Rooks, Charles Shelby, 1924-2001 (Personal Name)

Not the same as: Rooks, Charles S. (Charles Stanley) [n 00140216]

The hopeful spirit, c1987: CIP t.p. (Charles Shelby Rooks) info. from pub. (b. 10/19/24; minister; foundation exec.; seminary president)

United Church of Christ, Aug. 15, 2014 (The Rev. Charles Shelby Rooks, an influential leader in the United Church of Christ and in the African-American religious community, died Saturday, May 19, 2001, at Sentara General Hospital in Norfolk, Va., from complications following heart surgery. As president of Chicago Theological Seminary from 1974 to 1984, he was the first African American to lead a predominantly white theological school. Earlier, he had headed the Fund for Theological Education, Princeton, N.J., and had been pastor of Lincoln Memorial Temple UCC in Washington, D.C. Rooks was born Oct. 19, 1924, in Beaufort, N.C. Following military service, Rooks earned a B.A. degree from Virginia State University in 1949 and an M. Div. degree in 1953 from Union Theological Seminary in New York. He did additional graduate study at Columbia University Teachers College in New York, England's Mansfield College of Oxford University, The North American College in Rome, Italy, and the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. He held honorary degrees from nine institutions) http://www.ucc.org/ucnews/jun01/ucc-leader-charles-shelby.html