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SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1300
COLLEGIATE NOTES
Bv Wilton C. Scott
SENIOR IXAY, MAY 26
On Thursday, May 26, the grad¬
uating class of Savannah State
College will present its Senior
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presented to the college. Class
night will feature members of the i
graduation class in a play. Jack-i
Class sponsors are Prince
son, Jr., alumni secretary and in-
sti uctor, math-physics, and Dr.
Jean Gordon, professor of social
science.
HONORS DAY AT COLLEGE
Dean Timothy C. Meyers pre¬
sented numerous candidates for
the several awards made possible
by the college, community and !
business leaders. President Wil- I I
Viam K. Payne awarded money,
trophies, plaques and certificates I
to students at the general assem- j
bly this week.
The awards and recipients were
as follows* i
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority ■
Achievement Award, Ruby WiD-}
jo"r liams, senior home economics fna-
of Savannah - Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity Achievement Award,
Sherman Roberson, senior chemis¬
try major of Savannah; Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity Scholarship !■
Award, Norman B. Elmore, fresh- ! i
man English major Award,*Inez of Savannah; Bacon',!
Biology Staff
Senior biology major of Waycross;
Boar’s Head Club Award, Sher¬
man Roberson, senior chemistry .
major of Savannah; Carver Sav-
ings Bank Award, Virginia Mer¬
cer, junior business majoriof bleb- j !
ter; Chairman’s Award,, Sarah,
Jane T Mciver, senior business . ma
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jor of , Riceboro; T) . , Chemical , Rubber „ ,,
’ Company Award; James K'. Cohr, ■*
* Tresnman , • industrial i * • i education i *• I
ma-
jor of Columbus; Class of 1956
Citizenship Award, James E. DiW’>
senior biology Alma-” sC '•’* *’
A«,rd,
deli Walton, sophomore, health and ..
physical , , education, , Chicago; Col-' ,
lege , PIavhou.se Citations, ,. James T
Nevels; Sherman ... Roberson; Josie T .
Simpson, senior English major of
Savannah; Eva Boseman junior,;
General Science, Savannah; An-
nette Tr Kennedy, , sophomore, , social . , i
Savannah; _ , and , Carolyn ^ , [
science,
... Vinson, sophomore, , social ... science,
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Savannah. „
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Toland J. Collier Memorial
Award, Eugene Smith, freshman, ,
industrial education, Savannah;
Columbia Student Publications
Award, Sherman Roberson; Delta !
Sigrna Theta Sorority Scholarship
TATEMVILLE
By Robert Richards
St Peters AME Sunday school
was largely attended Sunday
with Supt. Robert Richards in
charge. The offering banner
was won by the Bible class, Miss
Erma Jean Mack, teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Williams
left on Thursday for New York
city on vacation. They will
attend the wedding of their
son, James (Jimmie), Saturday,!
May 28 in Philadelphia. Mrs.
Melissa Lloyd, the bride’s
grandmother, will also attend j
the wedding.
Miss Erma Jean Mack will be
in charge of the Children’s
day program at St. Peters A.
M. E. church on Sunday, June
12 .
Miss Georgiann-a Sharpe will
be a June graduate from Alfred
E. Beach High school.
A variety supper will be giv-j
en by Mrs. Eliza Lovett and
Mrs. Lueile Sharpe Saturday
night, May 28, for benefit of
Belmont Baptist church at the
home of Mrs. Lovett, 392 Wil¬ I
!
liams street. I
Our Past
This Week
AN ANP FEATURES
For Week Ending May 28
May 22, 1786—Arthur Tappan, j
noted abolitionist, born.
May 24. 1854—Lincoln Univer- |
sity established Presbyterian to educate Church Nc- in j
groes by ,
Pennsylvania. j
May 25, 1878—Noted Negro en-
tertainer and one of first to be j
starred in motion pictures, born, j
Richmond, Va.
