In Memoriam Beverly Dunston Scott,


a past vice president of the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department, died on July 11, 2011, in Windham, Vermont, in the United States, at 80 years old. Scott was president of the North American Baptist


Women’s Union from 1997-2002, president of the Lott Carey’s Women’s Auxiliary between 2001 and 2004, and a vice president of American Baptist Churches (ABC) USA from 1982-1983. She held membership on various BWA bodies, including


on its General Council, the Commission on Doctrine and Interchurch Cooperation, the Commission on Freedom and Justice, and the Christian Education and Literature Workgroup. She was part of the team that participated in the BWA


dialogues with the Mennonite World Conference from 1989-1992, and was a member of the search committee that resulted in the appointment of the current director of the BWA Women’s Department, Patsy Davis. Scott was a trustee for Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, from where she graduated in 1952. She earned a master’s degree in nursing from Yale University, a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and a doctorate in education from New York University. She served 23 years as a professor of urban planning at Rutgers University and was Professor Emeritus at Rutgers after her retirement. Her husband, James Scott, former senior pastor of


Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, was president of the Lott Carey Convention from 1982-1985 and of ABC USA from 1992-1993. He currently sits on the BWA Commission on Ministry, and chaired the BWA Congress Program Committee from 1995-2000, which helped to plan the 2000 Baptist World Congress in Melbourne, Australia. He is a former member of the BWA General Council, the Commission on Baptist Worship, the Commission on Baptist Heritage and Identify, the Human Rights Award Committee, and the World Evangelization Strategy Workgroup. In addition to her husband, James, she leaves daughters, Lindal and Kimberly. Funeral services were held at Bethany Baptist Church on


July 16. OCTOBER/DECEMBER 2011 29 Charles Walker,


pastor, musician, composer, professor and author, died August 21 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He was 76 years old. Walker, a relative of gospel music great Mahalia


Jackson, was pastor of Philadelphia’s Nineteenth Street Baptist Church for more than 30 years, retiring in October 2010. He served as recording secretary, chairman and later


as executive secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA, where he led several food and humanitarian aid missions to Ethiopia and coordinated the construction of schools, libraries and hospitals in various locations in Africa. He composed Requiem for Brother Martin, a work for


chorus and orchestra in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., several other musical compositions, and chronicled the life of gospel songwriter Lucie Campbell in the biography, Miss Lucie. He is a former member of the Baptist World Alliance Commission on Baptist Worship and the Baptist World Aid Committee. Walker is noted for his role in helping to found a black


student caucus and for leading an 18-day student protest in 1969 that resulted in the addition of more black faculty members at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in New York state. Walker graduated from DePaul University with both


a bachelor and master’s degree in music, continued his studies in piano in Paris, France, and participated in several international piano competitions throughout Europe. He accepted his call to ministry while teaching at


Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and left to attend the Colgate Rochester School of Divinity where he earned his Master of Divinity degree. He held several honorary doctorate degrees from various educational institutions and was the recipient of a number of awards. He is survived by wife, Barbara, and sons, Jason and


Pierre.


Funeral services were held August 29 at Triumph Baptist Church in Philadelphia.

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