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FESTIVITIES CLIMAX 1ST SEMESTER ACTIVITIES
In the scene above you are treated to a peek into dreamland. They
are dancing at the Coronation.
New Annual Guide
Tells How To Obtain
Summer Employment
The enlarged 1960 annual Sum
mer Placement Directory, the
largest and most comprehensive
listing of actual summer jobs,
projects, and awards is now avail
able. Copies can be examined at
most University Placement or
Deans’ offices, college and public
libraries, and school superintend
ents' offices.
This unique Directory complete
ly revised each year, is particu
larly prepared for teachers, pro
fessors, librarians, and college stu
dents. Jobs for which high school
seniors may also apply are clearly
indicated.
This year’s Directory offers
many special student training pro
grams and openings of a perma
nent nature in hundreds of firms
such as Chemstrand Corporation,
Addressograph-Multigraph Corpo
ration, Pacific Mutual Life Insur
ance Co., and the Ingersoll-Rand
Co.
Study projects, camp positions,
jobs and apprenticeships with
summer and music theatres, and
work at resorts and dude ranches
are some of the other variest of
fers made to students and educa
tors. Many branches of the U.S.
Government throughout the coun
try have also requested their open
ings o be included.
All openings have been sub
mitted directly to the institute and
include job descriptions, dates of
employment, necessary qualifica
tions, number of openings, sal
aries, and the names and the ad
dresses of the employers. Helpful
information is given on how to
apply for positions and each Di
rectory contains a sample resume
to assist applicants applying for
their first job.
The regular price is $3.00. How
ever, students and teachers writ
ing on their school stationery can
obtain this year’s employment
guide for only $2.00 from The Ad
vancement and Placement Insti
tute, Box 99N, Station G, Brook
lyn 22, N.Y.
Academy Theatre
On Peachtree
For its pre-holiday production,
the Academy Theatre will present
Clifford Odets’ “The Flowering
Peach” on December 10, 11, 14, 16,
17, and 18. Featured in the cast are
Frank Wittow, Anne Lewis, Bob
Gerson, Sid Davis, Martha Tanner,
Gloria Idrau-Maloof, Priscilla Har
ris, and Norm Andrews; The pro
duction is under the direction of
Sydney Walter. Reservations may
be made by calling TR. 4-6682.
Clifford Odets is a familiar name
of the theatre for such plays as
“Country Girl”—“Golden Boy”—
“Clash by Night” and many others.
He is a born folk dramatist, ca
pable of drawing vivid characters
and writing richly flavored col
loquial speech. Nowhere is this bet
ter illustrated than in “The Flow
ering Peach,” considered by many
to be his most attractive and ma
ture work. Using the story of Noah
and the Ark as a framework, the
ways of God and man are examined
without much hope and without
much protest and with no attempt
to justify either God’s ways to man
or man’s ways to God. By means
of a subplot involving Noah’s sons
and their wives, Odets romantically
asserts the rights of the individual
against convention and, puritan
morality. He creates a Noah who
embodies much of humanity—
world-weary but trusting, vacil
lating but stubborn, angry but lov
ing, and above all, learning—a man
who discovers that his most painful
wounds are suffered in private
reality where his love of wife and
family lie. By the skillful balance
of comedy growing, out of human
weaknesses and the pathos of hu
man destiny, Odets has contributed
a work of rare beauty to the
American theatre.
The Coronation
Beauties
To this writer it seems that the
coronation becomes more beautiful
as the years go by. The corona
tion ceremonies for the 1960-61
Miss Morris Brown, Marynette
Reid, certainly was beautiful toi
the eye.
The first of the Royal Court to
appear was the lovely Miss Wol
verine Observer, Betty Byron.
Following in succession were Miss
Lampodos, Daisy Woodson; Miss
Spinx, Sandra Roberts; Miss
Omega, Ruth Barrett, and Miss
Alpha, Barbara J. Willingham.
Then came the Royal Crowns;
Bearer, Miss Morris Brown of
1959-60, Veleta Sims, who at that
momeilt, seemed to be more stun
ningly lovely than ever.
Following the retiring queen was
the incoming queen’s attendants—'
Miss Freshman, Elaine Saulsbury,
and Miss Sophomore, Florence
Willingham.
The new Miss Morris Brown was
crown by Dr. Frank Cunningham,
our college president.
The Pages were Doris Grant and
Pauline Zeigler. The Royal Escorts
were Benny Cliett, Jerome Bul
lard, George Adams, William
Hixon, Julius Perry, and Winston
Waymer.
Mrs. Lois B. Kenney is to be
Wolverine Observer
Faculty Chairman III
Mrs. Louise T. Hollowell who is
faculty chairman of the Wolverine
Observer and a member of the
English department has been ill for
the past three weeks and is on the
road to recovery. Mrs. Hollowell
is expected to return to her post
in January.
The Wolverine Observer staff
wishes her a speedy recovery, a
Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
Negro Saleslady At
Downtown Shop
The Wolverine Observer has
learned that a dress shop on
Peachtree Street in downtown At
lanta has employed Mrs. Daisy
Fields, a Negro, as a saleslady.
