University Bulletin Published Quarterly by Atlanta University ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Atlanta University Bulletin Published Quarterly by Atlanta University ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Entered as second-class matter February 28, 1935, at the Post Office at Atlanta, Georgia, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, 538, P. L. & R.

Series III DECEMBER, 1942 No. 40

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JAM ICS B. ADAMS, Pastor of the Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York WILL W. ALEXANDER, Pice-President, Rosenwald Fund; War Manpower Commission, Washington TREVOR ARNETT, Former President of the General Education Board; Grand Beach, Michigan C. EVERETT BACON, Banker; Partner in Spencer, Trask and Co., New \ ork WILLETTE R. BANKS, President, Prairie View State College, Prairie View, Texas EDWARD R. CAR TER. Pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia RI FTS E. CLEMENT, President of Atlanta University Atlanta, Georgia BENJAMIN E. MAYS, President of Morehouse College Atlanta, Georgia JAMES M. NABRIT, President, American Baptist Thcological Seminary, Nashville, Tennessee LOUIE D. NEWTON, Pastor of the Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta^ Georgia HARRY H. PACE, President of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois} FRANK W. PADELFORD, Clergyman; Former Executive Secretary, Board of Education, Northern Baptist Con¬ vention; Newton Centre, Massachusetts

ERNEST E. QUANTRELL, New York Business Man; now serving on Special Assignment, U. S. Government, Washington FLORENCE M. READ, President of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia DEAN SAGE (Chairman), Attorney; President of the Board of Presbyterian Hospital, New York DEAN SAGE, JR., Executive I'ice-Prcsident of the United Hospital Fund of New York

MRS. HATTIE RUTHERFORD WATSON, Arkansas A. M. & N. College, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

KENDALL WEISIGER, Pice-President, Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., Atlanta, Georgia

PHILIP WELTNER, Former Chancellor, University System of Georgia; Attorney, U. S. Government, Atlanta, Georgia JOHN HERVEY WHEELER, Banker; Cashier, Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham, North Carolina

OFFICERS

Dean Sage Chairman

Florence M. Read . Secretary and Treasurer

C. T. Crocker Asst. Secretary and Asst. Treasurer

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Trevor Arnett Rufus E. Clement

Dean Sage Benjamin E. Mays

James B. Adams Florence M. Read

Will W. Alexander Kendall Weisiger

Wili.ette R. Banks John H. Wheeler

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Everett Bacon Dean Sage

Ernest E. Quantrell Dean Sage, Jr. December, 1942 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 3

UNIVERSITY EVENTS

Army Administration located at the South Dakota State Ben jamin E. Mays of Morehouse School College of Agriculture and Mechanic College gave the Invocation, and Pres¬ Arts, Louisiana State University, ident W. A. Fountain of Morris Mississippi State College, and the Brown Atlanta University will provide the College pronounced the Bene¬ Sam Houston (Texas) State Teach¬ diction. I he speaker was introduced l nited States government with facili¬ ers College. by President Rufus E. Clement of ties for the operation of an Army Ad¬ The setting up of the School at Atlanta ministration School which will open University, who also presided. Atlanta University was made possi¬ Music was late in December, 1942, under the provided by the Clark ble through the cooperation of More¬ Philharmonic command of Colonel Andrew James Society, the Atlanta- house College and of Clark College. Morehouse-Spelman Lloyd. This, however, will not inter¬ Chorus, and the Both of these campuses are adjacent M orris Brown Quartet. fere with the regular program of the to Atlanta University. Morehouse University. On December 31, three will assist in providing classroom hundred enlisted soldiers are due to ar¬ space, and supplementary fa¬ Time Magazine rive as the first enrollees of the dining Features cilities will be made available at Hale School; and on January 31, the sec¬ JfAodruff and Clark College. ond group of approximately three Art Classes hundred is expected. The quota for Time Magazine, internationally the School has been set at six hundred. First University Center famous weekly, for September 21 had These men are to be trained for a feature C onvocation story on Hale Woodruff, administrative and staff work for all noted artist and teacher of painting of the Negro units in the armed forces The first University Center Con¬ in the Atlanta University System. Ac¬ of the nation. They will be housed in vocation of the Atlanta Negro insti¬ cording to the article, Mr. Woodruff the spacious University Dormitories tutions for higher education was held is as famous for his racially conscious on Chestnut Street, which are to be on Sunday afternoon, October 18, murals as he is for his teaching. His vacated before December 31 by the at 4:00 o'clock on the quadrangle best known work is a large double set students and faculty and staff of At¬ facing the Atlanta of University Library. murals in the Savery Library at lanta University. Approximately twelve hundred people Talladega College. Officers connected with the School attended the service. In referring to these murals, the will have their 1 he headquarters in the Convocation was sponsored bv editors of Time mentioned that be¬ Administration staff Atlanta Building. The University, Morehouse Col¬ cause the murals depicted Negro edu¬ will consist of approximately thirty lege, Spelman College, the Atlanta cation and equality between whites officers and between fifteen and twen¬ l niversity School of Social Work, and Negroes in the United States, ty civilian employees. Clark Brown Col¬ a College, Morris picture of one mural along with a All instruction in the School will lege, and Gammon Theological Sem¬ picture of the artist would be in¬ be furnished by the Army. Under was a inary. It significant occasion as cluded in a booklet published by the the it was plan as announced by the War the first time that all of the Office of War Information for dis¬ Department, graduates will he turned Atlanta institutions had joined for a tribution in Asia as counter-Japanese out every eight weeks. T he men who combined service. propaganda. will he enrolled are to be chosen on The principal speaker was Presi¬ According to Time, Mr. Woodruff the basis of their mental dent Willis qualifications J. King of Gammon holds to no high-brow theories about from enlistees in the Army. Theological Seminary, who recently Negro art. It is his belief that the The Atlanta l had niversity School is completed his tenth year in ser¬ Negro should not hide his race hut the one vice to only of its kind for Negroes that religious institution. Pres¬ rather should let the world know he in the l nited States. Pour similar ident James P. Brawley of Clark Col¬ can paint and sculp as well as act, schools for white are soldiers to be lege read the Scriptures, President sing and write. December, 1942 Page 4 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

