TABLE OF CONTENTS ON THE COVER Page
3 Calendar
4 Tenth Annual Charter Day
6 Summer School Activities
d General The presidents of the six institutions of Assembly the Atlanta University Center with the Charter Day Convocation speaker: 9 Summer Graduates Hear President Clement President Albert E. Manley of Spel- man College, President James P. Braw- 10 The Summer School Students Were Told ley of Clark College, President John H. By: Lewis of Morris Brown College, Presi¬ dent Robert P. Daniel of 11 Virginia State Washington Leaves School of Social Work — College, President Rufus E. Clement of Whitney Young Appointed Dean Atlanta University, President Benjamin E. Mays of Morehouse College, Presi¬ 12 dent Harry V. Richardson of Gammon Phylon Changes With the Times Theological Seminary.
School Workshop
the New Members of the Faculty
14Summerand Sciences Forum Series 15Meet Players 16Arts Items Association Activities
17UniversityNews
2218FacultyRequiescat in Pace
Series III DECEMBER,19Alumni1953 No. 84
Entered as second-class matter February 28, at the Post Office at 1935, Atlanta, Georgia, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Accept¬ ance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for20Alumniin the Act of February 28, 1925, 538, P. L. & R. CALENDAR
RECEPTION: September 27 — President and Mrs. Rufus E. Clement at home to the faculties of the Atlanta University Center.
MEXICAN EXHIBIT: October — Exhibit of Mexican arts and handcrafts, Trevor Arnett Library.
TEA: October 4 — Alumni honoring graduate students of Atlanta University.
CHARTER DAY CONVOCATION: October 16 — Rob¬ ert Prentiss Daniel, President, Virginia State College.
CHARTER DAY BANQUET: October 16 — Honoring new members of the Atlanta University faculty.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY : October 17 — First General As¬ sembly of faculty, staff and students of Atlanta Uni¬ versity.
FORUM: October 26 — Dr. Howard K. Beale, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, “Can Academic Freedom Be Preserved in Time of Crisis?
BOOK REVIEW7 PROGRAM: October 27 — Dr. Morris Siegel reviewing Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya. LECTURE: October 30—Mr. Oliver P. Vickery, “My Moscow Invasion."
SILVER TEA: November 22 — Sponsored by the Alumni Association.
BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: November 24 — Dr. Man Reddick reviewing Eugenie Clark. Lady with a Spear. UNIVERSITY PLAYERS: November 27. 28 —“The Male Animal,” Nugent and Thurber.
FORUM: December 2 — Dr. Edgar J. Fisher. American Friends of the Middle East, “United States and the Middle East: Educational Relations."
FORUM: December 9 — Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, Pro¬ fessor of History. Howard University, “The Growing Importance of the Middle Class among Negroes in the United States."
CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT: December 11. 12. 13
— Students of the Affiliated Institutions. FRENCH FILMS: December 14—Presented by the French department. Tenth Annual Charter Day
The Tenth Annual Charter Day of the Charter Day dinner for the stafT Atlanta University was celebrated Oc¬ of Atlanta University. tober 16 with the traditional morning President Rufus E. Clement intro¬ Convocation in Sisters Chapel and duced the Convocation speaker, Dr. Robert P. Daniel, president of Vir¬ ginia State College, who took as his subject “The Challenge of Our Heri¬ tage.” Addressing his remarks for the most part to the large number of stu¬ dents in his audience, Dr. Daniel said that Negro students must take educa¬ tion seriously, for equality of oppor¬ tunity demands a corresponding will to be judged by equality of standards. Negro youth must he part of the van¬ guard of new conquests and, with that in mind, Dr. Daniel suggested that for the child’s prayer “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' he substituted a prayer beginning “Now I Get Me Up to Work.”
The speaker, who is a member of the United States State Department Advisory Board on the Point IV pro¬ gram, one of four members of the previous Board reappointed by the Dr. Robert P. Daniel — Crarter Day Speaker Republican administration, stressed
/ f,V5l Charter Day Banquet Honoring New Faculty Members
4 Celebration
the importance of a world outlook for the Negro. “The Negro must be con¬ cerned with the broader problems of human relations." he said, “not just w ith race relations. Legal emancipa¬ tion is not enough, he concluded, for there must be emancipation of the mind. The presidents of the six institu¬ tions of the Atlanta l Diversity Sys¬ tem were on the platform, President John H. Lewis of Morris Brown Col¬ lege offering the opening prayer and President Harry V. Richardson of Gammon Theological Seminary the benediction. Music for the occasion was furnished bv the Atlanta-Spel- man-Morehouse Chorus under the di¬ rection of Professor Kemper Harreld. The Charter Day Dinner in the eve¬ ning honored the new members of the faculty and staff. New members of the faculty were introduced by Dr. S. M. Nabrit, Dean of the School of Charter Day Committee: George Davis, Mrs. Hattie Brooks, Clarence Baeote, Mrs. Arts and Sciences. Dr. Clement, who Helen Coulborn, Mrs. Vivian Beavers, Wesley J. Lyda. was master of ceremonies, introduced the additions to the non-instructional staff. The new faculty members intro¬ duced were Miss Ethel Fair. School of Library Service, Miss Barbara Brooks, School of Library Service. Dr. Phyllis \. Wallace. School of Business Ad¬ ministration. Dr. Edward K. Weaver, School of Education. Mrs. Theodora F. James. Oglethorpe School, Mrs. Bessie Wilborn. Oglethorpe School. Miss Hortense Lilly. School of Social Work, Dr. Lou LaBrant. School of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Morris Siegel. School of Arts and Sciences. Mrs. A. \. McPheeters has rejoined the staff of the School of Library Service on a part-time basis. New staff members are Mrs. Ruth \ddison. secretary to Phylon, Mrs. Ruth P. \dair. office of the Registrar. Miss Wilma Andt■rson. secretary. School of Library Service. Mrs. Edna Scott Florence, assistant dietician, and Miss Dolores Leffall. Trevor Ar¬ nett Library. The Charter Day faculty commit¬ tee. of which Professor Clarence A. Baeote was chairman, included Mrs.
