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OBITUARY
Albert N Whiting
3 July, 1917 – 4 June, 2020
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Chancellor Emeritus Whiting served the university from July 1, 1967, to June 30, 1983. He was named chancellor emeritus upon retirement on June 30, 1983.
He was born to the late Hezekiah Oliver and Hilda Frieda Lyons Whiting in Navesink, N.J., on July 3, 1917.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting earned his undergraduate degree from Amherst College, a master's degree from Fisk University and his Ph.D. in sociology from American University.
He served his country as a soldier and First Lieutenant, Company Commander in the U.S. Army, from 1943 to 1946.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was married to the late Lottie Luck Whiting, who passed in 2004, on June 10, 1950, in Danville, Va., and was the father of Dr. Brooke Whiting and his adopted daughter, Dr. Lila Ammons.
His university appointments included serving as professor of sociology at Bennett College and Atlanta University, now Clark Atlanta University, and dean of the faculty at Morris Brown College.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting came to Durham from Morgan State College (now Morgan State University), where he served first as Assistant Dean of the College from 1957 to 1959 and then as Dean of the College from 1959 to 1967. During this time, he served on the State of Maryland’s Commission on Criminal Sentencing and the Maryland Commission for New York World’s Fair. He, also, served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Administration and Organization for the Citizens School Advisory Committee.
He was elected president of North Carolina College at Durham by the Board of Trustees on July 20, 1966, and assumed his duties in July 1967. Under his leadership, North Carolina College became North Carolina Central University, added its fifth school, the School of Business in 1972, and increased enrollment. His tenure was also responsible for the creation of new academic programs, including criminal justice, public administration, elementary education, jazz and music. He welcomed President Gerald R. Ford to campus in 1975. Upon his arrival, the institution’s enrollment was more than 3,000 students, and by the time he retired in 1983, the enrollment had grown to over 5,000 students.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting has been referred to as a “builder” of the institution. As president and chancellor, he oversaw substantial growth of the physical plant that included 12 buildings. His most ambitious project was the erection of a four-building physical education complex, as well as the construction of Eagleson Hall, the Alfonso Elder Student Union and the annex to James E. Shepard Memorial Library. Additionally, a new chancellor’s residence was constructed in Emorywoods in 1974, at 3,293 square feet.
In a 2010, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting remarked about militancy and student protests he saw as challenges to his tenure, stating: “I believed in student rights in the governance of the school, so I tried to accommodate as much as possible without damaging the university.”
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was the first leader to initiate a major fundraising campaign to create a university endowment, and he helped establish the NCCU Foundation, Inc. When he arrived at NCCU, the operating budget was $5.5 million; it had risen to $34 million by 1983, the year he retired. Chancellor Emeritus Whiting created the Office of Development and Public Relations, which later became the Office of Institutional Advancement. He was a strong advocate of faculty development and established collaborative programs with the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin to help NCCU faculty obtain doctorate degrees.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was an active member of the community. On December 15, 1969, he was one of only two African Americans approved and admitted to become members of the Durham Rotary Club. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Inc. He founded the first member Boule in North Carolina and is considered “The Father of the Member Boules” in North Carolina. While serving at NCCU, he was a communicant at St. Titus Episcopal Church.
After retiring from NCCU, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting relocated to Columbia, Md. There he served on the Maryland Higher Education Commission and the University of Maryland’s Board of Regents and the Board of Directors for the University of Maryland’s Hospital System, until his final retirement.
He maintained a strong connection to NCCU following his retirement, and in 1988, he served as the Founder’s Day speaker. The Albert N. Whiting Criminal Justice Building, dedicated on November 3, 1989, bears his name. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from NCCU on May 15, 1983, and was presented with the James E. Shepard Medallion during the Centennial of North Carolina Central University in 2010. On July 3, 2017, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was recognized for the centennial of his birth by the university, faculty and alumni.
