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Calendar 3

Contemporary Art Collection On View 4

Charter Day Convocation and Dinner 6

Eighty-Seven Degrees Awarded 9

The Summer School Program 12

In Memoriam 15

Campus Briefs 16

Faculty Items 19

File National Alumni Association 23

Alumni News 25

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The view from the Fair Street entrance to the Atlanta University Campus shows

Harkness Hall on the left with the Trevor Arnett Library, at the other end of the

quadrangle, in the background.

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Series III DECEMBER, 1959 No. 108

Second Class Postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia

2 Atlanta University Bulletin CALENDAR SI EXHIBITION: MMER SCHOOL FORUM: June 10 — President September 27 — October 7—A Displax B. E. Mays, Morehouse College. “Desegregation: A of French Books. Challenge to the Teacher." RECEPTION: October 4 — President and Mrs. Rufus SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: June 16 — Ralph McGill. E. Clement at Home to the Staffs and Faculties in Editor. Atlanta Constitution. “The South in Transi¬ the Atlanta University Center. tion. LECTURE: October 8 — Ralph McGill. Editor of the At¬

BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: June 17 — The American lanta Constitution. “Russia Revisited.”

LECTURE: October 13 — Dr. Lonnie Sex Revolution by Pitirim Sorokin — Reviewed by Cross, Depart¬ Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones, Dean of the School of Li¬ ment of Mathematics. “On Mathematics, the Space brary Service. Age, Blackboard and Other Related Matters. SUMMER THEATRE: June 18, 19, 20 — “The Re¬ BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: October 14 — The Negro luctant Debutante by William Douglas Home. Novel in America by Robert A. Bone — Reviewed SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: June 23 — President by Dr. A. Russell Brooks, Department of English. Rufus E. Clement. “Promotion of International Un¬ Morehouse College. derstanding Through Education.” CHARTER DAY CONVOCATION: October 16 — John LECTl RE: June 24 — Ralph Gaskins, Encyclopedia H. Johnson, President of the Johnson Publishing Britannica. “Development of Reference Sources. Company. SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: June 30 — Dr. Arthur C. CHARTER DAY DINNER: October 16 — Honoring Banks, Jr., Visiting Professor of Political Science. New Members of the Faculty and Staff. “Critical Issues in American-Soviet Relations. LECTURE: October 21 — Dr. Helen R. Wright, Dean SUMMER THEATRE: July 2, 3, 4 — “The Hollow” Emeritus of the University of Chicago School of by Agatha Christie. Social Administration. “American Opportunities in SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 7 — Morris B. International Social Work.” Abram, Attorney and Chairman of the Citizens ART EXHIBITION: October 25 — Formal Opening of Crime Commission. “Law and Social Change.” the Collection of Contemporary Art.

BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: LECTURE: — July 8 — The Climate of October 27 Dr. Lonnie Cross, Depart¬ Learning by Ordway Tweed and Some of My Best ment of Mathematics. “On Boole’s Algebra and Can¬ Friends Are Professors by George G. Williams — tor’s Theory of Sets.” Reviewed by Dr. Melvin Watson, Dean of the School TOWN MEETING: October 29 — President B. E. Mays. of Religion, Morehouse College, and Dr. James B. Morehouse College, Miss Marian Wright. Spelman McRae, Lincoln University. College, Miss Joyce Ross, Clark College. “The Mean¬ SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 14 — The Reverend ing and Significance of Khrushchev’s Visit.” Homer C. McEwen, First Congregational Church. LECTl RE: November 9 — Dr. R. F. Dawson, Colum¬ “Juvenile Delinquency: Everybodv's Problem.” bia University, Sigma Xi Lecturer. “The Biosynthe¬ sis of Tobacco Alkaloids." SI MMER THEATRE: July 16, 17, 18 — “The Doctor In Spite of Himself" by Moliere. LECTURE: November 10 — Dr. S. C. Saxena, Depart¬ ment of Mathematics. “The Evolution of RECEPTION: July 19 — President and Mrs. Rufus E. Geometry.” FORUM: November 10 — Dr. Herman H. Clement at Home to the Summer School Students, Long, Fisk Faculty and Staff. University. “Race Relations Consensus and Public SI Policy,” MMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 21 — Dr. Horace ATLANTA-MOREHOUSE-SPELMAN PLAYERS: No¬ Mann Bond, Dean of the School of Education. “The vember 12. Forgotten Child: The Search for the Academically 13, 14 — “The Skin of Our Teeth” by Talented.” Thornton Wilder. BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: November 18 — The Status SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 28 — William Gor¬ Seekers by Vance Packard — Reviewed don. Journalist and Niemann Fellow. “Three Types by Dr. Til- man C. Cothran. of African Nationalism.” Department of Sociology. BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: December 2 — The House BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: July 29 — The Illusion of Intellect by Jacques Barzun—Reviewed by Samuel of Immortality by Corliss Lamont — Reviewed by M. Johnson, Field Counselor of the National Board Dr. Frank Cunningham, President of Morris Brown of Missions, l nited Presbyterian Church. College. ATLANTA-MOREHOUSE-SPELMAN PLAYERS: De¬ TEA: August 5 — The Atlanta l Diversity Alumni As¬ cember 3, 4, 5 — “The Trojan Women” by Euripi¬ sociation at Home to the Graduating Class, Facultx des. and Staff. TOWN MEETING: December 10 Reverend Samuel W. CONCERT: August 5 The Summer School Chorus Williams. Morehouse College. Daniel Mitchell, Clark with Soloists. College, Miss Jewell Walker. Morris Brown College. SUMMER SCHOOL CONVOCATION: August 6 — Dr. “The Current Television Scandals and the American Samuel D. Proctor, President of Virginia l nion System of Values. University. CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT: December 11. 12. 13 TEA: September 27 The \tlanta l niversit\ Alumni Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Chorus. Morehouse \ssociation at Home to Students. Faculty and Staff. College Glee Club. Spelman College Glee Club.

Dkckmbkk, 1959 3 Contemporary Art Collection on View

Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Waddell and Hale Woodruff (center) before Mr. Woodruff's "Galaxy" at the opening of the Contem¬ porary Art Collection.

With the opening of the Collec¬ Negro artists, the purchase awards years should be merged with the tion of Contemporary American Art from the eighteen annual exhibi¬ works of other contemporary artists, on October 25, Atlanta University’s tions. regardless of race. The Trustees contribution to the greater appreci¬ Writing as a foreword to the and President Clement gratefully ac¬ ation of art in the Southeast took on h a n d s o m e illustrated catalogue, cepted the collection which has been a new dimension, for this is not a which contains reproductions of all assembled carefully over the past show which remains on view for a the oils and water colors in the Wad¬ two years. limited time, but another permanent dell Collection, President Clement President Clement concluded the art gallery for the city of Atlanta. said of Mr. and Mrs. Waddell’s sug¬ foreword: “The University’s Annual In the completely remodelled gallery gestion that the LIniversity collection Exhibition, held each spring, has be¬ in the Trevor Arnett Library now be broadened to represent contem¬ come an event of importance in hang thirty-six new works of Ameri¬ porary art in America without re¬ American contemporary art. Our can artists, the generous gift of Mr. gard to racial origin: “It had been spring harvest can be measured by and Mrs. Chauncey Waddell of New their observation that the time had the absolute standard of contem¬ York, together with some forty piec¬ come when the excellent collection porary art — in all its rich variety

— es selected from the University’s which the University had gathered as it is being expressed in mod¬ permanent collection of works by from the annual awards over the ern times. I believe the University

4 Atlanta University Bulletin speaks for all the Negro artists, whose contributions have made its Annual Exhibitions so stimulating, when it accepts this group of pictures by artists of the most diverse racial backgrounds, whose works have been selected only because they express something of the remarkable power and beauty in contemporary art in A merica." Present for the formal opening which attracted record crowds, were Mr. and Mrs. Waddell, and three artists who are represented in the Waddell collection, Hale Woodruff of New York, who as a member of the Atlanta l Diversity faculty played a leading role in formulating the plans for the Atlanta University Ex¬ hibit and in directing it during its early years, Edwin Dickinson of New York and Wellfleet, Cape Cod, and David Aronson's pastel "Consultation IV," inspired by the demonic superstititions of George Beattie of Atlanta. Mrs. the Dybbuk, is at the left of the group of drawings and prints in the Collection. Woodruff, Mrs. Dickinson, and Mrs. murals in the Trevor Arnett Li¬ Benajim Kopman, B. J. 0. Nordfeldt. Beattie were also present. brary, Charles Alston, and Jacob Jason Schoener, and Katherine Wil- Three of the artists in the Wad¬ Lawrence. Among the other artists czynski. dell Collection are already represent¬ are Isabel Bishop, Dong Kingman, The collection consists of oils, wa¬ ed in the Negro Collection, Mr. Lena Gurr, David Aronson, Eugene ter colors and drawings represent¬ Woodruff, who also painted the Higgins, Lee Gatch. John Heliker, ing many schools of painting, hut. in spite of its variety, the whole has an unusual harmony. From the Atlanta University Ne¬ gro Collection are sculptures by Richmond Barthe, Jack Jordan. Eliz¬ abeth Catlett. William Artis, Gu\ Miller, and Charles W. Stallings and oils, water colors, prints and draw¬ ings by such artists as Charles White, John Wilson. Samella San¬ ders Lewis. John Biggers. Lois M. Jones. Frederick 1). Jones. Merton Simpson. Henr\ Bannarn. James Yeargans. Havward L. Oubre. Ben¬ jamin Britt. W alter Simon, and Da¬ vid Driskell.

The comments of the mam art

lovers who have seen the exhibition bear out President Clement s proph¬ ecy in his foreword to the Catalogue, that \tlanta l Diversity's spring har¬ vest can indeed be measured In the "The Thespian Bow" by lee Gatch, "Chinese Vase" by B. J. O. Nordfeldt, and "Cape absolute standard of contemporary Cod landscape" by Robert Vickrey are admired by visitors at the opening of the Exhibition Gallery. art.

Deckmblh, 1959 5 Charier Day Convocation and Dinner

Mrs. Rufus E. Clement, Madame Pandit and President Clement congratulate John H. Johnson, the convocation speaker.

