| Name |
Roger Kenton Williams [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] |
| Title |
Dr. |
| Born |
18 Feb 1914
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA  [ 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
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| Gender |
Male |
| Physical Description |
Complexion: Dark Brown; EyeColor: Brown; HairColor: Black; Height: 5 5; Weight: 195 [4] |
| Education |
PhD in Psychology [15, 16] |
| Residence |
1920
Ward 8, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 13]
– Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Son |
| Celebrate Birthday |
12 Jan 1923
149 Balm, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 17]
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| Newspaper Clipping |
1 Mar 1924
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 18]
– Wickersham School Visits the Telegraph Newspaper Plant --1 Mar 1924 |
| Residence |
1930
132 North Linden, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 12]
– Age: 16; AbleToSpeakEnglish: Yes; AttendedSchool: Yes; CanReadWrite: Yes; EnumerationDistrict: 0038; RegistrationDistrict: 0038; Single MaritalStatus: Single; Son RelationToHead: Son |
| Musician |
18 Dec 1930
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 19]
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| Education |
1931
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 14]
– John Harris High School |
| EducationYearbook |
1931
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 14]
– John Harris High School |
| Musician |
3 Jan 1931
Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA [ 20]
– John Harris High Pupils -Head Pianist Roger Kenton Williams Perform on Radio _3 Jan 1931 |
| Religious |
29 Jan 1931
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 21]
– Bethel AME Church to Observe Founder's Day. Roger Kenton Williams participates in Bethel AME celebration. |
| Residence |
1935
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 10]
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| Musician |
2 Feb 1935
Claflin College, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA [ 22]
– C.B. Kettering of NYC Recorded Roger Kenton Williams at Claflin _2 Feb 1935 |
| Graduation |
1936
Claflin College, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
– Bachelor's of Sociology from Claflin College |
| Job |
1937
Claflin College, Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
– Counselor & French Instructor at Claflin College |
| Residence |
1940
132 North Linden, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 4, 10]
– Age: 26; AttendedSchool: Yes; CityWard: 8; EmploymentCode: 6; EmploymentDetails: School; EmploymentHistory: No; EnumerationDistrict: 22-43; GradeCompleted: College, 5th or subsequent year; Income: 25; IncomeOtherSources: No; IsEmployed: No; LanguageSpoken: English; PublicEmergencyWork: No; SeekingWork: No; TempAbsent: Yes; UsualClassOfWorker: Wage or salary worker in private work; UsualIndustry: College; UsualOccupation: Teacher; UsualOccupationCode: V10 98 1; WeeksWorked: 0; Single MaritalStatus: Single; Son RelationToHead: Son |
| Job |
1940
Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA
– North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College |
| Military Draft |
16 Oct 1940
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 4]
– Age: 26 |
| Residence |
1942
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 8]
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| Military Enlistment |
– 28 Age: 28 |
| Petty Officer |
10 Jul 1942
321 Chestnut, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA [ 23]
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| Wedding Announcement |
10 Jul 1942
Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 23]
– Marriage of Roger Kenton and Beryl Warner Williams |
| Military Discharge |
19 Oct 1945
– Chief Yeoman Roger Kenton Williams Discharged From US Coast Guard _16 Oct 1945 |
| Job |
1947
Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA [ 7]
– Director of Veterans Guidance Center at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College |
| Residence |
25 Apr 1950
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 5]
– 36 Age: 36 |
| Newspaper Clipping |
14 Apr 1955
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 15]
– Morgan Set For Opening of Chemistry and Physics Building Dr. Roger K Williams Presiding_14 Apr 1955 |
| Youth Problem Workshop Set |
18 Jun 1955
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 25]
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| Residence |
1956
Maryland, USA [ 9]
– 42 Age: 42 |
| Morgan Study Grants Pass $200,000 Mark |
27 Nov 1958
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 26]
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| Challenges To Psychology Is Subject Of Address |
10 May 1962
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 27]
– Panel moderator |
| Acting Graduate Dean at Morgan State |
22 Aug 1968
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 28]
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| Appointed Morgan Vice President |
29 Oct 1971
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 29]
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| Last Known Residence |
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 9]
