J. B. Brooks Reji*/^
To Quinn Or * ^ arch
The 31st session of the Nebras.
Annual conference of the Africian
Methodist church was held in
Kansas City, Kansas on Septem
ber 19-23 at First AM.E. church
with the Rt. Reverend D. Or
monde Walker presiding bishop
reading the appointments.
Rev. J. B. Brooks who was re
turned to Lincoln as pastor of the
Quinn Chapel to serve the 4th
year, was appointed director of
Religious Education of the Ne
braska Annual conference.
Appointments were:
Omaha District
Rev. John Adams, Sr., presiding
elder; Rev. S. H. Lewis, St. John,
Omaha; Rev. S. J. Holly, Camp
bell Chapel, Atchison; Rev. W. W.
Betton, Bethel, Leavenworth; Rev.
W. A. Fowler, Bethel, Omaha;
Rev. J. B. Brooks, Quinn Chapel,
Lincoln; Rev. R. E. Handy, Allen
Chapel, Omaha; Rev. John Hum
bert, Grand Island and Hastings;
Rev. Alfred Newton, Beatrice;
Rev. C. C. Baker, Nebraska City
and Fremont; Rev. W. E. Broaden,
Troy, Elwood and Highland; Rev.
Belva Spicer, North Platte; Rev.
S. Davis, Horton, Sabetha and
Fairview. Hiawatha and Falls
City to be supplied.
Kansas City District
Rev. E. W. Newton, presiding
Dr. Dickens
In College
Of Surgeons
CHICAGO — (ANP) — Dr.
Helen Dickens of Philadelphia
last week became the first Negro
woman to be selected as a certi
fied fellow of the International
College of Surgeons.
Dr. Dickens was among five I
outstanding Negro surgeons made
certified fellows at the annual
four-day convention of the body
which met at the Palmer House
here.
The four others inducted into
the college were: Dr. James L.
Wilson, New York, fellow of the
American college of Surgeons and
visiting surgeon at the Montefiore
and Harlem hospitals.
Dr. James Allison, Chicago,
staff surgeon at Provident hos
pital.
Dr. william F. Goins, Detroit,
an instructor in surgery at Wayne
university and senior obstetrician
at Herman Kiefer hospital.
Dr. Ellsworth E. Hasbrouck,
Chicago, a fellow of the American
College of Surgeons, diplomat of
the American Board of Surgeons,
and member of the Cook County
Physicians association, and chair-,
man of the Department of
Surgery at Provident hospital.
The five new fellows bring the
total number of Negroes admitted
by the International College of
Surgeons to 35; there are 12
Negroes in the American College
of Surgeons.
Among the 200 surgeons in at
tendance at the sessions in the
Palmer House were:
Dr. Clyde Phillips, Freedmens
hospital, Washington, D. C.; Dr.
Matthew Walker, professor of
surgery at Meharry Medical col
lege, Nashville; Drs. Gernet T.
lee, and Dorothy Brown, resident
surgeons at Meharry; Dr. Remus
Robinson, Detroit, and Dr. L. C.
Edwards, resident in surgery at
Provident hospital, at Chicago.
V B. Childress, First
,. F. D. Gregory, Allen
c sjuindaro; Rev. Robert
Jol on, St. Paul Argentine; Rev.
M. L. Simmons, St. Luke, K.C.K.;
Rev. C. R. Manning, St Mat
thews, Bonner Springs; Rev. J. D.
Barnes, St. Paul, Olatha; Rev.
B. J. Martin, Grant Chapel,
K.C.K.; Rev. Esther D. Randall,
St. Peters, K.C.K.; Rev. P K.
Brown, Twerrel Chapel, Bethel,
Kansas; Rev Emmett Williams, St.
James, Kansas City; Rev. A. L.
Ward, Oskaloosa, Kansas; Trinity,
Kansas City, Kansas to be sup
plied.
The next annual meeting will
be held at the seat of the an
nual conference, St. John A.M.E.
church.
Rev. Jordau Guest
Of Bishop Walker
At Conference
TOPEKA, Kan. — (ANP)—The
Rev. and Mrs. Frederick D. Jor
dan of Los Angeles, Cal., who re
cently returned from the World
Conference of Methodists at Ox
ford, England, were guests of
Bishop and Mrs. D. O. Walker at
the Kansas-Missouri conference
of the AME church here.
At the afternoon session Mrs.
