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Series 11 I JULY, 1946 No. 55

7 he display of Segro literature at the Atlanta Hook Fair nas one of the most challenging of the exhibits and attracted the attention of hundreds. (Story on page 3) Page 2 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

Calendar

FORUM : January 9—Dr. H. H. Giles, Bureau of In- SPELMAN FOUNDERS DAY: April 11—Dr. Jack- tercultural Education son Davis, Associate Director, General Education Subject: “Culturalism Pluralism, a Way Out" Board DRAMATIC BALLET: January 19—“Christopher MARRIAGE AND COUNSELLING INSTITUTE: Columbus” April 11-13 EXHIBIT: January 21—Paintings by Negro Artists CONCERT: April 12—Atlanta- Morehouse-Spelman Chorus FORI M: January 22—Professor E. C. Lindeman, New 5 ork School of Social Work FORUM: April 17—Dr. L. I). Reddick, Curator, Subject: “The United States and the United Nations” Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library Subject: “Race Prejudice and American Education” UNIVERSITY CENTER CONVOCATION: Janu¬ ary 27—President Benjamin E. Mays CONVOCATION: April 22—George Soloveytchik, Institute of International Education FORUM: February 13—Dr. George W. Snowden of Subject: “Russia in Perspective” Dillard University Subject: “Trends in Employment and Employment FORUM: April 24—Dr. Owen Lattimore, Director, Opportunities for Negroes in the South” Walter Hines Page School of International Rela¬ tions, Johns Hopkins University RECITAL: February 15—Edward Matthews, Baritone Subject: “Solution in Asia” MOREHOUSE FOUNDERS DAY BANQUET: CONCERT: April 26—Spelman College Glee Club February 18—Dr. Edgar J. Fisher. Assistant Director, Institute of International Edu¬ CONCERT: May 3—Morehouse College Glee Club cation UNIVERSITY PLAYERS: EEC PURE: February 19—Mrs. Sadie P. Delaney, May 10-11—“The Im¬ Librarian, Tuskegee Institute portance of Being Earnest” Subject: “Hospital Service and Bibliotherapy” RECITAL: May 17—Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano ASSEMBLE : February 21—Captain Sir Hubert Wil¬ kins, Explorer and Scientist EXHIBIT: May 19—15th Annual Student Exhibit Subject: “4 he Arctic and Its Influence on World Affairs” RECITAL: May 24—Sara Owsley Stivers, Pianist

FOLK OF ALL DANCES LANDS: March 1—An MONUMENT EXERCISES: May 30 — President Oglethorpe Presentation Florence M. Read LECTURE-PIANO RECITAL: March 8—Constance BACCALAUREATE SERVICE: June 2—Dr. Vernon Beardsley Johns of Farmville, Virginia FORU M : March 20—Dr. Luther L. Bernard of Wash¬ ington University COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, ATLANTA Subject: “New Dynamics in World Relations" UNIVERSITY: June 3—Bishop John Moore Walker of Atlanta RECITAL: March 29—Clarence Render, Violinist EXHIBI U: March 31—Fifth Annual Exhibition of COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, MOREHOUSE Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists COLLEGE: June 9—President John W. Davis of West Virginia State College bORUM: April 3—Dr. Eric Williams of Howard University COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, SPELMAN Subject: “The Idea of a British West Indian U ni¬ COLLEGE: June 5—President Goodrich White versity” of Emorv Universitv July. 1940 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 3

UNIVERSITY EVENTS

Atlanta Book Fair gro Newspapers and Magazines; (5) are in the Collection, and in many Books instances authors are represented b\ Features by and About the Negro by Library School Atlanta Authors. all existing editions of their works. Fxhibit Mrs. Virginia Lacy Jones, chair¬ Of significant importance is the fact man of the Negro exhibit, was as¬ that the Collection contains a number The comprehensive and unusually sisted by a committee including Miss of issues of early Negro periodicals interesting selection of the literature Lillie K. Daly; Wallace Van Jack- and newspapers. of Negro peoples throughout the son; Mrs. Annie W. McPheeters, With Atlanta University steadily world on view at the Atlanta Book Nathaniel P. Tillman, Ira DeA. Reid, growing as a mecca for research on Fair, April 29-May 1, in the City Hale Woodruff, and Mrs. Dorothy the Negro and Negro life, the addi¬ Auditorium, was due to the efforts of W. Wright. tion of the Slaughter Collection gives the School of Library Service. the institution as comprehensive In numerous hooks, pamphlets and library holdings on the Negro as can newspapers, Negro life was depicted be found except in the largest univer¬ in the United The Slaughter Collection States, Cuba, Brazil, sity libraries of the nation. the Dominican Republic, the Union Is Acquired The Collection contains the first of South Africa, Haiti, Liberia, the drama written Vest by a Negro, auto¬ Indies and Africa. Through the acquisition of one of graphed copies of Phyllis Wheatley’s As a background for the exhibit, the best of the private library collec¬ Hale V poems, and the first magazine pub¬ oodruff prepared a large im¬ tions on the Negro, formerly owned lished by Negroes. Among the items pressionistic map of two continents by Henry P. Slaughter of Washing¬ considered rare are the books and showing in different colors the distri¬ ton, D. C., Atlanta University has manuscripts on the life of Abraham bution of the world s more a than 210 - become leading center in America Lincoln, which compare favorably 000,000 Negroes. for the study of Negro life and history. with the most important college col¬ hive annotated bibliographies were Atlanta University’s Negro collec¬ lections in the country. Unique are available for public distribution and tion now includes more than 12,000 the file of included : : 1 anti-lynching papers, clip¬ ) Books by and About bound volumes and pamphlets, 3,000 the pings and materials on Monroe Trot¬ Negro in the Sovereign States, the unbound pamphlets, the Tuttle (slav¬ ter, editor of the Boston Guardian; Colonies, and as Minorities Within ery) Collection of approximately and the autographed letters filling 56 Nations; (2) 1 he Best Books by and 2,269 items, the Alaud Cuney Hare folios from presidents of the United About the Negro, 1044-46; (3) The (music) Collection, the John Brown States to cabinet members, 1830-1870, Negro Child in Literature; (4) Ne- Papers (slavery), the Clarkson (slav¬ dealing with the Civil War and the ery) Papers, and the growing Harold Reconstruction era. Also rare are the Jackman Collection of art programs books on Africa, Haiti, and Cuba, The and handbills, dance and concert pro¬ comprising histories, travelogues and Atlanta University grams, photographs, programs of civic narratives; the works of Haitian activities and theatre programs. Bulletin writers in poetry and prose; the 35 In the Slaughter Collection, which volumes devoted to the life of John contains contents many rare and unique books Brown; 150 volumes on slavery and and miscellaneous writings by and slave trials; 200 volumes regarding Spring Calendar 2 about the Negro in Europe, Africa American statesmen who have been l diversity Events 3 and America, are approximately 10,- connected with the Negro; 110 book- l diversity Spotlight 16 000 items consisting of more than on art including prints by Gerone and Faculty Items 21 8,500 books and pamphlets, 70 folders Japanese color prints in which the of Alumni News 22 clippings, 157 portraits, 400 letters, Negro has been portrayed; 50 vol¬ 64 prints, 217 pieces of sheet music, umes concerning activities of the Ku Edmund Asa Ware Memorial 125 famous signatures, and hundreds Kdu\ Klan; 34 Frederick Fund Roll Call—1646 24 Douglas- of copies of newspapers, monographs items containing slave narrative- Requiescat in Pace 26 and magazines. Numerous first edi¬ which were powerful weapons in the Summer School Calendar H tion- In well-known Negro writers hands of abolitionists: and 26 volume- Fane 4 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946 of the works of Paul Lawrence Dun¬ New Trustees Elected Field Work Projects for bar including the first editions of his poems. The Collection has more than Three new trustees were added to Students in Library 1,700 volumes on contemporary and the University Board at the annual Service 19th century writings and 2,000 vol¬ meeting held in April. They were umes on slavery. Dr. Goodrich White, president of Twenty-three students of the School In comparing the Slaughter Collec¬ Emory University, Georgia; Bishop of Library Service spent the month of William A. Fountain of the A. M. E. tion with other famous Negro collec¬ April in supervised field work in rep¬ Church, tions, Wallace Van Jackson (Atlanta Georgia; and Mr. Lawrence resentative school, college and public University Librarian) commented: MacGregor, president of the Summit libraries, as a part of their training National Bank of “While the Slaughter Collection does Summit, New Jer¬ for professional library positions. not contain the quantity of foreign sey. Three of the group were at the Vet¬ titles foufid in the Schomburg Collec¬ Approved at the meeting were plans erans Hospital at Tuskegee, where tion (now owned by the New York for the graduate School of Business they received special training in hos¬ Administration which will Public Library), its range in time and open in pital bibliotherapy under Mrs. Sadie interest is greater. The Moorland September, 1946, under the direction P. Delaney, who has developed many Collection (owned by Howard Uni¬ of Dr. William H. Dean. Dr. Dean of the techniques in the rehabilitating has been on leave to serve versity) has a famous collection of since 1942 of mental patients through the use of prints, but the Slaughter Collection as chief economist and price executive books and music. of the has many of these and some not in the Virgin Islands Office of Price Each student was required to spend Administration and as former collection. The Slaughter Col¬ project direc¬ two weeks in two different types of tor of the lection contains almost twice as many Community Relations Proj¬ libraries before returning to the School items as ect for Interracial Social either the Schomburg or Planning of on April 30. Among the college libra¬ Moorland the National Urban Collections when they were League. ries where they worked were Howard transferred to libraries.” Promoted by the Board at its meet¬ University, Virginia State College, ing was Dr. Virginia act¬ Mr. Slaughter, who resides at 1264 Lacy Jones, Bennett, Fisk, Shaw, Winston-Salem Teachers Columbia Road, Washington, D. C., ing director of the School of Library College and Atlanta Uni¬ Service to full professorship and to gathered his material over a period of versity. School libraries included At¬ the directorship of the School, suc¬ kins 40 years, and permitted only scholars High School, Winston-Salem, North recommended by the Library of Con¬ ceeding Dr. Eliza Atkins Gleason, Carolina; Central High in who had resigned. Louisville, Kentucky; West Charlotte gress or Howard University to use the collection. A graduate of Livingstone High in Charlotte, North Carolina; College and Howard University, he and the Manual Training High worked for a number of School in years in the Atlanta-Morehouse- Bordentown, New Jersey. government printing office in Wash¬ Public libraries in which the students ington and served as editor of the Odd Spelman Chorus on worked were the Richard B. Harrison Fellows Journal. His first interest as Public Library in Raleigh, North a collector centered around the acqui¬ National Hook-Up sition of slavery literature. Carolina; the Warren Public Library On the Sunday mornings of Janu¬ in Durham; the Carnegie Negro Atlanta L niversity expects to make all of the material in its collection on ary 20 and 27, on the Wings Over Library in Greensboro; the Western the Negro available to qualified schol¬ Jordan spot, CBS hook-up, the mag¬ Branch of the Louisville Public ars and students. nificent 80-voice Atlanta-Morehouse- Library in Kentucky; and the Auburn Spelman Chorus, under the direction Branch Library in Atlanta. of Professor Kemper Harreld, pre¬ One student observed in the 135th sented the music of outstanding Negro Street Branch of the New 5 ork Pub¬ composers to nation-wide audiences. lic Library and in the library of Co¬ Let's Get Social Behavior Into the The broadcasts originated in Atlanta lumbia University. Curriculum, a report on an area of ex¬ from the campus of Spelman College. perience in the 1645 Chatham County Negro spirituals and jubilees, with Workshop has been published by the interesting and unique arrangements The University Spotlight School of Education. It was written and religious folk music were pre¬ by Dr. Alfonso Elder, director of the sented. Composers whose works were Beginning with this issue, the Bul¬ School of Education, and William H. featured included H. T. Burleigh, letin will feature a new section to be Brown, director of the Secondary Nathaniel Dett, Willis Laurence known as “University Spotlight.” School Study of the Southern Associ¬ James and John W. Work. The pro¬ Do not miss this review of the ac¬ ation of Colleges and Secondary gram used as its theme “Balm in tivities of persons connected with the Schools for Negroes. Gilead.” University who make the news. July. 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page