In lieu of flowers, the family desires that contributions are made to the NCCU Foundation, Inc., to support the Albert N. Whiting Endowment. You can donate online at: https://www.nccu.edu/institutional-advancement/giving-online. Checks can be made payable and mailed to: NCCU Foundation, Inc., 1801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC, 27707; please write Albert N. Whiting Endowment (account #40133) on the memo line of the check. For more information on Ways to Give, visit: https://www.nccu.edu/institutional-advancement/ways-give.
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Dr Albert Nathaniel Whiting
- Birth
- Navesink, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
- Death
- 4 Jun 2020 (aged 102)Columbia, Howard County, Maryland, USA
- Burial
- Cremated
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He was born to the late Hezekiah Oliver and Hilda Frieda Lyons Whiting in Navesink, N.J., on July 3, 1917. Chancellor Emeritus Whiting earned his undergraduate degree from Amherst College, a master's degree from Fisk University and his Ph.D. in sociology from American University.
He served his country as a soldier and First Lieutenant, Company Commander in the U.S. Army, from 1943 to 1946.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was married to the late Lottie Luck Whiting, who passed in 2004, on June 10, 1950, in Danville, Va., and was the father of Dr. Brooke Whiting and his adopted daughter, Dr. Lila Ammons.
His university appointments included serving as professor of sociology at Bennett College and Atlanta University, now Clark Atlanta University, and dean of the faculty at Morris Brown College. Chancellor Emeritus Whiting came to Durham from Morgan State College (now Morgan State University), where he served first as Assistant Dean of the College from 1957 to 1959 and then as Dean of the College from 1959 to 1967.
During this time, he served on the State of Maryland’s Commission on Criminal Sentencing and the Maryland Commission for New York World’s Fair. He, also, served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Administration and Organization for the Citizens School Advisory Committee.
He was elected president of North Carolina College at Durham by the Board of Trustees on July 20, 1966, and assumed his duties in July 1967. Under his leadership, North Carolina College became North Carolina Central University, added its fifth school, the School of Business in 1972, and increased enrollment.
His tenure was also responsible for the creation of new academic programs, including criminal justice, public administration, elementary education, jazz and music.
He welcomed President Gerald R. Ford to campus in 1975. Upon his arrival, the institution’s enrollment was more than 3,000 students, and by the time he retired in 1983, the enrollment had grown to over 5,000 students.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting has been referred to as a “builder” of the institution. As president and chancellor, he oversaw substantial growth of the physical plant that included 12 buildings. His most ambitious project was the erection of a four-building physical education complex, as well as the construction of Eagleson Hall, the Alfonso Elder Student Union and the annex to James E. Shepard Memorial Library.
Additionally, a new chancellor’s residence was constructed in Emorywoods in 1974, at 3,293 square feet. In a 2010, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting remarked about militancy and student protests he saw as challenges to his tenure, stating: “I believed in student rights in the governance of the school, so I tried to accommodate as much as possible without damaging the university.”
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was the first leader to initiate a major fundraising campaign to create a university endowment, and he helped establish the NCCU Foundation, Inc. When he arrived at NCCU, the operating budget was $5.5 million; it had risen to $34 million by 1983, the year he retired.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting created the Office of Development and Public Relations, which later became the Office of Institutional Advancement. He was a strong advocate of faculty development and established collaborative programs with the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin to help NCCU faculty obtain doctorate degrees.
Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was an active member of the community. On December 15, 1969, he was one of only two African Americans approved and admitted to become members of the Durham Rotary Club.
He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Inc. He founded the first member Boule in North Carolina and is considered “The Father of the Member Boules” in North Carolina.
While serving at NCCU, he was a communicant at St. Titus Episcopal Church. After retiring from NCCU, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting relocated to Columbia, Md. There he served on the Maryland Higher Education Commission and the University of Maryland’s Board of Regents and the Board of Directors for the University of Maryland’s Hospital System, until his final retirement.
He maintained a strong connection to NCCU following his retirement, and in 1988, he served as the Founder’s Day speaker. The Albert N. Whiting Criminal Justice Building, dedicated on November 3, 1989, bears his name. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from NCCU on May 15, 1983, and was presented with the James E. Shepard Medallion during the Centennial of North Carolina Central University in 2010.
