Cuninggim, Merrimon, 1911-1995

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.

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