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Page 2/The Maroon Tiger/September 28, 1983
Time to Meet the “New Kids on the Block”
By Kevin Quartes
The Maroon Tiger wishes to
extend a warm welcome to the
instructors that have joined the
Morehouse “family'' over the
summer, and at the same time
admonish them of the culinary
adventures that lay wait in
Chivers Hall.
Okay, who is she, and where
did she come from? The petite,
brown haired lady now strolling
the corridors of the English
department at Morehouse
College is none other than Dr.
Linda C. Quillian, a native Atlan
tan who has come home to nest
after admittedly sowing some
wild oats. “You may compare me
to a homing pigeon,” Dr.
Quillian says, explaining why
after stints in the West Indies,
Arizona, and Washington, D.C.,
she has come back home to
settle.
According to Dr. Quillian it is a
matter of sheer happenstance
that she landed at Morehouse
rather than her alma mater,
Spelman, “it just happened that
way,” she explains. Aside from
Spelman, she has studied at the
University of the West Indies as
an exchange student), Arizona
State and Howard Universities.
And how does she like
Morehouse College so far? “I
love it,” although she admits it's
“still quite different going into
all male classrooms.”
Dr. Quillian finds herself par
ticularly impressed with the level
of awareness on the Morehouse
campus saying, “most of the
students seem to be very aware
and very sensitive to black
policy-making as well as the
world at large.”
Before arriving at Morehouse,
Dr. Quillian spent three years as
a theater and drama teacher at
Mountain High School in
Arizona, worked at television
station WTBS here in Atlanta,
and is presently involved in a 13
week project for cable televi
sion.
A deeply spiritual person (a
point made in the heat and heart
of Chestnut Street), Dr. Quillian
thinks it is important that
students not overly concern
themselves with “monetary
enrichment" at this stage of their
development. “The positive
energies you put out are the
positive energies you get back,
and you don’t always do things
for monetary enrichment, you
have to also be concerned with
growth. The money and all those
other things will come.”
Finally, the answer to the
question that has no doubt been
coursing through the veins of
every Morehouse man that has
come in contact with the friendly
new professor: Dr. Quillian is a
Virgo.
Student Affairs
Dean Williams
record. He served as an Infantry
Officer,' commanding a bat-
tallion — fine preparation for a
Dean of Student Affairs. Also,
during his military tenure,
Williams served on the Joint
Chiefs of Staff in Nuclear
Negotiations with the Soviets in
the capacity of a Senior Military
Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to
the Strategic Arms Reduction
Talks (START, also called SALT).
Williams believes that the
students are the number one
priority and as he said in
Assembly, “I have no hours,”
meaning he will stay on the job
until the job is done. Stressing
two-way communication and a
ready accessibility, Williams
believes that life on campus can
be raised to a level on par with
the school’s academics.
But, he adds, he can’t do it
alone. Student cooperation is
needed in order to curb
problems such as theft and
vandalism so that funds used to
replace broken doors and win
dows can be rechannelled
towards, say, new athleticequip-
ment.
Remembering Dean Williams
speech in Assembly, one fre
quently punctuated with, “I’ll
stick it to ya’s,” this reporter
wondered aloud just how severe
a punishment the Dean was
ready to perpetrate on the erring
student. “I believe in giving a guy
a chance, however, some things
such as drugs, weapons, and
vandalism will not be tolerated,
and the repeat offender just may
find himself dismissed."
So there you have him,
gentlemen, our new Dean of
Student Affairs, let’s work with
him to make this a productive
school year.
History Department
Jackie Rouse
By Maurice Hale
Dean Robert Williams, the
new Dean of Student Affairs,
whose office is located on the
first floor of Gloster Hall comes
to Morehouse with an im
pressive list of accomplishments
trailing him.
A graduate of Dayton Univer
sity in Ohio, Dean Williams
received his BA in political
science in 1958, the same year he
entered the military. Williams
completed his masters work in
political science at Villanova
University in Philadelphia in
1963.
Dean Williams spent a total of
twenty-six years in the military,
amassing a most impressive
By Todd Damon Towns
Like many of today’s
motivated people Dr. Jackie
Rouse realized that to be
successful you have to set stan
dards and reach goals. Her
hometown is Washington, D.C.,
which is also her favorite area of
the country.
She started her education at
Howard University for her un
dergraduate degree in history.
Next she traveled to Atlanta
University where she received
her masters degree. Then finally
attending Emory for her doc-
torial degree.
The education that Dr. Rouse
experienced along with her
family upbringing, gave her an
interesting point of view. “You as
black students don’t have the
privilege of being just another
student. You are accountable for
representing your race, family
and helping the next generation
to better themselves.
Views such as these have
helped this educator be
successful. During her stay at
Palm Beach Junior College she
overcame challenges and took
on leadership roles. While there
she found obstacles against
blacks infiltrating into certain
study areas, as well as being a
black woman instructing
historical studies. She
perservered as a leader for
minority students while over
coming false ideas about women
educators. Dr. Rouse also taught
at Georgia Tech.
These accomplishments are
impressive, but her great work
for the Journal of Negro History
is outstanding. Her main work
concerned the study of historical
southern black women. Present
ly she is trying to get her work
about Mrs. John Hope and other
black southern women publish
ed. She will soon be presenting a
paper before the Southern
Historical Society in November,
about integrating black women
into historical classroom studies.
These goals and ac
complishments make you
wonder what can she help
students here accomplish?
Her major concern is to help
students become better
thinkers. The more critically a
student thinks and reviews ideas
the more they understand.
This attitude of standards and
goals setting as well as taking on
ethnic responsibility, makes
Jackie Rouse an educator striving
to build better students and a
stronger sense of black and
cultural responsibility in us all.
Martin Luther King National Holiday Gets Boost
By Lewis J. Patterson
Efforts to make Dr. Martin
Luther King’s birthday a national
holiday have taken a giant step
forward.
Shortly before it’s August
recess, the U.S. House of
Representatives voted to set
aside the third Monday in
January as a National holiday
commemorating the birthday of
the late Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Eighth district congressman J.
Roy Rowland, said that he voted
in favor of making Dr. King’s
birthday a holiday because he
thinks the late civil rights activist
deserves the recognition.
Rowland, who is home for a
recess from Congress, said that
the new holiday, if passed by the
Senate, would cost the country
about $24 million.
Cost is the reason cited by
Third District Congressman
Richard Ray for not voting in
favor of the King holiday. Blacks
in Columbus called Ray’s refusal
to support the bill, a callous
disregard for the wishes of his
constituents.
When the Senate convenes in
September the body will vote on
the issue of a King birthday.
U.S. Senator Sam Nunn told
this reporter that he would vote
in favor of making Dr. King’s
birthday a holiday, but such
legislature would have to be
designed to combine holidays,
thereby not costing the country
an additional money. “I’m in
favor of setting aside a day to
honor Dr. King, but I favor
creating a method that won’t
cost us any more money," the
Senator said.
Legislators in the State of
Georgia have repeatedly voted
down legislation that would
make Dr. King’s birthday a state
holiday. State Representative
David Lucas, who favors such a
holiday, said those voting against
it cite reasons of cost as an
excuse.
However, the City of Macon
already honors Dr. King with a
city holiday for its employees.