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VOL. LVL ;_ --i t T. COMMENCEMENT AT HAINES INSTITUTE, AUGUSTA, GA, Graduation exercises held in Mcuregor flail vi names insti tute on Tuesday, May 21, at a:io r. m., ana carried out m tne traditional stately manner 01 Haines' commencements, cli maxed a very successful com mencement season at tne insu? lure. Following the customary pro cessional composed of the prin cipal, guest speaker, trustees and graduating class, tne cho rus rendered neting music and liie valedictory was delivered by Miss juamta Terrell, of the sen ior class, who maintained the highest average in. tne class ior the four years in the high school. The main feature of the eve-i ning was the address to the graduates delivered this year by Miss Lucy D. Siowe, Dean of Women of Howard University* Washington, D. C. Miss Siowe nerself a great character, de lighted her audience with sim ple eloquence. Without flights of oratory, but in simple, plain lan guage she held her hearers speubound as she spoke in terms which every person could un derstand. it, was her aim, she said, to make her talk in such language that it would be inter esting and helpful to the gradu ates themselves. nie josey, Elizabeth Burr, M. larown, r. aimmons. aecona year; ooun warren, uunme Mae x>rausnaw, xsenme Mae iw.au aox, liuun Mason, uouy cwv dus, Aionzo xeroy, cora Mey ers, x>ernice jsryan, ndeanor isrown, ivatnerine Bryant, ai dxanaer ureen, Marian creen. x’ irst year ciass: inomas Alien, nUciie Butler, corenzo Gartren, ^nanene joimson, xvobbiestme josey and Eiizabetn Mason. English—senior Class: Blon deii JJavis, Juanita Terrell, Vir vuan Hadden, junior Class: Eu* ia Smith, Carrie Dixon. Second year class—Alonzo Yerby, Ma rian Green, Eleanor Browns sendee Bryan, Bennie Maddox, Edith Mason, Willie Mae Mead* ows, Cora Meyers, Katie Simp* Kins, John Warren. First Year Class: Clarence Johnson, Catherine Williams, [Alice Warren, Lucile Butler, Bobbies tine Josey, Thomas Al ien, Magnolia Wilson^ Elizabeth Mason, Catherine Brunson, Mar tina Hall, Bertelle Lee, Frances’ JToung. History: Senior Class: Vivian Haddon, Julian Walton, Essie) O’Bryant, Juanita Terrell, Olih Newsome. Junior Class: Eula Smith. Second Year Class: Martin Greene, John Warren, Edith Mason, Alonzo Yerby, Julia Nelson, Eleanor Brown, Alline Williams. ledling four simple stories, the first, of King Midas, greedy for gold; the second of Thom, who was willing to undergo any hardships to realize his ambi tion to be a knight; the third of a boy from Nazareth, who at the age of twelve said that he must be about His Father's bus iness, and the ladf’j^Cgirl whd came from Atlanta University and in spite of hardships made any sacrifice necessary to help the boys and girls in Augusta, the inimitable Lucy C. Laney. Drawing^ the contrast between the first story and the last three Miss Slowe urged the graduates . to go out with a sense of hu man values rather than a mere love of gold. Citing the Scrip ture, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul,” Miss Slowe said that from her experience she had learned to interpret this as “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his ppwer to influence others for good.” She closed her address with a plea that each graduate attempt to make him self a power to influence others for good. First Year Class: Magnolia Wilson, Bertelle Lee, Robbiestine Josey, Frances Young, Charlene Johnson, Alyce Warren, Hattie Zeigler, Catherine Williams, Lucite Butler, JElizabeth Wells, | Waiie- Avery, Catherine -Bran-* son, Elizabeth Mason. Mathematics: Senior Class—i Vivian Haddon, Juanita Terrell. Second Year Class: Bernice Bryant, Ernistine Horton, Alon zo Yerby, Alexander Green, Eleanor Brown, Julia Blount, Allen Williams, Edith Mason, Katie Simpkins, Julia Nelson,; John Warren, Catherine Bry ant, Dollie B. Givens, Eloise Jones, Mayme Beaty, Marian Greene, Bennie Mae. Maddox, Cora Meyers, Frederick Ferry. Frist Year Class: Robbiestine Josey, Martinfa Hall, Magnolia Wilson. Bertelle Lee, George Wallace, Charlene Johnson, Christine Stewart, Annie M. Johnson, Catherine Brunson, Elizabeth Mason, Robert Rucker, Frances Voung, Alice Warren, Beatrice Burton, Willie Avery. After this masterful address short remarks were made by Dr. S. S. Johnson, President of the Trustee Board; Mrs. H. L. McCrorey, of Charlotte, N. C.; and Dr. A. B. McCoy, of Atlan ta, Ga., both members of the Trustee Board. Dr. McCoy an nounced that a gift of five thou sand dollars had been offered the school provided the institu tion raise an additional thous and. He also announced that the Trustees had accepted the chal lenge and efforts would be made at once to begin the raising of these funds. Remarks were also made by Miss Louise Laney, Principal, who reminded the au dience that next year Haine3 will celebrate her fiftieth anni versary as a chartered school. The closing remarks were made by Rev. A. C. Griggs, who ex pressed the appreciation of all connected with the school for the fine support given the school by alumni and friends. The servic es ended by singing of the Alma Mater. Thus ended another suc cessful term at Haines—its for ty-ninth year as a chartered in stitution. 