed materials.
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McGeorge Bundy office files, 1966-1979.
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Correspondence, memoranda, subject files, drafts of policy statements, meeting dockets, minutes, trip itineraries, and briefings and F.C.C. filings, 1965-1979, documenting the activities and responsibilities of McGeorge Bundy as President of the Ford Foundation. Files document program planning and evaluation activities, policy development, the effect of economic inflation on the Foundation, the effect of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, and the impact of affirmative action. Additional topics appearing in the records include the development of a socially responsible investment policy, the decentralization of New York City schools, a model nonprofit communications satellite system, the development of public interest policy, the relationship of the Foundation and the Federal government, and the Foundation's program activities. Major correspondents include David E. Bell, Isaiah Berlin, Merrimon Cuninggim, Howard Dressner, Fred Friendly, John W. Gardner, Harold Howe II, Bevis Longstreth, W. McNeil Lowry, Richard Magat, Lee Marks, Alan Pifer, Mitchell Sviridoff, Arthur D. Trottenberg, and F. Champion Ward.
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When Cuninggim became the Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, the institution had a growing national outlook that matched his own view of philanthropy. In 1961 Cuninggim said that he wanted to expand and develop the genuine concern which the Danforth Foundation had in regard to the national character of their educational grants. Throughout his tenure at Danforth, he consistently held this position and under his guidance, both the national reputation and influence of the foundation grew substantially as did its resources. By the time Cuninggim resigned in 1972 the Danforth Foundation had reached the rank of eighteenth in resources among the nation's 25,000 foundations.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations, counting among his clients the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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In 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Under his leadership Perkins became the first graduate school in the South to desegregate, two years before the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, 1954. This was the professional accomplishment of which Cuninggim said he was most proud.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) was a Methodist minister and university administrator. Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim was born on May 11, 1911 in Nashville, Tennessee. He died on November 1, 1995 in Cockeysville, Maryland.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
In 1976 Cuninggim became the President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, one of the oldest institutions for the education of women in the United States. He served in this capacity until 1979.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
In the early 1940s Cuninggim was a professor of religion, first at Emory and Henry College in Virginia and then at Denison University in Ohio.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
In the early 1940s Cuninggim was a professor of religion, first at Emory and Henry College in Virginia and then at Denison University in Ohio.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
In 1960 Cuninggim began what became the second accomplishment of which he was most proud. When Cuninggim became the Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, the institution had a growing national outlook that matched his own view of philanthropy. In 1961 Cuninggim said that he wanted to expand and develop the genuine concern which the Danforth Foundation had in regard to the national character of their educational grants. Throughout his tenure at Danforth, he consistently held this position and under his guidance, both the national reputation and influence of the foundation grew substantially as did its resources. By the time Cuninggim resigned in 1972 the Danforth Foundation had reached the rank of eighteenth in resources among the nation's 25,000 foundations.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) was a Methodist minister and university administrator. Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim was born on May 11, 1911 in Nashville, Tennessee. He died on November 1, 1995 in Cockeysville, Maryland.
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In 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Under his leadership Perkins became the first graduate school in the South to desegregate, two years before the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, 1954. This was the professional accomplishment of which Cuninggim said he was most proud.
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Working in higher education and philanthropy, Merrimon Cuninggim gained national recognition in both fields. His early career was as a professor at various colleges and in 1951 he became Dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He remained there until 1960 when he accepted the position of Executive Director/President of the Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1972. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation and from 1976 to 1979 served as President of Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1979 until his death in 1995 Cuninggim served as a special consultant to both colleges and foundations on management problems. In 1981 he was one of the 16 founders of the Center for Effective Philanthropy which was formed to advise foundations and other charitable institutions on effective management.
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Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) served as the dean of Perkins School of Theology from 1951 until 1960. During his tenure Dean Cuninggim oversaw the purposeful integration of the student body, making Perkins the first desegregated graduate school in the American South. In the article reprint shown here, Cuninggim relayed the story in 1956, one year after the first African American ministers completed their degrees at Perkins. On April 25, 1957, he addressed the Conference on Christian Faith and Human Relations in Nashville, Tennessee. Cuninggim’s speech, “…. To Fashion as We Feel,” directly preceded Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s keynote address: “The Role of the Church in Facing the Nation’s Chief Moral Dilemma.”
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