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JULY 1958 (ialendar

Art Exhibit The Eighty-ninth Commencement The Presidents' 10 Reception . The Interdenominational Theological Center 11 Religious Emphasis Week 12 Harold Jackman Visits Campus

Librarian Recruitment Conference . 14 Cultural Programs 15 Campus Briefs 16 19 Faculty Items —

Alumni Association Activities __ 22 Chicago Alumni Organize 24 Forrester Washington Honored 25 Alumni News 26 In Memoriam 31

ON THE COVER

At the Annual Alumni Banquet, the Na¬ tional Alumni Association of Atlanta Uni¬ versity presented citations to three distin¬ guished alumni: to Miss Bazoline Usher, College 1906. Master of Arts 1938, for her contributions to education; to Mrs. Lucile Mack Strong, College 1918, Bursar of At¬ lanta University, for distinguished service as an administrator, and to Sydney A. Jones, attorney and member of the Chicago Board of Aldermen, for his effective contributions to politics. Here Dr. Paul I. Clifford, vice- president of the Alumni Association, pre¬ sents them with their citations. Left to right: Mrs. Strong, Mr. Jones, Miss Usher, Dr. Clifford.

Series III JULY. 1958 No. 103

Entered as second-class matter February 28, 1935, at the Post Office at Atlanta, Georgia, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Accept¬ ance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, 538, P. L. & R.

2 CALENDAR HOOK KE\ IEW PROGRAM: January 15 — The Ordeal ANNUAL SIGMA XI LECTURE: March 21 - Dr. Jo¬ of Mansart by W. E. B. DuBois — Reviewed by seph W. Beard, School of Medicine. Duke 1 niversi- Mrs. Vivian Beavers, Oglethorpe School. ty. “Viruses as a Cause of Cancer." ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER CONVOCATION: (.ONCER I : March 28 Bennett College Choir. — Dow January 26 The Reverend Kirkpatrick, EXHIBITION: March Pastor. The St. Mark Methodist Church, Atlanta. 30-April 27 — The Seventeenth Annual Atlanta University Exhibition of Painting, CONCERT: February 2 — Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano. Sculpture, and Prints by Negro Artists. TOWN MEETING: I RENCH FILM: February 5 — Dr. Horace Mann April 9 — “L Eternel Retour. Bond, Acting Dean, School of Education, Atlanta FORUM: April 10 — James Baldwin, Author. “The University, Reverend S. W. Williams, Morehouse Negro as Novelist: Opportunities and Responsibili¬ College, Miss Herschelle Sullivan, Spelman College, ties.” Miss Sallie Smart, Morris Brown College, Edgar SPELMAN COLLEGE FOUNDERS DAY: Boldes, Clark April 11 College, Philip A. Thompson, More¬ Dean Lucile Allen. house College. “ The Crisis in American Education.” Pennsy lvania College for Women. ANNUAL CONCERT: FORUM: April 12 — Spelman College February 11 — Alfred Friendly, Managing Glee Club. Editor, Washington Post and Times Herald. “Rus¬ TOWN MEETING: April 17 — Dr. Howard Zinn, sia: America's Defence, Foreign Policy, and Edu¬ Spel¬ cation." man College, Mrs. Jamye Williams, Morris Brown College, Miss Christine Johnson, Clark College, ANNUAL CONCERT: February 16 — Morehouse Col¬ Floster L. Ellison, Atlanta University, James Shaw, lege Glee Club. Morehouse College. “How Can Students Make the MOREHOUSE COLLEGE FOUNDERS DAY AND World Better?” DEDICATION PROGRAM. PHYSICAL EDUCATION ATLANTA-MOREHOUSE-SPELMAN PLAYERS: April AND HEALTH BUILDING: 18 and 19 — “Misalliance” G. February 18 — Dr. Jay B. In B. Shaw. Nash. New York RECITAL: University. April 20 — Rhoda Jordan.

LECTl RE: — BOOK REVIEW February 25 Dr. Lonnie Cross, Depart¬ PROGRAM: April 23 — Deadline Ev¬ ment of Mathematics, Atlanta University. “A Con¬ ery Minute by J. A. Morris — Reviewed by Eugene tinuous Analogue for Integral Equations of a Re¬ Patterson, Executive Editor. Atlanta Newspapers. sult of G. Szogo." LECTURE: April 24 — Dr. John H. Neiler, Oak Ridge BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: National February 25 — By Love Laboratories. “The WY>rk of a Nuclear Re¬ Possessed search by James G. Cozzens — Reviewed by Physiciast.” Lance Jeffers, RECITAL: Department of English, Morehouse May 2 — The Spelman College Dance Club. College. PERFORMANCE: May 2 — The Towle Sisters. ATLANTA-MOREHOl SE-SPELMAN PLAYERS: Feb¬ FRENCH FILM: May 7 — “Les Enfants du Paradis.” ruary 28 and March 1 — “Sabrina Fair.” TOWN MEETING: ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER RELIGIOUS EM¬ May 8 — Ralph McGill. Editor, Atlanta Constitution, Dr. Mozell Hill. Atlanta l ni- PHASIS WEEK: March 2-5 — The Reverend Lloyd J. versitv, Dr. Frank Averill. Dean of Chapel. Kalamazoo College, Michi¬ Cunningham, Morris Brown Col¬ gan. lege, Miss Herschelle Sullivan, Spelman College. Miss Maxine Weston, Clark College. “The Role of the Lib¬ LECTl RE: March 5 — Dr. Harry F. Lewis, Institute eral in the South Today." for Paper Chemistry. “Origin of Plant Life on LECTURE: Earth. May 13 — Arthur Scavella, Department of Mathematics, Tuskegee Institute, “A Device Which LECTl RE: March 6 — Dr. Harry F. Lewis. “Chem¬ Can Be Used to Expand a Determinant to Order 1.” istry of W 00(1. AN NT AL CONCER I : May 16 — Atlanta-Morehouse- CONCERT: March 7 I he Netherlands Quartet. Spelman Chorus. BACCALAUREATE CONGER I : March 9 Robert \\ illiams, Tenor. SERVICE: June 1 — Dr. Howard Thurman, Dean of Chapel. Boston Universitv. BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: March 19 — How to SPELMAN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT: 2 Live with a Neurotic h\ Albert Ellis — Reviewed June Dr. Eh:anor F. Dolan. by Dean Whitney M. ^ oung. School of Social Work. Higher Education Associate of the American Association of l niversitv Women. TOWN MEETING: March 20 - The Reverend Wil¬ ATLANT A l NTVERSITY COMMENCEMENT liam Holmes Borders. Pastor. Wheat Street Baptist June 2 — Dr. Buell Church, Mrs. Ruby Hurley, NAACP, Dr. Gallagher. President. Cit\ College of Dudley New \ ork. DeGroot. Emory ( Diversity. Dean Whitney M. Young. School of Social Work. Frank Peterman. MOREHOUSE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT : June 3 Morehouse College. “Where Does the Negro Go Dr. Lindsley F. Kimball, Vice-President. General from Here?” Education Board. Art Exhibit

Miss June Hector of Atlanta, winner of the first award in water colors, points out her prize-winning entry, "Wild Flowers," to her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. John Hector, and a friend. Below Miss Hector's painting is the recipient of the second prize in water colors, William S. Carter's "Pieta."

New names appeared on the list Award for any subject, $150, for prize in sculpture, $100, for “Wom¬ of prize-winners in the 17th Annual “Still Life.” This was Mr. Lowe’s an at Prayer” in marble. Mr. Ridley Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture first time to exhibit and his name also had two other sculptures and and Prints by Negro Artists as seven is now added to the long list of fac¬ one oil accepted for showing. Al¬ of the eleven awards went to artists ulty and students from Florida A. though this is Mr. Ridley’s first prize, who had not previously won prizes at and M. who have gained recogni¬ he has exhibited before and received the Atlanta University exhibit, four tion in the exhibit. an honorable mention in oil in 1956. of them showing here for the first The first prize in water colors also All three awards in prints went to time. went to a college student, a Spel- artists winning their first prizes, The coveted $300 award for the man junior, Miss June Hector of At¬ Barbara Gallon, a student at Florida best portrait or figure was won by lanta, another first-time exhibitor. A. and M. University, first for “Ab¬ James Watkins of Akron, Ohio, with Her “Wild Flowers” won her not straction.” Tommie E. Price of Tulsa his striking and sympathetic, “Negro only the $125 purchase award, but Oklahoma, second for “Lost for a Man." Mr. Watkins had received the Spelman College Jerome Award Name,' and Zenobia Hammonds, a an honorable mention in this cate- for Creative Achievement and a student at Hampton Institute, for gor\ in the 1957 show. Also in oils, scholarship given by the Atlanta Arts “Student Artist.” Cullen Lowe of Richmond. Virginia, Festival. The other four awards went to ar¬ a student at Florida A. and M. Uni¬ Gregory Ridley, a member of the tists who had each won a prize in versity, Tallahassee, received the faculty of Alabama State College at previous shows. The John Hope first Atlanta University Purchase Montgomery, received the second Award of $250 was given Miss Irene

4 V. Clark, a Chicago designer, for ‘‘Five Centuries Ago. Her “M\ Great Great Great Grandfather's Cousin" was acquired for the perma¬ nent collection in 1956 when it re¬ ceived the first Atlanta University Purchase Award in oils. William S. Carter of Champaign, Illinois, a former winner of the John Hope award, was second in water colors with “Pieta” and also exhibited in oils and prints. Guy L. Miller of Los Angeles, California, won his second first in sculpture for a powerful head in marble, “Character. His “Congo Beauty” was acquired by the P ni- versity in 1952. The second Atlanta University award in oils, given on the popular vote of those attending the show, went by an overwhelming majority to Benjamin Britt of Philadelphia for James Watkin's "Negro Man," winner of the prize for the best portrait, is admired “Pink Sand.” Mr. Britt received the by G. C. Birchette, Mrs. Beulah Lewis, and Mrs. Julia Neal. award for the best figure in 1957.

The jury of awards gave honorable mention to the following entries: in oil to Maurice Strider of Lexington, Kentucky, for “Carnival Time." to Fred Jones, Chicago, Illinois, for “Love Song.” to Yvonne Parks Hunt. Atlanta, for “Cafe in the Village." and to Harper T. Phillips, Hampton. Virginia, for “Lullaby : in water colors, to Phillip J. Hampton. Sa¬ vannah. Georgia, for “\oung Girls of Savannah” and to Floyd W. Cole¬ man. Montgomery. Alabama, for “Frustration in sculpture, to (7 Maxine Holtn of New Orleans. Lou¬ isiana. for “Head of a Negro Girl and to Hobie L. Williams, of Fort Lauderdale. Florida, for “Barnyard Chief": in prints, to Lmma Amos of Atlanta and Antioch. Ohio, for “Etching" and to Jonathan Simmons of New ^ ork for “Self.

