the niversi Bulletin MARCH, 1974 Commencement 255 Degrees Awarded 3 Charter Day Audience Hears Atlanta School Superintendent 6 Westerfield Conference 10 School of Education Offers New Training in Special Education 12 Exhibition of Afro-American Art Begins Tour in Atlanta 14 Campus Briefs 15 Faculty Items 25 Alumni News 27 Cover: “Yield Not” by Benjamin Britt, one of more than sixty pieces of art from the exhibition “Highlights from the SECOND CLASS POSTAGE Atlanta University Collection of Afro-American Art." PAID AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA The exhibition opened at Atlanta's High Museum in November and will travel to ten other cities over the next two years. 255 Graduated at Summer Commencement Exercises Christopher edley. execu¬ tive Director of the United Negro College Fund, delivered the principal address at Summer Commencement Exercises on Friday, August 3. Mr. Edley, formerly officer in charge of law programs at the Ford Foundation, joined the UNCF April 1, 1973. He is a graduate of Howard University and received his law degree at Harvard University. Mr. Edley was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia for three years and has also held posts with the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency. Two hundred fifty-five degrees were awarded, including eight Specialists in Education, two Specialists in Library Service, and one Ph.D. in Guidance and Counseling. The School of Arts and Sciences awarded 27 Master of Arts degrees and 9 Master of Science degrees; the School of Library Service awarded 58 master's degrees; the School of Education. 146; and the School of Business Administration, 5. Continued Christopher Edley, Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund, addresses graduates at Summer Commencement Exercises. the ATI ANTA UNIVERSITY BUI I 11 IN MARCH. 1^74 3 Commencement (Continued) COMMENCEMENT PARTICIPANTS Other participants in the August Commencement included the Rev¬ erend A. S. Dickerson, superintendent of the Atlanta-Stockbridge District of the United Methodist Church, who gave the invocation and the Reverend J. E. Lowery, pastor of Central United Methodist Church, who gave the benediction. Music was provided by the Atlanta University Community Chorus, directed by Dr. Wendell P. Whalum, Chairman of the Music De¬ partment at Morehouse College, with Henry Porter, soloist. Mamie Jackson Thomas accepts diploma from President Jarrett. Mrs. Thomas was awarded the Ph.D. in Counseling and Guidance. She is the fifth person to receive this degree from the University. Platform party at Summer Commencement 4 PRESIDENT’S CHARGE In his charge to the graduates. Dr. Jarrett said: “If your advanced train¬ ing means that you are truly educated, you can no longer remain interested primarily in yourselves and your own destinies. You must be concerned more than ever before, with people, the grievances of poverty, injustice, un¬ equality; and you must keep your minds open to new insights that will allow you to teach the true meaning of freedom by your own example. “As you leave this University,” he continued, “I hope that you will not allow the harsh reality of what is hap¬ pening today to erase your balance, your dreams of the future, and your respect for the individual personality of every man, regardless of who he is and what he believes.” Members of the platform party march in past rows of graduates at Summer Commencement President Jarrett and Speaker Christopher Edley leave Sisters Chapel following Summer Commencement Exercises I'HE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN MARC H. 1974 5 Charter Day Audience Hears Atlanta School Superintendent Trustees, faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the University gathered in Sisters Chapel on October 16 to celebrate the granting of the Univer¬ sity’s charter. Dr. Alonzo Crim, superintendent of Atlanta Public School System, was principal speaker at the Convocation. Dr. Crim, Atlanta’s first Black School superintendent, came to Atlanta from Compton, California, where he had been superintendent of the Compton Unified School District. The annual Charter Day Banquet, held at the Royal Coach Motor Hotel, was a departure from the traditional affair introducing new faculty mem¬ bers. The new format provided a re¬ view of developments at the University and a look at future plans and direc¬ tions. Alumnus Cornelius V. Troupe, president emeritus of Fort Valley State College, presided with elan at the Banquet, and representatives of the alumni, faculty, and trustees brought appropriate greetings. Citations were presented to Mr. John Shepherd and Mrs. Geneva Har- reld, both of whom were retiring at the end of 1973. Mr. Shepherd, chief engineer, had served the university 37 years, and Mrs. Harreld, secretary to the registrar, 25. Dr. Alonzo Crim, Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, was principal speaker at the Charter Day Convocation. 