VOLUME 30 MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER, 1959 NUMBER 2 11,000 Fans Turn Out For Turkey Day Classic MORRIS BROWN OBSERVES AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK Morris Brown College joined hundreds of other institutions in ob­ serving American Education Week, November 9-13. The theme for the week was “Praise and Appraise Your Schools”. The series of programs for American Education Week at Mor­ ris Brown College is one of the Observer Editor outstanding features of the year’s program. Dr. Ann Cochran is chair­ Speaker for F.T.A. man of the Education Week Com­ Our editor, Mr. Wayman Shiver, mittee. It is because of her efforts was recently the guest speaker for the Mamie Dye Club of the Future that this series has been highly Teachers of America. The affair successful for a number of years. took place at Oglethorpe County The speakers for the week were Training School in Lexington, Ga., Dr. Frank Cunningham, President on November 13, 1959. The spon­ of Morris Brown College; Mrs. sor was Mrs. L. J. Jones. Narvie Harris, Supervisor, DeKalb The text of Mr. Shiver’s speech County; Mr. George Edwards, Jr., was on the theme for American Principal, Conyers, Georgia; and Education Week, “Praise and Ap­ Dr. L. D. Graves, Professor, At­ praise Your Schools.” After the lanta University. program, Mr. Shiver and other Other participants were mem­ guests were entertained by the bers of the faculty of the Educa­ faculty at the teachers’ cottage. tion Division and student teachers. He was accompanied by Earnest Coleman, state treasurer, and Joseph Willis, a Clark College stu­ use Makes dent and Student N.E.A. member. Fullback Winfred Benson (33) goes 6 yards for Morris Brown’s Drastic Changes In third touchdown, after taking a handoff from quarterback John Davis. Campus Frats Davis Receives Los Angeles, Calif.—(I.P.)—As THE PRESIDENT DISCUSSES SOME NAACP BEGINS a result of the tragic death of Recognition Kappa Sig pledge Richard T. ACTIVE YEAR Swanson, several radical and im­ In Anthology PROBLEMS OF NEGRO EDUCATION The Morris Brown College Chap­ portant changes will take place in The National Poetry Association The terms “potential” and “opportunity” are interdependent. On ter of the National Association for the social organization on the cam­ has announced that “The View,” the one hand, the use which is made of an opportunity depends upon pus of the University of Southern by George I. C. Davis, has been ac­ the Advancement of Colored Peo­ California, according to Dr. Wil­ the development of ability. But, on the other hand, the development cepted for publication in the An­ ple is functioning with much suc­ liam H. McGrath, assistant dean nual Anthology of College Poetry. of specialized abilities must wait upon opportunity. cess, after organizing for the 1959- of students—men. As long as the Negro commu­ The Anthology is a compilation 60 year. These officers were elect­ Dr. McGrath said that the fra­ of the finest poetry written by the nity maintained the position that who actually graduated. If the edu­ ternities are initiating a better cational disadvantages of the ed: James Foster, president; Eu­ college men and women of America, there was no possibility of one of system of Greek row control con­ South were also eliminated—that gene Bryant, vice president; Mar­ representing every section of the its members obtaining employment is, if all Negroes were brought up cerning rushing, pledging, initia­ country. Selections were made from garet Simmons, secretary; Joann tion and student decorum in gen­ as an engineer, neither Negro edu­ in the level of Northern whites— thousands of poems submitted. The Phillips, treasurer; Freda Fisher, eral. A third aspect of “a better cational institutions nor Negro then the total number of Negro Association congratulates the stu­ graduates would be increased by parliamentarian; Bennie Wright, row control,” will be a program dent on this honor. parents could sensibly encourage of extended counseling which will another 11,000, to nearly 68,000. reporter. the younger generation to go involve all new students. “This will The Wolverine Observer Staff Of crucial significance in the salutes Mr. Davis for his signifi­ through the long and arduous pro­ During the latter part of No­ include a series of compulsory educational process is the quality cant achievement. gram of engineering. vember, two representatives at­ classes by deans, vice-presidents, of the teacher. In terms of formal and top professors of the univer­ The development of Negro po­ tended the State Conference meet­ educational qualifications, Negro ing in Augusta, Ga. The represent­ sity,” Dr. McGrath said. tential depends on the expansion “It is hoped that these courses teachers in many parts of the atives, Frank Armstrong and Ben­ Brownite Lands of economic