Spring Cropi^Of Grads Announced
June 6 will be a very wonderful day in t> uves of
over 3000 University of Nebraska students v j will be
awarded degrees after four years in the citadel of learning.
Seven colored students have been listed among those re
ceiving degrees. They are: -
Jerry Crowder, son of Mr. and
M rs. Jerry Crowder Sr., Johnson
City, Tenn., will receive his B.S.
in civil engineering. He has been
signed by the Bethlehem Steel
Co., Bethlehem, Pa., to work as
an engineer this summer.
Robert Benjamin Taylor, son
of Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Taylor,
Sr., Okmulgee, Okla., will re
ceive his B.X. degree in chemis
try. In the fall he will enter the
Meharry dental college at Nash
ville, Tenn.
Mrs. Eugenia Brown, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Simms,
Lincoln, will receive her B.F.A.
in music.
Granville Coggs, son of Dr. ami
Mrs. T. W. Coggs, Little Rock,
Ark., will receive his B.S. de
gree with distinction in chemis
try. In the fall Mr. Coggs will en
ter the Harvard Medical school
in Cambridge, Mass. He will be ‘
accompanied East by his charm
ing wife, Maude Currie.
Among those receiving gradu
ate degrees will be:
Charlene Jane May, daughter
of Mrs. Laurence May, Fads City,
Neb., M. S. in social work. She |
will join the staff of the Omaha
Family Service association.
Mrs. Annetta Miller Smith,
daughter of Mrsr brthan Miller.
2251 So. 8, Lincoln, M. A. in
school administration. Beginning !
August 1 she will assuraa duties:
as Dean of Women at Bethune
Cookman College in Daytona
Beach, Fla.
Oliver Smith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Smith, Elys inn Field',
Texas, M. S. in agronomy. Mr.
Smith recently received the
Gamma Sigma Delta scholarship
certificate.
Mrs. Pamana Banks Stanton,
' daughter of Mrs. Ritha Banks,
Lincoln, M.A. in socialvwork. She
will join the staff of the Cleve- j
land Family Service association ;
on June 30.
But University of Nebraska
students are not the only ones '
happy to see graduation day come.
At Union College, four Negro stu
dents were among the 73 receiv
ing Bachelor of Arts degrees.
They were:
Herbert Emery Alexander, B.A.
Mrs. Arthelia Victoria Alex
ander, B. A., with Recommenda
tion, Secretarial training.
John Frank Bookhardt, B. A.,
with Recommendation.
William Robert Boatwright,
B. A., with Recommendation.
John Edward Washington, B. A.,
with Distinction.
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Friday, June 3, Pinewood Bowl
will be the scene of graduation
exercises for Lincoln high schooL
but in case of inclement weather
they will be held in St. Paul
Methodist church. Among the class
of 344 are included the following,
some of whom have been very
active members of their class this
year:
Hazel Wilson, daughter of Mr.
^ and Mrs. James Wilson, 1923 T
street, Lincoln.
Lois Hatcher, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Hammond, 2229 T
street, Lincoln.
Phyllis Holcomb, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Holcomb, 2300
R street, Lincoln»
Nate Casteel, s^TF of Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. CasteeL St. Joseph, Mo.
Elbert Starks, son of Mr. and
Best for the Job
I d ;
Private Peter Mow (James Ed
wards) doing surveying behind
Japanese lines and preparing the
way for allied victory in a
scene from “Home of the
Brave.” United Artists release,
the first Hollywood motion
picture to star a Negro actor.
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House, Senate
Disagree On
Ohio FEPC Rip
COLUMBUS, O. (ANP). Dis
agreement between the house and
senate over a senate amendment;
to the house-approved state FEPC ;
bill threatened to stall the passage
of the measure here last week.
However, both legislative bodies
agreed to put the matter before a !
joint committee to work out a
compromise.
The house had approved a bill
calling for a mandatory FEPC
program. The senate amended the
measure by taking out compulsory ,
features and substituted an edu- \
cational program. The measure!
was then returned to the house.:
where a 63-65 vote was registered,
the 63 votes being in favor of the !
senate rider—five shy of the
necessary 68.
The bill went back to the sen
ate, which voted 17-11 in favor of
keeping the amendment. The sen
ate asked that a joint committee
be selected to work out a com
promise. The house accepted. Any
agreement reached by the com
mittee must be approved by a
majority of those elected to the
two houses—68 in the house and
17 in the senate.
Marian Anderson
Receives Finnish
Decoration
HELSINKI, Finland. (ANP).
World famous singer Marian An
derson was awarded the “Pro
Benignitate Humana," a Finnish
decoration, at a ceremony at the
American legation here last week.
Miss Anderson is on an Euro
pean singing tour.
Mrs. Ebert Starks, 1955 U street
Lincoln.
Lester N'apue. son of Mr.-^and
Mrs. C. D. Napue, 700 No. 22
street, Lincoln.
