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February, 1948
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MAROON TIGER
Yale University Prof Requires
Dean BrazeaFs Book For His Class
MALT-A-PLENTY WINNERS—Myron Johnson, Social Slants reporter (holding a copy of the Maroon Tiger), takes another look
at the misspelled names of the “Malt-A-Plenty” recipients. Smiling their approval while enjoying the delicious drink are,
left to right, Irving “Mister Basketball” Tompkins, junior, Atlanta, Ga.; Herschel Perkins, sophomore, Kansas City, Mo.; and
Arnold Cameron, senior, Atlanta, Ga. If you find your name misspelled encircle the error and bring your copy to the Maroon
Tiger office, 113 Graves Hall. You, too, will be given a sales certificate for a free “Malt-A-Plenty.” (Photo by Bowens)
College Social Season Bristles
With Wedding Bells, Recitals
By MY JOHNSON
Before, between, and after the long
break of semesters the social activ
ities in and around the university
campuses bristled with unique social
affairs.
Wedding bells rang for Benjamin
Dobbins, Jr. ’47 down at Statesboro,
Ga. Mr. Dobbins took on his arms
a charming Georgia Peach, while
Paul Lester Gray, senior from Kan
sas City, Mo. went home between
the semester break to add to his
family a wonderful Kansas City girl.
Mrs. Gray is the former Alice Lo-
raine Bums, a student of the Busi
ness College of Washburn Universi
ty, Topeka, Kansas. The Grays are
living in Atlanta at 1080 West Moore
Drive, N. W., until Paul marches in
June, when they will travel in the
east. In the fall Paul will study law
at Washburn University, and Mrs.
Gray will complete her business
course at the same institution.
Miss Evelyn Green and Calvin L.
Calhoun, senior, were married on
Valentine’s Day in a grandiose cere
mony at Antioch Baptist Church. Act
ing as best man was Wm. G. Pick-
ehs, also a Morehouse senior. Among
the bridesmaids were the charming
Misses Lillian ■ McKennie and Hazel
Tatum, both of Morris Brown. The
couple will reside at the home of the
groom at 429 Kock Street.
HAYLEY-YATES NUPTIALS
Miss Clara Yates became Mrs.
James Reece Hayley after an ex
change of vows at the home of her
parents on Hunter Road, Saturday,
January 31. Mrs. Hayley is a grad
uate of Spelman College, and at
present is a student of Atlanta Uni
versity School of Social Work, and
Mr. Hayley is a senior at More
house, hailing from Concord, N. C.
Immediately after the wedding, the
happy couple left for an unan
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nounced destination for a brief hon
eymoon.
Roosevelt Bell, junior from Bir
mingham, Ala., took as his bride last
semester the former Miss Queen
Bennett of the same city. Roose
velt is a major in Biology and an ac
tive student on the campus. Mrs.
Bell remains at home in Birmingham
waiting the return of her husband
in late spring;
MATTIWILDA DOBBS RECITAL
Miss Mattiwilda Dobbs, promising
Atlanta soprano, winner of a Marian
Anderson Award in 1947, student of
Mme. Lotte Leonard of New York
and Vienna, and a graduate of Spel
man College, where she studied un
der Kemper Harrold and Willis L.
James—came to town and sang her
self right into the hearts of a ca
pacity audience at historic Friend
ship Baptist Church, Monday eve
ning, February 2, in her first recital
in her hometown.
Miss Dobbs, singing numbers from
Faure, Schubert, Obradors, and Ver
di, emerged triumphant after her
successful hometown debut. She was
accompanied at the piano by her sis
ter, Mrs. Irene Dobbs Jackson, grad
uate of Spelman College and French
instructor at Clark College, who re
ceived several encores from the sat
isfied audience.
SPELMANITES ENTERTAIN
The Spelman Student Association
gave their annual “between-the-se-
mesters” ball in beautiful Tapley
Hall on the Spelman College Cam
pus, and hundreds of students and
faculty members of the university
system enjoyed an evening of gay
dancing and conversations over ex
ams. Only the fine young ladies at
Spelman can assure one of such an
evening “as merry as the day is
long”. (???)
More than 70 per cent of our farm
homes have radios.
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81st Anniversary
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banquet at Morehouse College, Dr.
Harold D. Trost, minister of the First
Methodist Church of Rochester, Minn,
told the large dinner audience that
“it is up to us today to shape our
tomorrows in science, economics, ed
ucation, politics and religion, for only
in this way can we have in our de
mocracy the things in which we be
lieve.” Dr. Trost mentioned as im
portant, (1) a need for believing in
people; and (2) the task imposed on
Christians to do something worth
while in helping to build tomorrow’s
education.”
SPECIAL TRIBUTE PAID
For long years of faithful service,
the college paid special tribute to
Mr. Charles H. Wardlaw, a member
of the faculty and staff for more
than 44 years; and Mrs. Lula Eich-
elberger, who served on the dormi
tory staff for approximately 40
years; and Mrs. Ludie Andrews, su
perintendent of MacVicar Hospital at
Spelman College, for the service she
has rendered to the students of
Morehouse.
Speaking briefly were presidents of
the affiliated institutions: President
Florence M. Read of Spelman Col
lege and President Rufus E. Clem
ent of Atlanta University; and two
Atlanta trustees; Mr. T. M. Alexan
der, president of the Atlanta insur
ance firm, Alexander a#td Company;
and Reverend M. L. King, pastor of
Ebenezer Baptist Church. President
Benjamin E. Mays presided. At the
close of the program, he announced
fulfillment of the offer by the Gen
eral Education Board for endowment
purposes, and stated that nearly a
million dollars had been raised. Ap
propriate music throughout the eve
ning was furnished by the More
house Quartet.