Jordan addressed the conference
on the work of the Oxford meet
ing. She said that 59 of the nearly
100 .Negro delegates to the world
conference were from the AME
church.
The Kansas Conference reaf
firmed its endorsement of the
candidacy of Rev. Jordan for elec
tion to the Bishopric at the Gen
eral Conference to meet in Chi
cago next May.
While at the World Conference
at Oxford, Rev. Jordan fought for
the passage of a resolution against
discrimination in the church.
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Alpha’s to Have
Rushing Party
The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
began the school year by electing
Mr. Donald Brown, formerly of
Lincoln University, Jefferson City,
Mo., as vice president.
The meeting took place at the
Urban League with Messrs.
Charles Goolsby, regional director;
Lynnwood Parker, Urban League,
executive secretary; Howard Bean,!
former* president; Leroy Book
hardt, treassurer, and Ira Gibson,
Dean of Pledges, present.
A program was formulated for
the entire year with a rushing
party to begin Saturday evening,
Sept. 29th, 8 p.m. at the Lincoln
Urban League.
The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
is a member of the Inter-Frater
nity council of the University of
Nebraska and is interracial and
international.
Two Pass Miss. Bar Exams
JACKSON—(ANP)—Two Ne
groes were among the eight em
bryo lawyers to successfully pass
the state bar examination held last
July, according to a report by the
board of bar examiners here last
week.
The two are Jack H. Young, a
Jackson postman; and Lawrence C.
Jones, jr., son of Prof. L. C.
Jones, who erected the Piney
Woods school for Negroes near
Star. Jones received his law de
gree from City College of New
York.
Hotel Refuses
Negro Honored
At Convention
ST. LOUIS — (ANP) — A St.
Louis hotel failed to live up to
spirit of the Convention of the
American College of Hospital Ad
ministrators when it refused to
accept as a guest a Negro who had
just been honored as a fellow at
the current convention which met
there last week.
The victim of racism, Dr.
Charles E. Burbridge, superin- j
tendent of Freedmen’s hospital in J
Washington, D. C., left the con- j
vention and returned home be-1
cause his reservation at Hotel De- j
Soto had been cancelled.
After receiving confirmation of
his reservation last April, he said,
he was notified Aug. 17 by the St.
Louis Hotel’s Convention Reserva
tion Bureau that the reservation
had been made in error and he
had been transferred to the Mid- j
town hotel. Paul Latham, assistant |
manager of the DeSoto, said that
all rooms were taken.
A staff member of the Amer
ican Hospital Association, with
which the college is affiliated, said,
it was doubtful that the organiza
tion would ever return to St.
Louis.
Dr. Burbridge holds a Ph.D. in
, hospital administration. He was
one of 45 persons inducted as fel
lows of the college and the sec
’ ond Negro to be honored.
;iDr. Tobias
!|Succeeds
Mrs. Sampson
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Dr.
Channing H. Tobias of New York,
director of the Phelps-Stokes
Fund, was one of six persons
nominated last Thursday by Pres- j
ident Truman as alternate repre
sentatives of the United States to
the sixth session of the United
Nations General Assembly.
Dr. Tobias will succeed Mrs.
j Edith S. Sampson of Chicago,
who was an alternate delegate to
the fifth session of the UN Gen
eral Assembly.
Dr. Ferebee to Speak In NY
BROOKLYN (ANP)—Dr. Dor
othy Ferebee, president of the
National Council for Negro
U.L. Announces Series of Conferences
NEW YORK, N. Y. — Detailed ^
plans for the first three of a new
series of Career Conferences to be
held on the campuses of Negro
colleges have just been made
, public by Lester B. Granger, ex
ecutive director of the National
Urban League. Bethune-Cookman
College at Daytona Beach, Florida,
will act as host to the first con
! ference, October 17, 18 and 19th,
! when consultants from commerce,
industry, labor, agriculture, med
icine, and other professions of the
1 southeastern region of the United
States will be guests of the col
lege and the National Urban
League. The consultants will meet
with the Bethune-Cookman stud
I ents and with representative
students from Florida secondry
schools to discuss job opportuni
ties. The League is the nation’s
oldest and largest interracial
service agency working for equal
economic opportunity.
The conference program, a tri
partite effort, has been developed
by the college staff, the Florida
State Department of Public In
struction, and the Vocational
Guidance staff of the League. The
theme will be, “Developing Skills
For Careers.” Students will meet
in sixteen interest groups with
their department heads and the
visiting consultants.
