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Calendar 3

Book Fair 4

(.barter Day Convocation 7

Charter Day DinnerSummer School Commencement 10

More About Summer School 13

Final Tribute to John P. Whittaker 15

Campus Briefs 16

Faculty Items 18

Alumni Association Activities _. 21

Alumni News 23

In Memoriam — 27

ON THE COVER

The Trevor Arnett Library was the scene of the success¬ful Carnival of Books held in November. Dr. Virginia L.Jones and James A. Hulbert were co-chairmen of thecommittee on program and planning. Members of thevarious committees were Miss Frankie V. Adams, Mrs.Gaynelle Barksdale, Dr. Lynette S. Bickers, Mrs. BessieBriscoe, Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks, Mrs. Pearl Clement, Mrs.Ruth Cochrane, Mrs. Helen M. Coulborn, H. EugeneCraig, Mrs. Rosebud Dixon, Mrs. Ann Evans, Mrs. Mil¬dred Flowers, William V. Harper. Mrs. Ethel Hawkins,Mrs. Marnesba Hill, Mrs. Annette Hoage, Mrs. Margue¬rite Hulbert. Mrs. Annabelle Jarrett Mrs. Catherine John¬son, Mrs. Martin Leathers, Mrs. Dorothy Manley, Mrs.Annie McPheeters, Mrs. Helen Martin, Mrs. MexicoMickelbury, Mrs. Carrie Mitchell, Mrs. Jean Moore, Mrs.Lucretia Parker. Mrs. Dovie Patrick. Mrs. Minnie Rowe,Mrs. Florence Smith, Mrs. Edythe Thomas, Mrs. Jose¬phine Thompson. Miss Margaret Walker. Walter Wallace,James Walton, and Whitney Young.

Series III DECEMBER. 1956 No. 96

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

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CALENDARSUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: June 13 — President

Rufus E. Clement.Subject: “Education and Negro Leadership

SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: June 19 — Lucius H.Pitts, Executive Secretary of the Georgia Teachersand Education Association.Subject: “The Georgia Educational Scene — SomeProblems and Forecasts’

SI MMER THEATRE: June 21, 22, 23 — “Time Out forGinger” by Ronald Alexander

SI MMER SCHOOL FORUM: June 26 — Fred Routh,Associate Director, Southern Regional Council.Subject: “Education and Socio-Economic Change

BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: June 27 — The NegroPotential — Reviewed by Edward K. Weaver, As¬sociate Professor of Education, Atlanta Ufniversity

SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 3 — James B. Mc¬Rae. Dean of Students, Lincoln University, Pennsyl¬vania.Subject: “Major Goals of Today’s Schools ’

SUMMER THEATRE: July 5. 6, 7 — “The SouthwestCorner” by John C. Holm

SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 10 — John Griffin,Director of Community Education, Emory Universi¬ty.Subject: “Teachers for Tomorrow — The Problemof Teacher Shortage”

SUMMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 17 — Robert Martin,Professor of Political Science, Howard University.Subject: “Education and Today’s Election Issues'

BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: July 18 — The Dead SeaScrolls — Reviewed by Howard Teeple, CandlerSchool of Theology, Emory University

SI MMER THEATRE: July 19, 20, 21 — “The ConstantWife” by Somerset Maugham

SI MMER SCHOOL PICNIC: July 21 — Atlanta Uni¬versity Alumni Association for the Students andFaculty

111 MAN RELATIONS WEEK: July 23-27 — Sponsoredby the Atlanta l diversity Summer School and theAmerican Teachers Association

SI MMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 24 Walter Ridley,Professor of Psychology, Virginia State College.Subject: “Education for Better Human Relations”

SI MMER SCHOOL FORUM: July 31 — President B. E.Mavs. Morehouse College.Subject: “Tomorrow’s Schools: The Question of In¬tegration"

BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: August 1 — The Searchfor liridey Murphy — Reviewed by Genevieve Al¬ston, Associate Professor of Social Work, AtlantaUniversity

SI MMER SCHOOL CONCERT: August 7 — Atlantal niversity Summer School Chorus

SI MMER SCHOOL CONVOCATION: August 9President Rufus E. Clement

SI MMER THEATRE: September 28 Repeat Per¬formance of “ I he Constant \\ ife

’TEA: September 30 Atlanta l diversity Alumni As¬sociation Honoring Students and Faculty. Programby Mrs. Jessie M. Wartman. 16.

RECEPTION: October 7 President and Mrs. RufusE. Clement at Home to the Faculties and Staffs ofthe Atlanta University Center

FORUM: October 9 — Robert G. Armstrong, AssociateProfessor of Sociology and Anthropology, AtlantaUniversity.Subject: “Law and Social Relations

CHARTER DAY CONVOCATION: October 16— Presi¬dent Laurence Jones, Piney Woods Country LifeSchool, Mississippi

CHARTER DAY BANQUET: October 16 — HonoringNew Members of the Faculty

BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: October 24 — PersonalInfluence — Reviewed by Joseph Golden, AssociateProfessor of Social Work, Atlanta University

TOWN MEETING: October 25 — J. H. Calhoun, Rob¬ert Brisbane, Professor of Political Science, More¬house College, Miss Rosa Lee Rice, Spelman College,Joseph Penson, Morehouse College.Subject: “Should the Republicans Be Returned toPower?”

CONCERT: October 28 — The Soloists of ZagrebBOOK FAIR: November 11-16 — Sponsored by the

Trevor Arnett Library and the School of LibraryService

LECTURE: November 11 — Carl T. Rowan, Corre¬spondent with the Minneapolis Tribune

LECTURE: November 12 — Spencer Shaw, BrooklynPublic Library.Subject: “Story Telling Techniques”

FORUM: November 14 — C. Vann Woodward, Pro¬fessor of History, Johns Hopkins University.Subject: “The Pattern of Crisis in the South”

AUTHORS’ NIGHT: November 16 — M. Carl Holman,Professor of English, Clark College.Subject: “Authors and Readers: Some Reflectionson Relationships”

ATLANTA-MOREHOUSE-SPELMAN PLAYERS: No¬vember 19 and 20 — “An Inspector Calls” by J. B.Priestley

BOOK REVIEW PROGRAM: November 28 — “Goodbyeto Uncle Tom” — Reviewed by Miss Frankie V.Adams. Professor of Social Work, Atlanta Universi¬ty

CONFERENCE OF OUT-OE-TOWN SUPERVISORS OFFIELD WORK: November 29-December 1 — MissVirginia Tannar, Western Reserve School of SocialWork.Subject: “Problems Faced in the Generic Approachto Field Work”

CONCERT: December 2 — Vivian Scott, Pianist. Pre¬sented by the Atlanta University Alumni Associa¬tion

TOWN MEETING: December 5 — Alec Robertson.British Information Officer for the Southeast, andAndrew Ezenkwele. Morehouse College.Subject: “The Middle East Crisis: Its Backgroundand Meaning”

LECTURE: December 7 — Marguerite Cartwright,Hunter College.Subject: “The Political Situation in Nigeria and theGold Coast

C1IRISTM\S CAROL CONCERT: December 14. 15, 16Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Chorus, Morehouse

College Glee Club. Spelman College Glee Club3

Carl T. Rowan and James A. Hulbert in the Exhibition Room at the

Book Fair.

M. Carl Holman, Clark College and speaker on Authors' Night, withLeo Katz, Spelman College, Dean Virginia L. Jones, Atlanta UniversitySchool of Library Service, Dr. Stella B. Brookes, Clark College, Mrs.Hallie B. Brooks, Atlanta University, and Dr. M. D. Kennedy, More¬

house College.

The staffs of the Trevor Arnett Li¬

brary and the School of LibraryService, with the enthusiastic assist¬ance of the community, cooperated inbringing to the Lhiiversity Center andAtlanta a highly successful Book Fairin November.

Approximately three thousandpeople visited the exhibits and overfifteen hundred attended the three

public meetings which included threearranged by the Book Fair commit¬tee and the appearance of Dr. C.Vann Woodward, speaker on the Artsand Sciences Forum Series. Eighteenelementary schools in Atlanta, andFulton, DeKalb, and Cobb countiessent classes to visit the Fair and to

participate in special story-tellinghours.

The exhibits, which filled the Ex¬hibition Gallery and Staff Lounge ofthe Trevor Arnett Library, both dec¬orated to carry out the idea of a‘‘Carnival of Books, : included ap¬

proximately twenty-five h u n d r e dnew books displayed as to subjectmatter.

At the formal opening on Sunday,November 11, the featured speakerwas Carl T. Rowan, correspondentfor the Minneapolis Tribune. Dr.Virginia L. Jones, Dean of the Schoolof Library Service, presided and Mr.C. A. Scott, editor of the AtlantaDaily World, introduced the speaker.Mr. Rowan, author of The Pitiful

and the Proud, based on his recent

travels in Asia and Africa, spoke on“The World Crisis and the Ameri¬can Dilemma."' He said that the two

explosive ingredients among Asiansand Africans which might lead torevolution are anti-racism and anti¬colonialism.

Deploring ignorance on the part ofAmericans as to the aspirations andhopes of the non-whites, Mr. Rowansaid that for too long the white peo¬ples of the world had consideredthe darker races as stupid. The revo¬

lutionary movement he saw as theexpression of vast millions of hu-

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man beings who were demandingfreedom and acceptance as part ofthe family of mankind. Asians aresuspicious that the nations of theWest conduct international affairsnot on the basis of morality, hut onthe basis of race.

The second public meeting of theHook Fair was devoted to a discus¬sion of “Story Telling Techniques*by Spencer Shaw, story telling spe¬cialist from the Brooklyn Public Li¬brary. Mr. Shaw, a graduate ofHampton Institute, the University ofWisconsin Library School, and theGraduate Library School, the Uni¬versity of Chicago, has originated anddeveloped a method of correlatingliterature and music in programs ofstory telling, hook reviewing, andlecturing for both children andadults.