On July 3, 2017, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was recognized for the centennial of his birth by the university, faculty and alumni. In lieu of flowers, the family desires that contributions are made to the NCCU Foundation, Inc., to support the Albert N. Whiting Endowment.
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Albert N. Whiting (Al) (d)
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Albert N. Whiting (Al) (d)
Amherst
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- 1938
Graduation Year
- 1938
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- History; Political Science
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In Memory
Albert Nathaniel Whiting, the last surviving member of the class of 1938, and the person who is believed to have been the oldest surviving Amherst alumni, passed away on June 4, 2020, in Columbia, Md. He was 102.
Albert Whiting was born to Hilda and Hezekiah Whiting on July 3, 1917, in Jersey City, N.J. After graduating from Amherst College, Albert earned a master’s degree from Fisk University and a doctorate degree in sociology from American University.
During World War II, Albert served his country as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He married Lottie Luck Whiting on June 10, 1950, in Danville, Va., and was the father of Dr. Brooke Whiting and his adopted daughter, Dr. Lila Ammons.
Dr. Whiting served as a professor of sociology at Bennett College and Atlanta University and as faculty dean at Morris Brown College. He also served as assistant dean of Morgan State College from 1957 to 1959, and then as dean from 1959 to 1967.
Dr. Whiting was elected president of North Carolina College at Durham on July 20, 1966, and assumed his duties in July 1967. Under his leadership, North Carolina College became North Carolina Central University (NCCU). During his tenure, first as president and beginning in 1972 as chancellor, North Carolina Central University added its fifth school, the School of Business in 1972, and increased enrollment. Upon his arrival, the institution’s enrollment was a little more than 3,000 students. By the time Dr. Whiting retired in 1983, the enrollment had grown to more than 5,000 students.
Albert Whiting was called the “builder” of North Carolina Central University. As president and chancellor, he oversaw substantial growth of the physical plant that included 12 buildings. His most ambitious project was the construction of a four-building physical education complex, as well as the construction of Eagleson Hall, the Alfonso Elder Student Union and the annex to James E. Shepard Memorial Library.
Chancellor Whiting initiated the first major fundraising campaign aimed at creating a university endowment for North Carolina Central University. He also helped to establish the NCCU Foundation, Inc. When Chancellor Whiting arrived at NCCU, the operating budget was $5.5 million. When he retired in 1983, it had risen to $34 million.
After retiring from NCCU, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting relocated to Columbia, Md. There he served on the University of Maryland’s Board of Regents and the Board of Directors for the University of Maryland’s hospital system.
However, in his retirement, he also maintained a strong connection to NCCU. In 1988, he returned to serve as the Founder’s Day speaker and, on Nov. 3, 1989, the Albert N. Whiting Criminal Justice Building was dedicated in his honor. On July 3, 2017, Chancellor Emeritus Whiting was recognized by the entire NCCU community on the centennial of his birth.
Albert Whiting’s wife, Lottie, passed away in 2004. He is survived by his daughters, Brooke and Lila.
As for his continuing connection with his college alma mater, Albert Nathaniel Whiting was the recipient of an honorary degree from Amherst College in 1968. Also, in the Spring 2012 edition of Amherst, as he was approaching his 95th birthday, the Class Notes reported that “Al Whiting has crafted a riveting memoir of his Amherst days as one of only two African-Americans in our class. The faculty treated him well, but he recalls fraternities shunning blacks and he became a founder of the independent Lord Jeffery Amherst Club. After college, as an army officer in WWII, and later, he and his family suffered repeated episodes of racial discrimination, which he narrates vividly. But he has warm memories of Religious Professor Jim Cleland, his faculty adviser. Years later, Al and Cleland, who became dean of the chapel at Duke University, enjoyed fellow membership in the Watauga Club, composed of distinguished North Carolinians.”
Everett “Skip” Jenkins ’75
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