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Donald J. Maccallum
Posted 10/26/06
The Rev. Donald J. Maccallum, 84 HAMPTON, N.H. - The Rev. Donald J. Maccallum of Hampton died peacefully Saturday, Oct. 21,2006, in the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers, Mass. He was 84. Mr. …
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Donald J. Maccallum
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The Rev. Donald J. Maccallum, 84
HAMPTON, N.H. - The Rev. Donald J. Maccallum of Hampton died peacefully Saturday, Oct. 21,2006, in the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers, Mass. He was 84.
Mr. Maccallum was born April 10, 1922, in Cambridge, Mass., son of the late Dugald and Kate Maccallum.
He grew up in Arlington, Mass., and attended Tufts University, Harvard Divinity School and the Pacific School of Religion in Berkley, Calif. He attended Andover-Newton Theological School and received his doctorate in 1990.
Mr. Maccallum had an interesting career. He became an ordained minister in 1946. He served churches in California and Winchester, Mass. He was the minister of the Belleville Church in Newburyport in the early 1950s and then went to Dover, Del., as minister of People's Congregational Church in 1961.
In 1967, he initiated the merger of the United Church of Christ and United Presbyterian congregations in Rockville, Md., and established the United Church Center for Community Ministries, which he directed for five years. It was probably the first in the U.S. to be a community ministry aimed at bringing ecumenical social concerns to bear on the policies and programs of local governments and also developing ecumenical services to meeting community needs.
Mr. Maccallum became deeply involved with the problems of juvenile delinquency and drug abuse during his directorship, and in 1971 he was appointed director of the newly legislated Montgomery County Office of Drug Control in Maryland.
His academic experience included extensive study of criminology at the University of Maryland Graduate School and drug abuse studies at San Francisco State College.
Many of Mr. Maccallum's articles have been published in church journals and his lectures on drug issues were published by Montgomery College. He taught several community services courses there and gave many lectures and presentations, particularly in relation to youth problems and drug abuse issues.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his former wife, Alyce Maccallum Courtney, in 1998.
He is survived by a daughter, Priscilla Maccallum of Hampton; a son and a daughter-in-law, Victor and Barbara Maccallum of Glen Burnie, Md.; a sister and a brother-in-law, Susan and Richard Erickson; two nieces and their families, Sheila Pichette and Lisa Barretto; and family in Canada and England.
Celebration of life services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in Exeter Congregational Church, Exeter, N.H.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Exeter Congregational Church or the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers.
HAMPTON, N.H. - The Rev. Donald J. Maccallum of Hampton died peacefully Saturday, Oct. 21,2006, in the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers, Mass. He was 84.
Mr. Maccallum was born April 10, 1922, in Cambridge, Mass., son of the late Dugald and Kate Maccallum.
He grew up in Arlington, Mass., and attended Tufts University, Harvard Divinity School and the Pacific School of Religion in Berkley, Calif. He attended Andover-Newton Theological School and received his doctorate in 1990.
Mr. Maccallum had an interesting career. He became an ordained minister in 1946. He served churches in California and Winchester, Mass. He was the minister of the Belleville Church in Newburyport in the early 1950s and then went to Dover, Del., as minister of People's Congregational Church in 1961.
In 1967, he initiated the merger of the United Church of Christ and United Presbyterian congregations in Rockville, Md., and established the United Church Center for Community Ministries, which he directed for five years. It was probably the first in the U.S. to be a community ministry aimed at bringing ecumenical social concerns to bear on the policies and programs of local governments and also developing ecumenical services to meeting community needs.
Mr. Maccallum became deeply involved with the problems of juvenile delinquency and drug abuse during his directorship, and in 1971 he was appointed director of the newly legislated Montgomery County Office of Drug Control in Maryland.
His academic experience included extensive study of criminology at the University of Maryland Graduate School and drug abuse studies at San Francisco State College.
Many of Mr. Maccallum's articles have been published in church journals and his lectures on drug issues were published by Montgomery College. He taught several community services courses there and gave many lectures and presentations, particularly in relation to youth problems and drug abuse issues.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his former wife, Alyce Maccallum Courtney, in 1998.
He is survived by a daughter, Priscilla Maccallum of Hampton; a son and a daughter-in-law, Victor and Barbara Maccallum of Glen Burnie, Md.; a sister and a brother-in-law, Susan and Richard Erickson; two nieces and their families, Sheila Pichette and Lisa Barretto; and family in Canada and England.
Celebration of life services will be 2 p.m. Saturday in Exeter Congregational Church, Exeter, N.H.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Exeter Congregational Church or the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers.