(»cnc \ icy e \ 1st oil. Mrs. Viv ian Beav¬
ers. Mrs. llallie Brooks. Dr. Helen M. Coulborn. Mr. George Davis, and New Faculty Members: Standing — Dr. Wallace, Dr. Reddick, Dr. Weaver, Dr. Siegel, Dr. W. J. Lyda. Miss Lilly, Miss Brooks. Seated — Dr. LaBrant, Miss Fair, Miss Wilborn.
5 Summer School Activities
THE SUMMER THEATER, under THE ANNUAL CONCERT of the the Arts and Crafts Workshop, and the direction of Baldwin Burroughs, Summer School music students, under the other of oil and water color paint¬ gave three programs: Christopher the direction of Willis Laurence ings by Jenelsie Walden arid Walter Fry’s “A Phoenix Too Frequent,” James, featured a chorus of sixty Simon, both instructors in the Work¬ with “Spreading the News,” by Lady voices and six soloists. Mr. James was shop, were held. Gregory as a curtain-raiser, the latter assisted by Jacqueline Larkins and directed Rebecca Jackson as by Esther Jackson of Clark accompanists. A BOOK REVIEW SERIES was College; Sutton Vane’s “Outward sponsored by the Graduate School of Bound”; and Thomas Job’s “Uncle TWO ART EXHIBITS, one of cre¬ Harry.” ative art by the students enrolled in Library Service.
OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS ad¬
dressed the seven Summer School as¬ semblies.
A total of 1,511 students were en¬ rolled in tbe 1953 Summer School, sponsored jointly by Atlanta Univer¬ sity, Spelman College, Morehouse Col¬ lege, Clark College, Morris Brown College, and Gammon Theological Seminary. Of these 1,053 were grad¬ uate students and 335 undergradu¬ ates; the Nursery School and Ogle¬ thorpe Elementary School accounted for the rest of the enrollment.
In addition to their academic pro¬ gram, there were provided for these students many opportunities for cul¬ The Summer Theater presents "Uncle Harry" tural enrichment.
Summer School Chorus
6 "A Phoenix Too Frequent"
Exhibit of Arts and Crafts Workshop
7 General Assembly The first General Assembly of the disadvantages when public funds can¬ by students from the respective faculty and students of Atlanta Uni¬ not he called upon to make up defi¬ schools, and music by M rs. Theodora versity was held October 17 in Dean cits, he said, Atlanta F. University has James, Mrs. Roseland Days and a the Sage Auditorium. A series of such great advantage of freedom. “We quartet from the School of Social meetings is contemplated in order to are free to accept and dismiss stu¬ Work. Members of the non-instruc- tional were bring together the personnel of the dents according to our standards, we staff also introduced. various schools of the are The University. free to speak our ideas, we are program was planned by a President Rufus E. Clement was the free to conform or not to conform,” joint faculty-student committee which included Dr. L. D. main speaker. After tracing briefly he said in conclusion. Reddick, Chair¬ man. Miss Henrietta L. Dixon, Miss the history of the University from its In addition to President Clement’s Gladious Slaughter, Mrs. Evonne Wil¬ earlier days, he looked to the future add ress, the program included the in¬ liams, Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks, Mrs. of the small, privately-endowed insti¬ troduction of all members of the fac¬ Hortense Cochrane, Dr. William M. tution. Although there are financial ulty with short biographical sketches Boyd, and Dr. Paul I. Clifford.
The first General Assembly of Faculty, Staff, and Students Committee Qn Arrangements for General Assembly
8 Summer Graduates Hear Dr. Clement
Forty-nine graduate degrees in the School of Arts and Sciences and the various professional schools were granted at the eighth Annual Summer Convocation of Atlanta University. President Kufus E. Clement addressing the graduating class on the subject "Getting and Giving,” said that to achieve char¬ acter and peace of mind, one should seek opportunity for serv¬ ice rather than success. Academic credits are meaningless, he said, uidess they are indicative of ability, training, and the sharpening of one's special talents. Receiving degrees from the School of Arts and Sciences were ten students. The degree of master of arts was awarded to Ethel Viola Franklin, Rome, Ga., and Dollie Mae Harrison, 1 allulah. Louisiana, English; Lillie Beatrice Anderson, Salis¬ bury, North Carolina, and James Samuel Gates, Atlanta, French: Averett A. Burress, Lockland, Ohio, Mrs. Ethel Harris Harvey, Atlanta, and Minnie Lee Johnson, New York City, Sociology. Three students received the degree of master of arts in Biology: Elizabeth Maureen Backus, Greenwood, South Carolina; Nel¬ son McGhee, Jr., Columbus, Georgia; and Moses Philip Pyatt. Ladson, South Carolina. Four students were graduated with the degree of master of social work: Eileen Beulah Cummins, Detroit, Michigan; James Sumner Roberts, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Chester H. F. Jones, New York City, and Samuel Abram Wallace, Atlanta. President Rufus E. Clement (Continued on page 22) Addresses Summer Graduates The Summer School Students Were Told By:
PRESIDENT BENJAMIN E. MAYS President Benjamin E. Mays of Morehouse College: “The minister with conviction who understands the Christian gospel .. . will not be
frightened by McCarthyism. ... If DEAN S. MILTON NABRIT PRESIDENT RUFUS E. CLEMENT McCarthyism continues to make at¬ tacks on the church, ministers should Dean S. Milton President Rufus E. Clement of rise up and fight it.” Nabrit, Atlanta University School of Arts and Sci¬ Atlanta University: “All of us con¬ nected with the educational ences: “Freedom of exploration and process have leadership thrust upon us exchange of ideas are essential for whether we know it or not, for, in a growth and development in science.” Negro community, ministers and teachers largely are the leaders. ... Face the future confidently, coura¬ Editor Ralph Magill, Atlanta Con¬ geously and sanely, knowing that stitution : “We cannot have free¬ what will happen depends upon what dom you other hy destroying it. ... When and persons in the teaching threats of blackmail come, we must profession do. You represent one keep a cool head and remind ourselves great strong body in the Negro group that we must he devoted to the Consti¬ throughout the South and the nation.” tutional guarantees even though they fail to measure up. Love them, cherish them, and keep them intact despite Dr. R. O. Johnson of the School of Education: “It is our the fact that they are distorted, for to responsibility to take the defense of academic free¬ keep this a better country we must have those guarantees.” dom out of the rear-guard classifica¬ tion and make it continuous, educa¬ tive and preventive.” Dr. Robert Brisbane of Morehouse DR. MOZELL C. HILL College: “America must first set an Dr. Mozell C. Hill, department of can example of how democracy work MEXICAN ARTS EXHIBIT Sociology, Atlanta University: “If the at home if it is to maintain its position Mau Mau unrest should be taken over An exhibit of Mexican arts and as a world leader. . . . This country by an ideological force like commu¬ crafts was featured in October by the should adopt a positive policy in its nism, it will be only because western Trevor Arnett Library. Miss Ethel domestic and foreign relations and powers like Britain, France, and the Werfel of Morehouse College arranged not be United States do not assert the moral vacillating to the extent that the materials which she had collected the leadership that is necessary to capture respect and good will of other on a recent trip to Mexico. the attention of the black man.” countries will be lessened."
