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THE WOLVERINE OBSERVER
May, 1958
General Motors
Funds Announced
NEGRO COLLEGES RECEIVE $35,000 GIFT FROM GENERAL
MOTORS—Louis G. Seaton (left) General Motors Vice President in
Charge of Personnel and chairman of its Committee for Educational
Grants and Scholarships, presents GM’s gift of $35,000 to the United
Negro College Fund at the beginning of the Fund’s nation-wide drive.
Receiving it are: Dr. DeWitt T. Burton, of Detroit (center), Vice
Chairman for the Michigan Campaign for the Fund and Francis A.
Kornegay, also of Detroit, a member of the Special Gifts Committee.
The fund provides financial aid to 33 Negro colleges in 12 states with
total enrollment of 27,000 students.
A $35,000 General Motors gift to the United Negro College Fund
was announced today by Louis G. Seaton, GM Vice President in charge
of Personnel and chairman of its Committee for Education Grants
and Scholarships.
The GM grant comes at the beginning of the 1958 nationwide
drive by the United Negro College Fund which provides financial aid
to 33 Negro Colleges in 12 states. It brings to $170,000 the amount
GM thus far has given to the Fund.
“We are pleased to add our sup
port to the United Negro College
Fund because we know that the
27,000 students enrolled in its
member colleges will provide
many of tomorrow’s outstanding
Negro leaders,” Mr. Seaton said.
Accepting the gift was Dr. De-
Witt T. Burton, Medical Director
of the Burton Mercy Hospital in
Detroit, member of the national
board of the Fund and vice chair
man of the Michigan Campaign
for the Fund. He termed GM’s
contribution “one of the largest
individual grants received from
any corporation.”
“We appreciate General Motors’
continued support for higher edu
cation and hope other businesses
and individuals will follow GM’s
lead in backing the United Negro
College Fund drive,” he said. “The
success of last year’s drive allowed
us to add two additional colleges
to the group receiving aid from
the Fund.”
He explained that the money is
used to help inember colleges meet
annual operational expenses, give
scholarship aid to promising stu
dents, increase teacher salaries
and expand library and laboratory
facilities.
The grant was made under Gen
eral Motors’ expanded program of
support for higher education which
is now in its fourth year. Besides
providing yearly grants in aid to
associations of colleges, the plan,
by next September will be aiding
1,600 outstanding young men and
women each year studying under
four-year GM scholarships in col
leges of their choice.
STUDENT SPRING
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tive of Boston, Georgia. He re
ceived his early music training
from Mrs. Oreatha Murray (Thom-
asville, Ga.). Since entering Morris
Brown he has studied piano with
Dr. Grace B. Boggs and Mr. G.
Johnson Hubert.
Mr. Hopkins has had tremendous
success at Morris Brown. For the
past two years he has held an
assistantship in the Music Depart
ment, serving as instructor of pi
ano. In addition he has had ex
perience in teaching privately in
the city (Atlanta).
Mr. Hopkin* had done extensive
study under Professor G. Johnson
Hubert and organist Colonius
Davis. He is presently studying
with Dr. Oliver Herbert, a noted
professional teacher and concert
artist, in Atlanta.
In addition he has gained many
honors since becoming part of the
Morris Brown family. Some of
these are as follows: Honor roll
student, member of National Guild
of Piano Teachers, Whitford In
ternational Society of Piano
Teachers, Victor Society of Great
Music, and member of Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity.
Mr. Hopkins is noted as an
accompanist and pianist. At pres
ent he is doing student teaching
at Price High School. After grad
uation in June he anticipates
entering the Summer Session at
Columbia University, to begin work
toward a Master’s Degree in Mu
sic.
Is A PhD Desirable?
NEW YORK, N.Y.-(I.P-) — As
serting that over the past year
graduate school administrators
have expressed unanimous dissatis
faction with the admission prac
tices and standards, procedures for
student guidance, and the “amiable
anarchy” that obtain in their own
institutions, Jacques Barzun, dean
of Columbia University’s Graduate
Faculties, suggests that this gen
eral uneasiness may be traceable
to a comparison of the nonprofes
sional Ph.D. degree with the pro
fessional degrees.
“When matched with the profes
sional degrees, the Ph.D. is clear
ly at a disadvantage: it is slow,
dubious, and disagreeable. As now
administered, it takes at least four
years of study, usually six or
seven, and quite often ten to fif
teen. When obtained, it is uncertain
in its meaning. Whereas the lawyer
is a lawyer, the physician a phy
sician, the engineer an engineer,
no one can predict what the Ph.D.
knows or does: is he a scholar? a
teacher? an educated man? What
is the training he has received?”
