Benjamin F. Ward, Jr. (August 2, 1948 - December 14, 2013) was an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Duke University Department of Philosophy and was the Associate Dean for Faculty Program at Duke. He was an accomplished pianist who began playing at the age of six. He died in 2013 in Durham, NC, after battling a long illness. He played organ at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1968 for the memorial service of Martin Luther King Jr. An obituary from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts: