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mopehouse college Bulletin ©1979FM Alumni Contributions and Morehouse A Morehouse alumnus was heard to tion had fallen on his shoulders—if the alumnus who gives $1,000 each year. Each make this statement: "I don't owe More¬ total cost of constructing and maintaining is giving according to his ability. Each is house a thing. I paid my way through col¬ buildings, buying and maintaining equip¬ helping to alleviate the financial burdens so I see lege, don't why I should give ment, finding and keeping top-notch of the College. For this reason the anything to Morehouse.'' teachers had been his responsibility. If all smallest gift is gratefully received. For A second alumnus was heard to of these say, "I costs were added together and this reason it is difficult to find a know I have an obligation to make a con¬ divided equally among all Morehouse Morehouse man whose circumstances tribution to Morehouse, but I am embar¬ students enrolled during a particular year, will not permit him to make even a small rassed to give a small amount. I really very few (if any) would survive the first contribution IT IS THE HABIT OF GIV¬ want to respond to those letters I get from month. The individual cost would be pro¬ ING TO MOREHOUSE EACH YEAR President Gloster. But since I am in no hibitive. Only because of gifts that come WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT position to give as much as I would like to from friends and alumni can a private col¬ THING. give, I just don't send anything at all." lege subsidize the student's charges. And Thus, we say Morehouse has won an un¬ Have you heard any of these com¬ this money must be raised every year. No questioned place of confidence and in¬ m ments? Unfortunately, these attitudes are student at any college pays his way tegrity in education. Her many outstand¬ more common than they deserve to be. through. His expenses are as low as they ing alumni speak for her. This position of Let us set the record straight. are because the difference is made up eminence cannot be allowed to suffer. It Probably the first alumnus has given lit¬ from other sources — mainly gifts. must be maintained and strengthened for tle thought about why his expenses were Furthermore, small are in¬ gifts that future generations of Morehouse men. not higher when he was in college. Every creased each Hr year become larger yearly This calls for increasingly substantial thoughtful Morehouse man knows that he In gifts. addition, it is assumed that the yearly support from her alumni. could not have paid his way through col¬ alumnus who gives $25 each year is mak¬ IF MOREHOUSE MEN DON'T CARE, lege if the full financial burden of educa¬ ing the same personal sacrifice as the WHO DOES? Alumni Contributions 1978-1979 (July 1, 1978 —June 30, 1979) The College pays special tribute to the alumni who were the following top donors for the fiscal year: BENJAMIN DURDEE BARNWELL, JR. '52 Physician Petersburg, Virginia WILLIAM HOLMES BORDERS, SR., '29 . Pastor, Wheat Street Baptist Church Atlanta, Georgia MALCOLM L. CORRIN, '50 President and Chief Executive Officer Interracial Council for Business Opportunity New York, New York "THE GREATEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN TO MOREHOUSE COLLEGE IN THESE DAYS WOULD BE THE ALUMNI INTEREST IN SUCH A WAY THAT INVESTMENT OF EVERY SUCCEEDING STUDENT GENERATION WOULD BE STIMULATED SPURRED IN¬ SPIRED BY THE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT BENDING OVER THEM AT THE IN THE TABLE, CLASSROOM WERE THE INNUMERABLE SPIRITS OF ALUMNI LIVING AND DEAD WHO NOT ONLY PASSED THROUGH THESE HALLS BUT HAD GIVEN THE VERY SUBSTANCE OFTHEIR LIVESTOMAKE POSSIBLE THE CONTINUANCE OFTHIS HOLY PLACE" Mordecai W. Johnson, '11 February 18,1931 1978-1979 Thousandaires $1000 $1,600 T.M. Alexander, Sr., Georgia George W. Haley, District of Columbia James E. Schell, California James P. Brown, Ohio James B. Harris, Georgia Murray A. Schmoke, Maryland Lerone Bennett, Illinois Clarence G. Littlejohn, California Howard Thurman, California Marshall C. Cleveland, Alabama Samuel McKinney, Washington Oliver Taylor, Illinois John W. Davis Scholarship Fund, Charles E. Merrill, Massachusetts Charles L. Taylor, Washington New York Albert Price, Texas Horace Ward, Georgia Edward E. Holt, Maryland C. Melvin Patrick, New York Charles H. Williams, Michigan George L. Sanders, Florida $500 -$999 Latimer Blout, Georgia Frank E. Williams, Florida Herman F. Bostick, Maryland C. Bruce Bailey, South Carolina Joseph T. Brooks, Washington $100 $249 Samuel D. Cook, Louisiana Cleo P. Coles, Jr., Georgia Ezra C. Davidson Jr., California Wallace J. Coombs, Georgia Isaiah L. Alexander, New Jersey Henry W. Foster, Tennessee James A. Colston, North Carolina John A. Aldridge, Georgia ' James Herndon, California Freddie C. Colston, Michigan Edmund A. Allen, California Phale D. Hale, Ohio William P. Diggs, South Carolina Cleon Arrington, Georgia Butler T. Henderson, New York Robert