Merrimon Cuninggim
| Merrimon Cuninggim | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 11, 1911 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | November 1, 1995 Cockeysville, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Clergyman, university administrator |
| Spouse(s) | Annie Whitty Daniel Cuninggim |
| Children | Lee Neff Cuninggim Penny Cuninggim |
| Parent(s) |
Jesse Lee Cuninggim Maud Merrimon Cuninggim |
| Relatives | Margaret Cuninggim (sister) |
Merrimon Cuninggim (1911–1995) was a Methodist minister and university administrator.
Merrimon Cuninggim was born on May 11, 1911 in Nashville, Tennessee. 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. 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.
In the 1940s, Cuninggim was Professor of Religion at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia and later at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. During the Second World War, he served as a chaplain in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. From 1946 to 1951, he was Professor of Religion at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
From 1951 to 1960, Cuninggim served as Dean of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. During his tenure, in 1952, he successfully led the drive to racially integrate, making it the first desegregated graduate school in the American South.
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