MARCH, 1973

Charter Day A POW Comes Home

Dr. Smythe’s Address 6

Summer Commencement 10

Campus Briefs 16

Atlanta University Honors Dr. Jarrett for 25 years of service 24

Spotlight: Negro Collection of Art and Sculpture Reopened 26

Faculty Items 28

Alumni News 32

In Memoriam

Cover: Atlanta University honors Dr. Jarrett for his 25 years of service. See page 24.

SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA Two distinguished graduates of At¬ lanta University came home for Charter Day—one of them a former ambassador to Syria and Malta, and Charter the other a recently released prisoner Day of war. Dr. Hugh H. Smythe, now professor An AmbassadorAnd A POW of Sociology at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and Come Home To Atlanta University Navy Lieutenant Norris Charles, a graduate of the School of Business Administration who was a POW of the North Vietnamese for nine months, joined trustees, faculty, staff and stu¬ dents in celebrating the granting of the university’s charter. Charter Day was held Monday, October 16. Dr. Smythe delivered the main ad¬ dress in Sisters Chapel. A graduate who earned a Master of Arts degree in Sociology in 1937, he served as U. S. Ambassador to Syria from 1965 to 1967, and as Ambassador to Malta from 1967 to 1969. Lt. Charles, who received the Master of Business Administration degree in 1968, was captured in De¬ cember, 1971, and was one of three prisoners released in September. He and his wife, Olga, a Spelman College Lt. Norris Charles and wife alumna, were Atlanta University's Olga. special guests of honor on Charter Day. Lt. Charles is an undergraduate alumnus of Morehouse College and he has a sister who earned a Master of Science degree in Biology from At¬ lanta University. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Charles of Tampa, and has resided in San Diego since his release. Lt. Charles spoke briefly at Charter Day following Dr. Smythe’s address. His wife was given an orchid corsage from the Spelman Spanish Club, of which she is a former member. During the morning convocation, Atlanta University trustee. Mrs. Grace T. Hamilton surprised Dr. Jarrett with a citation from the trustees com¬ memorating his 25 years of service to Atlanta University as professor, dean and president.

AU HONORS NEW FACULTY ANI> STAFF After the Charter Day Convocation, Atlanta University honored its new fac¬ ulty and staff for 1972-73 at an eve¬ ning banquet at the Royal Coach Motor Hotel. Dr. Jarrett recognized 22 full-time faculty members, three Mrs. Grace T. Hamilton, an Atlanta University Trustee, presents Dr. Jarrett with a part-time faculty, and several new staff citation from the Board of Trustees honoring his 25 years of service to additions and changes. Atlanta University.

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DECEMBER. 1972 3 During the banquet, he presented a Science; and Mr. Nathaniel Dicks, citation to Lt. Charles in appreciation Graduate Teaching Assistant in of the “quality of your service to the French. citizens of the world and your keen IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRA¬ understanding of human beings in a TION: Mr. Arthur B. Cummings, As¬ crucial period that calls for strength sistant Professor; Dr. Margaret C. in leadership.” Simms, Assistant Professor; Dr. H. Citations for 25 years to of service Oliver Welch, Associate Professor; Atlanta University went to Mrs. Gene¬ Mr. John McCown, Director, East vieve T. Hill. Dean of the School of Central Committee for Opportunity Social Work; Mrs. Carrie W. Bell, (ECCO) Project; Mr. Ted Tucker, secretary to the Three Universities Lecturer; Mrs. Mary Vowels, Informa¬ Program; and Mrs. Josephine F. tion Specialist; Miss Mary Frances Thompson of the School of Library Jones, Secretary to the Faculty; and Service. Mrs. Evelyn Sutton, Secretary, ECCO Dr. Jarrett received plaques from Project. the university and the alumni associa¬ In the SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: tion honoring his 25 years of service. Dr. Alma Jean The citation on behalf of the university DeVard, Assistant Pro¬ fessor of was presented by Mrs. Lucy Grigsby, Special Education; Mrs. chairman of the Department of Eng¬ Evelyn L. Gilliard, Assistant Profes¬ lish. Mrs. Nettie G. Smith, president sor in Early Childhood Education; of the Atlanta University Alumni As¬ Mr. Ronald N. Kilpatrick, Assistant Professor of sociation, presented a plaque on behalf Education; Mr. Webster of the alumni. L. Wallace, Assistant Professor of New faculty and staff appointments Education; Mrs. Mildred Freeman, Assistant Professor of recognized at the Charter Day Banquet Reading; Miss included: Annie Elizabeth Primm, Lecturer; Dr. Aubrey Daniel, Lecturer; Mrs. IN ARTS AND SCIENCES: Dr. Georgia C. Pierce, Secretary to the Benjamin F. Hudson, Dean of the Dean; Mrs. Rebecca E. Becker, Ad¬ School; Dr. Earle D. Clowney, Chair¬ ministrative Assistant, Center for man, Department of French; Dr. School and Community Services; Miss Pierre-Michel Fontaine, Professor of Peggy Ann Davis, Secretary, Early Political Science; Dr. Alex Willing¬ Childhood Develpment Program; and ham, Associate Professor of Political Mrs. Bettie M. London, Secretary, Science; Mr. Milton P. Crook, Jr., EPDA Planning and Pilot Program. Assistant Professor of Political Sci¬ New SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK ence; Dr. David F. Dorsey, Jr., As¬ sociate Professor of English and Lin¬ faculty and staff: Mrs. Joan F. Mc- Teer, Assistant Professor; Miss guistics; and Dr. Carolyn F. Gerald, Myrtle G. Associate Professor of Black Litera¬ Glascoe, Lecturer; Mrs. Janet L.

ture. Douglas, Field Instructor, Learning Also Dr. Edward F. Sweat, Visit¬ Project; Mr. William Allison, Lec¬ turer; Mr. Clarence Coleman, Lec¬ ing Professor of Afro-American turer; Miss Patricia Hicks, Lecturer; History; Dr. Gustav A. Ofosu, As¬ Mr. John sistant Professor of Biology; Dr. John Stanley Alexander, Director, Model Cities I. Morris, Assistant Professor of Project; Miss Ruby Valdez, staff, Model Cities Chemistry; Dr. Gene Scott Owen, Project; Mrs. Frances Turner, Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Mr. Director, Head¬ start William Henry L. Dorsey, Lecturer in Training and Technical Assis¬ tance Program; Mrs. Susie Baker, Sociology; Mr. Daniel E. McCarty III, Lecturer in Economics; Dr. Louis Training Director. Headstart Program; and Miss A. Martinez, Lecturer in Spanish; Dr. Dorothy Fort, secretary, Black Dana F. White. Director, Interinstitu- Stylization and Implications for Child Welfare tional Program in Social Change; Mrs. Project. Glorida Blackwell, Lecturer, Interinsti- In the SCHOOL OF LIBRARY tutional Program in Social Change; SERVICE: Mrs. Carolyn L. George, Mrs. Bernice L. Moore, Administra¬ Lecturer; Mrs. Ella G. Yates, Lec¬ tive Assistant, Department of Political turer; Mr. Chih Wang, Assistant Li-

4 brarian; Miss Janice Arnold, Secretary to the Faculty; and Mr. York Davis and Miss Stephanie V. Williams, grad¬ uate assistants. New additions to the Atlanta Uni¬ Citation to t tugh Heyne Smythe versity Administration included: Mr. Walter U. Allen, Jr. and Mr. James A. Ard, accountants in the Office of Busi¬ ness Affairs; Mr. Laron J. Clark, Jr., In preparation for a career of quality, you earned degrees from Virginia State College, Atlanta University and Director, Office of Development; Miss Northwestern University; and you studied also at Fisk University, the University of Chicago, the Woodstock School, and Columbia University. The diversity and brilliance of your career attest to the depth and breadth of your E. Paulette Smith, Circulation Librar- preparation for the paths you have chosen to follow. As Professor of Sociology at Morris Brown College, Tennessee State University and Brooklyn College, as Visiting an; Mrs. Janis R. Gamble, to Secretary Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Yamaguchi National University, Japan, and as Fulbright Professor at the Librarian; and Miss Cherrilynn L. Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, you influenced many students on national and international levels. In addition, you served as consultant to the United States Department of State, the United States Office of Education, Gatson, Mr. William Kuykendall, and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America, the Phelps Stokes Fund and The Ford Foundation; as Ambassador to Syria from 1965 to 1967. Ambassador to Malta from 1967 to 1969, a member of the Mr. William James, graduate assistants Committee on World Development and World Peace, the African-American Scholars Council, and as advisor, member of several committees, and delegate to the United Nations. the in Library. Through your teaching, your memberships in more than a score of national and international organizations and Personnel your extensive scholarly publications in book and periodical form, you have been an educative force in the fields of changes included Mrs. sociology, anthropology and international relations. As a result, you have been the recipient of numerous distinguished honors Mattie G. among which are the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal Crown of Crete, the Diploma of the International Haynes, secretary to the Institute of Germany for Better Human Relations and World Peace, an award for distinguished work in the field of social science from the Delta Tau Kappa International Social Science Society, and the degree of Doctor of Laws from Dean, School of Arts and Sciences; your undergraduate Alma Mater, Virginia State College. Mrs. Loretta H. Nunnally, Adminis¬ As a distinguished alumnus of Atlanta University, you have employed your talents and your training to improve the economic and social climate of your fcllowmcn at home and abroad. trative Assistant to the Dean, School For these reasons, Atlanta University honors itself as it honors you today. of Education; Mrs. Rose Y. Johnson, Secretary to the Director, Office of Development; and Mrs. Rosie Ella Trimier, Administrative Secretary, School of Social Work.

President Jarrett presents Citation to Dr. Smythe

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULI I TIN DECEMBER, 1972 5 Excerpts From Dr. Smythe’s CharterDayAddress: Dr Smythe Notes Lack Of Black Involvement In Foreign Service And State Department

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Dr. Hugh Smythe, Convocation speaker, rips into the State Department and Foreign Service unwritten policies of discrimination against minorities; chides Black colleges for not preparing students adequately for foreign service. "Both the historical foundation of Edward Burghardt Du Bois advocated is a consequence of the low esteem the American foreign service and the the development of the talented tenth accorded to Blacks and Africa by the foreign policy of the United States af¬ among Blacks as a strategy for ad¬ people and government of the United fect the role and position of Blacks vancement. He also helped to get a States. And it is due also to attempts in American foreign relations. Blacks commission appointed to investigate to discourage close affection links were in bondage when the Department conditions in Liberia, thus helping to between Africans and Blacks in this of State was created in 1789; discrim¬ preserve a modicum of her indepen¬ country. ination was at its peak when the dence at a time when Britain was try¬ "We need to realize that Blacks foreign service came into existence in ing to take over its customs. possess almost no foreign policy ex¬ 1924; and the white Anglo-Saxon Prot¬ “In the 1960’s the upheaval af¬ pertise, so they are not in a position to combat what estant elite has dominated our foreign fairs accompanied a rising interest of they view as unhelpful affairs complex from its inception. In Blacks in foreign policy. The African policy enunciations by the foreign addition, United States foreign policy Studies Association, with Ford Foun¬ establishment here . .. Few Blacks have has been colored by the racial com¬ dation money, had encouraged African significant experiential knowledge or position of the countries with whom studies programs in white universities, long official or professional service related to Africa and world affairs, we have relations, generally being posi¬ while Howard University, which had and tive towards the predominantly white struggled for years to build an African foreign policy formulation is a task for western European ones and negative program, was ignored. When a group experts. towards those of the largely nonwhite of Africanists decided to form the “Outside of our official foreign service part of the world. The presence of Africa League to bring pressure on complex, in which non¬ whites are few and hold no policy¬ millions of Black Americans and the United States policy. Blacks again were existence of Africa, whose presence left out. But John F. Kennedy and making positions, those active in or¬ we have become much aware of since Averell Harriman began to point up ganizations concerned with world af¬ fairs are miniscule in number. The the late 1950's, have together brought the close relationship between the race United Nations Association of the pressure for change in racial attitudes. problem here and African sensitivities United States of America, the Coun¬ "Because Blacks have since their . . . With Africa for the first time in cil on arrival in America been excluded from American history an issue in a Presi¬ Foreign Relations, the Foreign dential Policy Association, and councils on the national elite structure, they have election, Kennedy ... took an world affairs are almost lily-white. had special difficulty in relating to interest in the domestic affairs of Blacks are United States foreign affairs, even Blacks and in their foreign policy con¬ practically non-existent as members of such foreign area over issues of vital concern to them. cerns for Africa. profes¬ sional associations as the Middle East "In . . The early Black leaders had foreign affairs the continued Institute, the Association of Asian little success with trying to influence ineffectiveness of American Blacks Studies or the Asia Society, and the white America to treat Blacks better results from several major weaknesses. Atlantic Council. They take no signif¬ domestically, much less influence our Traditionally a racial or ethnic group icant part in international conferences foreign policy. What is significant, becomes important in national politics on various issues and are rarely mem¬ however, is that the first Blacks who and its country's international politics bers of delegations to such conclaves. attempted entree into the United States only when the subgroup has a high They do not serve on the staffs, es¬ foreign area field did so through an level of identity and can wield actual pecially in key positions, with the effort to ameliorate the plight of their influence in the larger society, can North Atlantic Treaty Organization, fellows in colonial America and thus control that influence, and can gain Organization for European Economic became involved with Africa. recognition of its demands by collec¬ Cooperation, or Organization of Amer¬ tive action ... By the recency of . . At the turn of the century ican States. Few are Black involvement in employed — none Blacks and nonwhites around the foreign policy currently in high posts — in the matters and its weak position now world were powerless, and almost all United Nations Secretariat (Under derives from a combination of factors of them — except Haiti and Ethiopia with which white ethnic Secretary Ralph J. Bunche died in — were still in colonial servitude. groups were 1971 and was replaced by a white). not burdened. It results from the Nevertheless, American Blacks raised And in United Nations affiliated their voices in absence of Black political power his¬ protest over the cruelty agencies, like the World Health Orga¬ to Africans in the Congo, helping to torically because of disenfranchise¬ nization, Food and Agricultural Orga¬ end Belgian King Leopold’s private ment in the South and the dilution of nization, International Monetary Fund, rule there. About this time the concept their votes in other areas through United Nations Educational Scientific of Pan-Africanism emerged, and Will gerrymandering and other means. It Cultural Organization, United Nations

