He led the Norfolk unit as director from September 1935 to summer of 1938.
[1] During a visit to Virginia Union in the summer of 1935 he was asked by officials to lead a school in Norfolk.
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.
[2] In 1984 Norfolk State University's Board of Visitors named a new men's dormitory in his honor.
Virginia Union University awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in May 1987.