Dr. V ernon Johns Is Baccalaureate Speaker

I)r. V ernon Johns of Farmville, Virginia, told the 230 candidates for graduation at the traditional joint baccalaureate service that “we can¬

not preserve our civilization with our old familiar outlook,” and that “there must he a change within us as revolu¬ tionary as the change from the sav¬ age world to the modern world.” “It is reasonable,” he argued, “for civ¬ ilized man to require that his con¬ science keep pace with his science, for in this new world of inescapable con¬ tacts and atomic power, if we do not change our minds, we shall indeed lose our minds.” “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting,” Dr. Johns told the audience, “but rather that it has been found difficult and not tried.” For ages, he said, we have been trying to solve our problems bv improving our minds. ^ et the New Testament doc¬ trine is not that one must be a better

man, but that one must be a new man. And it is not improvement that is re¬ quired for our minds, but recreating. Quoting from a statement by Dr. (ieorge E. Buttrick, who once said that "man is constitutionally ignor¬ ant. the baccalaureate speaker de¬ clared that added to this might have been that man is congenitally hope¬ ful. for “we have reason to believe that whatever man desperately needs, he will ultimately find or make.” Attacking racial prejudice, Dr. Johns stated that “Christian nations have furnished the world with its worst examples of unbrotherliness, for no other peoples on the globe have singled out as many groups with which they are unwilling to work, play, pray, to be sick in the same hos¬ pital, and to he buried in the same graveyards a?> leading Christian na¬ Top: Students lead the baecalaureate procession following Registrar John T. tions. 1 his, he said, constitutes an Whittaker for their joint traditional service. everlasting illustration of the uglv Bottom: l)r. Ternon Johns, third from the left, the baccalaureate speaker, with interior w ith which we nullify the ex¬ the presidents in the Atlanta University System: I.eft, Florence M. Read of ternal splendor and technical excel¬ Spelman College; Benjamin E. Mays of Morehouse College; and Rufus I.. lence of our modern world. Clement of Atlanta University. Dr. Johns recalled two statements, one h\ the late President Roosevelt: “W e face the preeminent fact that if peace”; and the other by H. (I. is for the union of mankind. It is for civilization is to survive, we must cul¬ Wells: “Any public policy which a society in which man shall wish for tivate the science of human relations does not aim at the union of mankind every other man the same chance at -the ability of all peoples to live and i> ultimately foolishness and a way to the good things of life which he would work together in the same world at death," saving that this “call to life” like his brother to have. I

July. 1946

School of Education Launches New Program

NEW “R’S” PROMISE HOPE FOR GEORGIA’S RURAL SCHOOLS

If you are enrolled in the new train¬ comfort to the well-being of both pu¬ for going into the rural scene and ing program for county supervisors pils and teachers. working to bring about healthful and at Atlanta University, a post in the comfortable conditions which are con¬ Program Recently Initiated rural schools of Georgia doesn't neces¬ ducive to getting boys and girls to sarily suggest to you just getting The two-year program recently learn the fundamentals of education. over to youngsters the meaning of the initiated by the School of Education The students are well aware that three “R’s.” It does suggest that but was planned not only to include the service as teacher or supervisor in something else, too, for the new pro¬ standard graduate courses of a recog¬ Georgia’s rural schools could mean gram of Atlanta University’s School nized university, but also to include getting together a box of efficient tools, of Education has added two more courses designed to equip students donning a pair of slacks and going “R’s” to the proverbial reading, writ¬ with the skill to recondition school into the schoolhouse filled with deter¬ ing and arithmetic. These new ‘‘R’s” buildings and furnishings at minimum mination to better physical surround¬ stand for repairing and renovating the expense. ings. One of the primary objectives run-down school buildings of the state Students are accepted for the pro¬ of these future supervisors is to pro¬ which are an evesore as well as a dis¬ gram only if they display adaptability vide pupils with warm and comfort- July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page /

able schoolhouses in an environment that is clean, healthful and attractive. Schooling, they well know, is not too inviting a proposition for some chil¬ dren when all comforts and conven¬ iences have been provided. And they do not wonder why oftentimes seats are vacant when buildings are ram¬ shackle, schoolrooms cold, furniture rickety and sanitary conditions far be¬ low standard.

Class of Young Women

Enrolled in the course during 1945- 46 were a group of young women who had an honest conviction for the type of work they want to do. They had not chosen to teach in the modern well-equipped school buildings of the larger cities, but had rather cast their lot in the poorer schools of the coun¬ try, confident in the service they will render. Returning from a two-day “leader¬ ship training” period in the schools of Henry County, wrhere they had a brief taste of what faces them in the future, these young women were en¬ thusiastic about their work. Later they served apprenticeships in other rural schools of the county for a

The apprentice (in smock and checked shirt) has the assistance of men in com¬ munity, as the school gets ne%v window panes.

Pupils work with apprentice in putting a new face on the principal’s office.

period of five weeks, a requirement before the master’s degree will be granted. Twenty-five rural schools in Henry County have been benefited by the post-war program of the School of Education. These schools have suf¬ fered in having little improvements made in recent years, due to shortages in labor and materials as a result of the war.

Students Trained in Industrial Arts To get ready for their assignments, the young women were registered in a course in industrial arts at Clark Col¬ lege, one of the cooperating colleges •4f in the Atlanta University Center. 1 hey were taught how' to handle a saw and hammer and how to select (Con tin ttrcl on page 8) Vatu' S THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

ways remember came from a young girl in the fifth grade. ‘You know, she said, ‘I always wanted to he a teacher, hut now I have changed my mind. 1 think I am going to be a lady carpenter’.’’

A New Day for Georgia’s Schools

This practical educational program means that a new day has come for Georgia’s rural schools. If similar programs could be launched through¬ out the South, or in any section of this country where such a need exists, more youth would he encouraged to take advantage of educational oppor¬ tunities.

Summer School

Inaugurates N e-ic Schedule

The youngsters wield a brush while the apprentice catches her breath at the Henry The Atlanta University Summer County Training School (Georgia). School inaugurated a new schedule this year whereby instead of the two five-week sessions which have been conducted heretofore, it is operating nails and squares. They learned the ing and painting desks and chairs, and importance of the miter box, how to screening windows and lavatories. In one continuous nine-week session. measure and cut angles, how to frame one school, the office of the principal Under this new program, graduate was completely renovated new pictures, mix stains, make screen and students may in one session complete doors, build steps; and how to cut monk’s cloth draperies hung. three-fourths of a semester’s work, glass and put in window panes. Willing assistance on each project and those who are well prepared may At the end of this training period, was given by teachers, pupils and complete requirements for the mas¬ projects were outlined with the co¬ members of the Parent-Teacher As¬ operation of the Jeanes supervisor for sociation. The repairing program in ter’s degree in three summers. Henry County, and each student given no way conflicted with the regular For the first time since it was es¬ special instructions for her particular teaching program. In the midst of tablished, the School of Library Serv¬ word drills and recitations, the ap¬ assignment. ice is in the summer session offering prentices went blissfully about their courses leading to the degree of bach¬ duties, working to finish a job in the Schools Improved in Two-Day short period allotted. elor of science in library service. These Period courses are open only to teacher-libra¬ Some of the men in the county were The first field work assignments reluctant to believe that these trim rians or to college graduates who are were executed during mid-winter young women could handle a saw or working in libraries and who cannot when the weather was a unusually cold hammer, hut they soon found that pursue the professional training dur¬ and bleak and not exactly what one those well-manicured hands were ing the regular academic year. would choose for doing work on the capable as well as attractive; and that Since 1933 the summer school has outside. But the enthusiasm of the the students were not dismayed on any been conducted workers did not lessen. They were job that called for the skill of a car¬ by Atlanta University, eager and excited and ready to attack penter. In handling the tools they with Morehouse College, Spelman their many jobs which included can¬ were not only dexterous but swift as College, Clark College, Morris well. One of the ing chairs, repairing windows, mak¬ young women re¬ Brown College, the Atlanta Univer¬ ing table legs, putting in window lates the following experience: “The sashes, painting buildings, repairing uniqueness of the activity brought sity School of Social Work and Gam¬ mon roofs, building privies, putting locks many comments from both patrons Theological Seminary cooperat¬ on doors, laying cement walks, repair¬ and children, but the one I shall al¬ ing. July. 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 9

Alpha Chapter of and the second chapter located in an Dorothy Slade of Reidsville, North institution for the education of colored Carolina; Lillian F. Stokes of Spo¬ Alpha Kappa Delta students. kane, Washington; Josephine F. Organized Charter members of the Georgia Thompson of Atlanta; Robert A. Thompson of Atlanta; Antoinette chapter are Charlotte Arnold of Duncan of West Palm Beach, Flor- At a dinner meeting on May 30 at Detroit, Michigan; Wilmoth A. Car¬ ter of Atlanta; Carrie M. Gartrell of ida; and Marie F. Saxon of Atlanta. the home of Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, Washington, Georgia; Elise Oliver Among other chapters of Alpha chairman of the department of soci- Hope of Nashville, Tennessee; Cath¬ Kappa Delta are those located at the ology, the Alpha of Georgia Chapter erine Johnson of Buffalo, New York; Universities of Southern California, of Alpha Kappa Delta, national hon¬ Ida M. Kilpatrick of New 'fork, North Carolina, New Mexico, Wash¬ orary sociological society, was organ¬ New York; William T. Lewis of ington, and Ohio State University, ized. becoming the first chapter of the Chicago, Illinois; Bernard F. Rob¬ New \ ork University and Fisk l ni- society to be established in this state, inson of New Orleans, Louisiana; versity.

Charter members of Alpha of Georgia Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta Page 10 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

“The Angry Christ,’’ by Richmond Barthe, draws a quartet of notables at Atlanta University’s fifth annual exhibit. Left to right, Dr. Rufus E. Clement, Roland McKinney, Ben Shute and Hale Woodruff.

New York Artists Dominate Awards at Annual Exhibit

Six New ^ ork artists, whose works Purchase Award of $250 for the best “Jo.” Shands also won the $75 water were entered in Atlanta University’s landscape; Ellis Wilson, a Guggen¬ color award for his painting “Back heim Fellow, fifth annual exhibition of paintings, 1944-1946, winner of Way.” the first Atlanta University Pur¬ Other awards went to the follow¬ sculpture and prints by Negro artists, chase Award of $150 for his oil ing: Leonard Cooper of Salinas, Cali¬ won awards in the 1946 competition, painting “Allen”; Richmond Barthe, fornia, who took the first Atlanta which opened to the public at 4:00 whose head in plaster, “The Angry L niversity Purchase Award for p.m. on March 31, in the University Christ,” won the first sculpture award water color of $125 for his landscape of $250; Elizabeth Catlett, winner of “Before the Rains Came”; and Wil- gallery. I hey were Charles White, a the second sculpture award of $100 mer Jennings of Providence, Rhode two-time winner, whose painting in for her terra-cotta head “Young Island, who won the second print tempera “ 1 wo Alone” received the Girl” ; and Roy de Carava, winner of prize of $15 for his wood block draw¬ $300 Edward B. Alford Pu rchase the third Atlanta University print ing “Dead Free.” Awa rd for the best portrait or figure award of $10 for his silk screen draw¬ Honorable mention was accorded painting, and whose lithograph “Hope ing “Pickets.” to Donald Reid of Brooklyn, New for the huture” won top print prize of The popular prize of $100 was 'fork, for his “Negro Worker”; to $25 ; Joseph Delaney, whose oil paint¬ won by Franklin McKinley Shands John Howard of Pine Bluff, Arkan¬ ing “East River” won the John Hope of Oxford, Ohio, for his oil painting sas, for his “Still Life”; and to July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 11

Roland McKinney, director of the Pepsi-Cola Art Competition, was the speaker at the opening of the exhibi¬ tion on March 31, and L. P. Skid¬ more of the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) spoke at the closing on April 28.