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DECEMBER 1972 7 International Emergency Children's fewer than 50 Black career officers have unseasoned types representing it Fund and others, they are noteworthy and under 10 ambassadors. ... In abroad ... (7) No. U. S. Administra¬ by their absence. In our university and the fact of such barriers and persistent tion can chance an affront to countries college foreign area and international racial ethos it is easy to understand such as our white European NATO relations programs they are almost why there is such immense ignorance allies, that might resist a Black U. S. never found as faculty members, and about foreign affairs in the Black ambassador. (8) Even countries in Black enrollment in such units is community. The result of this con¬ Black Africa could resent Black U. S. almost zero. As for Black colleges, as tinued exclusion from foreign affairs ambassadors as being a kind of second- a group they are bereft of programs, operations is that Blacks know almost class representation. training, facilities, curricula, and per¬ nothing about how foreign policy is (9) We shouldn't have too many sonnel in the made or who does it and Black senior officials foreign area field to pre¬ why. ... In representing us pare students to become professionals short, Blacks are kept in the dark in Africa alone because then the con¬ in international affairs. about the foreign affairs of American tinent would appear to be a profes¬ "Now this condition is not likely to life and thus continue to be an in¬ sional ghetto. (10) We certainly can’t change much under the current Fed¬ consequential factor in the making of have senior Black officials in the eral administration which has set a United States foreign policy." Middle East or Asia when we don’t low priority on Black areas of the "Peter Straus, who was once the have them in Europe or Africa. (11) world. This stance is held at a time Assistant Administrator for Africa in Foreign leaders want, above all, to when the emerging Black elite in the the Department of State Agency for know that the U. S. ambassador ac¬ United States is more conscious than International Development, posed the credited to their country is close to the ever of its weakness and of the im¬ question: "Is the State Department President of the United States and plications of our foreign policy in Color Blind?” (Saturday Review, Jan¬ wired in’ to the Washington power Africa for the condition of Blacks structure. uary 2, 1971) . . . Mr. Straus pointed Obviously Black ambassa¬ in America. Congressman Charles out that ambassadors form the summit dors will not be that well connected Diggs, Jr., of Michigan, who as chair¬ of the iceberg that is the Foreign until there is a Black in the white man of the House of Representatives Service. They represent the President house. Sub-Committee on Africa regularly and the people of this country in "Needless to say, the fallacy behind holds hearings on United States policy capitals around the globe. But if you all this is too apparent to merit com¬ towards Africa, declared that he could are Black you don't get to represent ment. Suffice to mention that the not continue to represent this country the United States very often. The odds absence of Blacks from the executive as a to are better than 100 to 1 suite belies the assertion about delegate the General Assembly against you . .. op¬ of the United Nations in 1971 in the "Now what are the reasons for this portunities for them in the domestic face of the administration's adverse exclusion? Over the years the State corporate world, while our govern¬ policy towards Africa and became the Department and other whites, official ment has been openly embarrassed by first American ever to resign from our and otherwise, have advanced various foreign governments denying such is delegation. . .” arguments: (1) Qualified Blacks are the case when the State Department "Blacks have yet to secure a position not available. They just don’t exist, has attempted to use race and color as of sufficient significance as to enable beyond those very few already em¬ criteria to deny appointments to Blacks them to make a major contribution to ployed in the Foreign Service. (2) and other nonwhites. But this sort of the formation of policy, since they Government cannot compete with specious mythology leads one to con¬ have never occupied positions in the private industry and the attractive clude, regrettably, that the absence of hierarchy where the ultimate decisions salaries and rapid progress that the top-level Blacks and other nonwhite for foreign policy are made. Although private sector now offers competent minorities in our foreign affairs institu¬ action on the civil rights front during Blacks. (3) Blacks are not really inter¬ tion is no accident, but is the result of the 1960's lessened the resistance ested in or drawn by the challenge of purposeful discrimination. against Blacks who wished to enter foreign affairs work. (4) Blacks in col¬ "If America is to change its image the foreign service, almost no progress leges and universities, observing the as one of the most disliked nations has been made under the absence of in the present ad¬ Blacks in foreign affairs world by nonwhite peoples, a ministration. since the office of Equal work, believe there is little chance major transformation in her racial pos¬ Employment Opportunity in the De¬ of advancement and thus choose other ture and priorities for international careers. action is partment of State has had little recent needed ... In spite of the stimulation toward effectiveness de¬ take time. bleak (5) It will Senior picture outlined here ... a few spite the appointment of some Blacks Foreign Service officials have had long Blacks have managed to secure back¬ to African posts as ambassadors and years of training and experience. So ground and even expertise, and some one to Sweden, from which he resigned w'e must wait until the Black students of them work to attract others into the in 1972. now in universities move along through field. They emphasize that failure to “ In the more than 100 em¬ examinations and onto the strive for the bottom of opportunity to help our bassies and some 300 the plus other job ladder up which they may pro¬ country formulate foreign policy would overseas posts employing about 3.000 gress over the years toward more senior be to abdicate the right of Blacks to be foreign service officers, there are still jobs. (6) The United States cannot considered the equal of all Americans.”

8 “It’s wonderful to be back in and our fellow man. America. “Black is beautiful. Black is more “Since my return I have been happy, than the color of our skin. It's some¬ but my happiness leaves me when I thing that comes from within, a feel¬ think of the fellow prisoners left be¬ ing that even' individual should be hind. You American people have the truly free, should be truly just, should power, if you want, to terminate this be truly honest, and above all, truly war and bring these men home. “I am a man, but I am not a free happy. man. Ultimate freedom will only come “Only then can we start building when we all are honest with ourselves that better world.”

"I Prayed Every Night, Lord, Help Us To Help Ourselves.”’

Navy Lt. Norris Charles, 1967 w'atched with considerable interest and" Morehouse graduate, 1968 Atlanta concern the release and return of three University graduate, former cost ac¬ American prisoners of war,” President countant, Navy lieutenant, aviator, and Jarrett said.

finally, prisoner of war, returned to “As we watched, we must have a standing ovation in Sisters Chapel been impressed with the poise, the as special guest of Atlanta University demeanor, the intelligence, and the on Charter Day. With his wife Olga keen understanding of human relations beside him, Lt. Charles greeted stu¬ that Lt. Charles demonstrated,” he dents, faculty, Atlanta University added. Center personnel, radio and television Then he recognized Mrs. Charles, newsmen with the same poise and as¬ who briefly thanked friends through¬ surance that must have maintained out the Atlanta University Center for him during his nine months as a pris¬ their encouragement and support. oner of the North Vietnamese. A Lt. Charles said while he was in frequent question asked her. she said, is what does she think about the prison he prayed every night: “Lord, presence help us to help ourselves.” publicity and the perpetual IN HIS INTRODUCTORY RE- of newsmen and television cameras.

MARKS, President Jarrett called Lt. “We don’t mind the publicity as¬ Charles “a credit to his race, his coun¬ sociated with his return as long as we try, and to Atlanta University.” can get our story to the pople,” she “Several weeks ago most of us said.

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A total of 229 students, including "The Negro college was born of the eight who earned the Specialist in Edu¬ turmoil of a war which freed Black cation (Ed.S.) degree and two who men but gave only an imperfect free¬ received the Ph.D., heard North Caro¬ dom. It has survived, despite a social lina Central University Chancellor Dr. environment committed to its destruc¬ Albert Nathaniel Whiting deliver the tion, to become one of the singular Summer Commencement address on assets of the Black community,” he Friday, August 4. said. Dr. Whiting is formerly Dean of the Dr. Whiting has served as Chan¬ College and Professor of Sociology at cellor of North Carolina Central Uni¬ Morris Brown College in the Atlanta versity since July, 1967. Prior to that University Center. time, he was Dean of the College at

He told a late afternoon audience Morgan State in Baltimore. In addi¬ that filled Sisters Chapel that Black tion to Morris Brown, he has held posi¬ tions at Bennett Americans have lived to see the day College in Greensboro, North “when our people, led by our youth Carolina, and at Fisk University in and buttressed by their fathers’ years Nashville, Tennessee. of valiant struggle, resist every sign PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS and symbol of enslavement and refuse In addition to Dr. Whiting, other accommodation to any system which commencement participants included impeaches or tarnishes their humanity. President Jarrett, who conferred the “The day has come,” he continued, degrees; Rev. Melvin H. Watson, min¬ “when Black America will participate ister of Liberty Baptist Church and in the shaping of its own destiny and chairman of the Morehouse College of the destiny of the larger society of Department of Philosophy and Reli¬ which it is a part.” gion, who gave the invocation; and Chancellor Whiting said he feels this Rev. Howard W. Creecy, Sr., minister step would not have been possible of Moriah Baptist Church, who gave without the crucial role played by the the benediction. The Atlanta Univer¬ Black colleges. sity Community Chorus, directed by

Dr. Albert N. Whiting, Chancellor, North Carolina Central University, delivers Summer Commencement address.

10 Dr. Wendell P. Whalum, sang two Service, 47; School of Education, 134; Atlanta, Artel C. Powell, Knoxville, selections with Henry Porter as soloist. and School of Business Administra¬ Tenn., Patricia Ann Robinson, At¬ lanta, THE PRESIDENT’S CHARGE tion, three. Waytus Clifford Shelton, Deca¬ tur, Ga., ARTS AND SCIENCES and Gloria Ella Welch, In his charge to the Dr. graduates, Birmingham, Ala. Jarrett said: Those receiving the Master of Arts Receiving the degree of Master of “Today many of you have received degree from the School of Arts and Science were: in Biology, Jessie Kate a second or third degree beyond the Sciences were as follows: In Econom¬ Black, Atlanta; in Chemistry, Lina bachelor’s level. All of you should have ics, Norbert Nwafor Mobi, Monrovia, Bonita Caldwell, Atlanta, Lily Lim, now a broader vision of the world Liberia; in English, John H. Davis, Makati, Rizal, Philippines, and around you; and I hope that your Athens, Ga., Mrs. Jeannette R. Guy, Laurence A. Overton, Atlanta; in graduation means that you have ac¬ Atlanta, and Mary Ethelene Kemp, Mathematics, Germaine Angela Dick¬ quired better tools that will lead to Monticello, Fla.; in French, Esther inson, Atlanta, Freddie D. Hartsfield, superb performance in your chosen Valeria Jones, Kinston, N. C., Doro¬ Jr., Atlanta, and Lovie Joyce Jackson, fields. Most importantly, I hope that thea Lester, Atlanta, Rock Mirabeau, Coldwater, Miss. you have developed a greater respect Baton Rouge, La., and Carolyn White, for the individual worth of every man, Baltimore, Md.; in History, Marcellus SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Chandler Barksdale, Gainesville, Ga., regardless of who he is and what he Those receiving the Master of Social believes. Joel W. Dinkins, Atlanta, Shelia Work degree were Verne R. Belknap Yvette “As you leave this university I hope Flemming, Atlanta, and Mrs. of Sand Springs, Okla., and Robin that you will assess carefully your own Boyte Austin Presnell, Prichard, Ala.; Ryan of Lynchburg, Va. potential in terms of what you can and in Political Science, Timothy Evans SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SERVICE must do if your education is to prove Pratt, Morgan City, La.; and in Sociol¬ The Master of Science in truly meaningful. Remember that ogy, Allen Attaway, Plainfield, N. J., Library Service learning requires the acquisition of new Robert Doyle Bullard. Elba, Ala., Mrs. degree was awarded to: Mrs. opinions and the relinquishment of old Betty Ann Pender Cook, Atlanta, Dolores McKissic Adams, Atlanta; ones. James Edward Davis, Miami, Fla., Brenda Joyce Armstrong, Rhine, Ga.; “Don't stop here. Don't assume that Ella Delores Dennis, Atlanta, John Hortense Jeanettee Bell, Detroit, you’ve ‘got it made,’ for in all honesty, Finney, Savannah, Ga., Patricia Joyce Mich.; Mrs. Evelyn Kelsaw Bonner, Camden, Ala.; you haven’t. Continue to grow. If you McElroy, Frederick, Md., Sylvia Ann Anita Booth, Chapel have built castles in the air. they need Marion, Atlanta, Jeannie M. Napper, Hill, N. C.; Harrietta Janet Bridges, not be lost. That is where they should be—in the air. It is not too late to put foundations under them.” DEGREES CONFERRED The Doctor of Philosophy in Biology from the School of Arts and Sciences was awarded to Ajoy Gopal Chakra- barti of Calcutta, India. Mrs. Berthea La-Conyea Butler of Atlanta received the School of Education's Doctor of Philosophy degree in Guidance and Counseling. The Specialist in Education degree was presented to Eleanor Marie Bradley of Atlanta, Joseph Draper of Atlanta, Claude Clarence George, Jr. of Atlanta, Mrs. India Martin Harris of Atlanta, Mrs. Laware L. Johnson of Atlanta, Mrs. Gertrude Crum Sanders of Birmingham. Ala., Ernest Strawter of Marshallville, Ga., and Betty L. Strickland of Atlanta. In addition to the Ph.D. and Ed.S. degrees awarded, the School of Arts and Sciences presented 26 Master of Arts degrees and seven Master of Science degrees. The School of Social Ph.D degrees were awarded to Ajoy Gopal Chakrabarti of Calcutta, India (in Bi¬ Work awarded two; School of Library ology): and Mrs. Berthea LaConyea Butler of Atlanta (in Guidance and Counseling).

