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MAROON TIGER
THE ORGAN OF STUDENT EXPRESSION
VOL. 1, NO. 1
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Monday, October 21, 1968
298 Freshmen
Enter M’house
Two hundred and ninety-eight
freshmen from 24 states entered
Morehouse College for the aca
demic year 1968-69.
Leading the list of states rep
resented was Georgia, with a
total of 130 freshmen. Other
states represented in the class
were as follows: South Carolina,
30; Florida, 27; New York, 17;
Alabama, 15; North Carolina, 14;
Texas, 10; Tennessee. 8; Califor
nia, 7; Mississippi, 6; Virginia,
Ohio and Louisiana, 4 each;
Pennsylvania, 3; District of Co
lumbia, 2; Indiana, Kentucky,
Washington, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Oklahoma, Connecticut,
Missouri and Montana, 1 each.
Also included in this year’s
Freshman Class are two foreign
students from Sierra Leone and
Ghana.
Freshman Week was climaxed
with a speech by the Student
Government President, Nelson
Taylor, who challenged the class
of ’72 to live up to Morehouse’s
good traditions and to discard
those that are bad. To calm the
rivalry between Morehouse and
Clark, the two freshman classes
met and discussed ways of build
ing a better relationship between
the two colleges. The meeting
was called when a Morehouse
junior was stabbed during a clash
with Clark students.
Pictured above are the Fabulous Impressions. From 1-r, Curtis May-
field, Sam Gooden and Fred Cash.
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BeforePackedHouse
Before an audience of approxi
mately five thousand students
and community dwellers, the Stu
dent Government Association
presented the Fabulous Impress
ions in concert in the Samuel H.
Archer Hall Gymnasium, Sunday,
September 22, at 8:00 p.m.
The Impressions opened the
conecrt with a dedication to
black people. Such songs as
“We’re a Winner,” “Keep on
Pushing,” and “We’re Rolling
On” were rendered as special
dedications to the “blacks.”
Also listed among the songs
were: “Up, Up and Away,” “I
Need You,” “Gypsy Woman,”
“I’m a Fool for You.” “I’ve Been
Trying,” “People Get Ready,” and
“A-men,” the song taken from
the movie, Lelies of the Field.
It was reported that many of
the top-ranking black recording
artists refused to participate in
programs sponsored by small
black colleges in the South. As
one student put it, “They’d rath
er take their soul music to the
white schools of the North and
Midwest or to the large black
universities than to bring it to
us.”
M’house Hosts Haitian Envoy
On September 17, 1968, in Sale
Hall Chapel, Morehouse College
was the host to the Haiti Ambas
sador to the United States. Mr.
Arthur Bonhomme.
Ambassador Bonhomme pre
sented Honorary Doctorate De
grees of the University of Haiti
to Morehouse College President
Hugh M. Glouser, College
Choir Conductor Wendell Whal-
um and, in absentia, to Rev.
Martin L. King, Sr., Rev. A. D.
King and Mrs. Coretta King.
Ambassador Bonhomme deliv
ered an address to the faculty
and students of Morehouse Col
lege on behalf of the people,
government and President of
Haiti. In addition to calling forth
a dialogue in the form of aca
demic and cultural exchange be
tween Haiti and black Ameri
cans, the Ambassador expressed
the importance of the example
of the martyred Reverend Martin
Luther King to the black Haitian
masses.
Freshman Class 1968-69
Peace Corps Contributes To
King’s Memorial Fund
Director of the Peace Corps,
Mr. Jack Vaughn, presented offi
cials of Morehouse with a check
for $10,625 to be applied to the
Martin Luther King Jr. Memo
rial Scholarship Fund in a cere
mony September 19.
After making the presentation
to President Hugh Gloster, Mr.
Vaughn said the funds were col
lected in a spontaneous move-
Dr. Lee Named
Ass’t To Pres.
Ralph Hewitt
Lee has been ap
pointed Assist
ant to the Pres
ident at More
house College.
Dr. Lee, who re
ceived his bac
calaureate de
gree from More
house in 1957
and his Ph. D. degree from the
University of Kansas in 1964,
assumed his new position Sep
tember 1, 1968. He comes to At
lanta from Normal, Alabama,
where he had been employed
by Alabama A & M College as
professor and chairman of the
Department of Chemistry.
Dr. Lee, who is well known
in educational circles, is listed in
American Men of Science, Who’s
Who in American Education, and
Outstanding Young Men of A-
merica.
