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---. Volume I, Number 18 Lincoln 3, Nebraska February 7, 1347 Successful Educators Find Their Places MOTHER OF 1946 PORTLAND, Ore. (ANP)—Ad dressing a meeting in Bethel AM Church here last Sunday, the “American Mother of 1946,” Mrs. Emma Clarisse Clement, of Louis ville, told listeners how she had reared her seven prominent chil dren to become leaders in edu cational, civic and religious fields. Speaking particularly to a group of Christian Endeavor members, she said, “I kept track of them as long as I was responsible for them. Not orie was allowed to have a door key until old enough to marry. There wasn’t any com ing home, unchecked, any hour of the night.” Relating several family stories, • Mrs. Clement said the girls were Aever allowed to milk cows, but HLWielped with churning, and that two cows, 150 chickens and a gar RpPden wrere the important sources ivof livelihood to supplement the father’s income as a minister. Rev. : . Clement was bishop of the AME Zion church at the time of his death in 1935. Born in Providence, R. I., the grandaughter of a slave, Mrs. Clement told of knowing George Washington Carver and mention-! ed some of the ways he helped mankind. “Education is worth whatever struggle it takes,” she told her audience. “Prepare your selves for opportunities and the opportunities will come in one Jorm or another.” " With her was her oldest child, Mrs. Abbie Jackson. After tell ing more stories of the family life, she made this observation, “One of the things earliest in my mem ory is Mother teaching us never r.v to apologize for the color of our 1 skin.” G. W. Harper, President of Ministerial Alliance In a recent election of the Min isterial Alliance held at the North side Church of God, the following officers were elected: Rev. G. W. Harper, pastor of Newman Meth odist Church, president; J. L. Hull, ^assistant pastor, Christ Temple "(Holiness), vice president; R. L. Moody, pastor of the Northside Church of God, secretary; and | ‘John Humbert, pastor at Beatrice A. M. E. Church was reelected | treasurer OBSERVES THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF MINISTRY of CHURCH Rev. and Mrs. T. O. McWilliams, Jr. Rev. and Mrs. Trago T. Mc Williams Jr. will observe their third anniveisary at Christ Tem ple, Church of Christ (Holiness) on Sunday, February 9. It is in teresting to note that the church, formerly known as the Third Christian Church was founded by Rev. McWilliams’ grandparents in the early 1890’s. It is now located at 2149 U Street. Besides being a successful pas tor and humanitarian, Rev. Mc Williams is president of the Interracial Interdenominational Christians Alliance, retiring pres ident of the Negro Ministerial Al liance, and active in the Social Action Congress. Aside from regular services at the Carver Nursing Home he ren ders service at the Nebraska State Penitentiary and various hos pitals. Mrs. McWilliams is outstanding in her own right, being pianist, Bible teacher and a splendid ex ample of a minister’s wife, as well an accomplished artist. She was student of the late Mrs. Anna Burckhardt. To Our Readers: Your cooperation and patience are appreciated. Due to production difficulties, the paper has been late^fjor trie past few weeks. We anticipate a return to the normal publication sche dule by next week. The More Than 60 Negroes Teaching in White Colleges CHICAGO—(ANP)—The steady growth in the number of Negroes who have been placed upon facul ties of white colleges throughout the north, and even as far south as Black Mountain college in North Carolina, has come about witha swiftness which has caught many of us unaware. These new p o s ts as college I teachers, augmented during the I war perhaps by a new sense of J social responsibility, perhaps as a j result of need for competent teaching personnel, bids fair to become permanent in many schools. In others teachers were employed for the summer or for a specific term or quarter. The following lists for which I am indebted in part to Edward and Virginia L. Jones of the Negro College Quarterly, are, aliqpst,, certainly not all of those ndw on white college faculties but it is enough to give an idea of the ex tent of this new field which has opened up. As Mrs. Jones re marks, the shoe may well be transferred to the other foot and that Negro schools might well employ some white teacher. Such a cultural exchange she says, would contribute enormously to the improvement of race relations on the intellectual level and might stimulate exchanges in other fields. The list which does not consciously include those below the rank of instructor, omitting teaching fellows of whom there may be a great many, is as fol lows: Walter Anderson, Antioch col lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio; Charles A. H. Benjamin and Les tine Grant, Sampson college, Geneva, N. Y.; Dr. Mary Huff Diggs, Alfred E. Martin and War ren Brown, Hunter college, New York; Tannery F. Duckery, Uni versity of Southern California, (Continued on page 3) Sec. 562, P. L. & It. Return Postage Guaranteed l®& _