Atlanta University Bulletin

Haccalaureate, 1944The Presidents and the Guest Speaker

Atlanta University BulletinPublished Quarterly by Atlanta L niversity

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Entered as second-class matter February 28, 1935, at the Post Office at Atlanta, Georgia, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing atspecial rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, 538, P. L. & R.

Series 111 JULY, 1944 No. 47

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UNIVERSITY EVENTS

Sixty Awarded DegreesThe beautiful Atlanta University

campus provided a picturesque settingfor the exercises of the seventy-fifthcommencement which were held at

6:00 p. m. on May 29 in the LibraryQuadrangle. President Rufus E.Clement presided. In spite of cloudyskies and an apprehensive audience,the weather remained clear and no

rain fell to mar the colorful out-of-doors program.At the appointed hour, the stately

academic procession, led by membersof the graduating class, marched upthe campus to the Library steps whichwere improvised into a platform forthe occasion.'The commencement address was

delivered by Mr. C. C. Spaulding,president of the North Carolina Mu¬tual Life Insurance Company, whomade an eloquent plea to the class forthe qualities of self-control, self-re¬spect, and dependability. Declaringthat the efficiency which characterizesone’s efforts should be such that no

one would be able to determine racialidentity unless he saw the color of theskin, the successful insurance execu¬tive stated that color is only skin deepand should not be the determiningfactor in establishing the status ofany group.The graduates were warned against

depending upon their college degreesalone to bring them success, for, aswas pointed out, statistics show thatabout ninety per cent of the youthwho fail, do so for lack of personality.The race question is regarded by

Mr. Spaulding as one of the greatestproblems facing America today, yethe believes the races cannot do with¬out each other. To illustrate thispoint, he called attention to the mu¬sical genius, Beethoven, who, he said,could never have created the master¬

pieces of music which have charmedcountless thousands of music loversthroughout the world had he not usedboth black and white keys on hispiano in their creation. “You can’teven play the ‘Star Spangled Banner’without using both black and whitekeys,’’ he added.

Quoting from Booker T. Washing¬ton, the speaker gave the graduatesthis advice: “Don’t allow anyone todrag you down so low as to make youhate him. As long as there is morethan one racial group, more than onepolitical party, more than one de¬nomination, and sometimes more thanone individual, we may expect prob¬lems. Since there are over two billionhuman beings living on earth andabout thirteen million of us, we shouldnot go out into the world looking foranyone who acts, looks, or thinks justas we do. Rather seek to improveyourself mentally, physically, intellec¬tually, morally, and spiritually so youcan command the things you need inthe development of your life.”

Honorary Degree is Conferred

Mr. Spaulding was introduced tothe assemblage of approximately twothousand by President Rufus E.Clement, who later conferred uponhim the honorary degree of doctor oflaws with the following citation:“Honorary Master of Arts and Doc-

At THE APPOINTED HOUR . . . THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION

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The Seventy-Fifth Commencement

“Improve yourself . . .” was Dr. Spaulding's admonition.

tor of Laws of Shaw University;eminent insurance executive and hank¬er ; pioneer in Negro business; holderof the Harmon Award for creativeachievement in industry and business;president emeritus of the NationalNegro Business League; constant andgenerous supporter of efforts for hu¬man welfare and uplift; faithfulworker in American race relations;ardent believer in the inherent ca¬

pacity of trained youth of all races;patient, sane, impartial civic leader;astute economic statesman and Chris¬tian gentleman.”

Academic Degrees Awarded

Sixt\ received graduate and profes¬sional degrees from President Clem¬ent.

Twenty-six were awarded the de¬gree of master of arts: Economics'.Lincoln Jay Harrison, Scotlandville,Louisiana; Education'. RosaireneJohnson Black, Midway, Kentucky;Marion Calloway Brooks, Beckley,West Virginia; Charles Leo Butler,Augusta, Georgia; Christine BentonCash, Pittsburgh, Texas; Nora Pos¬ter Dowdy, Washington, D. C.;Ethel Towns Harvey, Atlanta; Yer-

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non McDaniel, Pensacola, Florida;Susie Eunice Lee Morgan, Cadiz,Ohio; Ellen Shirley Murry, Newnan,Georgia; Delia Mae Norman, Jef¬ferson, Texas; Marion Ruth PerkinsBaker, New Orleans, Louisiana;Gladys Washington Sterling, BatonRouge, Louisiana; Dorothy GreenTaplin, Baton Rouge, Louisiana;Esther Simmons Thompson, Colum¬bia, South Carolina; Mamie MartinThorpe, Atlanta; Frances PackerWallace, [Marshall, Texas; and Ken¬neth Burwell Young, Atmore, Ala¬bama. English: Penelope LaconiaBullock, Atlanta; and Vera LouiseSugg of Farmville, North Carolina.French : Ola Lee Adams, Waycross,Georgia; Rosalie Ophelia Whitmore,Fort Worth, Texas. Latin: SusieM ae Cunningham, Atlanta. Sociol¬ogy: James Henry Barnhill, Raleigh,North Carolina; Grace Rosetta Nash,Atlanta; Daniel Calbert Thompson,Atlanta.

Three who received the degree ofmaster of science were: Biology: Al-meta Evelyn Triche, Chicago, Illi¬nois. Chemistry: Dorothea Caster LeeBoston, Fayetteville, North Carolina;and Daniel Paul Golightly, Atlanta.

Sixteen received the degree of mas¬ter of social work: Pearl DebnamBell, Atlanta; Clyde Wilkins Boddie,Milledgeville, Georgia; Sara CarterCampbell, San Antonio, Texas; Nan¬nie Trudy Curry, Neptune, New Jer¬sey; Nida Mae Edwards, Elizabeth,New Jersey; Grace Grevious, Lex¬ington, Kentucky: Jeanette M ynnHarvey, Atlanta; Rowena LittlepageHenderson, Oklahoma City, Okla¬

homa; Edith Anna Henry, Atlanta;Effie Lee Hildreth, Memphis, "Tennes¬see; Phannye Brinson Huger, St.Petersburg, Florida; Natalie HeleneJacobs, Bridgeport, Connecticut;Frances Marie Jordan, St. Louis,M issouri; Dorothy Brown Racks,Atlantic City, New Jersey; InezDoris Tucker, Wilmington, NorthCarolina; and Charley Mae William¬son, Atlanta.Fifteen received the degree of

bachelor of science in library service.They were Rose McNary Banks,Louisville, Kentucky; Minnie Red¬mond Bowles, Memphis, Tennessee;Juanita Rachel Boyer, New \ ork,New York; Anne Bernice Bryant,Orangeburg, South Carolina; Char¬lotte Stirrup Dean, Miami, Florida;Louise Holmes Elder, Atlanta; OlgaLoretta Hines, Alexandria, Louisi¬ana; Anne Eliza McKay, Fayette¬ville, North Carolina; Doris LucilleNeale, New Orleans, Louisiana;Clarice Elizabeth Pierson, Marshall,Texas; Mildred Snipes Pope, Louis¬ville, Kentucky; Everette CamilleRoberts, Sumter, South Carolina;Doris Virginia Taylor, Lawrence-ville, Virginia; Josephine FawcettThompson, Atlanta; and Dovie MaeTouchstone, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Joint Baccalaureate ServiceOn May 28 the baccalaureate ser¬

mon was preached by the ReverendWvatt Aiken Smart, professor of Bib¬lical Theology at Emory l niversity.to the combined graduating classes ofthe Atlanta University System.

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Class of ’94 HoldsFiftieth Reunion

I lie 1944 commencement at At¬lanta University was the scene of a

happy reunion by the Class of 1894.I he success of the occasion was duelargely to the efforts of Mr. GeorgeA. Towns of Atlanta, who had writ¬ten to his classmates, urging them tohe on hand for the event.

Of the original twenty-eight, whowere members of that illustriousgroup, ten are still living; and ofthis number, three returned to theiralma mater on May 29 to celebratetheir fiftieth anniversary. Present atthe reunion were Mr. George A.Towns of Atlanta; Mrs. ElizabethHolmes Griffin of Albany, Georgia;and Mrs. Anna Ingraham of Sparta,Georgia.Unable to attend were I)r. A. I).

