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The 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 111 JULY, 1943 No. 43 C^om m en com en t-1943 Out-of-doors for the first time in thirteen years Page 2 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1943 Bean page’s Beat!) M #reat HLo$$ to Atlanta fHntoersittp The death on July 1 of Mr. Dean Sage, lawyer and Mr. Sage was elected president of the Presbyterian philanthropist, and for the last fourteen years chairman Hospital, at Seventieth Street and Park Avenue, New of the board of trustees of Atlanta University, is a great York City, in November, 1922. On October 4, 1924, loss to the University and the affiliated institutions. he announced the plans for the construction of “the Mr. Sage died while on a fishing outing at Camp Har¬ greatest medical center in the world,” which was to cost mony, New Brunswick, Canada. He was in his sixty- more than $20,000,000 and to embody the latest de¬ eighth year. velopments in medical science, combining hospital, med¬ Since 1911, Mr. Sage had been a member of the board ical college and research work. and for a number of years he served as chairman of the The work in which he had played so prominent a finance committee. From the time of the affiliation of part was finished in 1928, on a twenty-acre site at Broad¬ Spelman College, Morehouse College and Atlanta Uni¬ way and 168th Street. The enterprise included the new versity into the Atlanta University System in 1929 to Presbyterian Hospital, the Squier Urological Clinic, the the time of his passing, he was chairman of the Atlanta Stephen V. Harkness Pavilion, the Sloane Hospital for board. Women, part of the Vanderbilt Clinic, the Presbyterian When Mr. Sage visited Atlanta University in April, Hospital School of Nursing, the Columbia Medical Cen¬ 1932, to attend the dedication of the new $450,000 ter and other units. Ground wTas broken on January 31, library, he accepted the keys to this magnificent build¬ 1925, and the doors opened on March 19, 1928. The ing with the following words which briefly sum up the center, not counting the psychiatric unit, accommodates spirit of the man who served Atlanta University so patients. faithfully over a period of thirty-two years: “1 envision After becoming its board president and a member this library as the heart of a great center of cultural of the joint administrative body which directed it, Mr. learning—an abiding home for that freedom of thought Sage also was made president of the board of Sloane which denies prejudice, prompts the search for wisdom, Hospital for Women, of Babies Hospital, and of the and fights an eternal battle against the disorganization Neurological Institute of New York, all units of the of ignorance and the deadness of materialism; an insti¬ center. He was re-elected to the same offices at every tution which shall give to America leadership measured annualI,210 election. in terms of men and women of the Negro race, a leader¬ Mr. Sage was a director of the Commonwealth Fund, ship fully competent, because of the advantages here a philanthropic organization; and of the Josiah N. Macy gained, to match with the best leadership of the white Jr. Foundation, a group with similar purposes. He was race for the solution of those problems which the one¬ a trustee of the New York Trust Company and a di¬ ness of our country makes common to both.” rector of the Sage Land and Improvement Company. Mr. Sage’s deep interest in Atlanta University grew He also was a member of the executive committee of out of his friendship with the late President Edward the Prison Association of New York. His legal circle Twichell Ware, while the two were classmates at Yale affiliations included the Bar Association of the City of University. New ork, the New York County Lawyers Association, Mr. Sage was born in Brooklyn, a son of Dean and the New York State Bar Association and the American Sarah A. Manning Sage. He was graduated from the Bar Association. Albany (N. Y.) Academy in 1893, and from Yale Uni¬ His clubs were the Yale, Racquet and Tennis, and versity four years later with the degree of bachelor of the Links. His home was in Bernardsville, New Jersey. arts. Yale also conferred on him an honorary M. A. On June 9, 1900, Mr. Sage married Miss Anna degree in 1928. In 1900, Mr. Sage received an LL. B. Parker, daughter of the late Major General Amassa from Harvard. Columbia honored him with an LL. D. J. Parker, Civil War veteran, who had served as State in 1928. Senator. Mrs. Sage died in 1941. On leaving the Harvard Law School, Mr. Sage was Surviving Mr. Sage are two daughters: Mrs. Staun¬ admitted to the New York bar, and helped form the ton Williams of Hartford, Connecticut; an d M rs. David firm of Sage, Kerr & Gray, which