REYNOLDS ANNIVERSARY
SPEAKER
At the Alumni program, celebrat
ed in Sale Hall, Mr. Clyde Reynolds,
’29, executive director of Provident
Hospital in- Chicago, declared that
“leadership is still needed today for
a confused and economically insecure
people as it was at the time of the
college’s founding for a frustrated
and confounded people.” He men
tioned as a real danger to Morehouse
men the continued worshiping at the
shrine of tradition, which is the out
growth of pride in the institution and
what it has produced. His warning
to the students was: “Let us be sure
that we get the thing for which we
came, lessons in leadership and the
ability to lead.”
Also participating on the program
were Charles Willie, ’48, president
of the senior class; Dr. M. L. King,
’30, president of the Atlanta-More-
house Club; Dr. E. B. Williams of
the Morehouse economics department;
and Reverend Levi M. Terrell, ’28,
pastor of the Zion Hill Baptist
Church. Music was furnished by the
college Glee Club and the Quartet.
Climaxing the day’s events was a
nation-wide broadcast over Station
WSB. Appearing on the program
were Mrs. Claudia White Harreld
daughter of the founder, Reverend
William Jefferson White of Augus
ta, Georgia; and President Mays
Music, under the direction of Pro
fessor Harreld, wa^ furnished'by the
Morehouse Glee CHub.
Book Draws Many
Favorable Reviews
From Top Writers
Dr. Liston Pope, Gilbert L. Stark
Professor of Social Ethics in the Di
vinity School of Yale University used
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters as one of the required books
in his course entitled “The Church
and Organized Labor” which was of
fered at Union Theological Seminary
last summer.
He also utilizes this volume in some
of his classes at Yale University. As
a result of Dr. Pope’s use of Dr.
Brazeal’s book which was published
by Harper and Brothers, he made
the following comment: “Very few
books have dealt with the juncture of
race relations and labor relations so
precisely as does Dean Brazeal’s
study, The Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters. I have recommended this
volume for use in my seminars on
Labor Problems and on Race Rela
tions, and have found it equally in
formative and stimulating in each
context. The book affords informa
tion and insight concerning two of
the most important and most contro
versial fields of American life, and
broadens the perspective of students
who have failed to grasp the inter
relatedness of these fields.”
COMMENTS ON BOOK
Brief excerpts from reviews of
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters in substantial Social Science
journals indicate significant reactions
about the book. Dr. William M. Lies-
erson, professor of Labor Economics
at Johns Hopkins University and for
merly chairman of the National Me
diation Board, said in the Novem
ber, 1946 issue of The Journal of
Economic History: “Mr. Brazeal de
scribes the origin and development of
this unique union with thoroughness
and understanding.” Dr. Carter G
Woodson, writing in the July, 1946
issue of The Journal of Negro His
tory which he edits, said: “It is not
a work written in the eulogistic vejn
but a dispassionate treatment of a
hard fought battle and decisive vic
tory of the oppressed over the op
pressor. ... No student of American
labor history can afford to ignore
this volume.” Dr. George S. Mitch
ell, executive director of the South
ern Regional Council in his review
iff Social Forces for December, 1946,
asserted that “This is as good a case
history as is to be found of the de
lays and obstruction which unwilling
management can place in the way of
self-organization of its employees.”
In Sociology and Social Research,
the July-August 1946 issue, Profes
sor Melvin J. Vincent of the Univer
sity of Southern California said
“Filled as it is with significant and
original research data, it may be read
as a meritorious social science doc
ument or with intriguing interest for
its story value—a story of the con
flict induced by racial prejudice.” Fi
nally, in Phylon for the second quar
ter of 1946, Dr. Ira De A. Reid,
its editor, and professor of Sociology
in Atlanta University said: “The au
thor has handled these many-faceted
materials with scholarly exactness
and has created therefrom a signifi
cant history of a brilliant achieve
ment in labor organization.”
Morehouse Enrolls
30 At Mid-Term
New registrations for the second
semester total approximately thirty,
the Registrar Office announced re
cently. Enrollment figures for the
second semester are almost the same
as for the first except for a slight
increase in the number of veterans
attending the institution, the regis
trar said.
At present 823 students are en
rolled at Morehouse. This figure as
over against the prevailing figure in
prewar 1940 shows a marked fluc
tuation in enrollment.
Of the thirty new students regis
tered for the second semester, three-
fourths are veterans. A geographical
distribution of enrollment reveals the
following.
New York 1
Arkansas 2
Florida 6
Tennessee 3
Georgia 13
Alabama 4
Ohio 1
Indiana 1
Delaware 1
And from Lagos, Nigeria, W. Af
rica hails H. A. Oluwasanmi. This
makes a total of three students at
tending the college from W. Africa.
Romeo Horton comes from Liberia,
W. Africa and Bryson U. Etukudo
claims Nigeria, W. Africa as his na
tive land.
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Maroon Tiger alumnus S. W. Gar-
lington, city editor of the New York
Amsterdam News, is commencing his
second year as director of the Ne
gro Book Club, which was founded
by him a year ago.
A graduate of Morehouse, the
scholarly New York journalist who
formerly served on the editorial
staff of the Maroon Tiger has met
with pleasing success of his book
club project. His brother, Willie
Garlington, a former student of
Morehouse, is now employed by the
Morris Brown College Press as a
printer and press operator.
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