Ihe paintings to be exhibited were chosen from the mam entries and

the prizes were awarded b\ a jur\ Guests at the Atlanta University Women's Club reception for the trustees of Atlanta composed of Ben E. Shute of the University, Morehouse College and Spelman College: Mrs. Billie Geter Thomas of \tlanta Art Institute. Ferdinand Spelman College, Atlanta University trustee C. R. Yates, Dr. Paul I. Clifford and Dr. C. A. Bacote, both of the Atlanta University faculty, and Atlanta University trustee barren of the department of art. Truman K. Gibson of Chicago. The reception was held in the Exhibition Room so that the guests could enjoy the 17th annual art exhibition. Agnes Scott College, and George Kamey of (Georgia luslitute of Tech¬ tors registered during the month of nology. I he one hundred and ninety the exhibition. Thus again the At¬ lour works shown came from a hun¬ lanta University Exhibition fulfilled dred and one artists and the represented purpose for which it was begun, a geographical cross section of the giving an opportunity for established l nited States. The entries came artists to he seen by a wider public, from twenty-one states from New encouraging the beginning artist, 'l ork to California, from Michigan and enriching,the cultural life of the to Florida. Atlanta University Center and the Approximately two thousand visi¬ community.

Three prize-winning entries in the ex¬ hibition: Below, "Five Centuries Ago" by Irene V. Clark of Chicago, winner of the John Hope Award; above, "Character" by Guy L. Miller of Los Angeles, winner of the first award in sculpture; ct left, "Pink Sand $'2" by Benjamin Britt of Philadelphia, winner of the popular ballot award in oils.

6 The Eighty-Ninth Commencement

The June, 1958, graduates on the steps of Harkness Hall.

The eighty-ninth commencement ten more graduates than at the liberty leads to freedom. In convocation was held in the tradi¬ eighty-eighth commencement. closing he noted that two things tional setting of the Library Quad¬ Dr. Gallagher spoke on “The Per¬ distinguish man from other animals, manent the rangle on June 2. Eighty-eight stu¬ Revolution, which he defined ability to contemplate causes and dents from seventeen states, the Dis¬ as a revolution which is based on consequences and the ability to be trict of Columbia. Kenya. Nigeria more than the transfer of power from moved by ideals. “Man alone is cap¬ and Indonesia received graduate de¬ one overlord to another. He found able of moral choice rationally con¬ its roots in the sidered. he said. “There is grees after the convocation address aspirations of the nothing had been delivered by Dr. Buell G. human spirit, religious in impulse automatic about the progress of the Gallagher, president of City College, and motive. Stressing that political permanent revolution. It marches New York. The baccalaureate service and social rights must he won forward on the feet of a few brave had been held the day before joint¬ through continual struggle. Dr. Gal¬ persons in each generation." Dr. Thurman chose as his ly with Morehouse and Spelman Col¬ lagher said that “The revolution subject which carries us the leges with Di\ Howard Thurman, forward is, para¬ integrit\ of the person, develop¬ dean of chapel. Boston l diversity as doxically, successful only to the de¬ ing the theme “If tlit* light that is speaker. gree that we carry it out. That is the in vou be darkness, what a darkness." Ten students received the degree moral meaning of freedom. I he su¬ He stressed the idea that the whole structure of was of Master of Arts and five that of preme task and the great opportunit\ life undermined 1>\ Master of Science from the Gradu¬ of each generation is to ensure the those who in their private lises act ate School of \rts and Sciences. continuance of the revolution. contrary to what the\ have accepted as Fortv-two were awarded the Master Distinguishing between liberty and being right and true and valid. of Social Work, nine the Master of moral freedom, the absence of re¬ “The bright light within vou be¬ comes darkness when Science in Gibran Service, thirteen straint as against the responsible you are unwil¬ the Master of \rls from the School choice of an intelligent man acting ling to take responsibility for \oui of Education, and nine the Master of on good conscience, he said that own actions because vou feel that vou are different. Evervone must Business \dministration. There wen- where moral responsibilih is found. take responsibility for his actions and reactions,” he said. “Whatever and whoever is able to determine how you feel on the inside can con¬ trol your life. Speaking of segrega¬ tion as a part of environment, Dr. Thurman said, “It does not matter how quickly or how long it takes ex¬ ternal manifestations to disappear if what exists in the environment is not transferred inside of us.”

Music for both occasions was fur¬ nished by the Allanta-Morehouse- Spelman Chorus under the direction of Willis L. James. Those receiving degrees were: Master of Arts from the School of

Arts and Sciences — Alfred Leo Morris, Atlanta, in Economics; Mrs. LaVerne Brown Beavers, Atlanta, Mrs. Emma Frenchie Campbell, Jackson, Mississippi, Finley Calvin Campbell. Detroit, Michigan, and Benjamin Franklin Miller, New Dr. Buell Gallagher, president of the City College of New York, delivers the Com¬ York, New York, in English; Wood- mencement address. row Wilson Gallashaw, Bishopville, S. C., and Josphat Njuguna Karanja, Limura, Kenya, in History; Thomas Daniel Barnes, Utica Institute, Mis¬ sissippi. Robert Dee Springer, Doug- lasville, Georgia, and Robert Threatt. Columbus, Georgia, in Sociology. The Master of Science in Mathe¬ matics was awarded to: Moses Boze¬ man, Jr., Atlanta. William S. Cooper, Atlanta, John Edward Hall. Atlanta, Charles Sanders Johnson, Jr., At¬ lanta, and Miss Jean Marie Wright, Atlanta. The degree of Master of Social Work was awarded to: Miss Mar¬ jorie Anita Alexander, Tampa, Flori¬ da. Mrs. Elizabeth Rucker Allen, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mrs. Fran¬ ces C. Avery, Atlanta. Miss Josephine Sara A. Baker, Birmingham, Ala., M iss Velma Delores Banks, Marshall.

T exas, Robert W. Brown, Boonville, Missouri, James C. Cooper, Bain- bridge. Georgia. Mrs. Ethel Coleman

The Davenport, Atlanta. Miss Judy C. platform party at the Baccalaureate Service: Dr. William Holmes Borders, More¬ house Denson, Fairfield, Alabama, Miss College President B. E. Mays, Dr. Howard Thurman, who delivered the address, President Rufus E. Clement, Spelman College President Albert E. Manley, Dr. Herman Evelyn Z. Edwards, Atlanta. Miss L. Turner. Education was awarded to: Mrs. \ iv- Jane 0. Eggleston, Richmond, Vir¬ sonville, N. C., Mrs. Fredricka Lila ian Reid ginia. Mrs. Countess Tvvitty Fisher, Teer, East St. Louis, Illinois, Egbert Beavers, Atlanta. Mrs. P lo- New York. N. Y., Miss Virginia Herron Thompson II, Washington, rine Louise Pope Bussey, Atlanta, Marie Fleming, Salisbury, N. C., Miss D. C., Miss Naomi Blanchie Turner, Mrs. Margaret R. Dyer, Macon. Charlesanna T. Galloway, Americus, Sandersville, Georgia. Lyndon An¬ Georgia. Etim Akpan Essien, lkot Georgia, Miss Patricia Delores Gav¬ thony Wade, Atlanta, Miss Marjorie Etpene. Nigeria, Herbert Lee Evans, in, New Bern, N. C., Miss Ruth Lu¬ Louise Wellmon, Gastonia, N. C., Augusta, Georgia, Miss Margaret cille Gilliam, Durham, N. C., James M rs. Helene Wright West. Rockwood. Juanita Gannaway, Rome, Georgia. Arthur Goodman. Trenton, N. J., Wil¬ Tennessee, Prank Austin Williams, Mrs. Marjorie Bruton Gosier. At¬ liam Ira Gore, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Fayetteville, N. C., Mrs. Doris Jones lanta, Welcome Emerson Mason, Miss June Maxine Gregory, Kansas Wilson, New Orleans, Louisiana, Lincolnton, Georgia, Samuel B. City, Missouri, Miss Emma Jean M rs. Marion Moore Wordlaw. St. Pride, Milieu, Georgia. Othello Sur- Hodge, Chicago, Illinois, Miss Bar¬ Louis, Missouri. rency, Blackshear, Georgia, Miss bara Jean Ingram, Dublin, Georgia, The degree of Master of Science in Evelyn Priscilla Walthall, Atlanta. Mrs. M aurice I. Mitchell Williams, Randolph C. Kendall, Jr., Atlanta, Library Service was awarded to: Atlanta, John Burl Mrs. Catherine Latimer Larkins, Ra¬ Mrs. Mayrene Beasley Bates, Colum¬ Willingham, At¬ lanta. leigh, N. C., Dennis F. Lee, Phila¬ bus, Ohio, Mrs. Louise Douglass The degree of Master of Business delphia, Pa., Mrs. Archie B. Bethea Carr, New York. N. Y., Mrs. Tallu¬ Administration was awarded to: Lewis, Sarasota, Florida, Miss Jean lah King Cogswell. Savannah, Geor¬ Talmadge Anderson, Tyler, Texas, Sharon McClain, Aiken, S. C., Floyd gia, Miss Calverta Elnora Davis, Julius Brown Bailey, Atlanta, Roy William McCormick. Scotch Plains, Johnsonville, S. C., Miss Ora Dell Lee Bolton, Atlanta. Mack Lee David¬ N. J., Israel Henry Milton, Hamilton, Stuart, Florida, Mrs. Mai Miami, son, Jr., Charlotte, N. C., William James Harris, Albany, Georgia, Miss Florida, Miss Martha Lena Moore, H. Dunn, Jr., Macon, Georgia, Ta- Alice Aurelia Atlanta. Miss Jacquelyn Billie Nor¬ Holly, Tuscaloosa, Ala¬ Nien Lin. Jakarta, Indonesia, Eddie man, New York, N. Y., Mrs. Ann bama, Mrs. Willie Kate Jackson. Fu- Meredith, Jr., Columbus, Georgia. Roberts Robinson, Atlanta, Miss Myr¬ faula, Alabama, and Mrs. Mary Richard Ross, Thomasville, Alabama, tle J. Rushing, Minden, Louisiana, Bridges Southall. Atlanta. and Miss Rachel Ann Vincent. Jack- Miss Sarah Hattie Summey, Hender¬ The degree of Master of Arts in son. Mississippi.

