---Influential Harlem Minister, College President and World Renown Lecturer.
Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, a preacher, educator and former pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York died at the Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, May 22, 1997. He was stricken with a heart attack while talking with students at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where he had gone to lecture. He devoted his life to serving humanity.
In 1972, Dr. Proctor succeeded the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the former congressman from the state of New York, as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, perhaps the most influential black institution in New York. Reverend Proctor held that post until 1989, when was succeeded by the Reverend Calvin Butts, III.
It has been said that Reverend Proctor, a veteran adiminstrator, refocused the church, which had been the base for Powell's move into politics,on its mission. Reverend Proctor said that during the two decades of his own tenue as pastor, the church's annual operating budget rose to more than $1 million from $146,000. In those years, he maintained a relatively low profile on public issues.
Proctor traveled the world on study and lecture tours, from India and the Far East; Israel and the Mid East; Russia and Eastern Europe; East, West and North Africa; New Zealand and the South Pacific; Canada and the Caribbean Islands.
An accomplished writer, Proctor authored several publications including: The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American Faith; The Certain Sound of the Trumpet:Crafting a Sermon of Authority; How Shall They Hear?:Preaching for Vital Faith; Samuel Proctor: My Moral Odyssey; Preaching About Crisis in the Community; Sermons from the Black Pulpit, The Young Negro in America, 1960-1980 and The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting A Sermon of Authority.
During the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Proctor was associate director of the Peace Corps (in Nigeria and the District of Columbia). He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey during the presidential campaign of 1968 and served as associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches.
Proctor held numerous positions. He began his career as pastor of Pond Street Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He served as professor at the Duke University Divinity School, Durham, Norh Carolina; teacher, dean and president of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia (1955-1960) and president of North Carolina A & T University, Greensboro, North Carolina (1960-1960).
Proctor served in administrative positions with the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Institute for Services in Education, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1964-69), and as a visiting professor of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1990-1991. In 1990, he was the Lyman Beecher lecturer at the Divinity School, Vandebilt University and from 1991-93, professor of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Proctor was a member of Sigma Pi Phi; the Supreme Council of Prince Hall Masons, Southern Jurisdiction; lifetime member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.; and Kappa Delta Pi, Laureate Chapter.
Dr. Proctor was an alumnus of Virginia Union University (1942), Crozier Seminary, and Boston University, where he earned his Doctor of Theology degree in 1950. He served on governing boards of the college Fund/UNCF, Colgate-Rochester-Crozier Theoligical Seminary, the Union Seminary of New York, the National Urban League and the Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Harvard University Divinity School. He was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus Award, Boston University; the Distinguished Service Award, State University of New York, Plattsburgh; the Rutgers Medal of Distinguished Service; and nonorary doctorates by more than 40 colleges and universities.
Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, a preacher, educator and former pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York died at the Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, May 22, 1997. He was stricken with a heart attack while talking with students at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where he had gone to lecture. He devoted his life to serving humanity.
In 1972, Dr. Proctor succeeded the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the former congressman from the state of New York, as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, perhaps the most influential black institution in New York. Reverend Proctor held that post until 1989, when was succeeded by the Reverend Calvin Butts, III.
It has been said that Reverend Proctor, a veteran adiminstrator, refocused the church, which had been the base for Powell's move into politics,on its mission. Reverend Proctor said that during the two decades of his own tenue as pastor, the church's annual operating budget rose to more than $1 million from $146,000. In those years, he maintained a relatively low profile on public issues.
Proctor traveled the world on study and lecture tours, from India and the Far East; Israel and the Mid East; Russia and Eastern Europe; East, West and North Africa; New Zealand and the South Pacific; Canada and the Caribbean Islands.
An accomplished writer, Proctor authored several publications including: The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American Faith; The Certain Sound of the Trumpet:Crafting a Sermon of Authority; How Shall They Hear?:Preaching for Vital Faith; Samuel Proctor: My Moral Odyssey; Preaching About Crisis in the Community; Sermons from the Black Pulpit, The Young Negro in America, 1960-1980 and The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting A Sermon of Authority.
During the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Proctor was associate director of the Peace Corps (in Nigeria and the District of Columbia). He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey during the presidential campaign of 1968 and served as associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches.
Proctor held numerous positions. He began his career as pastor of Pond Street Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He served as professor at the Duke University Divinity School, Durham, Norh Carolina; teacher, dean and president of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia (1955-1960) and president of North Carolina A & T University, Greensboro, North Carolina (1960-1960).
Proctor served in administrative positions with the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Institute for Services in Education, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1964-69), and as a visiting professor of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1990-1991. In 1990, he was the Lyman Beecher lecturer at the Divinity School, Vandebilt University and from 1991-93, professor of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Proctor was a member of Sigma Pi Phi; the Supreme Council of Prince Hall Masons, Southern Jurisdiction; lifetime member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.; and Kappa Delta Pi, Laureate Chapter.
Dr. Proctor was an alumnus of Virginia Union University (1942), Crozier Seminary, and Boston University, where he earned his Doctor of Theology degree in 1950. He served on governing boards of the college Fund/UNCF, Colgate-Rochester-Crozier Theoligical Seminary, the Union Seminary of New York, the National Urban League and the Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Harvard University Divinity School. He was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus Award, Boston University; the Distinguished Service Award, State University of New York, Plattsburgh; the Rutgers Medal of Distinguished Service; and nonorary doctorates by more than 40 colleges and universities.
---Influential Harlem Minister, College President and World Renown Lecturer.
Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, a preacher, educator and former pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York died at the Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, May 22, 1997. He was stricken with a heart attack while talking with students at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where he had gone to lecture. He devoted his life to serving humanity.
In 1972, Dr. Proctor succeeded the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the former congressman from the state of New York, as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, perhaps the most influential black institution in New York. Reverend Proctor held that post until 1989, when was succeeded by the Reverend Calvin Butts, III.
It has been said that Reverend Proctor, a veteran adiminstrator, refocused the church, which had been the base for Powell's move into politics,on its mission. Reverend Proctor said that during the two decades of his own tenue as pastor, the church's annual operating budget rose to more than $1 million from $146,000. In those years, he maintained a relatively low profile on public issues.
Proctor traveled the world on study and lecture tours, from India and the Far East; Israel and the Mid East; Russia and Eastern Europe; East, West and North Africa; New Zealand and the South Pacific; Canada and the Caribbean Islands.
An accomplished writer, Proctor authored several publications including: The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American Faith; The Certain Sound of the Trumpet:Crafting a Sermon of Authority; How Shall They Hear?:Preaching for Vital Faith; Samuel Proctor: My Moral Odyssey; Preaching About Crisis in the Community; Sermons from the Black Pulpit, The Young Negro in America, 1960-1980 and The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting A Sermon of Authority.
During the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Proctor was associate director of the Peace Corps (in Nigeria and the District of Columbia). He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey during the presidential campaign of 1968 and served as associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches.
Proctor held numerous positions. He began his career as pastor of Pond Street Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He served as professor at the Duke University Divinity School, Durham, Norh Carolina; teacher, dean and president of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia (1955-1960) and president of North Carolina A & T University, Greensboro, North Carolina (1960-1960).
Proctor served in administrative positions with the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Institute for Services in Education, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1964-69), and as a visiting professor of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1990-1991. In 1990, he was the Lyman Beecher lecturer at the Divinity School, Vandebilt University and from 1991-93, professor of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Proctor was a member of Sigma Pi Phi; the Supreme Council of Prince Hall Masons, Southern Jurisdiction; lifetime member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.; and Kappa Delta Pi, Laureate Chapter.
Dr. Proctor was an alumnus of Virginia Union University (1942), Crozier Seminary, and Boston University, where he earned his Doctor of Theology degree in 1950. He served on governing boards of the college Fund/UNCF, Colgate-Rochester-Crozier Theoligical Seminary, the Union Seminary of New York, the National Urban League and the Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Harvard University Divinity School. He was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus Award, Boston University; the Distinguished Service Award, State University of New York, Plattsburgh; the Rutgers Medal of Distinguished Service; and nonorary doctorates by more than 40 colleges and universities.
Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, a preacher, educator and former pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York died at the Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, May 22, 1997. He was stricken with a heart attack while talking with students at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where he had gone to lecture. He devoted his life to serving humanity.
In 1972, Dr. Proctor succeeded the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the former congressman from the state of New York, as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, perhaps the most influential black institution in New York. Reverend Proctor held that post until 1989, when was succeeded by the Reverend Calvin Butts, III.
It has been said that Reverend Proctor, a veteran adiminstrator, refocused the church, which had been the base for Powell's move into politics,on its mission. Reverend Proctor said that during the two decades of his own tenue as pastor, the church's annual operating budget rose to more than $1 million from $146,000. In those years, he maintained a relatively low profile on public issues.
Proctor traveled the world on study and lecture tours, from India and the Far East; Israel and the Mid East; Russia and Eastern Europe; East, West and North Africa; New Zealand and the South Pacific; Canada and the Caribbean Islands.
An accomplished writer, Proctor authored several publications including: The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Memoir of African-American Faith; The Certain Sound of the Trumpet:Crafting a Sermon of Authority; How Shall They Hear?:Preaching for Vital Faith; Samuel Proctor: My Moral Odyssey; Preaching About Crisis in the Community; Sermons from the Black Pulpit, The Young Negro in America, 1960-1980 and The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting A Sermon of Authority.
During the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Proctor was associate director of the Peace Corps (in Nigeria and the District of Columbia). He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey during the presidential campaign of 1968 and served as associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches.
Proctor held numerous positions. He began his career as pastor of Pond Street Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He served as professor at the Duke University Divinity School, Durham, Norh Carolina; teacher, dean and president of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia (1955-1960) and president of North Carolina A & T University, Greensboro, North Carolina (1960-1960).
Proctor served in administrative positions with the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Institute for Services in Education, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1964-69), and as a visiting professor of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1990-1991. In 1990, he was the Lyman Beecher lecturer at the Divinity School, Vandebilt University and from 1991-93, professor of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Proctor was a member of Sigma Pi Phi; the Supreme Council of Prince Hall Masons, Southern Jurisdiction; lifetime member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.; and Kappa Delta Pi, Laureate Chapter.
Dr. Proctor was an alumnus of Virginia Union University (1942), Crozier Seminary, and Boston University, where he earned his Doctor of Theology degree in 1950. He served on governing boards of the college Fund/UNCF, Colgate-Rochester-Crozier Theoligical Seminary, the Union Seminary of New York, the National Urban League and the Overseers' Visiting Committee for the Harvard University Divinity School. He was awarded the Outstanding Alumnus Award, Boston University; the Distinguished Service Award, State University of New York, Plattsburgh; the Rutgers Medal of Distinguished Service; and nonorary doctorates by more than 40 colleges and universities.
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