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Our new name honors Don Speed Smith Goodloe, first African-American graduate of Meadville Theological School (1906), our Unitarian seminary, which has since become Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago–affiliated with both the University of Chicago and the Unitarian Universalist Association. Goodloe was the first principal–from 1911 to1921–of the Maryland Normal and Industrial School–Maryland's first black post-secondary school, which is now Bowie State University.
As Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed says in his book, Black Pioneers In A White Denomination , it appears that Rev. Don Goodloe was also one of the black Unitarian ministers who faced "the impossibility of...ministering to a Unitarian church," a fact of life at that time in our historically white denomination. But Goodloe was also interested in education. According to Meadville president Franklin Southworth in 1903, Goodloe hoped, with his wife, to "start a small school composed of carefully selected and choice students, and to run the school along with his Sunday preaching."
From the time he graduated from Meadville in 1906 until 1910, Goodloe was principal of the Danville Industrial Normal School in Danville, Kentucky, and from 1910 until 1911 was vice principal of Manassas (Virginia) Industrial School. Following that, he came to lead the development of the normal school at Bowie.
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