Simington of Mobile, Alabama, a for¬mer specialist at the Veterans’ Hos¬pital, Tuskegee, Alabama; Mr. JamesT. Hodges, formerly president of Til-lotson and Houston Colleges; Mrs.Mattie Armand-Jones of 'Toledo,Ohio, for many years a matron atFlorida A. & M. College; Mrs. JudiaJackson Harris, founder and princi¬pal of the Teacher Training and In¬dustrial School of Athens, Georgia;M rs. M amie Williams Allen, formany years a member of the facultyof Lincoln University ( M issouri) ;Mrs. Estella Taylor Mayer, a teach¬er in the public schools of Washing-

Mrs. Ingraham and Mr. TownsHands across fifty years

ton, D. C.; and Mrs. Bessie WlutnevHolland of Chicago, a fashionablemodiste of that city.

F)r. Reid Appointed

Dr. Ira De A. Reid has beennamed chairman of the department ofsociology and editor of Pliylon suc¬

ceeding Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, whowas retired as professor emeritus on

June 30. Dr. Reid has been a mem¬

ber of the department since 1933. Heis a graduate of Morehouse College,t!ie University of Pittsburgh, and Co¬lumbia University; and he has en¬

gaged in additional study at the Lon¬don School of Economics.

I he new chairman’s experience in¬cludes one year as a teacher at TexasCollege, and one year on the facultyof the Douglas High School in Hunt¬ington, West Virginia. For threeyears he was industrial secretary ofthe New York Urban League, andfor six years he held the position ofdirector of research with this organi¬zation. In 1939 Dr. Reid was nameda consultant on the Social SecurityBoard in Washington.Dr. Reid'’s writings are widely

known and include Sharecropper’s All

(with Arthur Raper), In a MinorA ey, The Negro Immigrant, AdultEducation Among Negroes, The Ur¬ban Negro Worker in the UnitedStates, and The Negro Communityof Baltimore. Articles by him haveappeared in the Journal of NegroLife, Social f orces, Opportunity, J'heStudent World, American Mission-ary, The Crisis, Pliylon, The Jour¬nal of Negro Education, J'he NorthGeorgia Review, and J'he Journalof Religious Education.

Seventeenth AnnualConcert

On April 28, the music depart¬ments of the Atlanta University Sys¬tem presented an evening of rich en¬tertainment at the 17th annual con¬

cert by students of Atlanta Univer¬sity, Morehouse College and SpelmanCollege under the direction of Pro¬fessor Kemper Harreld. In a pro¬gram of wide range, which includedthe compositions of such noted com¬

posers as Deems Taylor, WilliamGrant Still, Mendelssohn, and Han¬del, these young men and womenmaintained their high standard ofmusicianship before a large and ap¬preciative audience. Seated among thevisitors were a number of distin¬guished guests including trustees ofthe three institutions.

New Accounting Text“Essentials of Accounting,” a

text-book for beginners in this field,has recently come off the press. It waswritten by Mr. Jesse B. Blayton,professor of accounting at AtlantaUniversity, and Mr. Alvin A. Reid,the University accountant.

University ReceivesLegacy

Miss Ellen A. R. Stone of Bel¬mont, M assachusetts, a contributorto Atlanta University since 1914, hasbequeathed $2,500 to Atlanta Uni¬versity for the endowment of the Uni¬versity’s work.

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UNITE

In the month of May, Atlanta Uni¬versity joined with twenty-six otherNegro colleges and universities in anational campaign to secure mone\for current operating expenses. Mr.Walter F. Hoving, New \ ork busi¬ness executive and chairman of thenational board of the United ServiceOrganizations, was named nationalchairman of the drive; Mr. John D.Rockefeller. Jr., accepted the chair¬manship of the national advisory com¬mittee; and President F. D. Patter¬son of Tuskegee Institute was chosenas chairman of the committee of col¬lege presidents. This is the first timein the history of Negro education thatprivately controlled Negro collegesand universities have pooled their re¬sources and energies to raise moneyfor current maintenance.According to Mr. Hoving, this

coming-together of the colleges is oneof the most forward-looking stepstaken recently in America to help Ne¬

NEGRO COLLEGE

groes help themselves by making itpossible for them through higher ed¬ucation to develop sound Negro lead¬ership, which will go far toward cre¬ating a better understanding betweenthe Negro and white races of America.Citing this year’s goal as $1,500,-

000, Mr. Hoving has stated “Theneed for such a drive on behalf ofprivate Negro colleges, which face aserious threat to their continued main¬tenance, is too obvious to be ques¬tioned.”Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,

pledged his whole-hearted support tothe drive, making the following state¬ment: “When it comes to a questionof interest in the twenty-seven insti¬tutions that are here represented andall they stand for, I take second placeto no man.” Accepting the chairman¬ship of the national advisory commit¬tee of the Fund, he expressed the re¬

gret that his age now prohibits himfrom doing as active a job as he would

FUND

like to do, but told the group it couldcount on him.I)r. F. D. Patterson, in expressing

his enthusiasm for the project, saidthat the United Negro College Fundsponsoring committee is convincedthat the step is one of the most im¬portant undertaken in the history ofNegro education. It is in keepingwith the latest methods of privatefinancing in the country and will ef¬fect a huge saving in the finances andenergy heretofore expended by theindividual schools in their efforts to

keep their institutions operating,thereby enabling them to spend moremoney on the actual and real needsof education.”A number of prominent persons of

both races have joined the sponsoringcommittee, among whom are Mr. C.C. Spaulding, president of the NorthCarolina Mutual Life InsuranceCompany; Mr. W. W. Alexander,


(Standing) Clement, Bridgman, Bethune, Jones, Read, Dent, Johnson. (Seated) Rockefeller, Patterson, Moving.The step is one of the most important . . . in the history of Xegro education.


FOURTH JOHN HOPE LECTURE

Edward Clark CarterThe Courage and Efficiency of Russia

Edward Clark Carter, secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Re¬lations and president of Russian WarRelief, delivered the fourth JohnHope Lecture at Atlanta Universityon March 23. His subject was “So¬viet Russia Today.”According to Air. Carter, America

is deeply in debt to China, Britain,and Soviet Russia. To China, becauseshe was the first to see the nature ofaggression and to take up arms

against Japan. To England—for win¬ning the Battle of Britain; had thisnot happened the Nazis would havelaunched further into Russia beforethey could have been stopped and thecourse of the war would have beenchanged; and finally to Russia, forthe early foresight in knowing warwas inevitable and for the brilliantand stupendous war effort which sheis making. If England had lost theBattle of Britain, Mr. Carter is con¬vinced that the United States wouldhave become the war theatre insteadof the arsenal of democracy.“The Russians have faith in the

masses,” said Mr. Carter, “andmore than any other state in the worldthey believe in foresight and plan¬ning. Although the aim of Russian

leaders was to become the most ad¬vanced state in the world, sociallyand economically, the country hasemerged as the greatest militarypower of the world.” This country,the speaker observed, saw man withalmost unlimited possibilities of in¬tellectual development. It believedthat man was not created for thestate, but that the state was createdfor mankind. Mr. Carter praised theRussian arts and the advance madein medicine within the past thirtyyears. From 23,000 doctors in 1913,he stated, the number has grown to140,000, and half of these are women.

In speaking of Russia’s contribu¬tion to date in the global war, Mr.Carter pointed out that the RedArmy is killing more Nazis than allof the United Nations put together.\\ hile the published figures of Amer¬ica’s dead are still under 60,000, theRussian dead total more than 3,000,-

000. That fig lire alone, he said, issome yardstick of the debt all of usowe to the Russian people.Mr. Carter spoke of the new con¬

stitution adopted by the Soviet Unionwhich guarantees to their people allthe rights which our constitutionguarantees to us, and adds the rightto work, leisure, employment, andcare in old age.

