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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 -A;//la ntci H, ii'crji/ij Served tL .A,•nut December, 1942 Page 2 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 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.