May 26, 1857—Died Scott, cen- j
Class Day Exer-
c .* ses at 12 noon
Meldrim Au-
‘ ditorium and at
: 8 p.m. the Sen-
Class Night
presentation will i
be held. !
During the Sen- \
ior Class Day
the
class will be
tral. figure in fugitive slave
and family liberated by
Massachusets congressman
Award, Bernita Kornegay,
man, business, Hazlehurst;
E. Fisher Award, James Nevels;
Gregg Awards — Shorthand
Elise Bryant, Betty Jean
Bertha Kornegay, Julia
Darnell Dixon, Ruby
Aretha Whitehead and Myrna
ler. Typirg — Barbara Jordan,
Ruby Mitchell, William
Clifford Dawson, Barbara Boyn-
ton, Abraham Johnson, Mary
ley. Kathryn Maynor,
Roberson and Zelma
Typewriting Progress —
Collier, Dessie Dent, Eldridge
ris > Winifred Hopkins, Daisy
^leton, Laura Nichols, William
I’ompey, Mary F. Robinson,
Spaulding, Marian Welden.
Home Economics Club
Rufa y Williams; B. J.
Award, Robert Hutcherson,
business, Calhoun; Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Jenkins Award, James Deen;
Sidney A. Jones Human Relations
Award, James Nevels and
Deen; Kappa Alpha Psi
Scholarship Award, Delta
Theta Sorority;
Alfred Kenniekell Public
^® ns Award, Roscoe Camp,
more - English, Savannah;
Kenniekell Student
Award ’ James N ® vels !
et * Award, Virginia Mereer;
^uages and Literature
Nevels \ Mathematics
even ? ent Award, Elijah
fj Modern e P hmaa ; Languages ^hematics. Award,
E > m <> re; Caleb We*ton,
lstr y' Sav “ ah = a,ld Char!e * 1 ra
sier, chemistry, sophomore,
nah;
Phys ‘ cs Achievement
Wdhe J ; Mazek e ’
Savannah; u Savannah
Company A w a r d,
Tiggs, junior home economics,
and Sarah Sapp,
home economics, Attapulgus;
.Gamma R ho Sorority ,
™
Barbara Jordan, junior
Savannah; Mrs. Harry T.
Award, Jessie Edwards,
home ebono’rhicSj economics, Dawson-; Dawson-; ’ •
Toomer Realty C „ ompany
„ K®rnega .....
junior
Hazleh'urst; ; Trades and
Awards,-J„W h - , :t 4 _ U. Veal. - ,
'Pd^riaL education, Dublin;
wdustriai
E lUugton, *«•***> senior, mdustnal -*
South Ozone Park, N.Y.
Who , Who . American .
s in
and Universities ,
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Austin, . ... James ... Deen,
' JoWn> Nath ie l
an
j ulie] n, Willie
Lindsey, , Yvonne
Glockton, , , , Janies T Nevels,
„ Roberson, , „ Rosalyn Scurdy, _ , „ ,
Josie Simpson and ,
W llhams.
YMCA Membership Award,
B. Lester, senior, social
Athens; and Zeta Phi Beta
rority Award, Juanita
sophomore, music education,
EDWARDS (left)
a Certificate of
in the Electric Watch School
Frank Russell, assistant head
of Hamilton Watch
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| STUEENTS WHO RECEIVED AWARDS ON HON ,R’S DAY RECENTLY SAVANNAH STATE
j Cuylsr 'School
| Open House, summarle and a
vesper prograin ci.'min .tc! I'.e
week’s actjyities around CuyL r
— Elementary School. - -r. u Vi
•
The first-graders opened their
| rooms to their parents and friends
Thursday morning. An exhibit of
, their work and hobbies dis-
. were
j yed
The third . grade cIass pres< *, te d
its summary Friday afternoon cen¬
tered around the theme, “Savan¬
nah.” Debra Johnson, with the
use of a scroll, depicted the his-
j toric places in Sav&nnah, their lo-
! cations and the year erected. The
Coronation and Maypole dance cli¬
maxed a summary of the year’s
events. Mrs. F. Gresham, teach¬
er; Ingrid Solomon, mistress of
ceremonies.