Concluding, the speaker stated ashis honest belief that in the SovietUnion today, people are better off un¬der the present regime in health, edu¬cation, standard of living, progress,the arts and sciences, than they hadever been in all of Russia’s long his¬tory. “But,” he said, “I would ask younot to deduce from this assertion thegeneralization that I am recommend¬ing the adopting of Communism forAmerica. Our destiny is to be workedout in the American way.” Compar-

John Hope III Unveiling TabletThe Iasi resting place of a great man


‘'Queenie”

ing the courage and inefficiency of theRussians in the last war and the cour¬

age and efficiency of Russia in thiswar, he declared that there is everyreason to speak today of “the SovietMiracle.”Following the lecture, which was

held in Sisters Chapel, on the cam¬

pus of Spelman College, the audiencewas invited to witness the unveilingof the tablet on the grave of I)r. JohnHope on the campus by his grandson,John Hope III.Mr. Carter is an alumnus and for¬

mer graduate secretary of Harvardl niversity. Listed among his wideexperiences are twelve years in Cal¬cutta, India, as a secretary of the Na¬tional \. M. C. A.; twro years withthe A. E. h. in Paris as chief secretaryof the Y. M. C. A. ; eight years assecretary of The Inquiry in New\ ork; and two years as foreign sec¬retary of the British Y. M. C. A. inLondon. Mr. Carter also has servedas director of the Chinese Institute ofAmerica, director of the Commissionon Japanese Studies, and director ofthe American Russian Institute.

1 he John Hope Lectures were in¬augurated in 1938 as a memorial toAtlanta University’s fifth presidentwho died on February 20, 1936, aftera distinguished educational career ofmore than four decades.

$1,400 Given at ArtExhibit

At the Third Annual Exhibition ofPaintings, Sculpture and Prints byNegro Artists, April 2-30, AtlantaUniversity awarded fourteen hun¬dred dollars in cash purchase prizesfor the eleven best art works in theshow. Four of the prizes, totalingnine hundred dollars, were donatedby Mr. Edward B. Alford, Jr., a di¬rector of the Grace Horne Galleriesin Boston, Massachusetts.One hundred and sixt\ examples of

the best works of seventy-five Negroartists were included in the exhibit.I he highest award of $300 was won

by 16-year-old John Farrar of Wash¬ington, I). C., for his oil painting,“Queenie,” considered the best fig¬ure painting on display.The armed services were well rep¬

resented in the showing, and men inuniform took three out of the four“firsts” and more than one-third ofthe prize money. The John HopeAward of $250 for the best land¬scape went to Sgt. Cecil D. Nelson,Jr., for his painting “Tragedy inOne Scene”; and the first AtlantaUniversity award of $150 was won byJohn Wilson of Boston, Massachu¬setts, for his impression of a sectionoutside of Boston, which he called“Roxbury Landscape.” The secondAtlanta University award of $100,decided by popular ballot, was won

by Walter W. Smith of Philadel¬phia, Pennsylvania, for his oil paint¬ing “April Blizzard.”The first and second Atlanta Uni¬

versity purchase awards for water

color ($125 and $75) went to FrankW. Neal, a dancer in “CarmenJones,” for “Woman in White”; andto Vernon Winslow of Dillard Uni¬

versity for “Sharecropper’s Migra¬tion, No. 1.Of the two purchase awards for

sculpture, the first of $250 was won

by S/Sgt. William E. Artis’ “Wom¬

an with Kerchief”; and the second,$100, by Selma Burke’s “Amazonia.”

1 hree Atlanta L niversity pur¬chase awards for prints ($25, $15and $10) were taken by Pvt. MarkHewitt, James Dallas Parks, andJohn Wilson.The prize-winning art works have

become the permanent property ofAtlanta University and will be a partof the University’s authoritative col¬lection of contemporary Negro art.Mr. Alford was guest speaker at

the formal opening of the exhibit on

April 2; and Mr. Ben Shute, Atlantaartist and teacher, spoke on the clos¬ing day of the show.

Ihe judges were Mrs. HaroldBush-Brown, Atlanta artist; Presi¬dent Rufus E. Clement of Atlanta

University; Mr. Lewis P. Skidmore,director of the High Museum of Art(Atlanta) ; Mr. Steffan Thomas, At¬lanta sculptor; and Mr. Hale Wood¬ruff.Erom May 14-28, thirty-five paint¬

ings from this exhibit were on viewat the Stanford L. Warren Public Li¬

brary in Durham, North Carolina.

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New Chairman of theBoard

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Mr. Trevor Arnett“A recognized authority” and an able

friend

M r. Trevor Arnett, a former pres¬

ident of the General Education Board,has been named chairman of the Boardof Trustees of Atlanta University,to succeed the late Mr. Dean Sage ofNew York City. Mr. Arnett hasbeen on the Board of Atlanta Univer¬sity since 1935. A recognized author¬ity on college finance, he was at onetime vice president and business man¬

ager of the University of Chicago. Hehas served as a trustee of the Rocke¬feller Institute for Medical Research,and as a member of the InternationalEducation Board. For eight years,

Mr. Arnett was president of the Gen¬eral Education Board, retiring in1936. Mr. Arnett is chairman of theSpelman College Board, a member ofthe Morehouse College Board, and atrustee emeritus of the E niversity ofChicago. He is the author of “Fra¬ternity Accounting for Chapters,”“Teachers' Salaries in Certain En-dowed Colleges and Universities inthe United States” and “College andUniversity Finance.”

Dr. Luther Wesley SmithI)r. Luther Wesley Smith, execu¬

tive secretary of the Northern Bap¬tist Education Board, was the guest

speaker at the Second Annual Univer¬sity Center Convocation held on Jan¬uary 16 in Sisters Chapel, SpclmanCollege. The event was sponsored byAtlanta University, Morehouse Col¬lege, Spelman College, Clark College,Morris Brown College, I he AtlantaUniversity School of Social Workand Gammon 'Theological Seminary.A prominent Baptist clergyman,

Dr. Smith is the author of “And SoI Preached This,” which was pub¬lished in 1936. He is a graduate ofHarvard College and Newton 'Theo¬logical Institute, and has held pasto¬rates at the First Church in Colum¬bia, Missouri, and the First Churchin Syracuse, New A ork. He is a trus¬tee of Colgate-Rochester DivinitySchool and Keuka College, and exec¬utive secretary of the American Bap¬tist Publishing Society.'The University Center Convoca¬

tions were inaugurated in 1942 withPresident Willis J. King of GammonTheological Seminary as the firstspeaker in the series.

Representativesof

Land Grant CollegesMeet

The Second Conference of repre¬

sentatives of the Negro Land GrantColleges met at Atlanta Universityon April 18 and 19 for the purposeof coordinating a program of cooper¬ative social studies. In attendancewere seventeen delegates representingfourteen institutions. Dr. W. E. B.DuBois is the coordinator of the Con¬ference.

Alumni Representative

Mr. Clayton Russell YatesEleventh of an illustrious group

Mr. Clayton Russell Yates, a grad¬uate of Atlanta University in 1920,was elected alumni representative onthe University Board of Trustees atthe annual meeting of this group inAtlanta on April 28. One of the mostsuccessful alumni in the field of busi¬

ness, Mr. Yates has been a co-part¬ner in the V ates and Milton DrugStores for over twenty years. He isprominent in banking circles in At¬lanta and serves as chairman of theBoard of Directors of the CitizensTrust Company.Air. Yates is active in Atlanta’s

civic affairs, and at the present timeis treasurer of the Butler StreetY. AI. C. A., and chairman of theBoard of Trustees of the First Con¬

gregational Church.Other alumni who have served as

trustees are Joseph E. Smith, 76;Edward J. Penney, 76; Richard R.Wright, 74; Leigh B. Maxwell, 16;William B. Alatthews, ’90; LafayetteM. Hershaw, ’86; Butler R. Wilson,’81; James Weldon Johnson, ‘94;Harry A. Pace, 03; and WilletteRutherford Banks, ’09.