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| Military Enlistment |
MilitaryServiceBranch: NAVY [11] |
| PictureBox |
472,462,1923,1293 [14] |
| Job |
29 Oct 1971
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 16]
– Dr Williams Appointed Morgan Vice-President _29 Oct 1971 |
| Promotion At Morgan |
5 Nov 1971
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 30]
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| Race |
Black [4] |
| Race |
Negro [10, 12] |
| Veteran |
WWII: Chief Yeoman US Coast Guard [24] |
| Yearbook Photo |
1657,2117,2079,2695 [7] |
| Yearbook Photo |
Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina [7] |
| Name |
Kent |
| Residence |
1989
4905 The Alameda, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 6]
– Ph.D. in Psychology |
| Social Security Number |
212-38-0609 [9, 10, 11] |
| Died |
15 Sep 1989
Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [ 2, 6, 9, 11]
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| Buried |
201 South 30th, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [ 1, 2]
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| Notes |
- An Autobiographical Sketch of Dr. Roger Kenton Williams
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as the youngest son of the four children of James Henry and Carrie (Scott) Williams, Roger Kenton Williams grew up in the state's capital where his father was well known as an elementary school teacher for 35 years. "Kent" was, in his high school years, the leader of a Boy Scout Troop whose members still talk of those days of scouting and learning. Graduating from Edison Junior High School and later John Harris Senior High School, he was known for his piano playing. At his fifteenth high school reunion, a classmate spoke of his playing during the high school lunch period. He also played summers with a local Alabama Aces in towns in Pennsylvania. He was encouraged by his parents, during the Depression, to go to Orangeburg, South Carolina, where his brother was in college and his sister was teaching at South Carolina State College. He, however, entered Claflin College, later graduating in Sociology. He also did a senior piano recital. During his college years he formed a small Jazz band which performed wherever it could. He also played for the college choir under Dr. Eva Jessye, and, he had joined her as requested, might have performed for Porgy and Bess. He was asked to remain at Claflin as a teacher-counselor, having substituted in classes there before he graduated.
Although he had been trained in Piano by the Oviedo Brothers at the Horace Pritchett at Claflin, he decided to go to Pennsylvania State University to major in Psychology, and received an M.S. degree in 1940, planning to remain thereafter to complete a doctorate for which he had already commenced work. He obtained a position, however, at the Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In 1942 he married Beryl Warner whom he had met at South Carolina at Claflin where she had come to teach five years before. Shortly afterward he enlisted (by gentle pressure from the Navy-U.S. Coast Guard) as a morale officer because of his academic standing and competence in psychology and was stationed at the recruiting office in Philadelphia. He was subsequently transferred to the Manhattan Beach School in New York and finally transferred to "overseas" duty in Puerto Rico. Their son, Scott Warner Williams, was born at the United States Marine Hospital on Staten Island while he was at Manhattan Beach.
Having worked intermittently on his doctoral research, he secured an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy-U.S. Coast Guard in 1945 and went immediately to Penn State where he completed the doctorate in 1946. He then moved his family to Greensboro, North Carolina.
In 1948 at the invitation of Dr. D. O. W. Holmes of Morgan State College, who had sent his expected successor, Dr. Martin D. Jenkins on a recruiting trip to Greensboro, Dr. Roger K. Williams was invited to Morgan State University (then College) to set up a department of Psychology. He has remained at Morgan State since that time. Here he served under three presidents and two interim administrations. Listed among his accomplishments as a teacher are the thousands of students he taught, many of whom went on to the master's degree or the doctorate, numerous studies that he did for the college/university, his one year's "leave" in thirty-five years during which he was director of a campus project for high ability students, his writing (with Beryl Williams) *How to Take Tests* which was used as a counseling tool for entering freshmen at Morgan State for many years, his work in administration as acting Dean of the Graduate School, as Vice President for Academic Affairs, as Vice President for Planning and Operations Analysis, and his returning as a Professor of Psychology again at his request in these last crucial years at Morgan State. On campus he has served on many committees, often as chairman or secretary. He was instrumental in bringing Psi Chi, the honors society in Psychology to the campus. He traveled and accompanied many students to be participants in the Eastern College Science Conference and Beta Kappa Chi and saw a number of them successful participants and winners in the regional or national competitions.