10 Washington Leaves School of Social Work
Whitney Young Appointed Dean
cial Work to those who have com¬ pleted the course. Holding a B.A. degree from Tufts College and a master’s degree from Columbia University, Dr. Washington was given the honorary degree of LU. I). by Morehouse College in 1943. He has served as vice-president of the Na¬ tional Conference of Social Work. Dr. Washington left approximately 500 volumes, including many which are no longer obtainable, as a gift to the Trevor Arnett Uibrary. These books collected during his profes¬ sional career are in the field of social work and Negro studies.
Young Takes Up New Post
The appointment of Whitney M. Young, Jr., as Dean of the School of Social Work of Atlanta University was announced Tuesday, November WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. I)R. FORRESTER B. WASHINGTON 17. by President Rufus E. Clement. Mr. Young comes to Atlanta from Omaha. Neb., where he has been Ex¬ Mr. I)r. Forrester B. Washington Young has been recently hon¬ ecutive Director of the Omaha Urban ored retired by nomination to the Executive January 1 as director of the Board of the National Conference of School of Social Work at Atlanta Uni¬ Ueague since 1950. Previously he w as Director of Industrial Relations and Social Work. He has been Vice-Pres¬ versity, a position which he has held Vocational Guidance for the St. Paul ident of the Omaha Chapter. Ameri¬ for 27 years. He will join the Na¬ can Association of Social Workers tional Urban l rban Ucague as consultant on Ueague. He holds the R.S. de¬ and President of the Omaha its Chapter. expansion program. gree from Kentucky State College and Nebraska Conference of Social Work. Dr. an M.A. in Social Work from the Uni¬ Washington became director of He was the third member of his race the School of Social Work when its versity of Minnesota. to be accepted in the United States ten students were housed in one class¬ This is not the new Dean's first Junior Chamber of Commerce and in room on Auburn Avenue and when 1953 was nominated for the service with Atlanta University for he “Young the faculty numbered only three full¬ M an of the Year” award of the Omaha was time members. Under his administra¬ Supervisor of Field Work Stu¬ Junior Chamber of Commerce. tion. it has become one of the profes¬ dents for the School of Social Work His sional schools of Atlanta l niversitv in 1948-49. He has served the Univer¬ publications include “A Tech¬ nique of Integration of Minorities as with 16 an an¬ faculty members and sity of Minnesota in a similar capa¬ Sales Persons in Retail Stores.” nual average enrollment of 100 stu¬ city and also has teaching experience “Health Conditions of dents coming from many different Negro Citizens colleges. Since 1938 the university has at Creighton University and St. Cath¬ in the l nited States.” and “Racial awarded the degree of Master of So¬ erine's College. Policies in Public Housing."
11 Phylon Changes With the Times
Dr. Mozell Hill, editor of Phylon, lias recently a n n o u n e e d several changes in the editorial board of the magazine, changes which reflect a new editorial policy.
The trustees have confirmed as as¬ sociate editors Dr. Samuel Wester- field. dean of the School of Business Administration of Atlanta University, and Dr. Helen M. Coulborn of the department of English. Dr. Wester- field, who has been invited by the Gold Coast government as an eco¬ nomic advisor in its development of electric power, will serve Phylon also in the economics area, whereas Dr. Coulborn is to develop the short story department. The three new appointments to the roster of contributing editors point up the new emphasis in Phylon policy. According to Dr. Hill, the policy of the magazine is never static, but is periodically reassessed. When the magazine was founded, the Negro problem loomed large, but now there is a growing realization that the Ne¬ gro problem is only part of the world problem. “We must move away from concentration on the Negro to a world focus,” said Dr. Hill.
Appointed as contributing editors are Professor Arthur Lewis, Profes¬ sor Cedric Dover, and Professor Her¬ man Long. Professor Lewis, who is a member of the department of eco¬ Dr. DuBois, first editor of PHYLON, in his study nomics at the University of Manches¬ ter, England, is an expert on the Cold Coast where he is now a member of Herman Long, Director of Race group. This name was symbolic of the an advisory commission to the gov¬ Relations at Fisk University, is also intent to examine racial and cultural ernment. vice-president of the National Asso¬ relations everywhere, but even so in ciation of Intergroup Relations Offi¬ the Professor Dover, w ho is a Eurasian early days the emphasis was more cials. on the educated at Cambridge and Edin¬ Negro problem as such. “Nat¬ we burgh, is author of White Man’s Phylon, which was founded in 1939 urally shall usually proceed from the Grave, Know This of Race, Half- with W. E. Burghardht DuBois as point of view and the experience of the black folk where we Caste, and Hill in the Sunshine. He editor-in-chief, takes its name from live and the has taught social science at Fisk Uni¬ Creek word phylon which means work, to the wider world,” said Dr. versity. a tribe or race or a genetically related DuBois.
