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TAtlarfta.University Bulletin A Salute to Alumni Output = Input Input-Alumni Productivity Output - Educational Motivation .Atlanta, University “Bulletin JULY, 1972 Browne Named Alumnus Of The Year 3 Spotlight: 1972 Alumni 4 Baccalaureate 6 Commencement: 7,000th Student Graduates .... 8 Commencement Address By Samuel Proctor .... 10 Special Degrees Given 14 Alumni Association Hears Emma Darnell 17 Atlanta University Negro Art Collection 18 Atlanta University alumni featured in this issue have ex¬ celled in the professional fields of teaching, social work, Campus Briefs politics, art, the humanities, medicine, library service, penal 20 corrections, poetry and business. Their contributions to the total society, which includes Faculty Items 28 Atlanta University and the Black community, are noteworthy not only because they have achieved, but the manner in Alumni News 32 which they have achieved recognition. These alumni have exhibited relevancy, action, creativity, In Memoriam 36 and humanitarianism in their accomplishments, serving a two-fold purpose in society: (1) output—professional train¬ Alumni Giving Fund 39 ing received at A.U. has been released in the form of pro¬ ductive work,and (2) input—quality professionalism exhibited in alumni achievements serves as a model to matriculating students at the university. Spotlighted on the cover are Ersa Poston (top), Fred Browne, Elizabeth Koontz, Aaron Brown (L-R),and Grace Hamilton and Jewel Simon (bottom). (Article on page 4.) SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA There are graduates of Atlanta University who return BROWNE more resources to their alma mater than they took away during the course of their education. The 1972 Alumnus of the Year is such a graduate. NAMED Frederick D. Browne, Sr., who received from the uni¬ versity an undergraduate degree and two Master’s degrees, has more than replaced the services he utilized during the ALUMNUS course of his education. When Mr. Browne was selected by the Atlanta Univer¬ OF THE sity Alumni Association as recipient of this year’s Alumnus of the Year plaque, among the factors the association considered were the following: YEAR - - Mr. Browne is one of the few three-time graduates of Atlanta University. He received an A.B. degree before the institution became an all-graduate university. Then he returned for a Master of Arts in Education in 1946, and a Master of Arts in Political Science in 1954. -- For eight years he was a faculty member during the Atlanta University Summer School, teaching in the social science and school administration fields. - - He has a long and distinguished career in education which spans 30 years, beginning as a high school principal in Leaksville, N.C., and later serving schools in Georgia and the Atlanta area. His 17 years as principal at H. R. Butler Elementary School in Atlanta boosted that school to Pacemaker status among all Georgia schools. He is also a past president of the Georgia Teachers and Education Dr. Jarrett presents Alumnus of the Year Award to Mr. Browne at annual Alumni Dinner during Commencement Association (GTEA). weekend. -- For 15 years, Mr. Browne has been vice president of the Atlanta University Alumni Association. In addition to his contributions in education, Mr. Browne has served such organizations as the Boy Scouts of America, the Grady Homes Girls Club, the National Negro College Fund, the Westside Voters League, the Georgia Youth Committee and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, among others. He adds his Alumnus of the Year award to other merits and honors, including the City of Atlanta Citizenship Award, and the National Council of Christians and Jews' Good Neighbor Award. When Mr. Browne retired in 1971 from Butler School, he felt himself out of the workaday mainstream, and restless. So he became director of Community and Public Relations for Alterman Foods, Inc., and started an in- house newsletter for employees of the Big Apple, K-mart. ABC Food Stores, Food Giant, Big A Drugs, and other divisions of the company. THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN/JULY, 1972/3 OUTPUT5INPUT 1972 ALUMNI INPUT STRONG IN MANY FIELDS T he alumni of Atlanta University have been making their impact and contributions felt throughout the South and the nation, in the fields they have selected since leaving the university. Among the school’s graduates are college presidents, scientists, re¬ searchers, teachers, and community leaders, serving their community and country in myriad ways, each turning his or her experience and education into benefits for others. Some outstanding examples of alum¬ ni efforts have come to statewide at¬ tention. Contributions of others, per¬ haps not so widely recognized, are of no less significance. The Atlanta Uni¬ versity Bulletin has attempted