The sixteenth annual Charter Day accompanied Vice-President Nixon compared with those he had seen Convocation and the traditional on his 1957 good will tour of Africa elsewhere, particularly in Russia. Charter Day dinner, honoring new and on his more recent trip to Rus¬ After interviewing Negroes who members of the faculty and staff, sia and Poland. He is also a director had gone to live in Russia, he found marked the anniversary of the grant¬ of the Adult Education Council of that it took as long for a Negro to become a ing of a charter to the University Greater Chicago, the National So¬ plain Russian as it did for in October, 186 7. ciety for Crippled Children and him to become a plain American. Speaker for the convocation was Adults, the Chicago Council of He also, as he talked with Russians, John H. Johnson, president of the Christians and Jews, and the United saw them completely misinformed Johnson Publishing Company of Chi¬ Negro College Fund, and a trustee about the status of the American of the National Urban cago and Los Angeles and a mem¬ League. Negro at home. ber of the Board of Trustees of If Negroes who have espoused He urged Negroes for selfish rea¬ Tuskegee Institute, Fisk University, communism knew what Russia is sons to try to improve the status of and LeMoyne College. Mr. Johnson, really like, they would find that the the colored man throughout the who was named by the I nited States things which they are fighting for world, for even in France and in Junior Chamber of Commerce as do not exist in Russia, he said. South America, where there is sup- one of the ten outstanding young Whatever difficulties the American posedlv no discrimination on the men in the United States in 1951. Negro has. they are infinitesimal basis of race, the Negro occupies an

6 Atlanta University Bulletin inferior position, holds the poorest parts of the world. istry, Dr. S. C. Saxena. assistant pro¬ fessor of jobs, lacks education. Those privi¬ Special guests at the convocation mathematics, Mr. Robert H. leged by education and opportunity were Mr. Lawrence MacGregor, Campbell, instructor in French, have, therefore, the obligation to lift chairman of the University Board of Miss Virginia Hannon, instructor in up the lowliest man and thereby lift Trustees, and Madame Pandit, for¬ Social Work, Mr. J. B. Petrof, in¬ structor in Business up themselves. mer president of the General As¬ Administration, To those who thought opportuni¬ sembly of the LTnited Nations and and Miss Fronnie M. Whitehurst, in¬ structor in ties were better outside of the United at present High Commissioner for biology. Dr. Thomas D. India to Great Britain. Jarrett, department of English, in¬ States or under a different system troduced the new members of the of government. Mr. Johnson said. Dr. Willis L. James directed the faculty. “The American Negro must make Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Chorus Dr. Cothran, formerly professor of the American system work rather in the convocation music. sociology at Arkansas A. M. and N. than to try to get a new system. We New members of the faculty in¬ College, received his undergraduate must work troduced at the Charter individually and as Day dinner education at that institution, his were Dr. Tilman C. groups to better things here, for Cothran, chair¬ M.A. from Indiana University and more is being done about racial man of the department of sociolog) his Ph.D. from the University of problems here than is being done and editor of Phylon, Dr. Paul T. Chicago. He has also been professor about any social problem in other Groves, assistant professor of chem¬ of sociology at Dillard University.

New members of the faculty at the Charter Day Dinner. Back row: Dr. S. C. Saxena, Dr. Tilman C. Cothran, Mr. Robert H. Camp* bell, Mr. J. B. Petrof. Front row: Miss Fronnie Whitehurst, Dr. Paul T. Groves, Miss Virginia Hannon.

December. 195‘> 7 T. M. Alexander, Jr., Mrs. Cassandra Maxwell Birnie, Frederic V. Brooks, Melvin Randolph, Basil Wapensky, and Q. V. Williamson. John S. Blackshear is employed on a part- time basis in the School of Educa¬ tion because of the leave-of-absence granted Dr. Edward K. Weaver. A surprise feature of the program was the honoring of Mrs. Lyda Ken¬ nedy, dietitian for the Atlanta Uni¬ versity Dining Hall, for twenty-five years of service to the University. President Clement presented Mrs. Kennedy with a scroll on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the ad¬ ministration.

After the Charter Day Convocation: President Albert E. Manley of Spelman College, John H. Johnson, Madame Pandit, President Clement, and Lawrence MacGregor, Chairman of the Atlanta University Board of Trustees.

Dr. Saxena, who comes from New Miss Hannon, with a M.A. from Delhi, India, received the B.A. (with Atlanta University, the M.S.W. from honors), the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees Simmons College and further gradu¬ from the University of Delhi. He ate work at the Smith College School has also done post-doctoral research, of Social Work, came to the Uni¬ the results of which are now in pub¬ versity from the position of Chief lication. Psychiatric Social Worker at the Central State Dr. Groves, a graduate of More¬ Hospital in Virginia. house College with a M.S. in chem¬ Mr. Petrof, a Russian horn in Is¬ istry from Atlanta University, re¬ tanbul, Turkey, holds the degrees of ceived his Ph.D. at the August con¬ B.A. and M.B.A. from Emory Uni¬ vocation at the University of Penn¬ versity. He has previously worked sylvania. Dr. Groves, who has al¬ as a market analyst. ready published in his field, has M iss Whitehurst, another Atlanta taught at Grambling College and University graduate, spent 1958-59 served as graduate teaching assistant studying in Wales as a Merrill For¬ at the University of Pennsylvania. eign Study Scholar. She is a gradu¬ Mr. Campbell, who graduated from ate of North Carolina College with the B.S. Tougaloo College after which he re¬ degree. ceived the master's degree in educa¬ President Clement, who presided tion from Atlanta University and in at the dinner, introduced the new French from Middlebury College, part-time faculty and the new staff studied at the University of Paris members. In the absence of Dean Mrs. Lyda Kennedy, dietitian at the Uni¬ from 1955-57. He was recently as¬ Samuel Z. Westerfield, School of versity, who was honored at the Charter sistant Business Administration, the follow¬ professor of French at Hus- Day Dinner for twenty-five years of ton-Tillotson. ing are teaching in that school: service.

8 Atlanta University Bllletix Eighty-Seven Degrees Awarded Eighty-seven degrees were award¬ ed at the August Commencement Convocation, six more than the pre¬ vious summer, bringing to one hun¬ dred sixty-six the number for the two 1959 graduations. Sixteen re¬ ceived the master’s degree from the School of Arts and Sciences, fifty from the School of Education, eleven from the School of Library Service, nine from the School of Business

Administration, and one from the School of Social Work.

The graduating students came from fourteen states and five for¬ eign countries, Ghana, India, Japan, Liberia and South Africa. President Rufus E. Clement awarded the de¬ grees. Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, president of Virginia Union University, deliv ering the convocation address, ac¬ cused university communities of fail¬ ing to impart personal, social and spiritual values to their students, even though the university, a co¬ hesive, voluntary community, is ideally suited for the transmission of human values.

1 he news from the campuses is bad, he said, as he cited studies which indicate that there is very lit¬ tle difference between the permanent President Samuel D. Proctor of Virginia Union University delivers the Commencement Convocation address. values of the freshman and the sen¬ ior. For this Dr. Proctor blamed the numbers of whom, Dr. Proctor said, Dr. Proctor became president of teachers, whom he charged with in¬ are inadequately trained, were Virginia Union in 1955 after hav¬ difference to life’s basic issues and charged with failing to give needed ing previously served as dean of the with lack of love for young people. help to students, disturbed by the School of Religion. In 1953 he spent The majority of teachers, he said, degree of relativity for the Judeo- five months travelling in Europe, just want to join a union and get Christian ethic resulting from his¬ Palestine, India and Burma for the paid whereas real teaching is as torical study of the Bible. Baptist Foreign Missionary Society much an art as music and painting. Dr. Proctor attacked whites whose and in 1958 he toured Soviet Russia The responsibility of the campus theories of race were based on spuri¬ and the Baltic States for the Baptist for ous imparting personal values has anthropology and Negro leaders World Alliance. He is a member of been increased by the failure of the who protest their interest in race the (General Council of the National home and the mobility of population yet turn their backs on the depressed Council of Churches, the Executive with resulting anonymity and the de¬ people of their own group. He chal¬ Board of the Southern Regional struction of adherence to high per¬ lenged the graduating class as teach¬ Council and the National Committee sonal standards. The church, and ers to teach what a good society for the President's White House particularlv Negro ministers, large should do for its members. Conft‘renee on Children and 'i outh.

December, 1959 9 ■

The Summer Graduating Class.

The Master of Arts degree was the Master of Science in chemistry, Nellis Ruth Wright Adams, Atlanta, awarded to Siegfried Biamond Aya- and Gladys Thomas, Atlanta and William Franklin Allen, Wadley, tey, Alavanyo-Deme, Ghana, and Prince Ilona Winston, Montgomery, Ga., Anna Pearl Atkinson, Douglas- Laurent Telle Nkhereanye, Ficks- Ala., the Master of Science in mathe¬ ville, Ga., Gladys Bruce Barksdale, burg, South Africa, in economics; matics. Atlanta, James Donald Boglin, Bes¬ John Henry Eaves, Jacksonville, Fla., Those awarded the Master of Sci¬ semer, Ala., Elizabeth Leticia Bot¬ and Mary Elizabeth Rucker, Ander¬ ence in Library Service were: Vir¬ toms, Atlanta, Samuel Edward son, S. C., in English; Delores Eliz¬ ginia Dean Boyd, Anderson, S. C., Brown, Milledgeville, Ga., Pearlie abeth Alston, Baltimore, Md., Bar¬ Phae Hubble Dorman, Peoria, Ill., Smith Davis, Marietta, Ga., Robert bara LaVerne Crockett, Raleigh, Lola Ann Blasingame Evans, Grif¬ Lee Derico, Manchester, Ga., Shirley N. C Elsier ., Eugene Aaron Eaves, Char¬ fin, Ga., Nicholas Edward Gaymon, Doneghy, Shreveport, La., lotte, N. C., Thomas Franklin Pin¬ Atlanta. Juanita Bryant Horne, Win¬ Mary Elizabeth Dorsey, Fort Lauder¬ son, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Vivian ter Haven, Fla., Evelyn Dorsey dale, Fla., Sidney Harrison Estes, Delores Sanders, Dalzell, S. C., in Houston, Atlanta, Willene Jones, Pe¬ Atlanta, Elizabeth Jones Finch, At¬ French; Samuel A. Phelps IV, El- tersburg, Virginia, Artemisia Jones lanta, Mildred Mathis Gilkey, Atlan¬ berton, Ga., in mathematics; Lawler Junier, Tuskegee, Ala., Mary Ellen ta, Edward James Grant, Albany, Juan Burt, Detroit, Mich., Adolphus McCrary, Jackson, Tenn., Audrey Ga., Annie Mae McCoy Hall. Fort Sumner Dickerson, Atlanta, Morimit- Daniels Powell, Atlanta, and Carolyn Valley, Ga., Kennis Harold Hanker- su Ushijima, Hitoyoshi-shi, Japan, in Lolita Bolden Rhodes, Mobile, Ala. son, Oglethorpe, Ga., Josephine Rog¬ sociology. Frederic Albert Van-Cat- Graduates with the Master of Arts ers Newberry Harmon, Tampa, Fla., ledge of Charlotte, N. C. received in the School of Education were: Ocie James Irons, Atlanta, Rettye

10 Atlanta University Bulletin Ga., Miller Leonard Solomon. Mon¬ tezuma. Ga.. John Lee Stephens. At¬ lanta, Ann Harris Stoddard, St. Mary's, Ga.. Leonardo Waddell Strib- ling, Douglas, Ga., Harry Beauford Thompson, Macon. Ga., Angeline Patricia Anderson Toles, Monrovia. Liberia. George Bell Tutt, Cordele. Ga., Ola Williams, Boston, Ga., Lil¬ lian Evelyn Willis, Decatur. Ga., and Racyne Billingslea Wyatt. Atlanta. The Master of Business Adminis¬

tration was awarded to: Julius Ro- senwald Bowie, Atlanta, Clarence Edward Carr, Pine Bluff, Ark.. John Henry Chappelle, Oklahoma City. Okla., Mahesh Chander Jain, Delhi, India, Alfred Leo Morris, Fort Val¬ ley, Ga., John Lee Southall. Jr., Bal¬ timore, Md., Percy Joseph Vaughn, Jr., Atlanta. Josie Latimer Williams, Atlanta, and Rebecca Margaret Wil¬ liams, Woodbury, New Jersey. Lois Wilson Conyers of Savannah, Ga., received the Master of Social Work Miss Vivian Sanders, Master of Arts in French, is hooded by Dr. C. A. Bacote. degree.