The People's College However, in the second session, the During the first session, non-credit people themselves are to be given an courses were given in “Secretarial Opens opportunity to ask for the courses they Practice and Office Management”, desire, and if practicable the College “Civil Service Jobs”, “Building Man¬ The People’s College, advertised will add these courses to the cur¬ agement and Maintenance”, “Insur¬ widely as a school for all the people, riculum. ance Principles and Practice”, “Pre- opened for an experimental ten weeks’ The classes were held once a week Social Work Seminary”, “Business session on October 19 under the spon¬ on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Mathematics”, “Salesmanship”, sorship of Atlanta University. This and Thursday evenings, at various “Southern Labor Problems”, “Occu¬ was the first major venture of the points throughout the city at places pational Clinic”, “Home, School, and University into the field of community which were considered convenient cen¬ Family Relations”, “Feeding the education and it has proven so suc¬ ters for the public. The enrollees had Family in War Times”, “Consumers cessful that a second session will be the same instructors as students in the in a War Economy”, “Home M an- held beginning in February. regular session, with the additional agement Problems”, “The Human Three hundred and fifty men and advantage of guest instructors who Body in Health and Disease”, “Cloth¬ women of all ages and from all walks were experts in their professional ing Problems”, “Listening to Music”, of life enrolled in the College, di¬ fields. “Memoirs of the Literary World”, rected by Dr. Ira De A. Reid of the The People’s College courses are “Arts and Crafts Workshop”, “Com¬ University’s department of sociology. offered free of any tuition charges to munity Chorus”, “'Phis Week’s The initial curriculum of The the 100,000 or more Negroes of At¬ Books”, “Moral Ideas as Revealed in the New People’s College was worked out to lanta who wish to put their leisure Testament”, “How We Got reach the basic needs as well as the time to good practical use. According Our Bible”, “Economics and the esthetic desires of people. Thus it to President Rufus E. Clement, the Good Life”, “The 'Pen Command¬ made no difference whether a person project is one phase of a long range ments”, “Contemporary Problems of Social wished to prepare for a better job, program Atlanta L niversitv has pro¬ Welfare”, “Politics: Its The¬ pursue a hobby, secure a genuine un¬ jected to take the University to the ory and Practices”, “Everyday Law”, derstanding of what is going on in community. It has special significance “Language in Everyday Life”, “Con¬ the world today, be broadened cul¬ as a morale builder during the war versational Spanish”, “World Geog¬ turally, or just be kept alive intel¬ period and it is also intended to raphy”, “The People of the World and Race lectually—there were courses for all strengthen the people of the com¬ Relations”, “Nazism—Its regardless of age or educational back¬ munity for the work of the post-war Theory and Practices”, “Elementary ground. years. Russian”, and “Documents of Free-

The People’s College Faculty THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY KUL LET IN Page 5

(Left) Home Management

(Right) Arts and Crafts Workshop

(Above) World Geography

(Left) Public Speaking

Classes at the People’s College December, 1942 Page 6 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

schools, Charlotte, North Carolina; dom”. In addition to these offerings, Service on Pearl Harbor principal of the Atlanta University there were a film forum, a rental Day library, and a reading clinic. Laboratory Elementary School; and An outstanding feature of the edu¬ On December 7, a brief service was as a member of the education depart¬ held cational project was the People’s Col¬ by the affiliated institutions in ment o f M orris Brown College. Sisters Chapel, commemorating the lege Radio Hour which began on No¬ From 1934-1942 she was state super¬ entrance of the United States into vember 25 over Station WGS 1\ 1 he visor of colored World War II. 'The three presidents elementary schools first series of these weekly broadcasts for appeared on the program. A Hymn Georgia; and since 1935, she has was devoted to the subject of “free¬ was read by President Florence M. been on the staff of the Atlanta Uni¬ dom in the Modern World ’, and con¬ Read, Scripture Reading and Prayer versity Summer School. were given by President Benjamin E. sisted of interviews between Dr. Ira M rs. Whiting is active in local Mays, and Remarks were made by De A. Reid and members of the Col¬ and national educational societies. She President Rufus E. Clement. Said Dr. lege staff. Included among those in¬ Clement: “We are conscious of the was a member of the White House terviewed were Dr. Rushton Coul- fact that we are a part of a nation at Conference on Children in a Democ¬ horn, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Dr. Os¬ war, and that we as an integral part racy, and a member and chairman of sip Flechtheim, Dr. Hilda Weiss, of.this great nation are as vitally con¬ the Elementary Section of the Con- cerned with things that have hap¬ Professor William Geter Thomas, (Con tin u ed a n Page 8) pened and shall happen as any other and Professor Melvin Dow Kennedy. part of the nation can or should he. Included on the staff of the first “We pause now that we may he session of The People’s College were conscious of our being a part of the T. M. Alexander, Lisle H. Arduser, great world struggle. We pay homage Library School Expands to the gallant soldiers of the United Clarence A. Bacote, W. 5 . Bell, Jesse Program Nations. We pray for and B. God’s help Blayton, William Stanley Braith- for victory in His name. We rededi¬ I he School of Library Service has waite, B. R. Brazeal, Hallie B. cate ourselves here and now to the expanded its program to include a di¬ Brooks, C. Janet Clark, Rufus E. achievement of a peace which shall vision of Field Service, which is op¬ be characterized Clement, Hortense Cochrane, Rush- by the Christian erating under the direction of Mrs. ideal of brotherhood—an ideal which ton Coulborn, J. Wesley Dobbs, W. Hallie Beacham Brooks, for twelve must be achieved if wars will end.” E. B. DuBois, G. E. DeLorme, Ossip years librarian of the Atlanta Uni¬ K. Flechtheim, Ethel M. Griggs, versity Laboratory School. I his new service Henry C. Hamilton, Kemper Har- includes assistance to school libraries of the following reld, Irene Harris, Marque L. Jack- Mrs. Helen A. Whiting types: Visits to schools where help is son, Wallace Van Jackson, W illis requested in the organization or the Laurence James, Nazen Kazian, G. Appointed reorganization of library service; and D. the Kelsey, A. W. Loos, Alonzo Mo¬ A new service, in which all of the furnishing of bibliographies of ron, Constance Nabrit, Joseph A. institutions of higher education for books, pamphlets, and other printed aids requested through the Pierce, A. A. Reid, Gladys Reid, Ira Negroes in Atlanta will share, has library by been made available in the the teachers in the schools. "The chief De A. Reid, Dorothy Scott, V. C. appoint¬ ment o f M rs. Helen A. Whiting of purpose of Field Service is to aid Smith, A. L. Suhrie, R. A. 'Thomp¬ schools in Atlanta as supervisor of practice developing libraries that son, N. P. Tillman, Hilda Weiss, teaching and assistant professor of will be functional in terms of the par¬ ticular school in which E. B. Williams, Hale Woodruff, and education at Atlanta University. This it is located. States to be served include Henri M. Younge. appointment became effective Novem¬ Alabama, ber Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken¬ Cooperating with Atlanta Univer¬ 1, 1942. tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North M rs. Whiting is well known for sity were the other institutions of the her contributions in the field of edu¬ Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Atlanta University System (More¬ cation. She earned the bachelor of I ennessee, Texas, and Virginia. house rs. College, Spelman College, and science degree in 1926 at Columbia M Brooks is excellently equipped the Atlanta University School of So¬ University, the master of arts degree for the position. In addition to her in cial Work) ; officials of the Y. M. 1932, and she holds diplomas as experience in a school library, she also supervisor of has had experience in public library C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the Atlanta elementary schools and supervisor of rural schools. service. She is a graduate of Butler Urban League, and the Public Hous¬ At various times the new appointee University and Columbia University, and she has studied in the Graduate ing Projects; instructors from the At¬ has been employed as supervisor of lanta public schools; and prominent practice teaching at Hampton Insti¬ Library School of the University of business and professional men. tute; supervisor of colored elementary (Continued on Page 9) December, 1942 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 7