AARON BROWN: FIFTEENTH AND FOURTH

Glass Colston Banks Brown

Dr. Aaron Brown, who assumednew duties on July 1, 1943, as presi¬dent of Albany State College, is thefifteenth graduate of Atlanta Uni¬versity to he elected head of an edu¬cational institution. He is the fourthcontemporary college president; othersbeing Willette R. Banks, presidentof Prairie View State College; Do¬minion R. Glass, president of TexasCollege; and James R. Colston, pres¬ident of Bethune-Cookman College.Thirteen in this category were

graduated from Atlanta Universityprior to 1929, and two have comeout of the graduate school of arts andsciences. Three others, who haveheaded educational institutions, at¬tended Atlanta University hut left

before completing the full require¬ments for graduation.

1 he list includes Bishop James Al¬bert Bray, 93, president of LaneCollege and of Miles Memorial Col¬lege; Mack Primus Burley, ’08, pres¬ident of Miles Memorial College;Lewis Sherman Clark, ’87, for fortyyears head of Knox Institute; Na¬thaniel White Collier, ’94, presidentof Florida Normal and Industrial In¬stitute; Albert Berry Cooper, ’96,president of Edward Waters College;William Henry Crogman, ’76, presi¬dent of Clark College; John ThomasHodges, ’94, president of HoustonCollege and of Tillotson College;Henry Hunt, '90, principal of theFort Valley High and Industrial

School, now the Fort Valley StateCollege; Lucy Laney, ’73, founderand principal of Haines Institute;Richard Robert Wright, ’76, presi¬dent of Georgia State Industrial Col¬lege; and Benjamin Franklin Allen,’94, president of Lincoln Institute,now Lincoln University, Missouri.Three former students of Atlanta

University who won distinction fortheir leadership of educational insti¬tutions are Charles Henry Phillips,1877-78, president of Lane College;William Sanders Scarborough, 1871-72, president of Wilberforce Uni¬versity; and Linton S. Ingraham,1879-83, founder and principal ofSparta Agricultural and IndustrialInstitute.

Southern RegionalCon nci l

Dr. Ira De A. Reid, professor ofsociology, was named associate direc¬tor of the Southern Regional Councilat a two-day meeting of this groupat Atlanta l niversity February 17-18. The merger of the Commissionon Interracial Cooperation with thenew Council concluded twenty-twovears of work in the field of race re¬

lations by the Commission. Listedamong the charter members of theCouncil are President Rufus E. Clem¬

ent, President Florence M. Read,President Benjamin E. Mays, andDr. Forrester B. Washington, allheads of institutions in the Atlantal diversity System. The Council al¬ready has entered upon its work as an

agency for the improvement of eco¬

nomic, civic, and racial conditions inthe South.

Dr. Oscar JasziDr. Oscar Jaszi, former head of

the department of political science atOberlin College, addressed the stu¬dents and faculties of Atlanta Uni¬versity, M orehouse College and Spel-man College at a University Convo¬cation on April lb in Sisters Chapel,Spelman College. His subject was“Russia and the United States.” OnFriday, April 7, he conducted a Fo¬rum on ‘‘The Nationality Problem inEurope.”


LIBERTY SHIPS NAMED FOR HOPE AND JOHNSON

DuBois, Braithwaite Retired

Dr. W. E. B. DuBois Dr. William Stanley Braithwaite

A former president of Atlanta Uni¬versity and a distinguished alumnusof this institution were posthumouslyhonored within recent months whenLiberty Ships hearing their nameswere launched.

The John HopeThe Liberty Ship, John Hope, was

launched from Richmond, California,late in January. Mrs. Hope, wife ofthe late educator, was to have chris¬tened the vessel honoring her husband,but was stricken just before the timefor her to leave New York, whereshe resides. M rs. Walter A. Gordon,wife of a Berkeley attorney, substi¬tuted for her, and was assisted byM rs. Harry Kingman, wife of theregional director of the FEPC, asmatron of honor; and Florence Gee,15-year-old Chinese girl, the daugh¬ter of a yard worker, as the flowergirl. Prior to the launching a lettersent by Mrs. Hope was read. In itshe stated: “This ship would not beworthy of its name if it were not will¬ing to give all for humanity. Wehope this ship will hasten the daywhen justice and peace reign over theentire world. I know this would beJohn Hope’s wish.”The James Weldon JohnsonThe Liberty Ship, James Weldon

Johnson, was the seventh to be namedfor an outstanding Negro. It waslaunched in December at the Wil¬mington \ ards of the California Ship¬building Corporation as a tribute tothe noted poet, essayist, lawyer anddiplomat who was killed in an auto¬mobile-train collision at Dark Har¬bor, Maine, in 1938. Miss CharlottaA. Bass, publisher of the CaliforniaEagle, sponsored the ship.

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On April 28, at the annual meet¬ing of the Board of Trustees, finan¬cial provisions were made for twodistinguished faculty members, Dr.W. E. B. DuBois and Dr. WilliamStanley Braithwaite, who were re¬tired from active service on June 30.After a brilliant career as scholar,

educator, editor and author, Dr. Du¬Bois has become professor emeritus.Recently elected to membership in theNational Institute of Arts and Let¬ters, he is a founder of the Pan-Afri¬can Congress and a fellow of theAmerican Association for the Ad¬vancement of Science. He had beenchairman of the Atlanta Universitydepartment of sociology since 1932,and editor of Phylon (the AtlantaUniversity Review of Race and Cul¬ture) since January, 1940.

Dr. Braithwaite, well known liter¬ary critic and poet, has been profes¬sor of creative literature at Atlanta

University since 1935. For a quarterof a century before coming to theUniversity, he was on the staff ofthe Boston Transcript. He has pub¬lished Lyrics of Life and Love, Bookof Elizabethan Verse, and seventeenvolumes of the Anthology of Maga¬zine Verse and Yearbook of AmericanPoetry. A founder of the New Eng¬land Poetry Club and the AmericanPoetry Society, Dr. Braithwaite wasthe first American poet to become a

member of the London Poetry Society.The Board of Trustees also voted

a retiring allowance for Miss HattieV. Feger, who served in the depart¬ment of education from 1931 to 1943.


ATLANTA UNIVERSITY AND URBAN LEAGUE AIDNEGRO BUSINESS

Atlanta University and the Nation¬al Urban League are engaged in anextensive survey covering 1) Negrobusiness establishments in a selectednumber of southern and border cities;and 2) business education offeringsin seventeen Negro colleges. Surveysare taking place in Atlanta, Durham,New Orleans, Richmond, Savannah,Washington, Louisville, Cincinnati,St. Louis, Montgomery, Birmingham,Norfolk, Nashville, Memphis, andHouston. Business education offeringsin Negro colleges are being examinedat Fisk, Howard, Dillard, Hampton,Tennessee State, Wilberforce, Hous¬ton City College, Lincoln, NorthCarolina College for Negroes, Vir¬ginia State, Louisville Municipal,Miles, Morgan, Morris Brown, Spel-man, Morehouse, Clark, and Atlanta.For a number of years, both At¬

lanta Universitv and the National

LTrban League have been interestedin bettering business opportunitiesamong Negroes and in the prepara¬tion of young Negroes who plannedto enter this held. Recently comingto their aid with a substantial grant,the General Education Board contrib¬uted a sum which enabled the spon¬sors to initiate their program, con¬sidered one of the most significantundertakings in the held of businessand business education ever to be pro¬

jected into Negro life.As officials of Atlanta University

and the National Urban League pointout, growth of Negro business hasbeen handicapped for years due to alack of trained personnel and specificknowledge about the reactions of theNegro market. Very little authorita¬tive literature has been producedwhich will help the Negro business¬man in discovering the best centers

in which to operate or the best linesto follow. Similarly there has beentoo little contact between the Negrocolleges which train a majority ofpersonnel for racial business entei-prises and the leadership in the busi¬ness field itself. The study now beingmade proposes to serve the Negropublic by upgrading the quality of itsbusiness services and to serve the cause

of education by orienting businesseducation more adequately to theneeds of the field.Franklin O. Nichols, field secre¬

tary of the National Urban League,is administrator of the survey, andJoseph A. Pierce is research director.Members of the advisory committeeinclude Jesse B. Blayton (chairman),Lorimer I). Milton, A. A. Reid, andIra DeA. Reid, of the Universitystaff.

