ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
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CAMPUS NOTES PROMINENT GRADUATE PASSES
rACULTY ChAN-GES
Mr. Ivan E. Taylor lias been added to tlie faculty as
professor of English. Mr. Taylor holds a joint profes
sorship at St. Aiigustine’s and Shaw University, and his
appointment in both colleges represents another steji in
the program of co-operation begun last year between
these two Raleigh institutions. Professor Taylor holds
the B. A. and the M. A. degree from Koward University,
and has completed the residence requirements for the
doctor of philosophy degree in the University of Penn
sylvania. He has served on the faculties of Virginia
Union University and Lincoln University, and was
formerly dean of Samuel Houston College in Texas.
]ilr. John Hope Franklin succeeded Miss Jessie E.
Guernsey, resigned, as professor of history. He is a
graduate of the Eisk University, has earned the M. A., at
Harvard, and is a candidate for the doctorate from, the
latter. Professor Franklin has taught at North Caro
lina A. and T. College and at Eisk. He has been a
Rosenwald fellow.
Mr. Earl H. McClenney succeeds Mr. Percy Young,
resigned, as professor of Education. Professor McClen
ney was formerly principal of the Thomasville, C.,
high school, and has jjursued work toward the doctoi ate
at Cornell University, where he received the master s de
gree. He completed his undergraduate work at jSTorth
Carolina A. and T. College.
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Prof. A. P. Chippey attended the summer session
of the University of Pennsylvania, taking work toward
the Ph. D. degree.
Prof. Lloyd L. Woods returned to Kansas State Uni-
sity for the summer session, also continuing study to-
Ward the doctorate.
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Dr. George E. Loder, principal of Gailor Institute,
Mason, Tenn., visited the campus early in October,
bringing one of the graduates of Gailor to enter St.
Augustine’s. During his visit he made a chapel ad
dress and also spoke at a faculty meeting.
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Two guest preachers have occupied the pulpit since
the beginning of the session: Rev. John J. Greene, o
Uie Church of the Redeemer, Greensboro, •
Stephen’s, Winston-Salem, N”. C., and the Re\. i
Ham D. Turner, ’34, of St. Stephen’s, Savannah, Ga.
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Faculty and students responded as usual ™ ,
Huai campaign of the Community Chest o ^ ^
A Sunday offering was donated, and the sta
Scribed 100 per cent.
One of St. Augustine’s most distinguished graduates
was lost when the Rev. Everard W. Daniel, rector of
St. Matthew’s Church, Detroit, passed away on Sep
tember 6. The Rev. Mr. Daniel was born in Saint
Thomas, B. W. I., in 1876. After graduation from
St. Augustine’s in 1899 he continued his education at
iNTew York University, General Theological Seminary
and Union Theological Seminary. He served in St.
Philip’s Parish, New York City, for several years’
finally giving up his work there to become rector of
St. Matthew’s about twenty years ago. The account
of his death in the Living Church is quoted in part;
“Father Daniel was recognized as an extremely
brilliant mind, and was higlily respected for his
ability and for tiie extraordinary work he had done
in St. Matthew’s Parish. . . So great was the rever
ence in which Father Daniel was held in Detroit that
the church and parisli house were crowded, and it
was impossible to And parking space witliin several
blocks of the building. Prominent citizens of De
troit, including a judge and an ex-mayor, were the
honorary i)allbearers.”
The Rev. Mr. Daniel took an active interest in St.
Augustine’s and visited here in 1936, when he was the
baccalaureate preacher, as he was also in 1911.
Arna Bontemps, noted novelist and writer of chil
dren’s books, lectured to a large audience of students
and faculty members on November 17. Mr. Bontemps
is among the best known of contemporary negro au
thors. His visit came in Book Week. The speaker
on the assembly program in observation of Book Week
was Miss Marguerite Lovell, librarian at North Caro
lina College.
To date St. Augustine’s football team has shown
decided improvement over last year’s, having won from
Elizabeth City Teachers College 25 to 0, tied Miner
Teachers College 7 to 7, and lost to Johnson C. Smith
and St. Paul by a margin of two touchdowns each, as
comj)ared to five last year.
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An old and loyal friend of St. Augustine’s was lost
in the death of the Rev. Robert B. Drane, D.D., retired
rector of St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, N. C. Dr. Drane
served the same parish as rector for fifty-six years.
He was in his eighty-eighth year at the time of his
death in Edenton on the eve of All Saints’ Day. From
1917 to 1936, Dr. Drane served as a member of the
Board of Trustees of St. Augustine’s College, in which
he showed great interest, attending the meetings regu
larly even after failing health had compelled him to
resign his roctorate in Edenton. He was the nephew
of the elder Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, one of the
incorporators of St. Augustine’s in 1867, and conse
quently a cousin of the late Bishop Cheshire, who was
for so many years president of our Board of Trustees.
Dr. Drane was also a trustee of St. Mary’s School
and of the University of the South.