Jallbearers Members of the Deacon Board of Friendship Baptist Church Members of the Deaconess Board of Friendship Baptist Church ~nterment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery J\duw&rlebgement The family expresses sincere appreciation to all who have been so thoughtful and helpful in so many ways. Stlltrs irnlhtrs, Int. FUNERAL DIRECTORS & MORTICIANS 889 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30314 Phone: 522-6924 fnr ~enjamin Jlfranhlin ~ullodt, ffr. Tuesday, December 29, 1981 -2:00P.M.- Jffrienb9lyip ~aptist Cl!lyurcly 437 Mitchell Street, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia The Reverend William V. Guy, Pastor ~~njmnin Jlfrmtltlin ~ullndt, f'r. 1888-- 1981 Benjamin Franklin Bullock, Sr., was born on April 2, 1888, to Martha Johnson and George Bullock, a farming family in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. He attended the Joseph K. Bricks School, an American Missionary Association institution located in his home county. He then enrolled at the University of Minnesota, in the School of Agriculture, graduating in 1913 with a bachelor's degree. At the University, he was a charter member of the Mu chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Later pursuing advanced studies at Cornell University and Columbia University, he earned a master's degree in rural education from Teachers College. Mr. Bullock began his teaching career in 1913 at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1914 President John Hope appointed him to the faculty of Morehouse College as a teacher of biology and chemistry. Leaving Atlanta in 1917, he taught at schools in various parts of the country: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College in Tallahassee, Prairie View State College in Texas, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, and the Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School in New Jersey. He designed the first bachelor's degree curriculum in agriculture at Florida A.& M.and at Prairie View. While teaching in Texas and North Carolina, he also served as State Superintendent of Vocational Agriculture. In 1932 Mr. Bullock returned to Atlanta when John Hope, as President of Atlanta University, appointed him to the faculty of that institution. He was employed by Atlanta University and was associated with Spelman College and other schools in the Atlanta University Center until his retirement in 1975. During this tenure, he served as Superintendent of Grounds for the University; taught courses in Rural Education, Rural Sociology, Ecology, and Man in Relation to the Environment; and conducted a Rural Institute during summer sessions. Mr. Bullock was married on September 18, 1918, to Penelope Burwell of Selma, Alabama, a Spelman College graduate and a fellow teacher at Morehouse College. Three children were born to this union, Benjamin Franklin, Jr., Penelope Laconia and Ruth Marie. Mrs. Bullock preceded him in death in 1976. Mr. Bullock's association with Friendship Baptist Church began in 1914 when he first came to Atlanta. When he returned fifteen years later he again became an active member of Friendship; and during the pastorate of the late Reverend Maynard H. Jackson, Sr., he was chairman of the Trustee Board and a member of the Deacon Board. In the Atlanta community, Mr. Bullock was active in the Republican party; he was a leader in the Collier Heights neighborhood association; and he served the City as a member of the Atlanta Beautification Commission under appointment by Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Throughout his teaching career, Mr. Bullock was committed to the improvement of the quality of rural living, for he believed that if the black population deserted their farms and became a landless people, they would eventually become a rootless people; he believed that black people, in order to take their rightful place in American society, must be producers as well as consumers. Throughout his life Mr. Bullock remained, at heart, a farmer, close to the soil, close to the rural community. In the Preface to his book Practical Farming for the South (published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1944 and revised in 1946), he wrote: "It is hardly possible to estimate the amount of information and inspiration I haue gained through friendly fireside chats with humble farmers, and in browsing through fields and forests - the great libraries and laboratories of Nature." (Jl)rber (Jf ,.erttice The Reverend Harry V. Richardson, Officiating Dr. Grace B. Smith, Organist PRELUDE . . . . "If Thou Art Near"- Bach o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o PROCESSIONAL AND SENTENCES FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE INVOCATION *HYMN "Faith Of Our Fathers" - 252 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o SCRIPTURE READING Dr. Thomas J. Pugh o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 0 0 o o o o 0 o PRAYER SOLO "My Father Watches Over Me" - o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Gabriel Mrs. Evelyn Sutton, Soprano TRIBUTE Dr. Thomas D. Jarrett o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 0 o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 *HYMN o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" - 328 EULOGY o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o The Reverend Harry V. Richardson ORGAN MEDLEY "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" "For The Beauty Of The Earth" "There Is a Balm In Gilead" "Come Unto Him" PRAYER RECESSIONAL The Service will be concluded at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery *Congregation standing