12 The second editor, Ira De A. Reid, proved list and is distributed by UNESCO and the Information Office now a professor at Haverford College, continued the policy set by Dr. Du- in Japan, Europe, India, Brazil, and Bois and maintained the high stand¬ the Caribbean. Recently arrangements ards set by the first editor in spite of have been made with a l- rench and war time difficulties and outside de¬ English distributor so that it can go mands on his time. to subscribers in the sterling area who When Dr. Hill became editor, he previously had difficulties with cur¬ said, “We can no longer be committed rency restrictions. Also there are ex¬ to the proposition that ‘naturally we change subscriptions w itb a number shall usually proceed from the point of foreign periodicals. According to of view and the experience of black Dr. Hill, over a hundred domestic and folk'; to do so would be contradictory foreign periodicals are received by to and inconsistent with events and the Atlanta University Library trends. Phylon will continue to look at all peoples and the relationships through exchange subscriptions. among men of all kinds within the “1 am pleased with the geographi¬ framework of the scientific — yet cal distribution, said Dr. Hill. He morally-conscious — student of race stated, however, that only three sub¬ and culture. We will attempt to make DR. MOZELL HILL an indispensable contribution to the scriptions were in South Africa, and appraisal of the total world scene." these were all institutional. scene is indicated The contributors to Phylon during That Phylon is making a contribu¬ by its circulation. tion to the appraisal of the world It is on the State Department ap¬ the years since its founding are anoth-
Dr. Iro Dc A. Reid, second editor of PHYLON, with his predecessor, Dr. DuBois er indication of its standing as a peri¬ odical. Dr. Hill found it difficult to name the outstanding people whose writings had appeared in the maga¬ zine because they were so many. Langston Hughes, Ralph Bundle, Robert Redfield, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Paul Prattis, Arnold Rose, Gunnar Myrdal, the late Edwin Em- bree, Alain Locke, Dan Dobson, Charles S. Johnson, George Padmore
- th ese were names that came to his mind. And he asked that contributors from the Atlanta LIniversity Center not be forgotten — Rufus Clement, Benjamin Mays, Rushton Coulborn.
I he present editorial board of Phy- lon is: Editor. Mozell Hill; Managing Editor, Hylan Lewis; Associate Edi¬ MRS. HELEN M. COULBORN SAMUEL WESTERFIELD tors, William Boyd, Rufus Clement, Helen Coulborn, Lucy C. Grigsby, P. Tillman, Samuel Westerfield; Con¬ ston Hughes, Harold Jackson, Arthur Thomas Jarrett, Virginia Lacy Jones, tributing Editors, Cedric Dover, John Lewis, Alain Locke, Herman Long, Wesley J. Lyda, S. Milton Nabrit, N. Gillin, Melville J. Herskovits, Lang¬ Ira De A. Reid, Oscar Sherwin.
Summer School Workshop in the School of Education. The Atlanta University Summer School offers workshops in the schools of Arts and Sciences, Library Service and Education.
14 Meet the New Members of the Faculty
DR. LOU LABRANT DR. EDWARD K. WEAVER DR. MORRIS SIEGEL
Dr. Lou LaBrant. Professor of Dr. Edward K. Weaver. Associ¬ Dr. Morris Siegel. Associate pro¬ ate Professor, School of Education. fessor of Anthropology. Recently at¬ English. Recently Professor of Eng¬ Recently on the faculty of Florida N. tached to the African Unit of the lish. New York University. Recipient and I. Memorial College, Saint Augus¬ United Nations Department of Eco¬ of the bachelor’s degree, Baker Uni¬ tine. B.S., Langston Lhiiversity; M.S., nomic Affairs. B.S., College of the versity, the master’s degree, Univer¬ University of Iowa; Ed.D., Columbia City of New York; Ph.D., Columbia sity of Kansas, Doctor of Philosophy, LIniversity. Fellow, American Associ¬ University. Archaeological field work ation for the Advancement of Science. Northwestern University, doctorate of in Nebraska, studies in Guatemala literature, Baker University. Presi¬ and Puerto Rico. Author of The dent, National Council of the Teach¬ Mackenzie Collection: A Study of West African Carved Gambling Chips, ers of English. Author of We Teach and numerous articles and mono¬ English, An Evaluation of /ree Read¬ graphs. ing, A Study of Sentence Structure, and many other monographs. Dr. Mary L. Reddick. Professor of Biology. B.A. Spelman College. M.A. Atlanta University, Ph.D. Rad- clifTe. Member of Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma \i. National Association for the Advancement of Science, and Beta Miss Ethel M. Fair. Guest profes¬ Kappa Chi. Recipient of Ford Fellow¬ sor in the School of Library Service, ship for special research at the School former director of the Library School of Anatomy, Cambridge l niversity. of the New Jersey School of Library England, 1952-53. One-time faculty Service. A graduate of Vassar Col¬ member at Spelman and Morehouse lege and the Graduate Library School DR. MARY L. REDDICK College. of the University of Chicago, recently- returned from Egypt, where she Dr. Phyllis A. Wallace. Associate Fellow, ’tale. Susan Rhoda Cutler sefved for two years as librarian of professor of Economics the American and Statistics. Fellow, Julius Rosenwald Fellow, and I niversity at Cairo un¬ School of Business Administration. Sterling Fellow. Former Economic- der a Fulbright Grant. Author of Li- B.A. New York University, magna Statistician for the War Production brarianship in the Service of ) outh, cum laude; M.A. and Ph.D. Yale l ni- Board. which has been translated into Arabic. versity. Phi Beta Kappa. 1 niversity
15
. Arts and Sciences Forum Series
Two outstanding speakers were presented during the first semester in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Forum Series. Three additional forums will he held later in the year.
