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Glee Club Prepares
For Annual Tour
by John W. Southall
The Maroon Tiger February 22, 1979
The Morehouse College Glee Club.
The Morehouse College Glee
Club is preparing for its annual
concert tour which will begin on
March 1 at 11:59 p.m. and culmi
nate on March 25 at approxi
mately 10 p.m. The 24-day tour
will be comprised of travels in the
southern, mid-western, northern,
and eastern regions of the country.
With the initial stop in New
Orleans, La., the tour will procede
to Memphis, Tenn.; St. Louis,
Mo.; Minneapolis,Minn.;Chicago,
Ill.; Gary, Ind.; Detroit, Mich.;
Erie, Penn.; New York, N.Y.;
Newark, N.J.; New Haven, Conn.;
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Philadel
phia, Penn.; Baltimore, MD.;
Washington, D.C. and then return
to Atlanta.
This year’s tour will contain sev
eral highlights. First, the concert at
Dillard University in New Orleans
will be the part of an exchange
between the Glee Club and the Dil
lard Concert Choir. The exchange
concert series is now in its third
season. Second, a bi-annual con
cert is held in Memphis which is the
home of several past and present
Glee Club members as well as the
original home of the director.
Black enrollment in Southern
higher education has grown twice
as fast as white enrollment in the
seventies. Meanwhile, the distribu
tion of black students and gradu
ates in the south, among fields of
study, differs significantly from
that of whites.
Reports from the Southern
Regional Education Board
(S.R.E.B.) show that in 1976
Blacks made up 15.1 percent of
total enrollment and earned 11.5
percent of all bachelor’s degrees
awarded in the south, compared to
their 18.8 percent share of the pop
ulation in the 14 SREB states. In
the nation, Blacks accounted for
9.3 percent of total enrollment and
6.4 percent of all bachelor’s
degrees, compared to an 11.5 per
cent representation in the
population.
By Sheron L. Covington
“I stand before you because I am
African and you are African, to
talk about the subject that I love-
Africa”. This statement was made
by Dr. Rashid A. Holloway, a pol
itical science instructor at More
house College. Dr. Holloway, a
political exile from his country of
Sierra Leone spoke eloquently and
sincerely on a wide range of sub
jects during his lecture at the
freshman-sophomore assembly,
Thursday, January 24.
On the subject of Africa, he com
mented of the attempt to assassi
nate African culture and the many
Third, the Glee Club has not per
formed in most of the previously
stated mid-western cities in several
years. The states in which these cit
ies are located are among the top
ten contributors of students to
Morehouse. Next, in contrast, the
concert in New York City is an
annual one which is held in the
Church of Intercession. Also, the
concert in Washington, D.C. is
always a pleasure for the tour
group due to the careful prepara
tions of the Washington branch of
the Morehouse Alumni
Association.
The tour group, which is com
posed of approximately 44
members in good academic stand
ing, was selected on the basis of
auditions by quartets. It will face, a
challenging absence from the cam
pus. Glee Club president Charles
E. Mapson states that “many of the
students at Morehouse do not real
ize how tiring and strenuous Glee
Club tours are. In addition to per
forming a two-hour concert practi
cally every night and getting up
bright and early the next morning
to continue their travels, each tour
ing member is expected to main-
While Blacks were graduating in
increasing numbers from high
school and college during the
1950’s and 1960’s, college partici
pation of Blacks has increased
most dramatically in the 1970’s,
according to the reports’ author
James R. Mingle, SREB research
associate. Dr Mingle explains
these striking gains in black enrol
lment in this decade result from
increased availability of financial
aid and from increased access to
predominantly White colleges and
universities to a large measure,
two-year community colleges.
On the undergraduate level in
the south, Black enrollment in the
biological sciences and in business
and management is closer to Black
representation in the total colle
giate population.
The distribution of Black degree
recipients diverges somewhat from
problems facing the development
of Africa. He concluded his discus
sion by challenging the men of
Morehouse “to be more than just
Maroon Tigers, to be more than
just one animal, to be as strong as a
lion, as cunning as a fox and to go
out and out fox the white fox.”
The service fraternity of Alpha
Phi Omega, Phi Omicron Chapter
conducted the freshman-
sophomore assembly of Feburary
1, which was their founders week.