Mrs. Fields resides at a Ramdall
Street address in East Point, Geor
gia.
Use Care With Smokes
Use care with your smokes dur
ing the holidays. Every fourth fire,
according to studies by the Na
tional Board of Fire Underwriters,
is caused by matches and smoking.
Make sure there are plenty of
ash trays about this Yule Season
if there are smokers in your house.
Empty trays frequently. And make
sure any fire in trays is out be
fore emptying.
Segregation Is Dead
commended for her wonderful
narration of the affair. The au
dience tribute to the queen was
in the form of a song, “God Save
Our Queen.” We wish to make it
known that Miss Vera Benton is
the author of the lyrics of that
song, for which she has not asked
any credit.
The Wolverine Observer wishes
our new Miss Morris Brown a
happy and prosperous reign.
BROWNS CORNER
By DONALD J. WILSON
Brown’s Corner, an informal dis
cussion group, is currently making
its debut here at Morris Brown.
The main concern of Brown’s
Corner is to meet and discuss all
issues of international and national
importance, since the members
agree that this is the best way to
broaden one’s knowledge of all the
important happenings that are
continuously taking place today.
Brown’s Corner meets every
Wednesday in the middle T-build-
ing from 3:30 to 4:30 and on Sun
days from 3:00 to 5:00 in the
Quadrangle Lounge. Everyone is
cordially welcome to attend. So ask
yourself, am I a member of
Brown’s Corner? If you are not,
why not?
The members of Brown’s Corner
wish each and everyone a very
Merry Christmas and a very suc
cessful New Year!
Iowa City, la. (I.P.)—The State
University of Iowa is one of three
universities in the United States
to receive a federal grant to es
tablish a Chinese Language and
Cultural Center beginning with the
present 1960-61 academic year.
SUI will receive the funds under
the National Defense Education
Act to strengthen facilities for
study of language not now com
monly taught in the U.S.
Twenty-six colleges and uni-
Morris Brown
To Present
The Messiah
By ROBERT L. MEADOWS
The Morris Brown College choir
of eighty-two (82) voices under the
direction of Mr. Colonius Davis,
will present the Messiah on Decem
ber 11th and 12th at 8:00 o’clock
p.m. at Big Bethel and Allen Tem
ple A.M.A. churches, respectively.
Soloists for this year will be:
Oteal Sloan, Raymond Malone,
Henry Porter and Clifford Mar
shall.
Mr. Davis who is a native of
Norfolk, Virginia, is acting chair
man of the music department. Mr.
Davis praised the choir for its ex
cellent performance during previ
ous engagement and he is ex
pecting the best performance to
appear during the in-coming
semester. The choir is being hailed
throughout the country for its ex
cellent performances.
When the eighty-two (82) voices
of the choir present the Messiah,
a large number of students are
expected to be present from Morris
Brown and other member colleges.
Street Scene;
Negro-White Incident
An observer witnessed a tragic
scene at the intersection of Broad
and Walton Streets in down-town
Atlanta that may serve to gauge
the state of the regard of some
white persons for the dignity and
worth of Negroes.
A Negro woman, who was either
trying to return home from a day
of hard work or make use of her
meager salary by making a few
purchases, unknowingly dropped
some keys as she crossed the busy
intersection. A “flower of southern
white womanhood” was crossing
the intersection behind her and
picked the keys up—intending to
return them to the their owner.
But, when she became aware of the
color of the skin of the owner of
the keys she promptly pitched them
back into the busy intersection in
the path of the then on-rushing
traffic.
The Negro woman quietly defied
the traffic to retrieve her keys.
The drivers were kind enough to
stop and allow her to get them.
Wouldn’t it have been simple and
painless for the white woman to
hand the keys to the Negro woman
since she had already turned
around and acknowledged that she
was the owner of the keys. Or, it
would have been at least kinder to
drop them where she stood rather
than pitch them into the heavy
traffic. One wonders how long such
tragedy will endure.
versities in the U.S. have been
designated to receive funds for
“critical” language centers in Chi
nese, Japanese, Portuguese,
Arabic, Russian, or Hinhustani.
These “critical” languages are spo
ken by three-quarters of the
earth’s population. Although Chi
nese is the native tongue of 650
million people, only a handful of
schools in the U.S. offer courses
in the language.
U.S. universities which now
have Chinese centers supported by
the Act are the Universities of
Chicago, Kansas, Southern Cali
fornia and Washington, and Stan
ford and Harvard universities.
New Chinese centers will be estab
lished during the 1960-61 academic
year at SUl, and the Universities
of Arizona and Pittsburgh.
Although the center at SUI will
be primarily for Chinese language
instruction, the study will also
cover Chinese literature, philos
ophy, religion, history, geography,
socioogy, economics and anthro
pology. Besides a Chinese lan
guage course, SUI now offers
nine other courses in its Oriental
studies program as well as re
lated courses in the departments
of art, geography and political
science.
Don’t Forget Final Exams
The action of some children sug
gest that their parents embarked
on the sea of matrimony without
a paddle.—With Rogers in Swains-
boro, Ga., Forest-Blade.
CHINESE LANGUAGE
AND CULTURAL CENTER