1935 Haines High School Honor Roll Bible: Senior Class—Essie O’Bryant; Junior Class: Carrie Dixon, Ariel Perry, Alaise Moore, Thelma Mack, Margue Sociology: Senior Class: Olin Newsome, Essie O’Bryant, Vivian Haddon, John Walton, Juanita Terrell, Rena Bolster. Economics: Junior Class: Eu la Smith, Petronella Simmons. Physics: Junior Class: Eula Smith, Biology: Second Year Class: Alonzo Yerby, Cora Meyers, Bernice Bryan, John Warren, Katherine Bryant, Eleanor Brown, Edith Mason, Willie Mae Meadows. French: Seniors: ' Blondelle Davis, Vivian Haddon, Virgil Moore, Juanita Terrell, Paul Yerby, Claude Smith, Robert Jenkins, Rena Bohler, Essie O’Bryant, Charles Floyd, Isaiah Gomillion. Junior Class: Carrie Dixon, Ariel Perry, Eula Smith, Thel ma Mack, Bertha Wallace, Mar guerite Josey, Alaise Moore. Latin: Junior Class: Jayma Carter, Carrie Dixon, Ariel Per ry, Alarse Moore, Thelma Mack. Second Year Class—Bernice Bryan, John Warren, Marion Bryant, Ernestine Horton, Cora Meyers, Eleanor Brown, Katie Greene, Edith Mason, Catherine Simpkins, Alonzo Yerby, Eula Smith. First Year Class—T. H. Al (Continued on page 4) By Dr. Charles E. Hall, clerk in the Census office since 1890, hat been' promoted to the position of “Specialist in Negro Statis tics.” Mr. Hall was born In Baf tavia, Ul., and was educated in the public schools and Wilbers force University. He has usual ly been rated as a Republican in politics but, in the last elec tion voted for the Democratic Senators and for Roosevelt and Garner on the National ticket? Mr. Hall is an enthusiastic sup porter of Roosevelt and the ‘New Deal.” where the duties are semi . Colored men and wom no longer look to the civ Swrvice as a career. Charles Ball is about the only colored that one can think of who risen to a place of distinct don since the administration of fjjposevelt. It is also worthy of Abbe that this promotion was made in the Department of Com merce, presided over by Daniel C. Roper, a South Carolinian, ifc Roper was at. one time a socialist in the Census office Ijid has known Mr. Hall for a inmber of years, and maintains 4$r. him the highest respect and |steem. ; The ffclue of Mr. Hall’s work can hardly be overestimated, students, scholars and investi gators interested in {.he held of Hegro inquiry, must need resort these volumes, both of which ape in large part, the handiwork of Charles E. Hall. It might not oe amiss to step aside for a mo ment to pay tribute to Robert A; Pelham, for a long time a sec tion chief in the Census office, fho, with the assistance of Mr. Hall, worked out material for the first, of these important Census volumes. “Specialist m Negro Statis cics” is a new position which Mr. Hall has created by efficient and iong sustained effort in this field. He has had various expe riences as Assistant Secretary jf the Illinois League Republican Club, Managing editor of the illinois Record of Springfield, ill., before he was appointed dirough civil service to a clerk ship in the Census office in 1890. Duriijg the forty-five years of his clerkship he has maintained a high record of ef ficiency and has often been as signed to special tasks in con nection with Negro statistics. He compiled the statistics and vrote the bulletin on the clay products of the United States in 1906. This was the first re port on a commercial subject aver compiled by a Negro and published by the Federal Gov arnment. He arranged the ta bles for bulletin 129, “Negroes in the United States, 1790-1916." He has often been assigned to special tasks in v&xibUs parts the country in connection with Negro statistics and until his recent promotion, served as a section chief. Mr. Hall has been compiling data for a new volume the title of which is “Negroes in the United States 1920 1932.” This volume is now in the Printing Office and will shortly be available for distri bution. It, covers twenty chap ters and is supplementary to the volume on the same subject which covered the field from 1790 to 1915. These two vol umes cover a period of one hun dred forty-four years and con tain all the most important sta tistical data relating to the Ne gro race since the first census was taken in 1790. Taken to gether these two volumes con tain a storehouse of information which for comprehensiveness, thoroughness and reliability can not be duplicated anywhere In the world. SPINGARN MEDAL AWARD ED TO MRS. MARY McLEOD BETHINK Noted Educator Becomes Sec* end Woman to Be So Honored | New York, Mto; 31.