Paul Robeson Is Guest man College. Air. Robeson followed found the somber music of the folk his address by singing “The Ballad songs to be akin to the Negro spirit¬ on Campus for Americans,” with the aid of a uals. Here it was made clear to him chorus from the affiliated institutions that human beings all are very close \\ hen Paul Robeson gave his first under the direction of Professor Kem¬ to each other. recital in Atlanta during the month per Harreld. Air. Lawrence Brown As a man who knew of the heart¬ of October, he managed during his was the accompanist. aches of a minority group in America,

brief stay to visit the campuses of the Alr. Robeson electrified his audi¬ Air. Robeson saw the same problem Atlanta University System just three ence as he told of many of his experi¬ of the common man in Wales, Scot¬ hours before his train left for ences New in different parts of the world. land, India, Africa, and other coun¬ A ork. On He Saturday morning at 11 told how, in his singing, he found tries. He found that on leaving Amer¬ o’clock, he addressed an audience of many of the things that were close to ica he could not forget the responsi¬ more than sixteen hundred students his heart. In Czechoslovakia, in Spain, bility that was his, for in the midst and teachers in Sisters in Chapel, Spel- Russia, and in other countries, he of success, he pointed out that no one

Paul Robeson With Chorus From Affiliated Institutions December, 1942 Page S THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN can feel that he is apart from the peo¬ 1937, he was guest lecturer in edu¬ Mrs. Helen A. Whiting ple. “As long as any other of the race cation at the Atlanta University Sum¬ can suffer indignities and lack of free¬ mer School. Appointed dom, so can I,” he stated. “No matter For ten years Dr. Suhrie was a (Continued from Page 6) how fortunate any one of us can be, teacher, principal and superintendent our destiny lies with the destiny of in the public schools of Pennsylvania. ference on Fundamental Problems of our people, and there is a respon¬ real He has served also as professor of Negro Education. sibility on us to see that these things Publications of Mrs. Whiting in¬ education at John B. Stetson Univer¬ are being realized by supporting the clude Primary Education, Negro Art, sity, from which he was graduated; forces which are fighting slavery.” Music, and Rhyme, Negro Eolk and he has been honored as a Harrison The two divergent ways of life Tales, Everyday Living, and jointly Fellow in Education at the University with which the fighting today is con¬ with the late Elizabeth Perry Can¬ of Pennsylvania, where he carried on cerned, Mr. Robeson described to his non of Country Life Stories. She also his graduate studies leading to the de¬ audience as (1) a way for the common has served as editor of Bulletins on grees master arts Problems people to live a decent existence at a of of and doctor of of Home and Earm Life time when it is possible for every hu¬ philosophy. At various times the emi¬ and Training Teachers for Rural nent educator has been director of the man being to live a human life, or Schools, which were sponsored by the normal General Education Board. (2) a way for the common man to ac¬ department of the Georgia cept crumbs while the geniuses con¬ State College for Women, head of trol the destiny of the world. “We are the department of education of the not isolated in our problems,” he con¬ West Chester (Pennsylvania) State cluded, “but the problems that face Normal School, assistant professor of us over Association of face millions of others all the elementary education at the Universi¬ Colleges world. Hence we must take hope.” ty of Pennsylvania, and dean of the 1'he ninth annual meeting of the Mr. Robeson long has been a fav¬ Cleveland School of Education. For Association of Colleges and Secondary orite of the American and con¬ world the past twenty years Dr. Suhrie Schools for Negroes was held on the cert stage, screen, and radio. He was served on the faculty of New York campus December 10 and 11. Repre¬ an All-American football end at Rut¬ University as professor of education. sentatives of seventy colleges and thir¬ gers University where he was also Dr. Suhrie has had the distinction ty high schools attended. Important elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his resolutions bearing on problems in the of visiting every tax-supported insti¬ junior year. On the stage his triumphs education of Negroes in the post-war tution in America devoted to teacher include “Emperor Jones,” “All God’s world, on the present rising tide of training, and he is perhaps as widely Chillun,” “Plack Boy,” “Porgy,” fascism in the l nited States, on salary known to students and teachers of “Show Boat,” “The Hairy Ape,” and equalization, and on morale were education as “Othello.” He has been starred on any other person in the adopted. The meeting marked the field of coun¬ the screen in “Emperor Jones,” teacher-training in this completion of a five-year study of “Sanders of the River,” “The Song try. He was the organizer and for community life of Negro youth and of Freedom,” “Sleep River,” and years the president of the Eastern of a study of Negro secondary schools. “Tales of Manhattan.” States Association of Professional Officers elected to serve the Asso¬ As a singer, Mr. Robeson gave his Schools for Teachers; and at the pres¬ ciation for the ensuing year are: Mr. first recital in 1925 in the Greenwich ent time holds membership in the J. H. Johnston of Virginia State Village Theatre, accompanied by American Academy of Political and College, president; Dr. Felton G. Lawrence Brown. Since that time he Social Science, the Council of Sociol¬ Clark of Southern University and has Mr. R. T. Tatum of Beaumont, sung in the capitals of Europe, ogy, the A. A. A. S., and the National made a tour of Russia, sung for royal¬ Child Health Council. Texas, vice presidents; and Mr. L. S. Cozart of Barber Scotia College, sec¬ ty in London, and toured America In addition to being the author of from coast to coast for several seasons. The Inductive Determination of retary-treasurer. Educational Method, The Spell-to- IVrite Spelling Series, and The Story World Reading Series, Dr. Suhrie Dr. Ambrose L. Suhrie has served as editor of New Possi¬ Faculty in Dictionary bilities in Education, published by of American Is Guest Professor the American Academy of Political Scholars and Social Science; and of seven Dr. Ambrose L. Suhrie, distin¬ Listed in the most recent issue of volumes entitled Problems in Teach¬ guished in the field of teacher training, the Dictionary of American Scholars er-Training, published from 1926 to are Dr. Rufus E. Clement (History) ; is serving as guest professor of educa¬ 1932. He is also the organizer Dr. Rush ton Coulborn (History); tion during the present academic year and editor of the Teacher Education Dr. Mercer Cook ; at Atlanta University. This is the sec¬ Jour¬ (French) Dr. W. ond time he has been in service to this nal, and the associate editor of the E. B. DuBois (Sociology); and Dr. Ira De A. Reid institution. During the summer of New Jersey Journal of Education. (Sociology). December, 1942 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 9

