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SCHOOL NEWS
Dr. Martin Appointed
President o f Inst.
Hampton, Va. An rd'tc *
with over a
professional experience Dr Wil-
liam H. Martin, dean of f -
at Hampton Inst::ate b t.. ! ■ r -a
appointed acting prraici.n’ of
the 91-year old college, lnoa+ed
on Virginia’s lower peninsula.
Formal \ nnouneement at
the appointment was made bv
Arthur Ilowe. Jr., director of
admissions at Yale University:
who is chairman of the H.amp-
ton Institute board -of tni raes. 1
Tn making the announcement,
Howe expressed “confidence m
Dr. Martin’s ability to guide the
college rdopg the proper path
to meet the educatin' a] ■ •m’ ■
cf fihe currently e ‘ ublislu :i :
program "
He emnhasixed that the an-
pointment. does no? represent.
snv desire on the part of the
board to change program or
policy at (he college
The po't of president of the
college, which enrol 1 1,300 h u-,
dent.s from 35 s*a,tes. was va-
retpd through the resignation
last week of Dr. A’onco O Me-
ron who held the position for
the na.st ten vears.
“I haye worked eloselv with
Pa Moron in ins effort to
build Hampton Institute into a
good college” Dr. Martin c”-
Trained. “Tim ndmfs-ion of
the college into the Snu’hrm'
Association of Colleges, nearly
two vears n<*a .is evidence of
the success of flu . effort,” th*>
.
aetirg president, .staled.
“We intend to maintain and
rteve’rin nur nresen’ program,”
he e^ninuod “and the emohn-
c ‘ c eontm-’e to bo upon of-
•
ademie imm-ovoment, The
tnum-wer nee^is 0 f the n 'M-n
pod the Interests of our <u-
don*s oil allow ro ee-.no.....unisa
wi*h aendemie pxeellenoe.
‘‘Tn meettrios of the admis¬
sions er>r*vrr t itff>n this WOf' 1 " ool-
1p"p Official? ind- '‘ p d ’he’ 1 .
frpshomn c’ass no ’ •' -11 ••■•ill he
the largest since the p'.st’vai
ppak-un to about <i r o an ,n ~
croase of ncarlrv 100 over 1 ist
fall. i
“Tliis anticipated enn’lhr.'-n!
increase i.s particularly cn-
couraging far it will be made
following application of more
Houston •:•! Board
Ordo.’T ‘ ■ l it Integration
IICTTSTON, Terras (ANP)
The Houston Set: ol P irad nr
Wednesday was or-’ red bv U
S, Dis’riet Judge P< C C mr>al¬
ly, to submit n r’an for into-
gration of public >-'1 hooM
Air;. 17. l. ITnuston s -ho-'ls, i
)70.nno student? is rcporte ily
the large”,t segregated system
in America.
Judge Connallv. in 1947, or
dered the School Board io pi
tegrate “with ail deliM-at
speed,” but did not rat a dead
line. In Wednesday’s ruling
the jurist ordered the
“to file its program if it has
Ms noli;.:::i
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Or. Martin concluded,
Dr. Martin’s service as Hamp-
‘on’s dean dates from 1955. He
;t came to the Tidewater Va.
campus in 1953 to head the di¬
vision of teacher education. In
” following year he directed
•1 ■ Hampton Institute Self¬
's’v Program, a year-long
naiysis underwritten by the
Ford Foundation,
Beginning his professional
work in 1933. Dr. Martin was
professor of education at Short-
er College. N. Little Rock, Ark
The following year he moved to
T< - as College, Tyler, Texas,
where he served as professor of
education for five years. Dur-
'ng two of these years he was
a^iro dean of (he college,
He became dean of Dunbar
Junior College Little Rock, Ark.,
in 1939. a post which he held
until 1943 when ho assumed
n-WinalshlD of the IDunbar
1 ueti School in Little Rock,
Dr. Martin next moved tn
rangstnn University. Oklahoma,
"-here he was director of the
d:H-’nn of education from 1945
until moving to Hampton Insti-
tote. while at Langston U.,
ho was coordinator of Negro
edaeaMon in iho Oklahoma co¬
operative program to improve
iwtruefinn.