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN, DECEMBER. 1972/11 Summer Commencement

Pine Hill, Ala.; Linda Bowles, Buffalo, Aniece Ragland, Anniston, Ala.; Mrs. Atlanta; Mrs. Judith Johnston Atkins, N. Y.; Phyllis Ruth Camp, Atlanta; Marepally Rohini Reddy, Atlanta; Jonesboro, Ga.; Mrs. Vivienne Haw¬ Vivian Lavon Chandler, Atlanta; Mrs. Helen Horton Ruffin, Atlanta; kins Benton, Atlanta; Mrs. Barbara Ronald Joseph Chcpesiuk, Thunder- Cheryl Louise Scott, Walhonding, Clements Bigelow, Atlanta; Mrs. Car- bay, Canada; Judy Elizabeth Crump, Ohio; Mrs. Ianthia Harrell Scott, At¬ lotta Ketchen Blanch, Atlanta; Sherry Atlanta; Mary Ann Curry, Brooklyn, lanta; Mrs. Leena Surendra Shah, Blanchette, Statesboro, Ga.; Joan N. Y.; Mrs. Lucinda Frances Fon¬ Bidada, India; Mrs. Jacquelyn Elaine Eleanor Bolden, Orangeburg, S. C.; taine, Institute, W. Va.; Mrs. Willard Sims, Atlanta; Carrie Mae Solomon, Mrs. Laura T. Boyd, Atlanta; Annie Yvonne Carter Foster, Atlanta; Mrs. Gordon, Ga.; Mrs. Portia Marbley M. Brown, Atlanta; Mrs. Richie Lynn Alice Holmes Gadsden, Thomasville, Tyndle, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Alice Brown, Jacksonville, Fla.; Doris N. C.; Mrs. Fannie Harley Gilliam, Loretta Veal. Douglas, Ga.; Mrs. Ellen Browning, Bartow, Fla.; Mrs. Gaile J. Atlanta; Sylvia Wylene Harris, At¬ Robinson Wade, Atlanta; Mrs. Alberta Burden, Atlanta; Mrs. Opal S. Camp- lanta; Brenda Elaine Hemingway, Walker, New York, N. Y.; Mrs. thers, Atlanta; Howard Douglas Cobb, Sumter, S. C.; Mrs. Eva Wilcox Marion J. Walker, Atlanta; Carole bell, Atlanta; Mrs. Ghybreal D. Cari- Ingram, Broxton, Ga.; Mrs. Bonnie Berry Weiner, Atlanta; and Nancy Stockbridge, Ga.; Cheryl G. Chestnut, Small Johnson, Atlanta; Mrs. Patricia Jean Woodson, Atlanta. Atlanta; Tomilea L. Hall, Atlanta; Jay A. G. Johnson, Hapeville, Ga.; Ruby Truman Cope, East Point, Ga.; Mrs. SCHOOL OF Lourenzer Jones, Atlanta; Kisoo Kim, EDUCATION Ferra Hall Cosby, Atlanta; Matthew Seoul, Korea; Gladys Lewis, Phil¬ Those receiving the Master of Arts Crawford, Jr., Atlanta; Mrs. Mavis A. adelphia, Pa.; David Neil MacSween, in Education were: Gladys Aquila Crowe, Atlanta; Mrs. Barbara C. Sydney, Nova Scotia; Mrs. Merle Till¬ Abercrombie, Fairburn, Ga.; Alice Dancy, Atlanta; Mrs. Addie Virginia man McMillon, Atlanta; Mrs. War- Amanda Adderton, Detroit, Mich.; Davis, Atlanta; and Mary Harold dean Seay Miller, Atlanta; and Mrs. Mrs. Marita Diane Allen, Atlanta; Davis, Atlanta. Jones Glover Mullally, Newnan, Ga. Mary Allen, College Park, Ga.; Mrs. Also Mrs. Lizzie Goolsby Dawson, Also Mrs. Sandra Lee Nelson. Jennelle Mason Alphran, Atlanta; Mrs. Atlanta; Gwendolyn DeVeaux, Phil¬ Marietta, Ga.; Mrs. Eris Adams Helen Virginia Hood Anderson, At¬ adelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Mae Bell Echols, Northern, Orlando, Fla.; Mrs. Adele lanta; Mary L. Anderson, Atlanta; Atlanta; Mrs. Helen B. Edwards, At¬ Gormon Northrup. Atlanta; Janna Samuel Allen Andrews, New York, lanta; Mrs. Mary Carter Elder, Grant- Dale Pfeiffer, Smyrna, Ga.; Howard N. Y.; Mrs. Gwendolyn K. Ashmore, ville, Ga.; Mrs. Mattie Ford Everette,

Platform Party at August Commencement included: (L-R) Dr. Linwood Graves, director of the Summer Session; Dr. Benjamin Truboff of the School of Business Administration; Dr. Virginia Jones, Dean of the School of Library Service; Rev. Howard Creecy, Sr., minister of Moriah Baptist Church; Dr. Huey Charlton, Dean, School of Education; President Jarrett; Speaker Whiting; Dr. Benjamin F. Hudson, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences; Rev. Melvin H. Watson, minister of Liberty Baptist Church and Chair¬ man, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Morehouse College; Mrs. Genevieve T. Hill, Dean, School of Social Work; Dr. Prince Wilson, Executive Secretary, Atlanta University Center Corporation; and Dr. Vivian Henderson, President, Clark College.

12 Atlanta; Sharon Pearl Fennell, Opa lanta; Doris Evelyn Roberts, Buford, Chambers Studgeon, Atlanta; Mrs. Locka, Fla.; Beatrice Finn, Pittsburgh, Ga.; Mrs. Ruth Riley Glover Robert¬ Edith Stephens Taylor, Atlanta; Mrs. Pa.; Mrs. Clara Beatrice Reeves Free¬ son, Atlanta; Mrs. Anna Thelma Rob¬ Rosa Robinson Tomlinson, Atlanta; man, Forsyth. Ga.; Mrs. Bobbie Wat¬ inson, Guyton, Ga.; Willie J. Robin¬ Mrs. Jocelyn Scott Walker, Atlanta; son Frost, Atlanta; Rosmond Camille son, Americus, Ga.; Mrs. Shirley Mrs. Clariece Morris Wallace, At¬ Gaillard, Charleston, S. C.; Mrs. Mar¬ Harris Rogers, Atlanta; Juanita Isa¬ lanta; Mrs. Margaret Anita Finch garet Calhoun Gardner, Atlanta; belle Rome, Atlanta; Brisbane P. Rou- Warren, Atlanta; Marion Amanda Wanda Garrett, Decatur; Rheba zan, Jr., New Orleans, La.; Mrs. Eula Wells, Atlanta; H. Louise Wilker, Althea Glenn, Richmond, Va.; Mrs. Screws Rutledge, Atlanta; Carl M. Athens, Ga.; Lufreda Williams, Bur¬ Carolyn Sims Goolsby, Atlanta; Sheryl Shivers, Atlanta; Mrs. Sclemon Simp¬ ton, S. C.; Marvin N. Williams, At¬ S. Graham, Hempstead, N. Y.; Lu¬ son, Atlanta; Mrs. Gwendolyn Char¬ lanta; Mrs. Mattie B. Williams, At¬ cinda R. Grant, North Charleston, lotte McCoy Sims, Atlanta; Charles lanta; Mrs. Sandra P. Williams, Gray, S. C.; Joan Elizabeth Green, Atlanta; Louis Singleton, Summerville, S. C.; Ga.; Saundra A. Woody, Pittsburgh, Thomas C. Greene, Atlanta; Shirley Roy Singleton, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.; Pa.; Mrs. Mary H. Wright, Atlanta; Ann Griffin, Atlanta; Gwendolyn Brenda DeLoris Smith, Atlanta; Char¬ Anne F. Wujcik, Atlanta; and Mrs. Deloris Hammonds, Atlanta; Mrs. les Elsworth Smith, Harrisburg, Pa.; Betty Kines Wyatt, Atlanta. Emellen Mitchell Harris, Atlanta; and Mrs. Lena Mae Asberry Smith, At¬ SCHOOL OF Irving B. Harris, Atlanta. lanta; Margie Ann Smith, Atlanta; BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Mrs. Mary Hollins Harris, Atlanta; and Roger Carroll Smith, Decatur, Ga. Mrs. Marian Jeanette Farris Hatch, Also Mrs. Dorothy H. Staley, Dora- The Master of Business Administra¬ Atlanta; Harold Henderson, Atlanta; ville, Ga.; Sylvia Vivian Steele, Savan¬ tion degree was awarded to James Mrs. Ruby Genelle Robinson Hollis, nah, Ga.; Mrs. Faith Marie Stewart, Morris Flournoy of Atlanta, Doro¬ Atlanta; Dorothy Jean Hudson, At¬ Ellenwood, Ga.; Mrs. Helen Gordon thy Hollingsworth Hill of Atlanta, and lanta; Mrs. Beazelle Morris Hughes, Strickland, Atlanta; Mrs. Carolyn Edward Charles London of Atlanta. Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mrs. Esther Childs Jackson, Atlanta; Mrs. Helen Callaway Jackson, Atlanta; Katetrina Jackson, Atlanta; Mrs. Leila P. Jaden, Atlanta; Mrs. Norma E. Finch Jenkins, Atlanta; Mrs. Ethel Holden Jennings, Atlanta; Alfonso Leonard Jessie, Jr., Atlanta; Samuel H. Jimerson, Atlanta; Mrs. Charlotte M. Johnson, Atlanta; Mrs. Joyce Sims Johnson, Atlanta; Melvin Johnson, Atlanta; Arthur Jones, Jr., Utica, Miss.; Mrs. Evelyn Floyd Jones, Atlanta; Mrs. Grace Pyron Jones, Decatur, Ga.; Rose Marie Jordan, Atlanta; Addie Maye Keith, Atlanta; Joyce Dolores Ladson, Mt. Pleasant, S. C.; Tim William Mc¬ Cormick, Kosciusko, Miss.; Barbara A. Mathis, Atlanta; Mrs. Ruby Burton Mitchell, Atlanta; Marilynn Yvonne Moore, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Ruby S. Moore, Atlanta; Mrs. Areola G. Morris, Atlanta; John Earl Morris, Jackson, Miss.; Gary E. Mynatt, At¬ lanta. James Frederick Neal, Atlanta; Julius L. Newton, Tampa. Fla.; Allen Davis Nichols, Atlanta; Mary Louise Pace, Atlanta; Mrs. Edna Marie Jarrett Pagan. Atlanta; Mrs. Modine E. Pequinot, Clarkston, Ga.; Mrs. Freddie Marie Liggins Pippen, Savan¬ nah, Ga.; Mrs. Edna Lewis Rice, Morrow, Ga.; Malachi Ridgel, Spring- hill, I.a.; Linwood Spencer Riley, At¬ A total of 229 students received degrees at the August Commencement.