Mr. Shaw conducted the story tell¬ing hours for the children who visit¬ed the exhibit from the elementaryschools.

The program was carried to thecommunity when James A. Hulbert,librarian of the Trevor Arnett Li-brarv developed the theme “HumanExperience and the Written Word *at a luncheon meeting of the Hun¬gry Club.The closing public meeting was

Authors* Night where M. Carl Hol¬man of the Department of English,Clark College, spoke on “Authorsand Readers: Some Reflections on

Relationships,” with the authorsfrom the institutions of the Atlantal niversit\ Center as honored guests.Mrs. Hallie Beachem Brooks presid¬ed and introduced the speaker.The authors honored, who were

presented by Mrs. Annette Hoage,were Miss Frankie V. Adams, Atlan¬ta l niversity, Dr. Rose-Marie P.Akselrad, Morehouse College, Dr.Robert G. Armstrong, Atlanta Uni¬versity, Dr. B. R. Brazeal, More¬house College, Dr. Stella BrewerBrookes. Clark College, Benjamin F.Bullock, Atlanta University, Mrs.

Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks, School of Library Service, presides at Authors'Night, the closing event of the Book Fair.

Carl T. Rowan greets the guests at the reception following theopening of the Book Fair.

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Carrie Gartrell Olivers, MorehouseCollege, Walter Olivers, MorehouseCollege, Dr. Helen M. Coulborn, At¬lanta University, Dr. Rushton Coul¬born, Atlanta University, Dr. EllenN. Duvall. Spelman College, Dr. PaulT. Fuhrmann, Gammon TheologicalSeminary, Roger S. Gupthill, Gam¬mon Theological Seminary, HenryCooke Hamilton, Morehouse College,M rs. Jane Ross Hammer, SpelmanCollege, Dr. Mozell C. Hill, AtlantaUniversity, M. Carl Holman, ClarkCollege, Willis Laurence James,Spelman College, Leo Katz, SpelmanCollege, Dr. Melvin D. Kennedy,Morehouse College, Dr. Julia Y. Lee,Morehouse College, Dr. Hylan Lew¬is, Atlanta University, Dr. BenjaminE. Mays, Morehouse College, Dr.Harry V. Richardson, Gammon Theo¬logical Seminary, Dr. Margaret Nel¬son Rowley, Morris Brown College,and Dr. N. P. Tillman, Atlanta Uni¬versity.

Speaking of types of readers, Mr.Holman said that the class whichwished merely to be entertained was

decreasing in number, since this sortof person had turned to television.By far the largest group reads forinformation. Those who wish to findan artistic expression in reading are

fairly large in number, but disap¬pointingly small in proportion to thesize of the reading public. He blamedthis on the schools which, by adapta¬tions of classics, are creating a situ¬ation in which readers for the greatmasterpieces of literature can no

longer be found in any number.Mr. Hulbert marked the official

closing of the Book Fair by thankinghis co-chairman, Dr. Virginia L.Jones, and the committee for theirmaking it a very successful and stim¬ulating occasion.

Visitors to the Book Fair examine one of the many attractive exhibits.

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Over three thousand visitors attended the Carnival of Books.

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CHARTER DAY-CONVOCATION

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The Thirteenth Annual Charter

Day Convocation marked the eighty-ninth anniversary of the granting of acharter to Atlanta l niversity by Ful¬ton Superior Court and the ninety-first vear since instruction began inthe Car-Box and the Jenkins StreetChurch.

President Clement said that thecharter which was received eighty-nine \cars ago is still in existence,still the legal instrument giving lifeto the corporation which is now op¬erating and has operated continuous¬ly since that day. Neither the menwho applied for the charter nor thecourt which granted it could envisionwhat that instrument meant, he said.The history of Atlanta Universityhad been replete with thrillingevents, with periods of crisis and ofgreat joy.The measure of the accomplish¬

ments of the University, Ur. Clement

said, can only be found truthfullyand realistically in its graduates, al¬though he did not wish to detractfrom what the teachers, administra¬tion and trustees had done. Henamed Lucy Laney, James WeldonJohnson, Walter White and RichardWright as a few among the manywho exemplified the Atlanta Uni¬versity graduate.The ( barter Day speaker was Dr.

Laurence C. Jones, nationally knownas “The Little Professor of PineyWoods. president of the PineyWoods Country Life School in Mis¬sissippi.Dr. Jones, who went to Mississippi

after graduating from the State l ni-versity of Iowa in 1907. said that hisdetermination to go South began witha paper written in his college dayson the life of Booker T. Washing¬ton. He first went to the Delta regionwhere his attempts to get a school

started were fruitless. The next yearhe moved to the piney woods re¬

gion near Jackson and here hisschool began as he sat on a log inthe woods and taught three illiterateboys to read.

Dr. Jones soon saw that he must

teach not only books but trades ifthe standard of living of the Negrosharecroppers from whose homes hisstudents came was to be raised. Hetraced the development of the school,emphasizing the cooperation he hadhad from his white neighbors, fromits humble beginnings to its presentstudent bodv of five hundred, its im¬

pressive plant built by the studentsand situated on 1700 acres of land,and its integrated faculty of approxi¬mately fifty members.His motivation and inspiration he

found in two texts. “This one thing Ido" and “To him that hath it shallbe given,"

CHARTER DAY-DINNER

Dr. C. A. Bacote presents gifts to Miss Frankie V. Adams, School ofSocial Work, J. B. Blayton, School of Business Administration, and

Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks, School of Library Service.

The Charter Day Dinner

At the traditional Charter DayDinner for the faculty and staff andtheir wives and husbands, the new

members of the faculty and staffwere introduced to their colleaguesand three faculty members who hadbeen associated with the Universityfor twenty-five years were honored.Miss F rankie V. Adams, School of

Social Work. Mr. J. B. Blayton,School of Business Administration,and Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks, Schoolof Library Service, received giftsfrom the faculty and staff in recog¬nition of their service to the Uni¬

versity. Dr. C. A. Bacote, chairmanof the Charter Day Committee, madethe presentation.Dr. Joseph Golden, School of So¬

cial Work, introduced the new mem¬

bers of the faculty, Dr. Samuel Du-Bois Cook, Department of PoliticalScience, Dr. Linwood Graves, Schoolof Education, and Carl S. Harm,Warren E. Moore, and Mrs. HeleneWesterfield, all of the School of Social Work.

Dr. Cook, A. B. Morehouse Col¬lege, M. A. and Ph.I) Ohio StateUniversity, comes to Atlanta Univer¬sity from Southern University wherehe was Associate Professor of Po¬litical Science. He was UniversityScholar while at Ohio State in 1949-50 and held a John Hay WhitneyFellowship in 1952-53. From 1949-52 he was graduate assistant in Po¬litical Science. During his servicewith the United States Army he wasa social science specialist. Dr. Cookis a member of Pi Sigma Alpha hon¬orary society.Dr. Graves, who has been appoint¬

ed Professor of Education, has beenon the faculty of Morris Brown Col¬lege since 1947. He holds the A. B.degree from Virginia State College,the M.A. from Western Reserve Uni¬

versity, and the Ph.I). from Colum¬bia University.Mr. Harm, A.B. and M.A.S.A. Ohio

State University, has also studied inthe School of Social Work at West-

New members of the faculty: Warren E. Moore, School of Social Work,Dr. Linwood Graves, School of Education, Mrs. Helene Westerfield,School of Social Work, Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, Department of Po¬

litical Science, Carl S. Harm, School of Social Work.

Miss Caroline Davis, secretary in Dr. Clement's office, chats with Dr.and Mrs. Paul I. Clifford.

ern Reserve l Diversity. His extensivefield work experience furnishes a

practical background for his positionas Field Work Supervisor. Mr. Harmhas been Group Reader and AssistantProgram Director, l Diversity Settle¬ment. Cleveland. Ohio; Superintend¬ent of Recreation, Kent, Ohio; Pro¬gram Director. Central CommunityHouse, Columbus. Ohio; ProgramSuperintendent, Lincoln Center,Poughkeepsie. New \ork: ExecutiveSecretary, Community Settlement,Riverside. New York. Most recentlyhe was a member of the faculty ofSouthern Illinois l Diversity in theDepartment of Community Develop¬ment.

Mr. Moore. R.S. North Carolina

Agricultural and Technical College,M.S.W. Atlanta University, has takenadditional graduate work at the Uni¬versity of Pennsylvania School of So¬cial Work. For the past seven yearshe has been employed at the FamilyCourt. Wilmington, Delaware, firstas probation officer, then as super¬visor, and finally as chief of fieldservice and acting director. He toois working in field work supervision.Mrs. Westerfield, A.B. Spelman

College, holds a graduate degree insocial work from Simmons College,Boston. She taught at Atlanta Uni¬versity in 1953-54.

President Clement, who acted as

master of ceremonies, presented thenew part-time faculty members; Mrs.Charley Mae Lowe, School of SocialWork, an Atlanta University graduate and Executive Secretary of th<Gate City Day Nurseries; and MrsMozel Spriggs, physical educationand Miss Mae B. Moore, librarianOglethorpe Elementary School. H<also introduced additions to the staffthe executive committee of the Alumni Association, and trustees, and wel¬comed back Dr. Charles \N ahl, (.hair-man of the Department of French,and Mrs. Julia Neal. Oglethorpe Ele¬mentary School.Walter Felder, Atlanta 1 Diversity,

Caroldean Stewart. Spelman College.Eddie Meredith, Morehouse College,and the Morehouse College Quartet

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furnished the music. T. M. Alexan¬der. a member of the Board ofI rustees, offered the opening prayer.