Visiting Faculty at Summer School

Among the eighty educators who served on the faculty of the Atlanta University Summer School were a number of guest professors from col¬ leges, universities and schools through¬ out the country. The visiting staff included the fol¬ lowing: in Drama, Dr. Anne M. Cooke of Howard University and Ar¬ thur Clifton Lamb of Johnson C. Smith University; in Languages, Dr. T. A. Daley of Dillard University; in History, Dr. Robert L. Gill of Morgan College; in English, Dr. Welfred Holmes of VV inston-Salem Teachers College; Barbara Wells of Dudley High School, Greensboro, North Carolina; and George Morton of Dillard University; in Chemistry, Dr. Kelso B. Morris of Wiley Col¬ lege; in Sociology, Dr. Jitsuichi Ma- suoka of Fisk University; in Math¬ ematics, Ralph Asbury Edmondson of Wiley College, and Joseph A. Pitt¬ man of West Virginia State College; in Philosophy, Samuel Woodrow Wil¬ liams, a recent appointee to the fac¬ The portrait of "Jo,” winner of the popular award, attracted many spectators. ulty of Morehouse College; in Art, Vernon Winslow of Dillard l niver- sity; in Home Economics, Lucy Mc¬ Charles of Detroit, Michigan; James D. Stallings of Baltimore, Mary¬ Cormack and Ella Grace Moyer of land, for his Parks of Jefferson City, Missouri; sculpture “Saxophone the Spokane, Washington, public Player.” John D. Robinson of Washington, school system; in Library Service, Others participating in the exhibit D. C.; Jenelse Walden of Atlanta; Annette L. Hoage of Orangeburg Robert Willis of were Frank M. Alston, Jr., of Wash¬ Decatur, Georgia; State Teachers College; and in Music. ington, I). C.; Allen Crite of Boston, John WTilson of Boston, Massachu¬ Carol Blanton of Dillard l niversity. Massachusetts; Frederick Flemister setts; William E. Artis of New York ; In the held of education, the sum¬ of Atlanta; Alice T. Gafford of Sau¬ Eloise Bishop of New V ork ; Selma mer faculty included Mrs. M. I). Burke of New York; Clarence Law- Dempsey, consultant on Negro ele¬ gus, California; Palmer Hayden of mentary son of schools in Georgia; William New V ork : Mark Hewitt of Brook¬ Chicago, Illinois; Vernon N ichols Jackson of the Lincoln-C Irant Winslow of New Orleans, Louisiana; lyn. New V (irk ; George H. Ben John¬ high school faculty, Covington. Ken¬ son of Richmond, Charles Osborne of West Medford, Virginia; Henry tucky; Miss Arlena Seneca of Carver Jones of Philadelphia; Helen Lamp- Massachusetts; Ernest Crichlow of High School, Phoenix, Arizona; and kin of W ilmington, Delaware; Frank Seattle, Washington; and Margaret Dr. Nnodu J. Okongwu. Neal of N ew V ork ; Allison Oglesby Goss of Chicago. (Continued on page 30) Page 12 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

Degrees Awarded to 1-14 cited the need for acquiring skill in the art of At 77th living, honesty, the main¬ Cornmencement taining of an integrity of the mind, Exercises humble-mindedness and gallantry. The commencement message was based on Atlanta University awarded 144 the text, “Study that you decrees at the exercises of the 77th will be approved unto God—a work¬ man that need commencement at 6:00 p.m., on Mon¬ not be ashamed.” The day, June 2, in the library quadrangle candidates for degrees were as on the campus. The Rt. Reverend follows: John Moore Walker, bishop of the In the Graduate School of Arts and diocese of Atlanta, advised the gradu¬ Sciences, twelve received the degree of ates to master the art of living. He master of arts: ECONOMICS: Leo

Top: Moore Bishop John Walker’s admonition to the graduates was “Master the art of living.”

With coveted degrees in hand, the graduates march proudly from the ex¬ ercises.

Albert Jackson, Atlanta; ENGLISH: Naweta Allentyne Brown, Mobile, Ala.; Emma Rush Cunningham, At¬ lanta; Anita Viola Howard, Houston, Texas; N aomi Elvira Johnson, Yazoo City, Miss.; Eva Elizabeth Pierce, Ft. Pierce, Fla.; Barbara Johnson Wells, Greensboro, N. C.; SOCIOL¬ OGY: Eddye Queen Brown, Vienna, Ga.; Carrie Mason Gartrell, Wash¬ ington, Ga.; LaVerne Lillian Lee, Austin, Texas; Lillian Frances Stokes, Spokane, Wash.; HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION: Addie Matria Ware of Crockett, Texas.

Two received the degree of master of science. CHEMISTRY: Harriet Wiley Jeffries of Tuskegee, Ala.; MA TilEMA TICS: Lillian Lee Humphrey of Greensboro, N. C. lifty received the degree of master of social work: Louise Lydia Allen of Camden, Ala.; Willie A. Allen of Bottom: Miss Lillian Stokes of Spokane, Washington, receives the Master’s Degree in Atlanta; Marie Maxey Austell, At¬ Sociology and congratulations from President Clement. lanta; Evelyn Marjorie Black of July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 13

The largest class in the history of the University—14+ received graduate and professional degrees.

Washington, I). C.; Pearlie Ross 1 nd.; Charlotte Bernice Linder of Bentley of Columbus, Ohio; Gladys Brown of Louisville, Kv.; Minnie B. Cleveland, Ohio; Juanita Delores Frissell Bolling of Phoebus, Va.; Briscoe of Independence, Mo.; Alfred Lockett of Wilmington, Del.; Ur- Laura Myssiria Brice of Hallsboro, Detroy Brooks of Tampa, Fla.; Rose¬ sulla Gertrude Mack of Montgom¬ N. C.; Inez Jeanette Brown of Houston, mary Braziel Butler of Tucson, ery, Ala.; Ollivette Jones Morgan of "Tex.; Clotelle Sherard Ariz.; Mayme Inez Butler of Green¬ Galveston, Tex.; Thelma Jon New¬ Davis of Columbia, S. C.; Bessie ville, N. C.; Henrietta Edwina Con¬ ton of Houston, Tex.; Lucy Ann Boyd Drewry of Selma, Ala.; Artho- nell of Nutley, N. J.; Essie Mae Perkins of Louisville, Ky.; Mamie lia C. Heard of Atlanta; Gwendolyn Davis of Jamaica, N. Y.; Beverly Virginia Peterson of Greenwood, L. Holland of Jacksonville, Fla.; Raymond Dejoie of New Orleans, S. C.; George Martin Phillips of Lucv Laney Hyman of Winston- La.; Phyllis Wheatley Dews of Au¬ New Orleans, La.; Alexina Purcell, Salem, N. C.; Georgia Lucille Lewis gusta, Ga.; John Henry Dudley of Corona, L. I., New York; Wilhel- of Indianapolis, Ind.; Thelma Evelyn Atlanta; Elizabeth Bragg Edwards mina Ross of Richmond, Va.; Ida Lewis of Houston, Tex.; 'Theodosia of Stevens Roper of Newark, N. J.; Knoxville, Penn.; Mable 1 ola F rances Mason of Macon, Ga.; Al¬ Mary Lucille Sellers of New nan, Ga.: Emmanuel of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Eve¬ thea Louise Ortique of New Orleans, Elizabeth Shepard of Hartford, Ct.: lyn Elizabeth Fripp of St. Helena La.; Lois Elizabeth Payne of Kansas Island, S. U.; Annamelia Gentry of Percy Howard Steele of Washing¬ City, Mo.; Homie Regulus of At¬ Portsmouth, Ohio; 1 wyler Wenona ton, D. C.; Carolyn Y. Taylor of lanta; Louise Ellett Roane of Heaths- Griffin of Asbury Park, N. J.; Eunice Atlanta; Emma Lynwood Taylor of ville, Va.; Hazel Frances Taft of Marguerite Grundy of Louisville, Chattanooga, Penn.; Marguerite Greenville, N. C.; Ethel Mae Vaughn Kv.; Mildred Christine Handy of Trimble of Montgomery, Ala.; Mail- of Lawrenceville, Va.; Allegra Marea Savannah. Ga.; Christine Henderson rid Boyd Turner of Atlanta; Patricia Westbrooks of F of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Margaret \ ines of Montgomery, Ala.; Joseph ayetteville, N. C.; Fannie Anne Hill of High Point, N. C.; Wesley Walker of Topeka, Kan.; Penelope White of Wilming¬ Ersa Elizabeth Hines of Paducah, and Sarah Grace White of Ft. Wayne, ton, N. C.; Ella Mae Williams of Kv.; Ida Horton of Durham, N. C.; Indiana. Raleigh, N. C.; Faustina Eudora Williams of Miller s Ferry, Ala.; and Edwina Carriebea Jones of Little Txventy-four who received the de¬ Fdeanor Annice 'l oung of Lincoln Rock, Ark.: Edna Kathryn Lanier of gree of bachelor of science in library Ridge, Kentucky. Chicago, 111.; Bobbie Latimer of At¬ sen ice icere: Maudelle Scarlett Ateca fourteen in the School lanta; Jean Elnora Lee of Ft. V avne, of Greensboro, N. C.; Ellene I errell of h.duca Page 14 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

of Dawson, Ga.; Julian Celian Brown of Chattanooga, Tenn.; James Leonard Cary of Knoxville, Tenn.; Charles Clifford Cheatham of Free¬

man, W. Va.; Johnnye Mae Craw¬ ford of El Reno, Okla.; Mary Eliza¬ beth Daniels of Lexington, Miss.; Ruhye Beatrice Dooley of Atlanta; Lillian Dixon Edwards of Ft. Valley, Ga.; Charles L. Gideons of Atlanta; Loretha Gilmore of Valdosta, Ga.; Stanley Goseer of Fitzgerald, Ga.; James Griffin Greene of Statesboro, Ga.; Loyce Marian Harvey of Tulsa, Okla.; Eldora Hayes of Atlanta; Robert Lock Hudson of Muskogee, Okla.; Robert Walter Hunter of Al¬

corn, M iss.; Olivia Louise Jones of Athens, Tenn.; Loester David Land of Ruston, La.; Martha Louise Mar¬ tin of Roselle, N. J.; Fannie Lee Mc¬ Henry of Silver Creek, Ga.; Richard

Vernon M oore of Pensacola, Fla. ;