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN/DECEMBER. 1972/ 13 Summer Commencement

School of Education had largest number of graduates, 134.

14 Recipients of Ed. S. Degree at August Commencement/Front row, left to right: Mrs. Gertrude Crum Sanders, Mrs. Laware Johnson, Mrs. Eleanor Bradley. Back row, left to right: Mr. Ernest Strawter, Miss Betty Lee Strickland, Mr. Joseph Draper. Campus Briefs

What is Atlanta University? It is a he indicated his satisfaction in his new school, of course, but a school is many position, his deep appreciation for the different things to many different tremendous assistance Atlanta Uni¬ people. To Andy Anyaehie, Atlanta versity and Mr. Jackson in particular University is the difference between a has provided and his “highest regard to concentration camp in his native all the good-looking girls at my Alma Biafra or a position of responsibility as Mater’’. a Senior Buyer for Consolidated Edi¬ Nobody could tell Mr. Andy Any¬ son in New York. aehie that schools are just reading, Andy Anyaehie received his M.B.A. writing and ’rithmetic. from Atlanta University in May, 1972. His student visa also expired at the Ford Foundation Gives Grant completion of his studies and he was To Atlanta University Center instructed by the U. S. Immigration Institutions Authority to return to his native Bia¬ fra. Mr. Anyaehie’s family had been The Ford Foundation awarded a previously impounded in concentra¬ grant of $3.5 million, its largest grant tion camps by Nigerian authorities, as to date, to five of the institutions in political prisoners, after the putdown the Atlanta University Center and to of the Biafran insurrection. Conse¬ the Center itself in October. Accord¬ quently, the Immigration Authorities’ ing to the foundation, this is the larg¬ order for him to return home would est financial commitment ever made

mean his instant incarceration in a to a cluster of minority institutions in concentration camp. this country. Kirk Jackson, a placement officer The grant carries with it a five to at A. U. received word of Mr. Any- six-year commitment of a total invest¬ aehie's plight. Together they arranged ment of between 15 and 21 million appointments with local Immigrations dollars. The grant will be used to sup¬ Authority officials. They requested port the reorganization plans in the that Mr. Anyaehie be granted political Center, while simultaneously strength¬ asylum, citing the political asylum ening the member institutions accord¬ given to Cuban refugees as a prece¬ ing to their individual needs. dent. Mr. Anyaehie’s plea was granted. Dr. Albert E. Manley, President of With the assistance once again of Spelman College and Chairman of the Mr. Jackson. Andy was able to secure Council of Presidents, announced the a position as Senior Buyer with Con¬ grant in late October. The institutions solidated Edison Company in New participating in the Ford grant are York. Presently engaged in their man¬ Atlanta University, Clark College, agement trainee program, Mr. Any¬ ITC, Morehouse, and Spelman, each aehie’s beginning salary is $13,500. He of which will receive $400,000. This is charged with committing the com¬ amount is the first in a series of grants pany for contractural obligations to be made over a five or six-year ranging anywhere from one dollar to period. At the same time, the founda¬ one million dollars. tion is specifying a grant of $1.8 mil¬ In a recent letter to Kirk Jackson, lion to the Atlanta University Center.

16 Dr. Manley emphasized that, while versity Political Science Department. Cornell University and John Scott of there are no plans for a merger of the John D. Reid, chairman of the Sociol¬ Bowling Green University. institutions, the aims in the proposed ogy Department, was chairman of the A play written by Carlton and Black reorganization plan are (1) reorgan¬ Religion group, joined by Char¬ Barbara Molette, “Boojie,” was pres¬ ize the Atlanta University Center and les Long of the University of Chicago. ented to the conference in the Spel¬ have as chief officer a Chancellor Edward Sweat, Visiting Professor of man Fine Arts Building Friday night. instead of an Executive Secretary, (2) Alfro-American History at Atlanta On Saturday the Black Politics ses¬ to increase the number of non-institu- University, headed the session on sion continued. Other sessions in¬ tional members on the centerwide Slavery in the United States. He was cluded: Sea Island Music with Flor¬ board, and (3) to promote efficiency joined by Edna McKenzie of the Uni¬ ence Robinson of Clark College as and economy by expanding the num¬ versity of Pittsburgh and Donnie chairman, and Avon Gillespie of ber of centerwide programs in which Bellamy of Fort Valley State College. Capital University as participant: Black the schools would have the Millicent Jordan of opportun¬ Spelman was chair¬ Studies in the School with Edward ity to participate. man of a session on the African Novel, Weaver, professor of Education at In 1967 the six schools in the At¬ with participants David Dorsey, At¬ Atlanta University, chairman, with lanta University Center launched a lanta University associate professor in participants, Gloria Blackwell, and study to consider the possibility of fur- English and Linguistics, and Chivuzo Tobe Johnson of Morehouse; Pan their interinstitutional cooperation, and Ude of Doubleday and Company. Africanism, with chairman Makonnen the proposed reorganization plan is the Friday afternoon sessions were con¬ Gebre-Hiwet. and John Henrik Clarke result of this effort. Dr. Manley said tinuations of the morning topics, with of Freedomways; and Black Poetry, he Sea Island Studies hopes the Ford Foundation grant presented by Dr. with Beulah Farmer of Morris Brown will be a catalyst for other foundations Long, and Afro-French Literature as chairman. Stephen Henderson of and corporations. chaired by Herman Bostic of More¬ Howard University and Hoyt Fuller house with participants E. A. Jones of Black World as participants. and Carol A. Miller, both of More¬ Fifth Annual CAAS Conference Additional sessions included Sea house. A late afternoon session in¬ Meets At Atlanta Islands in the Creole Spectrum, chaired University cluded the Black Press, headed hy by Dr. Ross with Mary Arnold Twin¬ The fifth annual CAAS (Center for Hubert B. Ross. Atlanta University ing and William Saunders of Charles¬ African and African-American Stud¬ professor of anthropology. Joining him ton, S. C.; Black Family Dynamics ies) conference was held in early De¬ were Hoyt Fuller of Emory University with chairman Anna Grant of More¬ cember at Atlanta University. Dr. and Ciloria Blackwell of Atlanta Uni¬ house. Florence Mahoney of Spelman, Richard A. Long, chairman of the versity. Sea Island Folklore was pre¬ and June Butts of Fordham Univer¬ conference, gave the keynote address sented by Mary Arnold Twining of sity; Afro-American Dialects with in Dean Sage Auditorium on Thurs¬ Georgia State University. Black Lib¬ Elsie Edmondson of Morris Brown, day night, Dec. 7. eration and the Black Ethos were chairman and David Dorsey, Milford CAAS-5 opened with four morning discussed hy a panel chaired hy Robert A. Jeremiah of Morgan State College, sessions on Friday with faculty, staff Brisbane of Morehouse College, and and William Pickens of Morehouse; and students from the Atlanta Uni¬ James Brewer of the University of and a session on James Baldwin versity Center joining participants and North Carolina. A session on Carib¬ chaired hy Samuel Floyd of Queens guests from throughout the nation. bean Literature was chaired hy At¬ College, with Black Politics, Black Religion, U. S. lanta University associate professor participants George Kent of the Slavery, and the African Novel were Carolyn Gerald. Black Drama was University of Chicago, discussed in the first session. Heading presented by Carlton Molette, director Daryl Dance of Virginia Common¬ the Black Politics session was Mack of the Atlanta University Summer wealth University, and Eugenia Collier Jones, chairman of the Atlanta Uni¬ Theatre, with Chestyn Everett of of Baltimore Community College.

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLFTIN DECEMBER, 1972 17 Campus Briefs (Continued)

Black Economists Workshop Discussants were Margaret Simms administration, and excellent photo¬ Discusses Current Crises of Atlanta University and W. St. graphs of alumni of both recent and James of Nassau Community College. early years. Black economists from throughout G. T. Dowdy of Tuskegee Institute’s Of particular value are a set of the nation gathered in September for topic was “An Analysis of the Anat¬ snapshots taken by Albert T. Wilson the Third Annual Workshop of the omy of Alabama’s Economic Indica¬ (class of 1915) during his student Black Economists’ Development Proj¬ tors,” with Joseph Jones of Atlanta years at the university and donated by ect. The three-day workshop, most University as discussant. Byron Walt¬ him from a family photo album. of which was held in the School of ers of the University of California at Mrs. Josephine D. Murphy, Mrs. Business Administration, drew econo¬ Berkeley presented “An Analysis of Nettie G. Smith, Mrs. Ruby A. Rowe, mists and professors from such institu¬ Health Care Services Among Black Mrs. Frank Hamilton, Dr. Clarence tions as Stanford, Columbia, Howard, People—Past and Present.” Cleveland Bacote, Mr. Henry A. Hamilton, Mrs. New York, Northwestern, Washing¬ Chandler of Coppin College was a dis¬ Hallie B. Brooks and Dr. Edward K. ton, Chicago, California, Notre Dame, cussant. James Hefner of Clark Col¬ Weaver were cited by Archivist Lee and throughout the Atlanta University lege and Charles Wilson of the Univer¬ Alexander as having played a large Center. sity of California at Los Angeles were part in the recent contributions. The workshop heard reports and discussant to Stanford University’s papers presented by 1972 Summer Donald Harris whose topic was “The GRACE HAMILTON’S Fellows, students in doctoral programs Black Ghetto as ‘Internal Colony.” in Business Administration from such COLLECTION Under the general heading URBAN institutions as the The Atlanta University of Ro¬ AND RURAL ECONOMIC PROB¬ University Collections also received an addition of chester, Stanford University, Jackson LEMS: FROM A BLACK COLLEGE approxi¬ State, and Howard University. William mately 25 linear feet of records to be PERSPECTIVE, the papers presented Strickland of Morehouse was chair¬ added to its Grace Towns Hamilton included: “Rural Manpower Survey” man of this portion of the Collection. The papers were a gift of workshop. by Huey Battle and Phillip Scherer of Barbara Jones of the Clark Mrs. Hamilton and will supplement an College Virginia State College; “Poverty Con¬ economics department was a original donation of materials which partici¬ siderations in the Urban South” by pant. trace her work with the YWCA and Roosevelt Steptoe of Southern Univer¬ Under the portion of the the Urban League. The primary workshop sity in Baton Rouge; “Comparative entitled CURRENT ISSUES AND strength of the new papers lies in Analysis of Selected Poverty Studies” PROBLEMS, with Chairman Vincent their documentation of Mrs. Hamil¬ by John Holmes of Norfolk State Col¬ McDonald of Howard ton's career as the first Black woman University, lege, Basil Coley of North Carolina A Duran Bell of The Brookins Institute in the Georgia Legislature. The papers & T University, Marcus Alexis of 'spoke on provide documentation beginning with “Why Participation Rates Northwestern University, and Leroy Differ.” Dean Robert C. Vowels of her first term in 1966, and cover not Davis of Southern University; and the School of Business Administration only the bills which she has introduced, “Organizing for Inter-College Re¬ was a discussant. William Bradford but also the bills to which she gave search on Urban and Rural Economic of Stanford University followed with Problems in the South” with John Mc- particular attention for relevance to “Commercial Banks and Inner her constituency. City Cown of Atlanta University and John Economic Mrs. Hamilton’s efforts with the na¬ Development: Theory, Porter III of the Cotton Development Comments and tional Citizens’ Advisory Commission Development of a Corporation, Inc. of Birmingham. Model” with Dr. Edward D. Irons as on Recreation and Natural Beauty a discussant. Dr. Irons is Mills B. Lane (later known as the Citizens Advisory Professor of Banking and Finance LIBRARY ACQUISTIONS Commission on Environmental Qual¬ for the Atlanta University Center. Through the efforts of Atlanta Uni¬ ity), and the first Georgia Committee “Application of Information Theory versity faculty and alumni the Ar¬ of the National Commission on the to Economic Effects of Fair Employ¬ chives of Atlanta University have, in Status of Women, are also recorded ment Laws on Occupation Progress of recent months, received several valu¬ by the papers. Black Americans” was presented by able and useful additions. O.L.E. Mbatia of the Old and scarce University of issues of university Project Premieres Film California at Irvine, with Barrington publications are included among the On Alcoholism Problems Brown of the University of Chicago. recent donations, as are records of “Economists and the Minority Econ¬ several campus organizations, bio¬ The School of Social Work’s Al¬ omy” was given by H. Carby-Samuels graphical information on past and coholism Counselor Training Program of the University of Notre Dame. present members of the faculty and has premiered a film at the High

18 Mrs. Gaynelle Barksdale, librarian, congratulates Mrs. Ethel B. Hawkins after 31 years of service to Atlanta University friends of Mrs. Hawkins gathered in July at a luncheon in Atlanta University’s Trevor Arnett Library. her honor. ▼

MRS. HAWKINS RETIRES FROM TREVOR ARNETT LIBRARY

Mrs. Ethel B. Hawkins, reference librarian, retired from Trevor Arnett Library in July after 31 years of service. Friends and co- workers of Mrs. Hawkins gave a luncheon in her honor at the University Dining Hall. Mrs. Hawkins came to Atlanta University from the Auburn Avenue Branch of the Atlanta Public Library, where she was assistant librarian. She was joined at the luncheon by her daughter, Mrs. Barbara Boozer, and her husband, Attorney J. W. Hawkins. (Deceased) Mrs. Hawkins was recognized by President Jarrett at the August Commencement exercises for her contributions to Atlanta University.