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SUMMER SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

President Rufus E. Clement de¬livered the convocation message tothe seventy-nine students receivingdegrees in August. The urgency oftoday’s problems and the need foreach person to make without delaywhatever contribution possible totheir solution was the theme he de¬

veloped in relation to both interna¬tional and domestic affairs.

Looking abroad, Dr. Clement sawbehind the facade of apparent ma¬terial recovery from World War 11people in dire situations, unrest, andthe lack of a sound economic struc¬

ture. “The seeds of World War IIIare there to see,” he said. “We dolive in a very perilous world. Howrmuch time do we have to reach a so¬

lution?”

On domestic issues, he asked thegraduates, “Are you amazed and dis¬appointed that in the coming elec¬tion the question of basic humanequality will he the big issue? Are\ ou wondering how the oppositegroup can square their pronounce¬

ments with their moral and religiousviews, with their avowed belief indemocracy?”Although he refused to believe

that the situation was hopeless, hestressed the need of haste in show¬

ing the rest of the wmrld that theUnited States believes in democracy.“How much time do we have?’’ heasked. “We are losing the battle withevery delay.”The seventy-nine graduates, al¬

though approximately half fromGeorgia, came from fourteen states,including New York, Pennsylvania,Illinois, Connecticut, and Virginia.Thirteen degrees were in the Gradu¬ate School of Arts and Sciences, sixin the School of Social Work, fifteenin the School of Library Service,forty-four in the School of Educa¬tion, and one in the School of Busi¬ness Administration.

Receiving the degree of master ofarts from the School of Arts andSciences were: Ellis Lee Hunter,Chicago, 111., Ezekiel Leon Kennedy,

Beaufort, S. C., Mrs. Pinkie GordonLane, Moultrie, Ga., Mrs. MyrtleClarke Lumpkin, Birmingham, Ala.,Gloria Anne Mixon, Woodward, Ala.,Eleanor Elizabeth Williams, Atlanta,all in English; Alelia Mae Barrett,New Haven, Conn., in French: Hen¬ry Edward Jackson, Birmingham,Ala., in history; Charles EdwardGarth. Birmingham, Ala., and Lo-vette Hood. Jr., Atlanta, in sociology.Norma Sapp Word. Waycross, Ga.

received the master of science in bi¬

ology; John Wesley Carten, Jr.,Rome, Ga., and John Ellis Nolen,Jr., Troy, Ala., in chemistry.The degree of master of social

work was given to: Dorothy 11300010Glass, Chicago, Ill., Ernestine High,Raleigh. N. C., Lenora Marie Hol¬man, New York City, Mrs. DorothvJames, North White Plains, N. Y.,Martha Lucretia Reid. Portsmouth,Va.. and Mrs. Freddie LaVern Tor¬rence, Valdosta. Ga.

The master of science in LibrarvService was received by: William

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Douglas Beasley, Dawson, Ga.. Lo-rene Sandra Byron, Tampa, Fla.,Myra Joyce Campbell. Marshall Tex¬as, Mrs. Willve Frank Stoney Den¬nis, Jacksonville, Fla.. Hardy RogersFranklin, Brooklyn, N. Y., DorisVelma Hooper. Marrero, La., Mrs.Helen Matherson Long, Birmingham,Ala., Mrs. Bertha Dimery Pugh,Normal, Ala.. Mrs. Arnieze FitchRamseur. Macon, Ga., Mrs. LeliaGaston Rhodes, Jackson, Miss., Ar¬thur James Safford, Atlanta, Mrs.Lilly-Budd Leake Smith, McDon¬ough. Ga., Mary Ida Walker. Man¬ning, S. C., M rs. Phyllis keele Walk¬er, Pine Bluff, Ark., Mrs. HattieRutherford Watson. Pine Bluff. Ark.

The master of arts in educationwas awarded to: Thomas Charles

Adams, Waycross, Ga., Curtis Ash,Atlanta, John Solomon Blackshear,Eatonton, Ga., Edward Lee Bouie.Atlanta, Mrs. Dallie Rushelle Brown,Columbus, Miss., Mrs. Rosetta Da¬vis Bryan, Savannah, Ga., Mrs. VeraRegulus Bryant. Atlanta, Miss JohnHennie Combs, McDonough, Ga.,Mrs. Ida Swanson Corbett, Eufaula,

The August, 1956, graduating class

Mrs. Hattie Rutherford Watson, MSLS, with Dean

Virginia L. Jones of the School of Library Service.Mrs. Watson, now assistant librarian at A. M. andN. College, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is a 1907 gradu¬ate of Spelman College and a member of the

Spelman Board of Trustees.

Ala., Mrs. Louia Obelisk Cureton,Pinehurst, N. C., Mrs. GwendolynHylick Miley Drayne, Atlanta, CleoDyches, Ridge Spring, S. C., Mrs.Cornelia McGowans Easley, Dalton,Ga., Mrs. Anna Board Cranberry,Manning, S. C., William Levan Ham¬ilton, Manning. S. C., Ada LouiseHannibal, Newr Orleans, La., Mrs.Essie Finney Harvey, Macon, Ga.,Corine Olivia Hatcher, Waynesboro,Ga., Robert Charles Hill, Meridian,Miss., Ottis Thomas Hogue, Knox¬ville, Tenn., Mrs. Mary Glenn Hor¬ton, Plant City, Fla., Mrs. Annie Lo-

via Howard, Eatonton, Ga., Christo¬pher Columbus Hunter, Griffin, Ga.;Roswell Francis Jackson, Atlanta,Lewis Wesley Jay, Augusta, Ga., Jo¬sephine Deborah McIntosh, Okolona,Miss., Phenecia Cannon Morris, At¬lanta, Mrs. Genevieve Parks Murcer,Philadelphia, Pa., Walter Lee Nel¬son, Natchez, Miss., Evelyn LouiseRamho, Rome, Ga., Lucius Alexan¬der Robinson, Atlanta, Louella DorisSeele, Summerville, S. C., Mrs. Al¬pha Washington Shavers, Jonesville,La., Helen Fannie Mae Sidney, Car-tersville, Ga., Walter Michaux Sim¬

mons, Thomasville, Ga., LillianEditha Smith, Soperton, Ga., Mrs.Annie Vernice Sykes, Arlington, Ga.,Mrs. Esther Glen Thornton, Lump¬kin, Ga., Lamar Daniel Walker,Newnan, Ga., Mrs. Nancy HoustonWalker, Savannah, Ga., Mrs. LelarChristine Watts, Prentiss, Miss.,Dewey Delorme White, Summerville,Ga., Maudecca LaVone Wilson, Ala¬mo, Ga., Mrs. Rosetta Clarke Young,Birmingham, Ala.John Young Moreland, Atlanta, re¬

ceived the master of business ad¬ministration.

Fellow recipients of the master's degree in English congratulate Miss Eleanor Williams, who received an ap¬

pointment to a year's study in Germany. Ellis Lee Hunter, Mrs. Pinkie Gordon Lane, Ezekiel L. Kennedy, MissWilliams, Gloria Mixon.

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MORE ABOUTSUMMER SCHOOL

The enrollment of the Atlantal Diversity Summer School showed asubstantial increase over that of lastyear with 1.351 students in additionto the 48 children in the OglethorpeElementary School. The greater num¬ber were working toward graduatedegrees, 953 as opposed to 398 un¬dergraduates. Although the School ofEducation, with 747 students, had thelargest enrollment, there were 445in the School of Arts and Sciences,96 in the School of Library Service.49 in the School of Social Work,and 14 in the School of BusinessAdministration.In addition to the regular course

offerings, there were several specialworkshops including a LanguageArts Workshop sponsored by thePhelps-Stokes Fund, a Teacher-Li¬brarian Workshop, a School-HealthWorkshop, and a special programfor the training of science teachers.The regular faculty was supplement¬ed by guest faculty members andconsultants for many of these offer¬ings and whenever possible the meet¬ings were thrown open to the stu¬dent body as a u hole.Forum Series: The weekly Sum¬

mer School Forums developed thetheme “Our Schools — Today andTomorrow.

President Rufus E. Clement, speak¬ing on “Education and Negro Lead¬ership.*’ challenged the students toaccept a dual responsibility, that ofeducating children of a lower socio¬economic background than the Amer¬ican average and that of participat¬ing actively in community affairs.Lucius H. Pitts. Executive Secre¬

tary of the Georgia Teachers andEducation Association, named thefive outstanding problems of theGeorgia educational scene: shortage

of teachers in some subject areas andan oversupply in others; the problemof consolidation; difficulties aboutcertification, with teachers employedout of the area in which they are

certified; and the imminence of in¬tegration. “Teach, then, as if theworld is on fire, for it literally is,'he said. “You will survive in an in¬

tegrated society if you do a good jobof teaching. "Dr. F red Routh, Assistant Director

of the Southern Regional Council,spoke on “Social and EconomicChanges,” saying “There is a ‘newNegro’ in the South.” This he at¬tributed to the development of an in¬dustrialized society replacing theceremonial society of the Old South.Dr. J. B. McRae, Dean of Students

at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania,and a member of the Summer School

faculty, developed the general themeby discussing “Major Goals of Edu¬cation.’’

John Griffin, Associate Professorof Sociology and Director of Com¬munity Education at Emory Uni¬versity, spoke on “Teachers for I o-morrow the Problem of Teacher

Shortage. Population shifts, theshift from rural to urban areas andtbe increasing migration from theSouth, pose problems for teachers,he said. “The fact that yve are not

teaching a homogeneous group whosefuture we can predict complicates thejob of teachers.”l)r. Robert Martin, Professor of

Political Science at Howard E Diversi¬ty and a member of the SummerSchool faculty, speaking on “Educa¬tion and Today’s Election Issues,said “Negroes hold a balance of po¬litical power in many states. I hopethe Negro voter will use his politi¬

cal potential to help build a betterSouth.”

