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^ "In Memoriam: Rollin Charles Williams, 1922-2012".

"University's First African-American Professor Dies". He was interred at the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown. Williams died of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Waterford, Connecticut, on September 24, 2012. His friends included poets and musicians such as William Meredith, Meredith's partner Richard Harteis, James Merrill, Kent Tritle, and Tritle's partner Arthur Fiacco. He dressed stylishly and drove a Mercedes car. An aficionado of opera, classical music, and rhythm and blues, Williams played the organ and oboe in addition to the violin and co-founded the Connecticut Early Music Society. He served on the Dime Savings Bank board of directors. Personal life ĭuring his academic career and retirement, Williams lived in Salem, Connecticut. He declined these offers, commenting in a 2012 interview that "I wouldn’t take those jobs because UConn took me when it didn’t have to.” Williams left a substantial bequest to the university in his will. įollowing the passage of affirmative action laws in the 1960s, Williams received job offers from five other universities eager to recruit African American faculty. Wu Scholarship for doctoral students at the School of Social Work was established partly in his honor. In retirement, he held the rank of professor emeritus. Promoted from assistant to associate professor by 1974, Williams served stints as interim dean and as director of the school's admissions office.

Williams taught at UConn for almost thirty years and was the university's first African American professor.

He took a one-year leave of absence in 1967–68 to pursue doctoral studies at Columbia University School of Social Work. After two years of overseeing placements of students from UConn's School of Social Work, located in Hartford, Williams was recruited to join the university's faculty in 1957. In 1952, he became the first supervisor of psychiatric services at Norwich State Hospital. Īfter earning his degree, Williams worked as a psychiatric social worker at US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Northport, New York. He went on to earn a Master of Science in social work from Boston University in 1949. While stationed at Camp Clipper, California, during World War II, Williams spent weekends in Los Angeles and once sat next to Lena Horne at a party.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University and then served in the US Army from 1943 to 1946, starting out as a clerk typist and concluding his military career as a sergeant major in personnel. He was raised by his maternal grandparents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was high school valedictorian, solo violinist in the school orchestra, and Oklahoma state typewriting champion. Williams was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to parents Rollin and Ruby Williams on March 19, 1922.