The Clements Are Hosts University. The last position he held Baldwin Burroughs for fifteen years and until his resig¬ reds On Sunday, October 11, President nation to come to Atlanta in 1941. Di University In the and Mrs. Rufus E. Clement were cataloging department, the Players new head is M iss hosts at an Gertrude Franklin informal reception honor¬ Baldwin W. Burroughs, former di¬ of Boston, Massachusetts, a former ing the faculties and staffs of all the rector of dramatics at Tillotson Col¬ cataloger in the main Public Library lege in Negro institutions of higher educa¬ of New York Texas, is directing the activi¬ City, and the holder of ties of tion the University Players for in Atlanta. More than two hun¬ a bachelor of science degree from Sim¬ 1942-43. Air. Burroughs was a mem¬ dred guests attended from Atlanta mons College. She is assisted bv Miss ber of the first University Players’ M arv Bullock of Eufaula, Alabama, University, Morehouse College, Spel- group and had an important role in a graduate of Dillard University and man College, the Atlanta University “The Cradle Song,” which played the Atlanta University School of School of Social in the Little Theatre at Spelman dur¬ Work, Clark College, Library Service. M orris Brown ing the season of 1931-32. He will be College, and Gammon Fhe circulation desk is now in remembered more recently for his Theological Seminary. charge of Miss Ellenor Chaires of At¬ performances during the summer sea¬ lanta, a On Sunday, November 1, students graduate of Spelman College son of 1941 in “Tovarich,” “The and Western Reserve in the Graduate School of Arts and University, and Silver Cord," and “Elijah’s Ravens;” catalogue librarian at Southern Uni¬ and Sciences, the School of Library during the 1942 season for his versity during 1941-42. acting in “Whiteoaks” and “On Bor¬ Service, and those in the School of Another new appointee is Miss rowed Time.” Social Work, were guests for supper Thelma Cunningham of Bainbridge, “Shadow and Substance” Is at the residence. Georgia, who serves as general as¬ Opening Play sistant. Miss On both occasions, members of the Cunningham received The Players opened their twelfth her bachelor's degree at A. & T. Col¬ season on November 6 and 7 University faculty assisted in enter¬ with lege in Greensboro, North Carolina, Paul Vincent Carroll’s great play taining the guests. and her professional degree in library "Shadow and Substance.” The play science at Hampton Institute. She was eloquently written and contrasted has been employed as librarian at Flor¬ the faith of a scholarly-minded and ida Normal College and Prairie View severely ritualistic priest with that of State College. his house servant, a straightforward, M iss Reorganization of Jennie Pritchard, formerly simple-minded girl. The play was first Library Staff employed in the University cataloging successful as a production of the Ab¬ department, is now secretary to Air. bey Theatre Players in Dublin. Important among the recent faculty Jackson. “Craig’s Wife” Performed and staff changes in the Atlanta Uni¬ December 4 and 5 versity System is the reorganization The second production of the sea¬ of the Library staff. son was Dr. William H. Krauss “Craig’s Wife” by George Following the resignation of Miss Kelley which played the first week Charlotte Templeton, head of the Lectures in December in Howe Memorial Library, the University appointed as Hall. Th is was the dramatization of On November her successor, Mr. Wallace Van Jack- 27, Dr. William H. a supremely selfish and materialistic son who woman came to Atlanta University Krauss, former research scientist at who exerts every effort of in September, 1941, as a member of the State Institute for Race Biology which she is capable to win complete the faculty of the School of Library financial and spiritual at Uppsala, Sweden, presented an authority over Service. Air. Jackson is a graduate her husband. Fhe Players turned in illustrated lecture on “Race Mixing of Virginia Union University in 1934 a fine performance. with the A.B. degree; of Hampton in Hawaii”. He also lectured to the Institute in 1934, with the degree students of anthropology in the classes of B.S. in Library Science; and of of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. Library School the University of Michigan in 1935 Dr. Krauss is a native of from which be received the M.A. de¬ Vienna, Expands Program Austria. He has travelled in all gree in Library Science. For two parts (Continued from Page 6) of years, 1939-40 and 1940-41, Mr. Sweden, measuring about 40,000 Chicago. During the winter of 1940- Jackson was enrolled in the Graduate persons (Swedes, Finns, Lapps), as 1941, Airs. Brooks was on the visit¬ Library School of the l niversity of primary material for the works of the ing staff of the Secondary School Chicago. At various times he served of the Association of Institute. In 1934, he left Sweden as Study Colleges as assistant principal of the Higgs and Secondary Schools for Negroes. a fellow of the Royal Roanoke Institute, as principal of the Academy of At this time she visited libraries of Scottsville Graded School in Virginia, Sciences, Stockholm, to do research in member schools of the Association and as librarian of Virginia Union race crossing in Hawaii. located in eleven Southern states. Page 10 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1042

FIRST UNIVERSITY CENTER CONVOCATION

Atlanta University School of Social Work

Morehouse College

Dr. Willis J. King Addressing Convocation Audience December, 1942 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 11

Hi] ) ON THE CAMPUS OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY

Morris Brown College Atlanta University

Gammon Theological Seminary

•IEWS i of. Audience Present Spelman College Page 12 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1942

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDMUND ASA WARE MEMORIAL FUND

January 1940 - July 1942

ALABAMA Austell, Mr. M. R 10.00 Birmingham Bowen, Mrs. John 5.00 Calhoun, Mrs. Molette, Miss Florence D $2.00 J. H 5.00 Chaires, Mrs. Genie 2.00 Washington, Miss Lottye 1.00 $3.00 Cook, Mercer, Jr 2.00 Craig, Mrs. Maxie Harris 10.00 Montgomery Cureton, Mrs. Sarah 5.00 Bell, Miss Sylvester 5.00 DuBois, Dr. W. E. B 50.00 Gilchrist, Mrs. Mattie 2.00 7.00 Edwards, Mrs. J. D 1.00 Evans, Miss Adella 1.00 Mobile Faduma, Mrs. Henrietta Adams.... 5.00 Brown, Miss Naweta 2.00 Feger, Miss Hattie V 10.00 2.00 Flipper, Mr. Henry O . . 5.00 TOTAL ALABAMA $12.00 Flipper, Bishop J. S 50.00 Fuller, Miss Sammye 1.00 CALIFORNIA Griffith, Mrs. Loretta 5.00 Los Angeles Hamilton, Mrs. Grace Towns 20.00 Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Club. . . 35.00 Hamilton, Dr. Henry C 50.00 Flood, Mr. Joseph LOO Hamilton, Miss Nell 5.00 Golden Poppy Royal Grand Harris, Mrs. Mary A 5.00 Chapter, OES 3.00 Harris, Miss Mary Ruth 5.00 Greenwood, Mr. Herbert A 10.00 Haywood, Mrs. Evelyn Jones 1.00 Hawkins, Mr. Augustus F 5.00 Henderson, Mr. Jacob R 10.00 King, Mr. Celestus 3.00 Herndon, Mrs. A. T 25.00 Lawson, Miss Mollie 10.00 Hodge, Mrs. Margaret F 1.00 Rogers, Mrs. Sarah H 15.00 Holman, Miss Lucille 1.00 82.00 Howard, Miss Julia C 10.00 82.00 TOTAL CALIFORNIA Johnson, Miss Adline 1.00 Jones, Miss Charity 3.00 COLORADO King, Mrs. Georgia Switt 2.00 Denver King, Miss Velma N 2.00 Spratlin, Dr. Paul 20.00 Lamar, Mrs. Ida 6.00 Graham, Mr. Ben H 15.00 Lamar, Mrs. N. T 4.00 35.00 Lamar, Nathaniel, Jr 1.00 Pueblo Leigh, Miss Carrie 5.00 Lemon, Miss Elizabeth E 5.00 Tones, Mrs. Tessie Banks 10.00 10.00 Lewis, Mrs. Beulah Abies 5.00 45.00 TOTAL COLORADO Logan, Miss Julia 2.00 Love, Miss Cleopatra 10.00 CONNECTICUT Maddox, Mrs. Bessie Pitts 7.00 Rockville Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene 100.00 Murphy, Mrs. Eleanor 5.00 Bunce, Mrs. Gertrude Ware 35.00 35.00 Pitts, Mrs. H. W 54.00 35.00 Porter, Dr. J. R 10.00 TOTAL CONNECTICUT Price, Mrs. M. W 2.00 Ragland, Miss Katherine M 5.00 WASHINGTON, D. C. Reed, Miss Jessie 5.00 Atlanta University Club 95.00 Reid, Mr. A. A 27.50 Douglas, Mrs. Fannie H 5.00 Robinson, Mr. W. A 150.00 Ross, Mrs. John 0 4.00 100.00 TOTAL WASHINGTON, D. C Scott, Mrs. Agnes 1.00 'Fate, Mrs. J. E 5.00 DELAWARE Tate, Mrs. Nancy Davis 5.00 Dover Thomas, Miss Annie 5.00 Thomas, Mrs. Mark A 1.00 Lemon, Miss Carolyn 1.00 Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A.. 12.00 1.00 Towns, Mr. and Mrs. George A.... 30.00 TOTAL DELAWARE Warner, Dr. H. Ward 5.00 FLORIDA Washington, Mrs. Julia F 6.00 Green Cove Springs Watkins, Mrs. Dewey 5.00 Watts, Miss Carrie 20.00 Hartwell, Mr. Benjamin 10.00 Whittaker, Mrs. J. P 175.00 Alachua Whittaker, Mr. J. P 175.00 Hearst, Miss M. Meta 10.00 Williams, Mr. E. B 5.00 20.00 Wise, Miss Ruby 17.50 TOTAL FLORIDA Yates, Mr. and Mrs. C. R 25.00 GEORGIA 1,403.27 Atlanta Augusta Allen, Miss Elsie 5.00 Ball, Mrs. Annie E. Scott 1.00 Amos, Mrs. India L00 1.00 Atlanta Alumni Association 189.27 December, 1942 'I'HE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 13