“Both the Negro colleges and
the National Urban League hope
that two important purposes will
be served by these conferences,”
Ann Tanneyhill, the League’s
director of Vocational Guidance
commented. “The students will
receive first hand, authentic in
formation about job opportunities,
in a variety of fields and the,
qualifications they must have to!
obtain these jobs. Industry willj
have its eyes opened to the vast !
reservoir of skills of young
Negroes”.
The second conference will be
held at Tuskegee Institute in
[ November, and the third at Vir
ginia State College in December.
I The entire series of conferences
Delegates Register
ForN N BLConvention
Mrs.€.P. McKinney Buried
Mrs. G. P. McKinney, mother
of T. E. McKinney, dean of John
son C. Smith university, and civic
leader of Jacksonville, Fla., was
buried recently. The mother of
several prominent educators, Mrs.
McKinney was 88 when she died.
The Rev. A. L. James had
charge of funeral services held
at Central Baptist church. Among
her children are Richard I. Mc
Kinney, head of the department
of philosophy, Morgan State col
lege; G. P. McKinney, principal
of the high school in Social, Ga.
Mrs. T. V. Randall, principal o
the high school in Branford, Fla
Herman L. McKinney and C. H
McKinney, both employes of the
government in Detroit, Mich.,
and Mrs. Ethel A. Seldon, daugh
ter, of Jacksonville, Fla.—(ANP)
Joins Faculty at
Bethune Cookman
College in Florida
Florentine Crawford, graduate
of the University of Nebraska, has
joined the faculty of the Bethune
Cookman College, Daytona Beach,
Florida.
She is teaching upper classmen
in piano, voice, harmony and mu
sic education.
Women and Health-Director at
Howard university, will speak at
Concord Baptist church, Sunday,
Sept. 30, at 11 a.m.
Washington, D. C., September
19, 1951.With the Affiliated
Business Association headed by
Harry Carter, co-operating, the
National Negro Business League
is set to make its 51st Annual
Convention one of the most suc
cessful ever held.
Delegates have begun to regis
ter in advance of the Convention,
and it is expected that some 500
will attend. The convention w'ill
be held October 10, 11, 12, at the
U.S. Department of Commerce.
Welcoming the Delegates on
Wednesday, October 10 at the
opening session will be Mr.
Thomas W. S. Davis, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce; Mr. F.
Joseph Donohue, Commissioner of
the District of Columbia, and Mr.
Carter of the A. B. A.
General Headquarters will be
located at the U. S. Department
of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, N. W. Regis
tration will begin Wednesday,
October 10, 9:00 A.M., under the
direction of Mr. J. R. Lee, Regis
I trar and Mrs. Regina Chandler,
Chairman of Local Registration
I Committee.
In a panel discussion on Thurs
day morning, October 11, Mr. Art
Brown, Executive Assistant and
1 Co-ordinator of Promotion ox tne
U. S. Chamber of Commerce, will
l discuss the national program and
services of the Chamber, while
■J Colonel William H. Press, Sx
>' ecutive Secretary of the Washing
I ton Board of Trade, will discuss
the program and services of a
I local Board of Trade.
j One of the most important ses
: sions of the convention will be
held on Thursday afternoon when
Mr. W. V. Harper, Commissioner
of Education and Program Direc
tor of the National Negro Business
League will present the “Report
on Organizational Structure and
Program of the National Negro
Business League.” Dr. W. L.
Crump, Co-ordinator of Business
Administration and Education at
Tennessee A & I State University
will lead the discussion on the
subject.
The Friday sessions will be de
voted to reports, election of of
ficers, appointment of staff and
meeting of the Board of Directors.
A reception for the delegates
has been scheduled at Howard
University. A very impressive
Founder’s Day Banquet has also
been scheduled at the University.
to be held during the school year
1951-52 has been made possible
by a grant from the Dorothy H.
and Lewis Rosenstiel Foundation.
The first career conference was
instituted jointly by the National
Urban League and Howard Uni
versity on the University’s
campus in February, 1950, when
personnel specialists from thir
teen large potential employers,
Radio Corporation of America, R.
H. Macy & Company, Dayton
Malleable Iron Company, Western
Electric, Socony - Vacuum Oil
Company, and others, spent two
days on the campus advising and
interviewing stduents. As a result
several Howard graduates ob
tained employment with these
companies. The next conference
was held at Tennessee Agricul
tural and Industrial State College
in the spring of 1951, and the list
of visiting consultants expanded
to ninety-nine.