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Museum of Art on the problems of Program at Atlanta University. From there are no existing agencies. The alcoholism. Detroit, Miss Hodges made appear¬ center will begin offering supplemen¬ The film, entitled “A Poor Man’s ances at the Detroit Public Library’s tary courses in January which will in¬ Couch,” was shown in August in the Young Adult Book Fair, the Open clude classes for credit, seminars, and Walter Hill Auditorium and has since House of the Shrine of the Black institutes drawing on the resources of been distributed to several outlets Madonna Cultural Center, and in both school’s faculties. throughout the city. The film is a pub¬ many Detroit Churches. Forthcoming During the beginning stages, the lic information documentary on the publications include two poetry center has involved only second year program and its involvement with the volumes: Piece De Way Home, and or advanced students matriculating in community. Black Folks Blues. the Atlanta area; however, expansion The School of Social Work helped Mrs. Pearl Cleage Lomax, also a is planned to include first year or to establish the project in 1969, with fellow, studied previously at Howard “preliminary” students, undergraduate cooperation from the Office of Eco¬ University, Yale University, Spelman students, and paraprofessionals work¬ nomic Opportunity, to develop a pool College (where she was a Drama ing in social welfare settings. of skilled counselors who could work major), and the University of the The center will be governed by an effectively with alcoholism and the West Indies. She has been a staff administrative and an advisory board. problems alcoholics face in seeking writer for EBONY BEAT JOURNAL, Serving on the boards, along with help. WQXI-TV, and is currently assistant school officials, will be students, Counselors and community workers director of the Southern Education agency and consumer representatives. from agencies throughout the South¬ Program’s Publications. eastern United States have received Her poetry and articles have been School Of Education Math classroom and field instruction featured in Readers & Writers Mag¬ Institute Trains Teachers through the alcoholism program. azine, the Detroit Free Press Maga¬ The Atlanta The showing of the film at the High zine, the Journal of Black Poetry, the University School of Education held its Summer Mathe¬ Museum was part of an effort on be¬ Black Collegian, Essence Magazine, half of museum matics Institute with the to encourage com¬ Pride Magazine, Black World Maga¬ representation from munity involvement in that institution. zine, and MS. Magazine. Her books throughout the city and the South. The Alcoholism Counselor Train¬ and anthologies include We Don’t Participants all were expe¬ rienced ing Program was refunded in Novem¬ Heed No Music, The Insistent Present, elementary school teachers ber for another fiscal who year. The proj¬ and We Speak as Liberators. She has completed three courses on ect mathematics content and received more than $300,000 in a also written four plays, including “The teaching National methods Institutes of Mental Health Sale,” produced at Spelman College. during the course of the insti¬ Grant from the U. S. Department of tute. The institute was Health, Education and Welfare. Atlanta University Joins sponsored by the Teacher Training in Developing Insti¬ Georgia In New Program “Reading and Rapping” tutions (TTDI) Program of the U. S. The Atlanta University and the Uni¬ Office of Education. Teachers who Features Original Poetry versity of Georgia schools of social completed the course will continue to Atlanta University poets held their work have entered into a “cooperative study mathematics along with other own “Reading and Rapping” sessions relationship” for educating students courses leading to the Master of Arts in Dean Sage Auditorium this past and providing innovative social serv¬ degree in Elementary Education with semester. Two student poets, Frenchy ices to the Atlanta community. emphasis in mathematics. Jolene Hodges, and Pearl Cleage The new Atlanta Learning Service At the close of the 1972-73 aca¬ Lomax recited original poetry in Oc¬ Center, located at 830 West Peachtree demic year, the teachers expect to tober and November. The last “Read¬ Street, is being directed by Gayle have completed requirements for the ing and Rapping” session featured Dr. Alexander and Jan Douglass of the Master’s degree, and they will be eli¬ Richard A. Long, chairman of the Atlanta University School of Social gible for the Georgia T-5 Certificate Afro-American Studies Program, who Work, and Pauline Lide and Bernie in Elementary Education. originated the sessions. Houlihan of the University of Georgia. Mrs. Harriett J. Walton, assistant Frenchy Hodges is the author of Students enrolled in the center from professor of Mathematics at More¬ Black Wisdom, a book of the two schools are poetry pub¬ being teamed on house College, was director of the lished in 1971. She attended Clark assignments, whenever possible, and summer program. Mrs. Madeline Go- College, graduated from Fort Valley are being placed in a variety of set¬ lightly, instructor of mathematics edu¬ State in 1964, and is currently a fel¬ tings. ranging from the more “tradi¬ cation, was associate director. Instruc¬ low in the Afro-American Studies tional” agencies to communities where tors were Mrs. Mamie S. Robinson of

20 Clark College and James Lee Arnold Joseph Jones is in charge of the New York, and Syracuse universities. of Sammye E. Coan Middle School. courses. The program is funded by the Under Program ABLE, students Participants in the institute from Office of Minority Business Enter¬ spend 12 summer weeks in an inten¬ Atlanta were Mary B. Ellis, Ruby N. prise (OMBE) of the U. S. Depart¬ sive study period concentrating on Johnson, Gloria T. Jones, James S. ment of Commerce and involves six academic areas where they have most Ma rtin. Charlie Mae Murray, and weeks of class meetings per cycle. difficulty. The first and second aca¬ Yvonne Marshall. The classes are concerned with demic years are spent at one of the five Others who completed the course studying problems peculiar to minority schools in the program. A student were Talmadge Cooper of Elberton, business and small business establish¬ serves a 12-week summer internship Ga., Willie E. Manning of Dillon, ments, the causes of such problems, with a minority business or related S.C., Lucius Woods of Tennille, Ga., and their possible solutions. Each agency, and upon graduation, spends and Joanne Walker of Swainsboro, course cycle involves six weeks of 18 months working for a minority Ga. classroom training. business or related agency. Program ABLE was founded in School Of Education University Takes Part 1969 by Dr. Lawrence A. Johnson, Holds Language Workshop In Summer Intern Program president of the new Franklin Park Community College in Boston. Dr. “Developing the Language Skills of Atlanta University was among 220 Johnson devised the program when he Every Child” was the topic of a two- schools whose students were selected was assistant dean of the University day workshop held in November at to participate in the 1972 Federal of Massachusetts School of Business the School of Education. Summer Intern Program under the Administration. His goal was to iden¬ Sister Mary Consilia, founder and U. S. Civil Service Commission. tify and assist minority group members director of the Center for Develop¬ More than 400 students from across who have the potential to earn Mas¬ mental Learning and Reading in the country were chosen for career- ter’s degrees. Newburgh. N.Y., and a professor at related internships. The students ABLE students currently studying Mount Saint Mary College, conducted worked in many fields and were selec¬ at Atlanta University are Woodrow the sessions. She concentrated on ted on the basis of scholastic ability, Brantley of Savannah, Herman Carter “Developmental Language Concepts leadership potential, and other re¬ of Stockton. Ala., Jeannette Carter of and Rationale” at the initial work¬ quirements. Valdosta, Ga., Helen R. Davis of shop. This information was aimed at James E. Beachum and Shirley Marshall, Texas, Clarise M. Johnson those who work with developing lan¬ Johnson were employed with the Jus¬ of Philadelphia, Pa., George A. Rus¬ guage skills in students in both regular tice Department. Wayne Placide sell of Dorchester, Mass., Walter and special settings. worked with the Price Commission. Strickland of Kansas City, Kan., and “Language Workshop: Techniques Mr. Beachum is a student in the Polit¬ Leon S. Williams from Ridgeville, S.C. and Procedures” was a second topic ical Science Department. Miss John¬ intended to develop the four compon¬ son and Mr. Placide enrolled in the Silberman Fund Awards ents of language—listening, speaking, School of Business Administration. reading, and writing. These are tech¬ Grant For SSW Research niques useful for teachers of pre-school OMBE Grant Goes To The Samuel and Lois Silberman grades through the junior high school Business Administration Fund has awarded the School of Social level. The School of Business Adminis¬ Work a research grant for its continu¬ Sister Mary has been supervisor of tration received a $30,000 grant from ing research publication series in Black schools for the Dominican Sisters. She the Office of Minority Business En¬ Social Welfare History. currently serves as language arts terprise (U. S. Department of Com¬ The project intends to highlight the consultant to institutes and academies merce) in October. participation and contributions of in New York and Dallas, as well as Dean Robert C. Vowels said the Black people in social welfare in the the Georgia Institute for Neurological grant will permit more minority stu¬ Black community. Development in Atlanta. dents to earn graduate degrees in busi¬ According to Dean Genevieve T. ness administration through Program Hill of the School of Social Work, the SBA Offers Course In ABLE (Accelerated Business Leader¬ research fulfills a need for more docu¬ Small Business Problems ship Education), a program which mented, historical material on minor¬ The School of Business Administra¬ originated at the University of Mas¬ ity participation in social welfare his¬ tion’s minority business assistance sachusetts in Amherst and has since tory. policy, and services. For the program is continuing for owners and been extended to four other institu¬ period under study, the research is in¬ tended to examine the social welfare managers of small businesses. tions—Atlanta University. Howard,

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DECEMBER. 1972 21 Campus Briefs (Continued)

delivery system, dominant themes, Atlanta University, are Claremont schools, is designed to provide an op¬ Black contributors, and to assess the Graduate School, Teachers College portunity for selected junior and senior adequacy of the programs. Methods (Columbia), Ohio State, Chicago, high school biology or chemistry of service and comparative relation¬ and Pennsylvania. teachers to spend a year of study in ships to social welfare in general will Atlanta University admitted its first the field in which they have principal be considered as well. students under the new program in teaching responsibility. The staff includes Professor Edyth September. The 1972 grant marks the fifteenth Ross, principal research professor and consecutive year that Atlanta Univer¬ chairman of Social Welfare Policy HEW Gives Biomed Grant sity has received such an award. and Services; Dr. Charles Sanders, To Atlanta University Center project administrator; and a panel of Wilson Foundation Grant The Atlanta University Center re¬ consultants in various areas of Social Continues ceived the Library Program Welfare History, Black History, and largest amount in a two mil¬ lion dollar HEW The H. W. Wilson Foundation is Social Welfare Policy and Service grant to ethnic continuing its grant to the School of Delivery who include Dr. Ralph minority colleges to spur biomedical research Library Service in support of educa¬ Pumphrey of Washington University, program development. The institutional tion for librarians. Dr. Phillip Foner of Lincoln Univer¬ grants were awarded un¬ der the new Under the program, a scholarship sity, and Dr. Inabel Lindsay, Dean Minority Schools Biomed¬ ical grant of $3,000 is made to each of Emeritus of the Howard University Support (MSBS) program of the Division of 57 American and Canadian School of Social Work. Research Resources of graduate HEW's National Institutes of Health. library schools accredited by the Editorial and clerical services are The Atlanta American Library Association. provided by Dr. M. Elizabeth Carnegie University Center con¬ sortium received the The and Mrs. Clarice Preston. largest lump sum scholarships are intended to as¬ sist in grant given, a total initial grant of attracting to librarianship ex¬ $182,466. The main thrust of the ceptional young men and women who Ford Awards Grant joint award is to strengthen Atlanta would not otherwise be able to make To Doctoral Program University’s Ph.D. graduate program librarianship a career. Since the The School of Education’s doctoral in biomedical research and at the same Wilson Scholarships were first made available in program in administration and sup¬ time broaden health science oppor¬ 1957, hundreds of stu¬ ervision has received a grant of more tunities for undergraduates. dents have been beneficiaries. than $200,000 for a one-year period Faculty involvement in health The Ford Foundation has approved beginning September 1. science research and development of a $10,000 supplemental grant to the The grant was awarded in support collaborative intercollegiate research East Central Committee for Oppor¬ of the program to improve the selec¬ activities are also major goals of the tunity (ECCO) project of the School tion, training, and placement of school Atlanta consortium. of Business Administration to enable administrators. The program seeks to The HEW-sponsored grants were ten staff members to visit other identify and recruit men and women made to 38 institutions in all, and all foundation-assisted community devel¬ from outside as well as within the but two were for a five-year period opment corporations around the formal education community, who from June 1972 through May 1977. country. normally would not aspire to careers The grant is intended to cover a ten- as school system educational adminis¬ NSF month period and a trators. Leadership Development supplements grant of $372,000 which the univer¬ The program also seeks to attract Project Awarded To Atlanta U sity received in January to establish more minority-group members, includ¬ A grant of $136,900 from the Na¬ the project. ing women, to educational administra¬ tional Science Foundation was tion. awarded to Atlanta University to sup¬ President’s Task Force Atlanta University and other re¬ port a Leadership Development Proj¬ In July, 1972, President Jarrett ap¬ ect for the cipient institutions of similar grants improvement of science pointed a Task Force to develop a were instruction in chosen “in part because they are junior and senior high case for Atlanta University to be used visible and diverse, and the hope is schools throughout the state of Geor¬ by the Trustee Development Com¬ that their reforms will be diffused and gia. mittee in seeking financial support adopted by many other schools of The science instruction improve¬ from philanthropic foundations and ment education,” according to the founda¬ program, previously known as private donors. The Task Force was tion. The institutions so far receiving the Academic Year Institute Program charged with the responsibility of mak¬ such grants from Ford, in addition to for teachers of science in secondary ing a comprehensive inventory of

