Langston University Digital Commons @ Langston University LU Gazette, 1960-1969 LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) 5-1960 The aG zette May 1960 Langston University Follow this and additional works at: http://dclu.langston.edu/ archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969 Recommended Citation Langston University, "The aG zette May 1960" (1960). LU Gazette, 1960-1969. Book 16. http://dclu.langston.edu/archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969/16 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) at Digital Commons @ Langston University. It has been accepted for inclusion in LU Gazette, 1960-1969 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Langston University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Langston University Gazette V O L U M E TEN LANGSTON UNIVERSITY, LANGSTON, OKLAHOMA, MAY, I960 N O . 4 Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson Pres. Harrison Alumni Celebrate 20th Anniversary; Will Deliver Commeneement Address Invifed fo Class of 1940 fo Hold Reunion Pugwash Meet Address Will Be Made Commencement Exercises at Langston University will be held in The Pugwash Conference is spon­ By Dr. William H. Hale the I. W. Young Auditorium, May sored by the Association of Ameri­ The guest speaker for the reunion 29, at 2:00 p. m. Dr. Mordecai can Co leges which has a member­ for the class of 1940, May 28 at Wyatt Johnson, president of How­ ship of more than 900 colleges. Ap­ 11:00 in the I. W. Young Auditor­ ard University, will be commence­ proximately 16 presidents of the ment speaker. member colleges are selected each ium will be Dr. William H. Hale. Dr. Hale is a Langston graduate Dr. Johnson received his B. A. year to attend the Conference and and a member of the class of ’40 degree from Morehouse College, and President Harrison was one of the following graduation was appointed 16 selected to attend the 3rd An­ and was one of the seven students to the faculty of the institution in nual Conference. Each president is selected to represent the university the Department of English, a posi­ cxpected to bring his wife and spend in the 1939-40 edition of “Who’s Who in American Colleges.” tion which he held for two years. 9 days at the Conference. He received the Bachelor of Arts President Harrison has also been He received his M.A. degree in degree in 1913 from the University invited to attend the National Con­ Sociology from the University of of Chicago; the Bachelor of Divin­ ference on “A New Look at the Wisconsin and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. ity degree in 1916 from Rochester Population Crisis,” Dallas-Sheraton Dr. Hale has held the positions (N.Y.) Theological Seminary, and Hotel, Dallas, Texas, May 17-19. of Special Fellow and Research As­ the Master of Sacred Theology de­ This Conference is sponsored by the gree in 1922 from Howard Univer­ Editor-in-Chief of the Newsweek sistant at Fisk University; instructor sity. Magazine, Mr. Malcolm Muir, and of Social Science, Langston Univer­ Dr. Mordecia W . Johnson the Council on World Affairs. Mr. sity; Registrar and Administrative Dr. William H. Hale Following graduation from Ro­ President, Howard University chester Seminary, Dr. Johnson was John D. Rockefeller, III, will give Dean of Bethune-Cookman College employed as a student secretary of the closing dinner address. and has written several professional for Higher Education of the N.E.A., the International Committee of the American Seminar in Eurojx;, Dr. President Harrison recently re­ articles and book reviews. and the Alpha Kappa Delta Honor, Young Men’s Christian Association. Johnson has traveled abroad on turned from Washington, D. C., He is a member of the American ary Sociology Fraternity. He is also Later he became pastor of the First numerous occasions. where he participated in a Confer­ Teachers Association; the American active in community and civic af­ Baptist Church of Charleston, West Dr. Johnson holds membership in ence on Housing and Urban Re­ Sociological Society; the Southern fairs and is National President-elect Virginia, where he organized, the Advisory Council for the \ ’irgin newal. United States Comjnissioner Sociological Society; the Association of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. among other enteprises, the Charles­ Islands; National Advisory Council on Housing Administration, Mr. ton Branch of the N.A.A.C.P. In on Education, National Advisory Norman Mason, has requested Presi­ 1926, he was appointed the first Ne­ Board of the India League of A- dent Harrison to write a statement Columbia University Professor gro president of Howard University, merica, and National Mental Health, indicating what the Housing Ad­ Washington, D. C. Medical Education Scientific ,\dvis- ministration might do to provide Guest Lecturer at Langston University Dating from , when he was ory Council of the National Fund more information to minority groups 1926 Dr. Francis Shoemaker, Professor .