Thelma E. M oore of Vidalia, (Ja.; George W. Parker of Napoleonville, La.; Ersel Verdelle Pickens of Pensa¬ cola, Fla.; Vera Louise Shade of Wil¬

son, N. C.; Charles Elmer Stewart

of Thomasville, Ga.; Laura M ae Strickland of Columbus, Ga.; Floyd Walter Sullivan of Atlanta; Del- phine Eugenia Toppins of New Or¬ tio/i received the master of arts de¬ Molette of Carrollton, Ga.; William leans, La.; Louise Hopson Trawick gree: Madge Lee Barber of Plain- McKinley Parker of Manning, S. C.; of field, N. J.; Mattie Bell Braxton of Joseph S. Saundle of Bluefleld, W. Bainbridge, Ga.; Mildred Anne Augusta, Ga.; Doc Mitchell Brown Va.; and Victoria Taylor of Cedar Turner of McIntosh, Ga.; Mary of Longview, Tex.; Florence Morri¬ Bayou, Texas. Wilbur Weeks of Mobile, Ala.; Ef- son he Frances Wheatt of Hogan of Atlanta; Viola Collins Forty-two in the School of Educa¬ LaFayette, Holbrooks of Ala.; Savannah, Ga.; Addic tion received the master of education Jewel Brown Whetstone of Mae Holt of Atlanta; Bessie Estelle degree: Gwendolyn Elease Ander¬ Montgomery, Ala.; Musia Kendrick Honor of White of Chester, S. C.; Blanche son of Anderson, S. C.; Ophelia Gor- Atlanta; Joseph Ely Wil¬ Lionise Johnstone of Jacksonville, um Andrews of Albany, Ga.; Jean¬ liams of Washington, Ga.; Anne Ha.; \ alerie Tolbert Lockett of S. nette A. Bellamy of Miami, Fla.; Elizabeth Wright of Albany, Ga.: Birmingham, Ala.; Ora D. Logan of Christine Louise Brogdon of Charles¬ and Martha Belle Wright of Albany. Birmingham, Ala.; Lemuel Scott ton, S. C.; Bessye Elizabeth Brown Georgia. July. 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 15

A amed Chairman Working with Mr. Yates as mem¬ Others serving on the executive bers of the executive committee were committee were Reverend M. L. six alumni of Atlanta University: King, Warren E. Cochrane. J. R. Mr. Clayton R. ^ ates, Atlanta Attorney Austin T. Walden, ’07; Wilson, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Menelik University '20, and a trustee of At¬ Reverend J. A. Hopkins, Ex-1900; Jackson, Dr. Marque Jackson, Mr. lanta University and Morehouse Col¬ Jacob R. Henderson, ’34; Robert E. and Mrs. Rogers Henderson, Hubert lege, was named chairman of the Cureton, ’37; Mrs. Sarah Harris United Negro Fund Campaign in Cureton, '38; and Charles L. Gid¬ Jackson, Reverend W. R. Wilkes, Atlanta. eons, ’46. and T. M. Alexander.

Arnita ) oung Farrow {center), a student in the School of Social IFork, teas honored as “Miss Atlanta Univer¬ sity Dormitories' at a brilliant May dance honoring the University graduates of 1946.

Mrs. Farrow ivas the winner of a popularity contest in which approximately 160 students participated for the purpose of raising funds to purchase a piano for the dormitories. Runners-up in the contest, which netted more than

S200, were Jean Lee {left), also a student in the School of Social Work; and Susie Scott {right), a graduate student in the School of Education.

Sponsor of the event was the University’s dormitory council. Page 16 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

UNIVERSITY SPOTLIGHT

While engaged in writing his in¬ vestigation, in partial fulfillment for the degree of master of education, James Griffin Greene of Statesboro, Georgia, Atlanta University ’46, at¬ tracted state-wide attention.

Greene’s research paper led him into the problems of juvenile delin¬ quency, and finding out the causes, he straightway went to work to do something about it. Under his leader¬ ship, a canteen was provided for Statesboro’s Negro youth in which adequate provision was made for good wholesome recreation.

Any evening during the week, more than sixty young people might be found having a good time in the can¬ teen. Three girls worked on the soda

fountain to serve ice cream and soft

drinks. Counters were full of sand¬ wiches and crackers and other delec- tables for which youth spends its small change. The juke box provided “hot” tunes and the youngsters had a good time dancing. Every Negro youth of Statesboro was privileged to visit the canteen, whether he was in or out of school.

Statesboro owes Mr. ( freene a debt of gratitude; and not only have youth been given a chance to live normal and wholesome lives, but the town’s delinquency record is much cleaner than it has been heretofore.

{Top) James Griffin Greene, ’46. His in¬ vestigation attracted state-wide attention.

(Center) . . . “young people might he found having a good time.”

(Belova) At the soda fountain. July, 1046 I'HE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page l /

U illette R. Banks To R etire

Ur. Willette Rutherford B a n k s, presi¬ dent of Prairie View Univer¬ sity and for many years a trustee of At¬ lanta Univer¬ sity and More¬ house College, will go on lim¬ ited service September 1 prior to retiring, after approximately two decades of achieve¬ ment at the Texas institution. Born in Hartwell, Georgia, the ed¬ ucator worked his way through college by raising cotton on his father’s farm in North Georgia. As an undergrad¬ uate at Atlanta University, he was active in football, debating and dra¬ matics. Following his graduation in 1909, Banks taught at Fort Valley Indus¬ trial School, served as principal of the Kowaliga Industrial School of Ben¬ The American Mother son, Alabama, and as president of 1 exas College in Tyler. For his Of 1946 many contributions in the field of ed¬ ucation, he received honorary degrees from Atlanta University and Texas College. A. Airs. Emma Clarissa Clement, Clement, recently discharged as a During the twenty years he spent mother of President Clement, was major in the chaplain corps of the at the helm of Prairie View, Dr. Banks received named “The American Mother of U. S. A., and a member of the faculty gifts from the state 1946” by the Golden Rule Founda¬ of Hood 4'heological Seminary; Mrs. totaling $750,000. Only two of the numerous tion of New 'i ork. Emma Clement Walker, instructor in buildings erected since 1926 were paid for by the state. His an¬ First of her race to receive the English, Tuskegee Institute; and nual budget, with board approval, Mrs. Abbie Clement Jackson, execu¬ honor, Mrs. Clement was cited for rose from $180,000 to $983,000. her tive secretary of the A. M. E. Zion great personal qualities as a I he faculty of Prairie View has mother of children all Church Missionary Society. serving their grown under his leadership from A countn and people, a tribute to the native of Providence, Rhode Is¬ eighty teachers of whom less than “great American spirit.” land, Mrs. Clement is a graduate of half held bachelor s degrees, to eight with the Ph.D. In addition to the President, the Livingstone College, which is also degree, 57 with mas¬ ter’s other children are Professor Frederick the alma mater of all her children. degrees, and 32 with the bach¬ elor’s degree. The hospital and col¬ A. Clement of West Virginia State She is the widow of the late Bishop lege have both received “A” rating College; Mrs. Ruth Bond, wife of George C. Clement. under the leadership of Dr. Banks. the chief of staff of the Inter-Ameri¬ I he honor held by Mrs. Clement Dr. Banks is married to the former can Educational Foundation, Haiti; has been awarded to eleven distin¬ Golvina Virginia Perry, a graduate George \\ . Clement, field director of guished women since 1935 by the and former teacher of Atlanta Uni¬ the American Red Cross, Italy; James Golden Ride Foundation. versity. Page IS THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

Mrs. Grace Towns University School of Social Work and money for my education, I made a LeMoyne College. She has also covenant to aid deserving young peo¬ Hamilton Honored served with the National Student ple. Two of the many students I ed¬ Council of the Y. W. C. A., where ucated I sent to Atlanta she was responsible for interracial ed¬ University.” Miss ucation. Several years ago Mrs. McLendon’s education did Hamilton was invited to be a member not end with her graduation from of a delegation of the World Student Atlanta University, but she enrolled Christian Federation of American for further study at Columbia Uni¬ Negro students to visit colleges and students of India. versity and at Hampton Institute. M rs. Hamilton is the wife of Dr. Miss McLendon’s experiences have Henry Cooke Hamilton, also a grad¬ been rich and rewarding. She plans uate of Atlanta University, and at to write a book relating the everyday the present a member of the fac¬ time experiences of Negro parents and their ulty of the School of Education. Their children, which will be dedicated to only daughter, Eleanor, is a pupil at Mrs. Gertrude Ware Bunce, one of Putney School, Putney, Vermont. the early teachers of Atlanta Univer¬ sity, who now lives in Rockville, Con¬ Miss Lucille McLendon necticut. Letters of Retires appreciation for her long service as an educator have poured in and Of sincere interest to the many have gladdened the heart of this friends and former students of Miss great teacher. We look forward to Lucille McLendon of Atlanta University graduate, Grace Raleigh, North the completion of her book which Carolina, is the news of her retire¬ Towns Hamilton, has been signally ought to be an interesting revelation ment after many years devoted to the honored of one educator’s experiences. by Eta Omega Chapter of profession of teaching. the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity as “At¬ Miss McLendon was educated in lanta’s Most Useful Citizen of 1945,” the public schools of Columbus, Geor¬ Curry Is 19th Alumnus and by the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority gia, and the normal department of To Head as the “Woman of the 5 ear in Citi¬ Atlanta University, from which she College was zenship." graduated in 1905. To help meet Milton her King Currv, Jr., formerly Both expenses at the University, she organizations based their se¬ pastor of Antioch Baptist Church of worked in the office of the secretary, lection of Mrs. Hamilton on the Ur¬ Wichita cleaned a room in the South Hall dor¬ Falls, Texas, and a former ban League’s report on public school assistant mitory, and served as a student-teacher principal of Booker 4'. facilities for Negroes in Atlanta. The of English under Miss Julia A. Ellis. Washington High School of that city, report has for gained widespread recogni¬ Vacations Lucille McLendon entered upon his new duties as presi¬ tion and was did not mean a commented upon favor¬ period in which to re¬ dent of Butler College in Tyler, lax and make ably by School Executive, monthly merry, but rather an Texas, at the beginning of the second opportunity to earn money to magazine of the National Education pay for semester. He is the 19th alumnus of Association. expenses incurred during the preced¬ Atlanta University to head an institu¬ In the three ing term. Toward this end, books years that she has been tion of for were peddled and rural summer higher education Negroes. executive secretary of the Atlanta President schools were taught. Curry earned the bach¬ Urban League, innumerable surveys elor arts But during those summer months of degree at Morehouse Col¬ have been conducted to show the need many years ago, Miss McLendon lege in 1932, and the master of arts of and possible solutions for improve¬ made the most of her opportunities to degree from Atlanta University in ments in the educational, health and become better acquainted with the 1933. He studied further at Creigh¬ problems and the habits of rural citizenship standards for Atlanta. peo¬ ton University in Omaha, Nebraska, After ples. She recalls: “In the years that graduating from Atlanta and at the divinity school of the Uni¬ followed mv summer University, Mrs. Hamilton entered teaching experi¬ ences, I was able to versity of Chicago. Ohio State get a better un¬ University, from which The new derstanding of the thousands of rural college executive is mar¬ she earned the master of arts degree teachers and students that I have ried to the former Marjorie Alex¬ in psychology. She has taught on the trained. Remembering the struggle andre Stewart, a graduate of Spelman faculties of Clark College, the Atlanta which my mother and I had to obtain College and Atlanta University. THE July, 1946 ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Pag e 19

Boston Daily Features Service and with the Family Society Flonored by Howard of which she is still a member. Mrs. JVilliani A. Hinton Formerlv a resident of Cambridge, University AI rs. Hinton now lives in a beautiful home in Canton. She has two daugh¬ ters, one of whom served during the war as a medical technician at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The other is with the American Red Cross in New York City.

Mrs. Hinton is a member of the Massachusetts Conference of Social Work, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Planning Committee of the Re¬ gional Conference of Social Work ; vice president and member of the board of the Home for Aged Colored Women in Canton, and a director of Canton’s new Community Council and Chest. One of her major inter¬ ests is the Ponkapog section of Can¬ ton, where she is helping to organize a little community to operate on co¬ operative lines.