to single out the contributions of several alum¬ ni who have merited a great deal of attention over the past three years. Among these are DR. AUGUST Aaron Brown CURLEY, who earned a Master’s de¬ gree in chemistry in 1964. Dr. Cur¬ ley's contribution has been in the area of intensive research on the effects of hexachlorophene, a common house¬ hold ingredient contained in many germicidal products — soaps, deter¬ gents and mouthwashes, cosmetics and even infant cleaning preparations. Dr. Curley presented his efforts to a special committee of the President’s Ersa Poston Cabinet Committee on Pesticides. As 4 t • ' V*+"H r* Grace Hamilton James Colston Jewel Simon a result of his work, and of others in Housing and Urban Development. SIDNEY D. WILLIAMS, who re¬ this field, the cleaner’s use may be MRS. BOBBIE S. WARE, a 1967 ceived a Normal degree in 1914, curtailed. School of Social Work graduate, was served as president of Elizabeth City In a different arena of research, appointed chief of field social services State University in North Carolina for DR. AARON BROWN, who holds a in the Georgia Department of Family 12 years, and was recently given degree in education earned in 1932, and Children Services. In this posi¬ president emeritus status at that insti¬ has served as head of a research cen¬ tion, she was the first Black person tution.. ter at Dillard University which houses to be named to a high administrative MRS. ELIZABETH DUNCAN more than five million items docu¬ position in the department. KOONTZ, who received her degree DR. JAMES A. COLSTON, who menting the early education of Black in education in 1941, has been ap¬ received his Master of Education de¬ people in America. pointed to Deputy Assistant of Labor Many graduates hold important gree in 1933, is president of Bronx in the U.S. Department of Labor. She posts with federal or state offices, Community College of the City Uni¬ continues to serve as director of the where the decisions they participate versity of New York. He also serves department's Women’s Bureau as in affect the lives of many people. on the board of managers of St. Bar¬ well. DR. ROSALYN M. PATTERSON, nabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases MRS. ERSA HINES POSTON, a who received a degree in biology in in Bronx, New York. 1946 graduate of the School of So¬ 1960, has served as advisor on pro¬ DR. MARIE D. GADSDEN, who cial Work, is New York State's top gram policies for the U.S. Depart¬ graduated in English in 1945, is a woman in government—president of ment of the Interior. Peace Corps official in Lome, Togo. the state Civil Service Commission. C. TRAVIS HOLTZCLAW, a MRS. ESSIE DAVIS MORGAN, JOHN O. BOONE, a 1951 soci¬ 1967 graduate of the School of Social a 1946 graduate in Social Work, is ology graduate, is Massachusetts first Work, joined the regional staff of the chief of Medicine and Surgery Social Black Commissioner of Corrections U.S. Food and Nutrition Service in Works Programs for the Veterans Ad¬ and the fourth Black man to head a Atlanta, where he was placed in charge ministration. She was one of six ca¬ state penal institution system in the of state agency operations for the reer women in government to receive nation. U.S. Department of Agriculture's di¬ the Federal Woman's Award for MRS. GRACE T. rect food distribution program. 1971. HAMILTON, a MRS. DOROTHY SLADE WIL¬ MRS. JEWEL WOODWARD SI¬ 1957 graduate, became the first Black woman to sit in the LIAMS, a 1946 graduate in sociology, MON, artist and 1931 graduate of Georgia House of was appointed director of the Pro¬ Atlanta University, became the first Representatives. gram Development Division in the Black person to receive the Bachelor DR. HUGH D. SMYTHE, who re¬ Office of Community Planning and of Fine Arts degree from the Atlanta ceived his M.A. in Sociology in 1937, Management, U.S. Department of School of Art. has been ambassador to Sierra Leone. THH ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN/JULY, 1972/5 REV RALPH ABERNATHY SAYS: “SERVE NOTICE TO AMERICA” "I want you to serve notice today wealth and privilege mock the suffer¬ to America that you’re not here to ing of 40 million poor. We see un¬ wear a cap and gown, or receive a bounded affluence and abject poverty, diploma. Civil Rights statutes and racist policies, cries for “You’re here to take care of busi¬ peace, yet continued war. THE GRADUATING CLASS of ness. I call on you to say to America, 1972 there will be liberty and justice for all, here, they don’t have much, but or there will be liberty and justice they have all they need to bring us out for none.” of the crisis,” he added. The lad who had five loaves and The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy two fishes was able to be of service addressed the combined commence¬ because of three important factors, ment classes of Atlanta University, Dr.