An alumnus of Wilherforee
irniveritv. p r Martin secured
his earlv training in the Pasade-
rn. Calif., public schools. He
enrned the M. A and Ph. D. de-
-vreas fi-nm the Ohio State Uni¬
versity.
His wife. Oladvs D. Martin.
formerly dean of women at
Tfnmnton Institute for five
V eor Their only child, Jovce.
now tenches in Portsmouth, Va.
T n addition to professional
member bin he is on the eom-
ods ion on secondary schools of
’lie American Association of
Cniicms and Reeondnrv schools
He i; also n member of the n'an-
• ire cnmmit'ee on the study of
education, conducted bv
the Virginia state hoard
education Dr. Martin has
elected fellow in the Ok-
Academy of Science and
b a member of Phi Delta Knp-
pa and Delta Pi.
i n Connally was asked to
reopen the case of two Negro j
paieaLs who sought to enter j
,lK ' ir children in “white”;
The parents’ lawyers
i;ii they hoped to obtain an,
ord t that would integrate the
v'hoo's at opening of the Fall
term in September.
t T! its LOSE RIGHTS
T.iousaiuls of voters in Chat-
rum county have lost their
voting rights through failure to
vote regulariy.
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National
Scholarship
Awards
(Continuer* rrom Page Ore)
the NiaMonal Scholarship
vice and Fund for Negro
"n‘s. “Tills is ’he most
fying year in our
hh’orv,” said Richard I,.
oreMdent of NfSFMS, in
nouncing the 1959-60
on JuV/ 9tn. “Because of
creased funds, we have
able to helo almost half
as many Negro high school
iors as last year to go on
college.” College
from €5 colleges, amounting
•ome to 1.000, and NSSFNS s
olementary scholarships
! ng almost $25,000 have
granted this year >‘o
Tom 23 stater,. the District
Coi’-’imhia, and the Virgin
lands.
fn addition, 10
of Recognition,” were
‘o students whose full
nredr had alrradv been met
‘he enl'eees large'v as a
of NSSFNS counseling and
ferral services.
Through it? uniquely
alized system of
nutsvating enun. cling, and
ing as “middle man”
.student, school and
the agnmy has for the past
cade been giving
ment and vital financial
tance to deserving siVeients
underprivileged situations.
the he’u of NR3FNS. p-tne
Negro boys and girls have
able to continue their
;n more than 350 into
colleges and universities.
A elearng house for
mn'ran on all financial
offered to college Vuid'en’s
e-ut the country, the
staff ’scouts the nation's
schools and junior high
for st dents with Mali
tial tout low opportunity
ofi'en, low motivation;
and he Vis students c-urc ‘he
rart of eoilrre opportunities
beat suited to thrar needs and
the financial help to go with
them; and tihrorigh Its own own
supplementary s c h ola r s h ips
nrovides the funds necessary to
make tup the difference foeVvcen
the strident’s earnings,
eontrihutlons, cclleee and O’hhcT
scholar h'ps, and the fetal cost
of ia college year.
Money for these NSSFNS sep-
plnifen.ary scholarship:, wuich
au> one means of breaking
d ' ,wn the barriers ‘-established
b >’ segregation, is made avail-
n ^ e tty a number of individ-
cai funds and is used not only
to aid these new college fresh-
111011 ' but to continue to asrat
award winners toro^L
•their Junior year. Renewal
awards to upperclassmen will
be announced eary in August.
Among the contribution funds
are The Old Dominion Founda¬
tion; The New York Founda¬
tion; Tlie Inland Steel Compa¬
ny; The American Conscience
Fund; The Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority; and The Greater New
York Links.
Two funds of special interest
in itheir relation to NSSFNS
and its work are the American
Conscience F’und and the Old
Dominion Fund. The American
Conscience Fund, for
in stormy transition,” was es¬
tablished as a result of desegre-
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Two Lincoln Essays
THIS WSEK Magazine joins
with Broadcast Music, Inc., and
the American As oeia.tion for
State and Local History in an
essay contest on the theme
"Reflections While Standing
j Before the Lincoln Memorial.