V. Franklin, Jr., Ohio Anonymous Brannon J. Hopson, Pennsylvania I.O. Funderburg, Georgia Leroy W. Aiken, New York Eugene Jones, Massachusetts Hugh M. Gloster, Georgia Nelson T. Archer, Georgia M.D. Jackson, Pennsylvania Aaron Gordon, New York Reid A. Brookins, Georgia Charles R. Lawrence, New York William M. Hayden, Michigan Marcellus C. Barksdale, Georgia Fred C. Lofton, Tennessee Henry Heyward, Alaska Marcus J. Beavers, Georgia Charlie J. Moreland, Georgia Richard D. Handy Jr., California Walter M. Booker, District of Columbia Henry Miles, District of Columbia Ralph A. Hicks, California William A. Bell, Michigan Huerta C. Neals, New Jersey Caesar G. Hill, Virginia Freeman A. Bussey, Maryland William M. Nix, Georgia Alfred G. Johnson, Virginia Cecil P. Brown, Michigan W.D. Pettus, Alabama Reese A. Johnson, Georgia Stanley B. Bagley, Ohio Vaughn C. Payne, Maryland William Jenkins, California Jonel L. Brown, Sr., Texas Alfred L. Ball, David O. Peart, New Jersey Ratio C. Jones, Mississippi Georgia W. William G. Reid, Alabama Joseph W. Joyner, California Bryson, Jr., Maryland Robert L. Butler, Alabama J.J. Sansom, Jr., North Carolina W.A. Jackson, Illinois J. Merrill Spencer, Michigan James L. Jordon, Georgia Taylor L. Baker, Indiana H.J.C. Bower, Sr., Georgia J.B. Sanders, Virginia Roy D. Jackson, New York James S. Simmons, North Carolina William H. Killian III, Georgia Johnny Bullock, Jr., Missouri Lewis H. Twigg, Jr., Michigan Coretta S. King, Georgia Leroy Butler, Alabama B. A. Russell Brooks, Kentucky • Donald T. Moore, North Carolina Albert Kelsey, Georgia Lionel C. Dezra White, Texas Ezekiel L. Kennedy, Georgia Barrow, Jr., Maryland John W. Warren, Michigan Reginald C. Lindsay, Massachusetts Charles H. Wardlaw, New York Alton T. Lemon, Pennsylvania John Y. Moreland, Georgia I pledge to give something each year to $250 $499 Robert L. Mallett, Georgia Morehouse for as long as I have an in¬ Leroy C. Newman, Michigan come. '42 Herbert S. Outlar, Pennsylvania J. Joseph Anderson, Illinois Augustus A. Adair, Maryland Joseph W. Perry, California Franklin Porter, Michigan Gabriel Alexander, Georgia Thomas J. Ballentine Clarence R. Brown, New York King D. Reddick, Jr., New York Bobby F. Coates William W. Bennett, District of Columbia John B. Smith, Georgia Edward Saunders, Virginia William H. Churchill, Maryland Charles E. Collins, Florida W. Rowan Sanders, Michigan Clarence E. Clark, Georgia Here is a check for my last pledge. Con¬ Arthur F. Smith, Georgia Fletcher Coombs, Georgia trary to some of my actions while a stu¬ Amater Z. Traylor Sr., Georgia T. Shelton Coles, Georgia dent, Morehouse does mean a great deal Jack D. Thomas, New Jersey William F. Crawl, Georgia to me. I hope to give more in the future. Edwin A. Thompson, Sr., Georgia Pierce M. Thompson, California Benjamin Clawson, Michigan Wilburn A. Campbell, Sr., Florida Julius Jones, Jr., Missouri Philip S. Tyus, Pennsylvania Arthur F. Clarke, Sr., New Jersey Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., Georgia Nathaniel C. Veale Jr., Georgia A.M. Davis, Georgia Norman A. Jenkins, Pennsylvania Earle E. Wells, District of Columbia Benjamin L. Dent, Georgia Levi S. Kirkland, South Carolina Charles V. Willie, Massachusetts Griffin F. Day, Alabama George D. Kelsey, New Jersey Ercell Webb, New Jersey Whitman Day, Georgia Alhai Bola Kotan, Lagos, Nigeria J. Herbert Williams, Georgia Joseph Draper, Georgia Calvin E. King, Tennessee Ernest F. Wilson, North Carolina H.O. Dozier, New Jersey Leonard D. Laws, Jr., Indiana Robert J. Williams, Georgia James B. Ellison, Georgia Wilbur T. Leaphart, Georgia Philip C. Williams, Illinois Vinson A. Edwards, Alabama Benjamin F. Logan, Georgia Isaac Willis, Georgia Lonnie C. Edwards, Illinois Ronald H. Lundy, Georgia Charles C. Walker, Maryland Matthew H. Estarus, Florida Edwin A. Lee, Illinois Bismarck S. Williams, Illinois A. Reginald Eaves, Georgia George C. Lawrence, Georgia Albert Wells, Illinois Albert T. Edwards, Florida J.A. Lockett, Georgia William M. Wesley, Indiana J. Richard Everett, New York A. Leon Lowry, Sr., Florida John L. Wade, California Eugene McGowan, J r., Delaware John M. Ware, Alabama Rathuel L. McCollum, Ohio Robert J. Yancy, Georgia It is alarming to learn that we are not Walter E. Massey, Rhode Island Preston M. Yancy, Virginia supporting our school as we should. I will Jerry A. Moore, District of Columbia always feel that I have pledged my life to Otis Moss, Ohio $1 - $99 our great school. '59 Winston Mackey, Jr., Florida William E. Mims, Jr., New York Joseph Arrington, Georgia Frederick E. Mapp, Georgia Thomas Arnold, Georgia David M. Franklin, Georgia Gordon A. Merritt, Florida Italy L. Allen, Georgia Henry E. Fortson, Michigan Winton Mackey, Jr., Florida Harry Apple, Ohio Grady Farley, California Herbert F. Mazeke, Ohio Howard D. Apple, Illinois Tee Stewart Greer, Jr., Florida Marcellus H. Moore, Illinois W.P. Adkins, Arizona William V. Guy, Georgia Marvin C. Mangham Jr., Georgia Jerry Adams, Georgia Charles C. Gaines, Georgia Samuel M.