The Homecoming Celebration for Rev. Dr. Andrew James Chishom

Wednesday, August 14, 2013
1:30 p.m.
Beulah Grove Baptist Church
1434 Poplar Street
Augusta, GA 30901
TKe Homegoing Celebration
for
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OBituary
Rev. Dr. Andrew James Chishom was bom in Augusta, Ga. on
October 17 1942. He is the son of the late Junious and Janie
Chishom. He was the eldest son of four children. Dr. Chishom
departed this life on Wednesday August 7, 2013.
He graduated from Lucy C. Laney High School in 1961.
He received his undergraduate degree in criminology from the
University of Maryland and both his Masters and Doctorate degrees
from the University of Georgia. He also received a Masters in
Theology at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary and he
completed post masters studies at Harvard University.
Dr. Chishom served his nation with distinction from 1963 to 1966 as
a member of the United States Air Force and was a member of the
United States Navy Reserves.
Dr. Chishom was ordained into the ministry in 1980.
Dr. Chishom was appointed as the first African American Juvenile
Parole Officer in South Carolina in 1969 and he served as chairman
of the Greenville, SC Drug Abuse Council.
In 1971, former Governor Jimmy Carter appointed Dr. Chishom as
the first African-American Probation Supervisor in the state of
Georgia. Dr. Chishom would later become a key figure in the
campaign resulting in Jimmy Carters election to the presidency of
the United States.
In 1974, Dr. Chishom was hired as the first African-American
Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at the University of
South Carolina. Dr. Chishom would go on to become a full tenured
professor at USC. Dr. Chishom had a long and distinguished career
at USC and retired from USC in 2003. During his time at the
University of South Carolina, Dr. Chishom held numerous faculty
appointments and assumed many advisory roles to the junior faculty
and students.
In 1976 President Jimmy Carter appointed Dr. Chishom as the first
African-American United States Marshal in the South since
Reconstruction.
Dr. Chishom served as pastor at Gethsemane Baptist Church in
Chester, SC, Zion Chapel Baptist Church Columbia, SC, and
Believers in Christ Baptist Church Columbia, SC. Dr. Chishom
served as the director of the nationally recognized Southern Region
Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention Center.
Dr. Chishoms many accomplishments include Co-founder, first
national chairman and chairman emeritus of the National Association
of Blacks in Criminal Justice (N ABC J); Founder and Chairman of the
Five-Point Youth Violence Prevention Program: Founder of the
Columbia Midnight Basketball Program: and serving as a criminal
justice consultant to the state of Florida, Scotland Yard, the Egyptian
government, and the US Dept, of Justice. He was honored by his high
school Alma Mater Lucy Laney in Augusta, Ga through the
establishment of a memorial of his many accomplishments. Dr.
Chishom touched many lives in his career as a pastor and as a
professor. He was committed to the advancement and well being of
the youth in our community. Dr. Chishom served his community
throughout his professional career and endeavored to put the needs of
others before his own. However, his greatest accomplishment was
being a dedicated husband, father, and grandfather. Known as Poppy
to his beloved grandchildren.
He leave to cherish his memory his Wife, Lottie Screen Chishom; his
three children, Dr. Mark A. Chishom and spouse Dr. Patrice G.
Chishom, Mr. Andre Chishom and Spouse Miriam V. Chishom, and
Wendi Chishom; one sister, Ann (Otis) Bryson; and nine
grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews and other cousins and
friends. His sister Ernestine Howard and brother Junious Chishom
preceded him in death.
Order of Worship
greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the wortd.
John 4:4
Rev. Dr. Sam Davis, Presiding
Processional
Musical Selection
Scriptures:
Old Testament.......................Rev. Nathaniel Irvin
Old Storm Baptist Church
New Testament..........................Rev- JerrY Screen
Second Baptist Church
Prayer
Solo .
Rev. Dr. Sam Davis
.......Mr. James Garner
Friendship Baptist Church
{Jtffkction/Trihutes
Ms. Barbara Seigler, Laney Class of 61
The Honorable Stephen Benjamin, Mayor of Columbia, SC
The Honorable John Scott, Senate of the State of SC
Mr. Terry Feaster
Mr. Halliam Williams
Mr. William (Billy) Bryant
Mr. Therone Pratter, NABCJ Member
Musical Selection
Acknowledgements ......................Mrs. Andrena Carpenter
Soj0 ........................................ Dr. Julius Stephen
Eulogy .................................Rev. Dr. Ricky Ray Ezell
Center Baptist Church, Columbia, SC
Recessional
Interment ................. Sunset Memorial Gardens, Langley, SC
%mem6ering My YfiougHts of You
god sent me an JIngeC to cad my very own,
I thought we'd always he together from this day on.
I rememher ad the good times
and the awesome Cove we shared
JLd the hopes and dreams we had,
nothing in my life couhdever compare
I widaCways remember your sweet and Covingface,
'With a smiCe brighter than the sun Cight,
with such beauty andgrace.
There widaCways be apCace deep down in my heart,
a speciaCpCace where onCyyou widoccupy that part.
In my heart and in my souC
is where you beCong and wid always be.
-Unknown
Jamie Gallman
Norman Nicholson
Chadwick Screen
(?aCC6earers
Earnest Nicholson
Jerry Screen
Vertez Howard
Honorary Patfbearers \
Lucy C. Laney High School Class of 1961
<i(emem6er Me
To the hiving, I am gone,
To the sorrowful, I wifi never return,
To the angry, I was cheated,
(But to the happy, I am at peace,
JLnd to the faithful, I have never left.
I cannot speah^ hut I can listen.
I cannot he seen, hut I can he heard.
So as you stand upon a shore gazing at a beautifulsea-
J4s you loohjipon a flower and admire its simplicity-
(Remember me.
(Remember me in your heart:
Tour thoughts, and your memories,
Of the times we loved, The times we cried,
The times we fought, The times we laughed.
Tor if you always thinl^of me, I will never have gone.
fLcfoiowCedgements
The family of Rev. Dr. Andrew Chishom wishes to express their
sincere and heartfelt gratitude to everyone who demonstrated acts of
kindness during the passing of their loved one. May God continue to
bless each of you.
The Family