President Benjamin F^. Mays,Morehouse College, closed the serieswith a discussion of “Tomorrow’sSchools: The Question of Integra¬tion.” He refused to hazard a guessas to how long segregation yvouldlast in the deep South. “Desegrega¬tion is being delayed not only be¬cause of organized resistance, but be¬cause some Negroes, more than wewant to admit, want it delayed foreconomic reasons.”Human Relations Week: Spon¬

sored jointly by the American Teach¬ers' Association and the Atlanta Uni¬

versity Summer School, Human Re¬lations Week yvas observed July 23-27. Films and printed materials onthe subject were shown and exhibitswere set up in Haven Warren Hall.Clark College, and in the Trevor Ar¬nett Library.Featured speaker for the yveek

was Dr. Walter Ridley, Professor ofPsychology at Virginia State College.He spoke with small groups, discuss¬ing means of taking material on im¬proving human relations to theircommunities, and addressed the Sum¬mer School Assembly. He urged thestudents to learn the answers to ques¬tions raised by those opposing de¬segregation, factual not emotionalanswers.

“To those who say that culturaldifferences prevent integration, Iwould say that any cultural circum¬stances found in one race can befound in others and that there are

thus no divisional cultural differ¬ences. To those who fear disturb¬ances resulting from desegregation, Iwould say that there is no disturb¬ance unless leadership in a communi¬ty incites it.

Rook Review Series: The School ofLibrary Service sponsored threebooks, each followed by a discus¬sion period. Dr. Edward k.. Weaverof the School of F.ducation discussedF'.li Ginsberg's The Negro Potential.an analysis of the problems which

Emory University, who discussed therelationship between the Dead SeaScrolls and Christian ethics and be¬liefs. He said that Gosticism, althoughof later origin, had its roots in Es-sene teaching, and pointed out simi¬larities between Essene thought andthat of the Pharisees and the in¬fluence of Zoroastrianism on Essenebeliefs.Mrs. Genevieve Alston of the De¬

partment of Psychiatric Social Work,closed the series with a review ofthe controversial account of reincar¬

nation, Morey Bernstein’s Search forBridey Murphy.The Summer Theatre: An out¬

standing production of SomersetMaugham’s The Constant Wife cli¬maxed the program of the SummerI heatre. Under the capable directionof Baldwin Burroughs and starringsuch Summer Theatre favorites as

Georgia Allen, Mildred Graves, andRaphael Maclver the production at¬tained professional competence.The season opened with “Time Out

for Ginger by Ronald Alexander inwhich Georgia Allen, Peggy Walker,William Smith, and Bernard Peter¬son played the leading roles. Thesecond presentation was John CecilHolm's “Southwest Corner,” againfeaturing Georgia Allen.William A. Smith, Jr., a member

of the Atlanta-Morehouse-SpelmanPlayers for three years and of theSummer Theatre for two, served as

technician. Baldwin W. Burroughswas the director.The Summer School Choir: The

Summer School Choir under the di¬rection of Willis Laurence James fur¬nished the music for the weekly As¬sembly and also appeared in concerton August 7.Appearing with the Choir as solo¬

ists were Isaac Mullins, David Stills,Evelyn Blalock, Corine Robinson,Charlotte Giles, Eddie Meredith,alter Felder, Henrene Ellington

Smoot, and Priscilla Williams Dixon.Dr. Grace Boggs was the accom¬

panist.

must be solved before the Negro cantake full advantage of the new andrapidly growing opportunities result¬ing from a steady reduction of dis¬

crimination in employment. TheDead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrowswas reviewed by Dr. Howard Teepleof the Candler School of Theology,

William Smith, Georgia Allen, and Raphael Maclver in "The ConstantWife."

The Summer Theatre presents "Time Out for Ginger."

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FINAL TRIBUTE

TO

JOHN P. WHITTAKER

John P. Whittaker

Death came to John P. Whittaker,alumnus and former registrar of At¬lanta University, on September 6 inAtlanta after a year's illness. Mr.Whittaker was sixty-four.Until his resignation to devote full

time to his business interests in 1953,Mr. Whittaker had been connectedwith Atlanta University continuous¬ly since 1916, first as a teacher inthe high school, then as principal ofthe high school; from 1924 untilthe affiliation of Atlanta University,Spelman College and MorehouseCollege as dean of the college, andfrom 1929 as registrar of AtlantaUniversity and Morehouse College.In 1933 he also assumed the re-

sponsibilit\ of director of the Sum¬mer School.

He was born in New Orleans, theson o f the late John William Whit¬taker. Atlanta l niversity 84, formam years the chaplain of TuskegeeInstitute. After attending the ele¬mentary school connected w i t hStraight College, Beach Institute, thepublic schools of Natchez, Mississi|>-pi, and Tuskegee Institute, he en¬tered Atlanta l niversity where hereceived the bachelor of arts degreein 1915. In 1922. he studied at thel niversity of Chicago where he was

awarded the degree of bachelor ofscience in chemistry, and in 1928 atColumbia University, receiving themaster of arts in college adminis¬tration.

At the time of the celebration ofthe 75th anniversary of the foundingof Atlanta University, Mr. Whittakerwas named by his fellowr alumni asone of the ten outstanding graduatesof the university. In 1946 his thirtyyears of service to the university washonored by the faculty and staff. In1953 he was named the Citizen ofthe Year by Omega Psi Phi fraterni¬ty and the Man of the Year by the27 Club as the Atlantan who hadachieved the most for the city andhis fellow men. In 1954 he w as giv¬en a plaque by the National Associ¬ation of Deans and Registrars, ofwhich he had been treasurer, vice-

president. and president, for his out¬standing service to education.Mr. Whittaker found time in his

busy days to take an active part inthe religious and civic life of thecommunity. For more than twent\years he was chairman of the Boardof Deacons of the First Congrega¬tional Church, chairman of the Boardof Directors of the Carrie SteelePitts Home, a member of the Board

of the Atlanta Urban League and ofthe Board of the Social Service In¬dex.At the time of his death he was

president of the Mutual FederalBuilding and Loan Association, apost which he had held since 1937.Speaking of Mr. Whittaker at the

funeral services, President B. E.Mays of Morehouse College said,“He was a man who stood tall inhonor, a man of integrity in every¬

thing that counts for the good of thecommunity. His religion functionedevery day of the week. He loved jus¬tice, showed mercy, and walked hum¬bly with his God. quiet, unassuming,free of bluster and empty show.”The Reverend Homer C. McEwen

of the First Congregational Church,who conducted the services, alsospoke feelingly of Mt. Whittaker'sintegrity and said, “His life spokewith a language far more audiblethan oratory. It was truly groundedin an unshakable faith in God. Itmarked him off as a different kindof man in the community in whichhe lived."Mr. Whittaker is survived by his

wife, the former Alva Louise Brown,two daughters, Miss* Edna Whittakerand Mrs. Anna Whittaker Gaither,and three grandchildren.

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CAMPUS BRIEFSENROLLMENT INCREASESThe enrollment for the fall semes¬

ter was 644, an increase of 248 overthat of 1955. The students come from

twenty-four states, the District of Co¬lumbia, and from Holland, the Vir¬gin Islands, Nigeria, the British WestIndies, Formosa, and Rhodesia.The largest enrollment is in the

School of Education with 420 stu¬

dents. There are 91 students in theSchool of Social Work, 66 in theGraduate School of Arts and Sci¬

ences, 38 in the School of LibraryService, and 29 in the School ofBusiness Administration.

In two schools the men greatly out¬number the women, by five to one inthe School of Business Administra¬tion and by two to one in the Schoolof Arts and Sciences, although inthe entire student body there aremore women than men.

These figures do not include ex¬

change students from the other in¬stitutions in the Atlanta UniversityCenter who are enrolled in senior-

graduate courses.

TOWN MEETINGSUnder the leadership of Dr. Sam¬

uel DuBois Cook of the Departmentof Political Science, there hasbegun a series of monthly meet¬ings where current social and politi¬cal issues are discussed by the facul¬ty, students, and leaders from thecommunity. The other colleges in theCenter are cooperating in these TownMeetings.The first was a lively discussion of

ihe question “Should the Republi¬cans Be Returned to Power" with Mr.J. H. Calhoun, civic leader, and MissRosa Lee Rice, Spelman College stu¬dent. presenting the affirmative andDr. Robert Brisbane, Department ofPolitical Science, Morehouse College,and Mr. Joseph Penson, MorehouseCollege student, opposing them.

In December the topic was theSuez crisis discussed by Mr. AlecRobertson, British Information Of¬ficer for the Southeast, and AndrewEzenkwele, Morehouse College stu¬dent.Dr. Cook serves as moderator.

I>HYL()1\ CONTRIBUTORHONORED

A poem by Mrs. Georgia DouglasJohnson, “ I he Man to Be,” which ap¬peared in Phylon the second quarterof 1956 has been given a citation formerit by the Avalon News of Alpine,Texas. Mrs. Johnson lives in Wash¬

ington, D. C.The citation was based on the votes

of readers and those of a rotatinggroup of editors voting separately.Readers are asked to send in eachthree months their nominations forthe ten best poems in the variouspoetry publications available tothem.

