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ON Tf IE COVER Page TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Calendar 4 Election in Atlanta 5 The Board Elects .. Minton, Greene, Manley and Nabrit 6 The Dedication of Dean Sage Hall 8 Rockefeller Grant to Aid in Training Teachers oi The portrait of the late Dean Sage English for Georgia in the foyer of Dean Sage Hall on the 8 Summaries and Abstracts Published in Carnegie Atlanta University campus claims the at¬ Research Program tention of (left to right) Mrs. David Mc- Alpin of Princeton, New Jersey; Law¬ 9 Facililies Extended for .. Graduate Work in rence J. MacGregor, chairman of the Chemistry Board of Trustees, Atlanta University and Trevor Arnett, honorary chairman 11 Lincoln Collection is Presented to Atlanta University of the Board, all of whom attended the Dedication of Dean Sage Hall on April 13 The Chatham County Workshop 24. 15 The 12th Annual Exhibition The portrait was a gift to the Uni¬ versity from Dean Sage, Jr., a member 16 Tribute to a Great Lady of the Board of Trustees. 18 The University Women 20 The 84th Commencement 24 Quote and Unquote 26 Spotlight 28 Faculty Items 30 Alumni News 33 Alumni Association Activities 34 Atlanta University ... A Center for Information on the L"N 34 University Scholars Appear in New Book on Racial Minorities 34 Miss Hortense Lilly Appointed to School of Social Work 34 School of Library Service Students Tour Washing¬ ton Libraries 38 Requiescat in Pace Series III JULY, 1953 No. 83 Entered as second-class matter February 28, 1935, at the Post Office at Atlanta, Georgia, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Accept¬ ance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, 538, P. L. & R. 2 CALENDAR CONVOCATION: January 22 — IT Stanley Jones. Mis¬ LECTURE: April 22 — Mrs. Frances Clark Savers. sionary and Author Author and Children's Librarian l NIVERSITY CENTER CONVOCATION: February DEDICAT ION: April 24 — Dean Sage Hall 1 John W. E. Bowen, Bishop, Atlantic Coast Area of the Methodist Church CONCER T: April 25 — Mannes-Gimpel-Silva Trio RECITAL: February 6 — George Matthews, Tenor ACCESSORY SHOW: April 27 — by Rich’s, Inc. l NTVERSITN CONVOCATION: February 10 — Pres¬ CON\ OCA1 ION: April 30 — Louis Fischer, entation of the Anna Chittenden Thayer Lincoln Foreign Collection Correspondent and Author Subject: “The Life and Death of Stalin” POLITICAL SYMPOSIl M: February 15 —Morris A. FORUM: Abram, Attorney; Samuel Z. Westerfield, Director, May 5 — Stefan H. Robock, Chief. Industrial Economics School of Business Administration Branch, TVA Subject: “The Negro in the Industrial Development RECTI of the South" AL: February 15 — Rawn Spearman, Tenor FORUM: CONCER I : February 25 — Rayford W. Logan, Chair¬ May 8— 1 lie Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman man. Department of History, Howard University Chorus and Orchestra Subject: “The Impending Crisis in Africa" MAY DAY PROGRAM: May 14 —Pupils of Labora¬ THE l NIVERSITY PLAYERS: February 25-27 — tory School “Medea” I HE l M VERS I I N PLAN ERS: May FORI M: March 14—-“Spreading 11—Stanley A. Cain, Chairman, De¬ the News,” by Ladv Gregory partment of Natural Resources, University of Michi¬ gan PRESIDENTS’ RECEPTION: May 23- Honoring the Graduating Classes of 53 f OKI \1: March 12 — Gelolo McHugh, Professor of Psy chology, Duke University BACCALAUREATE SERMON: June 7 — Harold Cooke I OKI M: March 27 — Abram L. Harris, Professor of Phillips, Minister of the First Baptist Church. Economics, l niversitv of Chicago Cleveland. Ohio Subject: “Government and Economic Welfare in the l nited States SPELMAN COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT EXER¬ CISES: June 8 — Lewis Machen Hammond. Dean EXHIBI I ION : March 29—I 12th Annual) Paintings, of the Graduate School. I he l nixersitx of \ irginia Sculpture and Prints b\ Negro Artists ATLANTA UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT EXER¬ CONGER I : \pril 10 Spelman College Glee Club CISES: June 8 — Clarence Faust. President of the Fund for the Advancement of Education I OKl M: \pril 15 Malcolm Pitt. Department of In¬ dian Studies. I he Hartford Seminar\ Foundation MOKEHOl SE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT EXER¬ Subject: “Renaissance in India Major Factors in CISES: June 9 John P. Davis, Editor of Our the Contemporarx Scene World 3 MRS. CLEMENT CONGRATULATES THE PRIMARY ELECTION WINNER FOR ATLANTA’S BOARD OF EDUCATION In January, 1954, President Rufus E. Clement is ex¬ “When Atlanta examined the vote tabulations, its won¬ der pected to take his seat as a member of the City of Atlanta’s grew. Dr. Clement had carried 40 of the 58 precincts. Board of Education. (There are really 59, but the latter is the City Hall where the absentee ballots are counted.) He