A record crowd gathered in the Library Quadrangle to see the eighty-eight members of the graduating class receive their degrees. The Presidents of Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Spelman College Entertain the Graduating Class

Two visitors on the Atlanta University campus at the time of the Presidents' Reception for the graduating classes were Madame Ella Koblo Gulama and her secretary, Elizabeth Hatib. Madame Gulama is Paramount Chief of the Kaiyamba Chiefdom and a member of Parliament of Sierra Leone. Left to right: President Albert E. Manley of Spelman College, Mrs. Benjamin E. Mays, President Mays of Morehouse College, Mrs. Manley, President Rufus E. Clement, Madame Gulama, Elizabeth Hatib.

Two June graduates from foreign countries at the Presidents' Reception: Josphat N. Karanja of Kenya, who received the M.A. degree in history, and Ta-Nien Lin of Djakarta, Indonesia, Master of Business Administration, at the left.

10 The Interdenominational Theological Center

A gift of $2,250,000, $500,000 tions involved in a cooperative pro¬ and the new Oglethorpe School on from the General Education Board gram and to make recommendations the east, by Hunter Street on the and the remainder from the Sealantic to the institutions involved. Serving north, by Beckwith Street on the Fund, has made possible in the near on this committee were Dr. Ernest south, and by the land on which the future the consummation of a plan C. Colwell, then vice-president of President’s residence is located and which has been in the making since Emory University, chairman, Dr. the Atlanta l niversitv athletic field 1010. the establishment of the Inter¬ Merrill J. Holmes, president of Il¬ on the west. denominational Theological Center linois Wesleyan University, Dr. F. D. The new Board of Trustees has as part of the Atlanta l niversitv Patterson, director of the Phelps- been organized with Dr. Ernest C. Center. The hoards of trustees of Stokes Fund. Dr. Walter N. Roberts, Colwell, now president of the new Gammon Theological Seminary, the president of the American Associa¬ theological seminary in Claremont, Morehouse School of Religion, the tion of Theological Schools, and Dr. California, as chairman, Bishop B. Turner Theological Seminary of Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Julian Smith as vice-chairman, Bish¬ Morris Brown College, and the Phil¬ the Union Theological Seminary. The op W. R. Wilkes as secretary, and lips rheological Seminary of Lane structure of the new institution is President B. E. Mays of Morehouse College, Jackson, Tennessee have all based on their recommendations. College as chairman of the executive approved the agreement to become The new institution will have its committee. The president of the In¬ affiliated as members of the new in¬ own trustees, its own officers and ad¬ terdenominational Iheological Cen¬ stitution. ministration, its own faculty and li¬ ter will be Dr. Harry V. Richardson, After years of consideration of the brary, and will own and control now president of Gammon rheologi¬ question of moving the physical plant certain commonly used buildings. cal Seminary. of Gammon Theological Seminary to There will be in addition dormitor¬ Plans call for beginning of con¬ the l Diversity Center, it was decided ies erected by each of the participat¬ struction in the autumn of this year to explore the possibility of a co¬ ing institutions. and opening of the new institution operative theological center. During Atlanta Universit) has provided a the following September. Thus co¬ 1956, with the aid of a grant from plot of land of approximately ten operation in yet another area will the General Education Board, a com¬ acres for the new institution. This become a reality at the Atlanta Uni¬ mittee was chosen to study the ques- is bounded by Morris Brown College versity Center.

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Students and facultv at the refreshment table at Presidents' Receotion, Mrs. J. B. Blayton, Sr., pouring.

11 Religious Emphasis Week

Lloyd J. Averill, Atlanta University Center Religious Emphasis Week speaker, talks with students and faculty at the informal so¬ cial hour following his first service.

For the fifth joint observance of and Christian Decision. He said that holds the M.A. degree in sociology Religious Emphasis Week by the six the present foreign policy of the from the University of Rochester and institutions of the Atlanta University United States, built on a military has done further graduate work at Center, Lloyd J. Averill, dean of budget and preparation for war, was Garrett Biblical Institute and North¬ chapel and associate professor of re¬ the best guarantee that communism western University. ligion at Kalamazoo College, Michi¬ would win the allegiance of the world A feature of Religious Emphasis Week which has gan, was selected as Center speaker. or that there would be another world grown in effective¬ ness and He gave four addresses in Sisters war or both. Saying that morality popularity is the informal hour where refreshments are served Chapel on the theme chosen by the has relevancy to the relation of man major address. Here Religious Emphasis Week Committee, to nation and of nation to nation, following each the students have the opportunity to “Religious Values in a Hydrogen Mr. Averill charged that those who talk with the speaker and discuss Age." accept war as the chief means of their problems in a more intimate national Mr. Averill took as his policy reject Christianity. topics “The setting. Mr. Averill is a Age of Innocence, “Man and So¬ graduate of the President B. E. Mays of Morehouse ciety — Christian and Contempo¬ University of Wisconsin with a B.D. College served as chairman for the rary/’ ‘"Biblical Faith and Modern degree from Colgate Divinity School Center Religious Emphasis Week Knowledge.” and “Modern Warfare where he was graduate fellow. He Committee.

12 Harold Jackman Visits Campus Harold Jackman, whose gift to the l niversity of manuscripts, letters, au¬ tographed pictures and other rare items about and by the Negro formed the nucleus of the Negro Col¬ lection in the Trevor Arnett Library, visited the campus for several days in April. Mr. Jackman's first contri¬ butions arrived in 1942. When his good friend, Countee Cullen, died in 1946, Mr. Jackman dedicated the collection to him, changing its name to the Countee Cullen Memorial Col¬ lection founded by Harold Jackman. Each year the collection is in¬ creased. in part by gifts. Mr. Jack- man has remained through the years a generous contributor and many others who give do so at his request. The Negro Collection is now the third largest such collection in the United States. Dr. Horace Mann Bond, Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks, Harold Jackman and Dr. Lonnie Cross at tea for Mr. Jackman. During his visit, Mr. Jackman was welcomed at a tea arranged by the staff of the Trevor Arnett Library.

The staff of the Trevor Arnett Library with Harold Jackman at a tea held in his honor in the library Staff Lounge. Librarian Recruitment Conference I he School of Library Service sponsored a conference designed to interest qualified college students in librarianship on February 21 and 22. A campus committee at each of thirty institutions in eight Southeastern states selected one student to attend the conference. At the opening session speakers discussed career opportunities in the different areas of professional li¬ brarianship. Miss Margaret Walker, Georgia State Department of Edu¬ cation, spoke on school libraries, Mrs. Mexico Micklebury, librarian at Spelman College, on college librar¬ ies, Mrs. Gaynelle Barksdale, Trevor Arnett Library, on university librar¬ ies, A. Venable Lawson, Atlanta Pub¬ lic Library, on public libraries, and M rs. Martha Zechert, Emory Uni¬ versity Library, on special librar¬ ies. The group visited the Fulton County Bookmobile, the Turner High School Library, and the West Hunter Branch of the Atlanta Public Mrs. Lucretia Parker, librarian of the School of Library Service, presides over exhibit Library. on librarianship. At the meeting devoted to means of obtaining professional library training, the speakers were Mrs. Hal- lie B. Brooks, Mrs. Carolyn Ford, and Dean Virginia L. Jones, all of Students from the School of thirty institutions participate in conference on librarianship as a Library Service. profession.

14 Cultural Programs

Four Town Meetings, four hook Alfred Friendly, managing editor It on the Mountain, Giovanni's reviews and two forums were held of the Washington Post and Times Room, and Notes oj a Native Son, on the campus during the second Herald, addressed the Arts and spoke on "The Negro as Novelist semester. Sciences Forum Series in February in April. Striking an existentialist The topics covered by the Town on “America’s Defence, Foreign Pol¬ note, Mr. Baldwin said that tales of Meetings, which are arranged by the icy and Education. He criticized the human life are all the same, birth, political science departments of the foreign policy of the American suffering, death. He criticized the Atlanta University Center, were “The government a s baffled groping American novelist for not accepting Crisis in American Education,” which, through attempting to main¬ the idea that the same thing can be “Where Does the Negro Go From tain the peace by threat of reprisals, one person's pain and another’s joy. Here?”, “How Can Students Make maintains peace on a razor’s edge. He was particularly critical of pro¬ the World Better? , and “The Role He test novels which he considered not of the Liberal in the South Today.’ urged education of the “full man" in order to to be novels, but tracts. “It is worse Each topic was discussed by a panel develop leadership for composed of faculty and students, in the space age. than Lhicle Tom to be a Negro and some cases joined by people from James Baldwin, author of Go Tell also better than that, " he concluded. the community. Among the speakers presented were Dr. Horace Mann Bond, School of Education, Reverend S. W. Williams. Morehouse College, Reverend William Holmes Borders, Wheat Street Baptist Church, Mrs. Ruby Hurley. NAACP, Dr. Dudley DeGroot, Emory University, Dean Whitney M. Young, School of Social Work, Dr. Howard Zinn, Spelman College. Mrs. Jamye Williams, Morris Brown College, Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Dr. Mo- zell Hill, department of Sociology and Dr. Frank Cunningham, Morris Brown College. Ihe School of Library Service presented Mrs. Vivian Beavers of Oglethorpe School in a review of W. E. B. DuBois’ Ordeal oj Mansart, Lance Jeffers of Morehouse College

in a review of James G. Cozzens" By Love Possessed, Dean Whitney \I. Young of the School <>f Social Work, who discussed How to Live

With a Neurotic by Albert Ellis, and Eugene Patterson, executive editor of the Atlanta Newspapers, Inc., review¬ ing Deadline Every Minute 1>\ J. A.