SCHOLARSHIPSMelvin Randolph of Atlanta is the

first recipient of the Solomon W.Walker Scholarship in the School ofBusiness Administration. He is an

honor graduate of Morehouse Col¬lege, 1954, and has just completedhis service in the armed forces. Thisannual scholarship was establishedlast year by the Pilgrim Life andHealth Insurance Company as a me¬morial to its late president, Solomon

Melvin Randolph

W. Walker, a long-time friend of theinstitutions in the Atlanta Universi¬

ty Center.Miss Majorie Bigsby, a student in

the School of Social Work, is therecipient of a Jessie Noyes Founda¬tion Scholarship from the NationalYWCA. She is one of ten youngwomen in the United States whohave received grants from the YWCAfor advanced study. Miss Bigsby, a

graduate of Prairie View A. and M.College, was executive director of theLast Austin Branch of the YWCA,Austin, Texas.Miss Musette Middlebrooks of Co¬

lumbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Jane Greerof Atlanta, both second year stu¬dents in the School of Social Work,have received substantial grants fromthe National Foundation for Infan¬tile Paralysis to support their studiesfor degrees in medical social work.The scholarships are awarded on rec¬ommendation of the School of SocialWork. Miss Middlebrooks is doingfield work at the City of Detroit Re¬ceiving Hospital and Mrs. Greer atthe Medical School of Duke lIniver-sity, Durham, North Carolina.

ARTS AND SCIENCESFORUM

The two speakers on the Arts andSciences Forum Series for the fallhave been an anthropologist and a

historian, Dr. Robert G. Armstrongof the Department of Sociology andAnthropology at Atlanta Universityand Dr. C. Vann Woodward, Pro¬fessor of History at Johns HopkinsUniversity.Dr. Armstrong, who spent the sum¬

mer as one of fifteen members ofthe Institute on Law and Social Re¬lations at Harvard University, spokeon “Law and Social Relations.” Hesaid that certain kinds of social

change can be best effected throughcase or common law. “We haveheard a lot about judges who are

trying to legislate,” he said. “Judgescannot avoid legislating and thereare certain kinds of legislation which

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could not have taken place withoutjudicial decisions.After study of works on the na¬

ture of legal reasoning, Dr. Arm¬strong had come to the conclusionthat lawyers might look on socialscience and its methods more thanthey do, since what is at issue is therelationship between people, not sim¬ilarities between objects.Dr. Woodward, author of many

books about the South among whichare Reunion and Reaction and TheStrange Career of Jim Crow, spokeon “The Pattern of Crisis in theSouth.” Taking the term “new Re¬construction,’ which has been ap¬

plied to the present period by thosewho wish to capitalize on emotionalreactions to the word, he contrastedand compared the two reconstruc¬tions and found in the analysis rea¬sons for both pessimism and opti¬mism concerning the outcome of thepresent struggle.A first glance at the recurring pat¬

tern of crisis supports a pessimisticview, Dr. Woodward said, since theSouth eventually triumphed in thepost-Civil War days although it wasconquered territory and the Northwas ready to use force if necessary,whereas today the South has supportin Congress and the reformers arerestrained by constitutional scruplesand by the call for gradualism inthe Supreme Court decision.There are, however, many reasons

for believing that the “new Recon¬struction” would end differentlyfrom that of the 187()'s. The presentmovement is not identified with one

political party, but was started byone part\, continued by the other,and has sources of strength apartfrom either party. Negroes are nowbetter equipped to defend themselvesand have developed new capacitiesfor leadership. The strong resistance,particularly in the younger genera¬tion, to appeals to race prejudiceand the attitude of the churches to¬

day are other factors which will help

bring about compliance with the Su¬preme Court decision.

Dr. Woodward also noted that to¬

day there is decided defection of theborder states from the southern po¬sition.

“Gradualism is a basic characteris¬tic of the second Reconstruction, heconcluded, “but it will accomplishvital changes in the pattern of liv¬ing in the South. ”

OUT-OF-TOWNSUPERVISORS

The Tenth Annual Conference ofOut-of-Town Supervisors of FieldWork, November 29-December 1,had as guest consultant Miss VirginiaTannar, Professor of Social Workand Administrator of the Case WorkProgram at the Western ReserveSchool of Social Work. The themeof the conference was “ProblemsFaced in the Generic Approach toField Work.”About twenty-five supervisors rep¬

resenting the agencies in which thesecond-year students in the Schoolof Social Work do their block fieldwork attended the conference. Theycame from New York, Ohio, Illinois.Michigan. Maryland. North Carolina,Tennessee, Alabama, New Jersey,and Pennsylvania.

BOOK REVIEWPROGRAMS

Dr. Joseph Golden and Miss

Frankie V. Adams, both of theSchool of Social Work, were the re¬

viewers for the fall book review pro¬

gram sponsored by the School ofLibran Service. Dr. Golden reviewedPersonal Influence by kutz andLazerfeld, a work, which on the ba¬sis of a research study among thewomen of Decatur, Illinois, tries todetermine what forces help to changeor shape people’s attitudes, howopinions are transmitted, and whatis the effect of communication be¬tween people as compared with theeffects of mass media.

Miss Adams reviewed Coodbye to

Uncle Tom by J. C. Furnas. Thisbook develops the thesis that the pop¬ularity of Uncle Tom’s Cabinthroughout the years has misguidedthe feeling of all peoples, not onlyAmericans, about the Negro and hascreated the stereotype of the boot¬licking, servile Negro who is a weak-ing. a coward, a traitor to his race,one who fails to speak up for hisrace. Miss Adams said that she feltit scarcely advisable to weigh anyone book to account for caste-likesituations.

CARTWRIGHT SPEAKSDr. Marguerite Cartwright, a mem¬

ber of the faculty of Hunter Collegeand a well-known journalist, spokeon December 7 about her recent visitto the Gold Coast and Nigeria.

FACULTY ITEMSMrs. Hallie Beachem Brooks,

School of Library Service, gave twolectures, in November at FloridaA. & M. University, speaking on“Professional Opportunities in theField of Litirarianship” and “Cen¬sorship. In Atlanta she addressedthe Crestwood Community Club inOctober on “Children’s Reading andBooks.”

Mrs. Hallie B. Brooks

Mrs. Brooks has been named a

member of the Board of Directorsof the Grady Homes CommunityGirls' Club and vice-president of theBoard of Directors of the Gate CityDay Nursery Association. In the1956 Community Chest Drive, sheserved as co-chairman of the pro¬fessional division. She is Chairmanof the Adult Education Committeeof the Phillis Wheatley YWCA.

* * *

Dr. Mozell Hill, Department ofSociology, spoke at the Annual Con¬ference of the National Urban

League in Cincinnati on September3. His subject was “The Negro Fam¬ily: Social Adjustment for NegroChildren and Adults.” From October31 through November 3 he attendeda Research Conference in Chicagosponsored by the Elizabeth McCor¬mick Memorial F und and the Nation¬al Council on Marriage and FamilyLiving. Here he spoke on “Researchon the Negro Family.”Dr. Hill served in November as

consultant to the Conference on Hu¬

man Relations in Spring Hill Col¬lege, Mobile, Alabama where he reada paper on “Community Organiza¬tion and Human Relations.'

He has been elected to the Pro¬fessional Advisory Board of the At¬lanta Mental Health Association.

# * *

President Rufus E. Clement de¬livered an address at Hunter Col¬

lege, New York, in December on

“The Negro Southerner Speaks. Hehas been elected a trustee of the In¬stitute of International Education.While in England this past sum¬

mer, President Clement was honorguest at a luncheon at the EnglishSpeaking Union at which membersof Parliament, representatives of la¬bor and the press, and governmentofficials were guests. Francis Wil¬liams, editor of the London DailyMail was chairman. Dr. Clement

spoke on the progress in the UnitedStates in giving full opportunities tominority groups. He also spoke onthis subject over the Home Programof the BBC.

* # *

Dr. Joseph Golden, School of So¬cial Work, has completed a surveyon Racial Practice of Libraries in

Large Southern Cities for the Great¬er Atlanta Council on Human Rela¬tions.

Miss Estelle E. Clemmons, Schoolof Social Work, has been electedthird vice-president of the Board ofDirectors of the Metropolitan Atlan¬ta Association for the Blind.The Women’s Society of Christian

Service of the Central MethodistChurch heard Miss Clemmons speakon “John Wesley’s Influence on De¬velopments in the MethodistChurch.”

* * *

Dr. C. A. Bacote, Professor of His¬tory, attended the Democratic Na¬tional Convention in Chicago andmade numerous pre-election speech¬es on the issues of the campaign. Hespoke before the Bethune Elementary

Dr. C. A. Bacote

School Faculty Club, the CrogmanSocial Science Club, the Mu-So-LitClub, the Clark College Social Sci¬ence Club, and the ProfessionalStudy Group, Gainesville, Georgia.In December he was leader of a pan¬el discussion on voter registration atthe Georgia State Conference ofNAACP Branches in Columbus,Georgia.

* * *

A son, Richard Howard, was bornto Mr. and Mrs. Howard Grigsby onDecember 2 in Atlanta. Mrs. Grigsbyis a member of the Department ofEnglish.

* *

Dr. Edward K. Weaver, School ofEducation, spoke in November at

Agnes Scott College on “Racial At¬titudes of Negro Children.” The an¬

nual meeting of the American Asso¬ciation for the Advancement of Sci¬ence at Columbia University will

Dr. Edward K. Weaver

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hear Dr. Weaver present a “Reviewof College Research in Science.Dr. Weaver spoke to the Morris

Brown College Faculty Institute on“Improving College Instruction." tothe Georgia Cancer Foundation on“Using Human Resources, to theGeorgia Science Committee, which issponsored by the State Departmentof Education, on “Effect of RecentResearch on Science leaching." at('.lark College in connection with theobservance of American EducationWeek on “The Social Foundations ofEducation.” and to the Intercollegi¬ate Council at Morehouse College on“Issues in Desegregation. In Octo¬ber he participated in the evaluationof the Cartersville. Georgia. HighSchool for the Southern Association.

He has been re-elected chairmanof the College Level Science Com¬mittee presenting the annual reviewof research for the National Associ¬ation for Research in Science Teach¬ing and has been named chairmanof the National Health Committeeof the National Association of Bi¬ology Teachers.