Brunswick MARYLAND Jones, Mrs. Adella E 10.00 Baltimore Molette, Mrs. Sarah 7.00 Bryson, Mr. \V. O., Jr 10.00 17.00 Garrett, Miss Naomi M 5.00 Dawson Payne, Mr. W. E 10.00 Styles, Mrs. Mary A 2.00 25.00 TOTAL MARYLAND 2.00 25.00 Decatur MASSACHUSETTS Cox, Miss Mary Ann 10.00 Boston 10.00 Chisholm, Mr. Frank P 3.00

Forsyth — 3.00 Hubbard, Mr. Samuel 10.00 Brookline 10.00 Clark, Mrs. Charles A 1.00 Fort Valley — 1.00 New Hunt, Mrs. Florence J 10.00 Bedford 10.00 Nelson, Mrs. Edwina T 10.00 Macon — 10.00 Springfield Kyles, Mrs. Euphrasia 1.00 Adams, Mrs. Robert W 100.00 Reid, Mrs. Mary L. Jefferson 5.00 — 100.00 6.00 IVest Townsend Savannah Adams, Mrs. Myron W 50.00 Arnold, Mrs. Veronica 5.00 — 50.00 Ashton, Miss Rosa L 2.00 Hannar, Mrs. M. G 5.00 TOTAL MASSACHUSETTS 164.00 Lemon, Mr. J. G 2.00 Maxwell, Miss Anna E 5.00 MICHIGAN Miller, Mrs. Rhena 4.00 Detroit Shivery, Miss Madeline K 5.00 McClendon, Dr. James J 20.00 28.00 20.00 Sparta TOTAL MICHIGAN 20.00

Ingraham, Mrs. Anna . 2.00 MISSISSIPPI 2.00 A ckermann Gooden, Mr. Sydney G 1.00 TOTAL GEORGIA 1.00 Alcorn Norris, Mr. H. W 1.00 ILLINOIS 1.00 Chicago Okolona Thompson, Mrs. Cleopatra 3.00 Askew■, Miss Nellie . . 17.80 3.00 Atlanta University Club . 8.00

Blank, Mrs. Wilhelmina . . 25.00 TOTAL MISSISSIPPI 5.00 Bond, Mrs. Annie B ..300.00

Bray, Bishop and Mrs. James A.... . 100.00 MISSOURI

Carr, Mrs. Katie E . . 50.00 Jefferson City

Fambro, Miss Nellie . . 2.00 Carrion, Mrs. W. L 10.00 Gibson, Mr. Truman K 5.00 McGraw, Mr. Booker 10.00

Glenn . . , Mrs. Mamie 10.00 20.00 TOTAL MISSOURI Jones, Mr. Sidney . . 5.00 20.00

Kigh, Mrs. Katherine . . 17.80 NEW JERSEY McCu Hough, Mrs. W. B . . 25.00 Camden Moore , Mr. Loring B . . 15.00 Potter, Miss Francena L 5.00 Norris , Mrs. Mattie Watts . . 5.00 5.00 Pace, Mr. Harry H . .200.00 TOTAL NEW JERSEY 5.00 Pavne,, Mrs. Bertha Keith , . 25.00

Wimbish, Mr. C. C . . 5.00 NEW YORK

Wright, Mr. Walter , . 50.00 New York City Caldwell, Mrs. Ruth D 10.00 TOTAL ILLINOIS 865.60 Des Verney, Mrs. Naomi S 1.00 Gassett, Miss E. H 2.00 Grant, Mr. Francis 5.00 KENTUCKY Hodges, Mr. G. W 5.00 Louisville Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard 3.00 Johnson, Mr. McPherson W 10.00 Atlanta 50.00 University Club Little, Miss Florence L 5.00 50.00 Parks, Mr. Edgar N 5.00 TOTAL KENTUCKY 50.00 Ware, Mrs. Alice H 10.00 White, Mrs. Mable M 5.00 Williams, Mr. Lewis P 2.00 LOUISIANA 63.00 Scotlandville Brooklyn Burge, Mrs. Tempie J 5.00 Cade, Mr. John B 5.00 Cunningham, Miss Janie B 5.00 Smith, Mrs. E. S. 5.00 Fall) in.no

TOTAL LOUISIANA 10.00 TOTAL NEW YORK 73.00 Page 14 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1942

NORTH C AROLINA F A LL C ALENDAR Bloomington October Johnson, Miss Mary E .. 15.00 — 15.00 18—UNIVERSITY CENTER CONVOCATION: Charlotte —I)r. Willis f. King, Speaker McCrorev, Mrs. H. L .. 10.00 21—LECTURE:

. . 50.00 Williams, Dr. A. J — Dr. — 60.00 Sigmund Skard, Norwegian Writer Durham 24— UN IVE RSITY CON VOCATION:

— Atlanta University Club . .100.00 Paul Robeson, Speaker — 100.00 28—FILM FORUM: Elizabeth City —“The Last Stronghold’’ Johnson, Miss Augusta J . . 5.00 — 5.00 November Fayetteville 4—FORUM: Grigsby, Miss E. Belle . . 2.00 —Miss Lillian E. Smith, Co-Editor “South Today” — 2.00 UNIVERSITY PLAYERS: Lumber Bridge 7 and Delnam, Mrs. Rachel .. 12.50 —“Shadow Substance” — 12.50 COLLEGE RADIO BROADCAST: Lumberton —Reid and Coulborn Bryan, Mrs. A. Marie Smith . . 12.50