The 7-2 class presented its sum¬
mary Friday morning. Their cen¬
ter of interest was “Georgia.”
Geraldine Martin, mistress of cer¬
emonies. Mrs. R. G. Delaware,
teacher.
The senior class presented a
vesper program Sunday afternoon,
featuring Dr. .1. W. Jamerson, Jr.,
as speaker. Dr. Jamerson spoke
on the “Importance of Learning.”
Willie Mae Roberts presented a
gift to the school in behalf of
the seventh-grade classed. The
principal, M. G. Thomas, received
the gift and voiced the sentiments
of the faculty and student body.
A check was left for the purpose
of securing additional
books. Earl Ingram is grade
group chairman and Mrs. M. Le-
Count is chairman of music.
who had inherited them.
May 27, 1862--Maj. Gen.
Hunter issued proclamation at
Hills Head, S.C., freeing all slaves
in South Carolina, Florida and
Georgia.
May 28, 1824—Alexander Du¬
mas (fils), noted French author
and playwright, born.
Goodwill, like’ a good name,
j j s g 0 t many actions, Jef- and
( lost by one. Lord Francis
I frey. ' ■HI
Company, Lancaster, Pa. The
school, instituted at Hamilton fol¬
j lowing the introduction of the
' electric watch in 1957, is the only
; one of its kind in the work).
Tnr SAVANNAH TRIBUNE. SAVANNAH, GFOBGIA
The home of James Hawkins, a
member of the faculty of Pearl
Lee Smith School, was a scene of
beauty on last — Friday ■ - evening as
the members of the school’s fac-
ulty and their guests gathered
to pay special tribute to Mrs.
Editta Gill, whom they selected
as their “Teacher of the Year”
for 1959-60.
Mr. Hawkins served as master
of ceremony for the program which
included prayer, Mrs. Alfreida
Habersham; solo, Miss Julia John-
son; presentation of Silver Tray
from the faculty by Mrs. Marian
Duncan, former Teacher of the
Year; response, Mrs. Editta Gill;
remarks, Mrs. Sadie L. Cartledge,
principal. During the program,
Mrs. Gill stood between her hus¬
band and her attractive daughter.
The remaining part of evening
was spent playing games. A buf-
fet-style dinner was served by the
“Teacher of the Year” committee
with Mr®. Geneva Mitchell
as the general chairman.
Horance St School
On Monday, May 16, at Flor-
ance Street School, Robert Wash¬
ington, assisted by two of his pu¬
pils, Ernest Maxwell and Rudolph
Williams, captivated Mrs. Hi¬
ring’s class during the science pe
riod with demonstrations on elec-
trinity and magnetism.
e''ldcgra Mr. Washington "Ending'and C.'rti^Tis'rated
th P h
ng set, techniques fBc . hn{luIPK employed ,. m in, n eed i„ in
the construction of a hot
various facets of a carbon heat-
er, construction of an electric mo-
tor, and the use of a condenser.
A11 modeI ed . demonstrations .
were made ? u f by Mr. ™ Washington’s
class.
OPEN HOUSE '
The public is invited to attend
“Open House” at the school on
Friday, May 27.
! St. Emma Military Academy
Powhatan, Virginia
Founded - 1895
. Fully Accredited High School
National Defense Cadet. Corps School
U. S. Army ROTO Honor School
Under direction of
THE HOLY GHOST FATHERS
Academic — Trade
Agriculture — ROTO
Athletics — Band
For Information and
Oatalogue — Write:
Reverend Director
St. Emma Military Academy
Powhatan, Virginia
NEW 3-BED ROOM BUNGALOW'S
4 BED ROOM BUNGALOW on Lot 50’xI900’
3 BED ROOM BUNGALOW, East Waldburg
on Lot fiO’ x 113*
BEST PRICES PAID FOR VACANT LOTS
Loans - To Repair or Build New Houses
Ezra Johnson
1669 West Bread Street
PHONE ADams 4-3432 Res ADams 2-7573
517 Acre Miss. Farmer
Was Once an Empty-Handed
A former colored sharecronper,
who married in a borrowed suit,
is now one of Mi«sissinpi’s lead¬
ing farmers, says W. E. Ammons,
Stbte leader of extension work.
