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April 7, 1982/The Maroon Tiger/Page 2
College Hosted Southeastern Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Morehouse College hosted
the Tenth Annual Southeastern
Undergraduate Philosophy Con
ference on Friday, April 2, and
Saturday, April 3, 1982.
The Martin Luther King, Sr.,
addressed the conference par
ticipants on Friday, at 7:30., in
Room 100 Brawley Hall. Dr. King
gave a personal statement on the
life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King’s formal address was
followed by a dialogue session.
On Saturday, at 9:00 a.m., Dr.
Robert Brisbane, Chairman of
the Department of Political
Science, and one of the leading
authorities on the civil rights
movement in the United States,
addressed the conference par
ticipants on the history of the
civil rights movement.
Dr. Anibal Bueno, Professor of
Philosophy and Religion and
Conference Coordinator, states,
"In addition to the major ad
dresses by Dr. King and Dr.
Brisbane, this conference
provided college and university
students from throughout the
Southeastern United States a
forum for the presentation of
academic papers. Similar in style
to professional meetings,
students read papers followed by
discussion of topics covered."
It is said that approximately 75
students from colleges and un
iversities throughout the
Southeastern United States par
ticipated in conference ac
tivities. This Association of
Southeastern schools was found
ed around a decade ago by
Vanderbilt University, Emory
University, and the University of
the South. Morehouse joined
the association in 1981.
Bulletin
Briefs
Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, President of
Morehouse College, has announced the
appointment of Dr. Joseph A. Agee as
Chairman of the Department of Modern
Foreign Languages. In making the an
nouncement, Dr. Gloster stated, “Dr.
Agee has made an outstanding contribu
tion to the foreign languages department
since he joined the faculty in the Fall of
1975. I am confident that he will provide
excellent leadership as Chairman of the
Department in years to come.”
Willard Charles Lewis, a junior Banking
and Finance major at Morehouse, has
recently been elected President of the
College’s Chess Club.
Joseph L. Wingfield, Sr., a senior
Physical Education major at Morehouse
College, was honored recently at the
Second Annual Golden Apple Awards
Breakfast held at the First Presbyterian
Church, in Atlanta.
Mrs. Ingrid Hoover, the mother of Dr.
Ingrid H. Coleman, Assistant Professor of
French at Morehouse College, passed on
March 25, 1982.
Gregory Lambert
Lambert Receives Merrill Scholarship
Gregory Lambert, a
sophomore Banking and Finance
major at Morehouse College,
has been named the recipient of
a prestigious Merrill Overseas
Study - Travel Scholarship. This
scholarship will entitle him to a
full year of study at a European
university of his choice.
Mr. Lambert has chosen to
- study at the University of Nantes,
France, where considerable
proficiency in the use of the
French language will be re
quired. He stated, “I chose
Nantes because I want to ex
perience traditional French
culture. I want to come back
having an excellent command of
the language. I will be taking
French courses to study art,
literature, and theatre, as well as
grammar. I also plan to visit Paris
to study the French business
structure.”
When Dr. Frederick E. Mapp,
Professor of Biology and Chair
man of the Selection Committee
informed Mr. Lambert of his
honor, he indicated that he was
"very thankful.” He added,
"After four years of studying
French in high school, With three
and one - half years under the
same teacher, I wanted to prove
my fluency in French. When I left
high school, I did not feel that I
was doing as well as I could. Now
I will have a chance to prove
myself.”
Mr. Lambert is the son of Mr.
Nathaniel and Mrs. Dora L.
Wheeler, Detroit, Michigan.
Accounting Club Gets A Taste Of The Big Apple
by Douglas Eric Taylor & Lamar Davis
During the past spring break (March
8 through March 12), a group of
fourteen students from the
Morehouse Accounting Club travelled
to New York City. The intentions of the
trip were by no means leisurely; but an
effort by the Accounting head,
Professor Walter Montgomery, to
expose his students to the corporate,
educational, and cultural offerings of
the financial capital of the world. It
took almost a year to develop, and
when it was finalized, enough
businesses had contributed substan
tially enough to defray the individual
costs of the trip.
