ALUMNI ISS GEORGIA THE SAVANNAH STATE COLLEGE ALUMNI Why Alumni Should Give BULLETIN is published during the Spring Quarter by the To Savannah State College Office of Public Relations and Alumni Affairs. Dr. Howard Jordan, Jr President 1. You can provide the opportunity for a better life through education for deserving youth: Wilton C. Scott Director scholarships, loans, campus jobs, etc. One Mrs. Carolyn R. Screen Editor dollar can bring in nine additional dollars for Dr. Prince Jackson, Jr. Alumni Secretary student aid. Robert Mobley Photographer 2. Your gift will be proof of a strong loyal, con- tributing alumni group. Foundations, busi- nesses, organizations, and individuals who are interested in giving to Savannah State College CONTENTS will be influenced by the extent of alumni support. Why Alumni Should Give 2 3. Your contributions will enable Savannah State College to match available federal funds for President of Morehouse Speaks 3 research, for community service, and for train- ing the deprived. Dr. Hayward S. Anderson Receives Appointment 4 4. Savannah State College continues to be the Savannah State Launches Support Program . 5 College in the state which educates the largest number of Negro youth. Yet, a substantial per- 18th Annual Press Conference 6 cent of Negro high school graduates do not en- National Science Foundation Award 7 roll in any college. Your gift will cause the open hand of welcome to continue to extend Pictures of Alumni Weekend 8-9 from Savannah State College to the high school graduate who might not otherwise enter college. Mrs. Margaret Rohinson Receives Degree 10 5. Now is the time to build the foundation for a Revised School Standards Approved 11 solid alumni annual fund. What you assist in starting will become a fund with an impact. Alumni Century Club Announced 12 6. Your gift may influence another alumnus who J. B. Clemmons Elected Chairman of Math Group 13 otherwise would not contribute. Attorney Fred S. Clark Heads Support Program- 14 7. When you were a student at Savannah State College, you, your parents, and others invested Ratings of Publications Announced 15 in you. That investment is there yet. You have SSC Ends SEAC Competition 17 received regular dividends. Increase your in- vestment. Better educational opportunities for Student Teaching Assignments 18 others will add to your dividends. 8. As a person with a college education, you should support education. // you dont believe in Sa- vannah State College, who will? 9. Why should you give to Savannah State College? ABOUT THE COVER: Dr. Margaret Chisholm Robin- BECAUSE YOU CAN AFFORD TO DO IT! son, an alumna of the College, who recently received the You probably have never had a higher income Ph.D. degree from Washington University. She is an assist- than you have now. AFFLUENT PEOPLE ant professor of biology at Savannah State College. GIVE! ! ! President of Morehouse College Speaks at SSC Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, president of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, was the annual Honors Convocation speak- er at Savannah State College on Friday, January 24, at 10:20 Dr. Gloster began his higher education at LeMoyne Col- lege, where he received a junior college diploma and in 1967 was elected Alumnus of the Year. Next he attended More- house College, where he received the B.A. degree in English, and Atlanta University, where he received the M.A. degree in the same field. Later, he entered New York University, where he received the Ph.D. degree in English. The early years of Dr. Gloster's teaching career closely followed the path of his higher education. He taught first at LeMoyne College and then at Morehouse College. While a member of the Morehouse faculty, he offered graduate courses at Atlanta University during the regular and sum- mer terms. During the summer of 1949, he was Guest Professor of American Literature at Washington Square College of New York University, and during the summer of 1962, he held the same position in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at that institution. During World War II, Dr. Gloster was a professional staff member with USO. After a year as a USO Program Director at Fort Hauchuca, Arizona, he served two years as a USO Associate Regional Executive with headquarters in Atlanta. While in this office, he conducted a course in USO Policy and Practice at the Atlanta University School of Social Work. From 1946-67, Dr. Gloster was Professor of English and Chairman of the Communications Center at Hampton Institute. Under his leadership the Communications Center became one of the country's outstanding college language departments. From 1952-62, he was also Director of the Summer Session at Hampton Institute. In this position, he originated Hampton's pioneering pre-college program in 1952, promoted the redevelopment of the graduate program, and established summer institutes for