Defecates m Business Conference". . . to serve the A egro public . . .”


LI BRAKY CONFERENCE

A conference on “The Library andGraduate Instruction,” consideredone of the significant meetings of theyear at Atlanta University, was heldon the campus for six days, June14-20.

Supported by a grant from theGeneral Education Board, AtlantaUniversity assumed the leadership insponsoring this conference in an effortto explore the needs of colleges anduniversities for Negroes offering in¬struction on the graduate level. Theseinstitutions face the problem of pro¬

viding adequate library materials andservices for tbeir graduate courses.All of the thirteen institutions for

Negroes which are at present givingcourses beyond the college level wereinvited to participate. In attendancewere representatives from eleven ofthese institutions including college

Sixty Awards Degrees(Continued from Page 3)

On Tuesday, May 30, eighteenyoung men were graduated fromMorehouse College; and on Wednes¬day, May 31, Spelman awarded sixtv-four bachelors’ degrees.

Alumni Hold Meetings

The annual business meeting of theAtlanta University Alumni Associa¬tion was held in the Exhibition Roomof the Atlanta University Library on

Saturday, May 27. The annual ban¬quet on May 29 was a colorful affairat the Atlanta University DiningHall. Honored guests were VIr. C. C.Spaulding, Dr. William StanleyBraithwaite, and Mr. Clayton Rus¬sell V ates. Mr. Eugene M. Martinpresided on this occasion.

presidents, deans, librarians and fac¬ulty members.Dr. Louis Wilson, formerly dean

of the Graduate Library School ofthe University of Chicago and one ofthe foremost library authorities inAmerica, headed the group of re¬source persons serving the conference.Other resource persons were Dr.Eliza A. Gleason, director of the At¬lanta University School of LibraryService; Miss Tommie Dora Barker,dean of the School of Library Science,Emory University; and Miss Doro¬thy G. Williams and Mrs. VirginiaLacy Jones of the Atlanta UniversitySchool of Library Service.

Among the conference speakerswere Dr. Walter Daniel, librarian,Howard University; Mr. WallaceVan Jackson, librarian, Atlanta Uni¬versity; Dr. Samuel M. Nabrit, de¬partment of biology, Atlanta Uni¬versity ; Mrs. Gaynelle Barksdale.reference librarian, Atlanta Univer¬sity, President Rufus E. Clement,Atlanta University; and Mr. OrestesJ. Baker, librarian, Prairie ViewState College.In addition to those mentioned, the

conference personnel included DeanCharles 1 hompson of Howard Uni¬versity; Mr. VI. D. Sprague, Tus-kegee Institute; Miss Parepa Wat¬son, North Carolina College forNegroes; Dr. Earl E. Dawson, Lin-co In University, VI issouri; Mr. N. P.Barksdale, IJncoln University, Mis¬souri; President F. D. Bluford, Agri¬cultural and Technical College,Greensboro, North Carolina; MissAlma Morrow, Agricultural andI echnical College, Greensboro, NorthCarolina; VIr. Arna Bontemps, libra¬

rian, Fisk University; President W.R. Banks, Prairie View State Col¬lege; Dean A. L. Turner, NorthCarolina College for Negroes; Dr.Lutrelle F. Palmer, Hampton Insti¬tute; Mrs. VI. M. Brown, TennesseeA. & I. State College; and SistersMary Prances and VI. Redempta ofXavier University.After a six-day discussion on the

major library problems involved theconference adopted a memorandumshowing the points of agreement, andalso adopted plans for further col¬laboration and cooperation. A con¬

tinuation committee was appointed tofollow up the recommendations andthe plans agreed upon.

L A Negro CollegeFund

(Continued from Page 5)vice president of the Rosenwald Fund ;VIr. P. B. ’i oung, Sr., VIr. RobertOgden Purves, Bishop Lorenzo II.King, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune,Dr. VI. S. Davage, and VIr. WilliamJ. Schieftelin.Participating institutions in the

United Negro College Fund cam¬

paign are Howard, Fisk, Atlanta,Dillard, Lincoln, Virginia Union andShaw Universities; Bennett, Bethune-Cookman, Clark, Samuel Huston,Knoxville, Lane, LeVIoyne, Living¬stone, Morehouse, Morris Brown,Philander Smith, Spelman, Texas.1 illotson, Wiley, and Tougaloo Col¬leges; Atlanta University School ofSocial Work, Gammon TheologicalSeminary, Hampton Institute, andTuskegee Institute.


Seen at the Library ConferenceAbove—./ group of conferees

Melons,'—Dr. Wilson lending a discussion


FACULTY ITEMS

M r. Jesse B. Blayton, professor ofbusiness administration, was the mid¬year commencement speaker at theSpaulding Business College in NewOrleans.

*

Dr. William Stanley Braithwaite,professor of creative literature, wasin Jacksonville, Florida, on May 21to address the Booklovers Club. Hissubject was “Literature and Life.”The event was sponsored by the Book-lovers Club of the Y. W. C. A.

*

Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks of theSchool of Library Service is studyingduring the summer at the graduatelibrary school of the University ofChicago.

*

Mr. Benjamin F. Bullock, super¬intendent of grounds, appeared on Sta¬tion WATL on March 8, speaking asa member of a county-wide victorygarden committee for colored people.On May 17, Mr. Bullock delivered

the commencement address at the Lin¬coln High School, Franklin, Ken¬tucky. His subject was “The Signifi¬cance of Rural Life to the Welfareof Negroes.”

*

President Rufus E. Clement was

one of the principal speakers at theAnnual Meeting of the Associationof American Colleges in Cincinnati,Ohio, January 14-16. He also spokeat the North Carolina College forNegroes on February 6, and gave thecommencement address at LouisvilleAI unicipal College on May 22.

President Clement was elected to

the new office of Historian of theA. AL E. Z. Church at the DetroitConference of this group in May.

On May 19, Dr. W. E. B. Du-Bois was inducted into the NationalInstitute of Arts and Letters in NewA ork City. The exercises were heldin the auditorium of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters at 132West 156th Street.

Mr. John Hope II, purchasingagent and manager of the Book Shop,is on leave of absence to work withthe Atlanta office of F. E. P. C.

*

Mrs. Allyce Catherine Johnson ofthe Laboratory School is enrolled forthe inter and summer sessions of Co¬lumbia University.

*

Dr. Edward A.Jones, actingchairman of thedepartment ofFrench, has beenelected to mem¬

bership in theCornell Univer¬sity Chapter ofPhi Kappa Phi,an organizationdedicated to the unity and democracyof education and open to honor stu¬dents from all departments of Ameri¬can universities and colleges.

The General Education Board hasgranted Mrs. Virginia Lacy Jonesof the School of Library Service arenewal of her fellowship for gradu¬ate study in library science at theUniversity of Chicago.

*

Dr. S. Milton Nabrit, chairmanof the department of biology, waselected vice president at the first an¬

nual meeting of the National Asso¬ciation of Science Teachers in Negrocolleges, held at Camp John Hope,Fort Valley, Georgia, May 12-13.

*

Airs. Julia Neal of Atlanta, agraduate of Alorris Brown College,served on the faculty of the Labora-torv School, taking over the gradeleft by M iss Ida Wood, who resignedto accept an overseas position in theAmerican Red Cross.

*

Airs. Juanita Pierce of the Labora¬tory School is enrolled at New YorkUniversity during the summer ses¬sion.

Dr. Ira DeA. Reid of the depart¬ment of sociology spoke at the annualsession of the Mid-Atlantic Confer¬ence of Social Workers in Baltimore,Alaryland, on Saturday, May 6.

M rs. Helen A. Whiting of the ed¬ucation department has been invitedto become a member of the NationalField Committee of Administratorsand Supervisors to work on problemsencountered by teachers. The projecthas been emphasized by the numberof inadequately prepared emergencyand duration teachers who have beencoming into the profession within thelast few years. In April, Mrs. Whit¬ing was a discussion leader in the Pri¬mary Grades Section of the NorthCarolina State Teachers Association.She also lead a discussion on “Teach¬ing Social Studies” at a meeting ofthe Ware School.