— 27—FORUM: 12.50 6—THE Raleigh —Dr. William H. Krauss

. . 1.00 Edmondson, Mrs. Hattie Mclver. . RECITAL: — 1.00 25—PEOPLE’S —Leo Podolsky Salisbury December Lyons, Miss Lottie . . 2.50 — 2.50 COLLEGE RADIO BROADCAST: Winston-Salem —Reid and DuBois Hoover, Miss M. E . . 5.00 FORUM: — 5.00 28—PIANO —“China Strikes Back” TOTAL NORTH CAROLINA 215.50 KRYL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 4—THE UNIVERSITY PLAYERS: PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia 2—PEOPLE’S—“Craig’s Wife” Peters, Mr. H. Butler 25.00 ASSEMBLY: 25.00 — Pearl Harbor Day Pittsburgh 3—FILM 9—PEOPLE’S COLLEGE RADIO BROADCAST: Nelson, Miss Sophia 5.00 Nix, Mr. William 10.00 —Coulborn, Weiss, Elechtheim 15.00 4—THE9—FORUM: —Dr. W. E. B. DuBois TOTAL PENNSYLVANIA 40.00 ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SOUTH CAROLINA 12— CAROL CONCERT Charleston 7—ALL-UNIVERSITY FORUM:

. 5.00 Butler, Mrs. Susie —Three Russian Pictures Frazier, Miss Alma . 10.00 COLLEGE Lindsay, Mr. Robert . 10.00 RADIO BROADCAST:

Mazyck, Mrs. Esther . 10.00 —Reid and Thomas

Spencer, Miss Inez . 10.00 — 45.00 Orangeburg

Funchess, Miss Ruby P . 8.00 — 8.00 11—SIXTEENTH TOTAL SOUTH CAROLINA

TEXAS 15—FILM A ustin

Hammond, Mr. Melvin . 5.00 — 5.00 16—PEOPLE’S Dallas

Rice, Mrs. S. A . 2.00 — 2.00 Hawkins

McCoy, Mrs. Irene Jones . . 2.00 — 2.00 Prairie View

Reeves, Mr. George . 100.00 — 100.00

TOTAL TEXAS 109.00

TOTAL AMOUNT CONTRIBUTED $3,439.00 General Education Board to Match $3,439.00 Previously Reported 46,892.84

$53,770.84 Reid and DuBois Broadcast on People’s College Hour December, 1942 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 15

NEW UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

1. Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks 2. Miss Mary Bullock 3. Miss Ellenor Chaires Faculty, Library School Assistant in Library Circulation Desk, Library

Thelma Cunningham Mary Dean Gertrude Franklin Assistant in Library Grade II, Oglethorpe Catalogue Librarian

7. Miss Luca- Graves 8. Dr. Henry C. Hamilton 9. Mr. Wallace Van Jackson Grade IF, Oglethorpe Department of Education Head Librarian

10. Mrs. Evelyn Jenkins IE Mrs. Cai.lie Montgomery 12. Mrs. Gladys Reid Secretary, President's Office Grade 1, Oglethorpe Counsellor to Graduate Students

13. Mrs. Dorothy Poles 14. Dr. Ambrose E. Suhrie 15. Mrs. Helen A. Whiting 4.MissFaculty, Library School Guest5.Mrs.Professor of Education 6.MissDepartment of Education Page 16 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1(J42

FACULTY ITEMS

I)r. William H. Dean has been Dr. Ossip Flechtheim spoke on North Carolina. Mrs. Hill, the for¬ mer M iss Dorothea granted a leave of absence to serve as “Russia in the War” before the In¬ Irby of New Lon¬ chief economist and price executive ternational Relations Club at Gam¬ don, Connecticut, was on the faculty with the OPA in the Virgin Islands. mon Theological Seminary on No¬ of the Atlanta University Laboratory On September 4 and 5, Dr. Dean vember 11. He was married in Sep¬ School during 1941-42. tember to Miss Lili T. Faktor of appeared on the program of the Sec¬ ♦ ond Annual Meeting of The Eco¬ New York. nomic History Association which met ♦ A son, John Laurin, was born to at Williams College in Massachu¬ M r. an d M rs. Melvin Dow Ken¬ setts. He discussed “The History and Mr. Owen Dodson, former assist¬ nedy, on Monday, July 27, in Chi¬ Present Status of Location Theory.” ant director of dramatics, has enlisted cago, Illinois. Mrs. Kennedy has served on the staff of Atlanta Uni¬ ♦ in the U. S. Navy and is at the Great Lakes Training School, Illinois. versity as dietitian and as hostess. Mr. Dr. Rushton Coulborn, chairman Kennedy is on the faculty of More¬ ♦ house of the history department, was in Dal¬ College.

las, Texas, during the month of Oc¬ M iss Henrietta Herod, exchange ♦ tober to deliver a series of lectures. professor of English from Spelman From October 12-23, he delivered six College, was awarded the Ph. D. de¬ “The Importance of the War Upon lectures at the Civic Federation of gree in English in September by the Negro Graduate and Professional Dallas on “The Future of China and University of Chicago. Schools” appeared in the Journal of India.” On October 22, he delivered ♦ Negro Education for July, 1942. a convocation address at Texas State It was written by Dr. Rufus E. College for Women on “India’s His¬ An article by Dr. Mercer Cook en¬ Clement. tory and the Indian Problem”; and titled “Cuba Gets Its First Colored ♦ on October 24, he addressed the An¬ Catholic Priest” appeared in the No¬ nual Regional Congress for the South¬ vember 7 issue of the Afro-American. Mr. Robert N. Preer, a former as¬ west of Business and Professional Dr. Cook is on leave of absence for sistant in the office of the Registrar, Women’s Clubs on the subject “Rus¬ advanced study at the University of is an enlisted man in the U. S. Army sia and Her Allies: Present and Havana. and is now Future.” studying at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cam¬ October 18th, Dr. Coulborn spoke ♦ bridge. over Station KGKO from Dallas on On October 10, President Rufus “The Indian Problem.” ♦ E. Clement was founder’s day speaker ♦ at Fort Valley State College. M iss Anne M. Cooke, of the fac¬ Dr. H. C. Hamilton has had pub¬ ♦ ulty of Spelman College and director lished in the October issue of The of the Atlanta University Summer M iss C. Janet Clark was elevated Theatre and the Herald an article entitled “The University Players, to the position of assistant to the regis¬ is enrolled in the School of the Drama Georgia Law Calls for Contracts for trar at the Teachers.” beginning of the new aca¬ at Yale University. demic year, 1942-43. ♦ ♦ ♦ M iss In Phylon for November, 1942, Dorothy May Williams, di¬ M iss Camilla Howard, who taught rector of appeared “The John Canoe Festival,” publicity, was married on at the Laboratory High School from written by Dr. Ira De A. Reid. August 5 to Mr. Adolphus Bell September, 1930, through May, 1942, Recent addresses by Dr. Reid have Wright of Clark College. has been appointed to the faculty of been delivered at the Maryland State ♦ Dillard University. Teachers Association, the Virginia State Teachers Association, the Na¬ ♦ Mr. Joseph L. Whiting, exchange tional Conference of Social Work, professor from Spelman and More¬ the National Urban League Confer¬ A daughter, Constance, was born house Colleges, has been elected to ence, and at State Teachers College to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hill, on Sun¬ honorary membership in the Eugene in Montgomery, Alabama. day, July 26, 1942, in Charlotte, Field Society. December, 1942 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Doge 17