-—Mrs; 3r and President of Bethune Qookman College, Daytona Beach, Fla., has been awarded che Spingaxn Medal for 1935, according to Oswald Garrison Villard, chairman of the Spin gam Medal Award Committee 3f the National Association for che Advancement of Colored People. She is the second wom an to win the coveted honor, the first one being the late Mrs. Mary B. Talbert* former Presi dent of the National Associa tion of Colored Women, who be jame the eighth Spingarn Med ilist in 1922. The Spingarn Medal was in stituted in 1914 by J. E. Spin gam <then chairman of the N. A. A. C. P. Board of Directors ind now President of the Asso* nation) who gives annually a gold medal to be awarded for che highest, or noblest achieve ment by an American Negro iuring the preceding year or /ears. Its purpose is two-fold— first, to call the attention of the American people to the exist ence of distinguished merit and ichievement among American Negroes, and secondly, to serve is a reward for such achieve ment, and as a stimulus to the ambition of colored youth. In recognition of nis long sustained efficient service Mr. Hail was recently promoted to the rank of “Specialist in Ne gro Statistics." This new posi tion which Mr. Hall has created will be a permanent part of the Census Office and in all proba bility will be filled by colored men of special training, experi ence and fitness in this impor tant branch of inquiry. When the civil service law was first enaeted, colored men and women of position and in fluence throughout the country rushed to Washington to re cruit the clerical ranks of the Government. Th|| seemed at that time to furnish a more re munerative career than school teaching or the ordinary pur suits open to colored men and women. Race and color fur nished no positive bar to ap pointment or promotion in the early days of the civil service, especially in the time when The odore Roosevelt was Civil Ser vice Commissioner. But in these latter days race prejudice has almost completely eliminated colored men from the clerical ranks of the Government. Very few, if any, are permitted ex cept in the Post Office Depart Has Had a Brilliant career In selecting Mrs. Bethune as twenty-first Spingam Medalist, the committee stated: “In the face of almost insuperable dif ficulties she has, almost single handedly, established and built up Befthunie-Cookman Oo^ege, which is recognized by the As sociation of Colleges and Sec ondary Sdhools of the South ern States as a standard junioi college. In doing this she has not simply created another ed ucational institution. Both the institution’s and Mrs. Be thune’s influence have been na tionwide. That influence has al ways been on a high plane, di rected by a superb courage Mrs. Bethune has always spok en out • against race prejudice in the South as weU as in th< North, without compromise 01 fear.” Born of slave parents, Sam an( Patsy McLeod, in a humble cab in on a rice and cotton farm near Mayesvile, South Carolina, and one of a family of Seventeen children, she early gave prom ise of a brilliant career. Gradu ating from Scotia Seminary, she won a scholarship which enabled her to attend Moody Bible Institute at Chicago, 111. Returning South she became a teacher at Hmnes Institute, Au gusta, Ga., under the late Miss Lucy Laney. Later she taught for two years at Sumter, S. C., where she married another teacher, Albert Bethune, and moved to Savannah, Ga., where her only son, Albert McLeod Bethune, was born. But the call to service came again. She taught at a mission school at Palatka, Fla., for five years. During this period she worked among.'the prisoners in che county jail, wielding a most remarkable influence for good, and aiding those unjustly ac cused. Founds School for Negro Gins With a burning desire to start a school for Negro girls, she ar rived in Daytona with her young son and only $1.50. There was no building, no furniture, no food, no money, no pupils, but with her characteristic re sourcefulness she rented a cab jin on credit, made furniture from dry goods boxes and dis carded hits of this and that. When the little cabin, crude but scrupulously clean, was in readiness on October 4th, 1904, five eager-eyed little black girls responded to her call and Day tona Educational and Industrial Training School was founded. The school’s thirty-two acres of land were secured from the sale of pastry and sandwiches made by pupils and teacher. Today on this beautiful campus vatively estimated as wor ?600,000. In 1923 the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute was merged with Cookman In stitute of Jacksonville, Fla., and became co-educational under he auspices of The Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is known ts Bethum^Cookmain College. Leader, of Colored Women Mrs. Bethune was a leading spirit in establising a Home for Delinquent Girls at Ocala, Fla., while President of the State Associationof Colored Women. She has also served with dis tinction as President of the Southeastern Federation of Wo men’s Clubs, two terms as Pres cient of the National Association cion of Colored Women, Presi dent of the National Association if. Teachers in Colored Schools, ind President of the Florida State Teachers’Association. She is also a member and director of the Commission on Interra cial Co-operation, a member of the National Council of Women of America, of the Internation al Council of the Women of the World, of the International Council of the Women of the Darker Races, and of the Na tional Education Association. . Through her many activities ; ‘n the fields of education, social service mid intejrracfal work, ! she has created a new apprecia . tion of the finest Negro woman . hood in America and made a : tremendous contribution to the cause of Negro advancement. Iri . September. 1930, she was named . as one of a group of fifty wo . men regarded by the writer, ■ Miss Ida M. 'Tarbell, as having i done the most for the welfare . of the United States. s The twenty-first Spingam Med - al will be awarded to Mrs. Be ■ thune at the twenty-sixth An • nual Conference of the N. A. A. - C. P. at St. Louis on the night . of June 28, 1935. , The prodigal’s joy roust have i been very real. The best part of • it lay, I think, in the revelation he had of his father’s love. That l was better than the best robe • and fatted calf. TUSKEGEE PRESIDENT ELECT SPEAKS TO HAMP TON GRADUATES Hampton Institute, Va., May 29, 1935.—Dtr. Frederick D. Pat .erson, President-elect of TUs ceee Institute, spoke to the graduating classes today whose ombined number, not counting hose who will receive their di plomas in the summer, totaled j.71. It was the sixty-fifth com mencement and the graduates /ere distributed as follows: ag iculture, 4; business, 12; edu ation, 43; home economics, 14; library, 15; music, 11; trade school, 8. Forty received. diplo mas from the Trade School; 20 Jrom the two-yea? course in ed ucation; while four candidates rom the three-year course in .Cursing and two in trade teach ing are to receive their diplo mas in the summer. A Scientist. Calls for Sane Thinking The audience was more tna,n anxious to get a chance to weigh the words of the scientist who has been called to succeed Hampton’s two most famous graduates, Dr. Booker T, Washi ngton and Dr. Robert R. Mo dern. Dr. Patterson said that he was certain that, the former would have had it as it is that .he first commencement address jf the new President-elect of Tuskegee should be delivered at Hampton Institute. After reviewing the world >haos and depression, Dr. Pat terson made it clear that his work at Tuskegee is to continue ;he thoughtful and common^ sense measures which have characterized the work of his ,wo predecessors, and the found er of Hampton Institute. Among rther things Dr. Patterson said, fftfc reference -to the building. if races: . “Here the principles as laid down by Armstrong and the /ision as caught, and crystallized by Booker T. Washington must be resorted to. General Arm strong’s philosophy of the race building process was evidenced in these words: ‘Too much is ex pected of one generation. The :eal upward movement, the lev eling up, not of persons, but of people, will be as in all history, Imperceptible, to be measured inly by long periods.’ “Dr. Washington otterea tne ine of action when he said: “We ihall prosper as we learn to do he common things of life in an uncommon way,’ And, ‘Let down your buckets where you are.” A soundly planned economy must be the bulwark of any ;roup. Without this, there can be no sound professional devel opment on the one hand nor op portunity for wage earners on the other. Just how far we may go in directing the educational policies and life pursuits of any group is a mooted question, but when absolute freedom in these directions shows a serious dis regard of group needs, some purposeful plan seems desirable. So much the better if this pur poseful plan can come as a re sult of sane thinking by minds divested entirely of false evalu ations and with a vision that would encompass not simply the exigencies of today, but the race as it will be for generations to come. It will be unfortunate indeed if at a time when all na tions and peoples are making a drastic effort to adjust their na tional and international affairs to sound economic principles, we do not find it necessary to view our problems with a keen and unbiased scrutiny, and formulate a program in keeping with our findings. “What, then, will be your at titude as graduates of 1935? What are your values? Has this period of training developed within you a desire for a sane and substantial living—not alone because of the element of per (Continued on page 4) ’
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