won a majority of President Clement won his right to be on the Board in the white wards. And of the 18 lost he had failed to carry the May 13 primary election in Atlanta, when he defeated nine by margins of 22 and less. And of the nine others lost, J. H. Landers, who had served as a Board member since none had gone against him by a substantial margin. There 1927. was simply no getting around the fact that while the Of the many editorials on the election appearing in the valued and able Mayor William B. Hartsfield was winning press of the nation, the Bulletin likes the one in the May a fifth term, on the basis of progress and efficiency, aider- 15 issue of the Atlanta Constitution, which follows, in men committed to the city’s future were winning or lead¬ part: ing for runover contests, Dr. Clement had won the most “ impressive victory of all. Atlantans awoke Thursday morning to find they had elected the able, qualified president of Atlanta Uni¬ “And, even more important, Atlanta seemed proud, if versity, Dr. Rufus E. Clement, to the city’s school board. surprised, at having done the job. Thousands had voted He is the first Negro to he elected on a city-wide basis for Dr. Clement because the\ thought he deserved it. and since Reconstruction Days. The fact that two other Ne- because they believed the more than 25,000 Negro chil¬ eroes* were elected to the Citv Executive Committee, on a dren in the city's schools deserved representation. But none had ward basis, went almost unnoted. expected him to win. ... * One of the two was A. T. Walden, Atlanta University, !07. 4 THE BOARD ELECTS... MINTON, GREENE, MANLEY AND NABRIT Elected to the Board of Trustees of elected to the Board of Atlanta Uni¬ the bishopric, be has served the fol¬ Atlanta l niversity at the annual meet¬ versity, was also elected a member lowing districts: West Indies, South ing in April were Henry M. Minton, of the finance committee. Among oth¬ America and Tennessee, 1932-1936; president of Church & Dwight Com¬ er affiliations, he is a director of Arkansas, 1938-1940: Mississippi and pany, Incorporated, of New York Church & Dwight Company, Incor¬ Louisiana. 1932-1948: the Philadel¬ City: Dr. Sherman L. Greene, bishop porated, and of Church & Dwight, phia and Delaware Conferences, 1946- of the A.M.E. Church of Georgia, and Ltd.; a director of the Allied Chemical 1948; Alabama, 1948-1951; and Dr. Albert E. Manley, the president¬ & Dye Corporation; a director of the Georgia, since February, 1951. elect of Spelman College. Also elected Fort Orange Paper Company; a di¬ was Mrs. Constance C. Nabrit of At¬ rector of the Home Life Insurance Dr. Manley is a graduate of John¬ lanta as secretary of the Board and as Company and a trustee of the Wil- son C. Smith University, Columbia secretary of the University. liamsburgh Savings Bank. University and Stanford l niversity. SHERMAN L. GREENE CONSTANCE C. NABRIT ALBERT E. MANLEY HENRY M. MINTON Mr. Minton was graduated from Bishop Greene attended Alcorn Col¬ He has been a high school teacher Polytechnic Preparatory School of lege for three years. He earned the and principal in Asheville. North Car¬ Brooklyn. 11 e also attended the Co¬ bachelor of arts degree, however, olina; state inspector of Negro high lumbia l niversity pre-medical school. from Campbell College, and the bach¬ schools under the North Carolina In January, 1939. he started in elor of divinity degree from Shorter State Department of Public Instruc¬ business with Spencer Trask Com¬ College. He has honorary degrees that tion and dean of the College of Arts were and Sciences and pany. and in 1927, he became a mem¬ conferred upon him by Allen professor of educa¬ ber of the firm. Mr. Minton was l niversity and Wdlber force Univer¬ tion at North Carolina Coll ege. He elected to the vice-presidency of sity. entered upon his duties as president Church & Dwight Company, Incor¬ A former pastor of St. Matthew's of Spelman College on July 1. porated. on January 1. 1938. In Jan- Church in Shreveport. Louisiana; St. Mrs. a uary. 1953. he was elected to the pres¬ James Church in New Orleans, and Nabrit, native of New Lon¬ idency. Bethel Church in Little Rock, Arkan¬ don, Connecticut, is an honor gradu¬ In World War II. Mr. Minton was sas. he has served in the presidency ate of Boston l niversity. At present of to a member of the l . S. Army Air Lampton College, Alexandria, Lou¬ the administrative assistant Presi¬ Force. When he received his dis¬ isiana. and of Shorter College. Bish¬ dent Hufus L. Clement, she has served charge. he had attained the rank of op Greene has also served as chan¬ for many years as the assistant score- lieutenant-colonel. cellor of Campbell College and Morris tan and assistant treasurer of Atlanta Mr. Minton, in addition to being Brown College.