The contest iu c.pen (to anyone
- n the United £ ates. Tvo prizes
of $500 will be awarded toy EMI,
one for an essay by a person
viho i.s not a professional writer
or historian, the other for an
esay toy a professional in these
fields. THIS WEEK Magazine
announced that it will also pur¬
chase the two winning essays
for $500 each. One of the two
winning essays well also be used
by EMI as the last program in
a pi Me servee radio series, The
Abraham Lincoln Story, 1809-
1959, which is made available
to ,a!l radio and television sta¬
tions. Announcement of win¬
ners i.s to be made no later
than February 12, i960.
The winning author will join j
more than sixty outstanding
Lincoln and Civil War scholars
who are writing the programs,
wliirh ore the 1959-60 segment
of HMDs prize-winnng radio
series, “The American Story.”
Seme of the distinguished con¬
tributors to the Lincoln series
are Carl Sunil: irg, Adiai Stev-
etlMin ’ Marianne Moore, Bruce
Cat. on, Allan Nevin.s, Ulysses S.
Grant, III, and Mark Van Doren.
The American Association for
State and Local History h co-
operaitlng with EMI in the pro¬
ject and will supervise the
contest and selection of the
finalists. Residents of each state
| can uitomit their entries, ’. tog.e-1 B !
ther .. with ... official ..... entry forms, I
cooperating 1 area .hisitcrlcal j 1
j societies and agencies. Primary
j screenings will be done on the
j s taite level, with, the two beat
■ entries, one by a professional
sat»°n tensions in Little Rock
last y oa,r - The OM Dominion
Fund ^ earmarked for candi-
j j FNS dates Community in citics where Talent tih€ Search Nss
Pr °8 ram has been adopted
is being planned. CTS was
started two years ago as a pilot j
project at Junior High School
No. 43 and George Washington
High School in New York City,
for the purpose of finding and
1 encoura ® inB studenfcs with al
hi ” h pt>teMial in the vital for ' I
mative years before high school,
regardless of race. It is now
being extended by Superintend-
ont of Schools John Theobald
j to 33 ischols in five different
’areas in the city involving
about 60,000 children. OTS pro¬
jects also are now operating
in several of the nation’s Far- (
ge.-.t cities including the na- i
tion’s capitol.
“Without these supplemen.- j
tary scholarship funds, which!
are used entirely for rounding 1
cxuit tion, the student’s cost of edura- j
, few boys and girls like this i
year's award winners would go;
to college,” says Mr. Piaut.!
"For the Negro in particular,
money is not always the whole
story. Too low educational
sights, and the lack cf aware¬
ness of open doors have to bi I
overcome. This stimulation
must be begun early, with in¬
creasing momentum for in¬
creasing numbers, if the Ne¬
gro, or any one in an under¬
privileged group, is not to be |
.wasted as a human being and I
.as a national resource.”
and the other fcy a
fesssonal, to be forwarded
each state to the Madison,
offices of the A socia’don.
semi-fir.;)! judging wM
the five b- ,:t entries in the
classes. Final judging cf
prize-winning e say? will
i/ a p ' t distinr
historians, scholars and
•.tanding Amecioans.
m e n t of winners will
made no later than
12, 1630, and presentation
the awards no later than Apr
15, I960. Entry blanks and
c .1 rules can be obtained
sending a stamped
ed envelope to area
societies or other groups
operating, to Dr. Clement
Silvestro, Executive
American Association for State
and Local History, £16 State
Street, Madison, Wisconsin,
to Broadcast Music, Inc., 589
Fifth Avenue, Ne.v York 17, N.Y.
“The American Story.” cf
which the Lincoln series is the
current segment, was begun In
1954 ar- a joint piojrct of EMI
and the Socie’y cf American
Historians in an effort to
authoritative history before
wide audiences. More Via a 200
radio programs have been
tiributed to radio and television
'aliens and to beards cf
cation, public libraries, and ed-
ucational institetions to be used
in Conner.’ion with the
casting. The writers of the
serra' -, whii' h are designed for
local rn:ration include many
of the country's outstanding
historians, Puli’zer --------- and Bra-
cro it Pri _ . ze winners among
them. The seric ' has "Z won ", “
awai - from F rce :m>S Found 1-
t;on, the Amcncan . Association
for Fate and Inca’ lUMory,
and the Institute for Education
ty Rxdio-Televi icn at Oh o
F ate University. A book “The
American Story,” based on the
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