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GILBERT MADDOX Obituary

GILBERT A. MADDOX, Ph.D (Age 82)
Of Washington, DC passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 12, 2013. Beloved husband of Adelena Maddox; cherished step-father of Leslie Williams (Victor), Renee Strong-Terry, Victoria Syphax (Gregory) and Dulaine Harris. He is also survived by five grandchildren. He was a former Communications professor and Department Chair at Morgan State University. A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at the Unity Church of Washington, DC, 1225 R Street NW. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Morgan State University Foundation/Telecommunication Department, 1700 East Cold Springs Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251. Arrangements by McGuire. www.mcguire-services.com

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Published by The Washington Post on Jan. 27, 2013.

Memories and Condolences
for GILBERT MADDOX

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Baruti Kopano and family

January 21, 2022

We offer our continued thoughts and prayers to the Maddox family.

February 15, 2013

"Profiles in Black," a television show hosted by Dr. Gil Maddox at Detroit television station WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV) in the late 1960's and early 1970's. I had the good fortune to work on this show with Gil as a floor manager and as studio director. Gil was a smart man, a pioneer for blacks in broadcasting and he help me move forward in my journey in broadcasting. May God Bless Him and his family.
Joe Spencer

Marcella McCoy-Deh

February 5, 2013

A friend, a mentor, an educator.

February 4, 2013

TO THE FAMILY OF DR. GILBERT A. MADDOX:

On behalf of the faculty, administration, students and alumni of the Department of Communication Studies and the College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State University, we express our sincerest condolences on the passing of our long-time colleague and friend Dr. Gilbert A Maddox.
Dr. Maddox joined our faculty as an Associate Professor in 1986 and served as Chairperson of the Department of Speech Communications, later the Department of Telecommunications, for five years, from 1991 to his retirement from Morgan in 1995. Having done a superb job as administrative leader of his department, the University called him back on two occasions—from 2000-2002 and in 2005—to resume his leadership of the department. He served an additional term of two years beyond that point as a full-time lecturer in the department.
Morgan State University considers itself very fortunate to have had the service of so distinguished and accomplished an educator as Dr. Maddox for a total of 16 years. As instructor in the classroom and as administrative leader, he contributed greatly to a generation of students expertly trained in speech communication and telecommunications at Morgan. Many students attribute their success in their fields to his inimitable teaching and his sterling example as a communications specialist. Dr. Maddox was one of Morgan's Best, and many of our alumni remember him, as do many of his former colleagues at Morgan, as “the distinguished gentleman from the Department of Communication Studies.”
The family should take comfort in knowing that Dr. Maddox's entire professional life was dedicated to the great cause and committed to the noble ideal of elevating the minds and hearts of young people seeking to make use of their talents, to grow and to become better, and it should be reassured that Morgan State University appreciated the fine quality of his intellect and talent, his unflagging devotion to Morgan, and his great achievement as educator.
Again, we express our condolences and gratitude to the immediate family of Dr. Gilbert A. Maddox and to his larger, extended family of Morgan alumni, which reaches across the country and around the world, and we comfort them all and others whose lives were touched by this remarkable educator with the immortal words of Geoffrey Chaucer, who would describe Dr. Maddox, as he does his clerk, as one who would “gladly learn and gladly teach.”

Sincerely,
M'bare N'gom, Ph.D.
Interim Dean
Burney J. Hollis, Ph.D.
Dean Emeritus

Janice Short

February 2, 2013

Gilbert A. Maddox, you shine through all you taught.

February 2, 2013

Dr. Maddox, I know that your passing was one of those "Vicissitudes of Life" that you always told us about. I am forever indebted to you for your confidence in me. You truly leave a legacy and that calm reporter's delivery voice will ring in my ears always. Soror Adelena, thank you and your family for sharing Dr. Maddox with Morgan State University for sooooo many years. Dr. Maddox, it was a pleasure to be your student and an HONOR to work as your colleague.
As the African proverb states, "A man is never truly dead until we forget to speak his name"; We won't forget Gilbert A. Maddox- Ashe!
Gratefully,
Janice Short-MSU Class of '91

Cynthia Clemmons

February 1, 2013

Heartfelt sympathy. He will be missed.

January 30, 2013

Dr. Maddox was a mentor and scholar to many and a gentleman to all. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this time of loss and reflection.

The Kopano Family

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