Decrying “amateurishness” in
graduate training as inconsistent
with America’s increasing need for
experts in education, science, and
government, Dean Barzun declares
that the nation’s graduate schools
must “clean house.” Three factors,
he finds, contribute to the amateur
ishness of graduate work. They
are: “on the part of the students,
inadequate preparation, which ad
ministratively means inadequate
admissions standards.
CAMPUS POLITICS
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candidates overlooked the hard and
cold facts of politics and public
voting behavior.
When we run for public offices
we should run to win instead of
just running for presteige. No
where in history, statistics nor
politics have there ever been any
two candidates from the same
party contesting each other and
one being victorious. The split vote
is always detrimental to those who
oppose each other from similar
factions.
Drama Club Production MILLIE ANN FLETCHER
Tremendous Success RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP
“The House of Bernada Alba,”
by Federica Garcia Lorca, was
presented by the MBC Drama
Club, April 24-25, 1958 in Stone
Hall under the direction of Mrs.
M. Kloville. The play was a tre
mendous success; it received sev
eral minutes of vigorous ovation
from the audience each night.
, “The House of Bernada Alba”
is a drama about women of Spain.
At the beginning of the play,
death has befallen Bernada’s hus
band. Bernada is left with her five
daughters, Angustias, Magdalena,
Amelia, Martirio, Adela and Ber
nada’s aged mother, Maria Josya.
In this household were two other
persons, a servant and a maid.
This drama tells the tragic story
of five daughters guided by a
stern, domineering mother, whose
blindness led them to violence and
one to her death.
The most significant action takes
place when it is learned that
Augustias has inherited the great
er part of the father’s fortune
and that she has a suitor. Mar
tirio and Adela fall in love with
Angustias’ suitor, (Pape). The
play ends in blood. Adela hangs
herself.
The star, Miss Betty Espy’s
(Bernada) gave a grand perform
ance. This was Miss Espy’s de
but on the MBC stage in a dramatic
production.
The co-star, Miss Mary Cather
ine Pierce (LaPoncia), made an
excellent showing.
Other outstanding members of
the cast were Miss LaTrella Mc
Coy (Angustias), Miss Mary Mc-
Kelvy (Martiorio), Miss Elen
Rhyne (Maria Josya) and Miss
Juanita Gabieral (Adela).
Morris Brown College winner of UNCF fellowship is praised by
her advisors. The photo above shows Miss Millie Ann Fletcher, senior
and Mathematics-Chemistry major at Morris Brown College, receive
praises from her advisors. To her left is Claude Dickerson, chairman
of the Mathematics Department of Morris Brown; and to the right
is A. J. Lockhart, chairman of the Department of Chemistry.
Miss Fletcher received the Fiorina Lakser Fellowship of $1400,
which is given annually by the UNCF to a senior in one of the mem
ber colleges. The recipient plans to study higher mathematics at the
University of California in Los Angeles in 1958-59.
Millie Ann Fletcher, a senior at Morris Brown College, has been
awarded the Fiorina Laskor Fellowship of $1400 by the United Negro
College Fund. This Fellowship is given annually to a senior in one
of the member colleges of the UNCF.
Miss Fletcher, a native of At
lanta, is a mathematics and chem
istry major at Morris Brown. She
is a member of Beta Kappa Chi
Scientific Honor Society, Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society, and was
elected to Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Colleges for
the the year 1956-57. She is also a
laboratory assistant in the Depart
ment of Chemistry of the college.
Miss Fletcher is a member of
Flipper Temple A.M.E. Church of
this city and she is secretary of
the Sunday School.
After graduation in June, she
plans to study mathematics at the
University of California in Los
Angeles. Her parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Fletcher of Atlanta.
The Students
Have No Voice
In this missile age, or even as
far back as colonial times, we
as a race have always had a feel
ing of freedom among ourselves.
But, should you break the race
down as a whole, into small inter-
gers or segments, you will find
that this freedom, in many in
stances, does not exist.
Suppose we use, as one of these
intergers or segments, the students
here at Morris Brown College.
Somewhere in the Constitution
of the United States is made
mentioned something concerning
“freedom of speech and freedom
of the press.” Do you as a student
of Morris Brown College feel that
you have this freedom ?
