He led a physically active life and loved ice skating, tennis, sailing, boating, and swimming in Chatham, MA, and in the Adirondacks, as well as working on his farm outside Princeton. Modest in both size and ego, he was surprisingly strong and capable. His service to and attendance at Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church spanned more than 65 years. In his 80s and 90s, he was a founding board member of the Paul Robeson House in Princeton. Highlights are his service on the boards of the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association, a seminal environmental education and advocacy organization the Princeton Blairstown Center, an outdoor education program serving at-risk youth from Princeton, Trenton, and other communities the Historical Society of Princeton the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society and the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Mac was deeply involved in the community in and around Princeton, where he lived for most of his life. He initiated and oversaw in-prison programs and counseling with the New Jersey Association on Correction, a nonprofit agency serving those impacted by crime and the criminal justice system throughout New Jersey, and with the Community Network, a prison ministry serving NJ. He also founded and was President of Capstone Corp., a nonprofit, low-income housing developer serving Mercer County communities. In 1986 he was a founder of Habitat for Humanity in the Trenton area, leading it for nearly 30 years. In the 1950s he led efforts to establish integrated housing developments in Princeton. His lifelong efforts to forge a better world and a more just and desegregated society focused on providing housing to those in need and on prison reform work.
Anderson, Mac attended Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 and took King’s lessons to heart. With Witherspoon’s Senior Pastor, Benjamin J. Moving to Michigan in 1963, he led a nascent parish in East Detroit until 1970, when he and his family returned to the Princeton, where he led churches in transition and counseled fellow pastors. While at Witherspoon, he earned his MTh from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1961. As Assistant Pastor he was in charge of youth ministry. After earning a BA in History from Princeton University in 1950 and a MDiv degree from The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 1953, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1957 at Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church, a predominantly African American church in Princeton, NJ. Widely known as Mac, he was of the generation in which frugality was a virtue and sharing your blessings was a moral imperative.
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David Hunter McAlpin, Jr., born January 19, 1928, in New York City, died peacefully, surrounded by his four children on August 5, 2022, in Skillman, New Jersey after a long, full life.
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