ALUMNI NEWS

1876 as executive secretary of the Atlanta and at the present time is stationed Richard R. Wright received the Urban League. She also has served as at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. of Doctor of Hu¬ executive secretary of the colored honorary degree 1932 manities from Wilberforce University branch of the ^ . W. C. A. in Bir¬ M rs. Herman Robinson on June 11. The award was made by mingham, Alabama. (Erostine his Evans Coles) was awarded the M. A. son, Bishop R. R. Wright, a for¬ 1925 mer president of Wilberforce. degree in dramatics at Columbia Uni¬ M rs. Minnie Perrv Bowden re¬ versity at the June, 1942, commence¬ 1907 cently was appointed to the faculty ment. The of I newly-organized chapter of alladega College as instructor of 1933 the National Emblem Club of the mathematics. M r. Butler Street Y. M. C. A. was named James Tapley Ward law, Ex-1925 in honor of Austin T. Walden, At¬ executive secretary of the Urban M iss Muriel lanta lawyer and outstanding civic Rahn, soprano, League of Massillon, Ohio, was mar¬ leader. thrilled an audience of approximately ried on July 3 to Miss Reba L. Black ten thousand early in September when of Youngstown, Ohio. 1909 she sang with a ninety-piece orchestra Mr. James A. Colston, director of Mrs. Josephine Dibble in the Grant Park Murphy of Shell, Chicago. the Ballard School in M aeon, Geor¬ Atlanta has She has a joined the staff of the role in the Lunt-Fon- gia, has been named president of Fort tanne show Valley State College as dean of “The Pirate” which is Bethune-Cookman Junior College, women. playing on Broadway. succeeding Mrs. Mary McLeod 1917 1927 Bethune who founded the college Mr. thirty-eight years ago. Asa H. Gordon has been ap¬ Mr. Adolphus Bell Wright, chair¬ pointed to the social science depart¬ man of the department of business 1934 ment at Southern University. He was administration at Clark College, was Mr. Frederick Mapp received the formerly head of the divisions of so¬ on married August 5 to Miss Doro¬ M. S. degree from Harvard Univer¬ cial sciences and research and publi¬ thy May Williams, of Cambridge, sity at the June, 1942, commence¬ cations at Georgia State College in Massachusetts. ment. Savannah. Mr. Henry West is in the United 1935 1920 States Army. Mr. Samuel T. Washington, re¬ Mr. Ralph T. Jefferson is a mem¬ 1928 cently on the staff of Hampton In¬ ber of the State Legislature in Penn¬ M iss Marion Evelyn Pharrow, stitute, has enlisted in the U. S. Army sylvania. who is employed by the Associated and is stationed at Camp Meade. 1922 Charities in Washington, D. C., was married on October 10 at Silver 1936 Captain Henry Rutherford Butler, Springs, Maryland, to Mr. Joseph Mr. Robert Bonner was awarded Jr., of the U. S. Army Medical Corps, Moore of Washington, D. C. the A. M. degree in Educational Ad¬ was married on October 9 to Miss Mrs. Emma Rush ministration by Columbia University Rheba May Ashmore of Appling, Cunningham of on December 16. He has em¬ Atlanta has been appointed to the been Georgia. The wedding took place at ployed for several months in the Di¬ Fort Huachuca, Arizona. English faculty of LeMoyne College in Memphis, Tennessee. vision of War Research at that in¬ 1924 stitution. 1930 Miss Magnolia Latimer, who is Miss Augusta J. Johnson is on the Mr. Myron W. l'owns received also a graduate of the Atlanta Uni¬ faculty of Barber Scotia College as the Ph. D. degree in chemistry from versity School of Social Work, has instructor in English, speech, and the University of Michigan at the been appointed by the American Red dramatics. June, 1942, commencement. Cross to serve as assistant program Mr. Elihu Norris, instructor in so¬ Ex-1930 director in one of its overseas Clubs. cial sciences at Booker T. Washing¬ She is the second graduate of the In September, 1942, Mr. Cassius ton High School, left Atlanta on No¬ School of Social Work to be appointed Mosby I homas was appointed to the vember 3 to join the l nited States for this type of work. faculty of Shaw University in Ra¬ Army. Miss Latimer is a native of At¬ leigh, North Carolina. Recently he Mr. Robert A. Thompson, Jr., has lanta. At one time she was was inducted into the U. employed S. Army, been appointed vocational secretary Page IS I III'. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULL Ill \ December, 1942 for the Atlanta Urban League. His 1939 Mrs. Marie Ferguson Peters has duties will consist of opening employ¬ Miss Nell Marie Hamilton (A. B. joined the faculty of the Laboratory School conducted ment opportunities for workers, con¬ 1927) has been appointed adminis¬ by Virginia State ducting a program of workers’ edu¬ trative assistant at the David T. College. cation, and doing demonstration of Howard Junior High School. Mr. George Sampson is a corporal vocational in guidance. Staff Sergeant Benjamin Richard the U. S. A., and is stationed at the Salt Lake Durant was married on August 16 City Army Air Base. 1937 to Miss Franzetta Williams of Mo¬ Miss Lome Washington is teach¬ bile, Alabama. Sergeant Durant is ing at the St. Paul Polytechnic In¬ Miss Thelma Brown, formerly an stationed at Fort F2ustis, Virginia, stitute, Lawrenceville, Virginia. instructor at Georgia Normal and where the wedding took place in Cur¬ M iss Carolyn Brvdie Williams was Industrial College, has entered the tis Chapel. Mrs. Durant is a 1940 married in Elizabeth City, North WAAC at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. graduate of Spelman College. Carolina, on July 11, to Lt. Bayard Miss Mary Reddick has been M iss Mildred Fisher, instructor at King Colon of New York. granted a fellowship by the General the Atlanta University Laboratory Mr. Mark Goodrum Birchette was Education Board and is now working School, 1939-1942, has been appointed married on Thanksgiving Day to towards the Ph. I). degree at Rad- to the faculty of Tuskegee Institute. M iss Geraldine Farrar Geer of At¬ cliffe College in Cambridge, Massa¬ M iss Velma N. lanta. chusetts. King is employed iss in Washington as a junior clerk. She M Florence Molette has joined Mr. Winfred Octavus Bryson, Jr., was formerly an instructor at the the faculty of St. Philip’s Junior Col¬ who is head of the department of eco¬ Booker T. Washington Evening High lege in San Antonio, Texas. nomics at Morgan College, is study¬ School, Atlanta. Miss Magnolia Echols has married ing during 1942-43 at the University Mr. Orange Yokley has joined the Private Robert L. Wilkins. She is of Pennsylvania on a grant from the faculty at Fort Valley State College. living in Columbus, Ohio. General Education Board. 1940 1942