\rts. His extensive formal educa­ a member of the Shcrwotxl for Medical Education. on housing. Edily of English, Columbia University, tion has been enriched by education­ was guest lecturer at Langston L'^ni- al serwces rendered in Europe and versity this week. The distinguished most significantly by two years ex­ Opal Combs educator held conferences with the 6 6 StueCcKtA ( 9 perience in India, in the area of Langston University Department of communication research. He is the Receives Grad English and Modern Languages anc author of Aesthetic Experience in presented to the general faculty Literature and of numerous research Fellowship discourse on “Humanities in the articles in indepedent and collabor­ Sixty-six students at Langston will receive their Bachelor of Arts Teacher Education Program.” TTie ated publications. Dr. and Mrs. University will be graduated during in Education. Shoemaker series of lectures is one Shoemaker were the houseguest of of the professional activities schedu­ Commencement Exercises May 29. W'illie George Baker from Chick- President and Mrs. Harrison while asha, Oklahoma; David William led as a part of the current re-eval­ on the campus. The graduation roll includes: Ray- Blakely from St. Joseph, Missouri; uation study of the Langston cur­ The Shoemakers are personal field Sanders from O klahoma City, Harwell Coleman from Atlanta, ricula. friends of .Mrs. Moxye Weaver King Oklahoma and Arthur Wallace from Texas; Billie Jo Daniels from Okla­ and Professor Shoemaker is Mrs. Muskogee, Oklahoma, who will re­ homa City, Oklahoma; V'iann L. At Columbia, University, Dr. King’s doctoral advisor at Columbia ceive their Bachelor of Scicnce in Edwards from Tulsa, Oklahoma; Shoemaker is the coordinator of the University. It was through this Agriculture. Elmer CJarrett from Belton, Texas; Humanities and a specialist in Com­ friendship that Dr. Shoemaker’s vis­ James Leon Mosley from Ponca munication and the Communication it was made possible on the campus. Arelius Thomas Clayton from Mc- city, Oklahoma; Ola Lee Patmon Alester, Oklahoma; George Henry from Lawton, Oklahoma; Earl P. Dillard from Lawton, (Oklahoma; Perry, Jr. from Oklahoma City, Ok­ Gladys Johnston from Langston, O k­ lahoma; Florence Ann Petit from lahoma; and Lois Pratt from Lang­ Scholarship! For What! Preston, Oklahoma; Laverne Louise By Rayford B. Harrington life of the human being.” But, that ston, Oklahoma will receive their Porter from Muskogee, Oklahoma; Bachelor of Arts. In the not distant past, all eyes life is only as meaningful as the Mattie Lou Price from Eufaula, Ok­ turned skyward and men in the free force it exerts toward achieving the Arnold Earldo Branch from Wa- lahoma; Jacqueline Hall from Lang­ world and behind the iron curtain ultimate and indestructible status tonga, Oklahoma; Charles Maurice ston. Oklahoma; Jean Esther Haynes alike heard the beep-beep-beep of that distinguishes man from the low­ Breckenridge from Okeene, Oklaho­ from Langston, Oklahoma; Carolee the world’s first satellite— SPUT­ er animals. ma; Howard Adolphus Brewer from Hester from Detroit, Michigan NIK. From the k’ginning of time until Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Robert Barbara Jean Hill Sanders from Tul­ O p a l C o m b s For the first time, proud .\merica now, in the evolutionary process of Leroy Day from St. Joseph, Mis­ sa, Oklahoma; Thelma Jean Jeffer­ had to take the back seat and settle which we are a part, man’s ability souri; Clarence Ellis from Roanoake, son from Tulsa, Oklahoma; Elroy Miss f^pal Combs, secretary to the for second best. to think has distinguished him, not Virginia; William Chester Lamey Lee from Florida; Willie Marsh Business Nlanager and a 1959 gradu­ The rhallcnge that the sputnik only from the birds and beasts of from Duncan, O klahoma; Freder­ from Langston, Oklahoma; Willie ate in Business Administration from era brought spurred a great many the wild, but has set him apart from ick Patmon from Crescent, Oklaho­ Mae Johnson Miller from Oklaho­ Clearview, Oklahoma, received a men and evoked rapid responses. his own kind. ma; James Perry from Lewoka, Ok­ ma City, Oklahoma; Emmanuel graduate Tuition Scholarship and a Our educational system bore the On a particular occasion, there lahoma; Arthur McKinley Stevens Stanfield fro m }ax, Florida; graduate Fellowship in Business blunt of the attack. This is signifi­ was in a certain school, a chemistry from Boley, Oklahoma; and Berna- Winona Stveneson from Ardmore, Administration from Michigan State cant in that it brought to light the teacher who gave his class a long dine Tolbert from Porter, Oklaho­ Oklahoma; Uretta Stokes from Tul­ University. fact that a great majority of those list of the elements to study for a ma, will receive their Bachelor of sa, Oklahoma; Arvelene Sutton from During her four years at Langston concerned recognized that the role test. The day of the test came and Science. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Donald University she maintained better that education plays in the developv- as the instructor stood before his Taylor irom Anadarko, Oklahoma; than a “B” average.