The farmer is Ot.ha Williams,
; r.l7-acre cotton and cattle farmer
( ,f Canton. Miss., who has
ed by following improved farming
methods. He and Mrs. Williams
live . attractive .. .. , home, , have
in an
modern farm equipment, and are
leaders n. the local farmer coopera¬
tive.
But things were quite different
24 years a on when the couple wus
| married. “I had been working at
J a sawmill,” says Mr. Williams,
„ h , )t , (|jJn , t have a thinff . Even
; hH(| fn )mrrow „ , uit to get mar _
ried in.”
| i TbjCn the Williams shamroppe.il
1 two'years and saved up to buy
j mole. By 1941, they had a pair
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, and
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Hre renting 437 acres, Mr-
Amnions points out.
J ,)ur,n * thelr f,r »* y** r * oI farnv
ipg, when they knew little about
^ of fertihzer and bo|)
' contro1 "’' l " ’ the M " 5 C0U|de l,ar ‘' ly
haryeHted 200 pounds of lint cot-
^ ul1 P er acre. Today, the yield is
, close to 900 pounds, or more than
! four times what it was before
, | they caUed^ „ , their ... extension
on
j agents, R. M. Mackey and Thomas
I I L. Jordan.
j “The agents have helped us in
, many ways,” Mr. Williams ex-
plains. “They encouraged us <*i
1 have our soil tested so that we
AMEs Con¬
clude Conf.
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fConfltiupd trie 1 Pose One'
Greene, Atlanta, Ga.
Twelfth Episcopal District
(Ark., Okla.l Bishop O. L. Sher¬
man. Little Rock. Ark.
Thirteenth Episcopal District
(Ky., Tenn ) Bishop E. L, Hick¬
man, Nushville, Tenn.
•Fourteenth Episcopal District
(Liberia. Ghana) Bishop David H.
Sims. Philadelphia, Pa.
Fifteenth Episcopal District
(Union of South Africa) Bishop
Francis II. Gow, Capetown, South
Africa.
"Sixteenth Episcopal District
(West Indies, S. America) Bishop
Carey A. Gibbs, Birmingham, Ala.
"Seventeenth Episcopal ( E.
Africa) Bishop John 1). Bright,
Philadelphia, Pa.
'Eighteenth Episcopal District
(Central and South Africa) Bis¬
hop George N. Collins, New
Orleans, La.
: Change in assignment
General Officers Elected:
Secy-Treas., Dept, of Home and
Foreign Missions — Dr. A. Chester
Clark.
Secy-Treas., Financial Dept. —
11, W. Mance.
Secy-Treas., Sunday School
Union — E. A. Selby.
Secy-Treas., Church Extension
Dept. — A. G. Gaston i
Secy-Treas., Pension Dept. — I
J. E. Beard.
Secy-Treas., Dept, of Evatigc-
lism G. H. J. Thibodeaux.
Secy-Treas., Division of Edu-
national Institutions — Sherman
L. Greene Jr.
Secy-Treas., Division of Chris-
tion Education — Andrew White,
Editor, A. M. E. Review
George A. Singleton.
Editor, Christian Recorder
J. Nolen.
I Editor-in-Chief, Religious Lit¬
erature — Charles S. Spivey.
Director, Minimum Salary Fund
Dept. — !!. Ralph Jackson.
MAJOR LEGISLATIVE
ACTIONS. MERGED its two
weekly newspapers, the South¬
western Christian Recorder and
the £ Christian Recorder, into a sin-
puiiii.’ution, .„d ..