Delores Peterson Johnson, V idalia, Ga., Robert Walter Johnson, Frank- linton, La., Walter Alfred Johnson, Cartersville, Ga., Pearl Britton Jow- ers, Jacksonville, Fla., Theodore Roosevelt King. Birmingham, Ala.. Bernice Audrey Marshall, Green¬ wood, S. C.. Opral Amanda Mason, Monrovia. Liberia, John Wesley Merkerson, Atlanta. Naomi Adger Neal, Summerton, S. C., Edward Count Norman. Atlanta, Mattie Bev¬ erly Payne. Savannah. Ga., Lillian Juanita Phillips. Douglas. Ga.. Spur¬ geon Yorke Poe, Atlanta. William Powell, Jr., Americus, Ga.. Alonza Raphael Ransom, LaGrange, Ga.. I lysses Rice, Eatonton. Ga.. Sarah W ashington Richardson. A 11 a n t a. Eddie W illie Scott, Milledgeville, Ga.. Ethel Delores Simmons, Gamp- ton. Ga., William Arthur Small. \t- Dr. K. A. Huggins and Dr. Joseph Golden, faculty marshals for the Convocation, lead lanta. Rosebud Smith. Jr.. Waveross, the faculty division of the academic procession into Sisters Chapel.

Dkckmrer, 1959 11 The Summer School Program

A dinner meeting of the Counseling and Guidance Institute, financed under the National Defense Act.

The continued increase in the en¬ Among the many special programs homa, Indiana, Mississippi, Arkan¬ rollment of the Atlanta University which attracted students to the Sum¬ sas, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Summer School attests to the growing mer School was the Counseling and North Carolina, and Texas. importance of the University and the Guidance Institute, financed by the Dr. Paul I. Clifford directed the associated colleges on the educational United States government under institute. The staff was Dr. Oran W. scene, not only of Georgia and the the National Defense Act. Seventy- Eagleson, Spelman College, William Southeast, but of the nation. As two students, all currently employed M. Nix and Dr. D. L. Boger, both usual in the summer, the largest in the guidance and counseling field, of Morehouse College, and three vis¬ number of students enrolled in the were enrolled in the institute, where iting lecturer-consultants, Dr. Benja¬ School of Education. 1,014, and, special emphasis was placed on the min S. Bloom, University of Chi¬ again as usual, those taking gradu¬ identification of able secondary cago, Dr. Arthur W. Coombs, Uni¬ ate work outnumbered the under¬ school students from impoverished versity of Florida, and Dr. Carroll graduates. The total enrollment, in¬ social and educational backgrounds Shartle, Ohio State University. cluding those in the Oglethorpe and on the development of techniques For the third consecutive summer, School, still used as a demonstration to motivate these students. Although the National Science Foundation school although it is now part of the majority of those enrolled were supported in the Summer School an the Atlanta Public School System, from Georgia, thirteen other states Institute in Science and Mathematics was 1,920, an increase of 97 over were represented, Alabama, Uouisi- to which forty-five in-service teach¬ the 1958 figures. ana, South Carolina, Kentucky, Okla¬ ers of high school science and mathe-

12 Atlanta University Bulletin matics were admitted. The program ers who support the organizations An Atlanta attorney. Morris B. consisted in content courses in sci¬ which are fighting the legal battles Abram, who has carried the county ence and mathematics, some special of the Negro, he said “Be sane, but unit suit to the Supreme Court, institute courses, others regular don't let anybody make you afraid warned that the Court might reverse Summer School offerings, as well as to support the NAACP." its decision on school desegregation seminars w ith unless there is visiting consultants, Speaking on "The South in Tran¬ stronger support from informal discussions and field trips. sition," Ralph McGill, editor of the the executive branch of the govern¬ Dr. K. A. Huggins of the depart¬ Atlanta Constitution, characterized ment and continued pressure from ment of chemistry was director. those who refused to face the reality public opinion. Mr. Abram criticized the hands-off Again a workshop in the Lan¬ of the Supreme Court decision as policy of Eisenhower and his contention that school de¬ guage Arts was held, this time as a “naive gropers in a field of unreali¬ follow-up of the Phelps-Stokes Fund ty. Convinced that the problem segregation is a moral and educa¬ Project for the Improvement of "which is grievously and decisively tional matter rather than a legal mat¬ Teaching in the Secondary Schools. before us is moral as well as social." ter, saying that, unless those in gov¬ I nder a Phelps-Stokes grant twenty Mr. McGill emphasized the need for ernment educate and moralize about the law. students received scholarships to this new and responsible leadership from social change is unlikely. To extremists who criticize the workshop, which was under the di¬ the press, the commentator, and the Supreme rection of Dr. N. P. Tillman, assist¬ politician. He also noted the short¬ Court for “making law,” he replied ed by Mrs. Lucy Grigsby and Mrs. sightedness of Southern school lead¬ that this was the historical function of courts under the Myrtle L. Purnell, with Dwight Bur¬ ers, reluctant to ask for federal aid Anglo-Saxon ton, Florida State University and for education because of segregation common law system, that common law is made editor of The English Journal, Paul problems, even though Georgia, us¬ by judges and juries Farmer, Atlanta Public Schools and ing fifty-three cents of every tax dol¬ using reason and experience, not by past president of the National Coun¬ lar for education, is unable to pav its legislative act. cil of Teachers of English, and teachers properly. The prevalence of juvenile de¬ Chandos Reid, assistant to the su¬ President Clement, choosing as his linquency was seen as the logical perintendent. Waterford Township subject the promotion of internation¬ fruit of today's delinquent culture Schools, Pontiac, Michigan, as visit¬ al understanding through education, by the Reverend Homer C. McEwen. ing consultants. said that the l nited States must rid pastor of the First Congregational Enriching the academic program itself of the idea that America has Church and a member of the Citi¬ were the forum programs and other the best of everything and that she zens Crime Commission. He blamed c ultural events. should always have her wav in in¬ parents for having a double stand¬ President Benjamin E. Mays of ternational affairs. He urged teachers ard of morality, one for themselves Morehouse College opened the forum to take advantage of foreign fel¬ and another for their children: the child is told to be honest, series with a discussion of "Deseg¬ lowship programs so that the\ could yet he watches his father “turn a regation: A Challenge to the Teach¬ gain first-hand knowledge and un¬ quick er," in which he challenged the derstanding of other peoples. buck in any way he can." Noting the 10.000 teachers of Negroes to set an exam¬ I nited States-Russian policies illegitimate Negro pregnan¬ cies in Atlanta last ple to their students who are not were analyzed by Dr. Arthur C. year. In* said vet conditioned to segregation, as Banks. Jr. of the department of po¬ “Why gag at it if our standard of sexual are millions of Negroes alive today litical science. On Germany, he said morality is to think it old- fashioned and \\ ho will never walk erect, so that that all the l nited States can do is stuffy to live in a they will walk the earth and work to accept the division of Germanv monogamous state, particularlv if with dignity. He called on his audi¬ without expectation of any lessening you can read and write.' ence to register and vote, to leave of German hostility; of the satellite Dr. Horace Mann Bond, dean of their cars at home and ride the trol¬ nations, no hope of revolution, with the School of Education, pled the ley, to use the recently desegregated the only possible policy that of keep¬ case of the underprivileged child, Atlanta Public Library so that “it ing faith with them on the basis of who is tested on the basis of educa¬ will not be true as they have said, normal relations; of China, the prob¬ tion which comes not only from the that they won’t have any trouble lem of recognition of Red China no school but from the home back¬ with us at the library because we longer exists, and the best (hat can ground. \n educational svstem which can't read anyway.’ In spite of the be done is to build up power and singles out for attention the child

on who pressure being exerted against teach¬ influence the peripherv. excels in aptitude tests will in-

Dkckmhkr, 1959 13 Georgia Allen, Andrew Phillips, and Johnny Popwell in the Summer Theatre production of Moliere's "Doctor In Spite of Himself. evitably build up a “meritocracy5' Atlanta University Theatre present¬ lips, William Greene, Howard Spann, based on verbalism, with the result ed three plays under the direction William Dease, Mildred Graves. Hen¬ that iu the end the offspring of the of Baldwin Burroughs, director of ry Chavers. Judith Allen, and Mar¬ professional classes will be in posi¬ the Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Play¬ quette Mapp, all contributed to mak¬ tions of power, he said. ers. Two, William Douglas Home’s ing this the type of production on William Gordon, journalist, who “The Reluctant Debutante” and Aga- which the reputation of the Summer Theatre is built. had recently returned from a year in tba Christie's “The Hollow, were Africa during which he visited four¬ competently produced and acted, but This is not said to belittle tbe per¬ teen countries, closed the forum the plays themselves were conven¬ formances of Mrs. Allen, Ray Mclver. Mr. series. He gave the audience his first¬ tional Broadway fare. The third. Mo- Popwell. Miss Allen, supported hand impressions of the extent to liere’s farce-comedy “The Doctor In by Miriam Jellins, Marie Thomas, which each country had achieved Spite of Himself,” captivated both Melvin McCraw and June King, in self-determination and of possible audience and actors as the director “The Reluctant Debutante, a comedy future developments. He found the abandoned tbe traditional approach which lampoons the upperclass Brit¬ Arabs in North Africa frustrated for a stylized version of the corn- ish practice of marketing their mar¬ and emotional, the Negroes in West media d ell arte technique. Here was riageable daughters, or of Grade Al¬ Africa dedicated to native leader¬ an example of experimental and cre¬ exander, Mr. Chavers, Miss Jellins. Blanche Dobbs. Mr. ship as they aspired for national ative university theatre at its best. Greene, Lonnie recognition, those in the Belgian Sets and costumes bv William V. Cross, Desiree Jett. Sarlyn Hicks, Mr. Congo restricted to the Congo al¬ Harper II, special music arranged Popwell, Nese Harper. Lewis Blake- though the best treated in other re¬ by Colonius Davis, an experienced ney and Roland Haines in “The Hol¬ spects. cast headed by Georgia Allen and low,” a less than run-of-the-mill For its twenty-sixth season, the Johnny Popwell. with Andrew Phil¬ Christie thriller.

14 Atlanta University Bulletin IN MEMORIAM

MRS. WALTER R. CHIV- ERS (CARRIE MASON GAR- TRELL), M.A. in sociology, 1946, died suddenly in Atlanta on September 25. Mrs. Chivers was on the faculty of More¬ house College. MRS. FREDERICK 1). FUN- DERBURG (ETHEL WEST¬ MORELAND), Normal 1914, died in Monticello. Georgia, on August 15. ADDISON RAMSEY, 1929, of Louisville, Kentucky, died in June of this year. E. L. SIMON, SR.. 1900, died in Atlanta on September 1 at the age of eighty-two. MRS. HELEN A. W HITING, former member of the Atlanta University faculty, died in At¬ lanta on November 11. She had

retired a few years ago from Baldwin W. Burroughs, director, and Carlton Molette, technician, in the Summer her position as supervisor with Theatre's presentation of "The Hollow." the Georgia Department of Ed¬ Mr. Burroughs was assisted b\ Frank Cunningham, president of ucation. Carlton Molette as technician. Morris Brown College. MISS ELSIE E. REID, Nor¬ Reviews of four books in a series mal 1919, died on An excellent program by the thir¬ November sponsored by the School of Library ty-six voice Summer Chorus under 25 in Atlanta. She was a former Service contributed further to the the direction of Dr. W ill is L. James teacher in the Atlanta Public Schools. cultural offerings of the Summer closed the Summer School enter¬ MRS. G. S. (W ILLIE BR W School. Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones, tainment series. Hie varied program dean of the School of Library Sen- of religious music, unusual secular DON) GOODSON. Normal ice, opened the series with a review numbers, and spirituals, the last ar¬ 1907, died on November 8 in of The American Sex Revolution b\ ranged by Dr. James, included Han¬ Houston, Texas. MISS MARIAN G. Pitirim A. Sorokin. For the second del’s “Thanks Be to Thee, 0 Lord,” BROWN, secretary in the program two books were discussed, the Hallelujah Chorus, Rachmani¬ Phylon office, died in Jacksonville, Florida, Ordway Tead s The Climate of Learn¬ noffs “Triumph Thanksgiving,” on December 19. ing, reviewed by Dr. Melvin Wat¬ and Rodgers' oil'll Never W^alk son. dean of the School of JAMES A. HENRY, a stu¬ Religion Alone. at Morehouse College, and G. G. dent at the UniversiU in 1917- Appearing with the Chorus were 18. died in William s Some of Mv Rest h riends Philadelphia on Oc¬ ten soloists. Mrs. \aomi Huggins, Arc Professors, reviewed by Dr. tober 18. He was the son of Mrs. Nell Henry. Mrs. Sylvia Jones. James B. McRae. Dean of Students. James A. Henrv of the class of W alter Felder, J. McCarter. James Lincoln University. Pennsylvania, 1883 and Emma Myrick Hen¬ Edwards. Harvey Miller. Eddie and a member of the Summer ry, 1886. and brother of Em¬ Meredith. Lillian W illiams and Trav- School faculty. The final review of ma Henry. 1913, and Marian Corliss Lamonfs The Illusion of Im¬ as Long. Dr. Grace Boggs was ac¬ Henry Settles. 191 1. mortality. was presented by Dr. companist.