22 needs (gifts opportunities) which re¬ estimated costs for academic affairs, the South. The percentage of these quire funding and constructing the administrative services, student affairs, graduates remaining in the South fell major arguments for Atlanta Univer¬ development and physical facilities. in both 1970 and 1971. This down¬ sity to be the recipient of significant The Task Force Case for Atlanta ward trend was reversed in 1972 when financial support. Dr. Virginia L. University will be ready to submit to 76 percent of the Atlanta University Jones, Dean of the School of Library the Trustee Development Committee MBA’s found jobs below the Mason- Service was appointed as chairman of at its spring meeting in April. Dixon line. the Task Force, Dr. Huey E. Charlton, On the average, Atlanta University Dean of the School of Education. Vice graduated 57 students with MBA’s in Atlanta Chairman, and Mr. Laron Clark, Jr., University each of the years from 1969 to 1972. Business Graduates Development Officer, as Secretary. Of the 228 graduates of the AU busi¬ The Task Force consists of twenty- ness school during these years, about five faculty members, including the The top monthly salary offered a 21 percent found local employment June 1972 Atlanta five deans of the University, and ten University business (in the City of Atlanta). school students. In accomplishing its goal of graduate was $1,675. This About 24 percent of the 1969 class w'riting a compelling and comprehen¬ graduate, like some of his other MBA of Atlanta University MBA’s found (master of business administration) sive statement to argue the reasons for local employment. The proportion of Atlanta University to be the object of classmates, received from five to these MBA’s finding employment in fifteen philanthropy and to document the job offers. Most of these other Atlanta fell in the next two years, then MBA holders, however, needs deserving support, the Task got offers rose to a high of 29 percent in 1972. near a mean Force was divided into three groups. monthly salary of $1,025. Of the total AU business graduates Group I. under the chairmanship of The Atlanta University (AU) busi¬ finding local employment in 1969, Dr. Lafayette Fredericks, Head of the ness graduates’ mean monthly salary w'hite Atlanta businesses hired nine; Biology Department, has developed was about 97 percent of that reported predominantly black Atlanta business the section of the Task Force Report in the College Placement Council’s and educational institutions hired on Institutional Mission and Future July 1972 Salary Survey for non¬ three; and local businesses headquar¬ Directions. The mission of the Uni¬ technical MBA’s. In prior years, the tered outside the South hired three. versity is presented in terms of its role gap between the two salary levels was In 1972, locally owned white busi¬ in society, in higher education and in wider than the three percentage points nesses hired seven Atlanta MBA’s; the Atlanta University Center. The registered in 1972. locally owned black business and edu¬ philosophy of the University and the The Council’s reported monthly cational institutions hired four; and businesses specific educational goals and pro¬ salaries of $1,044 were identical for headquarted outside the grams are described as well as the 1971 and 1970. Atlanta University South hired five. salient factors in the history of the MBA’s received 95 percent of the Compared to 1969, Atlanta-control¬ University and those characteristics of Council’s 1971 reported salary and 93 led white businesses hired fewer AU the University which appeal to stu¬ percent of the 1970 salary. In 1969, business school graduates in 1972 while black Atlanta-controlled busi¬ dents, faculty, administration, the the AU business school graduate re¬ nesses and Atlanta businesses head¬ community, alumni, Trustees and ceived only S7 percent of the Council’s donors. The statement on future direc¬ reported $962 monthly salary. quartered outside the South both hired more AU business school tions embraces the distinctions of the General Motors, IBM, Monsanto, graduates. University that must endure, the new and others of the Nation’s major In summary, the College Place¬ directions for educational ment Council’s results indicate an objectives, corporations hire most of the AU up¬ the projected characteristics of the stu¬ business school graduates. In 1969. ward trend in MBA jobs and salaries. dent The Atlanta body, faculty and administration, about 65 percent of these graduates University business school financial policies and physical facili¬ found employment in business. This graduates’ job and salary trends re¬ ties. flect the Council’s results. percentage rose in each succeeding Since 1969. AU business Group II. chaired by Mrs. Hallie B. year to the 1972 high of 87 percent. graduates’ Brooks. Professor in the School of employment opportunities in the South Library Service, has written the sec¬ *Dean, School of Business Administra¬ have improved, though not necessarily tion on Institutional Accomplishments tion and Professor of Economics in Georgia. and Distinctions which describe aca¬ Also, it appears that increases in the demic growth, community services, In each of the four years, the next City of Atlanta employment for AU accomplishments of alumni and facul¬ largest percentage of AU business business graduates will depend largely school ty, growth in physical facilities and graduates went into teaching. upon the growth of businesses moving financial support. A few took jobs with the federal gov¬ into the City, but headquartered else¬ Group III. with Dr. Stephen Herr- ernment and fewer still continued their where. An increase in the number of education toward more advanced de¬ man. Professor, School of Fducation, black Atlanta-owned businesses will as chairman, developed the financial grees. tend to improve AU business grad¬ projections and inventory of needs Nearly 57 percent of the 1969 At¬ uates’ employment opportunities. for a ten-year period including the lanta University MBA’s remained in By Robert C. Vowels*

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BUI LETIN DECEMBER. 1972 23 Faculty, staff. Trustees, alumni and friends joined to honor President Jarrett for 25 years of service to Atlanta University at a surprise (and with Mrs. Jarrett's cooperation, it was really a surprise) party at Paschal’s Motor Hotel in November.

Mrs. Edward Simon present work of art to President Jarrett

Mr. Frederick D. Browne (Alumni Association), Dr. Jarrett, Mrs. Jarrett. Dr. Jarrett expresses gratitude and surprise

24 President holds silver tray which was presented to him by Alumni Association during festivities.

Mrs. Ernestine Comer, administrative assistant to the presi¬ dent, pins corsage on Miss Paula Jarrett, who came from New York to join in honoring her father.

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Atlanta were University Reopens shown and of this group five Celebrated Negro Collection won cash awards totalling five hundred dollars. All of the Atlanta University reopened its winning paintings are now a part of the celebrated Negro Collection of art permanent col¬ lection of Atlanta and sculpture on Sunday, November University. 19, between 1 and 6 P.M. in the low¬ This exhibition was probably the er level of Trevor Arnett Library. The first of its kind ever to be conducted reopening was hosted by Atlanta Uni¬ by a Negro institution in an effort to versity president Dr. Thomas Jarrett. locate, present and stimulate creative work The entire Atlanta University Col¬ by Black artists and foster ap¬ lection is comprised of some 400 oils, preciation of these efforts. water Dr. colors, graphics, pieces of Alain Locke presided over the sculpture and other artifacts. The award ceremony and commended At¬ Waddell Collection of 52 painting and lanta University for this important graphics and the Contemporary Col¬ step of portraying the “art of their lection of 28 paintings were not part people from its very roots in the native of this inaugural display but will be soil”. on exhibit later as the paintings are In 1957, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey L. rotated to provide maximum exposure Waddell, friends of Atlanta Univer¬ to the public. sity, suggested that the Negro Collec¬ The November 19 tion be reopening dis¬ broadened to represent con¬ played approximately 90 paintings and temporary art in America without 25 pieces of sculpture, about one-third limitation of racial origin. Through of the Atlanta their University Negro Col¬ efforts, Atlanta University came lection. On display were efforts of to acquire the Atlanta University Wad¬ such artists as John Wilson, Calvin dell Collection and Contemporary Art Burnett, William Johnson, Frederick Collection, including such artists as Flemister, Ernest Crichlow, Samella Romare Bearden, George Beattie, Lewis, Lois Mailou Jones, Henry O. Isabel Bishop, Edwin Dickinson, Lee Tanner, James Watkins, Jewel Simon, Catch, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Jason Schoen- Hayward Oubre, Benjamin Britt, Henri er, William Littlefield and others. Linton, Floyd Coleman, Bob Black¬ Annual exhibitions were held until burn, Jacob Lawrence, Leo Twiggs 1970 when they were temporarily sus¬ and others. Several artists, including pended because of lack of gallery space William Artis, Elizabeth Catlett, Jack and adequate funding. Through the Jordan, Hayward Oubre, and Gregory yearly exhibitions, however, and Ridley, were also represented by sculp¬ through purchase of the prize ture. winning selections the Atlanta University Col¬ The Atlanta University Collections lections now represent probably the have a very rich and interesting his¬ largest collection of works of contem¬ tory. In 1942, the efforts of through porary Black artists to be found any¬ Hale Woodruff, then on the univer¬ where in America. The November 19th sity faculty, the university inaugurated reopening returned to the community an annual exhibition of the works of at large this rich resource of art and Negro artists. From April 19 to May history. The paintings will be rotated 10 the works of 62 were Negro artist frequently so that over the period of a on view in the exhibition gallery of year most of the Negro Collection as Atlanta University Library in a com¬ well as parts of the Waddell Collection petitive exhibition. One hundred and and the Contemporary Collection can seven paintings in oil and water color be viewed. President Jarrett, Mrs. Edward Weaver (L) and Mrs. Rufus Clement, wife of the late Atlanta University President, view parts of a Nigerian collection of artifacts and sculpture given to the university. Dr. Richard Long is in the background.

Only about one-third of Atlanta University’s col¬ lections (which comprise 400 pieces) can be dis¬ played in the gallery at any given time. Here a guest stops before Frank Neal’s “Oppression."

Mrs. Ranjit Singh serves refreshments to President Jarrett at reopening of the art exhibition on November 19.

Mrs. Clement admires Jacob Lawrence's "Saturday Night."

The Atlanta University Alumni Association donated glass cases to house the Nigerian Collection. Here Frederick D. Browne and Mrs. Nettie Smith of the Alumni Association present the cases to Dr. Richard Long (L).