later merged with Hunter McAlpin of Princeton, New Jersey; and one another law firm and finally became the firm of Sage, son, Dean Sage, Jr., of West Orange, New Jersey. Gray, Todd <Sc Sims. He was a deputy assistant district Young Mr. Sage, also on the board of Atlanta Uni¬ attorney of New York County in 1902. During the first versity, is with his father’s firm. World War he served in the New \ ork office of the Army Transport Service, and later in the New York (The December Bulletin will carry a special tribute office of the real estate division of the General Staff. to the life and work of Mr. Sage.) July, 194: THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 3 UNIVERSITY EVENTS Sir William Beveridge came the first Chairman of Employ¬ Dr. Alfonso Elder ment Is Visitor Exchanges Committee in the A Board of Trade and Director of Labor ppointed Sir William Beveridge, author of Exchanges. During the last war he the well-known British proposals for served in the Ministry of Munitions social insurance and allied services, and in the Ministry of Food. In 1919, the visited Atlanta University on June 22 distinguished Briton became Di¬ rector of the London School of Eco¬ to confer with a group of Negro and white educators and officials in the nomics and Political Science, serving business and civic life of Atlanta. The in that capacity until 1937 when he assumed his conference included officials of most of present post of Master of the Atlanta colleges, members of the University College at Oxford. l niversity faculty in the social scien¬ As early as 1909, Sir William had ces, an attorney, insurance executive, published ‘‘Unemployment: A Prob¬ and the presidents of Tuskegee Insti¬ lem of Industry” (revised 1930). tute and Fort Valley State College. Other publications include “Insurance The discussion centered around the for All,' “British Food Control,” Beveridge Report and various aspects “Causes and Cures of Unemploy¬ of the social security program in ment,” “'Lhe L nemployment Insur¬ America. Sir William was accom¬ ance Statutory Committee,” and panied by Mr. Jackson Davis, asso¬ “Prices and Wages in England.” ciate director of the General Educa¬ tion Board, under whose auspices the Dr. Alfonso Elder, for the past American trip is being conducted. nineteen years dean of the North Sir William has devoted much of People s College in Carolina College for Negroes in Dur¬ his life to the ham, is the new chairman of the de¬ study of employment Second Session problems. At the age of twenty-six, he partment of education at Atlanta was a member of the Central (Unem¬ University. His appointment became The second session of the People’s ployed) Body for London, then be- effective at the opening of the summer College was opened on March 1 and session on June 7. closed May 7. A number of new An alumnus of Atlanta The courses were added in the fields of University, Dr. Elder received the bachelor of Atlanta University consumer education, clothing, current arts events, Negro history and race rela¬ degree from this institution in Bulletin tions. As in the first session, classes 1921. At Columbia University, he continued his index met once a week for ten weeks, and studies, earning the mas¬ ter of arts no tuition was charged. degree in 1924 and the de¬ I )eath of I Dean Sage 2 gree of doctor of education in 1938. l On the staff were members of the niversity Events 3 Dr. Elder’s educational background Faculty Items 13 faculties of the local colleges and high includes also graduate study at the Alumni News 14 schools, and experienced business, pro¬ University of Chicago and at the Uni- Obituaries 17 fessional, industrial, and service work¬ versitv of Cambridge in England. His Graduates and Former Students ers. The director was Dr. Ira De A. teaching experience was obtained at in the Armed Forces IS Reid, professor of sociology at Atlanta Summer School Calendar 19 University. (Continued on Page 16) Page 4 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1943 Sir William Beveridge on his visit to the University Upper—Discussing social insurance and allied services Lower—Sir William and Mr. Jackson Davis flanked by Presidents Clement and Read July, 1943 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 5 SECOND ANNUM, NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY NEGRO ARTISTS The Second Annual National Ex¬ and fifty dollars to twenty-one year Lee, Virginia, for “Swampwater”; hibition of Paintings by Negro artists old John Wilson of Boston, Massa¬ and the second prize of twenty-five opened to the public on Sunday, April chusetts, for his painting "Black Sol¬ dollars was awarded to Frederick 4, in the Exhibition Gallery of the dier.’’ The second award in oils of Jones of Chicago for his painting Library.