* * *

Dr. Virginia L. Jones, Dean of theSchool of Library Service, has beenappointed chairman of the Commit¬tee on Instruction of American Li-brary Schools for 1956-58.

She has made two talks in the('enter, one at Gammon on “TheDevelopment and Function ofChurch Libraries." and one at More¬house College on 1 he College Stu¬dent and the Use of the Library."

* #

In collaboration with R. A. Thomp¬son of the Atlanta Urban League,Dr. Hylan G. Lewis. Department ofSociology, has completed a Compara¬tive Stud\ of Housing in Atlanta andBirmingham. 1 he studs was madefor the Committee on Race andHousing, an independent committeesupported by a grant from the fundfor the Republic.At the Tenth Annual Trades and

Engineering Conference at I uskegee

Dr. Hylan G. Lewis

Institute, Dr. Lewis served as a mem¬ber of one of the panels and thensummarized the findings of the con¬ference. He addressed a conferenceof the collegiate YMCA-YWCA’s atEmorv and Henry University in Vir¬ginia on “The Impinging Crisis" andserved as leader of some of the fire¬side discussions at the conference.Dr. Lewis attended a meeting of

the National Association of Inter¬group Relations Officers in Phila¬delphia.

*

Dr. Paul I. Clifford. Registrar andAssociate Professor of Education,served as consultant at the ClarkCollege Career Conference and atthe Georgia Principals’ and Super¬visors" Conference. He was Achieve¬ment Week Speaker for Omega PsiPhi fraternity at Florida Agriculturaland Mechanical University and atMorris Brown College. Eta Omegachapter of Omega Psi Phi nominatedDr. Clifford as Omega Man of theYear.

He has been invited to attend theAnnual Instructional Conference on

Testing Problems held b\ the Edu¬cational Testing Service at HotelRoosevelt. New York and the twen-

tv-first Educational Conference spon¬sored b\ the Educational RecordsBureau and the American Councilon Education.

# * *

Dr. Charles \\ ahl. chairman of the

Department of French, who returnedin September after a \ear on leave in

Dr. N. P. Tillman

Israel, took a trip around the worldduring the summer.

•K- * *

Dr. Nathaniel P. Tillman, actingdean of the Graduate School of Artsand Sciences and chairman of theDepartment of English, has beennamed to the Administrative Com¬mittee of the Southern FellowshipsFund. He has also been appointedto the Executive Committee of theConference of Deans of SouthernGraduate Schools and elected Di-rector-at-Large for Georgia of theNational Council of Teachers of Eng¬lish.

* *

Mrs. Genevieve Alston, School ofSocial Work, served as consultant fora six weeks Mental Health Forum at

the YWCA. November 4 to Decem¬ber 9.

* *

The biographies of five membersof the Atlanta l diversity faculty ap¬

pear in the recently published Vol¬ume III of American Men of Science.which includes a listing of scholarsin the social and behavioral sciences.A forthcoming volume will list thosein historx and the humanities. Thosewho are included in this volume are

Dr. Robert G. Armstrong. Depart¬ment of Sociolog) and Anthropolo¬gy, Dr. Paul I. Clifford. Registrarand School of Education. Dr. Mo-/ell C. Hill. Department of Sociolo¬gy. Dr. Hylan G. Lewis, Depart¬ment of Sociology, and Dr. Hugo M.Skala, Department of Economics.

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James A. Hulbert, librarian, re¬

signed December 1 to accept a posi¬tion with the United States Depart-ment of State as Cultural Attache in

charge of libraries and cultural pro-grams in Paki stan.

■k

An article by Dean Whitney M.Young of the School of Social Workappeared in the June issue of theAmerican Journal oj Orthopsychia¬try. It was entitled “The Hole of theCommunity Organizer in Desegrega¬tion.

Dean Young served as consultantto the Division of Public Assistance,Department of Health, Welfare, andEducation in Washington, D. C. inSeptember, as well as consultant on

training at a special meeting of theAmerican Public Welfare Associa¬

tion, meeting in Chicago in Novem¬ber. He attended a meeting of theAmerican Public Welfare Associa¬tion in Asheville, North Carolina, inOctober as a member of the planningcommittee.In Julv he spoke to the American

Friends Service Committee in Phila¬

delphia.# # #

M rs. Vivian Beavers, OglethorpeSchool, presented the teacher's point-of-view in a panel discussion of“Facing Desegregation"' at the An¬nual Fellowship Dinner at the Ogle¬thorpe School. Other participants onthe panel were Dean WhitneyYoung, School of Social Work,chairman, Dr. E. K. Weaver, Mr.Jake Henderson, and Mrs. John Mor¬row.

Mrs. Beavers, chairman of theteen-age group of Jack and Jills ofAmerica, Inc., took delegates toNashville when the Southeast Areawas set up. She has received a cita¬tion from the Board of Directors ofthe Mental Health Association forher work as chairman of the WestSide Drive.

Miss Frankie \ . Adams, Professorof Community Organization in the

School of Social Work, was honoredat a luncheon celebrating her twenty-five years of service by the NewYork Alumni Chapter of the Schoolof Social Work. The luncheon was

held in the Jade Room of the Wal¬dorf Astoria Hotel, New York, onOctober 27.

Miss Frankie V. Adams

1 hose appearing on the programwere Forrester B. Washington, form¬er director of the School of SocialWork, V iolet Seider, Professor ofCommunity Organization, New YorkSchool of Social Work, Regina M.Andrews, Board of Trustees, NationalUrban League, Helen Flack, Execu¬tive Director. Community Division ofthe National YWCA, Dean WhitneyM. Young of the Atlanta UniversitySchool of Social Work, Ersa HinesClinton, Atlanta University Schoolof Social Work, 1946, Lydia JettonRogers, Department of Home Eco¬nomics, Howard University, and Ma¬drid Turner Hamilton, President ofthe New York Alumni Chapter.

■» «-

Dr. Thomas D. Jarrett. Departmentof English, is the author of an articleentitled “Lavallee, Phillis Wheatley,and Slavery" which appeared in theNovember issue of The British Re-view, a new journal of comparativeliterature.

Dr. Jarrett has been appointed tothe National Council of Teachers of

English Committee on Methods ofWorking with the Public, a commit¬tee which is to explore ways of mak¬ing the public better informed of thethings that English teachers on all lev¬els of instruction attempt to do.In January Dr. Jarrett will give

three lectures in the Morehouse Col¬

lege 1956-57 Lecture Series.* * r,

Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, newlyappointed to the Department of Po¬litical Science, was engaged duringthe summer in research in philosophyat the Library of Congress under thesupervision of the Department ofPhilosophy of Ohio State University.During the fall Dr. Cook has spok¬

en at Talladega College on “HumanI ragedy and the ContemporaryWorld Order." at the State Confer¬ence of the NAACP in Columbus on

"Effective Leadership in an Age ofTransition,” at the Providence Bap¬tist Church on “Issues in the No¬vember Election,” and at Morehouse,Morris Brown, and Spelman Col¬leges.

* * *

Dr. Wesley J. Lyda, Dean of theSchool of Education, has been ap¬pointed Consultant in Curriculumand Evaluation to the Atlanta Boardof Education. In October he attendedthe Phelps-Stokes Fund meeting inAtlanta, serving as one of the tennational consultants. He also attend¬ed a conference in Augusta whichconsidered the establishment of an

extension center for a Workshop inthe Education of Exceptional Chil¬dren sponsored by Atlanta Universityin cooperation with Albany StateCollege and the Augusta-RichmondCounty Board of Education.Dr. Lyda spoke on November 5

in Atlanta at a banquet given by thePaine College Alumni honoring re¬tiring President E. C. Peters. He was

consultant at the Principals and Su¬pervisors Conference at Price HighSchool, Atlanta, in November.

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ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES

President Rufus Clement receives the silver tea service from Mrs. Mae Yates of the class of 1916.

The National Alumni Associationunder the able leadership of itspresident, Mrs. Josephine DibbleMurphy, lias worked diligently andsuccessfully for the University.During the summer a picnic was

held on the campus for the SummerSchool students, faculty, staff andtheir families. The informal programof games gave everyone a chance tobecome better acquainted.The students and faculty were

again entertained at the beginning ofthe fall semester, this time with a

tea in the lounge of Bumstead Hall.The program was arranged by theclass of 1916 and featured a showingof colored slides of Kurope, the Car¬ibbean. and South America by Mrs.Jessie M. W artman, 16. During therefreshment hour, Mrs. Wartmanshowed souvenirs which she had

brought back from her extensivetravels.

A high point of the afternoon wasthe presentation of a beautiful silvertea service to the Atlanta 1 niversitydormitories b\ the class of 1916.

President Clement received the giftfor the l niversity from Mrs. MaeA ates.

On December 2 the Alumni Asso¬ciation presented the brilliant youngAmerican concert pianist, VivianScott, in a benefit performance forthe Walter F rancis \\ bite Scholar¬

ship Fund. This $600 scholarship isgiven annually in memory of the lateWalter White of the class of 1916and is awarded to a graduate stu¬dent in the department of sociolog\at Atlanta l diversity.

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Vivian Scott, pianist, receives after being presented in concert by the Alumni Association.

The Alumni Association Tea for the students and faculty.

22

ALUMNI NEWS

Ex 1920

Mrs. Rachel Pruden Herndon, whowas a student in Atlanta Universityfrom 1916-18. was admitted to prac¬tice before the United States Su¬

preme Court, becoming the first Ne¬gro woman from Georgia to achievethis distinction. She was also the firstwoman of her race to be admitted to

the Georgia bar and the first topractice before the State SupremeCourt and the Federal District Courtin Georgia.