in-service teachers. Dr. Gloster was Dean of Faculty at Hampton Institute from DR. HUGH M. GLOSTER 1963-67. In this capacity, he gave leadership in the up- grading of the academic program and in the launching of special educational projects supported by foundation and ture. After leaving Japan in 1955, he returned to the government grants. United States via Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma, India, Pakistan, Italy, France and England thereby adding to his Dr. Gloster has written numerous articles dealing with knowledge of the people of Asia and Europe and completing life and literature and has given many lectures a trip around the world. After his return to the United i top: in this field. He is the author of Negro Voices in States from the Orient, Dr. Gloster gave many lectures on Fiction (Chapel Hill: The University of North Japan at American colleges and wrote several articles on Carol a Press, the definitive work in its special 1948), Japan for national publications. Moreover, because of his area, and the co-editor of The Brown Thrust (Memphis: experience in the Far East he was invited to serve in the Malcolm-Roberts, 1935), an anthology of verse by Negro summer of 1955 as a staff member in the Orientation Cen- college students, and of Life—My Country—My World My ter for Foreign Graduate Students at the College of William (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952), one of the more success- and Mary and later in the year in Washington as a member ful freshman anthologies of the 1950's. English of a committee which screened lecturers and post-doctoral As a lecturer, Dr. Gloster has appeared in schools and research scholars applying for Fulbright awards in Asia colleges throughout the country. In 1952, he made lecture and the Near East during the academic year 1956-57. tours of colleges universities in the Far West and New and During the summer of 1960, he was Professor of English England the of the American Friends Ser- under auspices and Director of the Summer Session in the Experimental vice he lecture Committee, and in 1956 and 1959, made College conducted by Hampton Institute in the Virgin tours of colleges in Connecticut. Islands. During the academic year 1961-62, he served in From 1953 to 1955, Dr. Gloster was a Fullbright Pro- the State Department's International Educational Exchange fessor of Hiroshima University in Japan. While in Japan, Program as Visiting Professor of American Literature at he traveled throughout the four main islands, where he the University of Warsaw in Poland. As a lecturer in gave over a hundred lectures on American life and litera- Literature, he also participated in the State De- partment's American Specialists Program in Tanganyika Dr. Hayward S. Anderson during the summer of 1961 and in Poland and Spain during the summer of 1963. As Dean of Faculty at Hampton In- Receives Appointment stitute, he toured folk high schools in Denm 1964 and John P. Latimer, Regional Director of the Small Busi- also visited West Africa in 1964 and 1966 pervisor ness Administration, announced recently that Dr. Hayward of the AID program conducted by the ccallege under the S. Anderson, Professor of Business Administration and auspices of the State Department in Sierra Leone. In 1966, Chairman of the Division of Business Administration, has he went to England, France, Germany, nd Turkey as a been selected as a member of the Georgia Advisory Council supervisor of a foreign study progi i sponsored by for the Small Business Administration. Appointments to Hampton Institute in those countries. the Advisory Council are made in Washington, D. C. by life Dr. Gloster is founder, former president, and SBA, Administrator, Howard J. Samuels. member of the College Language Association, which granted Dr. Anderson, a native of Georgia, received the Bachelor him its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1958, and of Science degree in Business Administration from Savan- also an Advisory Editor of The College Language Associa- nah State College; the Bachelor of Science degree with a tion. Journal. From 1948 to 1953, he was a Contributing major in Accounting from Northwestern University ; the Editor to Phylon, and from 1963 to 1965, he was a member Master of Business Administration with majors in Adver- of the Executive Committee of the Virginia Humanities tising and Marketing from New York University; and the Conference. In December of 1962, he was one of fifty Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard University college English department chairmen invited by the U. S. where he was also a doctorial research fellow. Office of Education to the University of Illinois to par- ticipate in a national conference on necessary research in He was selected for council m( nbership in recognition the teaching of English, and on several occasions he has of his knowledge of and interest i small business.