In the community he has served with a number of committees and is currently president of the Wilson Park Improvement Association. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and a Life Member of the NAACP.
He has published in the Journal of Negro Education and the American Psychologist. He is featured by chapters in Even the Rat Was White, a joint study by Frisk and Howard University professors of pioneering Black psychologists, and in Dr. Carroll Miller's (Department of Higher Education at Howard University), Role Model Blacks (1982) as an inspiration to high school and college/university youth and faculty. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and its various branches; the Maryland Psychological Association, Beta Kappa Chi, American Association of University Professors, the Maryland State Teachers Association and N.E.A.
Students, past and present, speak of "Doc" with great admiration, respect, and affection and often named their research rabbits or hamsters "Roger K." He is known as a patient, innovative and thorough teacher who gave untold hours to the profession, as a counselor to students, their spouses and families, and as a person of great trust.
It is a tribute to his that their son, Dr. Scott Warner Williams, associate professor of Mathematics at the University of Buffalo, received in 1982, a citation "The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching" from the Chancellor of the State University of New York, "in recognition of exemplary teaching and significant contribution to institutional quality in instruction."
Among Dr. Roger K. Williams citations and plaques are:
Morgan State Student Government Award as Distinguished Teacher of the Year, 1966-1967
Centennial Alumni Award in citation for contribution to the Field of Psychology from Claflin College, 1969
Morgan State Psychological Society and Psi Chi Salute for outstanding service, 1948-1972
Morgan State General Alumni Award for 25 years of service, 1973
Morgan State Service Award from Psi Chi Honors Society, 1973
Mr. Williams has one sister, Ms. Olivia J. Williams, a cousin, Mrs. Martha Scott Fields, and two grandchildren, Rachael Keri ("R.K.") and Rebekah Ann Williams.
His wife, Dr. Beryl E. Warner Williams, retired from Morgan State University in 1981.
Obituary
"Dr. Roger K. Williams, a distinguished professor at Morgan State University, has passed away at the age of 75 due to cancer. He died at his home on The Alameda. Dr. Williams set up the psychology department at Morgan State University and, after his retirement in 1983, he continued to serve as a professor emeritus for about four years. He initially joined the Morgan faculty in 1948, serving as the chairman of the psychology department, acting dean of the graduate school, vice president for academic affairs, and vice president for planning and operations analysis. He was instrumental in assisting many students with research programs for competitions held by the Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Beta Kappa Chi, and the Maryland Psychological Association.
Dr. Williams was an esteemed member of several professional organizations, including the American and Maryland Psychological Associations, the American Association of University Professors, the Maryland State Teachers Association, the National Education Association, and Beta Kappa Chi.
His academic journey began after graduating with honors in 1936 from Clafin College in Orangeburg, S.C. He continued there as a counselor and French teacher until 1939, after which he pursued graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining a master's degree in psychology. His teaching career spanned from 1940 to 1942 at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro.
During World War II, Dr. Williams served in the Coast Guard and achieved the rank of chief petty officer, performing as a morale officer. After the war, he returned to Penn State and received a doctorate in 1946. He then returned to the faculty of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College.
A resident of The Alameda since 1952, he was a former president of the Wilson Park Improvement Association and a life member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was also a member of the Milton Avenue United Methodist Church, where he served as an adult leader in the Boy Scouts.
Dr. Williams was married for 47 years to Beryl E. Warner, a retired dean who was continuing studies at Morgan, and is survived by his son, Dr. Scott Warner Williams, a professor of mathematics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Additionally, he is survived by his sister, Olive J. Williams of Baltimore; and three granddaughters."
The obituary for Dr. Roger K. Williams, a Morgan Professor, was published in *The Baltimore Sun* on September 21, 1989.
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I33
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