15 I )k< f.mber, 1959 he applicable to other countries, for example in overcoming resistance to CAMPUS BRIEFS change. Although she found that short visits by social workers from other countries to the United States

were not helpful, a longer period of PHYLON BOARD tion, and cultural life were repre¬ study, perhaps of a year or more, Dr. Tilman C. sented. Included in the collection Cothran, newly might be if the students were care¬ were volumes of appointed chairman of the depart¬ reproductions of fully chosen. One difficulty in such a ment of French art as well as illustrated texts sociology, has been named training program was the lack of on the editor of Phylon, the University’s history and technique. A experienced supervision after the stu¬ quarterly review of race and cul¬ French-speaking student served as dents returned home. ture. Mrs. attendant. Lucy C. Grigsby and Mrs. Attending the institute were twen¬ Helen M. Coulborn have been made ty-four caseworkers from the out-of- associate editors. Dr. Thomas D. town agencies where Atlanta Uni¬ Jarrett continues as book review and versity students do their block field poetry editor. Added to the Editorial work, as well as the local super¬ Board are Dr. Horace Mann Bond visors. Agencies in Pennsylvania, and Dean Whitney M. Young, Jr. Michigan, Newr York, Illinois, Ohio. New advisory editors are Everett C. North Carolina, Indiana, and Mary¬ Hughes, professor of sociology^, Uni¬ land were represented. versity of Chicago, Hylan G. Lewis, The institute considered the theme special project director, Health and “Formulation of Objectives and Welfare Council. Washington, D. C.. Learning Experiences for Field In¬ Wilson Record, associate professor of struction’’ in general meetings and social science, Sacramento State Col¬ small groups during the three-day lege, George E. Simpson, professor conference. of sociology, Oberlin College, and Howard Zinn, associate professor of FELLOWSHIP STUDENTS history and social science, Spelman College. Of the students who received the $1000 regional fellowships for the STUDENTS DECORATE 1959-60 academic year five are en¬ TREES rolled in the Graduate School of A group from the University re¬ Arts and Sciences, the rest in Busi¬ Dr. Helen R. Wright ceived two prizes at Christmas for ness Administration. Library Service decoration of trees in the county hos¬ and Social Work. The successful SOCIAL WORK ap¬ pitals. first prize for the tree at plicants are: Carl Gaines Jackson, SUPERVISORS Hughes Spalding Hospital and fourth Baltimore. Maryland, graduate of fine for that in the Pediatric Clinic for arts, letters, science, educa- Morgan State College, French: Bar¬ Colored Children. Mrs. Josephine D. The thirteenth annual Supervisors bara R. Gallashaw, Charleston. South Institute of the School of Social Murphy organized the group, which Carolina, South Carolina State Col¬ Work heard Dr. Helen R. was composed of James Vineyard. Wright, lege, mathematics; Willie Lamar dean emeritus of the Frances Glover and Mrs. Warren University of Reese, Cleveland. Ohio, Central State Scott. Chicago School of Social Adminis¬ College, French; James David Vine¬ tration, say that American social yard, EXHIBIT OF FRENCH workers should make known the Springfield. Illinois, Blackburn College, mathematics; Gladis No¬ BOOKS service they could give to underde¬ vell. Atlanta, Morris Brown Approximately one t h o u s a n d veloped countries. Drawing on her College, Business Administration; Maxine W. French books were on exhibit in the experience of three years as head of Trevor Arnett Library from Septem¬ the India Project of the Council of Weston, Thomasville, Georgia. Clark ber 27 through October 7. This was Social Work Education, Dr. Wright College, School of Library Service: a circulating exhibition sent out by said that social work techniques as Lindsey Branch Johnson, Little Rock. the French Embassy. The fields of learned in the United States would Arkansas. Morehouse College, mathe-

16 Atlanta University Bulletin matics; Mrs. Berenice L. Bell. Jack- SCIENCE INSTITUTE

son. Mississippi, Jackson State Col¬ AGAIN lege, School of Library Service; and Dorothy M. Robinson, New York, New York, School of Social Work. Atlanta University will continue to The fellowships are awarded to participate for the National Science students with superior academic Foundation program for the im¬ ability on a regional basis. provement of the teaching of science and mathematics in the secondary schools. Support for a second aca¬ demic-year institute has been award¬ TOWN MEETINGS ed for 1960-61 and for a fourth

summer institute in 1960. For the I he Town Meetings, sponsored by 1960-61 institute there will be sti¬ the political science departments in pends, tuition and other payments the Center, opened in October with for forty-eight students, whereas the a panel discussion of the meaning summer institute will enroll forty- of Khrushchev's visit to the United five students. States. Appearing on the program The purpose of the institutes is to were President Benjamin E. Mays bring teachers up-to-date in the sub¬ of Morehouse College, Miss Marian Dr. Herman H. Long ject matter of the rapidly developing Wright, Spelman political science sciences. Courses in mathematics, bi¬ major, a Merrill Foreign Study stu¬ ology and chemistry especially sched¬ dent who had spent the past sum¬ uled for the institutes will be of¬ mer in Russia, and Miss discussed ‘'Race Relations Consensus Joyce Ross, fered, although participants enroll in social science and Public major from Clark Col¬ Policy.” a certain number of the regular Uni¬ lege. Dr. Long said that domination of versity courses. Dr. K. A. Huggnis In December the relation of the public policy should now be the goal is the director. current television scandals to the of those interested in improving in¬ Atlanta University was the first American system of values was dis¬ tergroup relations. “Prejudice is not institution in Georgia to receive a cussed b\ the Reverend Samuel W. predictable, hut there is a capacity grant from the Foundation and is Williams, for department of philosophy. adaptability in public behavior, one of thirty-three which will have Morehouse not College, and two stu¬ if in a 1960-61 private commitment, as academic-year program. dents. Daniel Mitchell, Clark Col¬ long as there is public policy. lege, and Miss Jewell Walker. Mor¬ He labeled as false such conclu¬ ris Brown College. sions as that improvement in the Dr. Samuel I). Cook, department ROOK REVIEWS status of the minority group had led of political science. Atlanta Uni- to the worsening of race relations The School of versitv. serves as moderator. Library Service pre¬ and that minority groups should sented three hook reviews during the agree to some sort of moratorium so first semester: Robert Bone's The that change can take place at a lei¬ Negro Novel in America, reviewed surely pace. Neither did he find in¬ by Dr. A. Russell Brooks, department HERMAN LONG FORUM of tergroup conflict harmful, saving English, Morehouse College: SPEAKER \ ance Packard's The Status “Where there is change in group Seekers, reviewed -tatus. tension is inevitable.” by Dr. Tilman C. Cothran, Dr. Herman H. Long, authority chairman of the department of soci¬ Greater initiative on the part of on race relations and director of ology, Atlanta I Diversity, and editor the the Race Relations Department of the minority had resulted from its of Phylon; and Jacques Rarzun's American Missionary Society at 1 isk improved status, which has been ac¬ House of Intellect, by Samuel M. University, was presented by the companied by a new awareness and Johnson, field counsellor of the Na¬ School of Arts and Sciences in a pub¬ self-respect gained against obstacles, tional Board of Missions of the lic forum in November. Dr. Long even on the national level. l nited Presbvterian Church.

Dkckmbkr. 1959 nature of “The Trojan Women, the leading roles were assigned to ex¬ perienced players from the Summer Theatre, Billie Geter Thomas, who played Hecuba, Georgia Allen, as Andromache, and Nese Harper, as Helen.

ENROLLMENT INCREASES

The official figures for the fall enrollment show an increase of six¬

ty-three students over last year’s first semester registration, with 598 stu¬ dents in attendance. The greatest in¬ creases are in the departments of mathematics, chemistry, and biolog}-. Seventeen are foreign students, four from Hong Kong, three from India, four from Nigeria, and one each from Ghana, Greece, Jamaica, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Vir¬ gin Islands. The remaining students represent twenty-four states and the District of Columbia. New York, with eleven students, ranks highest among the non-Southern states. The total enrollment in the Center

shows an increase of 258 students, with 812 at Clark College, 94 at the Interdenominational Theological Center, 727 at Morehouse College, 849 at Morris Brown College, and 564 at Billie Geter Thomas as Hecuba and Marilyn Price as Cassandra in the Atlanta-More- Spelman College as well as 65 in the house-Spelman Players production of "The Trojan Women." Kindergarten-Nurserv.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL The Status Seekers was subjected winning “The Skin of Our Teeth,’ WORK FEATURED to a scathing attack by Dr. Cothran, a quasi-allegorical story of mankind, who said “The book is unacceptable and Euripides’ “The Trojan Wom¬ The School of Social Work of At¬ to the social scientist and the gen¬ en,” which was presented in the eral reader should be warned that the round, directed respectively by J. lanta University was the subject of a feature author uses value judgments and re¬ Preston Cochran and Baldwin Bur¬ pictorial article in the Oc¬ search material without distinguish¬ roughs. Samuel Bromfield, Atlanta tober issue of Ebony magazine. The ing between them. University sociology student a n d article noted that the school, one of holder of the Walter Francis White six fully accredited in the South, is ATLANTA-MOREHOUSE- Scholarship given by the National the oldest and largest, the only SPELMAN PLAYERS Alumni Association, gave convincing school of social work in the state of

T h e Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman performances as Mr. Antrobus in Georgia. It included the history of Players exhibited their usual excel¬ “The Skin of Our Teeth” and as the school and pictures of facultv Menelaus in “The and lence in two very different plays. Trojan Women.” students, as well as scenes from Thornton Wilder's Pultizer-Prize Because of the intense emotional the Atlanta l Diversity campus.

lo1 R Atlanta University Bulletin The faculty, alumni and guests of the School of Library Service attending the meeting of the American Library Association on June 25 in Washington, D. C., held a dinner meeting. Pictured in the center is Dean Virginia L. Jones with Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks, member of the faculty, and William W. Bennett, alumnus and librarian of the Trevor Arnett Library at her right. Other alumni attending were Mrs. Roberta Brooks Shearin, Mrs. O. Juamita Johnson McLean, Mrs. Julia Mosley Shields, Mrs. Bessie Davis Randall, D. F. Davis, Mrs. Agnes Maddox Jones, Mrs. Edythe Wimbish Thomas, Mrs. Sarah Bond Davis, Mrs. Evelyn Combs Harris, Mrs. Ella Gaines Sydnor, Miss Joyce C. Daughtrey, Mrs. Cheney Washington, Hardy R. Franklin, Mrs. Effie Lee Morris, Mrs. Ida Polk Bouier, John Curry, Miss Grace Epps, Miss Eva Williams, and Mrs. Hilda F. Clark.