Mrs. Helen Adele Whiting, a spe¬ Mrs. William A. Hinton of Can¬ cialist in elementary education and a ton, Massachusetts, the former Ada Appointed to New York member of the staff of the Atlanta Hawes of Macon, Georgia, was fea¬ L mversity School of was tured during the month of April in Umversity Faculty Education, at Howard Univer¬ the Boston Evening Traveler as one signally honored of the “Gracious Ladies” of the Bay sity’s annual Charter Day observance on State. Her many friends were not Saturday, March 2, when she re¬ surprised that Mrs. Hinton was ac¬ ceived one of the three annual alumni corded such a significant honor, for a awards for distinguished post-gradu¬ mere glance at her record more than ate achievement in the field of educa¬ justifies the selection. tion. Mrs. Hinton was graduated from The portrait of Mrs. Atlanta University in 1901. As an Whiting undergraduate she majored in math¬ shown above is one of 26 oil paintings ematics, and later entered upon grad¬ of “Outstanding Americans of Negro uate work in the same field at the Origin” in a traveling exhibit spon¬ University of Chicago, tor eight sored by the Harmon Foundation. years Mrs. Hinton was a teacher— 'Phis collection has been displayed in first at Tallahassee, Florida, and later the Detroit Art Museum, the Mil¬ at Langston, Oklahoma, where she Dr. Ira DeA. waukee Art Museum, and at the Chi¬ met her husband, Dr. Hinton, distin¬ Reid, chai rman of cago Historical guished in medical circles as the orig¬ the department of sociology at Atlanta Society. inator of the Hinton 1 est. University and editor of Phylon, the Nineteen of the portraits were After marriage, Mrs. Hinton made Atlanta University Review of Race painted by Mrs. Betsy Graves Re- her home in Boston, with her interest and Culture, has been appointed the neau, who recently returned to the turning to social service stimulated by first visiting professor of Negro cul¬ l nited States after living abroad for her acquaintance with Sophie Breck- ture and education at the New \ ork 14 years. Mrs. Laura Wheeler War¬ enridge, dean of women at the Uni¬ University School of Education for ing, head of the art versity of Chicago, and with the late department of 1946-47. Jane Addams of Hull House, Chi¬ Cheney State Teachers College First incumbent of a cago. She volunteered at the Mas- visiting pro- (Pennsylvania), painted the other sachusetts General Hospital in Social (Continued on page 20) seven. Page 20 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

Sidney Williams, 14, dent. Before joining the staff of State University Events Teachers College, President Williams Joins (Continued from page College President for seven years was principal of the 15) Brigade high sc hool department of Johnson C. Smith University. Summer School Active in educational organizations Enrollment Reaches of the state, he is a charter member of the North Carolina Research So¬ Highest Peak

ciety, a member of the executive com¬ mittee of the National Association of File largest number of students Deans and Registrars in Negro ever to enroll for summer study at Schools, and since 1940 has served as Atlanta University, under the com¬ executive secretary of the North Car¬ bined offerings of the seven Atlanta olina Congress of Colored Parents Negro colleges, was on record this and Teachers. summer. Of the 1,476 who were en¬ rolled, 752 were graduate students and 724 undergraduates. Three hun¬ dred and fifty-two of the enrollees

were veterans.

Appointed to New York This year’s registration was an in¬ crease of nearly 25 per cent over the University Faculty 1945 figures, and just about doubled the figures for the 1944 session. (Continued from page 19) M ore than 200 courses were of¬ Sidney D. Williams, Atlanta Uni¬ fered in the fields of art, biology, fessorship established for a three-year versity ’14, has joined the ranks of chemistry, economics and business ad¬ experimental period under a grant of ministration, alumni being stepped up to English, dramatics, college the General Education Board, Dr. French, geography, history and po¬ presidencies. He is head of Elizabeth Reid has received a year’s leave of litical science, home economics, math¬ City State Teachers College, succeed¬ absence from Atlanta University in ematics, music, philosophy, physics, order to accept the position at New ing Dr. Harold L. Trigg, new asso¬ psychology, religion, sociology, Span¬ York University. ciate executive director of the South¬ ish, library service and social work. ern Regional Council. A former consultant on minorities To provide more adequately for for the Social Security Board and the For the past sixteen years, Presi¬ the specialized needs of advanced stu¬ War Manpower Commission, Dr. dent Williams was dean of the dents, workshops were featured for college Reid is associate director of the Divi¬ supervisors, science teachers, English which he now heads. At Atlanta Uni¬ sion of Race Relations, American teachers, principals; and in arts and versity, as an undergraduate, he was Missionary Association, and for a crafts, home economics and health ed¬ time served as associate executive di¬ interested in athletics and music; ucation. rector of the Southern served as captain of the football team Regional Council. He has been professor of in 1913, as a member of the baseball sociology at Atlanta University since and track teams, and as a member of 1934. Please send to the Editor of the the college choir and the male glee This marks the first time that a club. For three years he was labora¬ Bulletin news items and changes Negro has been appointed to a full¬ tory assistant in the physics depart¬ of time professorship at the institution, address. ment, and during his senior year he according to Dr. Ernest O. Melby, was the students' choice as class presi¬ dean of the School of Education. July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 21

FACULTY ITEMS

On June 27, Mr. Clarence A. regional director of the National In¬ ice at the beginning of the second Bacote of the history department stitute of Science. semester as a part-time instructor. spoke on methods of conducting a ★ registration campaign at the national ★ convention of the N. A. A. C. P. in Dr. R. O. Cincinnati, Ohio. Johnson, a member of Dr. S. M. Nabrit of the depart¬ the staff of the School of Education, ment of biology spoke on “Teaching In July he participated in a panel represented Atlanta University at the and Research” on May 3 at the an¬ discussion on “Voting in the South” Conference on Adult Education, June nual meeting of at the Institute of Race Relations at the National Insti¬ 10-11, in Washington, D. C. tute of Science at Tennessee A.

ALUMNI NEWS

1876 1923 of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company. He recently held the same Major R. R. Wright, Atlanta Uni¬ Miss Elizabeth E. Lemon is direc¬ position in Miami, Florida, and in versity's oldest living college graduate, tor of the Fraser Field, Charleston, Savannah. received the “Pioneers of Industry South Carolina, USO, which cele¬ M iss Helen Award" in Philadelphia on June 5. brated its fifth anniversary on Febru¬ Gray has been ap¬ The award was made to Major ary 4. pointed director of the USO Club, Wright “for his leadership in the 307 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, M iss Lemon was the banking industry.” principal Virginia. speaker at the annual meeting of the Y. W. C. A. on Mrs. Agnes Maddox Jones is 1910 January 27 in Charleston. working at the Congressional Library in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Jones At a A daughter, Julie Louise, was meeting of the Philadelphia was married on December born on March 18 to Mr. and Mrs. 16, 1945, Housing Authority on January 14, in the nation’s W. A. Hamilton of capital. 194b, Fleming D. Tucker was chosen jefterson City, M issouri. project manager of Shipyard Homes M iss Ruby Weaver, college editor to succeed Edward Ludwig. of the Atlanta Daily World, was 1927 married on December For twenty years Mr. 'l'ucker was 25, 1945, to Mr. William G. Arnold business manager of of Atlanta. Mercy Hospital. Mr. George W. Morton of Dillard He has been secretary of the St. Paul University is serving on the summer Building and Loan Association for a 1932 faculty of Atlanta University. number of years. Dr. Aaron Brown, president of Al¬ 1928 1876 bany State College, has been elected editor of The Herald, official organ Attorney Thomas M rs. Emma Rush re¬ J. Henry was Cunningham of the Georgia Teachers and Educa¬ married on ceived the master of arts June 14 to Miss Nell degree in tional Association, Clarene succeeding Dr. Johnson of Atlanta. English from Atlanta University on Horace Mann Bond. June 3. 1915 Mr. Roscoe Edwin Thomas of At¬ Attorney Sidney A. Jones has been lanta was married on Tune 9, 1946, to nominated for the office of first vice Colonel Eugene V. Dibble, com¬ M iss Mamie Peterson, daughter of president of the mandant at the United States Vet¬ Chicago chapter of Reverend and Mrs. H. A. Peterson the National erans Lawyers Guild. facility at Tuskegee, Alabama, of Greenwood, South Carolina. M rs. has resigned to return to the director¬ M iss Eloise Mells of Atlanta is Thomas was graduated from Atlanta ship of the John A. Andrew Memo¬ now M rs. James Martin. University on June 3 with the degree rial Hospital, affiliated with Tuskegee of master of social work. Institute, a post which he left to go 1930 into government service. 1933 M iss Eva Elizabeth Pierce was 1916 graduated from Atlanta University on M r. James A. Colston, for the past June 3 with the degree of master of four years president of Bethune Cook- “Walter White Day,” honoring arts in English. man College, has been appointed di¬ Atlanta L niversity’s illustrious grad¬ rector of public relations at Hampton uate, was celebrated on December 6 1931 Institute. by the Atlanta Branch of the National Announcement has been made of a Association for the Advancement of Miss Naweta A. Brown was grad¬ grant to Miss Ellen Irene Colored People. Diggs uated from the graduate division of which will enable her to spend six Arts and Sciences of Atlanta Univer¬ months in Uruguay where she will 1920 sity on June 3, with the degree of make a study entitled “The Negro in master of arts. Uruguay, Past and Present.” Mr. Clayton R. Yates is heading the local L nited Negro College Cam¬ Mr. Isadore H. Burney II is the Miss Diggs holds the doctorate in paign in Atlanta. new manager of the Atlanta district anthropology from the University of July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 23

Havana. She has been engaged in a study during 1946-47 at the Univer¬ Mr. William N. Jackson of the search for materials relating to Af¬ sity of Pennsylvania. Lincoln-Grant High School (Ken¬ rican culture survivals in the new- tucky) is directing the Science Work¬ world for several Mr. Hugh Smythe, a member of years. The grant shop at the Atlanta University Sum¬ came under the State the faculty of Tennessee State Col¬ Department’s mer School. Travel and Mai ntenance Grant Pro¬ lege, has been awarded the Ph.D. de¬ gram for gree by Northwestern University. study in other republics. 1940 Dr. Hugh M. Mr. Robert A. "Thompson, now Mr. LaRoy Haynes' is with the G 1 o s t e r has re¬ discharged from the army, has re¬ American turned to Atlanta and entered Army of Occupation in signed from the upon his former position as industrial secre¬ Germany. faculty of M ore- tary of the Atlanta Urban League. Mr. Don R. house Bonaparte has been College to 'Thompson spent 18 months at Fort promoted to assistant general housing accept a position in Benning, interviewing and testing manager for the Chicago Housing the English depart¬ soldiers in the special training unit; Authority. and six months at Fort ment of Hampton Meade, Mary¬ land, as chief counselor. He attended Mr. Calvin W. Beckett, formerly Institute. classification schools for enlisted men with the Chicago Welfare Adminis¬ Mr. Clyde Reynolds, former busi¬ at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; and at tration, has been appointed assistant ness manager of Hampton Institute, Camp Lee, Virginia. manager of the Ida B. Wells Housing has accepted a new post as business Project in Chicago. Mr. Floyd AValter Sullivan re¬ manager of Provident Hospital in ceived the degree of master of educa¬ Miss Eugenia Dunn was married Chicago. tion from Atlanta University at the on June 1, 1946, in Tallahassee, commencement exercises on June 3. Florida, to Mr. Henry Thomas 1934 Christian. Edward B. Wil¬ Mr. Arnold Wright is one of three liams, a member of 1941 colored instructors who served on the the faculty in eco¬ faculty of the of Wiscon¬ University nomics at M ore- Henry’s Secret, a simple reader for sin during 1945-1946. house College, has children by Mrs. Hermese Johnson been awarded the Mr. Charles Beckett of Chicago, Roberts of the faculty of Southern doctor of philoso¬ Illinois, is now business manager of University, has been released by Ed¬ Ebony and the .Yegro Digest. phy degree in eco¬ wards Brothers Press, of Ann Arbor, nomics by Colum¬ Michigan. Mrs. Roberts for a num¬ ber of years taught at the Atlanta 1935 bia University, at where for two years he was a fellow University Laboratory School and Fort Valley State College. Mr. Charles Clement Gaines was of the General Education Board. His married on October dissertation, entitled 23, 1945, to Miss Negro Migration In April, Miss Leona Johnson re¬ Sadie Mae Bolden of Atlanta. in Selected Counties of the Southeast¬ signed from her position as secretary ern Region of the l nited States, will to President Florence M. Read of be published in the near future. 1936 Spelman College to accept a new post Mr. with Dr. Charles S. Johnson of Fisk Mrs. Bonita Harrison Valien is Robert E. Cureton, senior teacher in University. now administrative secretary in the charge of Davis Street Ju¬ nior High School, on department of social sciences at Fisk Atlanta, is the M iss tlorence D. Molette, a mem¬ l niversity. summer faculty of State Teachers ber of the faculty of San Antonio Ju¬ College, Montgomery, Alabama. nior College, was married on M ay 22, Mr. Robert A. Bonner has received 1946, to Mr. Charles H. Winslow of an appointment at Hampton Institute Ex - 1937 Buffalo, New \ ork. as administrative assistant to the pres¬ M iss Arlena Seneca of the ident. Miss Gladys Barbara Taylor has Phoenix on accepted a new appointment as secre¬ High School, Arizona, is the staff Mr. Bernard F. Robinson of the Science resigned tary to Dean A. A. McPheeters of Workshop at the At¬ from his post in the department of Clark College. lanta l niversity Summer School. social sciences at Dillard University to become a counselor for the Veter¬ 1942 ans’ Administration in New Orleans. 1938 Mrs. Gussie Griffin Hyatte of Mrs. Vivian Hood Smith of the A son has been born to M rs. Chattanooga, Tennessee, is enrolled department of English at Spelman Frances Johnson Stafford, who is now during the summer session at New A ork l College has been awarded a General domiciled at Hint-Goodrich Hospital, niversity. Education Board fellowship and will Dillard l niversitv. (Continued on huge 28) Page 24 THE ATLANTA INIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