I)r. Howard K. Beale, Professor of History, Uni¬ versity of Wisconsin, author of The Critical Year, Are American Teachers Free? and Some Fallacies of the Internationalist Point-of-View, spoke October 26 on “Can Academic Freedom Be Preserved in Time of Crisis?” Dr. Beale feels that freedom is worth something only if it is freedom for dangerous views. The present public hysteria and fear is not the result of a Republican witch hunt. “McCarthyism antedates McCarthy,” he said. The threat of fascism is greater than that of communism and the real threat to democracy is the professor w ithout convictions, DR. HOWARD K. BEALE the ambitious professor, the coward.
Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, Professor of Sociology, Howard University, Director of Research for UNESCO, former president of the American Sociological Society, spoke on December 9 on “The Growing Importance of the Middle Class Among Negroes in the United States.” Said Dr. F razier: “The emergence of the new Negro Middle no Class is help to the masses of Negroes. It fails to provide leadership for the masses. .. . The new Middle Class is substituting a new set of values for those held by the old Middle Class, the crudest of American values, based entirely on money and status.”
Subsequent speakers will be Professor Helen Ed¬ monds, North Carolina State College, “Does Negro His¬ tory Hinder the Struggle for the Integration of the Negro in American Life." February 9; Professor Sterling Brown. Howard l diversity, “American Regional Literature,” March 30; and Professor Lee Lorch. Fisk University, “Mathematics and Nature,” April 14. DR. E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER
16 Another scene from "The Male Animal," a hilarious farce in a college setting
17 HYLAN G. LEWIS TO GOLD COAST
Mrs. Hortense S. Cochrane, Direc¬ tor of Field Work, School of Social Dr. Hylan G. L Dr. Lewis will serve as consultant Mrs. Cochrane has also initiated to Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and conducted regional group semi¬ on the sociological aspects of the con¬ nars in Field Work Social Work Prac¬ struction of a $400,000,000 TVA-type tice in Washington, D. C., New York project which is scheduled for 1956. City, Detroit, Cleveland, and Mem¬ Other members of the Volta River phis. This she did in cooperation with Preparatory Commission include Dr. DR. HYLAN G. LEWIS various community organizations and W. Arthur Lewis of the University of psychiatric, medical, family, and Manchester, who has recently accept¬ tor of Phylon, and Arthur Morgan, child-care agencies. ed appointment as a contributing edi- first chairman of TVA. Dr. N. P. Tillman, chairman of the department of English, brought out He will also conduct two seminars, of a with G. L. Chandler of Morehouse pamphlet entitled “Recreation one on “Our Goals in Education.” and Leadership.” She also read a paper in College a revised edition of the At¬ the other “Some Techniques Leading Augusta on “Our Capsule Society” lanta University Thesis Handbook. In Toward a Broader World View." and addressed a meeting of the De¬ October he was consultant and speak¬ catur school teachers on “Use of er at a Faculty Conference on the Mrs. Vivian Beavers of Oglethorpe Role of the Group,” was Woman’s Day Speaker Library in College Instruc¬ School read a paper on “Teaching the at the Zion Baptist Church and a tion at Grambling College, Gramb- History of the Negro in Secondary member of a panel discussing “Leisure ling. Louisiana. Schools” at the annual meeting of the Time and Youth” for the Chatauqua Association for the Study of Negro Club. She was in addition leader of a Dr. Harry R. Lipton of the depart¬ Life and History at Nashville i:i discussion on race relations at Ogle¬ ment of Psychiatry, School of Social October. Both the Negro History Bul¬ thorpe University Y.W.C.A. Work, has been recently named Ex¬ letin and the Journal of Negro History ecutive Medical Consultant of the Na¬ have requested the paper for publi¬ Mrs. Ollie D. Love of tional Committee on Alcohol Hygiene. cation. Oglethorpe School received Inc. Three articles by Dr. Lipton have her B.S. degree from Morris Brown in June and continued appeared this year in the Bulletin of Mrs. Frances W. Logan of the her studies toward a master’s degree the Fulton County Medical Society: School of Social Work spoke on “Per¬ at Atlanta University during the sum¬ “Manic-Depressive Psychosis," May sonality Development" at three ses¬ mer. 7; “Schizophrenia,” February 5: and sions of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. “Senile and Arteriosclerotic Psycho¬ C. A. Charm Clinic. ses.” October 1. Dr. Paul I. Clifford of the School of Dr. Charles Wahl, chairman of the Education has been in great demand Dr. S. M. Nabrit, dean of the French department, spent the summer as a speaker before teachers’ work¬ School of Arts and Sciences and chair¬ in France in quest of unpublished bio¬ shops and associations. He has ad¬ man of the Biology department, will graphical material on Jean Girau- dressed groups at Alabama Agricul¬ he forum speaker for the Morehouse doux. tural and Mechanical College, Colum¬ College Lecture Series, January 12 bus, Georgia, Fort Gaines, Georgia, and 14. His subject will be “Desegre¬ Mrs. Marjorie Johnson of the Cartersville, Georgia, Harlem, Geor¬ gation and the Education of Negroes. ' School of Social Work is the author gia, and Hamilton, Georgia. 