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Arthur J. McClung Jr. ’66 Was A Top Alumni Donor ‘Giving Back Was the Least I Could Do’ By VICKIE G. HAMPTON
RETIRED BUSINESSMAN Arthur J. McClung Jr. ’66 built his life around community service and love for his alma mater, which garnered him awards and recognition. He died Feb. 6, 2012, at Hospice Atlanta at age 66. McClung graduated from Morehouse with a degree in business administration. Then-President Benjamin E. Mays inspired what became a lifetime of involvement and generosity toward Morehouse. “We were taught to give back with our time, with our talents and our resources, and I’m being an obedient son of Morehouse,” said McClung as he accepted recognition as Morehouse’s top alumni donor in 2004 during a major donors reception of the Kresge Foundation HBCU Initiative. “This is something I’ve given out of my heart.” After Morehouse, McClung completed the
Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School and, in 1982, he joined the Georgia Power Company as a consumer affairs representative. When he retired in 2008, he was serving as director for the City of Atlanta Operations. Throughout the decades, McClung was an active member of the Morehouse College National Alumni Association and served the College as a member of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel Advisory Board. In 1996, he was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. International Board of Sponsors. In 2000, he was awarded the Alumni Award for Public Service. The Kresge recognition was for his donation of $187,500 to Morehouse. McClung also served on the board of the College’s previous capital campaign, Campaign for a New
Century. Most recently, during the 2011 Founder’s Day Observance, McClung was presented the Presidential Award of Distinction. His involvement with the College mirrored his other civic involvement, including with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity; Georgia Perimeter College Foundation; the Boy Scouts of America; the American Association of Blacks in Energy; Kiwanis International, Georgia District; the MARTA Board of Directors; the Fulton County Development Authority; Georgia Citizens for the Arts; United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta; and the Atlanta Branch of the NAACP, among others. Back at Morehouse, McClung also started a fiveyear gift of $2,000 for the endowed chair campaign and created a book scholarship in honor of his mother, Helen C. McClung. The
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scholarship goes to a chapel assistant who, like his mother, demonstrates the “greatest degree of kindness and gentleness.” McClung—whose son, Art McClung III, is also a Morehouse graduate—said the College had given him so much that giving money was the least he could do. “It’s very difficult for me to talk about being recognized for doing what’s right—and this is the right thing to do,” he said. n
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