Morris. James Baldwin

15 ery, “Galaxy” by Hale Woodruff, CAMPUS BRIEFS “Chinese Vase by B.J.D. Nordfeldt, “Fishing Boats in Portugal by Wil¬ liam Thon, and “Summer Sunshine by William Palmer. NEW FELLOWSHIP PRO¬ in English. A fellowship in the Mr. Waddell is a trustee of the GRAM ESTABLISHED School of Social Work went to Miss Schelysture Anne Gordon of Atlanta, University and Mrs. Waddell a trus¬ A new program of fellowships has tee of a graduate of Fisk LIniversity. Spelman College. been established beginning in 1958- 59. There will be ten $1000 grants GRANT FOR READING OGLETHORPE awarded annually by the University PROGRAM GLEE CLUB Senate on the basis of intellect, char¬ acter, motivation and academic Beginning in September of this The Oglethorpe Glee Club was achievement. Under the program the year an extensive three-year program presented in concert by the Inter¬ United States is divided into five concerned with reading problems mediate Group of the Youth Fellow¬ regions with a quota set for each will be undertaken by the University ship of the Friendship Baptist and the four affiliated region. Those students with a bache¬ undergradu¬ Church on April 13. They also par¬ lor's ate degree from an accredited col¬ colleges in the Center. This has ticipated in the Palm Sunday pro¬ lege or university are eligible to been made possible by a grant of gram of the Morris Brown Concert apply. $144,500 from the Lilly Endowment Choir, singing a group of numbers The of Indianapolis, Indiana. recipients of the 1958-59 fel¬ at the A central clinic will be established beginning of the program lowships were announced by Presi¬ and under joining with the Choir in the dent Clement on June 1. Three of University auspices which last chorus from Bach's Saint Mat- the students will be enrolled in the will be available to undergraduate thewr Passion. School of Library Service: Miss and graduate students for diagnosis Juanita Jones of Columbus, Georgia, of reading difficulties and deficien¬ cies and will work out remedial UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S a graduate of South Carolina State pro¬ College, Miss Annie Mae Garner of cedures with the institutions in which CLUB REACTIVATED the students are Greenwood, Mississippi, a graduate registered. The pro¬ The Atlanta University Women's of Jackson State gram will also train teachers of read¬ College, and Miss Club was reactivated at a meeting ing for the local campuses and, as Almyra Lige of Newark, New Jersey, held in April. The following officers far as a graduate of Morgan State College. possible, for teachers in pub¬ were elected for 1958-59: president, Miss Barbara Crockett of Raleigh, lic schools and other institutions. Ur. Lynette Saine; vice-president, North Carolina, graduated from An inter-institutional committee, Mrs. Horace Mann Bond; recording North Carolina State College, and under the control of the Council of Miss Vivian D. Sanders of Dalzell, Presidents, will have charge of the secretary, Mrs. Jessie Ebanks; cor¬ secretary, South Carolina, a Clark College program. Outside consultants will al¬ responding Mrs. William graduate, will be enrolled in French so be used. W. Bennett; treasurer, Mrs. K. A. in the Graduate School of Arts and Huggins. Sciences. Students receiving fellow¬ WADDELLS CONTRIBUTE ships in mathematics are Miss Gladys TO ART COLLECTION STUDENTS WIN Thomas of SCHOLARSHIPS Atlanta, a Spelman Col¬ Through the generosity of Mr. lege graduate, and Miss Prince I. and Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell of Three students, two of whom re¬ Winston of Montgomery, Alabama, New York, the University is estab¬ ceived degrees in June, have been from Alabama State College. lishing a collection of contemporary awarded substantial scholarships for M iss Mary E. McKelvey of Green¬ art. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell have further ville, South Carolina, with Bache¬ study. made two lor of Science degree from Morris gifts for this purpose, Finley Campbell of Detroit. Michi¬ Brown College, will register in the bringing to $25,000 the amount giv¬ gan, who received a degree in Eng¬ biology department, and Miss Mary en during the past twelve months. lish at the June convocation, has been Elizabeth Rucker of Anderson, South Works already purchased for the awarded a $2500 Visiting Committee Carolina, with the A.B. degree from collection include “Subway" by Isa¬ Fellowship at the University of Chi¬ South Carolina State College will be bel Bishop, “Clown by Robert Vick¬ cago where he will work for the Ph.

16 I). degree in English. Mr. Campbell, SCHOLARSHIP FUND Fronnie Whitehurst of Baltimore. a graduate of Morehouse College, has HONORING DR. DELANEY Maryland, and William Townsend of spent the past year abroad on a St. Louis. Missouri. The $3000 schol¬ The Sadie P. Delaney Memorial Merrill Foreign Study Fellowship. arships are the gift of Charles E. Scholarship Fund is being estab¬ Josphat Karanja of Limuru, Kenya, Merrill. Jr. lished in the Atlanta University has been accepted for further gradu¬ M iss Whitehurst, a candidate for School of Library Service by a com¬ ate study in history at Princeton the master’s degree in biology, is a mittee of the family and friends of l niversity. Mr. Karanja, also a June 1956 graduate of North Carolina the late Dr. Delaney, who died sud¬ graduate, has been given a tuition State College and has been a student denly in Tuskegee, Alabama, on May scholarship and an additional $1000. at the University for the past two 4. Dr. Delaney, the former Chief Li¬ He is a years. Her tentative plans are to graduate with honors from brarian of the United States Veterans Delhi University, India. study tissue culture at the University- Administration Hospital in Tuskegee Eddie N. Williams, a student in College of North Wales. Bangor. and a pioneer in the development of the department of political science, Mr. Townsend, a 1957 honor the science of bibliotheraphy, re¬ has been awarded a $4500 Congres¬ graduate of Morehouse College, has ceived the honorary degree of Doctor sional Interne been a student in the School of Fellowship by the of Humane Letters from the Uni¬ American Political Science Associa¬ Business Administration during the versity in 1950. tion for next year. Mr. Williams is past year. He will study at the Lon¬ don School of Economics. from Memphis, Tennessee, and is a MERRILL SCHOLARSHIP graduate of the University of Illinois. AWARDED GRANT TO LIBRARY The purpose of the fellowship is to enable young political scientists and Chosen to receive the two Merrill The Trevor Arnett Library has journalists better to understand the Scholarships for foreign study dur¬ received a grant of $600 for the ac¬ American legislative process. ing the next academic year were Miss quisition of the New York Times on

Merrill Scholars William Townsend and Fronnie Whitehurst with Charles E. Merrill, Jr. (center).

17 Scholarship students for 1957-58 in the School of Library Service: Isaac Barfield, Mrs. Irene C. Hansbrough, Mrs. Marie E. Pitt¬ man, Binford Conley, Alice Holly, Andrew J. McLemore.

microfilm for the years 1949-1953. STUDENT IN BRUSSELS The money, which was awarded by Miss Delores Alston, a graduate the Association of College and Re¬ student in the French department, search Libraries, a division of the was chosen as a guide at the Brussels American Library Association, was contributed by the United Steel Worlds Fair. Miss Alston, whose Foundation, the New York Times, home is in Baltimore, is a 1957 and Remington Rand. Grants were graduate of Morgan State College. made to eighty-seven libraries from She sailed on March 28 to fulfill the the fund of $30,000, all the grants duties for which she was chosen by being of relatively small amounts. the Department of State. After the fair closes in October, she will return CENTER CONVOCATION to finish her work for the master’s

Dr. Dow Kirkpatrick, pastor of the degree. St. Mark Methodist Church, Atlanta, was speaker at the annual Atlanta SIGMA XI LECTURE University Center Convocation on Dr. Joseph W. Beard of the Duke Sunday, January 26. Colonius Davis Lhiiversity School of Medicine was of the Morris Brown College depart¬ presented in a lecture by the Atlanta ment of music played the organ pre¬ lude and postlude, other musical University Center Sigma Xi Club in March. Dr. Beard, a national musical numbers being by a male en¬ Sigma semble from Morris Brown College, Xi lecturer and authority on viruses, a duet from Clark College, and the spoke on “Viruses as a Cause of Cancer.” Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Chorus. Delores Alston

lol p phis, Tennessee. In February he ad¬ luncheon honoring the four ranking dressed the E. R. Carter School PTA. members of the National Honor So¬ FACULTY ITEMS Dr. Bacote attended the Associa¬ ciety from each of the Atlanta High tion of Social Science Teachers at Schools on May IT. Tuskegee Institute. April 25-26. Active in his fraternity. Dr. Clif¬ Ur. N. F. Tillman, dean of the * * * ford was delegate to the district con¬ School of Arts and Sciences and Mrs. Lucy C. Grigsby, department vention and was re-appointed district chairman of the English department, of English, served as national consult¬ chairman of the scholarship commit¬ has returned to his duties after a ant for the Phelps-Stokes Fund Proj¬ tee. serious illness. The College Language ect at the Mississippi State Confer¬ He served on the committee on ar¬ Association presented him with a ence held in Jackson State College, rangements for the 1th annual meet¬ Distinguished Contributions Award Jackson, Mississippi. April 18-19 and ing of the Southeastern Psychological at its annual meeting at Texas South¬ also addressed the conference on Association at the Biltmore Hotel. ern University on April 25. “How to Determine Educational Ob¬ Atlanta. April 27-29. * * * jectives in Subject Matter Areas in President Rufus E. Clement gave High School. She was again na¬ Mrs. Theodora Fisher James, the Founders Day address at Ar¬ tional consultant for the Phelps- kansas A. M. and N. Oglethorpe School, has received the College on April Stokes Fund Project at Albany State 27. diploma in Public School Music from College-Camilla Consolidated School the * -X- * University Extension Conserva¬ March 31-April 1. tory, Chicago. Dr. J oseph Golden, School of So¬ * ** cial Work, is author of “Social Con¬ A monograph by Dr. Paul I. Clif¬ Carl S. Harm, School of Social trol of Negro-White Intermarriage" ford, “Emotional Contacts with the Work, has which recently been elected appeared in Social Forces in External World Manifested by a Se¬ chairman of the March. He has contributed a book Group Work Sec¬ lected Group of Highly Creative tion of the North review to Georgia Chapter Phylon. In February he Chemists and Mathematicians” has of the National Association of Social participated in Career Day at Turner been published by Perceptual and Workers. He has spoken to the Phi¬ High School and in March spoke on Motor Skills as a supplement. “Social Work as a Career ’ at the losophy Study Group of the Unitar¬ Dr. Clifford delivered the convo¬ ian Church on “Scientific Method in Morris Brown College assembly. cation address at the 32nd annual * * * the Studv of Human Behavior. Conference of the National Associa¬ •if * * tion of Collegiate Deans and Regis¬ William W. Bennett. Trevor Ar¬ trars at South Carolina State College nett Library, visited twenty college, in Orangeburg on March 21. He has university, and public libraries dur¬ spoken to the F. L. Stanton School ing March and April for the purpose PTA in January, the Bruce Street of observation. Cities visited bv the School faculty, Lithonia, Georgia, in librarian included Nashville. Ten¬ February, on two occasions to the nessee. Cincinnati, Ohio. Cleveland. facult) of the Hamilton High School. Ohio, Pittsburgh. Avondale Estates, where lie also de¬ Philadelphia, New Brunswick, New Jersev. Washington. livered the commencement address, I). C. and Greensboro. North Caro¬ and to the staff of the Metropolitan lina. Atlanta Association for the Colored He has Blind. spoken to the Intercollegiate Council at Emorv l niversitv, to the Dr. C. A. Bacote, department of He was a member of the panel Frontiers of America Club in which selected the Atlanta history, was featured speaker at two Georgia Teacher on training teachers for Latin Ameri¬ observances of Negro Histor\ Week. of the h ear for the Georgia State ca. and to a group of students at On February 15 he spoke on “Gen¬ Chamber of Commerce, of a panel David T. Hoh a rd High School. \t- eral Status of the Negro in Georgia, on testing problems sponsored by the lanta. on l NESCO in Latin America. I 880- 1908" at Savannah State Col¬ Georgia State Department of Educa¬ * * * lege. and Februan 1 I on “The Po¬ tion in February, and on a panel on litical Status of the Negro in the mental health for Delta Sigma Theta Dr. Helen M. Coull)orn, depart¬ South’ at Fe Moyne College, Mem¬ Sororitv in Mav. He also addressed a ment of English and director of pub- licity, has been re-elected to the form a handbook on Methods of pant in the Georgia State Tubercu¬ Hoard of Directors of the League of Working with the Public through the losis Training Institute at Fort Valley. Women Voters of Atlanta for a Medium of English. # ** fourth two-year term. She represent¬ Dr. Jarrett attended the meeting A hook by l)r. Rushton Coulborn, ed the of the National Association of organization at its national Collegi¬ department of history, has been ac¬ convention in Atlantic City in April. ate Deans and Registrars at South cepted for publication by the Prince¬ Mrs. Coulborn has appeared on Carolina State College, March 18-21. ton Press. The work will be titled foui broadcasts of the weekly radio * ** The Origin of Civilized Societies. program on WAGA, Civic Watch Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, depart¬ Dr. Coulborn received a grant-in- Dogs in High Heels, serving on three aid from the American Council of ment of political science, is the re¬ panels discussing urban renewal in Learned Societies in cipient of a grant of $8000 from January to as¬ Atlanta and one on the League of the Rockefeller Foundation for the sist in completion of work on the Women Voters' national program. next academic year. Dr. Cook will present volume and for further # * * work on an analysis and criticism of study on the comparative history of the Mrs. Genevieve Alston, School of seven contemporary ethical justifica¬ primary civilized societies. Dr. Coulborn Social Work, has spoken at Spel- tions of democracy. He will consider appeared on WLWA- TV on the man College on “Toward Personal the works of John Dewey, Reinhold Emory University Round¬ Achievement of Mental Health'’ and Niebuhr, Jacques Maritain, R. M. table in a panel discussion of foreign “Adjustment Problems of Adoles¬ Maclver, Ralph Barton Parry, Wil¬ policy for the space age. * -X- -X- cence." In Conyers, Georgia, she liam T. Stace, and Marie Collins spoke at the elementary school in¬ Swabey. Miss Frances Logan, School of So¬ stitute on adolescent growth and de¬ Dr. Cook was commencement cial Work, spoke to the Congaree velopment. She has been speaker at speaker at the Fairmont High School Medical Society, Columbia, South two film forums on mental health, at Griffin, Georgia. In April he spoke Carolina, on March 12. Her subject one at the YWCA, the other at the at Paine College and in May he was was “Emotional Health.” On March E. C. Clement School PTA, and has Men’s Day speaker at the Mount 13 and 14 she spoke respectively to served as moderator for a discussion Zion Baptist Church in Griffin. the social science faculty and students of “Youth Wants to Know” for the Speaking at the All-Sports Banquet at Allen University, Columbia, and Delta Sorority. at Morehouse College, Dr. Cook South Carolina State College, * * * chose as his subject “Athletic Sports Orangeburg. * * -X- and the Quest for Maturity.” -X- * * Dr. Mozell C. Hill, department of Miss Frankie V. Adams, School of sociology and editor of Phylon, has Social Work, has been appointed to accepted a position at Teachers Col¬ the National Board of the YWCA. lege, Columbia University as of