*

Miss Dorothy G. Williams, an in¬structor in the School of LibraryService, is the recipient of a Rosen-wald Award, and during the nextschool year will be enrolled in thegraduate library school of the Uni¬versity of Chicago.

*

AI iss Ida Billee AVood resignedfrom her position as an instructor inthe Laboratory School to accept a po¬sition overseas with the AmericanRed Cross. M iss AVood is stationedin England.

*

Mr. Hale AVoodruff has received a

renewal of his fellowship from theRosenwald Fund to paint the south¬ern scene. During the year, Mr.AVoodruff had a one-man show at theGrace Horne Galleries in Boston,AI assachusetts.

*

Airs. 1 heresa A. AVoodruff hasbeen appointed permanent principalof the Oglethorpe School and instruc¬tor in elementary education.



ALUMNI NEWS

1894Mr. CJeorge A.

Towns conduct¬ed a one-man cit¬izenship cam¬

paign in Atlanta,March 24 - May7, which is con¬sidered to haveinfluenced at least1,000 Negroes toseek voting franchise in Georgia’sJuly 4 Democratic primary. Mr.1 owns stood in the lobby of theCourthouse daily from 9:00 a. m.to 5:00 p. m. helping approximately50 men and women each day to regis¬ter as voters. On two occasions hewas questioned by civil authoritiesbut convinced his interrogators thathe was trying to help his people exer¬cise their obligations as citizens. Mr.Towns has been a resident of At¬lanta since 1885. He was graduatedfrom Atlanta University in 1894 andfrom Harvard in 1900. For thirty-three years he was on the faculty ofAtlanta University, after which timehe became an instructor at Fort Val¬ley State College. He was actingprincipal of this institution when itwas absorbed into the University Sys¬tem of Georgia.

1909M rs. Josephine Dibble Alurphy

delivered the Mother’s Day addressto the WACs at Camp Atterbury,Indiana. She is the mother of CaptainSarah Murphy, who is stationed atthat post.

1916

Mr. WalterWhite returnedto America thelatter part ofApril after spend¬ing three andone-half monthsoverseas and trav¬

eling more than20,000 miles.While abroad, he talked with officers,

soldiers and civilians of the UnitedStates in Great Britain, North Afri¬ca, Italy, and the Middle East. Hesaw the European Theatre of Opera¬tions as it prepared for invasion ofthe Continent. Upon his return, inan address over the CBS network on

April 30, Mr. White stated: “Mycapacity to observe and absorb hasbeen taxed almost beyond belief bythe immensity of production of Amer¬ican factories of war materials, theirtransportation through submarine-in¬fested waters, and their efficient dis¬tribution in preparation for D-day.As Americans, one cannot help butbe proud of the job done.”

1917

Mr. Asa Gordon is on the facultyof Delaware State College.

Ex-1918M iss Annie R. Harris, principal

of the Northside School in Cordele,Georgia, was married on June 1,1943.

1921Mrs. Mable Johnson, Dean of Lin¬

coln House and Ellis Memorial Set¬tlement House, has been released fromher regular activities one day weeklyfor an indefinite period to serve ascounsellor and recreational leader atMassachusetts State Reformatory forWomen in Framingham.

1922

M rs. Mattie Harden Branch ofSavannah, Georgia, received the de¬gree of bachelor of science in elemen¬tary education from Georgia StateTeachers College on June 4, 1944.Major Henry

Rutherford But¬ler, stationed atFort Huachuca,is assistant chiefof the MedicalService and chiefof the Cardio-\ ascular Sectionof the hospital.In addition, he holds positions on

two Officers’ Examining Boards andheads the Heart Clinic which is heldtwice a week. He also supervises themaking and interpretation of all elec¬tro-cardiograms at the hospital.In 1937, Major Butler was award¬

ed a fellowship from the Rosenwaldbund enabling him to spend a vearof study in London. He was connectedwith the London Hospital of the Uni¬versity of London, which is the largestvoluntary hospital in England. He leftEngland during the latter part of1938 after living there a year, justbefore the fury of blitz warfare struckLondon.After living in Boston nearly two

years, Major Butler enlisted in theArmy Medical Corps. He was com¬missioned immediately and sent di¬rectly to Fort Huachuca.

Ex-1923Mr. W. Charles Thomas, for nine¬

teen years in the employ of the At¬lanta Life Insurance Company, waselected to the Board of Directors at

their annual meeting in May.Dr. Mark Thomas is on the staff

of the venereal disease clinic recentlyopened for Negroes in Atlanta.

1924Mrs. Selma White Richardson has

received the master’s degree from Co¬lumbia University.

1925

Dr. R. H. Lang has been ; ippointedto the staff of the venerea 1 disc:aseclinic, which is excl usively for Ns e-groes, in the city of Atlanta.

1927Dr. Myron Logan of N t*w York

City w as married on April 13 to P ri-vate Charles H. Alston, former mem-

her of the Art Staff of the ()ffice ofWar Information in Wa:>hingt(m.Dr. L ogan, also a graduate of L,o-lumhia l niversity am 1 the N ew (iirk\ Iedic: il College, is a staff member ofHarlem Hospital and the C;;incer I n-stitute of New ork City.


1928Mr. Sidney A. Jones of Chicago

has been appointed director of MayorEdward J. Kelley’s Race RelationsCommittee.

1929Miss Portia N. Jenkins is on the

music faculty of Spelman College.Miss Anita Loring I aylor has en¬

listed in the WAC and is stationedat Ft. Des Moines, Iowa.

1930A son, Myron, Jr., was born to

I)r. and Mrs. Myron B. Towns onDecember IS in Greensboro, NorthCarolina.

1931Mr. Fred Maise has been appointed

to the Norfolk Area Council of theBoy Scouts of America.Mrs. Agnes Scott is librarian at

Camp Myles Standish in Massachu¬setts.

A son, Edward Lloyd Simon, Jr.,was born on August 23, 1943, to Mrs.Jewel Woodard Simon of Atlanta.A daughter, W ilia Jave, was born

to Mr. and Mrs. William Jay AN alk-er, Jr., of Durham, North Carolina,on July IS, 1943.

Ex-1931Lt. Irma Cay ton is commanding

officer of the AVAC Section, SCU1922. Before joining the AVACs, Lt.Cayton was assistant director of theParkway Community House, Chica¬go, Illinois. She succeeded CaptainFrances C. Alexander as commandingofficer of the entire Fort HuachucaWAC contingent in October.The marriage of Miss Ruby Mc¬

Lendon to Air. Leonard AA . Curlinwas confirmed on April 8 in Atlantaat the home of the bride s mother.The marriage had originally takenplace on June 12, 1943. Reverend L.J. Burt performed the ceremony.

1934

Mr. Frederick E. Mapp has beenappointed associate professor of biol¬ogy at Knoxville College. Since hisgraduation from At'anta University,Mr. Mapp has been enrolled in thegraduate school at Harvard l niver-sity.Mr. James Taphy Wardlaw of

Massilon, Ohio, is tl e new executive

secretary of the Minneapolis UrbanLeague. He succeeds Air. Charles AV.Washington.

1934

Mr. EdwardB. Williams hasb e e n appointedassociate socialscience analystwith the UnitedStates Depart¬ment of Agricul¬ture. He serves,in this new position, as field researchanalyst with the Bureau of Agricul¬tural Economics. The area he covers

includes Georgia, Florida, Alabama,Mississippi, and South Carolina, withheadquarters in Atlanta. Air. Wil¬liams concentrates on research per¬

taining to farm population and ruralwelfare principally among Negroes.

1935AI rs. Henrietta 4'. Norris has been

appointed to the faculty of the StateTeachers College in Fayetteville,North Carolina.Air. AAfilliam H. Shell has been

named program-membership secretaryof the Butler Street Y. M. C. A.

1936Robert Bonner is now warrant ra¬

dio electrician in the U. S. Al. C.