article, ’’The State and Religion: pleted the work for his Ph.D. at Iran, India, and China, appeared Pennsylvania State University. He FACULTY ITEMS in a recent issue of Comparative received the degree at the August Studies in Society and History. convocation. ** * * * •

l)r. Rushton Coulborn. department Dr. Paul T. Groves, department of Dr. Paul 1. Clifford. School of of history, appeared on the program chemistry, is the author with N. C. Education and Registrar, has par¬ of Deno and the Southern Historical Associa¬ George Saines of an article ticipated in numerous conferences entitled “Carbonium Ions \III: tion. meeting in Atlanta in Novem¬ during the first semester. In Sep¬ ber, as critic of two papers in the Diary lalkvl Cation — Diarylolefin tember he was in Chicago for a ancient history section. In December Equilibria. ' which appeared in the three-day conference of the director^ he attended the meeting of the Journal of the American Chemical of the National Defence Education Vmerican \nthropological \ssocia- Society. LXXXI I 1959). \ct Guidance and Counselling Train¬ tion in Mexico City and served as Dr. Groves was the recipient of ing Institute sponsored b\ the fed¬ discussant of a paper on “feudalism fellowship funds from the National eral government. He attended the in Ethiopia and Europe. Science Foundation and the \meri- twenty-fourth Educational Confer¬ His rejoinder to comments on his can Chemical Soeiet\ as he com¬ ence held under the auspices of the

Dkckmrkr, 1959 19 Educational Records Bureau and the dressed the Lord Hall Forum in Bos¬ Women, Washington, D. C., “Pro¬ American Council on Education in ton, Massachusetts, on School Inte¬ jected Program of the National New ^ ork. October 29-30, which was gration in the South on November Council of Negro Women”: Youth followed by an invitational confer¬ 22. Dr. Clement has been elected to Luncheon, Howard University, ence on testing problems sponsored the Board of the Phelps-Stokes Fund “Challenges and Opportunities for by the Educational Testing Service. and secretary of the Greater Atlanta Negro Youth”; American Public In November he went to Washing¬ uso. Welfare Institute, Raleigh. North ton for a meeting of the National Carolina, “Implications of Curricu¬ Scholarship Commission of Omega lum Study for Graduate Education Psi Phi Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, politi¬ fraternity, and December to in Social Work.” He has also spoken cal science, has returned to the Greensboro, North Carolina for the to the Turner High School PTA and campus after a year’s leave during meeting of the Executive Committee the Spelman College and Morris which he studied under a of the National Association of Col¬ grant Brown College students in chapel. from the Rockefeller lege Deans and Foundation. The Registrars. Dean Young has been elected to Journal of Religious Thought (Au¬ Dr. Clifford served as consultant the Editorial Board of Phylon. for GTEA tumn-Winter, 1959) carried an arti¬ Regional Meetings in * * * cle by Dr. Cook entitled “Is a Chris¬ Athens and La Grange, and spoke tian to the Atlanta Counsellors and Prin¬ Grounding of Democracy Neces- Dr. Robert G. 9 ” Armstrong, profes¬ sary: cipals on “Identification of Able sor of sociology and anthropology, At the annual Students"’ and at Morehouse College meeting of the read a paper on “Culture” to the American Political Science Associa¬ Chapel on “The Achievement of Ex¬ joint seminar of the London School tion, held in cellence.” Washington, D. C., in of Economics — University College, * * * September, Dr. Cook served as a LIniversity of London in October. In discussant on the subject “Gaetano Mrs. September he participated in the pro¬ Lucy C. Grigsby, department Mosca and the Ruling Class.” He gram of the African Studies Associa¬ of English, attended a conference of has spoken at the Grace Methodist tion in Boston where he read a the paper Phelps-Stokes Fund Project for Church in Covington, Georgia, as on Idoma Masks. Before leaving At¬ the Improvement of Instruction in Men's Day speaker on “Howr Big Are lanta Dr. Armstrong spoke to the Secondar) Schools, held in Washing¬ You?”; at Spelman College on “The Alliance frangaise d’Atlanta on “Les ton, 1). C., in October. The confer¬ Democratic Way of Life”; and be¬ Etudes frangaises de l’Afrique ence was concerned with the final fore the International Federation of Noire." evaluation of the project, for which Women on “The United Nations Mrs. Dr. Armstrong is at present on a Grigsby has served as National Today.” \ ear’s leave of absence with a Consultant. As a staff member of the tt * «* grant from the Social Science Research Atlanta University Language Arts Dean Council for field work in Workshop, she also reported on the Whitney M. Young, Jr., of Nigeria and is now located in Ibadan. language arts travel kit which she the School of Social Work spoke in and Dean N. P. Tillman of the September to the National Urban ** * School of Arts and Sciences had pre¬ League on “The Role of the Urban J. B. Blayton, acting dean of the pared. League in the Current American School of Business Administration, Scene.” In the same month Mrs. Grigsby attended sessions of he ad¬ spoke to the National Bankers As¬ the Southern Modern dressed the Board of Governors of Language As¬ sociation on “Modern Bank the State PTA in Opera¬ sociation, held in Atlanta, in Novem¬ Macon, Georgia, tions." Mr. Blayton has been listed ber. on “The 1960 White House Confer¬ for the first time in IVho's Who in *- ■* * ence on Children and \outh.” Commerce and Industry and relisted Dean Young spoke in October at Dr. John D. Reid, department of in Who's Who in the South and the staff luncheon of the Southern sociology, spoke to the Hungry Club Southwest and in American Men of Regional Education Board on “Prob¬ on the problems of the Science. aged in No¬ lems of Social Work Education in * * * vember. Dr. Reid had attended a the Southern Region.” His Novem¬ workshop on gerontology in Cali¬ ber speaking engagements included Miss Leontine Carroll. School of fornia at the end of the summer. the •K- ** following: University of Ken¬ Library Service, studied toward the tucky, “Human Relations in the Space Ph.D. degree this summer at West¬ President Rufus E. Clement ad¬ Age”; National Council of Negro ern Reserve University.

20 Atlanta University Bulletin Mrs. Frances W. Logan, School of November 4 at a dinner for Presi¬ ern Regional Education Board con¬ Social Work, served as special social dent Seke Toure of Guinea given in ference on Research in Social Work, work consultant to the Highlander New York by the American Society and participated in the National As¬ Folk School. Monteagle. Tennessee, of African Culture. On November sociation of Social Workers' bask in an October workshop devoted to 1-3 he was in Washington. D. C.. at¬ Force on Personnel Problems. helping ministers understand and tending a conference on Incentive in * * * utilize social work resources. Higher Education sponsored by the American Council on Education She has spoken to the Deaconess Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones, dean of Board of the First Committee on Inequality in Higher Congregational the School of Library Service, at¬ Education, of which he is a member. Church of Atlanta on ‘'Living Our tended the annual meetings of the Faith as Christians, to the l topia Dr. Bond's speaking engagements American Libran Association and of Club on “Problem Solving in include the high school commence¬ the Association of American Libran Groups, and to the Grady Homes ment address at Mayfield. Kentucky, Schools in Washington, D. C., in Community Girls Club on “Responsi¬ on May 29; discussion of “National¬ June. She has been appointed to the bilities of Board Members. " ism in Africa” and "Wasted Talents' recruitment committee of the latter at the Fisk University Race Rela¬ organization. tions Institute in July; an address * « * Dr. Akhilesh Dubey, School of on “Evaluating College Experiences” Business Administration, spent the at Fort Valley State College on Sep¬ William W. summer in Bennett, librarian of Nepal and India observ¬ tember 16; a convocation address at the Trevor Arnett Library, spoke at ing economic and social changes Texas Southern University, Septem¬ the dedication of the Margaret Rood taking place in the two countries. He ber 24, on “Academic Excellence"; Hazard Library at Albany State Col¬ spoke to several groups in India on an address at the annual meeting of lege on October 5, taking as a sub¬ Indo-American relations and social the Association for the Study of Ne¬ conditions in the United States. ject “Open Versus Closed Libran gro Life and History, October 16, Book Stacks. In November he was * * * Florida A. and M. University, on speaker at the assembly program cele¬ “Africa: An Area of Study in Writ¬ brating National Children’s Book Carl S. Harm, School of Social ing Negro History”; and a discus¬ Week at Fort Valley State College, Work, took office as chairman of the sion of “Aiding Youth to Compete where he discussed “Exploring North Georgia Chapter of the Na¬ Academically" at the meeting of the tional Association of Social Work¬ Eastern District of the North Caro¬ Through Books: Our Great Chal¬ lenge.” He was also Children’s Book ers in July. In June he had repre¬ lina Teachers Association, November Week speaker at meetings of the sented the organization at the Na¬ 13, Wilson. North Carolina. John tional Association of Social Workers Hope Elementary School and Dr. Bond’s book Search for Talent, Turner High School PTA’s. Legislative Workshop in Washing¬ first published by the Harvard Uni¬ Participating in a March of Dimes ton, D. C. versity Press in February of this In Regional Campaign Training Pro¬ September Mr. Harm was ap¬ year, went into a second printing gram at Tuskegee Institute in No¬ pointed to the Fulton County Ad¬ in August. vember. Mr. Bennett discussed a visory Council on Illegitimacy and * * * Adoptions and is at present chair¬ money-raising project. “Pancake Bake.” which had been used in At¬ man of the sub-committee on Ille¬ lanta. He has gitimacy and the Multi-Problem Dr. Joseph Golden, School of So¬ recently been named to cial Work, is the author of an arti¬ the School Librarv Standards Com¬ Family. Participating in a staff train¬ cle entitled mittee of the American Association ing program at the Atlanta Peni¬ “Facilitating Factors in of School Libraries. tentiary in October, he led a discus¬ Negro-White Intermarriage which * # * sion on the dynamics of groups. appeared in the Fall Quarter issue of Phylon. Sociological Abstracts has added Mr. Harm’s name to its list of ab¬ In November Dr. Golden led a Mrs. Gwendolyn M. I) r a v n e. stractors. discussion of “Methods in Intergroup School of Education, studied during

summer at « * * Relations' for the Ahaveth Achim the the l Diversity of Chi¬ Congregation. In December he spoke cago under a fellowship grant. She Dr. Horace Mann Bond, dean of on “The Nature and Problems of is working toward the professional the School of Education, presided on Social Work Research” at the South¬ diploma in reading.