She is a member of the National July 1. He will be professor of edu¬ Board of the New' York School of cation and a member of the depart¬ Social Work Alumni Association and ment of the Social and Philosophical

a member of the Public Relations Foundations of Education. Mrs. Committee of the National Confer¬ Marnesba Hill, a member of the staff of ence of Social Welfare. the Trevor Arnett Library, has

She is the author of an article on resigned her position in order to Dr. Thomas D. Jarrett, department “Citizen Participation in LIrban Re¬ join her husband in New York. of English, is the author of an ar¬ newal" in the Spring issue of Phylon.

was a a Mr. ticle “Yesterday's Literature — To¬ Miss Adams member of Q. V. Williamson, lecturer in day's Students." which appeared in panel, with Hamilton Douglas, At¬ the School of Business Administra¬ the March 1958 issue of the Neiv lanta alderman, Philip Hammer, eco¬ tion, has been appointed by the may¬ or of Atlanta to England Leaflet, official organ of the nomic research analyst, and Eugene the Citizens Adviso¬ English Teachers Association of New Martini, planner, which discussed ry Committee on Urban Renewal. England. urban renewal on January 21 before President Harry V. Richardson of He is one of seven members of a the North Georgia Chapter of the Gammon Theological Seminary is committee of the National Council National Association of Social Work¬ also a member of the committee. * * * of Teachers of English appointed to ers. On May 14, she was a partici¬

20 Dean Virginia L. Jones of the Spelman. Morehouse and Morris Education, participated in the evalua¬ School of Library Service addressed Brown Colleges. tion of the Spencer Senior High the Librarians Section of the meet¬ * ** School, Columbus. Georgia, the East ing of Region 3 of the Georgia Dean Horace Mann Bond. School Pike Elementary School. Zebulon, Teachers and Education Association of Education, is author of two ar¬ Georgia, and the Taylor County Schools, Butler, in February. ticles, one a review of Arthur S. Georgia. Mr. Johnson served on the selec¬ Mrs. Jones will accompany her Miller's Racial Discrimination and husband. Dr. E. A. Jones, to Europe Private Education, which appeared tion committee of the GTEA which chose the “teacher of the this summer. They are recipients of a in Phylon, and the other entitled year" from the Third Merrill Foreign Travel Grant from “Talent — and Toughness, in the Region. He has been elect¬ ed financial Morehouse College. April issue of the Kappa Alpha Psi secretary of the Ariel Bowen Methodist Church in Atlanta. * * * Journal. Mr. Johnson was a Dr. Bond was Honors Day speaker judge at the First Dr. Robert G. Armstrong, depart¬ Annual Science-Fair-Clinic at the at Savannah State College in Jan¬ ment of sociology and anthropology, at the Matthews Consolidated School uary and at Maryland State College has received a grant of 500 pounds in Dallas, in February. He was featured lec¬ Georgia. (approximately $1500) from Active in the affairs of the Alumni the turer at the observance of Negro His¬ government of the Northern Region Association, Mr. Johnson has been tory Week at Kentucky State College of Nigeria to assist in the publication re-elected to the executive committee. and at Lincoln University, Missouri, of an Idoma-English, English-Idoma * ** when his subject was “Emerging Na¬ dictionary. Dr. Armstrong collect¬ tions in Africa. " He also was a mem¬ Mrs. Mary Davie Brooks, acquisi¬ ed the materials for the dictionary ber of the Atlanta University Town tion librarian in charge of serials at during one and a half years spent Meeting panel for the discussion of the Trevor Arnett Library, will move in the field with the Idoma tribe in “The Crisis in American Education.” this summer to Los Angeles where West Africa. The tribe numbers ap¬ Dr. Bond took part in the “Sum¬ her husband will study in the Uni¬ proximately a quarter of a million mit' meeting in Washington, D. C., versity of Southern California School members. of Social Work. Her May 12-13, serving as secretary to marriage to Mr. * * the Workshop on International Re¬ Charles E. Brooks of Knoxville, Ten¬ lations. Later in nessee, took place on Februarv 8 in Dean Whitney M. Young. School May he attended a of Social Work, participated in the meeting of the Research Committee Maryville, Tennessee. of the Associated Colleges and Sec¬ # * programs of the American Public Welfare Association in Chicago, De¬ ondary Schools, of w hich he is secre¬ cember last, of the Council on So¬ tary. * * cial Work Education in Detroit in J. B. January and of the National Con¬ Blayton. Sr., School of Busi¬ ness Administration, attended the ference of Social Work Education “Summit” Conference in in Chicago in May. Dean Young is a Washing¬ ton. D. C.. consultant to the National Urban May 12-13. He served as chairman of the Policy-making State¬ League, a member of the Commis¬ ment Committee in the field of Busi¬ sion on Community Organization of ness and the Council on Social Work Educa¬ Industry. Mr. tion, and vice-president of the As¬ Blayton also was present at the Conference on Government Con¬ sociation of Social Science Teachers. tracts called by Vice-President Rich¬ He has filled numerous speaking George A. Davis. School of Busi¬ ard Nixon in Washington. engagements, two at \tlanta l Diversi¬ ness Administration is one of twentv- « * « ty in the Library School Book Re¬ five recipients of Opportunity Fel¬ view Series and in the March Town Dr. Lynette Saine. School of Edu¬ lowships from the John Ha\ W hitne\ cation. was Woman's Foundation for 1958-59. Mr. Davis Meeting, one before the Atlanta Day speaker at Chapter of the National Association the Warren Memorial Church on plans to return to Harvard l Diversi¬ of Social Workers, and one at the \pril 27. ty. from which he holds the degree * * « of Master of Business Annual Round-! p Meeting of the Administra¬ Friends Service Committee in Phila¬ Myron H. Johnson, director of in- tion, to complete the work for his service education in the School of doctor’s delphia. as well as chapel talks at degree.

21 AI ii m n i Association Activities

An inspiring Alumni Banquet at¬ tended by over one hundred and seventy five graduates and faculty was the fitting climax to the suc¬ cessful year of the National Alumni Association.

The classes honored were the “eights and two members of the sixty year class, Amanda Hill Bowen and Harriet Landrum Green, were present to be honored. Mrs. Mamie Hamilton Browne of the class of 1898 bad been prevented from coming to the banquet by an injury, but she was represented by her granddaugh¬ ter, Billie Theresa Browne, and son, Frederick D. Browne A.B. 1927, M.A. 1946, and sent a tape-recorded message of greeting. Out-of-town anniversary graduates Dr. Paul I. Clifford becomes the first paid-up member of the Century Club as he included Mrs. Lillian Harris Bivins of gives Mrs. Josephine D. Murphy, president of the National Alumni Association, his contribution toward the centennial fund. Milledgeville, Georgia, 1908, Walter A. Kendrick, Detroit, Michigan, and Mrs. Anna Dart Bronseaux of Brook¬ lyn, New York, both of the class of 1918, Sydney A. Jones of Chicago, 1928, and Mrs. L. P. Brown of Birm¬ ingham. Alabama, 1948. Three citations were given to dis¬ tinguished alumni: to Miss Bazoline Lusher. College 1906, Master of Arts. 1938, for her contributions to edu¬ cation; to Mrs. Lucile Mack Strong, College 1918, Bursar of Atlanta Uni¬ versity, for distinguished service as an administrator; and to Sydney A. Jones, attorney and member of the Chicago Board of Aldermen, for his effective contributions to politics. At¬ torney Jones also delivered the main talk at the banquet. Looking forward to the commem¬ oration of the centennial of the founding of the University, the Alumni Association has already established a Century Fund to which Sydney Jones delivers the address at the Alumni Banquet. Left to right at the each alumnus is urged to contribute Speakers' Table: Harry S. Murphy, Mrs. Rufus E. Clement, Mrs. Buell Gallagher, President Clement, Mrs. SI00. Murphy, Dr. Buell Gallagher, the commencement speaker, Any alumnus who pays Si00 Mrs. Josephine Love, president of the Spelman Alumni Association, Mr. Jones.