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DECEMBER. 1972 27 Dr. Lafayette Frederick, chairman of the Department of Biology, has been elected to the Executive Com¬ mittee of Georgia Conservancy, In¬ corporated. He presented a paper in a Symposium on Phenology and Sea¬ sonality Modeling at the annual meet¬ ing of the American Institute of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota. The paper, entitled “Observations on Corticolous Myxo- mycetes in Georgia,” was co-authored with a student, Levester Pendergrass. Mrs. Lucy C. Grigsby, chairman of the Department of English, attended the regular Fall meeting the Miss Jo Ann Bayneum, coach-coun¬ Africa”), Wells College (“Blacks in of College Language Association’s Executive selor in the School of Library Service, Classical Antiquity”), and Ottawa Committee in Columbia, South Caro¬ taught in the Career Opportunities University (“The Black Aesthetic”) lina, and the Atlanta University Board Program at Clark College this past during the past several months. of Trustees Meeting in New York. summer. “COP Through the Eyes of Mr. Milton K. Duckworth, associate At the MCTE convention she was a the Participants,” her compilation of professor of social work, attended a member of the Black Caucus which essays by the students, has been pub¬ workshop on activities therapy con¬ presented to the Executive Committee lished by the Atlanta Public School ducted by the Georgia Nursing Home a number of specific recommendations System. Association and the Department of which could made the organization Mrs. Hallie Brooks, professor of Health, Education and Welfare, No¬ more responsive to the interests and library service, addressed the En¬ vember 15-17. He is serving as a con¬ needs of its membership, including the quirer’s Club in December on the topic sultant with the Georgia Nursing Black members. “The Impact of Mass Communication Home Association in a demonstration Dr. Edwin P. Hall, on Society.” She attended a joint .meet¬ project providing for the transfer of Jr., assistant ing of the Southeastern and South¬ M. R. patients to nursing homes. He professor of education, toured schools and western Library Association in New spoke on the subject “Sickle Cell is special projects in New York and Orleans, October 31-November 4. White Too” aboard the Greek ship Boston in October with the staff and Dr. Thomas W. Cole, Jr., Callaway MTS Orphius following study of sickle participants in the Atlanta University EPDA Professor of Chemistry, was visiting cell anemia and Cooley’s anemia in the Project. During October and lecturer at the University of Illinois Greek Islands during the Summer of November, he spoke to several groups: First Methodist Church of this past summer. He spoke in Novem¬ 1972. Since September, he has spoken Canton, ber at the Massachusetts Institute of to the Mt. Clark PTA (“What to Do Georgia (“Behavioral Contracts for Child Technology on the subject “Chemistry Until the Pusher Comes”), and the Rearing”), Briarcliff High School Science Class of the Cubycarbinyl System.” He co¬ Rockdale County Medical Group (“Applications of authored “Synthesis and Rearrange¬ (“Social Work Is an Attitude”). Hypnosis”), Gwinnett High School ment of 4 Substituted Cubycarbinyl Mr. Bruce T. Eure, assistant profes¬ Science Faculty (“Drug Problems in the -Nitrobenzoates,” with the abstracts sor of business education, attended High School”), and the Gwinnett presented at the Southern Regional the Academy of Management National High School PTA (“Alcohol and the American Chemistry Society meeting meeting in Bloomington, Minnesota, Teenager”). in Birmingham, Alabama, in Novem¬ in August and the American Institute Dr. Robert A. Holmes, associate ber. of Decision Sciences national meeting professor of political science, was a Dr. David F. Dorsey, Jr., associate in New Orleans in October. member of the program committee for professor of English and linguistics, Dr. Sidney H. Estes, professor of the Atlanta Forum on National and studied “Pidgin and Creole” at the education, has been working as a International Affairs Conference on Linguistics Society of America Sum¬ consultant for the Atlanta Public the Middle East in November. He mer Institute. “Formal Elements of Schools in connection with the prob¬ spoke at the 44th Annual Meeting the Black Aesthetic in Poetry,” which lems of desegregation. In September, of the Southern Political Science As¬ he wrote, was published as an oc¬ he spoke on the topic “Race and Edu¬ sociation in November on the topic casional paper of the Conference on cation and the Atlanta Schools” at the “Alternatives in the Struggle: An African and Afro-American Studies Leadership Atlanta Conference spon¬ Analysis of Goals. Tactics, and Strat¬ in September, and he reviewed Fanon: sored by the University of Georgia. egies in the Black Liberation Move¬ The Revolutionary as Prophet by Peter He spoke on the subject: Integration- ment.” He has written articles on Geismar for Worldview in May. He Desegregation: Where Do We Go “China-Burma Relations since the has spoken at Atlanta University from Here?” at the ESAP Conference Rift” (Asian Survey, August, 1972); ("Blacks in Classical Antiquity” and sponsored by Atlanta University’s “Atlanta University's New Ph.D. Pro¬ “The Black Aesthetic”), New York Center for Community Services in gram in Political Science” (The Black

University (“Urban Life in East October. Collegian, November - December,

28 Administering Board for Atlanta Learning Service Center/(left to right) Bernard Houlihan, Gayle Alexander, Janet Douglass, Dean Genevieve Hill, Dean Charles Stewart (University of Georgia) and Dr. Pauline Lide.

1972); and “Black Politics in the Studies, co-edited an anthology of and at the Reticuloendothelial Society 1970’s” (Phylon, Winter, 1972). Afro-American writings and poetry. in Austin, Texas. She and three At¬ Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones, Dean of Entitled Afro-American Writing: An lanta University students gave papers the School of Library Service, served Anthology of Prose and Poetry, the at the Southeastern Branch Meeting as an evaluator for the Right-to-Read two-volume survey of Black literature of the Society for Microbiology. Institute 'for the states of from 1760 to 1970 is Alaska, being published Mr. Casper L. Jordan, assistant pro¬ Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Mon¬ by New York University Press. fessor of library service, served as a tana at the University of Washington The anthology is composed of four consultant for the Dayton, Ohio, in Seattle. She attended the Annual sections spanning the development of Model Cities Educational Component, Conference of the American the various Afro-American Library literary as an advisor for the Minority Pro¬ Association in Chicago in June and genres which have emerged throughout gram Development for Libraries and a the meeting of the Southeastern Library years. From the slave culture, Learning Resources Project of Florida Association and the Southwestern during which William Wells Brown A&M University, and as a member Library Association in New Orleans and Frederick Douglass wrote, to the of the Evaluation Team for Alabama as works of Booker T. this Fall. She served banquet speak¬ Washington and State University Library and the Task er for the West W. E. B. Dubois Virginia Library As¬ during the emancipa¬ Force on a Black Library Periodical sociation in Clarksburg, West Virginia, tion era; from James Weldon Johnson, of the Black Caucus of the American and was made an honorary member of Marcus Garvey, and the Harlem Library Association. the West Virginia Library Association Renaissance, to the era of protest, the Dr. Louis E. Shilling, assistant pro¬ in September. She was appointed a Black Arts Movement and Martin fessor of education, wrote an article, member of the SELA Advisory Com¬ Luther King, James Baldwin and Le- “What is a Convention,” for the De¬ mittee on the Southeastern States Co¬ Roi Jones—the Afro-American literary cember, 1972 issue of the American operative Library Survey, and she experience is presented as a totality Personnel and Guidance Journal. served as a consultant to the Library within which may be found the truths Dr. Joseph B. Myers, Sr., assistant Committee of Alabama A&M Uni¬ necessary for an understanding of professor of biology, received a $6,521 versity and on the development of present-day Afro-American culture. grant from Poeter Development Com¬ interdisciplinary programs initiated by Dr. Judith K. Lamb, assistant pro¬ mittee for developing teaching and the University of Pittsburgh's Grad¬ fessor of biology, presented papers at research in animal uate School of Library and Inform¬ The Lymphocyte Conference held by physiology. ation Sciences. the University of Maryland's School Dr. Gustav A. Ofosu. assistant pro¬ Dr. Richard A. Long, chairman of of Medicine; at the Department of fessor of biology, received the Ph.D. the Department of Afro-American Microbiology, University of Georgia; degree in August from Michigan State

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN/DECEMBER. 1972/29 (Continued)

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Seated (I to r) New Faculty Members Mrs. Evelyn Gilliard (Edu.) M rs. Ella G. Yates (SLS) Miss Margaret C. Simms (Dr.) (SBA) Mrs. Joan F. McTeer (SSW) Miss Myrtle G. Glascoe (SSW.) Miss Patricia Gail Hicks (SSW) Mrs. Carolyn George (Edu.) Mrs. Mildred H. Freeman (Edu.) Standing (I to r.) Dr. David F. Dorsey, Jr. (A & S) Mr. Ronald N. Johnson, Jr. (SSW) Mr. Webster L. Wallace (S. Edu.) Dr. Sidney H. Estes (S. Edu.) Dr. Pierre-Michel Fontaine (A & S) Dr. Gene Scott Owen (A & S) Dr. Edward F. Sweat (A & S) Mr. Ronald N. Kilpatrick (S. Edu.) Dr. H. Oliver Welch (Bus. Adm.) Mr. Arthur B. Cummings (Bus. Adm.) Mrs. Carolyn F. Gerald (Dr.) (A & S.) Dr. Gustav A. Ofosu (A & S) Dr. Alex W. Willingham (A & S) Mr. Milton P. Crook, Jr. (A & S) Mr. William H. L. Dorsey (A & S.)

University. He wrote an article on sor of social work, conducted a work¬ an open discussion on WRNG radio “Acid and Alkaline Phosphatase Ac¬ shop, “Sharing Our Concerns in Day locally, and he spoke to a group of tivity in the Developing Intestine of a Care,” for the Atlanta 4-C (Com¬ community and business leaders in Mouse: A Biochemical and Electron munity Coordinated Child Care) Pro¬ Griffin, Georgia. Microscope Study” for the Fourth gram in December. She was a mem¬ Mrs. Amanda F. Watts, associate International Congress of Histochem¬ ber of a panel on “Nutrition in Day professor of social work, participated istry and Cytochemistry in Tokyo. Care” at the annual conference of the in a national Family Planning Con¬ He spoke to the Department of Anat¬ National Association of the Education ference at Morris Brown College in omy of Howard University on the of Young Children in November. October. subject “Fine Structural Focalization Dr. Nazir A. Warsi, professor of Dr. Edward K. Weaver, professor of of Non-Specific Alkaline and Acid mathematics, has published six reviews education wrote a chapter for a book. Phosphatases in the Mouse Intestine.” in Zenthralblatt fur Mathematic during Black Psychology, edited by Reginald Dr. Edward F. Sweat, visiting pro¬ the last six months. Jones and published by Harper and fessor of Agro-American history, par¬ Mr. Tanquir A. Warsi, assistant Row.

ticipated in a WSB radio special tele¬ professor of business administration, Dr. Alex Willingham, associate pro¬ phone call-in program. “Everything spoke to two groups of students from fessor of political science, served as a You’ve Wanted to Know about Afro- metropolitan Atlanta high schools on panelist on the Black Peoples’ Com¬ American History.” on September 14. the subject “Religions and Philoso¬ mittee of Inquiry into Recent Shoot¬ Mrs. Althea Truitt, assistant profes¬ phy.” He served as chief panelist for ings at Southern University.

30 President Jarrett Meets With the alumni at the Martin Luther King, expand and what it can do to achieve Jr. Towers in San Francisco. stronger ties with the University. San Francisco Bay Area During the evening alumni listened Arrangements for the meeting were Alumni to the President’s delineation of the made by Miss Verneta Hill, president; present academic programs as well as Mrs. Marjorie Holloway, secretary; On October 8, 1972, President Jar¬ plans for the expansion of the Uni¬ Mrs. Gussie Steele, treasurer; and Mrs. rett was warmly greeted by more than versity. An enthusiastic discussion was Margaret Cabiness, who teaches at fifty Atlanta University Alumni from held in regard to the future programs Atlanta University in the summer ses¬ the Bay Area at a reception given by of the Bay Area Club, how it can sions.

President Jarrett Bay Area Alumni Club Group Picture, left to right: Paul Smith, Madrid Hamilton, Field Student, Margaret Cabiness, Effie Lee Morris, Field Student, Peter Duke, Field Student, Barbara Coleman, Dr. Jarrett, Emma Guinones, Gussie Steele-Trea- surer, Marjorie Holloway - Secretary, Verneta Hill - President, Ruth Walker, Pat Eberling, Gary Eberling, Claude Colbert, Cynthia Knight, Jeanette Glenn, and Barbara James.

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DECEMBER, 1972 31 lews j 1905 Mrs. Fannie Howard Douglass (Col¬ lege), was honored recently for having

1949 Dr. Mary Ella Robertson (Social Work), a professor at Boston College and the former dean of Howard Uni¬ versity’s School of Social Work, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of Amer¬ ica. She is also a special consultant on Social Welfare issues to John Cardinal

Wright of the Vatican, a member of the board of directors of the National

Conference of Catholic Charities, a member of the advisory committee on social work education of the National William Gore Institution of Mental Health, and the author of six major articles on educa¬ tion and social work.

Charles V. Willie (Sociology) was re-elected by the American Sociolog¬ ical Association to serve a second

three-year term on the Board of Direc¬ tors of the Social Science Research s v Council. He was also re-elected as a member of the Council’s Executive Committee.