1937AI iss Fannie Allen is one of 24 Ne¬

gro Red Cross workers whose safearrival overseas was recently an¬nounced by the American Red Cross.AI iss ALirion Ernestine Anthony,

librarian at the 135th Street Libraryin New York City, was married inAtlanta, Georgia, on December 23 toAir. Edward Langford Lipscomb.Dr. AAGrren E.

Henry is on leavefrom his positionat Spelman Col¬lege to work inthe research lab¬oratories at theAlassachusetts In¬stitute of Tech¬nology in Cam¬bridge, Alassachusetts.AI iss Naomi Garrett of the English

teaching project, Office of the Coordi¬

nator of American Affairs, Port au

Prince, Haiti, has received a Rosen-wald award and will study during1944-45 at Columbia University inthe department of romance languages.

Aliss Alary L.Reddick, a mem¬ber of the Alore-h o u s e Collegefaculty, receivedthe Ph.D. degreein biology fromRadd iffe Collegeat the June con¬vocation. Duringthe year, AI iss Reddick was elected toSigma Xi, national organization de¬voted to the encouragement of re¬search in science.Air. Hugh Heyne Smith has been

named assistant to Dr. AV. E. B.DuBois in the Social Studies Projectof the Land Grant Colleges.An article by Cornelius V. Troup

entitled “The Registrar During WarTime” appeared in the February,1944, issue of The Journal of HigherEducation.

M iss Carrie Julia Leigh of the fac¬ulty of Clark College was marriedon June 14 to the Reverend D. T.George, pastor of the Greater Anti¬och Baptist Church, Atlanta.

1938Aliss Ruby Funchess is working to¬

wards the Ph.D. degree at RadcliffeCollege.

1939Aliss Velma King has been ap¬

pointed to the faculty of David 4'.Howard Junior High School in At¬lanta.A son was born to Air. and Airs.

Ralph Clifton Revnaud on September30, 1943.

1940

Aliss Daisy Adams of Tulsa, Ok¬lahoma, was married on December31, 1943, to Corporal Howard L.Lipscombe of Plainfield, New Jersey.A daughter, Gloria Ruth, was born

in November, 1943, to Airs. JeannetteSpruell Hayes.M r. George Alason is working in

the Chemical Process Department ofthe Sangamon Ordinance Plant,Springfield, Illinois.


A daughter, Alberta Ann, was bornto Private and Mrs. Robert J. P.Foster on December 17 in Nashville,1 ennessee. President and Mrs. RufusE. Clement are the grandparents.Captain Frederick Douglas Jen¬

kins was the first Negro line officerto lead troops into combat in the SouthPacific area. According to a press dis¬patch, “when elements of the 3rd divi¬sion maneuvered into position andripped to shreds an enemy force, the26-year-old Louisianan straddled thefray with his tommy gun blazingwhile his troops closed in to gnashdeep holes in enemy defenses.”Lt. Emile LaBranche was married

on January 6 to M iss James ElfreidaFerguson of Lynchburg.Miss Florence Robinson is assistant

director at the Court Street USO,San Bernardina, California. She for¬merly served in USO units at Orange¬burg, New York; Morganfield, Ken¬tucky; and Evansville, Indiana.Miss Mildred Wardlaw has been

appointed to head a Nursery Schoolin Akron, Ohio. Miss Wardlaw spentthree and one-half years at SoutheastHouse in Washington, D. C., and fora time was teacher in the F. W. A.Nursery School in Alexandria, Vir¬ginia.

1941

Miss Lottye J. Washington of St.Paul’s Polytechnic Institute was mar¬ried in January to James A. Russell,son of Dr. J. Alvin Russell, presidentof St. Paul’s. Mr. Russell is a grad¬uate of Oberlin and Bradley Polytech¬nic Institute, and at present is on thefaculty of Hampton Institute.

1942

A son has been born to DorothyWashington Jackson. Mrs. Jacksonis residing with her parents in At¬lanta while her husband is overseas.

Mrs. Therese Hance Jenkins isnow employed at the Urban Leaguein Los Angeles, California.Mr. Eugene ^ . Lowe has been ap¬

pointed Social Service Worker in theChildren’s Services, Board of PublicW elfare of the District of Columbia.

1943Mrs. Dorothy Mebadden Clark is

a junior mathematician at LangleyField.

Mrs. Gladys Ransom Kelloggserved on the faculty of LivingstoneCollege during the academic vear1943-1944.“The Effect of Sodium Azide and

Cyanide l pon the Heart Rate ofArtemia Salina’’ written bv Frazie LMiller ( now deceased), was publishedin the December issue of the Anatom¬ical Record, bulletin of the Ameri¬can Society of Zoologists.

Miss Alfred Marie Taylor wasmarried on January 4 to Lt. CharlesRichard Anderson of the U. S. Army.M rs. Anderson is the daughter of Dr.and Mrs. Alfred G. Taylor of At¬lanta. She is an investigator for theAmerican Red Cross.

1944M iss Clyde Boddie was married on

July 10 to Dr. Benjamin FranklinMurphy of Buffalo, New York. Dr.Murphy is an assistant resident physi¬cian at Homer G. Phillips Hospitalin St. Louis, M issouri.M iss Jeanette Wynn Harvey was

married on June 3 to Mr. Benjamin

Franklin Payne of the U. S. Mer¬chant Marine.

Faculty Items(Continued front Page 14)

Dr. Mercer Cook has been grantedan extension of his leave of absence to

serve for another year as supervisor ofthe English teaching project in Haitisponsored by the United States Officeof Education and the Coordinator ofInter-American Affairs. The Missionconsists of nine teachers in addition to

Dr. Cook, and a secretary, who isMrs. Cook.

*

Mr. John P.Whittaker, regis¬trar of AtlantaUniversity, at¬tended a meetingon “Aviation inNegro Colleges”at Tuskegee In¬stitute May 12-13. On June 6,

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(Story on Page 10)

The Liberty Ship, John Hope

Page IS THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN July, 1944

OBITUARIES

Mi's. Genie JamesAndrews

Mrs. Genie James Andrews, agraduate of the normal department in1907, died at her home in Milledge-ville, Georgia, on January 10, 1944.She had taught at the Eddy HighSchool in Milledgeville for more thantwenty years.

Dr. Edward RandolphCarter

Dr. Edward Randolph Carter,pastor of Friendship Baptist Churchin Atlanta since 1882, and a trusteeof Atlanta University since 1935, diedat his home on Thursday, June 8, atthe age of eightv-six.A native of Athens, Georgia, Dr.

Carter came to Atlanta at an earlyage. He followed the trade of shoe¬maker while attending Atlanta Bap¬tist College, which later becameMorehouse College. His last publicservice, climaxing a notable career ofsixty-two years, was the prayer whichhe composed and which was read bythe Reverend Louie D. Newton overStation WGST on the Georgia ob¬servance of D-Day.Dr. Carter began to preach while

in his teens. Within a few years hewas recognized as one of the leadingministers of the nation. During hislifetime he was called to a number ofoutstanding churches throughout thecountry, but he would not consent toleave Atlanta. On one occasion thenoted minister baptized five hundredand fifty people into the fellowshipof Friendship Baptist Church.The deceased was one of the found¬

ers of the Baptist World Alliance inLondon in 1905. He served continu¬ously on its executive committee un¬til failing strength made long jour¬neys impossible.

Considered one of the most elo¬quent preachers of his day, Dr. Carter

was invited to fill a number of world-famous pulpits, including Spurgeon sTabernacle in London, and MacLa-ren’s pulpit in M anchester, England.He made a special trip to Manchesterto preach the baccalaureate sermon tothe graduating class of ManchesterBaptist College.

Perhaps the most dramatic incidentin Dr. Carter’s distinguished careeroccur red in April, 1942, when 5,000people of both races assembled at theCity Auditorium to celebrate his six¬tieth anniversary as pastor of Friend¬ship Baptist Church. Dr. George W.Truett delivered the anniversary ser¬mon. Among the messages read wasone from the President of the UnitedStates.Dr. Carter was married to the late

Miss Obedia Brown of Athens, Geor¬gia, who preceded him in death sev¬eral years ago.Funeral services were held from

Friendship Baptist Church on Sun¬day, June 11.