99 will he eligible for membership in committee were A. T. Walden, Myron Mae late Redd. James Jones, Jr.. the Century Club. Some are already H. Johnson. Miss Carrye I. Terrell, Mrs. Selina Shaw. E. M. Martin. paying on the installment plan and S. S. Ahrams, Mrs. R. C. Chaires, Miss Helen Gray. Jacob R. Hender¬ Mrs. Josephine D. Murphy, president C. N. Cornell. C. R. Yates, Mrs. El son. Mrs. Willie B. Edw ards. of the Association, announced that there is already more than $600 in the fund. In the meantime the Association has not forgotten its other projects. The money for the Walter F. White Memorial Scholarship, to be awarded to a graduate student in the l niversity department of sociology who wishes to have a career in race relations, has been raised for the com¬ ing year. This is a $500 scholarship. The money for the third installment of $100 on the Association’s Life Membership in the NAACP has also been raised.

At the annual business meeting on May 31 the following officers were elected for the coming year: presi¬ dent, Mrs. Josephine D. Murphy; vice-president, Dr. Paul I. Clifford; secretary, Mrs. Eloise Martin; as¬ sistant secretary, Mrs. Gussie D. Moore; corresponding secretary, Two members of the class of 1898 and the granddaughter and son of a third at the Mrs. Cleopatra Love; treasurer, Mrs. Alumni Banquet. Billie Theresa Browne, granddaughter of Mamie Hamilton Browne; Amanda Hill Bowen; Frederick D. Browne, son of Mrs. Browne; Harriet Landrum Lynne Jones. Elected to the executive Green.

The Alumni Banquet Chicago Alumni Organize Bertha Keith The good news of the reactivation The group has elected new officers nancial secretary; of the Chicago Chapter of the At¬ and is holding regular meetings with Payne, liaison officer. lanta University Alumni Association well-planned programs. The first was Committee chairmen are: Mrs. reached the BULLETIN before the a discussion of the Little Rock Crisis Beatrice Holmes McGill, courtesy; December, 1057 issue went to press, with Attorney Sidney Jones discuss¬ Elizabeth Lemon and C. C. Wimhish, but details were lacking. They have ing “The Legal Aspect of Integra¬ program; Sidney A. Jones and Por¬ now been received and should prove tion.’’ A panel discussion of “The ing B. Moore constitution; Cora an inspiration to any other group Positive Side of Integration, * led by Nash, intercultural; Catherine Kigh. which has not been recently active. Miss Elizabeth Lemon, Mrs. Cath¬ membership. Mrs. Bertha Keith Payne, Liaison erine Kigh and Mrs. Olivia Moore As of the early part of January there were the Officer of the group, writes that the Clarke, was the next educational following members: Mrs. C. C. Wimbish, Mrs. Con¬ decision to reorganize came as a trib¬ program. Both President Rufus E. stance Moore, Olivia Moore Clarke, ute to Miss Nellie Askew, long a Clement and Mrs. Josephine D. Mur¬ Oliver Clark, Gertrude Gibson Wil¬ faithful alumna, who had died on phy. president of the Alumni Associa¬ liams, Ruby Gibson Echols, Blanche June 30, 1957. Mrs. Payne says of tion, have met with the group. Eortson Alston, Mrs. Kate Carr, B.E. her The officers of the “'Though she did not have for¬ chapter are Sherard, Mae Smith Lofton, Lelia tune’s favors as many of the alumni Juanita Guy Williams, president; Chisholm, Virginia Davie Morgan, of this city, in proportion to her Jessie Quarles Trippe, secretary; Ruth Watson Jack, Samuel J. Price, means she gave far more than many Caribelle Graham Reid, correspond¬ Hallie Hall Flemister, Nancy Hol¬ others. She gave of her time and ing secretary; Cora Woodward Glov¬ man Hudson, Ann James Steel, and ability. ” er, treasurer; Virginia F. Towles, fi¬ Ethel Cannon Sherard.

Truman K. Gibson of the class of 1905, a member of the Atlanta University Board of Trustees, was presented a plaque from the joint Negro Appeal and a resolution certificate from the Chicago City Council for his business and charitable contributions to the community at a testimonial dinner in October. Left to right: Sidney Jones, Atlanta University 1928, President Rufus E. Clement, who delivered the main address for the occasion, Mr. Gibson, and James Stamps.

24 Forrester Washington Honored

Forrester B. Washington, director Work Alumni Association are: War¬ Ida M. Clark, secretary: Muriel Jen of the School of Social Work from ren Moore, president: Samuel Fergu¬ kins, assistant secretary; Paul 1 192< to 1954, was honored by the son and Jesse Gibson, vice-presidents; Cooper, treasurer. alumni of the School of Social Work at their annual meeting held in Chi¬ cago in May in conjunction with the meeting of the National Conference of Social Welfare.

At a luncheon held at the Sherman Hotel 125 alumni and friends gath¬ ■ -W ered to witness the presentation of £ ' HUy' ^ an oil painting of Mr. Washington iJ to the school. Mrs. Washington ac¬

companied her husband and was al¬ so a guest at the luncheon. The painting now hangs in the lobby of the School of Social Work.

The program featured a short his¬ tory of the school by Nelson C. Jack- son of the National Urban League, an alumnus of the school, and the

presentation ceremony participated in by Mrs. Morlene Fletcher, chair¬ man of the portrait committee. War¬ ren Moore, president of the National Alumni Association of the School of Social Work, and Dean Whitney M. Young, Jr. The program was closed by Mr. Washington. Members of the portrait commit¬ tee in addition to Mrs. Fletcher were Lilah Richardson. Harvey Michael, Margaret Jacobs, Harry Alston. Lucy Cherry, Charley Mae Lowe, Whitney M. Young, Gladys Porter, John Boone, Frankie Adams. Hubert Jack- son. Warren Moore, Rubve Goodrum, Helen Mitchell, and Julia F. Wash¬ ington. Officers of the School of Social Dean Whitney M. Young, of the School of Social Work, with the portrait of former director, Forrester B. Washington. 192! of a steadily growing trend within “Protestant churches toward a clear¬ ALUMNI NEWS Dr. Alphonso Elder, College, presi¬ er recognition of their common herit¬ dent of North Carolina College, de¬ age and objectives.” livered the 30th annual commence¬ 1893 ment address at the Ralph J. Bundle Mrs. 1926 Georgia Douglas Johnson, High School, Weldon, N. C., on May Normal, is the author of a poem, 20. Dr. Thomas J. Flanagan, College, “Where Are the Brave Men? ', pub¬ had two oil paintings accepted in the lished in the Fourth Quarter, 1958, 1923 17th Annual Art Exhibition at At¬ issue of Phylon. lanta University, March 30 through Miss Elizabeth Lemon, Normal, April 27. was elected a member of the 1894 Gary, Indiana, Chamber of Commerce in George A. Towns, College, who 1928 February. Miss Lemon is principal wrote Atlanta University’s Alma of the Frederick Douglas School in Mrs. Eloise M. Martin, Normal, Mater hymn, “Hail. Atlanta, was Gary. teacher-librarian at Anderson Park honored March 30 on his 88th birth¬ School, was named “Teacher of the day 1>\ tin* E. H. Webster Club of 1925 Year” by her co-workers. Atlanta. Mr. downs was presented with a purse and a bronze plaque at Dr. Gertrude B. Rivers, College, is the 1931 ceremony which took place in the author of an article entitled “The Dean Sage Hall, Atlanta University Modern Ecumenical Movement Mrs. Jewel Simon, Colh ge, had a campus. which appeared in the January 1, piece of sculpture, Tusi Piincess, ac¬ 1958, issue of The Central Christian cepted for exhibition in Art-U.S.A. 1909 Advocate. Dr. Rivers, who is associ¬ at Madison Square Garden, New' Mrs. Josephine l). Murphy, Nor¬ ate professor of English at Howard York City, January 17-26. The show mal, president of the Atlanta Uni¬ University, is a member of the Wom¬ presented a cross section of Ameri¬ versity Alumni Association, attended en’s Division of Christian Service of can art selected by an All-American the two-day annual conference of the Board of Missions of the Meth¬ jury. the United Negro College Fund alum¬ odist Church, and the National Coun¬ Mrs. Simon also had two oils and ni in Chicago on February 8-9. She cil of Churches of Christ in the one print accepted in the 17th An¬ was appointed to the Executive Com¬ U. S. A. nual Art Exhibition at Atlanta Uni¬ mittee of the UNCF Alumni Associa¬ In the article she traces the de¬ versity, March 30 through April 27. tion at that time. velopment during the past 50 years 1932

Frederick V. Brooks, College, be¬ came a member of the American So¬ ciety of Chartered Life Underwriters upon his graduation from the Ameri¬ can College of Life Underwriters where he completed the rigid re¬ quirements for the degree of Char¬ tered Life Underwriter.

1933

Samuel E. Hubbard, sociology, principal of Hubbard High and Ele¬ mentary School in Forsyth, Georgia, was recently featured in an article in the Pittsburgh Courier.