........ «- «*. »<
(Tho ChriHti*n Record-
ar is the oldest Negro newspaper
still in publication having begun
in 1824 as the Christian Herald.)
CREATED a department of
minimum salary fund to adminis¬
ter und direct the million dollar
subsidy to ministers throughout
the connection. The fund, created
by legislation of the 1956 general
conference, is raised from public
offerings at annual conferences.
would know how much fertilizer
to use; and they suggested that
, we have our whole farm mapped
by Soil Conservation Service so
i that we would know the best lend
! | for our cotton crop. Also they
h »ve kept us up-to-date on poison-
‘?. r ,01 weevils.
The Williams employ modern
methods, too, in developing pas-
lures and raising beef cattle. They)
| ' the ..... first in . the 1
were among co-
unty to install a self-service home-1
made rubbing device which enables!
1 cattle to rid themselves u>f flies j
and other pests by ruTiTifng dung their their j i
bodies against a padded!rape that
has been saturated with an itmeqtjf
J I cide.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams now have
more than 40 head of grade and
| purebred'Hereford cuttle, and plan
, ^ opncentriUe more and more on
livestock, and-loss and and less on
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# nr
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also he1|i'Mrs. Williditnl irwpl
j planning, food preservation, and
| other hontemaking problems.
•; | >\ ! 1 r.TyjJl TTiJ ^ ’ ::»■ 1
| ^ man has tb live with him-
se ]f j jj nf ] he shhUld see to it
that he always has good com¬
pany. > 4
—Charles Evans Hughes
i
w 1 13 'll be Happy 1 with
Electric Gifts
The most welcome wedding gift is something the new home¬
maker needs.
In modern Electric Appliances you can find just the right thing
to please everybody on your gift list.T^
When you choose useful Electric' Appliances, you're giving
comfort and convenience and less work for years to come—perfect.
start to happy homemaking!!, -~
Savannah Electric and Power Co.
PAGE SEVEN
The new director of the minimum
salary department is Dr. H. Ralph
Jackson of Memphis.
ESTABLISHED a commission
on social- action to implement a
program program on civil and human
rights as recommended in the 24,-
960 word Episcopal address de¬
livered by Bishop Joseph Gomez
of Cleveland, O. IN A SERIEH
OF RESOLUTIONS THE GENT,
CONF.:
RE AFFIRMED its support and
endorsement of the National Coun¬
cil of Churches and deplored the
Air Forces training manual sug¬
gestion that the organized Protest¬
ant Church was in any way tint¬
ed with Communism.
HAH,ED the 50th anniversary
of the Pittsburg, Courier, and paid
tribute to the National Newspaper
Publishers Association for its co-
operation with various religious
denominations.
EAST SAVANNAH
By M. E. Morrell
Revival services closed last
Friday night alter two weeks
with preaching one week con¬
ducted by Rev. R. L. Thomas.
Five were baptized last Sun¬
day morning and 6 were add¬
ed to the church at the regular
communion service at 3 p. m.
Rev. Harold Baker brought the
message. Several visitors were
present including Rev. Palmer.
The Sunday School is sponsor¬
ing a chicken supper this Sat-
urday in the church annex.
Mrs. Janie Bowers will expect
.ail interested in the Bible
teachers .and students to
attend FAB church school next
month, June 13-24.
Rev. and Mrs. I. W. Wash¬
ington have returned to Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., after visiting
relatives and friends including
Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Carter.
Revival services will ,be held
at Holy Zion Church .of God.
Rev. Mrs. Scott will conduct the
services next week. Elder
Townsend, pastor.
Shut-ins include Mrs. Carrie
Jackson, Mrs. Rebecca Jones
and Pompie Jackson.
Awarded
Scholarship
'Continued rrom Page one)
service in the United States and in
Europe, Mr. Wright carries the
title of Sergeant First Class and
is presently assigned as unit coun¬
selor and public information of¬
ficer to the 276th Transportation
Company (United Stutes Army
Reserve).