EDMUND ASA WARE MEMORIAL FUND

ROLL CALL —1946

Graduates, Former F Students and Friends Ferguson, Mrs. Edith $10.00 Finley, Miss Cora 5.00 A Flipper, Mrs. Julia Lewis. .. . 5.00

Abrams, Mr. S. S $25.00 Foster, Mrs. U. J. Wade. . . . 25.00 Adams, Mrs. Adell E 5.00 Franklin, Mrs. Amanda 5.00 Adams, Miss Ola Lee 5.00 Frasier, Miss Alma 10.00 Alford, Mrs. Mable R 5.00 Funderburg, Mrs. F. I) 50.00 Allen, Miss Marion 5.00 G

B Gholston, Airs. Elizabeth... .$ 5.00 Gibson, Mr. Clinton 5.00 Baker, Miss E. L $ 5.00 EDMUND ASA WARE Banks, Pres, and Mrs. W. R.. 15.00 Gibson, Mr. Truman K 100.00 1837 - 1885 Barber, Mrs. Mae F 5.00 Goodson, Mrs. W. B 10.00 Barker, Miss Odessa 5.00 Gordon, Dr. Asa H 5.00

Bell, Miss Greenwood, Mr. Herbert. .. . 10.75 Sylvester 5.00 Collins, Mrs. Marie 5.00 Greenwood, Airs. AI. B 5.00 Biggers, Mrs. Eloise T 5.00 Coker, Mr. Odom N 5.00 Mrs. E. A 50 Griffin, Airs. E. H 10.00 Birnel, Cooper, Dr. A. B 5.00 Bond, Miss Rebecca M 30.00 Griffin, Dr. Leah 25.00 Cowan, Mrs. Willie 5.00 Boykin, Mr. Leander L 10.75 Craig, Mrs. Maxie Harris. . . 10.00 H

Braswell, Mrs. Theodosia. . .. 5.00 Cunningham, Mrs. Emma . . . 5.00 Hall, Mrs. Ailie AI $12.50 Brown, Mrs. Adlena 5.00 Hamilton, Dr. J. R 5.00 Brown, Mrs. Lillian 10.00 I) Hamilton, Airs. Nell C 5.00 Bryson, Mr. W. 0 10.75 Daves, Dr. and Mrs. 1 $21.50 Hannar, Airs. Madeline 5.00 Burch, Mr. B. L 5.00 Day, Mrs. Caroline B 5.00 Hanson, Air. C. Marshall... 11.00 Burge, Mrs. Tempie 5.00 DeLorme, Mrs. Grace 5.00 Hardwick, Mrs. B. A 10.00 Dibble, Col. Eugene H., Jr.. . 5.00 C Harris, Airs. Emma 2.00 Dickerson, Miss Rebecca .... 5.00 Carr, Dr. C. S $25.00 Hayes, Airs. Eleanor C 5.00 Dingle, Mrs. Ola B 1.00 Carr, Mrs. Katie 5.00 Hayes, Aliss Frances AI 5.00 Dixon, Mr. William L 6.00 Carrion, Mrs. Carrie B 10.75 Hattie C 5.00 Dunn, Miss Lillian 1.00 Haynes, Airs. Carter, Mrs. L. S 1.00 Henry, Aliss E. J 5.00 Dye, Mrs. Mamie 5.00 Cary, Miss Thelma L 5.00 Hogan, Airs. Florence 1.50 Chaires, Mrs. G. M 5.00 E Hogan, Aliss Frances 5.00

Clayton, Mr. Charles R 5.00 Edmondson, Miss Elsie...... $ 5.00 Holcum, Aliss Nannie 5.00 Coleman, Mrs. B. J 1.00 Edwards, Mrs. Willie Mae.. 5.00 Holloway, Mrs. Jessie 10.00 July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 25

Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.. 22.00 Alartin, Air. and .Mrs. E. AI.. 100.00 T Holmes, Mr. E. H 5.00 Matthews, .Miss Florida 5.00 Taplin, Airs. Dorothy G $ 5.00 AI Horton, Mrs. Georgia 10.75 ays, Airs. AI. J 1.00 Tate, Aliss Ella 10.75 Alinnifield, Airs. Lizzie 5.00 Hunt, Mrs. Florence 15.00 Tate, Mr. J. E 10.00 Alolette, Airs. Sarah 10.00 Taylor, Dr. and Airs. Alfred. 25.00 Alonroe, Aliss I Alary F 10.00 Telafare, Aliss Josie L 1.00 Aloore, Airs. Gussie D 7.50 Ferrell, Aliss Carrie L 5.00 Ingraham, Mrs. Anna $ 3.00 Aloore, Airs. Sadie I) 10.00 Terry, Airs. Annie AI 5.00 Aloore, Airs. Sarah P 2.00 J Timbers, Aliss Nellie 5.00 Alurphy, Airs. Josephine 10.75 Toliver, Air. A. C 10.75 Jackson, Mrs. Doretha $ 5.00 A lurry, Airs. Ellen S 5.00 Toliver, Air. Frank 5.00 Jackson, Dr. R. Benton 5.00 Towns, Air. and Airs. G 10.00 James, Mrs. Desser Boaz.... 15.00 N Tracy, Airs. J. B 10.00 James, Mrs. Isma W 5.00 Nelson, Airs. Anna $25.00 Jenkins, Mrs. Ethel C 25.00 Nelson, Airs. Mary E 25.00 u Johnson. Mr. H. B 2.50 Upshaw, Air. T. D $ 5.00 Johnson, Airs. Mary E 10.00 P Johnston, Airs. Ruby F 5.00 w Jones, Airs. AI. Armand 5.00 Parker, Aliss Ella $ 5.00 Warner, Airs. Frank Jones, Airs. Jessie B 5.00 Parks, Airs. Emma S 5.00 $ 5.00 Jones, Aliss Jessie .Mae 5.00 Payne, Air. Wrentv E 15.00 Warner, Dr. H. Ward 100.00

Pearson, Air. and Airs. Earl. . 5.00 Wartman, Airs. Jessie ...... 10.75 K Peters, Mr. H. Butler 25.00 Weaver, Airs. Juanita 5.00

Pipes, Dr. and Airs. W. H.. . 10.00 White, Aliss Mabel 5.00 Keith, Air. Ernest $ 5.00 Pitts, Airs. C. AI 60.00 White, Miss Madeline 5.00 Kelley, Airs. Velva 5.00 Pope, Airs. Mildred 5.00 Whittaker, Air. & Airs. J. P.. 25.00 Kendrick, Air. Walter 15.00 Porter, Dr. J. R 60.00 Williams, Airs. Ala Belle.... 10.00 Kyles, Airs. Euphrasia 5.00 Prather, Airs. Hattie J 5.00 Williams, Aliss Margaret. ... 1.00 Pratt, Airs. Pauline 100.00 Williams, Rev. Percy 5.00 L Puckett, Airs. D. H 1.00 Williams, Pres, and .Mrs. S. D. 10.00 Lacy, Aliss Ellen $ 5.00 Wise, Aliss Ruby 5.00 Land, Air. E. C 5.00 R Woods, Air. Naurice 5.00 Lawson, Airs. Alollie 5.00 Reid, Airs. Mary Lou $ 6 00 Y Lemon, Miss E. E 10.00 Rivers, Airs. Gertrude B 5.00 Lemon, Airs. M. Lucille 10.00 Robinson, Airs. Ethel 5.00 Yates, .Mr. C. R $25.00 Lewis, Aliss A. V 5.00 Rogers, Airs. Sarah Hunt. . .. 5.00 Yates, Airs. C. R 30.00 Lewis, Airs. Beulah 15.00 Rucker, Aliss Hazel 5.00 Logan, Aliss Julia 5.00 Clubs and Of'ganizations Love, Aliss Cleo 5.00 S Atlanta Lyons, Aliss Lottie 5.00 University Louisville Saundle, Airs. Lucille H $ 5.00 Club $50.00 Me Sellers, Airs. Ruth L 50.00 Progressive Federated Club, Settles, Airs. E. H 5.00 .Macon, Ga 3.00 .McClain, Airs. Eloize $ 2.50 Shaw, Airs. Salina 5.00 Previously reported $58,672.54 McClendon, Dr. James 10.00 Shivery, Aliss .Madeline 5.00 Contributions, AIcCoy, Airs. Irene 5.00 Smith, Airs. Carrie D 1.00 1045-46 ....$2,078.75 AIcCrory, Airs. Anita 5.00 Smith, Air. Romeo 11.00 Alclver, Aliss Julia B 5.00 Spain, Airs. Hattie M 5.00 Matching sum from Alclver, Aliss Willa 5.00 Speight, Miss Lillie 5.00 the General Edu¬ Steele, Air. I). P 25.00 cation Board 2,078.75 M Stewart, Airs. Cassandra B.. . 12.50

.Macbeth, AI r>. Edwina $ 5.00 Strong, Airs. L. AI 5.00 4,157.50 Maddox, Mrs. E. B 1.00 Sullivan, .Miss Mabel V 20.00 Total $62,830.04 Page 26 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

