 In addition, he was a member of the Quincy School Committee, where he served for 10 years, a member of the Quincy Rotary Club and the Quincy Historical Society, and director of the Evangelistic Association of New England.He received the Benjamin Franklin Hodginson Award for Outstanding Service to Quincy in 1963 and the Quincy Jaycees Distinguished Service Award in 1968.He was named President Emeritus of Eastern Nazarene College in 1983, upon returning to Quincy.