6 Charter Day (L to R) Charter Day Greetings from the University Family ... FOR THE TRUSTEES — Attorney Horace Ward, Georgia legislator, alumnus and trustee of the University; FOR THE ALUMNI — George A. Smith, recently appointed Director of Alumni Affairs; FOR THE FACULTY — Dr. Richard A. Long, chairman of the department of Afro-American Studies. Student Government officers posed with President Jarrett for photograph following banquet. (L) Vice President Eaton and (R) President Linda Kincaid Dr. Cornelius V. Troupe, President Emeritus of Fort Valley State College and active alumnus of the University, was a warm and gracious toastmaster at the Charter Day Banquet. Charter Day President Jarrett presented plaques to two long-time University employees who were retiring at the end of 1973. (Top) Mr. John Shepherd, chief engineer, 37 years (Bottom) Mrs. Geneva Harreld, secretary to the registrar, 25 years President Jarrett and Dr. Crim share a moment of levity following morning convocation Mrs. Nettie Smith, president of National Alumni Association, presents check to President Jarrett. The check was for $1,000 given by the Alumni Association to the University. IMF All AM A UNIVERSITY BULLETIN MARCH. 1974 9 Westerfield Conference Economic Development in Africa Discussed During Three-day Conference Many distinguished scholars, diplo¬ nomic development in Africa. Gov¬ mats, public officials, and economists ernor Andrew F. Brimmer of the were on campus October 25-27 for Federal Reserve Board, who is chair¬ the Westerfield Conference on Eco¬ man of the Westerfield Advisory nomic Development. The Conference, Committee, delivered a lecture on “In¬ co-sponsored by the Westerfield Ad¬ ternational Capital Markets and the visory Committee, the African-Amer¬ Financing of Economic Development” ican Scholars Council, and the Uni¬ at the opening session. He dealt at versity, was the first step in a planned length with methods of financing for commemoration of the unique con¬ developing nations and with recent tributions of Ambassador Samuel Z. trends in private sector capital invest¬ Westerfield, Jr., in the area of eco¬ ment in these countries. nomic development. Dr. Westerfield’s Other featured speakers were: The wide and varied career included nine Honorable Robert K. A. Gardiner, years of service as Dean of the School U. N. Economic Commission for of Business Administration at Atlanta Africa, (“Economic Development in University, Senior Adviser in the the Second Development Decade—A United States Treasury Department, Critical Review and Appraisal”); The and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Honorable David D. Newsom, As¬ State. At the time of his death in sistant Secretary of State for African July, 1972, he was serving as United Affairs, (“Development is a State of States Ambassador to the Republic Mind”); Dr. H. M. A. Onitiri, Di¬ of Liberia. rector of Nigerian Institute of Social Following his sudden passing, sev¬ and Economic Research, (“Africa’s eral of his friends and former asso¬ International Economic Relations in ciates decided to create in his honor a Changing World”); The Honorable a permanent lecture series, and the Samuel C. Adams, Assistant Admin¬ Westerfield Advisory Committee was istrator for Africa, Agency for Inter¬ formed to implement this decision. national Development, ("Diary of an Following the opening conference, the Approach to Disaster: The Sahel Committee plans to sponsor one or Drought”); and The Honorable C. more lectures at the University each Clyde Ferguson, U. S. Representative year to provide a forum for the dis¬ to the United Nations Economic and cussion of problems of economic de¬ Social Council, (“New Dimensions in velopment. Development”); Workshop papers The papers presented at the Con¬ dealt primarily with regional economic ference covered many facets of eco¬ development. Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and Chairman of the Westerfield Advisory Committee, was keynote speaker at the Conference. The photograph above was made in 1970 when he spoke at the University’s Charter Day Convocation. Faces seen at Westerfield Conference Mrs. Helene B. Westerfield, wife of the late Dr. Samuel Dr. John Henrik Clarke, associate professor Hunter College Z. Westerfield, attended the Conference honoring her husband. and a member of the African-American Scholars Council, Inc. Mrs. Westerfield is special assistant to the Mayor- Commissioner of Washington, D. C. Photoscourtesy Dr. Elliott P. The Honorable of Skinner, Chairman, African-American Clyde C. Ferguson, U. S. Representative, THE United BLACK Scholars Council, and Chairman, Department of Anthropology Nations Economic and Social Council, delivered