18 Alumni Association Activities TEA FOR NEW STUDENTS The Atlanta l niversity Alumni Association enter¬ A Silver Tea was held by the Alumni Association Sun¬ tained the new students of Atlanta University at a tea day. November 22 in the Women’s Lounge in Bumstead Sunday. October 4. at the University dormitories. This has Hall. Music for the occasion was furnished by Mr. G. become an annual event designed to show to those just Johnson Hubert. Morris Brown College, pianist. Miss entering the University that the Alumni Association is Juliet Collins, Morris Brown College, vocal soloist, and eager to he of help to them throughout their university Miss Barbara Jones, Spelman College, accompanied b\ career. Miss Jacqueline Larkins. Over a hundred alumni, students, and members of Miss Helen Gray served as chairman of the commit¬ the faculty called during the afternoon. Attractive identi¬ tee which was composed of: Mrs. Salina Shaw, co-chair¬ fication cards in the shape of a teapot executed in the man. Mrs. Genie Chaires, Miss Carrie Terrell. Miss Ella school colors were given the guests who also signed a Mae Tate, Mrs. Emma Parks Gooden. Miss Cleopatra Love. matching teapot guest hook. These favors were made by Mrs. Marie Graves Nash, Mrs. Miss Carrie I. Terrill. Mrs. Jame A. Tate of the class of Lynne Jones, Mrs. Eddie Lou Usher Smith, Mrs. *91 was one of the guests who were received by Mrs. Jose¬ Josephine D. Murphv. Mr>. Kloise phine Murphy, president of the Alumni Association. Milton, and Mrs. Urnestine Bell Lewis. A fellow and expects to receive his 1953 Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Physics this Miss Willie Mae Alexander is teach¬ ALUMNI NEWS year. ing in White Plains, Georgia. 1948 Miss Cleopatra I*. Albury has ac¬ 1908 Robert Fowler is enrolled this year cepted a position as social group in the Sorbonne for worker with the Bethlehem Commu¬ James IS. Clark of Atlanta has been graduate work nity Center. named a foreman in the Atlanta Ter¬ leading to the doctorate in French. He w as Miss Lillie B. Anderson is minal Postal Transportation Service. recently honorably discharged teaching from the U.S. armed services. in the Rowan County School System Mr. Clark, who was the first president in of the Gate Landis, North Carolina. City Branch of the Na¬ 1949 tional Alliance of Postal Employees, Miss Peggie J. Archie is a psychi¬ atric social worker at the Veterans Ad¬ entered the mail service in 1909 and Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Morris are par¬ ministration since 1924 has been in the service at ents of a son, Reuben, Jr., born Octo¬ Hospital in Danville, Illi¬ the Atlanta Terminal. ber 30, 1952 at Pascagoula. Miss. nois. Mrs. Morris is the former Muriel Jean Edgar Billingslea, Jr., is principal 1933 Ellis, School of Social Work. 49. of the Cherokee County Training School in Canton, Georgia. Dr. Hugh M. Gloster is on leave 1950 Mrs. Roberta K. this year from his post at Hampton Booker, who was the first Institute where he is chairman of the Calvin E. King has accepted a posi¬ Negro teacher in Morgan Communications Center to serve as tion as instructor of Mathematics at County to write a master’s thesis, is lecturer under the Fulbright program Jackson College, Jackson, Mississippi. teaching in Madison, Georgia. in Japan. He will lecture and teach at He was honorably discharged from Mrs. Dorothy R. Bozeman has been the university level in the field of Eng¬ the Army, July 23, 1953. appointed Jeanes Supervisor of Amer- lish and American literature. icus and Sumter Harrison E. Lee, formerly principal County schools. of the Stockbridge Rosenwald School, M rs. Nellie H. Britten is a medical 1937 social caseworker at was appointed to the principalship of Harper Hospital, John B. Clemmons was granted A. Speight High School, Fort Gaines, Detroit, Michigan. study leave for the school year 1953- Georgia. Louis Henry Bronson is serving as 54 from Savannah State College. He Lee B. private in the United States Army. is Stephens, Jr., was recently working toward a Ph.D. degree at Mrs. Armentha I). Browm is the the l niversity of Southern California. appointed to the staff of North Caro¬ lina Jeanes Dr. College at Durham. Supervisor of Grady County Mary L. Reddick has returned Schools, Cairo, Georgia. to Atlanta University as Professor of 1951 Cornell E. Brumfield is an instruc¬ Biology. tor at Ballard-Hudson M iss Lueile High School in 1938 Logan, who formerly worked in the Audio-Visual Center of Macon, Georgia. Dr. Otis W. McC ree has opened an the City College of New York, is the M iss Alma Bryant is employed as office in caseworker for the Children’s Aid College Park. Georgia, for the new Dean of Women at Albany State practice of general medicine and sur¬ College. Society, Philadelphia. Pa. gery. Dr. McCree formerly taught at Walter Louis Burkes is working Booker T. 1952 Washington High School with All Nations Foundation in Los before entering the Army. Herman Bostick is teaching French Angeles as a social group worker. and Robert H. 1941 English at Grambling College, Campbell, Acting Dean La., this year. He spent the last school of Men at Mississippi Vocational Col¬ Mark G. Birchette resigned his po¬ year studying in Haiti as a fellow' un¬ lege, is also an instructor there in sition r.t Dillard University to accept der the Convention of Buenos Aires French and Sociology. one in the Bursar’s office at More¬ (exchange fellowship through the In¬ Miss Louella Catchings is the sev¬ house stitute of International Education). College. enth grade teacher in the Jasper Coun¬ Mrs. Vonceil Anderson Echols has Miss Juanita Collier is working ty Training School, Monticello, Geor¬ returned to Buffalo, New York, after toward the Ph.D. degree in Educa¬ gia. tional spending five years in the hospital. Psychology at the University Mrs. Ruby J. Christie has been em¬ of Chicago. ployed as a teacher in the New Pri¬ 1946 M iss Elizabeth C. Lee resigned mary School. I nion, South Carolina. Lewis S. Percy H. Steele is the father of a from her position at Atlanta Univer¬ Conn. Jr., is both teacher baby girl born October 19, 1953. The sity to become Head of a teacher-li¬ and coach at the Thomaston Training baby’s name is Loretta Marie. brarian training program at Fort Val¬ School in Thomaston, Georgia. ley State College. John J. Cotton is the principal of 1947 Albert D. Porter, formerly with the Loxley Elementary School, Loxley, Miss Gladys N. Hurt married Hu¬ l rban League of Jacksonville, Flor¬ Alabama. bert Jones, September 14. 