opportunity in a still South are at least as well-prepared will bring wisdom and youth closer deeper sense. For the Negro popu­ as white teachers. This is so, in nie Wright, made an interesting together,” he said. These courses State Job lation to be able to compete on an part, because the Negro college report to the group at a regular will acquaint the student with the Dr. Claude Purcell, State School equal basis for professional, sci­ graduate has few other profes­ meeting. realities of college life. They will sional employment opportunities. The chapter is now making plans touch upon social and psychological Superintendent, announced the ap­ entific, managerial, skilled, and On the average, however, Negro pressures, the philosophy of life pointment of Mr. Robert Threatt other desirable jobs will require a teachers are much less able than for their first assembly program of and cultural upgrading. as consultant in Secondary Edu­ revolution in all levels of Negro white teachers'in spite of the fact the year. “We hope to have students act cation for the State of Georgia. education, and beyond this, in the that they have about the same You are cordially invited to be­ in accordance with the best that Mr. Threatt, a graduate of Mor­ values and aspirations, the living amount of formal preparation. come a member of this organiza­ has been thought said and done in ris Brown College and Atlanta Uni­ Like other young Negroes, those the university,” Dr. McGrath ex­ conditions, and the community en­ tion. versity, is a promising young man preparing to teach are usually plained. “The big emphasis will who has taken leading roles in sev­ vironments of large groups in the handicapped by poor schools and be upon ACTION.” eral state-wide organizations; Negro population. All of this, in deprived backgrounds. A recent moreover, he has received many turn, depends in large part on the study by Arthur L. Benson of the John Sanders—New outstanding awards for excellence opportunities of Negroes to earn Educational Testing Service an­ Idaho Board OK's in a variety of activities. alyzed the abilities of .prospective larger incomes. Assistant At G.T.E.A. He began teaching in 1949 and If the education of Southern Ne­ white and Negro teachers in states with segregated schools. Test Mr. John Dewitt Sanders, a 1956 Reorganization has worked at Spencer Junior High gro males were brought up to the Pocatello, Idaho — (LP.) — Re­ School since 1953. Among other level of Southern white males, the scores of white and Negro fresh­ Morris Brown graduate, has been men in Southern teacher-training recently hired by the Georgia sponsibilities of chairmen of divi­ positions held by Mr. Threatt are: actual number of high school grad­ President of Muscogee County uates in the region would be institutions and liberal arts col­ Teachers and Education Associa­ sions in the College of Liberal Arts leges in which a large number of tion. Mr. Sanders is assistant to the at Idaho State College have been Teachers Association since 1956, tripled, from about 11,000 to 32,- Treasurer Class Room Teachers 000. If the education of Northern the freshmen were planning to executive secretary and field work­ approved by the State Board of teach were compared with the test er for the Association. Education. The College of Liberal Department of GTEA, President of Negroes were brought up to that the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity of whites in the North, the num­ scores of freshmen in the country John is a graduate of Holsey- Arts has been reorganized into six ber of Negro high school graduates as a whole. The average scores of Cobb Institute, Cordele, Ga., and divisions. Faculty of each division, (Alpha Phi Sigma Chapter), Presi­ in the North would be nearly the white freshmen in the Southern he is a member of the Alpha Phi except Military Science, elects its dent of the Morris Brown Club in doubled, from almost 14,000 to al­ schools were exceeded by 65 per Alpha Fraternity. chairman. Columbus, Ga., and commissioner most 25,000. Thus, if the differ­ cent of the freshmen throughout The reorganization divided the of Boy Scouts of America, Musco­ the country. The average future gee Division. ences between, the races with re­ The average girl would rather College of Liberal Arts into divi­ spect to high school graduation Negro teacher in the South ranked sions of Applied Arts and Sciences, Mr. Threatt was selected System were eliminated within each region, below 95 per cent of the freshmen have beauty than brains, because Biological Science, Humanities, Teacher of the Year in 1956; he there would be 32,000 high school in the whole country. the average man can see better Physical Science, Social Science was chosen “Man of the Year” in graduates in addition to the 25,000 (Continued on Page 2) than he can think.