Dr. Hugh M. Gloster. English, was given a “distinguished contributions George A. Towns, Mrs. Towns, and Mrs. Selma Richardson as Mr. Towns was honored award by the E. H. Webster Club on the occasion of his 88th birthday. by the College Language

26 Association at its annual meeting at State College. He also had an ar¬ at the l niversity of Michigan. Mrs. lexas Southern l niversitv. I)r. Clus¬ ticle. “Methods of leaching History Buck was awarded a teaching fellow¬ ter is chairman of the department of at Morgan. published in the De¬ ship by the l niversity for this sum¬ Language and Literature at Hampton cember, 1957, issue of The Social mer and for next year. The depart¬ I nstitute. Studies. Ibis article discusses meth¬ mental award to the graduate stu¬ ods used by teachers of freshman dent in zoology was awarded to Mrs. 1935 history at Morgan State College to Buck in Ma\ for special recognition increase student interest and Miss Cleopatra Love, history, in¬ partici¬ of meritorious accomplishments for the structor in history at Florida A. pation in the course. year. The award was presented and M. University, presented an im¬ by Dr. Brown, chairman of the de¬ 1941 pressive project to the students and partment of zoology at the University of faculty of Florida A. and M. during Miss Mary E. Hoover, French, has Michigan. the schools observance of Negro been awarded a grant by the United Miss Emily A. Copeland, BSLS, History Week. Her project featured State Government to participate in head of the library science depart¬ the Negro in many phases of national the International Educational Ex¬ ment of I- lorida A. and M. I niversi¬ and international life in America. change Program of the Department ty, is editing and compiling a book of State. Miss Hoover will attend the entitled “Handbook on Careers for 1937 Summer Seminar for Teachers of Librarianship.” Dr. W. 0. French Language and Literature, Bryson, economics, head Wilson A. Head, MSW. yvas ayvard- Lbiited States Educational Commis¬ of the department of economics at ed the Ph.D. degree by Ohio State sion for France, which will be held Morgan State College, is the author University at their Winter Quarter in Paris. She is a member of the of a hook on statistics. Convocation on March 20. Dr. Head Division of Humanities at Allen Uni- l)r. Naomi Mills Garrett, French, is Director of Cottage Life. Bureau versity. has been selected by the Board of of J uvenile Research, Columbus, Dr. IT ended V. Jones, education, Ohio. Foreign Scholarships to receive an is the recipient of a Ford Founda¬ award to participate in the Interna¬ Mrs. Thelma Nelson Jenkins, BSLS. tion Award which will cover a two- tional Educational Exchange Pro¬ is reference librarian and supervisor year study of African education. Dr. gram under the Fulbright Act at the at Howard University, Washington, Jones will begin his a Bibliotheque National e, Paris, study with D. C. semester at UCLA after which he will France, during the academic year Mrs. Dorothy Neal, education, was 1958-59. Dr. Garrett is professor of spend a year in Africa doing re¬ search and unanimously elected “Teacher of the Romance at collecting materials. He Languages West Virginia Year at will then return to an John in At¬ State UCLA for Hope School College. lanta. Mrs. Neal additional semester to assist in the has been a mem¬ ber of the development of a research and in¬ faculty at John Hope for 1939 five structional program in the field of years and is chairman of the Harvey E. Johnson, sociology, was comparative education. Kindergarten Department. named “Teacher of the Year at

Hooper Renwick High School 1942 1943 Lawrenceville, Georgia. Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Ola Hines Boatner, BSLS, is Brainerd S. Burch, education, has who teaches mathematics at Hooper librarian at South been named to “Who’s Who in Renwick, is also Counsellor and Cus¬ Chattanooga Branch American Education.” Mr. Burch is todian, and is president of the Gwin¬ Library, Chattanooga, Ten¬ nessee. principal of English Avenue School nett County Teachers Association. in Atlanta. Mrs. Lillian Jackson Brou n. BSLS. 1940 is associate librarian at Morgan State Mrs. Verta Carter Owens, MSW. kindergarten teacher at Isaiah A. Woodward, history, is College Library. Baltimore, Mary¬ Georgia \ve¬ land. Mrs. I Jrown is a member of nue School, was named “Teacher of the author of an article “Joshau Beta Phi Mu. the national honor the Y ear by the faculty. Johnston: Baltimore's first Slave society for librarians. \rtist of Distinction which ap¬ 1944 peared in the April issue of the Ne¬ Mrs. Ann's e (.. Buck, biology, re¬ gro History Bulletin. Mr. Woodward cently passed the preliminary ex¬ Mrs. Jeanette Harvey Hall. MSW. i> a member of the faculty of Morgan amination for the doctorate degree was Woman's Day Speaker Sunday, March 30, at Zion Hill Baptist of Public Welfare, in Washington, study at the l Diversity of Michigan. Church. Mrs. Hall is executive di¬ I). C. Mrs. Bates recently had a poem pub¬ rector of the lished in National Grady Homes Commun¬ President Richard V. Moore, edu¬ Poetry Anthology, ity Girls Cluh in Atlanta. cation, of Betlnme-Cookman College, 1958, and three poems published in the Spring issue of Creative and Re¬ was principal speaker at the 89th an¬ search Bulletin. 1945 niversary celebration of Clark Col¬ Announcement has been received lege in Atlanta, on February 26. Dr. Mrs. Lyda Haywood Hannan, edu¬ Moore was of the marriage of Miss Ella Mae recently elected by the cation, is principal of Pou Street Tale, Master of Education (Normal, City Commission as a member of the Elementary School in Columbus, 1921 ) to James Thomas Redd. Mr. Planning Board of the City of Day¬ Georgia. tona Beach. He is the anc 1 M rs. Redd will 1 >e at home after only Negro on Samuel I). is the Board. Harvey, MSWL Ex¬ September 2 at 239 West Lake Ave¬ ecutive Director of the Winston- nue. Atlanta. Mrs. Anna White Robinson, edu¬ Salem Urban League. cation, chairman of the social studies Julius A. Lockett, MBA, has been 1946 •department of David T. Howard named Bursar at Morehouse College High School, Atlanta, was elected Miss Jean L. Battle, MSW, is an in Atlanta. “Teacher of the Year’’ by the faculty. adoption case worker with the Chi¬ Mrs. Justine W. Washington, edu¬ cago Child Care Society, Chicago, Harold N. Stinson, education, has cation, of Augusta. Georgia, is Jeanes Illinois. received a Southern Education As- Supervisor for the Elementary sistantship. Mr. Stinson will study at Mrs. Ejjie M. Brooks, education, Schools in Aiken, South Carolina. Peabody Teachers College, Nashville, was chosen “Teacher of the Year where he will work toward the doc¬ by the members of the faculty at 1949 tor’s degree in education. Henry McNeal Turner High School James Preston Cochran, English, in Atlanta. Mrs. Brooks is chairman Dr. Naomi J. Townsend, English, was awarded the Ph.D. degree by of the mathematics Chairman of the Department of Eng¬ department and the State lish, University of Iowa on Feb¬ has been a member of the faculty Tougaloo College, Mississippi, attended the ruary 8, 1959. Mr. Cochran is pre¬ at Turner High since 1951. meeting of national con¬ sultants and college coordinators for sently employed as acting head of the Attorney Leo A. Jackson, econom¬ the Phelps-Stokes Fund Project for department of drama and speech at ics, was elected councilman from the the Improvement of Instruction in Spelman College. 24th Ward, Cleveland. Ohio, in the Secondary Schools held in Tuskegee John W. Martin, sociology, is as¬ primary and was installed into office on January 17-18. Dr. Townsend has sistant professor of sociology at Dil¬ on January 6. Mr. J ackson has prac¬ a received Danforth Fellowship for lard University in New Orleans. ticed law in Cleveland for several further study this summer. years. 1950 Mrs. Addie Holt Johnson, educa¬ 1947 Reverend Rogers P. Eair, sociol¬ tion, was named “Teacher of the Mrs. Gladys Hurt Jones, mathe¬ ogy, chairman of the department of Year" at English Avenue School in matics, is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Bethune- Atlanta. Mrs. Johnson is chairman mathematics at Florida A. and M. Cookman College, was recently se¬ of the Student Council and has also Ehiiversity. Tallahassee, Florida. lected by the World Methodist Coun¬ served as grade Chairman. Hunter B. Watson, MSW, is em¬ cil as a member of the Oxford Insti¬ Mrs. Cernoria M. Johnson, MSW, ployed as clinical social worker at tute of Methodist rheological Studies executive director of the Urban the V. A. Hospital in Montrose, New to be held at Lincoln College, Ox¬ League of Oklahoma City, was grant¬ York. His wife, Althea (BSLS 1946) ford, England. The delegates will ed a $5,000 fellowship for graduate is keeping house at their home in sail from Montreal. Canada, on JuK study by the Fund for Adult Edu¬ Ossining, New York. 7 and return August 5. cation. Mrs. Johnson was one of only Odess E. Hicks. French, received seven women chosen for this honor. 1948 the doctor of education degree at the Mrs. Lillian Evans McCormick, Mrs. Arthenia Jackson Bates, Eng¬ June commencement exercises of MSW. is a social worker with the lish. instructor of English at South¬ Teachers College, Columbia l Diver¬ Child Welfare Division, Department ern University, has done advanced sity. Dr. Hicks is associate professor

28 Horace E. Tate, education, princi¬ Big Sister's Association. Inc., in Min¬ pal of Fairmont High School in Grif¬ neapolis, Minnesota. fin, Georgia, will study at the Uni¬ Roy Hunter, Jr., biology, who is versity of Kentucky on a Southern studying toward the doctorate degree Education Assistantship. Mr. Tate at Brown l niversitv. has passed his will work toward the doctor’s degree foreign language and qualifying ex¬ in administration. aminations. Recently he was award¬ Reverend Levi M. Terrill, history, ed a scholarship to study Marine pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church Embryology at W oods Hole this sum¬ mer as well as a in Atlanta, was elected to member¬ teaching assistant- ship on the faculty executive com¬ ship for next year. mittee of the National Sunday School Mrs. Rose Elizabeth Jenkins, and B.T.U. of French at Fort Valley State Col¬ Congress which recently MSW. is employed as Visiting Teach¬ met in Omaha. Nebraska. lege. er by tbe Board of Education in Grand Harold J. Whalum, MBA, is act¬ Rapids, Michigan. Mrs. Jen¬ Daniel Wearring, chemistry, was kins writes that she is the onlv Negro awarded the Ph.D. degree by the ing and assistant secretary with the Union Protective Assurance Com¬ Visiting Teacher in that city. State University of Iowa on Febru¬ pany in Mrs. Velma Singleton Lowe, ary 8, 1958. Dr. Wearring is re¬ Memphis, Tennessee. search chemist at Visking Company, MSLS, is catalog librarian at Foun¬ Division of Union Carbide Corpora¬ 1952 der’s Library, Howard University. tion. in Bernard L. Peterson, Chicago, Illinois. Herman E. Bostick, French, was English, a member of the This brings to 70 the number of married to Miss June Thalier Mart- faculty of Southern Atlanta University graduates who tin of Thomasville, Georgia, in Jan¬ University, is author of the poem “Denouement which have earned doctorates. uary, 1958. Mr. Bostick is on the appears in the faculty at Fort Valley State College. Spring issue of PH\ L()\. 1951 Howard DeLeon Roberts, MSW, Harvey Lee Cole, biology, is a is Community Services Specialist Carlton H. Morse, education, for¬ junior scientist in Cancer Biology with the Chicago, Illinois, Urban mer principal of L. S. Ingraham at the University of Minnesota. Mr. League. High School, Sparta, Georgia, has Cole had satisfied part of the re¬ received a Southern Education As- quirements for the doctorate degree James S. Roberts, MSW, is a \ outh sistantship. Mr. Morse will enroll at in anatomy prior to becoming en¬ Parole Worker with the New York the l niversitv of Oklahoma where he gaged in Cancer Research. State Training School for Boys. Mr. Roberts is also treasurer of the At¬ will study toward the doctorate de¬ James L. Cox, MSW, has been lanta L niversitv School of Social gree. added to the faculty of the Graduate Work Alumni Association in New John Edward Robinson, education, School of Social Work, Lniversitv York City. is principal of Bailey Street Ele¬ of Nebraska, as an instructor in So¬ cial Miss Ernestein Walker, history, mentary School in Waycross, Geor¬ Group Work for tin* school year 1958-59. Mr. Cox is Executive Di¬ will gia. Mr. Robinson has done advanced spend the summer in England rector of the Malone where she will enroll in a stud) at George Peabody College. Communit) special Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. workshop at the l niversitv of Edin¬ Joseph Rowell, MSW, formerly Melvin B. Davie, education, is burgh. Miss W alker is instructor of with the Veterans Hospital in I us- histor) at principal of Richland High and In¬ South Carolina State Col¬ kegee, has been employed as medical dustrial School, Richland, lege. social work consultant with the l .S. Georgia. PUS Hospital in Cass Lake, Minne¬ Mrs. Eleanor W. Taylor, MSLS, 1954 is Librarian I of Technical Processes sota. Miss If illie Mae Belt, education, with the Chicago Public Library. Mrs. Kate J. Shakespeare, educa¬ second grade teacher at Claflin Ele¬ tion, mental School in Columbus. Geor¬ principal of G. W. Carver Ele¬ 1953 mentary School, \'as a speaker on gia, was named “Teacher of the the Emancipation Program in Ma¬ Mrs. Fannie L. Cox Cole, MSW, Year’ by the Muscogee Countv is intake and case worker at the Teachers \ssociation. con, Georgia.