Mrs. Nellie EindleyDavis

Mrs. Nellie Lindley Davis, a grad¬uate of the normal department of At¬lanta University in 1922, died in At¬lanta on June 1 after a lingering ill¬ness. She was well known in Atlanta’sreligious, educational, and civic cir¬cles.M rs. Davis continued her educa¬

tion at Clark College and the Univer¬sity of Cincinnati, earning the degreesof bachelor of arts and master of arts,respectively. For a number of yearsshe was a teacher in the public schoolsof Atlanta. From 1937 until her deathshe was a member of the English de¬partment of Clark College.The deceased was the author and

one of the leading characters in themuch-heralded pageant “HeavenBound.” Funeral services were heldat Big Bethel Church on Sunday,June 4.

Mrs. John GooshyM rs. John Goosbv (Katie Nelson),

who was graduated from the normaldepartment in 1884, died at her homein Atlanta on May 2, 1944.

Mrs. Georgia Swift KingM rs. Georgia

Swift King, nor¬mal 1874, Atlan¬ta University’soldest living nor¬mal graduate,died on May 16in Atlanta, as theresult of injuriessustained from a

severe fall. She was in her eighty-ninth year.

Born in Athens, Georgia, Mrs.King taught in the public schools ofAugusta. Among her pupils were Mrs.Jane Hope Lyons, dean of women atSpelman College, and the late Dr.John Hope. Mrs. King knew person¬ally all of the presidents of AtlantaUniversity. At one time she waspresident of the Women’s Temper¬ance Union in her native state.

Funeral services were held at 11 :00a. m. on May 19 at the First Con¬gregational Church in Atlanta, andburial was at Southview Cemetery.Three speakers paid tribute to Mrs.King, referring to the sturdiness ofher character, the depth of her spirit¬uality, and her determination to livea life of Christian helpfulness.Mr. John P. Whittaker, whose

friendship with her began when hewas a student at Atlanta L niversity,described the deceased as a personwhose gratitude was expressed notonly by words but by caring for others.She expressed this feeling in a stronghandshake, a daily deed of kindness,a prayer, or a passage of scripture.Reverend John C. Wright, pastor ofthe First Congregational Church, re¬ferred to Mrs. King’s faithfulness tothe Church, and above all, to her


abiding faith in God. Reverend Wil¬liam J. Laulkner, dean of the chapelat Eisk L niversity, spoke briefly ofMrs. King’s spiritual life, mentioningthe times that she would go “into theupper chamber" to offer prayer forthose who were in need.Mrs. King’s husband, William D.

King, and a son, Ernest, both de¬ceased, were civil engineers. A daugh¬ter, Miss Annadelle King, also de¬ceased. was graduated from AtlantaUniversity in 1904, and served as ateacher of Latin on the faculty from1910 to 1919.Surviving are five nieces, one of

whom, Miss Juliette King of La-Grange, Georgia, attended the fu¬neral.

Mrs. Can 'ie M. LightnerWord has been received of the

death of Mrs. Carrie McHenryLightner, a graduate of the normaldepartment in 1896.For a number of years, Mrs. Light¬

ner taught in the schools of Golds¬boro, North Carolina.

Mr. Frazie MillerM r. Frazie Miller, a graduate of

the biology department in 1943 andhighest ranking student in his class,died in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sat¬urday, April 15, after a very brief ill¬ness.

Miller was a graduate of the Brum¬field High School in Natchez, Mis¬sissippi, and of Dillard University inNew Orleans, Louisiana. At the timeof his death he was a student at Me-harry Medical College and rankedsecond in his class.

Mrs. H. L. McCroreyMrs. H. L. McCrorey (Mary C.

Jackson), a graduate of the normaldepartment in 1885, was burned todeath in a fire at her home on Janu¬ary 14. 1944. Mrs. McCrorey wasthe wife of the president of JohnsonC. Smith University. Lor many yearsshe was on the faculty of Haines In¬finite in Augusta, Georgia.

Dr. Frank W. PadelfordDr. Frank W. Padelford, a trus¬

tee of the University since 1939, diedin Claremont, California, on Febru¬ary 18, 1944, in his seventy-secondyear.

He was a graduate of Colby Col¬lege and Rochester Theological Sem¬inary, and had received honorary de¬grees from Colby College, DenisonUniversity and MacMaster Univer¬sity.Ordained into the Baptist ministry

in 1897, Dr. Padelford subsequentlyheld pastorates at the Portland StreetChurch, Haverhill, Massachusetts;and the Washington Street Church,Lynn, Massachusetts. For five yearshe was general secretary of the Mas¬sachusetts Baptist Missionary Society,and for twenty-eight years he was ex¬ecutive secretary of the Board of Edu¬cation of the Northern Baptist Con¬vention. He was the author of TheCommonivealths and the Kingdom,and co-author of Christian Educationin China and Christian Education inJapan.

Mrs. William PattmanMrs. William Pattman (Sallie

Fannie Wingfield), a graduate of thenormal department of Atlanta Uni¬versity in 1898, was buried in Atlantaon Wednesday, May 31.The deceased was a native of Wash¬

ington, Georgia. For many years shewas a teacher in the public schools ofAtlanta.

Robert Brawley StewartMr. Robert Brawley Stewart, a

graduate of the English departmentin 1934, died in Memphis, Tennes¬see, on April 21, 1944. He was amember of the faculty of LeMoyneCollege, and previously had taughtat the State Teachers College inMontgomery, Alabama. A widow andtwo children survive.

Mrs. Ella UebsterMrs. Ella Webster, w ife of the late

Professor Edgar H. Webster, died onApril 3 at Fairhopc, Alabama, at

the age of 94. She had taught at At¬lanta University for fourteen years,from 1878 to 1892, and will be re¬membered as the first teacher of art

in a missionary school. To Mrs. Web¬ster also belongs credit for establish¬ing a missionary Sunday School andfor developing a music school for be¬ginners.In 1919 she accompanied her hus¬

band to Syria where he had an ap¬pointment to teach in the Beirut Col¬lege. There she found work in the or¬ganization of the Free Clinic of theCollege Hospital.In 1929 the Websters left Atlanta

to make their home in the touristtown on Mobile Bay, where bothpassed their last days.

Mrs. Maggie WimbishMrs. Maggie Wimbish, a graduate

of the normal department in 1886,died in Chicago, Illinois, on April 1,1944. She was widely known as achurchwoman, educator and civicworker, and for sixteen years had beenprincipal of the E. P. Johnson Eve¬ning School in Atlanta. Burial tookplace in Atlanta on April 6.

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he addressed the delegates to the Con¬ference on “Current Problems andPrograms in the Higher Education ofNegro Women which was in sessionat Spelman College.

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M iss Jennie Pritchard of the Schoolof Library Service is enrolled for thesummer session at the l niversity ofChicago.

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Mr. Hobart Jackson, assistantmanager of the University BookShop, delivered the commencementaddress at the Rosenw ald High Schoolin Harlan, Kentucky, on May 25.On May 31, he addressed the morti¬cians of Georgia on “Some ProblemsInvolved in Record Keeping for In¬come Tax Purposes."

THE

ATLANTA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

The Graduate School of Arts and Science

offers courses leading to the Master’s degree in the fields of Biology, Chemistry,Economics and Business Administration, Education, English, French, History,Latin, Mathematics and Sociology.

The School of Social Work

a graduate school offering a two-year curriculum for prospective social workers,leading to the degree of Master of Social Work or to the professional certificate.

The School of Library Service

requiring college graduation for admission and offering a one-year curriculumleading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Library Service.

Spelman Collegea strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for women.

Morehouse Collegea strong, fully-accredited undergraduate college for men.

The Summer School

in which the Atlanta institutions for the higher education of Negroes combineunder the direction of Atlanta University to offer courses on both the graduateand undergraduate levels.

The Laboratory Elementary School and the Nursery Schoola system of education beneath the college level offering an opportunity for ex¬perimentation, observation and practice teaching.

For information address the Registrar of the school in whichyou are interested

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