| 词条 | Merrimon Cuninggim |
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| name =Merrimon Cuninggim | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = May 11, 1911 | birth_place = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | death_date = November 1, 1995 | death_place = Cockeysville, Maryland, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation =Clergyman, university administrator | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse =Annie Whitty Daniel Cuninggim | children =Lee Neff Cuninggim Penny Cuninggim | parents =Jesse Lee Cuninggim Maud Merrimon Cuninggim | relatives =Margaret Cuninggim (sister) | box_width = }} Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) was a Methodist minister and university administrator. Early lifeMerrimon Cuninggim was born on May 11, 1911 in Nashville, Tennessee.[1][2] His father, Jesse Lee Cuninggim, was a Methodist minister who moved Scarritt College from Kansas City, Missouri to Nashville, and later taught at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.[2] His mother was Maud Merrimon Cuninggim. His sister, Margaret Cuninggim, served as Dean of Women at the University of Tennessee and later at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Cuninggim graduated from Vanderbilt University and went on to earn a Master's degree in English from Duke University, followed by a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in History from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Divinity and a PhD in Education from Yale University.[1][2] CareerIn the 1940s, Cuninggim was Professor of Religion at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia and later at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.[2] During the Second World War, he served as a chaplain in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.[2] From 1946 to 1951, he was Professor of Religion at Pomona College in Claremont, California.[2] From 1951 to 1960, Cuninggim served as Dean of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.[1][3] During his tenure, in 1952, he successfully led the drive to racially integrate, making it the first desegregated graduate school in the American South.[1][4] Cuninggim served as the Executive Director of the Danforth Foundation from 1960 to 1973.[1] Later, Cuninggim also served as the President of Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1976 to 1979.[1][2] He also served on the Boards of Trustees of his alma mater, Vanderbilt University and Duke University.[1] Cuninggim founded The Center for Effective Philanthropy in 1979.[1] From 1979 to his death in 1995, he was a consultant for the Duke Endowment, the Lilly Endowment, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.[2] He also served as a consultant for the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University, named in honor of his sister.[2] TennisCuninggim was a ranked tennis player who competed at Wimbledon and Forest Hills.[1] At Pomona College, he was both the tennis coach and the chairman of the Religious Department.[1] Personal life and deathCuninggim was married to Annie Whitty Daniel.[1][2] They had three daughters, Lee Neff, Terry and Peneloppe Cuninggim.[1][2] He died on November 1, 1995 in Cockeysville, Maryland.[1][2] Bibliography
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Robert McG. Thomas, Jr., [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/05/nyregion/merrimon-cuninggim-84-minister-and-educator.html Merrimon Cuninggim, 84, Minister and Educator], The New York Times, November 5, 1995 {{s-start}}{{s-aca}}{{succession box2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Merrimon Cuninggim Papers, 1939-1997 3. ^Southern Methodist University: Perkins School of Theology:History 4. ^Civil Rights Digital Library | before=John H. Chandler | title=President of Salem College | years=1976—1979 | after=Richard L. Morrill }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cuninggim, Merrimon}} 13 : 1911 births|1995 deaths|People from Nashville, Tennessee|Vanderbilt University alumni|Duke University alumni|Alumni of Merton College, Oxford|Emory and Henry College faculty|Denison University faculty|Southern Methodist University faculty|American university and college presidents|American Methodists|Yale Divinity School alumni|American Rhodes Scholars |
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