Dkcf.mbf.r, 1959 21 Frederic V. Miss Barbara Brooks, who is teach¬ Baskcrville, School He has also participated in eco¬ ing part-time in the School of Busi¬ of Social Work, attended the Bien¬ nomic workshops for public school ness Administration, attended the nial Conference of the American teachers at Tulane University, Flori¬ meeting of the National Insurance Unitarian Association and the Gen¬ da A. and M. University, and East Association in Chicago in August. eral Assembly of the Universalist Tennessee State Gollege. Johnson He participated in the program as a Church of America in Syracuse, New Gity, Tennessee. member of the Quarter Million Dol¬ York, in November as a represent¬ lar Bound Table. ative of the United Liberal Church Dr. Clarence A. * «■ -si- of Atlanta. Bacole, depart¬ ment of history, has had two arti¬ cles published Dr. Laurence F. Boyd, School of recently: “Negro Of¬ Dr. Samuel Z. Westerfield, dean ficeholders in Georgia Under Presi¬ Education, served as consultant-co¬ of the School of Business Adminis¬ dent ordinator for the self-study and eval¬ McKinley” in The Journal oj tration, on sabbatical leave for this Negro History, July, 1959; and “Ne¬ uation of the Sophronia Tompkins year, has accepted appointment as gro High School in Savannah, the first Proscriptions, Protests, and Pro¬ guest professor of Business Admini¬ posed Solutions in Negro high school in Chatham Coun¬ Georgia, 1880- stration in the Graduate School of 1908” in The Journal ty to he evaluated for accreditation oj Southern Business Administration, Harvard History, November, 1959. Dr. Ba- by the Southern Association. He has University. He will specialize in the cote’s testimony before the United also been consultant at the meetings area of international economic de¬ States Civil of Regions 4, 5, 7, 9, and 10 of the Rights Commission hear¬ GTEA. velopment. Dr. Westerfield holds the ing relative to Atlanta housing, giv¬ M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics en in April of this year, has been Among Dr. Boyd’s speaking en¬ from Harvard. published in a transcript of the gagements have been the following: hearings held in New York. Atlanta, “What Shall We Teach?” to the Ful¬ and Chicago. ton County teachers; “The Pursuit Dr. Tilman C. Cothran, depart¬ Dr. Bacote attended the annual of Excellence” to Region 8 of the ment of sociology, spoke to the meetings of the Association for the GTEA; and to Region 2 (where he Hungry Club on December 16. His Study of Negro Life and History, served on a panel). He also took subject was “The South’s Potential Florida A. and M. University in Oc¬ part in the programs of Regions 6 for National and World Leadership.’ tober, and the Southern Historical and 11 of the GTEA, which discussed In November Dr. Cothran reviewed Association, Atlanta, in November. the same theme. Vance Packard’s The Status Seekers He is listed in the recently published on the School of Library Service Dr. Boyd has been elected district Who's Who in the South and South¬ Book Review commissioner for Program. the merged Hope- west (6th edition). Herndon divisions, Atlanta Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. Basil A. Wapensky, part-time lec¬ An article ** * concerning the flight turer in the School of Business Ad¬ of Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Skala from ministration, is author of two arti¬ Czechoslovakia Mrs. Hallie Beachem appeared in August Brooks, cles which have appeared in the in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution School of Library Service, who at¬ Monthly Review of the Federal Re¬ in the series tended the annual “Adventures in Living.” meeting of the serve Bank of Atlanta, “Four Decades Dr. Skala American is chairman of the depart¬ Library Association in of Progress” (December, 1958) ment of economics. Washington in June, has been named and “Spotlight on Alabama” (May, * * a member of the committee on In¬ 1959). Mr. Wapensky has spoken on structional Methods and Materials of numerous occasions on such sub¬ Dr. Helen M. Coulborn, English, the Association of American Library jects as the Business Outlook, and attended sessions of the South At¬ Schools. Money and the National Economy, lantic Modern Language Association In October Mrs. Brooks spoke at to civic groups and similar organi¬ in Atlanta in November. In Decem¬ Spelman College Chapel on the role zations, among them the National ber she spoke to a general mem¬ of the archaeologist in literary re¬ Association of Accountants, Jackson, bership meeting of the League of search and in November to the Price Mississippi, and the American Associ¬ Women Voters of Atlanta on the pro¬ ation of High School Assembly on “Go Ex¬ University Women, Talla¬ gram of the national league organi¬ ploring in Books.’ hassee, Florida. zation.

22 Atlanta University Bulletin The National Alumni Association

Students and faculty at the tea held in September by the Alumni Association

New Alumni Clubs Work in this area had been or¬ School of Library Service, Mrs. An- ganized previously, hut now the geline Poles of Monrovia, Liberia, The continued growth of the graduates of all the University have for the School of Education, John Alumni Association is reflected in been added to the group. Myron H. Eaves of Jacksonville, Florida, for the organization of two more local Johnson, formerly a member of the tlie School of Arts and Sciences, and alumni clubs. In Macon. Georgia, Executive Committee of the National Mahesh C. Jain of India, now teach¬ the newly formed group has an¬ Alumni Association, has been active ing at Dillard, for the School of nounced the election of William in the formation of the club and Business Administration. Mrs. Eloise Travis, M. Ed. 1952, as president, promises more about their activities Martin was in charge of the recep¬ Ola Ramsay, as secretary, and Cleo¬ for the next Bulletin. tion. The traditional fall tea was held patra Love, history 1935, as pro¬ in the l niversity Dormitories with gram chairman. Also there is an ac¬ Students Entertained the students furnishing the music for tive group in the San Francisco Has Dean Sage Hall was the scene of the informal gathering. area with a roster of twenty-six ac¬ the reception given at the close of tive members according to the last Summer School for the graduating Alumni President in Europe information received. Louis H. Bron¬ class and their families, the faculty Mrs. J osephine D. Murphv. presi¬ son of Vallejo, California, is presi¬ and staff. Lour students responded to dent of the National Mumni As¬ dent of this group and Miss Marjorie the welcome given them to the Alum¬ sociation, a member of the National Uexander of Berkeley is secretary. ni Association. Mrs. Carohn Belden Board of the Women s International The alumni of the School of Social Rhode- of Mobile. Mahama. for the League of Peace and Freedom and

December, 1959 Children s Hospital where she was impressed by the fact that 97% of Moscow doctors and 75% of all Rus- sian doctors are women. She found Russian children the best behaved

and the most advanced in educa¬

tion of any she saw. She visited in the schools, which are in session twelve months of the year. In Fin¬ land she inspected the youth hostels and was especially interested in one run by the students of the l Diversity of Finland.

Two of the new friends whom Mrs. Murphy made abroad have al¬ ready visited her and Atlanta Uni¬ versity, Dr. Nellie Weiss of London,

a member of the International League, and Bishop Friedrich Wum- dcrlich of Frankfurt, Germany.

Walter White Scholarship The annual Waller F. White Schol¬

arship, a $500 award given to a stu¬ dent in the department of sociology, was granted to Samuel Bromfield. Mrs. Josephine D. Murphy looks out over the roofs of Stockholm with Mrs. Varma Mr. Bromfield is a graduate of City Koshla of New Delhi, India, as both attend the international meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. College, New York.

president of the Atlanta branch, at¬ tended the international meeting of the organization in Stockholm, Swe¬ den, July 27-31. In her six w7eeks trip she also visited Switzerland, Eng¬ land, Germany, France, Russia. Den¬ mark. and Finland.

Before the opening of the confer¬ ence, she spent July 19-25 at an In¬ ternational UNESCO Seminar, ar¬ ranged by the Danish section of the International League, held in Copen¬ hagen. Here the agenda for the Stockholm meeting were formulated. Nineteen countries were represented at the conference by 362 women, thirteen of them from the United States.

M rs. Murphy spent eleven davs in Russia, eight in Moscow, three in Mrs. Eloise Martin, Attorney and Mrs. A. T. Walden, Mrs. Mamie Holmes, and Mrs. Leningrad. In Moscow she visited the Tiny Hector Webb at Summer Reception for Graduates.

24 Atlanta University Bulletin Mrs. Carolyn Belden Rhodes, Mahesh C. Jain, John Eaves, Mrs. Angelme Toles at reception for Summer graduates.

ate chapter of the Alpha Kappa Education Board this summer. Dr. Alpha sorority to be its representa¬ Elder is president of North Caro¬ ALUMNI NEWS tive at the third annual Economic lina College at Durham. and Social Leadership Workshop of 1924 the National American Council on Mrs. Mildred Greenwood Hall, Human Rights which met in October 1909 in Washington. D. C. College, has joined the faculty at Mrs. Josephine Dibble Murphy, Morris Brown College where she will Normal, attended the national hoard 1916 teach in the department of music meeting of the Women’s Internation¬ Mrs. Mae M. Yates, College, head¬ and assist with the college choir. al League for Peace and Freedom ed the newly established Pitts Me¬ 1929 October 17-19 in Philadelphia, Penn¬ morial-Big Business Division of the Mrs. Jennie D. Taylor, College, sylvania. Community Chest-Red Cross Cam¬ has paign this fall. joined the faculty at North Caro¬ 1912 lina College as an instructor in the Eugene M. Martin, College, was 1920 department of physical education. appointed chairman of the Equal Op¬ Clayton B. } ates, College, was 1930 portunity Committee for the first elected as treasurer of the Georgia annual observance of Equal Oppor¬ Voters League at the annual meet¬ Grady Earley, diploma (SSW I, i> a medical social worker with the tunity Week in Atlanta which was ing in Augusta, Georgia. October 31. held during the week of November On Wednesday. December 10. Mr. Health Department in San Francisco. California. 16. This event was sponsored by the Yates was cited as “Citizen of the National l rban ’t ear" League. Mr. Martin by Eta Omega Chapter, Ome¬ 1934 is first vice-president and secretary ga Psi Phi Fraternity, for his role Dr. Elsie E. Edmondson. English, of the Atlanta Life Insurance Com¬ in freeing Mrs. Rosa Lee Ingram and has joined the facult\ al Morris pany. her two sons from prison. Brown College in tin* department of 1914 1921 English. Dr. Edmondson was former¬ Mrs. Bertha Keith Payne, College, Dr. Alphonso Elder, College, was ly on the facult\ of Southern l ni- was elected b\ Theta Omega gradu¬ appointed t<> the Southern Regional \ ersit\.

