Introduction
Rev. Walter Scott Dunlop
REVEREND WALTER SCOTT DUNLOP worked as a newspaperman in the United States and in Europe before entering the ministry. In the late 1920s he served as the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Wheeling, West Virginia. In the latter months of 1929, he accepted the presidency of Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, WV. After the resignation of the Rev. George Finney in February of 1936, Reverend Dunlop came to Camden’s North Baptist Church. He was extended the call to assume the pastorate shortly afterwards. Reverend Dunlop was installed as pastor of North Baptist Church in October of 1936. By August of 1939 he had returned to West Virginia, where he became the pastor of the Old Greenbriar Baptist Church in Alderson. He retired in the spring of 1943, and moved with his wife and daughters Margaret Jean and Bonnie to Daytona Beach, Florida. Reverend Dunlop passed away in Volusia County, Florida in 1953.
Baptists Install Rev. Walter Dunlop
Camden Courier-Post —
Former College President Takes Pulpit to Succeed Rev. George Finney
The Rev. Walter Scott Dunlop was installed as pastor of North Baptist Church, Fourth and Linden streets, last night. He succeeds the Rev. George Finney, who resigned. Mr. Dunlop assumed the pastorate in February and was extended the call to fill the pulpit on May 20.
The charge of the new pastor was given by Dr. I. G. Mathews, of Crozer Theological Seminary, and Dr. Ivan Murray Rose, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, gave the charge to the congregation.
Dr. Charles E. Goodall, secretary of the New Jersey Baptist Convention, with headquarters in Newark, extended greetings, as did the Rev. Herbert J. Smith, president of the Camden County Ministerial Union.
The invocation was by the Rev. Elwood A. Harrar, pastor of First Baptist Church. Responsive reading was led by the Rev. Culberg G. Rutenberg, pastor of Independence Baptist Church. The installation prayer was by the Rev. John C. Killian, secretary, Colporter-Missionary Department, American Baptist Publication Society.
Participating in the processional were the visiting pastors and members of the official boards of the church.
The ceremonies began with an organ recital by Forrest R. Newmeyer. “If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?” by MacPherson, was sung by the North church chorus. Benediction was by the Rev. Mr. Dunlop.
Charles E. Glendenning, chairman of the pulpit committee, assistant superintendent of the Sunday school and a trustee, presided.
Taking part in the program was George A. Silver, Jr., assistant superintendent of the Sunday school, and a trustee; S. T. Corliss, secretary, and a deacon; F. W. Potter, treasurer, all of the Sunday school, and Mrs. Wilfred W. Fry, principal of the children’s department.
Trustees participating were Nelson C. Denney, chairman; D. T. Stackhouse, William S. Holmes, Herbert Leicht, Raymond Braker, Earl Harmony, Virgil Stackhouse, Paul Nichols and Clarence Till.
Deacons taking part were Charles Brower, George Hill, Jr., Frank Verlander, Eamond Johnson, Peter Kondras, J. Hobart Condict, Jr., Merrill O’Brien, Harry E. Ford, William E. Cox, Warren Stone and George W. Bishop.
Rev. Dunlop came to Camden from Philippi, W. Va., where he was for six years president of Alderson-Broaddus College, a four-year degree institution maintained by the Baptists of West Virginia. He has traveled extensively and has been in virtually every state of the Union and visited many of the leading cities in Canada and Europe.
Before undertaking training for the ministry, he worked for nine years on newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic. Since completing his work at Crozer Theological Seminary, he has served churches in Harrisburg, Washington and Wheeling, W. V. At the meeting of the North Baptist Convention in Colorado Springs last June, he was elected vice president of the American Baptist Publication Society with headquarters in Philadelphia.
North Baptist Church
North Baptist Church — 316 Linden Street, Camden