1922

M rs. Nina K. Calhoun, normal,married Mr. Edward C. Miller, archi¬tect. at the home of Dr. D. H. Stan¬ton Tuesday, November 20. Mrs.Miller is secretary-treasurer of Cor¬nelius King and Son. Inc., realtors.

Ex 1928

Reverend Theodore S. Ledbetter is

pastor of the Dixwell Avenue Con¬gregational Church, New Haven,Connecticut, one of the city's largestchurches. He is also serving current-l\ with a variety of community agen¬cies, including the Mayor’s CitizenAction Commission, the Human Re¬lations Council, and the Departmentof Christian Social Relations of theNew Haven Council of Churches.

1932

Dr. Aaron Brown, education. Proj¬ect Director of the Phelps-StokesFund, was named Director of Edu¬cational Programs for the EasternRegion of Alpha Phi Alpha Eraterni-ty. Inc., at tin* 50th AnniversaryConvention of the Fraternity.

1935

Miss Cleopatra Love, history, re-

centlv resigned her post as historyteacher at Washington High Schoolin Atlanta. She plans to resume

teaching after making an extensivetour of the States, Central and SouthAmerica.

1937

Mrs. Mary Walton Collier, chem¬istry, is teaching chemistry and math¬ematics at Melrose High School inMemphis, Tennessee.

★

Clyde L. Reynolds, economics, ex¬ecutive director of Provident Hos¬pital, was recently elected a fellowin the American College of HospitalAdministrators.

1938

Charles J. Wartman

Charles J. Wartman, history, ex¬ecutive editor of the MichiganChronicle, w a s named assistantto Vice-Chairman William L. Daw¬son of the Democratic National Com¬mittee in October.

1941

Mark Birchette, economics, recent¬

ly resigned his job as assistantbursar for Morehouse College. Heand his family have moved to NewYork City where he has been ap¬

pointed chief accountant for theUNCF by Mr. W. J. Trent, Jr., ex¬

ecutive director.

★

Miss Mary Hoover, French, pro¬fessor of languages at Allen Uni¬versity. was recently notified by theInternational Office of Education ofher acceptance as an exchange teach¬er, possibly to be assigned to France.

1944

Mrs. Jeanette Harvey Hall, MSW,was appointed executive director ofthe newly organized Grady HomesCommunity Girls’ Club in Atlanta.

1946

Mrs. Fannie S. McHenry, educa¬tion, former Jeanes Supervisingteacher of Colquitt County, wasnamed principal of the new CharlieA. Gray Elementary School in Moul¬trie, Georgia.

★

Mrs. Dorothy S. Williams, sociolo¬gy, of Pelham. New York, has be¬come head of the sociology depart¬ment at Livingstone College. Sincereceiving her degree, Mrs. Williamshas been working toward the Ph.D.degree at the University of South¬ern California. She has also done

graduate work at Columbia Univer¬sity.

1947

Paul Lawrence Sanford, history,head of the department of history atSouth Carolina State College, iscompleting work for the doctoratedegree at the University of NewMexico.

1948

Will Vernon Rutherford. M. Ed.,was awarded a diploma of advancedstudy at the June commencement ex¬ercises of the l niversit\ of Arkansas.

1950

Calvin Lee Calhoun, biology, is aninstructor in anatomy at MeharryMedical College where he is also a

part-time student.

1951

Walter J. Boles, education, hasbeen employed by the Columbus,Ohio, Public School System as aninstructor in the Olentangy Ele¬mentary School.

★

Jesse Cornelius Crump, education,has been named principal of Cen¬tral Memorial High School, Boga-lusa, Louisiana.

1952

Herman F. Bostick, French, hasjoined the faculty of Fort ValleyState College as an instructor ofFrench.

★

Miss Juanita Collier, education,will be awarded the Ph.D. degree inpsychology at the Winter Convoca¬tion of the University of Chicago.

★

Myron H. Johnson, education, wasgiven a grant by the Southern Educa¬tion Foundation Research to do ad¬vanced work in education at GeorgePeabody College, Nashville, Tennes¬see. Mr. Johnson, who is principalof the Bailey-Johnson School in Al¬pharetta, was granted a year’s leaveof absence by the Fulton CountyBoard of Education.

★

William B. LeFlore, biology, stud¬ied in the area of microbiology atthe University of Southern Califor¬nia this summer on a grant from theSouthern Fellowship Fund. Mr. Le¬Flore is employed at Bennett Col¬lege.

Albert Day Porter, MSW, hasbeen appointed Director of the Book¬er Washington Center in Rockford,Illinois. Mr. Porter began his workthere on the 17th of October.

★Miss Leatrice M. Traylor, sociolo¬

gy, was married on December 27 toCharles McDonald Bell in Atlanta.Mrs. Bell is on the faculty at Ala¬bama A. and M. College.

1953

Robert H. Campbell, education, in¬structor of French and Spanish atLane College, has studied at theUniversity of Paris under a grantfrom the Henry Strong EducationalFoundation in Chicago.

★

Miss D'Jaris H. Jenkins, MSW, be¬came the bride of Senator James L.Watson in July in a double-ring cere¬

mony at the Corona, Long Island,Congregational Church. Mr. Watsonis the only Negro state senator inNew York. The couple will reside inNew York City.

★

Mrs. Altoise Chenault Guy, MSLS,became the mother of a baby boy,Frederick T. Guy III, on October 1.

★Mrs. Velma S. Lowe, MSLS, has

been appointed assistant librarian atFort Valley State College.

★

M iss Ernestein Walker, history,has accepted an appointment atSouth Carolina State College as aninstructor in the department of his¬tory.

1955

Mrs. Helen Armstead Brown, Eng¬lish, who is working on her Ph.D. atPennsylvania State University, wonthe 1956 annual scholarship present¬

ed by the American Association ofUniversity Women. The award wasmade on the basis of her past record,present scholastic ability and futurepromise.

★

Mrs. Arnita Y. Bell, MSW, be¬came the bride of Dr. Paul P. Bos¬well, dermatologist, in a private cere¬

mony at Beth Eden Church, Chi¬cago, in July.

★

Paul T. Groves, chemistry, a mem¬ber of the Grambling College facul¬ty, received a Southern Fellowshipgrant to do advanced study at Penn¬sylvania State University. Mr. Groveswas granted a year’s leave of ab¬sence from Grambling in order tocomplete course requirements for thePh.D. degree. He entered Pennsyl¬vania State University in September.

★

Mrs. Helen McRimmon Huntley,MSW, has accepted employment assenior social worker with the De¬

partment of Public Welfare in Chi¬cago.

★

Miss Mable C. Lumpkin, MSLS,librarian at the West Hunter Branch

Library in Atlanta, married JamesJohnson in a double-ring ceremonyat Greater St. Peter A. M. E. Churchin Fort Valley, Georgia. The wed¬ding took place in July.

1956

Miss Marjorie Grace Alexander.MSW, began work on June 18th inNew York City as a caseworker forthe Protestant Big Sisters, Incorpo¬rated.

★

Curtis Ash, education, is teachingin Atlanta.

★

Miss Alelia M. Barrett, French, isan instructor of French at Fort Val-

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ley State College, Fort Valley, Geor-gia.

★

William Douglas Beasley, MSLS,has accepted an appointment withthe Terrell-Calhoun-Lee Regional Li¬brary in Dawson, Georgia, as direc¬tor of Negro Service.

★

William Augustus Bell. MSWr, hasaccepted an appointment with theCarver Homes, Atlanta Housing Au¬thority.

★

John Solomon Blackshear, educa¬tion, is a high school science teacherin Eatonton, Georgia.

★

Mrs. Zettie Abies Blayton, MSW,is assistant coordinator of Coordi¬nated Leadership Education for GirlScouts, Campfire Girls, and Y-Teensin Detroit, Michigan.

★

Miss A. Patricia Boatright. MSLS,is a teacher-librarian at West End

High School. Fayetteville, Tennessee.

★

Ernest Wesley Boston. English, isa high school English teacher in Met-ter. Georgia.

★

Edward Lee Bouie, education, ofAtlanta, is principal of SimmonsSchool.

★

Miss Thelma Elizabeth Boykin, po¬litical science, is employed at theEast Depot High School, LaGrange,Georgia as a teacher-librarian.

★

Miss Dallie Rushelle Brown, edu¬cation. of Columbus, Mississippi, isa social studies teacher at R. E. HuntHigh School.

M iss Lorene Sandra Byron, MSLS,has been appointed assistant cata-loger at the James E. Shepard Me¬morial Library, North Carolina Col¬lege in Durham.

★

M iss Myra J oyce Campbell. MSLS,of Marshall. Texas, is an assistantlibrarian at Marshall College.

★

John Wesley Carten, Jr., chemis¬try, has received an appointment tothe faculty of f ort Valley State Col¬lege as an instructor in chemistry.

★Miss Doris Hollen Coleman, Eng¬

lish, teaches English and Spanish atHoward High School in Atlanta.

★

M iss Vera T. Coleman, MSW, is a

medical social worker at Lebanon

Hospital. Bronx, New York.

★

James Ernest Conyers, sociology,has been inducted into the UnitedStates Army. He is stationed at FortJackson, South Carolina.

★

Mrs. Ida Swanson Corbett, edu¬cation, teaches mathematics and typ¬ing at the Rebecca Comer VocationalHigh School in Eufaula. Alabama.

★

Mrs. Jennye Ellis Cureton, Eng¬lish. is an English instructor at Wil¬son Senior High School. Florence,South Carolina.

★

Burgay Lawrence Davis, sociology,former pastor of Calvar\ BaptistChurch in Louisville. Kentucky, hasmoved to Cleveland. Ohio.

★

Mrs. Rub\ Taylor Davis, MSW. isemployed b\ the Tennessee Depart¬ment of Public Welfare as a social

worker with the Child Welfare Divi¬sion.