REQUIESCAT IN PACE

Miss Matlulde M. Blair died at his home in Atlanta on March \ ork; and a foster-mother, Miss Hat¬ 25, after an extended illness. tie Nichols of Atlanta, with whom Miss Mathilde M. Blair, a gradu¬ A native of Madison, Georgia, she lived for many years. ate of the normal department in 1928, Mr. Butler entered Tuskegee Insti¬ died on February 25, 1946, in New tute after leaving Atlanta University; York City. he was later graduated from Tuske¬ gee. For several years he served as “Tillie,” as Miss Blair was known Mrs. Leola principal of schools in Covington and Crosby to her many schoolmates and friends, Social Circle, Georgia. However, he was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the M rs. Leola Crosby, former Atlanta left the field of education to enter the daughter public school teacher and business of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. postal service. Blair. She received her elementary woman, died in Atlanta on Sunday, The deceased was a faithful mem¬ education at Cookman Institute. March 24, after an extended illness. ber of Friendship Baptist Church, An only daughter of Mrs. Joseph During her undergraduate days at from which he was buried on March Atlanta University, sang Dobbs, Mrs. Crosby was graduated Miss Blair 28. For 27 years he was treasurer of from Atlanta University in 1923. with the famous Atlanta University the Friendship Baptist Church Sun¬ For a number of quartet. She was also a skilled pianist. day School. years she was on the faculties of Booker T. Washington M iss Blair served as head of the Surviving the deceased are a widow, High School and the E. R. Carter music and art department at Calhoun the former Marie Bradshaw; two School. For nine years she was secre¬ Industrial School (Calhoun, Ala¬ nieces and two nephews. tary-bookkeeper with the realty firm bama) for three years, and for three of Cornelius King and Sons. years she taught music and art in the Survivors high school of Greensboro, North include her husband, Carolina. A. I). V. Crosby of Columbus, Ohio; her mother, Mrs. Joseph Dobbs; and Survivors are a sister, Mrs. Lula Mrs. Hallie an uncle, W. G. McAfee of Detroit. Partee of Atlanta; and two brothers, Lumpkin Lawrence R. and Jesse B. Blair of Carter New York City. Atlantans were grieved at the pass¬ Dr. Andreiv Henry ing of Mrs. Hallie Lumpkin Carter, a graduate of the normal department Dibble Mrs. Rachel O. Brown of Atlanta University in 1924, who Dr. Andrew died in New ^ ork City on December Henry Dibble, a grad¬ uate of Atlanta Atlanta lost one of its esteemed ed¬ 12, 1945, after an illness of approxi¬ University in 1924, died ucators in the death of Mrs. Rachel mately six months. suddenly in Louisville, Kentucky, O. on May 30, 1946. He was in his Brown, Atlanta University ’04, M rs. Carter, wife of Leroy Earle normal department, who died sud¬ forty-sixth year. Carter, had not long taken up resi¬ A denly on December 2, 1945, after an dence in New York where her hus¬ native of Camden, South Caro¬ illness of one day. She had served as band was field representative of the lina, Dr. Dibble engaged in special work in principal of E. P. Johnson School for N. A. A. C. P. For a number of biology at the University of twenty years. years prior to her marriage, she Chicago, following his graduation from Atlanta Later he M rs. Brown was prominent in ac¬ taught in the David T. Howard Jun¬ University. entered tivities of the Parent-Teacher Asso¬ ior High School, Atlanta. Meharry Medical College, from which he was ciation in Atlanta for more than two graduated in 1929. At one time, Mrs. Carter was pres¬ He served his interneship at Freed¬ decades. ident of the Junior Welfare League; man’s Hospital in Washington, D. C. secretary of the Gate City Teachers Dr. Dibble first practiced medicine Association; and an active member of in Warrenton, Virginia. In St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. 1941, he was appointed United States public Mr. John Besides her husband Butler Mrs. Carter is health surgeon for Louisville, and just survived by two children, LeRov prior to his death he had received an Mr. John Evans at¬ Butler, who Earl, Jr., and Betty Jean; two sisters appointment as public health surgeon tended Atlanta University in 1893, and two brothers of Brooklyn, New for the State of Kentucky. July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 21

Mr. Matthew Dowdell and a graduate of Atlanta Univer¬ Spelman College. In addition to su¬ sity’s normal department in 1894. pervising the program at Spelman, the deceased served on the faculty of the .Matthew W. Dowdell, a student For a number of years Mrs. Prin¬ Atlanta University School of Educa¬ in the preparatory school of Atlanta gle was associated with the Grand tion. United Order of Odd Fellows in University in 1889, died at his home Georgia, and at one time was Grand M iss Reed was graduated from in Atlanta on February 25, 1946. He Matron of the Household of Ruth of Fisk University in 1926 with the de¬ was 74 years of age. Georgia. She had resided in Savan¬ gree of master of arts. She also had Mr. Dowdell was born in Sumter nah for the past 25 years. done graduate study at the Univer¬ sities of and and County, Georgia, where he received Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Chicago Minnesota at Columbia University. his elementary education. After at¬ Edith Lautier of Chicago, Illinois; M rs. Edna Woodward of Atlanta; tending Atlanta University he taught Before coming to Spelman, Miss and three grandchildren; Miss Louise Reed served as school for a few years in Appling supervisor of elemen¬ Lautier, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and tary schools at Fort Valley High and County, Georgia. Maurice and William Woodward of Industrial School in Georgia, and as In 1895, Mr. Dowdell entered the Atlanta; and one sister, Mrs. Ida director of Negro work in Child Care railway mail service and served in this Jewell Evans of Atlanta. and Parent Education at the Univer¬ Funeral services were held on sity of Cincinnati. position for 39 years until he was re¬ May 16 in Atlanta at the South Atlanta tired in 1932. buneral services were held on Sat¬ Methodist Church. Aside from serving as secretary of urday, December 8, in Sisters Chapel, Spelman College; and again on Mon¬ the Boys Club in Atlanta, Mr. Dow¬ day, December 10, at the chapel of dell was a member of Prince Hall the Haugabrooks Funeral Home in M asons for nearly fifty years. In the Miss Pearlie E. Reed Atlanta. M asonic Grand Lodge of Georgia, he The friends and associates of Miss At the Spelman service, Father was chairman of the auditing com¬ Pearlie E. Reed, head of the Spelman Hunter, rector of St. Paul’s Episco¬ mittee on foreign correspondence. He pal Church, of which .Miss Reed was College Nursery School and a pioneer was also the founder and editor of the a loyal member, conducted the service, in childhood education in the South, assisted Prince llall Masonic Review, a peri¬ by Reverend Maynard H. were shocked by her death which oc¬ Jackson, pastor of Friendship Baptist odical which has become definitely es¬ curred in Atlanta on December 5, Church, who read the Scriptures; and tablished throughout the Masonic 1945. Miss Reed had been at her post John P. Whittaker, registrar of At¬ reading world. lanta University, who gave the obit¬ at the Nursery School until Novem¬ uary. Surviving are a widow, Mrs. Anna ber 28, and had been indisposed in her Dowdell; a brother, and two sisters. Musical room on the campus until December offerings were by the Spelman College Glee Club which 5, when she was taken to the DwTelle sang “The Lord’s Prayer” (Mal- Hospital, where she died. Mrs. G. M. Hearst lotte) ; by AI iss MaeBelle Finch of M iss Reed had been head of the Atlanta, who sang the spiritual, “1 Stood on the River of Mrs. G. M. Hearst, the former Nursery School at Spelman since Jordan”; and by the Choir of St. Paul’s Church. A 1930, one year after the affiliation of Mary Meta Dolly of Alachua City, message for the living from Father Atlanta Florida, died on December 24. 1945. University, Morehouse Col¬ Hunter, concluded the service. lege and Spelman College and the or¬ Mrs. Hearst was a native of Sa¬ I ganization of the Laboratory School he pallbearers, all co-workers of vannah, Georgia. She was graduated of which the the deceased in the Atlanta Univer¬ from the normal department of At¬ Nursery School was a part. She organized the School which sity System, were Dr. Alfonso Elder, lanta University in 1890. has attracted wide attention of educa¬ Dr. Henry C. Hamilton, Dr. Joseph L. tors not only from the United States Whiting, Dr. O ran \\ . Eagleson, Benjamin F. Bullock, and Mr. Whit¬ Mrs. Matnie Pringle but from a number of foreign coun¬ tries. Indicative of Miss Reed’s pio¬ taker. I he flower girls, all former Mrs. Mamie Pringle, wife of Mr. neering in the field is the fact that the pupils of Miss Reed in the Nursen Duncan Pringle, prominent business¬ Hampton and Bennett College Nur¬ School, were Edna Whittaker, Mar¬ lene Dobbs, Rebecca man of Savannah, Georgia, died at sery Schools, both considered top¬ Jackson, Nina the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edna flight in the South, have as directors King Calhoun, Minnie Rose James and Borders. Woodward, in Atlanta, on May 13, young women who received their Jule 1946. She was a native of Atlanta training in the field under her at ((Jontinned on page 28) I\k)c 2S THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

Mr. Albert L. Scott War, serving as a member of the com¬ Alumni News mittee on supply, Council of National {Continued from p(i()e 23) I'he l Diversity was grieved at the Defense, 1917; and as chief of the passing of Albert L. Scott, president supply and equipment division, Army Ex-1941 of the New York firm of Lockwood Quartermaster Corps. F o r m e r Sgt. Greene Engineers, Incorporated, who Mr. Scott was a trustee of Chicago Moddie D. Rob¬ died on March 2, 1946, at Chappa- erts, a graduate University, Brown University, More¬ student in sociol¬ qua, New \ ork. house College and Spelman College. ogy at Atlanta

Until recently he was president of University in Mr. Scott in his 68th year, was 1940-41 and dur¬ the board of trustees of Riverside elected to the hoard of trustees of ing the summer Church and a member of the Ameri¬ session of 19 4 1, Atlanta L niversity in 1945, and al¬ who spent two can Historical Society, Delta Upsilon though his term of service was less years overseas with the 629th Bat¬ fraternity and the University Club. talion, has been than 12 months, his wise and sympa¬ honorably discharged from the He was a former president of Rocke¬ army, and is now an ap¬ thetic counsel has been greatly missed. pointee with the U. S. Civilian Ad¬ feller Center, Incorporated. ministrative Headquarters in Ger¬ Mr. Scott achieved special promi¬ many. He is pleasantly located in one Survivors are a widow, Mrs. Alice of Germany’s finest hotels and daily nence in 1932 when the Laymen’s Chamberlain Scott; a daughter, Mrs. enjoys “the finest American food.” Foreign M issions Inquiry report was Robert Dods of Newton Center, After putting in forty hours per released after two years’ work by a M assachusetts; and four sons: David week on his job, Roberts has time to group of which he was chairman. The and Richard of Chappaqua; Albert attend three classes a week at the In¬ inquiry had been financed largely by L., Jr., of Martha’s Vineyard, Mas¬ ternational University. He is classi¬ John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who asked sachusetts; and Lt. Commander Rob¬ fied as a U. S. Civilian Administra¬ Mr. Scott to head the committee. ert of the USNR. tor, with duties including training The report recommended far-reaching and supervising clerks for administra¬ changes in the plan and scope of mis- tive work. Recently the army select¬ sionarv work in the bar East. Mrs. Stella Pullin ed him as part-time instructor in one of the In 1933, Mr. Scott acceded to an¬ constabulary training schools. Tho mas other of Mr. Rockefeller’s requests Mr. Roberts was married to Miss

and conducted a study of liquor con¬ Funeral services for the late Mrs. Virginia Eberhardt, a 1936 graduate trol systems of Clark in the United States and Stella Pullin Thomas were held on College, on January 3, 1946, Canada in the hope of finding an ideal Friday, March 1, at First Congrega¬ just before sailing for Europe. plan for use in this country. During tional Church, Atlanta. Born in At¬ both of these 1942 surveys he kept up his lanta, Mrs. Thomas attended Atlanta work as president of Lockwood University and was graduated from Miss Morlene Ferrell was married Greene, designers of large industrial the normal department in 1887. on November 19, 1945, to Warrant plants. Officer Thurman Clifford Fletcher of She is survived by two sons, Har¬ Los Angeles, California. Born in Cleveland, Mr. Scott old H. Thomas and Dr. Mark A. Miss Matilda Lynette Saine is studied at Brown University and be¬ Thomas of Atlanta; a sister-in-law, completing a year of study towards M rs. Clara M. P gan his engineering work with Lock- itts; two nieces, the Ph.D. degree at the University of wood Greene in 1900, holding various Mrs. Louise Williams of Detroit, Chicago. executive positions until he became Michigan, and Mrs. Mae Yates of Miss Alma Stone has completed a Atlanta; and one president in 1926. He was a “dollar- nephew, Attorney year of advanced study at the Juilliard a-year ’ man during the first World Leigh B. Maxwell of New York. School of M usic. July, 1946 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 29