He has directed National Sci
ence foundation institutes for ele
mentary and secondary teachers
in science and mathematics for
the past five years and, in 1966
and 1967, he spent three months
in India as consultant in science
education with the U. S. Agency
for International Development
and the National Science Insti
tutes Program.
He is a member of the Ameri
can Association of University
Professors, the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Science, the American Chemical
Society, Sigma Xi Honorary
Research Society, Beta Kappa
Chi Scientific Honor Society, and
Alpha Chi Sigma Profession
al Fraternity in Chemistry.
ment among Peace Corps staff
members, Volunteers in 59 coun
tries around the world, returned
volunteers and staff members in
this country, and friends of the
Peace Corps.
With Mr. Vaughn were Peace
Corps representatives from
Washington, D. C. (Mr. Stewart
Aubrey, Deputy of Public Af
fairs, and Dr. Marie Gadsden,
Training Coordinator, Africa Re
gion) and the southern regional
office in Atlanta (Mr. Robert
Nelson, Director; Mr. Larry Oms,
Deputy Director; Mr. A1 Johnson,
Area Representative; and Mr. Joe
Kimmins, Public Affairs).
Members of the King family on
hand for the presentation were:
Dr. and Mrs. M. L. King, Sr.,
Mrs. Christine King Farris, and
Reverend and Mrs. A. D. King.
Dr. King, Sr., received a lenthy
standing ovation from the student
body following a brief speech he
made at the conclusion of the
ceremony.
Exchange Students
Discuss M’house
John Shipley and Robert Hall
are exchange students at More
house for the first semester from
the University of California at
Berkley.
A junior with a major in phy
sics and a minor in mathematics,
John is from Walnut Creek, Cal
ifornia. When asked of his gen
eral impression of Morehouse, he
said, “The atmosphere here at
Morehouse is completely differ
ent from that at “Cal’. Here at
Morehouse the students are
friendlier, and you have closer
contact with your teachers.
The other exchange student,
Robert Hall, Martinez, California,
also a junior, is majoring in en
gineering physics and minoring
in mathematics.
Although he agreed that
the students at Morehouse were
friendlier and that there is a
closer contact with teachers, he
feels that the dining hall’s servi
ces are “pretty bad.” He feels
that Morehouse’s only problem
is that it needs “MORE MONEY.”
New Courses
Scheduled
Morehouse College has been
awarded a grant of $91,803 from
the Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare to conduct a
critical languages program for
the undergraduate schools in the
Atlanta University Center.
A course in Russian, which
was introduced last year at Mor
ris Brown College, will now be
come a part of this program.
Mr. David Polutnik (Institute of
Critical Languages, Windham
College; M. A., Russian School,
Middlebury College) will teach
courses in elementary and inter
mediate Russian. In addition, he
will teach a course in Soviet
Institutions and Culture.
Chinese (Mandarin) will be
taught by a native Chinese, Mrs.
Maria Morgan (A. B., Hong
Kong University; M. A., Syra
cuse University). Mrs. Morgan
will also teach an introductory
course in Chinese Civilization.
Ibo, a language of the eastern
region of Nigeria, including Bia
fra, will be taught by Mr. Pat
rick Anugo Ntukogu (A. B.,
Central State University; M. A.,
Ohio State University).
Ad-Hoc Comm.
Voices Grievances
Cleveland Sellers, a member of
the Student Nonviolent Coordi
nating Committee who was re
cently released from Federal
custody, and poet A. B. Spellman,
a visiting instructor in ahe A. U.
Center, were the main speakers
at an inter-campus “Speak Out”
held Thursday, September 26, in
Sale Hall Chapel at 7:00 p.m.
Sellers was the first speaker.
He said that the basic concern
of the students should be to in
sure the surrounding black com
munity. He said that the A. U.
Center lacks that relevance, as
reflected in “the number present
at the meeting” and the group’s
interest in “seeing the freak.”
A. B. Spellman followed Sell
ers at the speaker’s microphone.
He developed his remarks around
the small show of hands that ap
peared when he asked, “How ma
ny people in this room know
Cleveland Sellers?”
He spoke of the need of invit
ing Ron Karenga and LeRoi
Jones to speak on campus. These
people could be here if students
had the leverage, meaning a stu
dent organization with power.
The “Speak Out” was the first
meeting of the “brothers and
sisters” this year.