December, 1959 25 Dr. Edu ard C. Mazique, education, lationship of Certain Selected Cri¬ from this affiliate to work with the was elected president of the National teria and Success in the Student national agency. l Medical Association at its annual eaching Program at Clark College. Mrs. Clara B. Cay, education, w'as meeting last August in Detroit, Mich¬ Dr. Dove is associate professor of Woman’s Day speaker at Hill’s First education at Clark igan. Dr. Mazique is a practicing College and is Baptist Church, Athens, Georgia, on physician in Washington. D. C. supervisor of the student teaching August 23. Mrs. Gay teaches Eng¬ 1937 program. lish at Athens High and Industrial Dr. E. B. Williams, economics, was 1944 School. the second lecturer in the Fall Lec¬ Dr. Lincoln J. Harrison, econom¬ 1948 ture Series sponsored by the depart¬ ics, was invited by the American In¬ Mrs. Bernice S. Andrews, educa¬ stitute of Certified Public Account¬ ment of sociology, Morehouse Col¬ tion, has returned to her job as lege, on Wednesday and Thursday, ants to join its membership. Dr. teacher of English and education at Harrison is director of the October 28 and 29. Dr. Williams is depart¬ Alabama State College after a year’s chairman of the department of eco¬ ment of commerce at Southern Uni¬ study toward the Ph.D. degree at nomics and business administration versity. the University of Pittsburgh. at Morehouse College. 1945 Miss Thelma Wamble, MSW, is 1941 Miss Mae I. Davenport, BSLS, was supervisor-consultant with the Medi¬ Dr. William N. Wasson, biology, married to Mr. William Fitzgerald cal Social Service, Los Angeles was recently appointed to permanent on August 2, 1959, in Jackson, Mis¬ County General Hospital. California. membership on the faculty of Wayne sissippi. Mrs. Fitzgerald is head li¬ 1949 State University where he is an as¬ brarian at LeMoyne College, Mem¬ Mrs. Billye Jones Johnson, sociolo¬ sociate professor in the division of phis, Tennessee. gy, is a public school teacher in health education and athletics. Dr. 1946 Vallejo, California. Wasson has been teaching at Wayne Beverly Raymond Dejoie, MSW, John W. Martin, sociology, assist¬ since 1957 and is is casework presently writing supervisor with the John ant professor of sociology at Dillard a workbook for the Howard Association of physiology of Chicago, a University, was awarded the Ph.D. exercise. small private prison welfare agency degree by Indiana University at the 1942 which works with prison dischargees June convocation exercises. and their Wesley R. Brazier, MSW. attended adjustment problems on Miss Gloria S. Napier, MSW, is a the 13th annual meeting of the Na¬ release from prison. medical social worker in San Fran¬ tional Association of Intergroup Re¬ Mrs. Gladys B. Fletcher, BSLS, is cisco, California. She has done fur¬ substitute lations Officials in San Juan, Puerto library instructor and as¬ ther study at the University of Cali¬ Rico, in October. Mr. Brazier is ex¬ sistant reference librarian at Hun¬ fornia. ecutive director of the Los Angeles, tington Library, Hampton Institute. Mrs. Mildred L. Rivers, BSLS, Announcement has been received California. Urban League. was married to Isaiah J. Terry of of the 1943 engagement of Joseph W. Columbus, Georgia, on August 21, at Miss Wilmoth A. Carter, sociolo¬ Walker, MSW, to Miss Diana Se- the home of Reverend J. W. Wat¬ kins in gy, professor of sociology at Shaw gunda Ve lez of Long Island, New Nashville, Tennessee. Mrs. York. Mr. Walker is University, was awarded the Ph.D. program direc¬ Terry is head librarian at the Fourth tor of Los degree in sociology this year by the Angeles Urban League. Avenue Public Library in Columbus. University of Chicago. Dr. Carter’s 1947 Georgia. thesis, “Negro Main Street of a Con¬ Clarence D. Coleman, MSW, has Fletcher V. Rollins, biology, is temporary Urban Community: Nick¬ been named director of community principal of Madison Street Elemen¬ names and Minority Groups, was services with the National Urban tary School, Albany, Georgia. Mr. Rollins studied summer at reprinted as “Epithets” in Race, League s Southern Field Division of¬ this Fort 1958. Dr. Carter has also been listed fice in Atlanta. He will work with Valley State College. in “Who’s Who of American Wom¬ the staffs and boards in the South¬ Dr. Charles V. Willie, sociology, en.’ ern Field Division’s twelve local af¬ was the final guest lecturer in the Mrs. Pearlie C. Dove, education, filiates and will assist them in de¬ Annual Fall Lecture Series spon¬ was awarded the doctor of education veloping wider program activities. sored by the department of sociolo¬ degree by the University of Colorado Mr. Coleman was formerly communi¬ gy, Morehouse College, December 7 at the summer convocation. Her dis¬ ty organization associate of the At¬ and 8. Dr. Willie, who is instructor sertation was, “A Study of the Re¬ lanta LTrban League and is on leave in preventive medicine and medical

26 Atlanta University Bulletin sociology at the State University of Reverend Terrill is pastor of Zion ant professor of biology at Alcorn New York, spoke on the theme, Hill Baptist Church, Atlanta, and as¬ A. and M. College, Lorman. Missis¬ "Community Structure and Process.’" sistant professor of religion at More¬ sippi. house Mrs. 1950 College. Elynor Rettus Groves, Eng¬ lish. has Dr. Lee B. Stephens, biology, is 1952 joined the faculty of More¬ house associate professor of biology at James L. Cox, MSW. is the father College as an instructor in the Southern l niversity, Baton Rouge. of a son, James L. Cox 111. born Oc¬ department of English. Paul T. Louisiana. tober 11. 1959. at Bryan Memorial Groves, chemistry, re¬ Hospital. Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. ceived the Ph.D. degree in chemis¬ 1951 Cox is on the faculty of the Uni¬ try from the University of Pennsyl¬ Mrs. Marymal Bingham, MSW, is versity of Nebraska Graduate School vania at its summer commencement a probation officer with the Chil¬ of Social Work in addition to his on Friday, August 7, 1959. His thesis dren's Court in Milwaukee, Wiscon¬ topic was ‘‘The Equilibria Between sin. position as executive director of Ma¬ lone Community Center in Lincoln. Arylolefins and Arylalkyl Cations in Richard G. Griffin, MSLS, is li¬ Dr. Marvin L. Head, education, Sulfuric Acid. Dr. Groves has been brarian at the New York Institute of has been named dean at LeMoyne added to the faculty at Atlanta Uni¬ Technology, New York City. Mr. College. He began his duties there versity as assistant professor of chem¬ Griffin studied at the University of in istry. Tennessee Law School September. Dr. Head had former¬ during the Mrs. ly taught at Albany and Kentucky Geraldyne L. Long, MSW, is summer of 1958. State a school social worker in Baltimore, William S. Colleges. Hight, MSW, is acting Maryland. director of the Medical Social Serv¬ 1955 Louis ice, Sacramento County Hospital. Henry Bronson, MSW. is 1956 correctional Miss Sacramento, California. counselor, California Marjorie A. Alexander, Medical MSW John S. McNeil, MSW. is chief of Facility, State Department , is a child welfare worker at of Corrections, in California. Mr. the San Francisco. the psychiatric social work section. California, Public Bronson is also Welfare U.S.A.F. Hospital. Travis A. F. B., president of the new¬ Department. Mrs. Zettie A. California. ly organized San Francisco Bay Area Blayton, MSW. was married to Mr. John Carter. Jr., Carlton H. Morse, education, re¬ Chapter of the Atlanta University Alumni Association. at the Grove African Methodist ceived the Ed.D. degree from the Mrs. Louise T. Hollowed, English, Church. Detroit. Michigan, in University of Oklahoma at the sum¬ Sep¬ has rejoined the faculty of tember. For the past three years. mer convocation. August 2. Dr. Morris Brown College as associate professor Mrs. Carter served as director of Morse, who was formerly principal of Adult of L. S. Ingraham High School in English after a year’s study at Leadership Education Training the University of Pennsylvania where for Campfire Girls. Girl Scouts and Sparta, Georgia, has been added to she the A .W.C.A. in Detroit. She is the faculty of Fort Valley State Col¬ completed the residence require¬ ments for the Ph.D. degree in Eng¬ teaching this year at Northern High lege as associate professor of educa¬ lish. School. tion. Mrs. Jane Miller Johnson, Charles Levi Sanders. MSW. is ex¬ Leonard A. Rodgers, education, is MSW, is a medical social worker with ecutive director of the Booker Wash¬ principal of the Hart County Train¬ the ing School, Hartwell, Georgia. University of Oklahoma Medical ington Center in Rockford, Illinois. Center. Oklahoma Mrs. Eleanor W . Traylor, Joseph Jj. Rowell, MSW, is medi¬ City. Oklahoma. English, Miss Ernestein Walker, was Woman's cal social work consultant with the history, Day speaker at Provi¬ assistant professor of histoiv at dence Baptist Church. East Atlanta, l . S. Public Health Service. Bemidji. South Carolina State on Minnesota. College, is Sunday, October 18. Mrs. Traylor studying first semester is an instructor at Howard Horace E. Tate, education, is as¬ the 1959-60 English at Western Reserve l niversitv. 1 niversity. sociate professor of education at Mrs. Fort Valley State College. Fort Val¬ 1954 Evelyn Ram bo Trigg, educa¬ tion, teaches at Perrin Junior ley, Georgia. Miss Cordelia J. Blount, English, High School. Ponchatoula. Louisiana. Reverend Levi M. Terrill^ history, is dean of women and assistant pro¬ fessor of was elected president of the General English at Paine College. 1957 Augusta. Georgia. Mrs. Missionary Baptist Convention of Kathryn A. Brisbane, MSW . Georgia at its annual convention, No¬ 1955 was recently named communit\ >cr\- vember 12. in Bainbridge. Georgia. Wilfred R. Ball, biology. is assist¬ ices secretary of the Atlanta I than

Dk< kmhkk. 1959 27 League. Mrs. Brisbane returned to James A. Goodman, MSW, is psy¬ cation at C. W. Hill School in At¬ the League after spending a year chiatric social worker at the Los An¬ lanta. at the University of Patna, India, geles Health Department, Alcoholic Siegfried B. Ayatey, economics, is where her husband served as Ful- Clinic, Los Angeles, California. a student at American University, bright Professor of political science. Miss Laurie Johnson, education, Washington, 1). C., where he is Miss Margaret M. Brown, MSLS, formerly a counselor at Florida A. studying toward the Ph.D. degree is librarian at Roosevelt Junior Col¬ and M. University, has been named in International Economics. lege, West Palm Beach, Florida. dean of women at Wilberforce Uni¬ William S. Banks, education, is John Lee Curry, MSLS, formerly versity. principal of Inman Park Elementary librarian of the Negro Collection, Ralph L. Johnson, MBA, has been School in Atlanta. added to the Trevor Arnett Library, Atlanta Uni¬ faculty at Morgan State Eldred Black, education, is a clerk versity, has been added to the li¬ College as an instructor in the de¬ at the United States Post Office in Atlanta. brary staff at Dillard University as partment of economics.

reference librarian. Josphat IV. Karanja, history, was Mrs. Sara 7 . Blackmon, education, Miss Levevian McDaniel, educa¬ awarded a Woodrow7 Wilson scholar¬ of Atlanta, is principal of Beacon tion, was married to Mr. Norman ship to complete his studies toward School in Decatur, Georgia. Charles Benton, Friday, August 14, the Ph.D. degree in history at James D. Boglin, education, is di¬ Princeton at the Church of the Nazarene, University. rector of the freshman dormitory at Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Mrs. Benton Mrs. Ann Roberts Robinson, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. is a teacher for the Bureau of Indian MSW, was appointed director of stu¬ Mrs. Virginia Dean Boyd, MSLS, Affairs, Department of Interior, dent personnel at Morris Brown is a high school librarian in Ander¬ South Dakota. College. She began her duties there son, South Carolina. Mrs. Gloria Mitchell Simmons, in September. Mrs. Mary E. Brooks, MSW, is MSLS, has been added to the faculty Mrs. Mary Bridges Southall, psychiatric social worker with the MSLS of Wilberforce University as assist¬ (Education, 1947), was mar¬ California State Mental Hygiene De¬ ant librarian and instructor of Eng¬ ried this summer to Mr. Legrand partment in Long Beach, California. lish. Lockhart of Waycross, Georgia. Mrs. Samuel E. Brown, education, Samuel L. Washington, MSW, is Lockhart is a school librarian in Ful¬ teaches biology at P. G. Appling chief psychiatric social worker for ton County, Georgia. High School in Macon, Georgia. the Community Mental Health Serv¬ Robert Threatt, sociology, was ap¬ Reverend Laivler J. Burt, sociolo¬ ice, San Jose, California. Mr. Wash¬ pointed Curriculum Consultant for gy, pastor of the Calvary Baptist the Division of ington had an article, “Modified Negro Education, Church in Detroit, Michigan, is State Child Guidance Clinic,” published in Department of Education, studying this year at Wayne Uni¬ the U.S.A.F. Medical Journal in No¬ Georgia. versity Law School. vember, 1958. Miss Fronnie Mae Whitehurst, bi¬ Emerson 0. Bynes, education, is Reverend M. J. Wynn, English, ology, has been added to the faculty principal of Lillian R. Brown High of Atlanta was elected Acting President and Di¬ University as an instructor School, Wauchula, Florida. of John H. rector of Gammon Theological Sem¬ biology. Chappelle, MBA, is busi¬ Mrs. Maurice M. ness inary at a meeting of the Board of Williams, educa¬ manager at Morris College. Trustees in October. Gammon The¬ tion, was Woman’s Day speaker at Sumter, South Carolina. Providence Miss ological Seminary is one of the par¬ Baptist Church, Atlanta, Dorothy Chisholm, MSW, is ticipating institutions in the Inter¬ on Sunday, October 18. Mrs. Williams a psychiatric case worker with Metro¬ denominational Theological Center. teaches at A. F. Herndon School in politan State Hospital. Norwalk, Cali¬ Atlanta. fornia. 1958 Miss Eula Lee Branham, educa¬ 1959 Mrs. Sara G. Coleman, education, John A. is a tion, who studied last year at the Aldridge, education, of primary teacher at J. F. Beavers Atlanta University School of Li¬ Auburn, Alabama, is teaching in Elementary School in Atlanta. West brary Service, is a full-time librarian Point, Georgia. Edwin L. Cooper, biology, is in Newnan, Georgia. William F. Allen, education, is studying toward the Ph.D. degree in Mrs. Tallulah Ring Cogswell, principal of a school in Wadley, biology at Brown University, Provi- MSLS, is childrens librarian with Georgia. dence, Rhode Island. the Brooklyn Public Library, Brook- Mrs. Anna Rearl Atkinson, educa¬ Miss Frances H. Cutchin, MSW, lvn. Newr York. tion, teaches courses in special edu¬ has accepted employment with the