The Program was opened with a
brief history of the organization; it
was founded in 1925 on the campus
of Lafayette College in Easton.
tain his school work while on the
road, even though there are few
libraries to which the group has
access long enough to do sufficient
and needed research.”
the pattern of whites. For example,
at the bachelor’s level, nearly one
in every three Black degree recip
ients was in the field of education-
.compared to one in every five
whites. The proportions of degrees
awarded blacks in the fields of bus
iness and management, mathemat
ics, public affairs, the social
sciences, and home economics
were higher than for whites.
Total Black enrollment in the
south has grown from 63,000 in
1952 to. 426.000 in 1976, and in the
nation has grown from 282,000 in
1966 to 1,100.000 in 1977. During
the past 10 years. Black enrollment
has increased 277 percent over
1966 levels, while white enrollment
grew 51 percent. In 1965, 82 per
cent of total Black enrollment in
the South was in the predomi
nantly black institutions, but in
1976. 43 percent was in the South’s
Pennsylvanina, the Morehouse
chapter was established in 1974
and there are currently 589
chapters.
The program’s speaker was Wal
ter Bellamy, a former basketball
star and current Atlanta resident.
Bellamy centered his discussion
around the ‘hidden values’ in our
society, focusing on the trial of the
indited Senator Charles Diggs and
the surrounding events of that inci
dence. The assembly was con
cluded by the singing of the
fraternity song and the introduc
tion of the Phyettes, an axiliary
group of Alpha Phi Omega.
The members also give unselfish
time and effort in recruiting for the
college as some of the past and
present students will attest-some
admit having applied to More-
predominantly black institutions.
Despite their less than majority
share of Black enrollment, pre
dominantly black institutions in
the south remained the major
suppliers of Black four-year gradu
ates, by awarding 69 percent of all
bachelor’s degrees received by
Blacks.
Editor’s note: SREB report was com
piled by Black Enrollment in Higher
Education: Trends in the Nation and
the South and Degree output in the
South. 1975-76: Distribution by Race.
both prepared by SREB Research
Associate James R Minele.
Jerome Walker and Tyrone Cri
der,sophomores at Morehouse
College in Atlanta, GA., were
finalists in the competition for the
Luard Scholarship which is
awarded annually by the English-
Speaking Union of the United
States. The grant enables a student
from a predominantly black uni
versity or college to spend his/her
junior year at a British university.
Contestants represent academic
institutions throughout the South.
Finalists in the competition tra
veled to New York City to be inter-
There were only two new
teachers hired this semester by the
college. John K. Haynes in the Pre-
Health Professions Program and
Joe W. Newsome of the Mathe
matics department.
Dr. James Hefner of the Busi
ness Administration and Econom-
house only after hearing the Glee
Club perform. Yet, upon such
unselfish giving, the tour members
receive no payment or academic
credit for their efforts.
Some of the selections that the
Glee Club will perform on tour,
under the direction of Dr. Wendell
Whalum and the student director
David Morrow, include the follow
ing: the premier of “Hughes Set,” a
set of poems by Langston Hughes
put to music by Wendell Logan,
Wallington Riegger’s “Evil Shall
Not Prevail”, Ernest Levy’s “Hear
Ye Children”, a German piece by
Schubert and Liszt entitled “Die
Allmacht”, Randall Thompson’s
“Alleluia”, “His Name So Sweet”,
“Sweep, Clean Mary”, “Zaccaeus
Come Down”, and a favorite that
is often requested anticipating
audiences, “Betelehemu”, a Niger
ian carol.
viewed by the Selection
Committee, chaired by Dr. Ste
phen J. Wright, former President
of Fisk University.
The English-Speaking Union is
a private, non-profit organization
whose aim is to promote mutual
trust and understanding among
English-speaking people of the
world.
Crider is the son of Mrs. Bernie
Crider of Maywood, Illinois.
Walker is the son of Mr. & Mrs.
Willie Albert Walkerof West Palm
Beach. He is the alternate winner
of the competition.
ics department will be taking a
short leave to go to Harvard for
further studies. Lester Plumley,
Anand Shetty and Tauquire Warsi
will be teaching Dr. Hefner’s
classes in his absence,
by Brian C. Morrison
Black Student Enrollment Increases
by News Editor
Assembly Speakers Seek To
Stir Students’ Social Awareness
Walker, Crider Finalists
In Luard Competition
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