The group visited a number of
prominent corporations, i.e., Equitable
Life, Chase Manhattan Bank, Time/
Life, Inc., Connecticut General —
some four or five others — and had the
opportunity to discuss corporate struc
ture issues, career opportunities, and
business - related current events with
several executives. This interaction
between students and executives
further exposed representatives of the
corporations to the concerns and the
high standards of the Morehouse
Business Department. Professor
Montgomery states: “Our goal is a
quest for excellence, and we seek to
achieve this through formal
educational processes which inlcude
summer internships, business
seminars, and exposure to the
operations of big business. All in all, we
seek to develop a well - rounded
businessman in our department."
Also the Columbia University School
of Business hosted a reception on their
campus, inviting graduate students,
professors, and admissions officers to
entertain an array of curious students
from our campus. While there, they
had an opportunity to meet a number
of Morehouse and Spelman graduates.
As a climax to the trip, the Atlanta
contingent was sponsored by one of
the companies to attend the Broadway
play, "LENA” (starring Lena Horne),
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Cone Addresses
Special Convocation
Dr. James H. Cone, Charles A.
Briggs Professor of Systematic
Theology at the Union
Theological Seminary in New
York City, was the guest speaker
at a special convocation held in
the King International Memorial
Chapel at 11:00 a.m., on Thurs
day, March 25, 1982.
Dr. Cone is considered in
international theological circles
to be among the top five
theologians in the world.
Among his many activities, he
has lectured at over 100 colleges
and universities world - wide,
and has presented over 300
professional papers before ma
jor conferences and learned
societies. He has lectured in
Europe, Africa, Japan, South
Korea, Jamaica, W.I., Trinidad,
Tobago, Mexico, Australia, New
Zealand, Cuba, and Sri Lanka.
Professor James Cone
(photo by Brevard.)
Marberry Receives Watson Fellowship
Craig M. Marberry, a senior English major at
Morehouse College, has won a $10,000 foreign
study grant from the Thomas J. Watson Founda
tion to analyze the roles of the press in
Caribbean development.
In making its selections, the Watson Founda
tion considers a candidate's proposed project as
important as his personal and intellectual
qualities — the project is judged on creativity,
practicality, and its personal significance to the
candidate.
Placing confidence in the liberating effects of
the free exchange of information, Marberry
believes that many of the Caribbean's develop
ment problems can be solved through an
effective inter - island newspaper industry.
Accordingly, he will analyze the press on six
English - speaking Caribbean islands: Barbados,
Dominica, Grenada, Jamacia, St. Lucia, and the
two - island state of Trinidad and Tobago.
Marberry, a native of Chicago, will spend the
summer of 1982 as an intern in the publications
and Editorial Services Division of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society in New York City before
departing for the Caribbean in September.
Gregory Speaks At Clark
by Robert G. White
On the evening of Friday,
March 19th, comedian - activist
Dick Gregory delivered a mov
ing and informative speech in
Davage Auditorium of Clark
College. «The famous Black
radical joked ... and raged about
black - white relations in
America and the true nature of
our American government.
After greeting his audience
warmly, Dick Gregory launched
into a series of hilarious and
iconoclastic jokes and stories —
each beautifully illustrating his
very serious refrain — "we Blacks
must learn to see and think for
ourselves, and dictate to white
society what we will and will not
tolerate. We must be alert to
discrimination and oppores-
sion,” Gregory asserted, "and we
must not underestimate our own
survivability and economic and
spiritual resources."
Later in his presentation,
Gregory proceeded to weave
recent and less recent news
events into a lurid, almost sur
(photo by Edwin Williams)
realistic picture of the American
government’s duplicity and
depravity. He explicitly accused
the U.S. government of the
murders of, among many others,
Margaret Mitchell, Natalie
Woods, and John Belushi.
Gregory further implied the
governmental cover-up of
various assassinations and the
real story behind the Wayne
Williams trial. In protest of the
latter, Gregroy vowed to under
take another hunger strike until
the “real” story is revealed.