1938 Miss Sophia Nelson is now em¬ Subsequent to the 1942 commence¬ ployed as instructor in English at Liv¬ I)r. and Mrs. Thomas P. Dooley ment exercises, M iss Elizabeth Vir¬ ingstone College. ginia Banner of Winchester, Massa¬ (Eula Mucklerov) are the parents of M iss Elaine Douglass is on the chusetts, was awarded the degree of a young daughter, Lois Marie, born faculty at Fort Valley State College. bachelor of science in library service. during the past summer. Mr. William Jones, who serves as According to a recent report, Miss Mr. Clinton N. Cornell (A. B. business manager at Fayetteville State Banner has married Mr. Robert N. 1920) was appointed principal of the Teachers College, was married on Preer of Atlanta and is living in Cam¬ Booker T. Washington High School June 6 to M iss Margaret M. James bridge, Massachusetts. on September 8, succeeding Charles of Wilmington, North Carolina. M iss L. Harper, who had held that post Mary Bullock has been named AI iss Eugenia Dunn, a member of an assistant in the Atlanta for the past nineteen years. Mr. Cor¬ University the nell had been vice principal since biology faculty of Spelman Col¬ Library. 1931. He joined the faculty of the lege, taught handicrafts at Camp Ski M iss Mary E. Cater is on the Hi in Kentucky during the month of French High School at its formal opening in faculty at Morehouse College. July. She was engaged as biology in¬ September, 1924, as a member of the M iss Syria Francois is instructor structor at Louisville Municipal Col¬ science department, and later he was in English and librarian at Alcorn elected head of the department. lege during the month of August. College, Mississippi. A daughter was born on October Mr. Cornell’s educational back¬ M iss Geneva Higgins is teaching 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Echols at the Ballard School in ground includes graduate study at the Macon, in Louisville, Kentucky. Mrs. Echols Georgia. University of Illinois and also at is the former Vonceil Anderson (M. Northwestern University. M iss Claretta Scott is teaching at S. W. 1941). Fort Mr. Butler A. Valley State College. Jones has been ap¬ Ex-1940 pointed instructor in social sciences M rs. Alma Long Bell has been ap¬ Miss and assistant to the President at Bar¬ Georgia Harris, who was en¬ pointed librarian at the Negro Service rolled in the ber Scotia College, Concord, North department of biology, Club, Camp Stewart, Georgia. has joined the WAAC. Carolina. He is also serving as an as¬ M iss Edna Boddie is librarian at sistant in the Study of Secondary 1941 Huntington High School in Newport Schools conducted by the Association Mr. Robert Foster is enrolled in News, Virginia. of Colleges and Secondary Schools for the medical school at Meharrv. M rs. Margaret Bond has returned N egroes. M iss Alma M. Jackson is employed to her position as librarian at the Norcom M rs. Callie Mae Montgomery has as an inspector at the Signal Corps High School, Portsmouth, been appointed to the faculty of the Radio Laboratories, Jersey City, New Virginia. Atlanta University Laboratory School. Jersey. (Continued on Page 19) December, 1942 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 19

Graduates Pay Tribute to Founder OBITUARIES On December 22, the 105th anni¬ versary of Edmund Asa Ware, Mr. Peter R. Club of Savannah. His last visit alumni of Atlanta L niversity gath¬ ered at his to his alma mater was in 1929 grave on the campus to Dene conduct their serv¬ sail at the fiftieth anniversary of his annual memorial Mr. Peter E. Denegall, who graduation. ice. A brief eulogy was delivered by Dr. died in November, 1942, was J. R. Porter, ’86, who was per¬ graduated from Atlanta Uni¬ sonally acquainted with Mr. Ware. versity in the class of 1879. He Mr. Arthur Anison came to Atlanta in the early U7infield seventies with a group of young Mr. Arthur Anison Winlield Alumni News men who had studied in a school of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, conducted in Savannah bv Rev¬ (Continued died in August at the Freed- from Page IS) erend James Porter, father of men's Hospital, Washington, Mr. I)r. J. R. Porter, ’86. Claude Dixon is a private in I). C. He was twenty-four Mr. Denegall’s first work the U. S. Army. He is stationed at years of age. was as a teacher in a little Camp Swift in Texas. Mr. Winfield was born in school at Albany, Georgia, un¬ Aliss Ola Alae Hines is an assistant Jarretts, Virginia, on January der the auspices of the Ameri¬ in the library at Prairie View State 10, 1918. He attended Chevney can College, Texas. Missionary Association. He State Teachers remained there College, and only one year Miss Eunice Jones is a was graduated in June, 1939, cataloger before going to his home in in the with the degree of bachelor of library at Prairie View State where he entered the Savannah, science in education. College, Texas. postal service in which he con¬ Miss The deceased entered the so¬ Mary Scott is librarian at tinued for thirty years. ciology department of Atlanta Coulter Memorial Academy, Cheraw, In 1912, when a library for University in September, 1939, South Carolina. colored people was built in and was awarded the degree of Miss Estella Taylor is librarian at Savannah, he became the first master of arts at the June, the Booker T. librarian and held that position Washington High 1941, convocation. School, Columbia, South Carolina. until shortly before his death. Mr. Air. Denegall was interested J. Luther Thomas is librarian in all movements for the good Mr. Jeremiah at Florida A. <$c M. College, Talla¬ of the people, and on that ac¬ hassee, Florida. count he was William Towns always highly re¬ Miss Verdelle \ anderhorst is libra¬ spected. He was never of robust Mr. J e r e m i a h William rian at Barber Scotia College in Con¬ health so that he could not ac¬ Towns of Dallas, Texas, died cord, North Carolina. tively participate in all the on Saturday, October 10, after Miss Gladys Porter has been ap¬ things with which he sympa¬ a brief illness. He had been on pointed chief statistician and assistant thized. the faculty of the Lincoln High to the director of the Tools 1 he deceased was a trustee School of that Division, city since 1938. WPB in of Washington, D. C. the Congregational Church At one time, Mr. Towns op¬ in Savannah. He had a keen in¬ erated a drug store in Dallas; Miss Anatol Carridad Reeves was terest in Atlanta University and and at other times, he held married on September 3 to Dr. Ken¬ worked earnestly for it as presi¬ interest in three undertaking neth \ . A. Rodgers of Nassau, Ba¬ dent of the Atlanta l niversity establishments. hama Islands. Ex-1942

Miss Doris Gaskill has been ap¬ pointed to the semester totaled twelve hundred and faculty of Booker T. University Events twenty-two. Washington High School, Atlanta. (Continued from Page 9) In the various colleges, these stu¬ M iss Beatrice Louise Stith is teach¬ dents are distributed as follows: Spel- ing at Ballard School, Macon, Geor¬ man College, 405; Morehouse Col¬ 'Twelve II andred gia. Twenty- lege, 397; Atlanta l niversity, 97; AI is-- Almeta Eriche is the Atlanta l diversity School of So¬ teaching at Two Students Enrolled Fort \ cial Work, 85; and the Laboratory alley State College. I‘H2-43 School The enrollment in the At¬ (including the Nursery-Kin¬ Mrs. Harriet \\ ile\ Jeffries is now lanta l niversity System for the first dergarten and Grades 1-6) 238. living in Henderson, Kentucky. THE

ATLANTA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

The Graduate School of Arts and Science

offers courses leading to the Master’s degree in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Economics and Business Administration, Education, English, French, History, Latin, Mathematics and Sociology.

The School of Social Work

a graduate school offering a two-year curriculum for prospective social workers, leading to the degree of Master of Social Work or to the professional certificate.

The School of Library Service

requiring college graduation for admission and offering a one-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Library Service.

Spelman College

a strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for women.

Morehouse College

a strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for men

The Summer School

in which the Atlanta institutions for the higher education of Negroes combine under the direction of Atlanta University to offer courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The Laboratory Elementary School and the Nursery School

a system of education beneath the college level offering an opportunity for ex perimentation, observation and practice teaching.

For injormotion address the Registrar of the school in which you are interested