1953. They ida. has begun work with the Neigh¬ Miss Eileen B. Cummins is a family will reside at the Universitv o f M ichi- borhood House Settlement in Detroit. caseworker at the Catholic Family gan where Mr. Jones is a teaching- Michigan. He is a group worker. Center, Detroit, Michigan. 20 M iss Nellie M. Cummings is a med¬ Miss Grace E. Kinder is a teacher Ellis E. Sykes, principal of Carver ical social worker at Cook County at Hazard Practice School, the labora¬ High School in Dayvson, Georgia, Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. tory school for Elementary Education yvorked this summer at Neyv A ork Miss Doris Nell Duvall has accepted at Albany State College. University toyvard the D.Ed. degree. a position as caseworker with the Walter T. Lumpkin, yvhose master’s M iss Lillie Mae Thompson is yvork- Children’s Service, Philadelphia, thesis yvas published by the American ing for the Department of Public Pennsylvania. Psychological Association, teaches so¬ Welfare in Neyv Orleans, Louisiana. M iss Susan E. Fain is a librarian cial sciences at Talladega. Alabama. Mrs. Rosebud H. Tillman is the at the Dunbar High School in Lynch¬ Hewitt Lundy is employed as both catalogue librarian at A. M. & N. Col¬ burg, Virginia. teacher and principal in Bartoyv. Geor¬ lege. Pine Bluff. Arkansas. Mrs. Irma S. Fields is the Jeanes gia. Supervisor of Candler and Toombs John W. Wade is the principal of Mrs. Eva S. Martin is Residence Counties. Central Consolidated High School. Director of Merrill J. Holmes Hall at M iss Ethel V. Franklin has been Sylva. North Carolina. Clark College. Samuel A. Wallace is a caseyvork employed as teacher at the Main High School, Rome, Georgia. Mrs. Mildred Dotson Mayberry bas counselor for the Wayne County Ju- been employed as a medical social y-enilc Court. Detroit. Miss Jane Wanda GatlifT is a refer¬ Michigan. worker at Cook County Hospital. Chi¬ ence librarian at Ohio State Liniver- Mrs. Bessie Mae Weston is princi¬ sity, Columbus, Ohio. cago, Illinois. pal of the Whigham Junior High Miss Alice J. McAdams of Green- School. M rs. Ruby J. Gainer teaches Eng¬ Whigham, Georgia. lish at the Carver High School in Cen¬ yvood, South Carolina, is teaching in Miss Lois M. White is teaching in tury, Florida. Athens, Georgia. Milledgeville, Georgia. Mrs. Merlissie R. Middleton is em¬ James S. Gates has been given a po¬ Mrs. Barbara J. Saunders Williams sition at Miles at as College, Birmingham, ployed Morris Brown College in¬ is employed as social worker with the structor of Alabama. sociology. Bureau of Public Assistance in Los Mrs. Altoise C. Guy is the children’s Miss Jane Miller of Welch. West Angeles. California. librarian at the West Hunter Street Virginia, yvas married to Mr. Napo¬ Mrs. Gwendolyn C. Williams is li¬ Branch of the leon Johnson of Atlanta, Carnegie Library. August, brarian at the Negro Public Library 1953. Mrs. Johnson is Mrs. Charlotte P. Hamilton teaches employed as in Macon. Georgia. Medical social yvorker at the 5th and 6th John An- grades at the Springfield dreyv Memorial High School, Springfield, Georgia. Hospital, Tuskegee In¬ stitute, Alabama. John R. Harris is principal of Car¬ Morris H. ver High School, Jakin, Georgia. Morgan. Jr., is principal of Louie Ty ler Elementary School in Mrs. Ethel H. UNIVERSITY CENTER Harvey is working Cedartown. with the Atlanta Housing Authority, University-John Hope Homes, as man¬ Arthur R. Owens was given a posi¬ ENROLLMENT 3060 agement-aide. tion as social group worker yvith the Glenville Mrs. Ruth 1). Hawk is the third Community Center in Cleve¬ The enrollment of the Atlanta l Di¬ land. Ohio. grade teacher at the East Athens Ele¬ versity Center for the first semester. mentary- School. Athens, Georgia. M iss Connie Mae Parson is an Eng¬ 1953-54, reached 3060. an increase of lish teacher in the Mitchell Countv 78 over last Roy Hunter, Jr., is a Biology in¬ year’s opening enroll¬ ment. Of these 502 are structor at Morgan State College. Bal¬ Training School, Pelham, Georgia. graduate stu¬ dents. timore. Maryland. Bernard L. Peterson, Jr., of Rich¬ mond. At Atlanta Miss Laurene J. Jones is a medical Virginia, accepted a position University there are 451 as at group worker at the Detroit Ortho¬ English teacher Spencer High graduate students. 57 in the School of Arts and paedic Clinic. School, Columbus, Georgia. Sciences, 9 in Business Ad¬ ministration. 260 in the School of Ed¬ Anderson W. Pollard, Jr., is a psy¬ Joseph Jones is an instructor in the ucation. 33 in chiatric caseyvorker with the Veterans Library Service, and Department of Economics and Busi¬ 92 in Social Work. There are also 289 Administration in Montrose. Neyv ness Administration, A. M. & N. Col¬ in the York. Laboratory Schools, 75 in Kin¬ lege. Pine Bluff, Arkansas. dergarten-Nursery and 214 at Ogle¬ James S. Roberts is a Robert F. Jones has accepted a po¬ private in the thorpe Elementary School. l nited States sition as instructor in the Department Army. The Morehouse enrollment is 541 of Business Administration. Miles Reverend James N. Shopshire, pas¬ and that of Spelman College 438. College, Birmingham. Alabama. tor of the John Wesley Methodist Clark College has 679 students. Mor¬ Mrs. Thelma M. Jones teaches at Church, is also principal of the Grant- ris Broyvn College, 605. and Gammon the Elvie Street Elementary School in ville Training High School in Grant- Theological Seminary 57. y ille. Wilson, N. C. Georgia. The total number of students of Cecil B. Keene, a native of Florida, Samuel Lee Smith is principal of college grade and above is 2771 of is employed as Life Lnderwriter in the Liberty County High School, Mc¬ yvhich 1202 are men and 1569 are Bessemer, Alabama. Intosh. Georgia. women. 