Take freedom of the press for
an instance. In view of the fact
that the school newspaper is sup
posed to be the voice of and for
the students, we realize that many
of the articles that would be of
interest as well as benefit to the
students are banned from the news
paper. Some of these articles if
they could be printed, would prob
ably include news concerning stu
dent-teacher relationship, activi
ties of the administration from a
critical point of view, and appeals
by the students to the administra
tion to make certain adjustments
for the purpose of making campus
life more enjoyable.
Let Prayer Guide
You This Summer
By JAMES H. FOSTER
Very soon this school term will
have come to an end and you
will be putting your books on the
shelf, or into your bags to carry
to your various homes.
In planning your activities for
the summer, whether they be work
ing, vacationing, touring, or just
sitting down, remember God every
day in prayer. God’s word counsels
us to be often in prayer. David
found it necessary to pray three
times a day.
Evening, and morning, and at
noon will I pray, and cry aloud:
and He shall hear my voice.
Psalm 55:17
And it is recorded that David,
though exiled in Babylon, main
tained his connection with God in
prayer just as often.
Now when David knew that the
writing was signed, he went into
his house; and his windows being
Social Status Is
All That Matters
If one visits the college campus
during the time of year when
the various students are joining
their respective fraternities and
sororities, he will be able to see
where some of our values are
placed.
Students will go through any
thing to get into a fraternity or
sorority for mere recognition. I
watch them here at Morris Brown,
and wonder if they would go
through this type of activity to
What happened to our voice ?
Why can’t the students be heard?
Your answer is probably the same
as mine. Then, I ask you, “what
good is the school newspaper if
the students caii’t reap any bene
fit from it or find in it some
news that really is news”? Why
do we have a paper? Is it because
other schools have papers and we
should have one, too? Most of the
news in the paper, with the ex
ception of the editorials, either
is uninteresting or it really isn’t
news at all.
As it is now, the paper is really
nothing more than “a wolf in
sheep’s clothing.” But isn’t life
itself ?
opened in his chambers toward
Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his
knees three times a day, and
prayed, and gave thanks before
his God, and he did aforetime.
(Daniel 6:10).
Paul commends the keeping of
the mind in constant connection
with heaven. “Prayer is the breath
of the soul,” says one writer. The
more of the divine atmosphere we
breathe into our spiritual nature,
the more we shall be like Jesus.
Make it a practice to begin your
day with God in prayer every day
this summer — personal, secret
prayer. Thus you will gain power
for a day, a summer of victory.
Then when noon comes, take a
little time to pray, just as surely
as you take a little time to eat
your noon meal. Prayer will give
you greater refreshment than your
food, as you will discover after
you have formed this habit. Then
when night falls, close the day
with private communion with God.
Make sure that the record is clean
before you lie down to sleep. Re
member God this summer — morn
ing, noon, and night.
read a book, write a research
paper, or help some other student
who is having difficulty in meet
ing the requirements.
These organizations basically
have as their aim or motto, bro
therhood, scholarship, and some
other term to help make it sound
exquisite, but when you really look
at it, maybe you will find brother
hood (sisterhood) indicated here.
But would a scholar mark all over
the buildings and walkways?
Either the answer to that ques
tion is yes, or these organizations
are doing the students here an in
justice. On every building on the
campus, and every wall and walk
way is a Greek letter organization
symbol. I can find them on every
telephone pole between the school
and my home, which is some dis
tance from the campus. They are
proud of their symbols, but they
are forgetting that we are proud
of our buildings, walls, walkways,
and other places that they seem
to delight in messing up with
writing. We are prouder of them
when they are neat and clean.
Fraternities and sororities,
please help us keep our college
neat and clean in every way.
There are those of us who are not
suffering from social greed, and
who have as much consideration
for others as for our creed.
It Couldn’t Be
By BERNICE CRAFTON
. All persons voting in our
election.
. That Morris Brown’s New
Men’s Dormitory will be com
pleted in September.
. That all seniors will march in
June.
. That exams would be post
poned because of a brain wash.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-(I.P.)—
Seven faculty members and six
students have been named to a
new Augsburg College study com
mittee, according to Dean Martin
Quanbeck. The committee has as
its aim the gathering of informa
tion relative to decisions on the
College’s status and position in
1969, its 100th anniversary.
Dean Quanbeck stated that he
felt it important that an insti
tution such as Augsburg stop and
“take stock.” Self-study, evaluation
and appraisal will be three of the
primary goals of the study.