★

Mrs. Willye Frank Dennis, MSLS,is librarian at Edward Waters Col¬

lege. Jacksonville, Florida.

★

Mrs. Cornelia McGowans Easley,education, is teacher-librarian in Dal¬ton, Georgia.

★

Charles Hicks Fortson, education,has accepted employment with theAtlanta Board of Education as a psy-chometrist.

★

Hardy Rogers Franklin, MSLS, hasaccepted a position of librarian withthe Brooklyn Public Library.

★

Charles Edward Garth, sociology,is studying at the University of Ken¬tucky under a Fellowship from theSouthern Education Foundation.

★

Mrs. Anna Board Granberry, edu¬cation. is an instructor at River RoadElementary School, Albany, Georgia.

★

Mrs. Katherine W aters Gray, edu¬cation, is Jeanes Supervisor of Lau¬rens County Schools in Georgia.

★

Mrs. Betty Jean Tribble Hall.MSW, has been appointed Girls' Di¬rector in the Franklin SettlementHouse. Detroit, Michigan.

★

William LeVan Hamilton, educa¬tion. is elementary school principalin Manning. South Carolina.

★

Mrs. Fanin Smith Haves. English,teaches English at Western-Olin HighSchool. Birmingham. Mahama.

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Miss Ernestine High, MSW, is amedical social worker at Fordham

Hospital, New York.

★

Mrs. Olivette Jackson Higgs,French, has accepted an appointmentto the faculty at Prairie View A. &M. College.

★Miss Lenora Marie Holman, MSW,

has accepted employment as medicalsocial worker with the Abraham Ja¬cobi Hospital, Bronx, New York.

★Mrs. Mary Glenn Horton, educa¬

tion, is teaching at Glover JuniorHigh School, Plant City, Florida.

★Ellis Lee Hunter, English, is as¬

sistant professor of English at Tou-galoo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi.

★

Henry Edward Jackson, history,has been added to the faculty ofMiles College as an instructor.

★Lewis Wesley Jay, education, is

principal of the Bryan High Schoolin Jefferson, Georgia.

★Harrison Thompson Johnson, ed¬

ucation, teaches seventh grade at theJ. F. Beavers Elementary School inCollege Park. Georgia.

★Ezekial Leon Kennedy, English,

has been employed at South CarolinaState College as an instructor in theEnglish department.

★Emanuel Joseph Kenny, Jr., of

Richmond. Virginia, is working thereas a psychiatric social worker.

★Mrs. Pinkie Gordon Lane, English,

formerly of Moultrie, Georgia, hasmoved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Mrs. Myrtle Clarke Lumpkin, Eng¬lish, is an instructor at RooseveltJunior High School, Bessemer, Ala¬bama.

★Miss Sue Maud Mays, education,

is teaching in Griffin, Georgia.

★Mrs. Romelia Gross Mason, educa¬

tion, is chief dietitian at the KateBitting Hospital, Winston-S a 1 e m,North Carolina.

★

Haywood Mayo, MSW, has beenappointed assistant director of theFifth Avenue Boys Club of NewYork City.

★

Louis James McRae, education, isprincipal of East Highland School,Dothan, Alabama.

★

Donald Eugene Meeks, MSW, isemployed by the Social Service De¬partment of Evansville State Hospi¬tal as a psychiatric social worker.

★

Miss Harriet Lucille Moon, educa¬tion, is teaching in Comer, Georgia.

★

Miss Mattie Leo Moon, politicalscience, is head of the social studiesdepartment at Fair Street HighSchool, Gainesville, Georgia.

★

Mrs. Genevieve Parks Murcer, ed¬ucation, is employed as a scienceteacher in a junior high school inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.

★

John E. Nolen, Jr., chemistry, isassistant principal of Academy StreetHigh School, Troy, Alabama.

★

Warren G. Palmer, MSLS, hasbeen named assistant librarian and

director of Audio-Visual Aids at Fort

Valley State College.

★Mrs. Gladys Lenestra Porter,

MSW. is program director of theGrady Homes Community Girls’ Clubof Atlanta.

★Miss Evelyn Louise Rarnbo, educa¬

tion, is principal of Menlo Elemen¬tary School, Rome, Georgia.

★

M rs. Arnieze Fitch Ramseur, MSLS,has been appointed children’s librari¬an at the Brooklyn Public Library.

★

Mrs. Lelia Gaston Rhodes, MSLS,is librarian at Hill Junior-SeniorHigh School, Jackson, Mississippi.

★Miss Clementine Riggsbee, MSW,

is a social worker for the New YorkState Department of Mental Hygieneat Hudson River State Hospital.

★

Lucius A. Robinson, education, isprincipal of the Lynwood Park HighSchool in North Atlanta.

★

Miss Nancy Louise Robinson,MSLS, has been named librarian at

Summer Hill High School, Carters-ville, Georgia.

★

Sullivan R. Ruff, Jr., chemistry,of Marietta, Georgia, has been em¬

ployed there as a science teacher andcoach.

★

Charles Levi Sanders, MSW, is ex¬

ecutive director of Wilkie House inDes Moines, Iowa.

★

Mrs. Luella Doris Seele, education,teaches in Lincolnville ElementarySchool, Lincolnville. South Carolina.

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M rs. Helen F. Sidney, education,is principal of Oak Spring Elemen-tarv School. Cleveland. Georgia.

★

LaFar Dupree Sims, education, ofWinder, Georgia, is a school admin¬istrator.

★

Miss Lillian Editha Smith, educa¬tion, teaches third grade at Trent-len County Training School, Soper-ton, Georgia.

★

M rs. Roberta I hompson Smith, ed¬ucation, is principal of JonesboroElementary School, Jonesboro, Geor¬gia.

★

John Steward, MSW, is a youthparole worker with the New N orkState Training School for Boys.

★

Roosevelt Stewart. MBA, is em¬

ployed as merchandise checker forGoldblatts' Department Store, Chi¬cago.

★

Mrs. D<>roth\ Williams Sumner,MSW, is a field representative withthe Children’s Home Society of Cali¬fornia.

★

Mrs. Esther Glenn Thornton, edu¬cation. teaches a first grade class inLumpkin, Georgia.

★

Miss Mary Ida Walker. MSLS, hasaccepted the position of librarian atLong High School, Cheraw, SouthCarolina.

★

Mrs. Phvllis keele Walker, MSLS,is accessions librarian at Arkansas\. M. & N. (College, Pine Bluff.

★

William V. Walton, education, isprincipal of Hawkinsville High and

Industrial School, Hawkinsville,Georgia.

★

M rs. Hattie Rutherford Watson,MSLS, is assistant librarian and cata-loger at A. M. and N. College, PineBluff, Arkansas.

★

M rs. Catherine W alker Williams,education, of Savannah, Georgia, isa 6th grade teacher at W est Savan¬nah Elementary School.

★

Miss Eleanor E. Williams, English,was selected by the University Sen¬ate to accept the personal invitationof a professor in Stuttgart, Germany,for a year’s study in Germany. Sheis attending an Institute for ForeignStudents and attending classes inEnglish and European literature.

★M rs. Iris Edwards Williams, educa¬

tion, has been added to the facultyof A. and T. College, Greensboro,North Carolina, as an instructor ofFrench.

★

Miss Maudecca LaVone W ilson, ed¬ucation, is principal of Alamo HighSchool. Alamo, Georgia.

★

Miss Mary Louise Wisdom, sociolo¬gy, teaches at Booker T. W ashingtonHigh School in Atlanta.

★

Mrs. Norma Sapp W ord, biology,is an instructor in the departmentof biology at Knoxville College.

★

Miss Alma T. Young, MSW, hasbeen employed by the Social ServiceDepartment of Evansville State Hos¬pital as a psychiatric social worker.

★Mrs. Rosetta Clarke Young, educa¬

tion, is a first grade teacher withthe Birmingham. Ala.. Public SchoolSystem.

★

Mrs. Clifford Earl (AlbertaLockhart) Shepheard. Master ofArts in Education 1951. died inNovember in Adel, Ga.

★

Mrs. James E. (Nancy Davis)Tate, Normal 1891. died in At¬lanta on November 3.

★

Mrs. Mary A. Grant, Normal1888, died in Atlanta in Oc¬tober.

★

Mrs. M. Agnes Jones, Normal1892, died in Atlanta on Oc¬tober 6.

★

Mrs. Harry B. (Beulah)Johnson, a graduate of the At¬lanta School of Social W ork anda former student at AtlantaUniversity, died on October 11in Atlanta.

John P. Whittaker, A.B. 1915,former Registrar of AtlantaUniversity and former Directorof the Atlanta University Sum¬mer School, died in Atlanta on

September 5.

★

Mrs. J. P. (Delia Maddox)Sherwood, Normal 1922, diedin Atlanta on December 8.

★

Benjamin H. Graham, 1914,died on December 7 in Los An¬

geles. California.

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THE

ATLANTA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

offers courses leading to the Master’s degree in the fields of biology,chemistry, economics, English, French, history and prehistory, mathe¬matics, political science, social sciences, sociology and anthropology.

The School of Social Work

a graduate school offering a two-year curriculum for prospectivesocial workers, leading to the degree of Master of Social Work.

The School of Library Service

requiring college graduation for admission and offering a programof graduate professional study leading to the degree of Master ofScience in Library Service.

The School of Education

a graduate school offering curricula leading to the M.A. degree, de¬signed to meet the needs of men and women who have chosen educa¬tion as a professional career.

The School of Business Administration

a graduate school offering thorough theoretical and practical train¬ing in the fields of business affairs, leading to the degree of Masterof Business Administration.

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 higher education of Negroescombine under the direction of Atlanta University to offer courseson both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The Laboratory Elementary School and the Nursery School

offering an opportunity for experimentation, observation and prac¬tice teaching.

★

For information address the Registrar of the school in which youare interested.