21 Morehouse College, and Hampton In¬ Summer Graduates Near stitute. RH()IIIHSCAT IN PACK President Clement (Continued from page 9) MR. C. C. BEASLEY MRS. OLIVE WHITE Seven degrees of master of science in Mr. C. C. Beasley, who attended library service were granted by the WESTMORELAND Graduate School of Library Service. AVtlanta University 1886-88 died re¬ The recipients were Charles D. cently. Mrs. Olive White Westmoreland of Churchwell, Dunnellon, Georgia; Su¬ the class of 1907 died suddenly in sie Elizabeth Fain, Lynchburg, Vir¬ Atlanta on December 26 at the age ginia; Mrs. Gladys Moore Greene, of 61. Fort Pierce, Florida; Bessie Boyd MRS. FLORENCE Drewry, Selma, Alabama; Jane Wan¬ Mrs. Westmoreland was a graduate da Gatliff, Columbus, Ohio; Marjorie of the Storr School as well as of At¬ JOHNSON HUNT Schaad Jenkins, Birmingham, Ala¬ lanta University. Her husband was bama, and Eva E. Mabley, Winston- the late William G. Westmoreland. M rs. Florence Johnson Hunt, who Salem, North Carolina. was a student at Atlanta At the First University Congregational Church Twenty-seven students were gradu¬ in 1889, died September 24 in Fort of which she was a life-long member, ated with the degree of master of arts Valley. Mrs. Westmoreland had sung in the in education. This group was com¬ choir, and taught Sunday School, and Mrs. Hunt, who was married to H. posed of the following: Sibyl Lucile she was a deaconess at the time of her A. Hunt, joined her husband when he Anderson, Atlanta: Mrs. Roberta Kel¬ death. went to Fort Valley in 1904 as the ley Booker, Madison, Georgia; Rob¬ ert Hunter second principal of the Fort Valley Campbell, Lawrence, Mis¬ She is survived by three children, Normal and Industrial School. They sissippi; Edgar D. Billingslea, Jr., one brother, and three sisters. Her Canton, Georgia; Mrs. Louella Bebee worked together from 1904 till 1938 children are William. Jr., of Detroit. Catchings, Monticello, Georgia; Mrs. and developed much of the plant and Mrs. Ruth Mae Hume, of Tuskegee, Dorotha Ellis Carter, Baker, Louisi¬ concept of education that is now Fort Alabama, and Mrs. Edwina Rose Ford ana; John Joseph Cotton, Pass Chris¬ Valley College. of Savannah. A second son, Walter D. tian, Mississippi; Mrs. Ruth Davis Mrs. Hunt was active in civic and Hawk, Athens, was killed while an Air Force pilot Georgia; Mrs. Erlynne Guess during World War II. community affairs until illness inter¬ Gary, Newberry, South Caro¬ fered with her activities. She served lina; Mrs. Charlotte Prescott Hamil¬ Her surviving brother is Walter ton, Guyton, Georgia; Mrs. Abbic as president of the Federation of Col¬ White, national executive secretary of Hester Jordan, Abbeville, Georgia; ored WomeiTs Clubs for ten years and the National Association for the Ad¬ Hewitt Lundy, Sparta, Georgia; Mor¬ solicited funds for the erection of the vancement of Colored People. Her ris Herbert Morgan, Cedartown, Geor¬ Home for Delinquent Girls in Macon. three sisters are Miss Madeline White, gia; Muriel Forrestine Sherwood, At¬ Georgia. Atlanta. Mrs. Helen Martin, Atlanta, lanta; John William Wade, Sylva. North Carolina; Bessie Baker Weston. and Mrs. Alice Glenn, Cleveland, She is survived by a son, J. A. Cairo, Ohio. Hunt, Jr., and two daughters, Mrs. Georgia; Lewis Samuel Conn. Jr., Thomaston, Dorothy Wolfe of New York City, and Georgia; Seabron C. Cureton, Walhalla, South Carolina: Mrs. Adele Hunt Gray of Chicago. Mrs. Irma Sessions Fields, Savannah, Georgia; Annette Lucile Hall, Con¬ MISS CORA B. FINLEY yers, Georgia; Mrs. Rosa Mae John¬ son, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Grace Miss Cora B. received Elberta Kinder, Colquitt, Georgia: Finley, who DR. D. R. GREEN her master's degree from Atlanta Uni¬ Mrs. Eva S. Martin, Rome, Georgia: Ryburn Glower Stephens, Atlanta; versity in 1933, died in Atlanta in Dr. D. R. Green, husband of Hattie Mrs. Marian Rhodes December. Tillman, At¬ Landrum of the class of 1898 died De¬ lanta; Mrs. Aline Holmes Washing¬ M iss Finley was a graduate of Spel- cember 29 in Atlanta. Dr. Green had ton, Atlanta, and Lois Mashene White. man College and had also studied at shared actively his wife’s interest in Hardwick, Georgia. the the University of Grenoble, France. University and in his death At¬ Robert Fulton Jones of Birming¬ Howard University, Columbia Uni- lanta University loses a staunch friend ham, Alabama, received the degree of versitv. the l niversity of Colorado. and supporter. master of business administration. 22 Support Your Local United Negro College Fund Campaign * If no local campaign, send contributions to United Negro College Fund, 22 East 54th Street. New York 22, N. Y. s i THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers courses leading to the Master’s degree in the fields of biology, chemistry, economics, English, French, history, Latin, mathematics, political science and sociology. The School of Social Work a graduate school offering a two-year curriculum for prospective social workers, leading to the degree of Master of Social Work or to the professional certificate. The School of Library Service requiring college graduation for admission and offering a program of graduate professional study leading to the degree of Master of Science in Library Service. The School of Education a graduate school offering curricula leading to the M.A. degree, designed to meet the needs of men and women who have chosen education as a professional career. The School of Business Administration a graduate school offering thorough theoretical and practical train¬ ing in the fields of business affairs, leading to the degree of Master of Business Administration. Spelman College a strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for women. Morehouse College a strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for men. The Summer School in which the Atlanta institutions for higher education of Negroes combine under the direction of Atlanta University to offer courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The Laboratory Elementary School and the Nursery School offering an opportunity for experimentation, observation and prac¬ tice teaching. ★ For information address the Registrar of the school in which you are interested.