29 Mrs. Florine I). Furlow, educa¬ ciology at the University of Chicago Year at J. F. Beavers Elementary tion. is co-author of an article en¬ during the academic year 1957-58. School where he teaches seventh titled “What's Your C.O? which ap¬ grade and is assistant principal. peared in the February issue of The 1956 Miss Claudia Dell Finger, MSLS. National Elementary Principal. Mrs. Miss John Hennie Combs, educa¬ is a student in the School of Drama Furlow was studying at Teachers Col¬ tion, was named “Teacher of the at Yale University. lege, Columbia University, during the Year” by the Henry County Teachers Sam 1957 summer session when the ar¬ Association. Miss Combs is science Henry Jones, MSW7 (Sociolo¬ ticle was written. She is principal of teacher at Henry County Training gy 1955), was married to Miss Pre- F. R. Carter School in Atlanta. School. thenia Kent at the First Baptist Church, Statesboro, Georgia, in Jan¬ Miss Helen Gray, education (A.B. James E. Conyers, sociology, has uary. They will live in Cleveland. 1931), was guest speaker at the an¬ been a granted teaching assistant- Ohio. nual meeting of Phillis Wheatley ship at Washington State College, YWCA in Columbia. South Carolina, James Daniel Pullman, Washington, for the aca¬ Lockett, MSLS, is on assistant librarian at Fort Sunday, February 26. Miss Gray’s demic year 1958-59. Mr. Conyers will Valley State subject was “The YWCA Gets a Newr pursue studies there leading toward College, Fort Valley, Georgia. Look in the Atomic the Age’ and she Ph.D. degree in sociology. Mar¬ Miss Elsie Mildred Mallory, MSW', stressed the role of members as vol¬ ried in 1954 to Miss Jean L. Farris became the bride of Courtney J. unteer and committee workers. of Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. Conyers Smith (chemistry 1957) on Decem¬ is the father of a ten-month-old ber Mrs. Mabel H. Neely, MSLS, wras baby 23, 1957, at St. Peters A.M.E. chosen “Teacher of the Year by her girl. Church, St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. co-workers at Fairfield Industrial Smith is associate Charles L. Sanders, MSW, was ap¬ program director, High School, Birmingham, Alabama, pointed to the faculty of Communi¬ Young Adult Department of the Cen¬ where she is also assistant tral Branch in Louis. Mr. principal. ty College, Drake University, as guest Y'WCA, St. Smith is lecturer for the spring semester. completing requirements for 1955 Mr. Sanders is Director of the Wilkie the doctor's degree in chemistry at Mrs. Amanda Asgill Belle, history, House, Inc., in Des Moines, Iowa. the State University of Iowa. is employed as teacher in Jacksonville, Mrs. Walter Lewis Smart, MSW, is as¬ Alary L. AlcDaniel, educa¬ Florida. sistant director of Community Or¬ tion, was chosen “Teacher of the Miss Alary L. Davie, MSLS, was ganizations with the Germantown Year at C. W. Hill Elementary married to Mr. Charles E. Brooks of Settlement, Philadelphia, Pennsyl¬ School in Atlanta. Mrs. McDaniel teaches the seventh Knoxville, Tennessee, on February 8. vania. Mr. Smart presented a paper, grade. Mrs. Brooks, who is acquisitions li¬ “Interrelated Techniques of Social James 0. Ogunsanya, education, is brarian at Trevor Arnett Work Used in Library, Settlement Work,” at teaching at Fiditi Grammar School, Atlanta University, will move to Los the annual meeting of the National Fiditi, Nigeria. Angeles, California, in July where Conference of Social Welfare in Chi¬ James her husband Pulliam, biology, spoke at plans to enroll in the cago on May 15. chapel assembly December 6 at Me- School of Social Work, University of Evans Southern California. 1957 High School, Shaw, Mississippi. His Harold subject was “The Most Amazing Paul Thomas Groves, Eugene Barrett, MSW, is chemistry, Things in the World.” Mr. Pulliam is enrolled at employed as group worker with the Pennsylvania State Lhii- is instructor of biology and Glenville in acting versity on a from the Neighborhood Center fellowship dean of men at Tougaloo College. Southern Fellowship Fund. Cleveland, Ohio. Charlie L. Stokes, sociology, is Miss IValter L. Wallace, sociology, had Dorothy Lee Briscoe, MSLS, teaching in the Atlanta Public School is a Young Adult Librarian with the piece of sculpture accepted for en¬ System. try in the 17th Annual Art Exhibi¬ WYlIiamsburgh Branch of Brooklyn Airs. Katie AIcAllister Public Washington, at Library. tion Atlanta l niversity, March 30 MSLS. is hospital librarian for the M i s s through April 27. Mr. Wallace was Margaret Marie Brown, Veterans Administration Hospital Li¬ granted a leave from Spelman Col¬ MSLS, is librarian at A.M. and Col¬ brary, Tuskegee, Alabama. Mrs. lege, where he taught in the depart¬ lege. Pine Bluff. Arkansas. Washington has been initiated in¬ ment of history and sociology, to James Robert Cleveland, educa¬ to Beta Phi Mu, the national honor work on his doctorate degree in so¬ tion, was named “Teacher of the society for librarians.

30 gree of Doctor of Humane Let¬ the Negro, a collector of books ters from Atlanta University in on the history of the Negro, ^9n ^iljemorium 1950. died suddenly in Tuske- died in V ashington at the age gee, Alabama, on May 4. A of eighty-seven in February. In JACKSON GERARD HEN¬ pioneer in bibliotheraphy, she 1946 the University acquired SON, Master of Science 1946, was librarian of the Veterans his collection of books and died on March 26 at the Vet¬ Hospital at Tuskegee. documentary materials which erans Hospital in Columbia, now constitute the major por¬ S. C. He was head of the de¬ MISS HATTIE V. FEGER, tion of the Negro Collection. partment of mathematics at former member of the Atlanta Word has been received of Johnson C. Smith University at the death of MRS. MATTIE H. the time of his death. University faculty, died in New WOOD of Orleans on January 31. Miss Amerieus, Ga., a former undergraduate student. JAMES T. CATER. College Feger retired at the end of the 1942-43 academic year after 1909, one-time dean at Talla¬ MRS. HELEN G. SMITH, dega College, died in Los An¬ having been on the faculties of the Master of Education 1947, died geles, Calif, early in May. Lhiiversity and Spelman College since 1931. She was in El Reno. Oklahoma, on April associate 19. Her husband is MISS CARRIE L. CHAT¬ professor of education J. W. Smith, at the time of her retirement. also of the class of ?47. MAN, Normal 1898, died in She came to Atlanta from Cin¬ Atlanta on February 11 after a cinnati where she had been a MRS. CHARLES FONS- long illness. She had been a teacher and assistant principal cooperating teacher at the WORTH (JEANETTE C. in the Atlanta School System Lhiiversity of Cincinnati. LYNCH), Normal 1926. died Word has been received of until her retirement in 1944. on June 11 in Houston, Texas. the death of MISS CHRISTINE D. LASTER. Normal 1915, in DR. GERALDINE L. C. R. ALEXANDER, College Atlanta. CLARK, Master of Arts 1945, 1927, died on June 6 in Phila¬ died suddenly in Atlanta on delphia. He was a former resi¬ MRS. April 20. She had received the JOSIE BELLE dent of Springfield, Mass. Ph.D. degree from the Univer¬ SHORTER LONG I NO, Master of Arts sity of Chicago in 1957. At 1954, died early this MRS. SAMUEL NEAL. SR. the time of her death she was year in Macon. She was on (EVA E. WESTMORELAND), leave from her a member of the faculty of position in the Normal 1900. a former teacher Morehouse College. English department at Fort in the Atlanta Public Schools, Valley State College at the time died in Atlanta on June 21. MRS. JAMES W. DAVIS of her death. (MINNIE REID), Normal MRS. RICHARD FULLER 1898. died on December 11, MRS. CARRIE B. PITTMAN, (CLARA B. KELLOGG), Kin¬ 1957, in Athens, Ga., at the Normal 1889, died in New dergarten Normal 1915, died York on age of eighty-four after a long April 21. She was in Gary, Indiana, on March 19. illness. She was the wife of the eighty-six years old. She was

late James \\ . Davis, a former principal of the W. H. Crog- MRS. JESSE P. HAMPTON Atlanta l Diversity student. For man School for mam years. (WALTER MAE LOGAN), a tliirt\ years she had been a Her first school was an aban¬ student at the l niversitv. 1915- teacher in the Athens Public doned street car in a vacant 1920. died in Atlanta on June

Schools. lot 23. Mrs. Hampton was man¬ ager of the Alonzo 1*. Hern¬ DR. SADIE P. DELANEY, HENRY P. SLAUGHTER. don Homes at the time of her who received the honorary de¬ an authority on the histor\ of death.

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