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Samuel F. Scott
First Director of
the Norfolk Unit of Virginia Union University
3 years of active
service ~ September 1935 – Summer 1938
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Mr. Samuel Fischer Scott was a native of Portsmouth,
Virginia and a former professor at Virginia Union University.
At the time of his appointment as Director of the Norfolk
Unit of Virginia Union University in 1935, he was a
social worker serving on the staff of the Emergency
Relief Bureau in New York City; he served until 1938.
Virginia Union University awarded him the honorary degree
of Doctor of Humane Letters in May 1987. The following
excerpt was taken from The History of Norfolk State
University 1935-1938 by Samuel Fischer Scott and
Constance J. Spencer ( a student from the first class):
The October 11, 1984 issue of The Virginia Pilot,
“Norfolk Compass” titled an article referring to Samuel
Scott, ‘FIRST NSU HEAD GETS NAME ON NEW DORM’
and related:
Samuel F.
Scott, who in 1935 started from scratch the school that
became Norfolk State University, was honored recently
when the University’s Board of Visitors named a new
men’s dormitory for him. As the first director
of Norfolk State, which was started as a branch of Virginia
Union University in Richmond, Scott helped to recruit
students from churches, schools, homes and any place
else they could be found. |
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