Negro Student
(Wins King
Gustav Award
MINNEAPOLIS. (ANP). Archie
Holmes, 27-year-old junior at the
University of Minnesota won the
King Gustav of Sweden award
here last Wednesday night for
helping Chinese stucents at the
college. Holmes, a native of Emer
son, Ark., was chosen for the
award by the National Hiliel com
mission, a Jewish organization,
for making the biggest contribu
tion during the year to inter-racial
relations.
He had helped to organize a din
ner and other events to raise
scholarship funds for Chinese stu
dents when they were threatened
with loss of their education as in- ■
flation hit their native country. He
was also active in half dozen other
inter-group projects. A $300 j
scholarship went along with the
award.
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Swarthmore Frats
War Against Bias
In Charters
SWARTHMORE, Pa. (ANPJ.
The four major Swarthmore col
lege fraternities undertook a
campaign to rid their national or
ganizations of racial and religious
discrimination here last week. The
Greek-letter groups are the Delta
Upsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Phi
Kappa Psi and Phi Sigma Kappa.
Their plan is to oppose any
clause “m the charters or by-laws
of any fraternity having a chap
ter on Swarthmore college campus
which discriminates on racial or
religious grounds.”
Swarthmore is a small college
in the Philadelphia suburbs and
boasts a high academic rating.
Several members of the college's
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity resigned
last December when the Amherst
college chapter was denied the
right to admit a Negro.
Commencement Speaker
President Frederick D. Patterson of Tusk eg ee institute and Mrs.
Clara Booth Lore, former congresswoman of Connecticut and
commencement day speaker at the institute, smile as the procession
line assembles far the commencement day exercises. Seen in the
carter is Vice President L A. Derbiguy of the institute, who also
serves aa the administrative dean. (A.VP) i
Claire Booth Luce Compares
Capitalism and Communism
In Commencement Address
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
(ANP). Mrs. Clare Booth Luce,
former congresswoman from Con
necticut and wife of the publisher
of Time and Life magazines, and
Dr. Vernon Johns, pastor of Dex
ter Avenue Baptist church, in
Montgomery, were guest speakers
at Tuskegee institute’s commence
ment exercises, 400 students re
ceived degrees last week. Mrs.
Luce’s speech highlighted com
mencement day on Monday. Dr.
Vernon delivered the baccalaure
ate sermon Sunday.
“There are a thousand useful
public strategies and fruitful pri
vate techniques which the edu
cated Negro is learning to employ
to break the vicious circle of dis
crimination, poverty, segregation
and to destroy the ugly caste sys
tem based on color,” declared the
attractive, versatile Mrs. Luce in
addressing the large graduating
class in the subject, “The Time for
Christians.” Stating that the fu
ture “will belong to the men who
have character, vision and cour
age to go to the heart of what is
the matter with our society,” Mrs.
Luce related, “what is wanted to
I save our civilization from atomic
or economic annihilation is the
acceptance by man of the simple
proposition that his survival de
pends utterly on his keeping his
own soul in his body and his
brother’s body around his soul.
“Capitalism, communism, de
mocracy and Christianity,” she
said, “are words which have nec
essarily lost their common mean
ing. It is important, though, in
trying to find out why keeping
body and soul together is a revo
lutionary political idea that you
and I know exactly how we are
using some of these words and
what we mean by them.
Capitalism, she pointed out, is
a system which makes the primary
purpose of government that of
aiding or protecting the individual
in his unlimited legal acquisition
To New York
Miss Jeanne Malone
Miss Jeanne Malone, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Malone,
1035 Rose, will join the College
Summer Service group in New
York City this summer to par
ticipate in a “Students in In
dustry” project
of property and wealth. Pure
capitalism lets a man get as rich
as he can so long as he stays out
of jail, she related.
Contrasting capitalism and com
munism the speaker declared that
“where capitalism ignores man’*
soul, communism denies its ex
istence.”
“I believe,” she continued, “it to
be utterly impossible for anyone
to analyze what democracy is, as
we know it today, without coming
to see that the difference between
democracy and either capitalism
or communism is made by Chris
tianity. The spirit of Christianity
is the right of every man to choose
freely; the oneness of mankind;
the equality of every embodied
soul in the eyes of God.”
“Only Christianity offers the
principles of government by which
the citizens can keep body and
soul together” and “in the years
of your youth you must decide
whether you are going for Chris
tianity, capitalism or commun
ism.”
Mrs. Luce closed her address
with a tribute to the late Dr.
George Washington Carver whose
“saintliness has made more con
verts to the Negroes’ cause than
all the lobbyists—though they
have had their place too.”
Dr. Bunche
Scheduled For
2 More Honors
NEW YORK. (ANP). Accord
ing to announcements last week,
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche is scheduled
for two new honors in the near
future.
The Haitian government will
award him the “Honneur Et
Merite,” the highest grade of the
National Order of Haiti, and the
Hebrew Union college in Cincin
nati will present him with an
honorary degree of Doctor of He
brew Letters. The latter will
take place on June 11. The date
for the'former has not been set.
Dr. Bunche will be the second
American to receive the Haitian
award. The first to be honored
was Ex-Senator William King.