28 Atlanta University Bulletin Albert Einstein Medical Center, Phil¬ Carlton W. Gannaway, education, of social sciences. Mrs. adelphia. Pennsylvania, as a medical is principal of J. L. Williams Ele¬ Bettye P. Johnson, education, social worker. mentary School, Commerce, Georgia. teaches the junior primary class at Robert Earl Daniels, MSW, is Mrs. Marjorie Bennett Guest, Peabody School, Washington, D. C. serving with the United States Army MSW. is school social worker for Miss Delores Louise Johnson, in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. the Board of Public Instruction, MSW, is a social worker with the Mrs. Pearlie Smith Davis, educa¬ Tampa, Florida. Tuberculosis Control Board. San An¬ tion, is teaching in Rayville, Louisi¬ Mrs. Annie Mae Hall, education, tonio, Texas, and teaches part-time ana. was named dean of women and as¬ at St. Phillip’s College. Mrs. Helen Cooper Dobard, MSW, sociate professor of education at Mrs. Docia Joyce Johnson, MSW, is psychiatric social worker for the Fort Valley State College, Fort Val¬ is a crippled children’s caseworker Department of Mental Hygiene, San ley, Georgia. for Special Services Division, Lake Bernardino, California. Mrs. Irene C. Hansbrough, MSLS, County Department of Public Wel¬ Miss Shirley E. Doneghy, educa¬ is librarian of the Murphy Branch fare, Gary, Indiana. Robert W. tion, was appointed associate dean Library in Knoxville, Tennessee. Johnson, education, is of students in charge of women at Mrs. Josephine R. N. Harmon, ed¬ principal of Washington Parish High Albany State College, Albany, Geor- ucation, is a public school teacher School, Franklinton, Louisiana. gia. and minister in Tampa, Florida. Miss Willene Jones, MSLS, is as¬ Mrs. Phae Hubble Dorman, MSLS, Arthur Lee Haywood, mathemat¬ sistant reference librarian at Virginia is living in Bloomington, Indiana, ics, is mathematician at Wright Air State College. where she is a housewife. Development Center of the United Mrs. Pearl Britton lowers, educa¬ Eugene Eaves, French, was award¬ States Army in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. tion, of Jacksonville, Florida, is an ed a Fulbright scholarship for the Haywood’s thesis, “The Mathematics elementary school teacher. 1959-60 academic year. Mr. Eaves of Fresnel Region Field Distribu¬ Mrs. Artemisia Jones Junier, will serve as an English language as¬ tions," was published as a U.S.A.F. MSLS (BSLS, 1948), is librarian at sistant at the Ecole Nationale Pro- technical report so that it could be the Veterans Administration Hos¬ fessionelle, Henri-Brisson, at Vier- made available to other scientists pital, Tuskegee, Alabama. son Vi lie, France. working in related areas of research 4/(55 Doris Temple King, MSW, John H. Eaves, English (Educa¬ for the Air Force. is Child Welfare Worker I with the tion, 1956), is an instructor at Ed¬ Wilson Henderson, MSW, is ex¬ State Department of Public Assist¬ ward Waters College, Jacksonville, tension secretary for the Butler ance, Kanawha County, Charleston, Florida. Street Y.M.C.A. in Atlanta. West Virginia. Mrs. Juanita R. Edwards, MSW, Robert Lee Hightower, education, Miss Bernice Audrey Marshall, ed¬ has accepted employment as psychi¬ is principal of Hooper-Renwick Ele¬ ucation, teaches social studies at atric social worker with the Pacific mentary-High School in Lawrence- Wilson Senior High School, Flor¬ State Hospital, Pomona, California. ville, Georgia. ence, South Carolina. Walter Elias, Jr., mathematics, Miss Verneta E. Hill, MSW, is di¬ Mrs. Louise Mable Maull, MSW, was appointed instructor in the math¬ rector of the Young Adult Program is caseworker with the Department ematics department at Virginia State at Booker Washington Community of Public Welfare. Wilmington, Del¬ College. Center, San Francisco, California. aware. Elosler Leon Ellison, MSW. is do¬ Mrs. Sara Thomas Hixon, educa¬ Mrs. Mary Ellen McCrary, MSLS, ing psychiatric social work in Colum¬ tion, is principal of Graham Street is librarian at Lincoln Elementarx bia. South Carolina. Elementary School. Rome. Georgia. School, Jackson, Tennessee. Mrs. Lola Ann Evans, MSLS. of Mrs. Evelyn Dorsey H o u s t o n, John W. Merherson, education, is Griffin, Georgia, is teaching at I). A. MSLS, is the mother of a daughter, teacher-coach at L. J. Price High Smith School, Ozark. Alabama. Laura Ellen, born September 24, School in Atlanta. Mrs. Imcy Williams Elagg, MSLS, 1959, in Talladega, Alabama. Alfred Leo Morris, MBA (Eco¬ is librarian in charge of Technical Ocie James Irons, education, of nomics, 1958), is assistant profes¬ Atlanta is Processes, Chicago Public Library. teaching in the public sor of business and chairman of the school Chicago, Illinois. system. department of business education at Mrs. Elizabeth J. Pinch, education, Mahesh C. Jain, MBA. has been Fort Valle) State College. Mr. Morris is teaching in the Atlanta Public added to tbe faculty at Dillard l ni- studied last summer at the l Diversi¬ School System. versitv as instructor in the division ty of Illinois where he is working

December, 1959 29 toward the Ph.D. degree in Inter¬ Senior High School in Americus, assistant to the Director of Admis¬ national Economics. Georgia. sions, Maryland State College, Prin¬ Miss Jewel Morrissette, MSW, is Mrs. Carolyn L. Holden Rhodes, cess Anne, Maryland. teacher and director of field work at MSLS, is librarian at Williamson Zollie S. Stringer, Jr., MSW. has Virginia Union University. High School, Mobile, Alabama. begun work as community organiza¬ Mrs. Frances Long Mosby, MSW, Ulysses Rice, education, of Eaton- tion worker with Friends' Neighbor¬ accepted employment as psychiatric ton, Georgia, is teaching. hood Guild, Philadelphia, Pennsyl¬ social worker with the Veterans Ad¬ Miss Margaret Vivian Richards, vania. ministration Regional Office, New¬ education, teaches the second grade Miss Gladys Thomas, mathematics, ark. New' Jersey. at Carver Heights Elementary has been added to the faculty at Mrs. Naomi Adger Neal, educa¬ School, Columbus, Georgia. Spelman College as an instructor. tion, teaches at Scott’s Branch Mrs. Sarah W. Richardson, edu¬ John Arthur Thomas, education, is School, Summerton, South Carolina. cation, of Atlanta is an elementary principal of Surrency Elementary Miss Catherine Nichols, MSW, is school teacher. School, Surrency, Georgia. child welfare social Miss worker with the Mary Elizabeth Rucker, Eng¬ Harry H. Thompson, education, is Bureau for Child Care, Philadelphia, lish, was named assistant professor of principal of Peter G. Appling High Pennsylvania. English at Albany State College. School, Macon, Georgia. Tello L. M. econom¬ Suren Nath Sadana, MBA, is a Nkhereanye, William Madison Townsend, MBA, ics, is studying toward the Ph.D. de¬ member of the faculty at Tuskegee is assistant to the president, Mutual gree in economics at Stanford Uni¬ Institute in the division of social Federal Savings and Loan Associa¬ versity, Stanford, California. sciences. tion, Atlanta, Georgia. Edward Count Norman, education, Miss Vivian D. Sanders, French, is Miss Gladys Tressia Turner, MSW, of Atlanta, is teaching. studying French literature at the was appointed clinical social worker Matth etc Norwood, education, was Sorbonne in Paris, France, on a with the Veterans Administration named associate professor, Division Merrill Foreign Fellowship. Center. Dayton, Ohio. of Education, Miles College. Mr. Eddie W. Scott, education, of San- education, is Norw'ood studied last summer at Co¬ dersville, Georgia, is teaching. George B. Tutt, prin¬ lumbia University. Frank Sellers, Jr., MSW, has ac¬ cipal of the elementary school in Samuel A. Okorie, economics, is Cordele, cepted the position of psychiatric so¬ Georgia. working on the Ph.D. degree at Mc¬ cial worker with the New Jersey Miss Delo E. Washington, MSW, Gill University. State Hospital, Marlboro, New Jer¬ is caseworker for the Bureau of Thaddeus Olive, Jr., MBA, is sey. Child Care, Philadelphia, Pennsyl¬ teaching at David T. Howard High Eddie Joseph Shellman, biology, vania. School in Atlanta. lias been named instructor of biolo¬ Miss Rachelle E. Wilcox, MSW, Miss Lillian J. Phillips, education, gy at Hampton Junior College, Ocala, is a medical social w'orker at Albert teaches English at Carver High Florida. Einstein Medical Center, Philadel¬ School, Douglas, Georgia. Miss Ethel Delores Simmons, edu¬ phia, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Marie McGhee Pittman, cation, of Campton, Georgia, is Miss Ola Williams, education, is MSLS, is reserve book librarian at teaching. teaching at North Boston Elementary North Carolina College in Durham. Eugene R. Slaughter, sociology, of School, Boston, Georgia. Adolphus W. Plump, biology, mar¬ Atlanta is teaching. Mrs. Lillian E. Willis, education, ried Miss Helen 0. Sawyer in Mont¬ William Arthur is teaching at Park School, gomery, Alabama, on June 10. Mr. Small, education, Lynwood Plump is studying at Meharry Medical of Atlanta is teaching. Atlanta. College. Miss Charlotte Louise Stanson, edu¬ Miss Prince Ilona Winston, math¬ Spurgeon Yorke Poe, education, cation, teaches third grade at Main ematics, has been added to the facul¬ teaches in the Atlanta Public School Elementary School, Rome, Georgia. ty at Spelman College as an instruc¬ System. Mr. Poe is listed in “Who’s Miss Eulala L. Steele, MSW. has tor of mathematics. Who in American Education.’" begun work as program supervisor Yuen-Fat Wong, mathematics, is Mrs. Audrey Daniels Powell, MSLS for Irvington House, Irvington-on- studying toward the Ph.D. degree l BSLS, 1049), is librarian at Archer Hudson, New York. at Cornell University. High School in Atlanta. John L. Stephens, education, of At¬ Mrs. June Fennell Woods, English, William Powell, Jr., education, lanta, is teaching. of Allendale, South Carolina, is teaches mathematics at Sumter John Lee Southall, Jr., MBA. is teaching.

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