1950

l: Mrs. Ola Mae Bowman Ford (Educa¬ tion), head of the Home Economics Eddie Shellman Department at Ballard B. Central High School in Macon, Georgia, partici¬ pated in a meeting of the Red Cross Southeastern Area Advisory Council. Mrs. Ford is also a member of the

32 Macon County Chapter’s board of di¬ bruecken, Germany, during the fall rectors, and of the Red Cross youth, quarter and at Zaragoza, Spain during training, nursing, and health programs the winter quarter. He is also a mem¬ committees. She represents the Red ber of the Indiana Criminal Justice Cross on the office of Economic Op¬ Planning Board and the Muncie Hu¬ portunity Nutrition Committee and man Rights Commission. is a Red Cross First Aid and Home Nursing Instructor. 1959 Eddie J. Shellman (Biology) has been 1951 awarded his Ph.D. in Education from Charles Dalton (Social Work), has Pennsylvania State University. Dr. received a scholarship from the Ford Shellman is a science instructor at Motor Company Fund for urban stu¬ Central Florida Community College, dies in Manchester, England, this Ocala, Florida, a Civil Defense Instruc¬ summer. tor, and a member of Beta Kappa Chi scientific honor society. 1955 1960 Dr. Wilfred R. Ball (Biology), re¬ search biologist for the U. S. Depart¬ Dr. Sleo Phillip Coles, Jr. (Biology) ment of Agriculture and Associate has opened an office of general sur¬ Professor of Biology at Knoxville Col¬ gery with Dr. James H. Kelley at For¬ lege, has been appointed as associate ward West Professional Building, 2600 professor of biology at Wilberforce Gordon Road in Atlanta. University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Edwin A. Green (Biology) has com¬ Mrs. Anna Louise Lee Cooke (Li- pleted all requirements for his Ph.D. brary Services), head librarian at Lane in Invertebrate Zoology at the Uni¬ College, has been appointed to serve versity of Oklahoma. as a member of the Committee on Standards and Accreditation of Col¬ 1961 lege and University Libraries for two- Alvin Dawson Robert M. Ballard (Library Service) year term, 1972-74. has been appointed associate professor of the School of Librarianship of West¬ 1958 ern Michigan University, Kalamazoo, William /. Gore (Social Work), has Michigan. been appointed as the first Black di¬ Dr. Clinton Dixon (Biology) was rector of psychiatric social services awarded the Ph.D. degree in zoology for the Mental Health Center at Mil¬ from Oklahoma State University and waukee County Institutions, Mil¬ has returned to his teaching position waukee, Wisconsin. in the Department of Biology at Fort Booker Thomas Lockett (Educa¬ Valley State College. tion) has been appointed an instruc¬ tor in Advanced Composition and En¬ 1963 glish Literature at West Georgia Col¬ Arthur Watson Danner lege in Carrollton. He has also been (Business) has been named named to Who's Who in the Dictio¬ vice-president for business affairs at Tennessee State University, Charles Dalton nary of International Biography. Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Jattics F. Scott (Sociology), as¬ sociate professor of sociology at Ball Alvin Allen Dawson (Education), State University in Muncic, Indiana, principal at Booker T. Washington will teach at Rhein Main and Zwei- High School in Atlanta, has been

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DECEMBER. 1972 33 Alumm

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named Area 5 Superintendent of ogy) at Rust College in Holly Springs, Schools in Atlanta. Mississippi. Dr. Gilbert Ogendji (Biology) as¬ 1964 sociate professor of biology at Coppin State College in Baltimore, serves as Mrs. Betty Taylor Ashe (Library Ser¬ program director of a biomedical re¬ vice) received the M.S. in Black Lit¬ search and research training program erature from Howard University in June. supported by the NIH (National In¬ stitutes of Health). Ivan L. Cotman (Social Work), a member of the Detroit Board of Edu¬ 1967 cation, has been awarded a scholar¬ ship from the Ford Motor Company Mrs. Mae Lois (Brew ton) Brooks Fund for urban studies in Manchester, (Biology) currently is instructor of England, this summer. biology at Northside High School in Dr. F. C. Richardson (Biology) has Atlanta. been named chairman of the Division Willie M. Clark (Biology) was of Arts and Sciences at Indiana Uni¬ awarded the Ph.D. degree in Science versity Northwest. Education in June from Michigan State Walter Salters (Biology) is the re¬ University. Dr. cipient of a NIH-HARC Fellowship Renty Franklin (Biology) re¬ award to study for the doctorate in cently received the Ph.D. degree in biology at Purde University. physiology from Howard University and has accepted a faculty appoint¬ 1965 ment in physiology at that institution. Dr. Gustav Ofosu (Biology) has Dr. Marion Jones (Biology) has received the Ph.D. degree in zoology been appointed chairman of the De¬ from Michigan State University in partment of Biology at Albany State July. He joined the faculty of the De¬ College. partment of Biology at Atlanta Uni¬ Dr. Jonathan Karicukiole Lolchoki versity as assistant professor and is in (Political Science) has changed his charge of the electron micorscope name to Kariuki Karei. Dr. Karei was laboratory. awarded his Ph.D. in International Herbert Stone (Biology) has entered Relations in 1971 by the University of the Emory University Medical School. Pennsylvania. He has been appointed Thomas Oliver Cordy (Economics) chairman of the Division of Social has been named vice-president for in¬ Sciences and associate professor at vestment of Minbanc Capital Corpora¬ Voorhees College in Denmark, S. C. tion of the American Bankers Associa¬ Mac A. Stewart (Education) has re¬ tion. ceived the Earl W. Anderson Scholar¬ Mrs. Emma Bradford Perry (Li¬ ship at Ohio State University. An brary Service) has completed course administrative associate in Ohio State’s requirements for the Specialist Degree office of student financial aids, he is in Librarianship from Western Mich¬ a doctoral candidate in student per¬ igan University. She is Director of the sonnel administration. West Side Library Project, Public Li¬ brary System in Evanston, Illinois. Deborah Clark 1966 James E. Walker (Education) has George Harvey Armstrong (Chem¬ received his Ph.D. in Education of istry) has received his Ph.D. from the exceptional children from the Pennsyl¬ University of Akron, June 1972. vania State University, September, LaJoyce Henderson Debro (Biol¬ 1972.

34 Mrs. Dianne T. McAfee Williams harry Medical College where she is mycology at the Medical College of (Library Service) has received a specializing in human genetics. Virginia at Richmond. Specialist Degree in Librarianship from Mrs. Brenda Shaw (Education) of Kimuel Huggins, Jr. (Biology) has Western Michigan University. She is Jackson. Tennessee has been engaged entered Meharry Medical College. presently a school library consultant in further study at Columbia Univer¬ Paul C. Lampley (Biology) holds for the state of Michigan in Lansing. sity. an appointment as instructor of biol¬ ogy and director of special programs 1968 1971 at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mis¬ Ralph Timothy McDonald (Educa¬ Raek J. Cho (Business Administra¬ sissippi. tion) received his Ph.D. in admin¬ Blanche McFarland (Biology) con¬ has tion) has received a Master of Arts tinues studies toward the doctorate istration from the University of Miami degree in Business Administration in Coral in biomathematics at the University Gables, Florida. from Pennsylvania State University. of North Carolina. Ralph B. Singfield ( Business Admin¬ Miss Madelaine J. Gordon (Educa¬ Randall Neal (Biology) is instructor istration) is presently cost engineer of tion) is an Elementary Teacher in the of biology and director of the environ¬ Eastman Kodak Company. He is the Metropolitan Public Schools System mental sciences financial advisor to line manufactur¬ in Nashville, Tennessee. program at Shaw Uni¬ versity in Raleigh, North Carolina. ing management. John B. Henderson (Social Work) Melvin Webb (Education) has re¬ has been appointed Director of Public ceived his Ph.D. in Science 1972 Education Relations and Publications at Fayette¬ from Iowa State University. ville State University, Fayetteville, Dr. A joy G. Chakrabarti (Biology) Tamara Ewell (Biology) currently N. C. is assistant professor of biology in the teaches in the School of Dentistry at Mrs. Bertie Guest Wilson (Educa¬ Department of Biology at South? Howard University. tion) has been appointed the first Miss Deborah Itanya Clark (Social Dr. James Hogan (Biology) recent¬ Black principal pro tern at Beauyne Work) has been appointed instructor ly received the Ph.D. in development School in Aurora, Illinois. in social welfare at the University biology from Brown University. He is Dr. W. Lena Austin continues her of Tennessee at Martin in Paris, Ten¬ currently holding a post-doctorate ap¬ post-doctoral appointment in medical nessee. pointment at Yale University. James A. Roberts (Biology) has en¬ tered the University of Wisconsin Medical School. Mrs. Velma Charles Shannon (biol¬ ogy) has entered the doctoral program in animal behavior at Iowa State Uni¬ versity.

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Raymond Davis has received an NIH-MARC fellowship for study for the doctorate. He returned to Atlanta University recently and is working with Dr. Joseph Myers in physiology. Larry Shannon (Education) con¬ tinues work toward his doctorate at Iowa State University. He is specializ¬ ing in fisheries and wildlife.

1970

Miss Elaine J. Davis (Biology) has entered the doctoral program at Me- Ralph Singfield

THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN DECEMBER, 1972 35 IN MEMORIAM

MR. TRUMAN KELLA GIBSON, Carver High School in Phoenix, Ari¬ (A.B., 1905), president of Supreme zona, until his retirement. Life Insurance Company of America and a trustee of Atlanta University MRS. M. EUNICE JONES for almost 20 years, died August 30 BROWN, (Normal, 1925), died in Sa¬ in Chicago. Funeral services were vannah, Georgia on August 6. Funeral held September 2 at Good Shepherd services were held in Savannah on Congregational Church in Chicago. August 9. Mr. Gibson graduated cum laude Mrs. Brown received a Masters from Harvard University in 1908. He Degree from Columbia University. was appointed a trustee of Atlanta She resired several years ago as a prin¬ University in 1945 and was given cipal in the Savannah Public Schools. trustee emeritus status in 1946. He was secretary-general manager MRS. EVELYN JONES BLACK, of the Atlanta Life Insurance Com¬ (Social Work, 1946), died October 31 pany until he moved to Columbus, at her home in Lexington, Kentucky. Ohio, where he became the founder Funeral services were held at the of Supreme Life and Casualty Com¬ University of Kentucky in Lexington. pany of Ohio in 1921, and also a Mrs. Black was a native of Mur¬ founder of the Fireside Mutual Aid freesboro, Tennessee and was a gradu¬ Association. He received the Harmon ate of North Carolina Central Univer¬ Foundation Award in 1929 for his sity at Durham, N. C. achievement in business. He was ap¬ She was serving on the faculty of pointed head of the Supreme Life In¬ the School of Social Professions, Uni¬ surance Company in 1944. versity of Kentucky, at the time of her death. Mrs. Black had taught at Beau¬ MR. W. A. ROBINSON, (A.B., fort County High School in Pantego, 1913), one-time principal of the At¬ N. C., Cotton Valley High School and lanta University Laboratory High Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and School, died recently in New York. at Dunbar High School in Lexington. Mr. Robinson received the M. A. de¬ She was a member of the Delta Sigma gree from Columbia University in Theta Sorority, NAACP, Urban 1924. After leaving his position at At¬ League Guild, National Association of lanta University, he served as director Social Workers, chairman of Martin of the Secondary Study of the Associa¬ Luther King Scholarship Fund. Mental tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools Health Retardation Board, and direc¬ for Blacks, and then as principal of tor of the training program for Ken-

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Evelyn Black Samuel Z. Westerfield tucky School Social Workers. partment of State in 1963 as a Deputy University in Pennsylvania, for 12 Among awards and honors received, Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of years before coming to Atlanta. Mrs. Black was listed in Who’s Who Economic Affairs. He also served as Dr. Bond began his career in edu¬ Among College Students in American Deputy Assistant Secretary for African cation in 1924 as head of the depart¬ Universities and Colleges and was one Economic Affairs until he was ap¬ ment of education at Langston Uni¬ of the outstanding women professors pointed U. S. Ambassador to Liberia. versity in Oklahoma. He had gradu¬ at the University of Kentucky. She He served as a U. S. Representative ated from Lincoln University, earned was honored by the Governor of the to the 1963 Conference of the U. N., two post-graduate degrees from the State, and was presented the Distin¬ Economic Commission for Africa and University of Chicago and held hon¬ guished Service Award by the College the Far East, and was a member of orary degrees from Temple University of Social Professions in 1972. the State Department's Board of Ex¬ and Grinnell University. Mrs. Black was also very active in aminers for the Foreign Service. He He retired in 1971 after almost 15 her church. St. Andrews Episcopal was a member of the Treasury De¬ years as a professor of education at Church, as a Sunday School teacher, partment, Deputy Director in the of¬ Atlanta University. chairman of the Altar Guild, and fice of International Affairs, a mem¬ Dr. Bond was one of four Ameri¬ president of the Episcopal Church ber of U. S. delegation to the confer¬ cans elected in 1962 to the permanent Women. ence of the Inter-American Economic Council of the International Congress and Social Commission, economist of Africanists. He was on the advisory I)R. SAMUEL Z. WESTERFIELD, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, editorial staff of the Journal of Negro former professor of economics and and was a member of the Industrial Education and the President's Com¬ Dean of the Atlanta University School Economic Branch of the Tennessee mittee on Education Beyond High of Business Administration, died July Valley Authority. School. 19 in Monrovia. In connection with his work in edu¬ Mr. Westerfield served as professor DR. HORACE MANN BOND, cation over the past 50 years, he had of Economics and Dean of School of former dean of the School of Educa¬ made visits to England, France, Italy Business Administration from 1950 to tion. died December 21 following a and many countries in Africa. He had 1961. He was a graduate of Howard lengthy illness. Funeral services were lectured at universities, social and edu¬ University, with the M. A. and Ph.D. held December 27 in the 1st Con¬ cational seminars and was an interna¬ degrees in economics from Harvard gregational Church of Atlanta. tional vice president of the Society of University. Before coming to Atlanta, A native of Nashville, Tennessee, African Culture. he taught at Howard University and Dr. Bond served for nearly 50 years He was a former president of the West Virginia State College, and as an educator and was known particu¬ Conference of Presidents of Negro served as associate economist with larly for his study, research and writ¬ Land Grant Colleges, a member of the the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ing about the American Negro. National Child Labor Committee and Dr. Westerfield was serving as He was a president of Fort Valley chairman of the board of directors of U. S. Ambassador to Liberia at the State College for six years and also the African American Institute. He time of his death. He joined the De¬ president of his alma mater, Lincoln also was a 33rd degree Mason.

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