Harold Blake Walker

Background

Walker, Harold Blake was born on May 7, 1904 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Herbert R. and Ethel G. (Blake) Walker.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Denver, 1925. Doctor of Divinity, University Denver, 1952. AM, Boston University, 1927.

Bachelor's Degree, McCormick Theological Seminary, 1932. Postgraduate, University Chicago, 1934. Doctor of Divinity, Emporia College, 1944.

Doctor of Divinity, Hamilton College, 1949. Doctor of Divinity, University Denver, 1952. Doctor of Divinity, Rocky Mountain College, 1971.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Lake Forest University, 1959. Doctor of Humane Letters, National College Education, 1970. STD, Northwestern University, 1970.

Career

Editor, writer, A.P., Kansas City, 1927-1930; ordained to ministry, Presbyterian Church, 1932; minister, Fullerton-Covenant Church, Chicago, 1932-1936; minister, First Church, Utica, New York, 1936-1942; minister, First Church, Oklahoma City, 1942-1947; minister, 1st Presbyterian Church, Evanston, Illinois, 1947-1969; columnist, Specialty Salesman magazine, 1954-1967; columnist, Chicago Tribune-New York News syndicated columnist, 1954-1981. Lecturer homiletics McCormick Theological Seminary. Lecturer, board directors Harold Blake Walker chair pastoral theology.

Consultant W. Clement Stone Enterprises, 1970-1974. Seminary vice president Board Foreign Missions Presbyterian Church United States of America. National Commission Evangelism, 1946-1947.

Director Presbyterian Tribune, 1943-1955. Member Presbyn.Commn. on Consolidation, 1957-1958, Commision on Ecumenical Mission Relations, 1958-1961.

Achievements

• Harold Blake Walker has been listed as a notable minister, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Prayers To Live By

    (Leather bound hardcover. Aspley House division of Dartnel...)

  • To Conquer Loneliness; An Answer to the Desperate Need in Every Human Heart

    (book)

  • To conquer loneliness
  • Power To Manage Yourself
  • Ladder of light;: The meaning of the Beatitudes
  • Faith for Times of Tensions
  • Heart of the Christian year;
  • Thoughts...to live by
  • Upper room on Main Street

Membership

Board directors National Presbyterian Church and Center, Washington. Board directors McCormick Theological Seminary, president, 1953-1955, 57-71. Board directors Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Lake Forest College.

Trustee Maryville College. Member Utica Council Churches (president 1940), American Theological Society Chicago Cleric, Pi Kappa Alpha. Clubs: University (Chicago).

Lodges: Masons (Chicago, Evanston) (Shriner, 33 degree, grand chaplain New York 1940-1941).

Connections

Married Mary Alice Corder, February 1, 1930. Children— Herbert Elwood, Howard Deane, Timothy Blake.

Father:

Herbert R. Walker

Mother:

Ethel G. (Blake) Walker

Spouse:

Mary Alice Corder

child:

Timothy Blake Walker

child:

Herbert Elwood Walker

child:

Howard Deane Walker