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Augustus Merrimon Cuninggim (Rhodes 1933)

Foundation Advisor. Ministry. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford.

1994 - Published, Uneasy Partners: the College & the Church.[4]

1991 - Published, Letters to a Foundation Trustee: What We Need to Know About Foundations and Their Management.[4]

1979 - Published, Church-Related Higher Education (with others).[4]

From 1979 to his death - Consultant for the Duke Endowment, the Lilly Endowment, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Association of Goverering Board of Universities and Colleges, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.[4] Also served as a consultant for the Margart Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University, named in honor of his sister.

1979 - Founded The Center for Effective Philanthropy, an advisory group on foundation management.[3] (on of sixteen founders[4]) 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.[4. 1981 also referenced.] Early support grants came from the Carnegie Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Rockefeller foundation.[4]

1976 to 1979 - President, Salem College in North Carolina.[3][4]

1973 to 1975 - he worked as an advisor/consultant to the Ford Foundation. McGeorge Bundy [S&B 1940], 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.”[4]

1973, as executive director of the Danforth Foundation, established in St. Louis by members of the Ralston Purina family, Mr. Cuninggim resigned rather than acquiesce to what he perceived as a conflict of interest: a $60 million grant to Washington University at a time when one man, William Danforth, was serving as chairman of the foundation and chancellor of the university.[3]

1972 - Published, Private Money and Public Service: The Role of the Foundation in American Society

1966 to 1972 - President of Danforth Foundation. Mr. Cuninggim, who had helped make Danforth the nation’s leading foundation in direct grants to higher education during his 13 years there.[3][4]

1961 - Published, The Protestant Stake in Higher Education.[4]

1958 - Published, Christianity & Communism (with others).[4]

1955 - Published, Freedom’s Holy Light.[4]

1952 - Successfully led the drive to racially integrate, making it the first desegregated graduate school in the American South.[3] Two years before the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, 1954.[4]

1951 to 1960 - Dean of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.[4]

1948 - Published, The College Seeks Religion.[4]

1946 to 1951 - Professor of Religion at Pomona College, Claremont, California.[4]

WW2, 1944 to 1946 - Served as chaplain in the U.S. Navy.[4]

1940s - Professor of Religion at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia and later at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.[4]

1939 - Began Studies at Yale University (B.D. and Ph.D.) in Religion and Education. Phi Beta Kappa.[4]

1939 - Married Annie Whitty Daniels.

1939 - Director of Religious Studies, Duke University.[4]

Reached the quaterfinals in Wimbledon.[4]

From 1933 to ? - Rhodes Scholar, Merton College, University of Oxford.[1] (BA / MA, Diploma in Theology)

Duke University (MA).[4]

Vanderbilt University, Nashville.[4]