Beyond his practice, Dr. Spencer was a fierce advocate for education, believing it was the key to overcoming obstacles.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019d say, \u2018Get your education because they can never take it from you,\u2019\u201d Brian Spencer said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Spencer partnered with Dr. Alan Rowe of the United College Action Network (U-CAN) to help hundreds of youth gain admission to his alma mater, Alcorn State. He also was a longtime contributor to the university\u2019s scholarship fund.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on this dedication, his family noted that he would want to be remembered as \u201csomeone who was always willing to help his fellow man.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can remember as a little kid, when a student didn\u2019t have money to get a plane ticket to get to school. He [my father] just took care of it and put him on the plane,\u201d Brian Spencer said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Spencer was also a trailblazer with the Sacramento Housing Commission, served as the first Black member of the Sacramento State\u2019s university foundation board, and was a past board member of the NAACP and the YMCA. He was a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity for 75 years and an original member of Sigma Pi Phi, also known as The Boule.<\/p>\n
Dr. Spencer is survived by his wife, Maude, and his children, Brian Spencer, a filmmaker, activist and entrepreneur; Gena Spencer-Middleton, an acupuncturist and a practitioner of herbal medicine; Arika Spencer-Brown, an educator; and Jennifer Spencer-Duncan, a health care administrator.<\/p>\n
He also leaves behind his grandsons, Harrison Brown, a junior at Howard University, and Brian \u201cAlejandro\u201d Spencer-Castellanos, an incoming freshman at Stanford. His family continues the tradition of service and professional excellence that defined his life, ensuring his impact on the community endures.<\/p>\n
Those who wish to celebrate Dr. Spencer’s life can make a gift to the Reverend Eugene and Pauline Spencer Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Alcorn State University Foundation: https:\/\/secure.qgiv.com\/for\/asufevents\/restriction\/Reverend+Eugene+and+Pauline+Spencer+Endowed+Scholarship+Fund. <\/p>\n
Checks can be made payable to: ASU Foundation, Inc. and mailed to:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyond his practice, Dr. Spencer was a fierce advocate for education, believing it was the key to overcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3007,972,9739,121,123,122,74673],"class_list":["post-376375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-civil-rights","tag-local","tag-print","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-urban-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}