THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 10, 1996 TAG: 9607100303
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
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Dr. Jerry Delmas Cardwell, president of Atlantic University and chair of the board of directors, The Atlantic University Educational Foundation, Virginia Beach, died July 5, 1996, in Elizabeth City, N.C., following an afternoon sail in Albemarle Sound.
He was born in Alexandria, Va., on July 26, 1941 to Lupton Delmas Carwell and Jimmie Williams Cardwell. Dr. Cardwell was educated at the University of Alabama and the University of Maine, receiving his doctorate in Sociology at the University of Utah in 1972. Before assuming the presidency of Atlantic University in January of 1993, he served as vice president for Academic Affairs of Livingston University, Livingston, Ala.; as vice chancellor and acting chancellor, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, Va.; as head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky.; and as chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Longwood College, Farmville, Va. Dr. Cardwell served currently on the Council of Presidents of the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council, Washington, D.C. He has served in various state higher education committees, including the Council of Chief Academic Officers and the Planning Liaison Group of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; and the Council of Presidents, Virginia Senior Colleges and State Universities, the General Professional Advisory Committee, and the Instructional Programs Advisory Committee, all of the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia. He taught, researched and published extensively in the fields of social psychology, statistics and research methods, evaluative sociology, philosophy of social science, self concept theory, and sociology of religion. His more recent publications included:
A Rumor of Trumpets: the Return of God to Secular Society, Washington, D.C., University Press of America, 1985; Mass Media Christianity: Televangelism and the Great Commission, Washington, D.C., University Press of America, 1984, and Sailing Big on a Small Sailboat, Dobbs Ferry, New York, Sheridan House Publishing Co., 1992. Dr. Cardwell was the recipient of numerous academic awards, honors and recognition, including the Who's Who Registry of Global Business Leaders, 1992, and Who's Who in American Education, 1990. He was a current member of the Virginia Beach Rotary Club and the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce. He was an Episcopalian and was appointed to the Department of Ministry in Higher Education for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama in 1991.
Survivors include his wife, Nancy Conniff Leonard Cardwell, of Virginia Beach; two sons, Jonathon Alexander Cardwell and Robert Michael Cardwell, of Birmingham, Ala.; a sister, Eleanor Thompson, of Tuskaloosa, Alabama; and a brother, James H. Cardwell, of Birmingham, Ala. Arrangements are being handled by the Johns Ridout Valley Chapel of Birmingham.
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