1943 Mrs. Ida L. Horton is the first Miss Mary E. Negro psychiatric social worker to be M iss Grace Hewell of Chatta¬ Turner of St. employed by the Oteen, North Caro¬ Louis, M issouri. lina, Veterans’ Administration. nooga, Tennessee, is a member of the has been awarded first M iss group of hostesses to work with a fellowship in li¬ Lucy L. Hyman of \\ inston- Salem, North Carolina, has been ap¬ the Army of Occupation. She is now brary service by pointed librarian at stationed with Allied Headquarters the University of Winston-Salem Teachers College. in Frankfort. Michigan for the An appointment as catalog librarian M iss Wilmoth A. Carter of the period July 1, at Prairie View University has gone 1946 -June 30, Atlanta University faculty is the re¬ to M iss Thelma E. Lewis of Hous¬ 1947. She will work for the A.M. cipient of a Rosenwald fellowship and ton, Texas. L.S. degree while serving in a position will study next year at Columbia in the general library at the Univer¬ Miss Althea Ortique of New Or¬ L niversitv. sity of Michigan. leans, Louisiana, is working on a spe¬ cial cataloguing project for the sum¬ Miss Jessie M. Wilson of Austin, mer at State Teachers College, Mont¬ 1944 Texas, has begun employment as gomery, Alabama. medical social worker with the Los Mrs. Minnie Redmond Bowles has Angeles General Hospital, California. Miss Lois Payne of Kansas City, Missouri, has been appointed acting entered upon new duties as assistant head of the children’s department of to Mr. Arna Bontemps, librarian of 1946 the Kansas City Public Library for Fisk University. M rs. Maudelle Scarlett Ateca has the summer. received a summer appointment as Miss Anna Bernice Bryant was Miss Homie Regulus of Atlanta, acting librarian of the Carnegie Pub¬ married to Mr. Earl Middleton on Georgia, is employed during the sum¬ lic Library in Savannah, Georgia. mer as an assistant librarian at Fort February 10, 1946, in Orangeburg, Mrs. Ateca also supervises a branch Valley State College. South Carolina. of this library. M iss Louise Roane is on the sum¬ Mr. Lincoln Jay Harrison, who is M iss Ellene "Ferrell Bentley has mer library staff of Virginia Union been appointed to the staff of the At¬ University. studying towards the Ph.D. degree at lanta University Library. She will the M iss Hazel Taft of Greenville, University of Illinois, has passed have charge of the recently-acquired South the C. P. A. examination in Louisiana. Slaughter Collection. Carolina, has received a sum¬ mer appointment in the library at M iss Gladys Bolling of Phoebus, State "Teachers College in Montgom¬ 1945 Virginia, has been appointed as an ery, Alabama. In the fall, she will be the new librarian at assistant during the summer session in Dudley High Mr. James Hadley has been ap¬ the Hampton Institute Library. School, Greensboro, North Carolina. pointed executive secretary of the M iss Ethel Vaughn of Lawrenee- Mr. Alfred D. Brooks has received Urban League in Tampa, Florida. ville, Virginia, is an assistant in the an appointment as senior teacher in library at State Teachers College, the Social Service Division of the Miss Victoria Johnson has been Montgomery, Alabama. Council for the Blind in Florida. granted a leave of absence from Spel- Miss Barbara W ells of Greensboro, man M iss Eddie College and will study during Queen Brown is teach¬ North Carolina, is on the summer 1946-47 at the University of Toronto, ing sociology at Arkansas State Col¬ faculty of Atlanta l nivers-ity. on a grant from the General Educa¬ lege. M iss Fannie P. White of V ilming- tion Board. Miss Pearlie Ross Brown has been ton, North Carolina, has been ap¬ appointed case worker with the Mu¬ pointed librarian at Williston Indus¬ Miss Juanita Samuels was one of nicipal Bureau of Social Service in trial School, Wilmington, North Car¬ ten American Red Cross workers Louisville, Kentucky. olina. sent overseas in December to assist Miss American troops in the Philippines Phyllis Dews of Augusta, Georgia, is field director of the Girl and in the European theatre. P H Y L O N Scouts in Atlanta. is Miss Bennie R. Touchstone has Miss Bessie I)rewr\ of Selma, Ala¬ Atlanta l niversit) > Quarterlv been appointed a social worker with bama, has been appointed assistant Journal of Race and Culture the Indianapolis, Indiana, public librarian at Albany State College in school system. (Georgia. / ou should he a subscriber Page 30 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1946

l hnversity Events Social Science Teachers Committee at Penn State, Franklin and Marshall College, Skidmore, ( (Inn tin lied from page 1 1 ) Meet Haverford and the University of Pennsylvania. The Eleventh Annual Conference Eisiting Faculty at of the Association of Social Science He has been appointed to the ex¬ Summer School Teachers in Negro Schools was held ecutive committee of the Southern at Atlanta University, May 3 and 4. Sociological Society, and as chairman Theme of the meeting was “The Role of the National Social Action Com¬ I he workshop consultants included of Social Studies in the Atomic Age.” mittee of the Omega Psi Phi Frater¬ Dr. Elsa Aleder, creative science edi¬ M iss Lillian Smith, co-editor of nity. tor of Houghton-Mifflin Company; South Today, addressed the confer¬ Dr. Lou LaBrant of New York Uni¬ ence’s public meeting. Her subject Dr. Nathaniel P. Tillman, chair¬ man of the versity; Dr. W. A. Mason of the was “ The Shape of Things to Come department of English, in Human has been appointed to L mted States Public Health Service; Relations.” the Committee on Teacher Education of the Na¬ and Dr. John J. DeBoer, professor of tional Council of Teachers of Eng¬ education at New York University. lish.

In April, he spoke at the Teachers’ Institute at Beach School in Savan¬ An exhibition of hand-wrought nah, Georgia; and in June, he deliv¬ jewelry went on display on March 31 ered commencement addresses at State Anne M. Cooke Returns at the Atlanta University Library. Teachers College, Montgomery, Ala¬ Created by Winifred Mason of New bama; and at the Mobile branch of To Summer the Theatre A ork City, the showing contained College. earrings, bracelets, necklaces, pins, tie Dr. Anne M. Cooke of Howard In the May issue of the Chatham clasps and cuff links in silver, bronze l niversity, who organized the Atlan¬ County Teachers Bulletin appears an leaf, copper and gold. The creations article by Dr. Tillman entitled “1 he ta University Summer Theatre in were based on designs gathered from Challenge of the Language Arts.” 1934 and who served as its director Haiti and the Virgin Islands, and rep¬ for a number of years, returned this Registrar John P. Whittaker at¬ resented creative expressions of the tended the annual meeting of the As¬ summer as visiting professor in speech folklore of the people. sociation of Deans and and dramatics. Registrars in Negro Schools which met in March at 1 he staff of the Summer Theatre Prairie View University. included Miss W. Frances Perkins, M rs. Catherine E. Wilcox of At¬ director of dramatics at Spelman Col¬ lanta, a former office secretary in the lege; and Mr. Arthur Clifton Lamb, Norfolk division of Virginia State Faculty Items director of dramatics at Johnson C. College, has been appointed assistant Smith University. (Continued from page 21) secretary to the registrar of Atlanta University. Three plays appeared on the Sum¬ Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, chairman of the mer Theatre bill. They were ‘‘Deci¬ department of sociology, has an Air. Hale Woodruff, director of article “Politics and Race” in the sion.” Edward Chodorov’s drama at¬ art education in the Atlanta Univer¬ July, 1946, issue of the Nation. An¬ tacking the threat of Fascism in sity System, spent two days on the other article “Sectional Iniquity” ap¬ campus of Tougaloo College in April. America; “Mr. Pirn Passes By,” a pears in the July issue of the Negro In addition to discussing “The Value comedy by the English playwright, Digest. of Art in Everyday Life,” he con¬ A. A. Milne: and “The Old Maid,” Dr. Reid recently lectured under ducted three demonstrations in water bv Zoe Akins. the auspices of the Friends Service color painting. July. IQ46 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 31

Scltaai Calendar

ASSEMBLE : June 11—President Rufus E. Clement of SUMMER THEATRE: July 4, 5, 6—“Mr. Pirn Atlanta University Passes By,” by A. A. Milne Subject: “ Isolationism"

ASSEMBLY : July 9—Dr. Rushton Coulborn, Chair¬ man of the Department of History, Atlanta L ni- ASSEMBLE : June 18—Mr. Frank McAllister, Direc¬ versitv tor of the Georgia Workers’ Education Service, and I)r. Ira DeA. Reid, Chairman of the Depart¬ Subject: “The Atomic Era—Another Ice Age" ment of Sociology, Atlanta University Subject: “Is the South That Bad?" ASSEMBLY: July 16—Mr. Ralph McGill, Editor, 77/e Atlanta Constitution

ASSEMBLE : June 25—Mr. Kendall Weisiger, Chair¬ Subject: “Politics in Georgia” man of the Board of Trustees, Morehouse College Subject: “Must Destruction Be Our Destiny?" SUMMER THEATRE: July 18, 19, 20—“The Old Maid,” by Zoe Akins

GUIDANCE AND PERSONNEL CLUB: June 25— ASSEMBLY": July 23—Mr. Jesse O. Thomas, Assistant Mr. Roy Vincent of the Rehabilitation Center to the Vice Chairman, American Red Cross

Subject: “War, Peace, and Race" LEC El RE: June 2b—Dr. George Mitchell, Director of Veterans’ Services for the Southern Regional THE BEN GREET PLAYERS: Conference July 29—“Macbeth”

Subject: “The Responsibility of Leaders to Veterans in their Communities" ASSEMBLY : June 30—Rev. William Holmes Borders, Pastor, Wheat Street Baptist Church Subject: “Are the Old (rods Obsolete?" SUMMER THEATRE: June 27, 28, 29—“Decision,” by Edward Chodorov ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBIT: August 1

ASSEMBLE : July 2—Mr. Alex Miller, Regional Di¬ C ONCER 1 : August 1—Summer School Chorus and rector of the Anti-Defamation League ()rchestra Subject: “The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia"

PRESIDENTS RECEPTION: August 4—The Res¬ idence GUIDANCE AND PERSONNEL CLUB: July 2— Dr. 11. V. Eagleson, C hairman of the Departments of Physics, Clark College and Morehouse College SI MMER COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES: Au¬ Subject: “Group Education through Recreation" gust 8 THE

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The School of Social Work

a graduate school offering a two-year curriculum for prospective social workers, leading to the degree of Master of Social Work or to the professional certificate.

The School of Library Service requiring college graduation for admission and offering a one-year curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Library Service.

The School of Education a graduate school offering curricula leading to the M.A. and M.Ed. degrees, designed to meet the needs of men and women who have chosen education as a professional career.

The School of Business Administration a graduate school offering thorough theoretical and practical train¬ ing in the fields of business affairs, leading to the degree of Master of Business Administration.

Spelman College a strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for women.

Morehouse College a strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for men.

The Summer School in which the Atlanta institutions for higher education of Negroes combine under the direction of Atlanta University to offer courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The Laboratory Elementary School and the Nursery School offering an opportunity for experimentation, observation and prac¬ tice teaching.

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