VOL. 6, No. 32 Lincoln 3, Nebraska—Official and Legal Newspaper June 19 1952
Another 1st—Mrs. Baird
To Nat’L Secretaries’ Assn.
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mrs. Enid
r C. Baird, administrative secre
tary at the National Urban
League, on Tuesday, June 10th,
was installed as first Negro mem
ber of the National Secretaries
Association, at the monthly meet
ing of the New York chapter in
Stouffers’ Restaurant, Fifth ave
nue and 45th Street. The as
sociation, with chapters all over
the United States, just ended a
week-long nationwide observance
of National Secretaries Week.
A native of Boston, Mass., Mrs.
Baird, nee Dixon, was educated in
“* the Boston and New York public
schools and majored in business
administration at Hunter College
and Columbia University. She
resides at 8 Arlington place,
Brooklyn, with her husband,
Owen Baird, and their son, Rob
ert.
Mrs. Baird was first employed
by the NAACP as a secretary and
later spent three years at the
Urban League of Greater New
York. She joined the National
Office staff in 1940 and since 1941
has been administrative secretary
in the office of the executive di
rector, Lester B. Granger.
Member of Alpha Chapter of
the Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority,
Mrs. Baird was the first president
of the Administrative and Clerical
Council of the National Urban
Leogue, which organization she
headed for the first two years of
its existence and which gives an
nual dances for benefit of the
League.
“I was very happy when the
invitation to join the National
Secretaries Association was ex
tended to me, and I look forward
to being an active member of the
organization,” Mrs. Baird said.
The National Secretaries As
sociation, with chapters all over
the country, has done much to
improve the status of secretaries
and has helped them to render
more useful service by the inter
change of ideas and new methods.
One of its major projects is the
promotion of CPS degrees to
“Certified Professional Secre
tareis.”
Mrs. Hairston Receives
M.A. From Tulsa Uni. '
By Flossie Thompson
TULSA, Okla.—(ANP)—Mrs.
Anita Hairston recently was one
of 555 graduates form Tulsa uni
versity. She k the first Negro to
graduate from this institution.
Mrs. Hairston received her mas
ter of arts degree in the field of
education. In partial fullfillment
of degree requirements, her re
search included two papers, “The
Administration of Education for
Exceptional Children in Tulsa and
“An Evaluation of the Program of
the Weekday Bible School in the
Dunbar School area.”
The TU graduate took evening
and night classes at Carver Junior
High school where Negro students,
of Tulsa university are taught.
She had to guarantee eight stu
dents for a class before it could be
offered. Exceptions were made so
that she could take two classes
needed for graduation.
She is, g graduate of Langston
university and Stowe Teachers
college. She is president of the
local chapter of Sigma Gamma
Rho sorority and past of the Fed
erated Women’s Club, and the
wife of a Tulsa dentist, Dr. E. L.
Hairston.
DEAN HANCOCK RETIRES
Dean Gordon B. Hancock, pro
fessor and founder of the Depart
ment of Social Science at Virginia
Union university, last week an
nounced that he has retired from
the field of education. This an
nouncement climaxes a career of
more than 30 years of teaching.
Recipient of numerous educa
tional honors and awards, Dean
Hancock received his latest on
May 27 when he was awarded an
honorary t.t.tv from Benedict
college. On May 26, he delivered
the commencement address at
Shaw university where he also re
ceived another U*D.
He is also widely known as a
columnist, probably the most
widely read of all Negro writers
with “Between the Lines” for the
Associated Negro Press, and as a
minister, being pastor of Moore
Street Baptist church in Rich
mond, Va. — (ANP)
Marian Anderson
Gels 5th Doctorate
NEW YORK — (ANP) — Mar
ian Anderson, gifted contralto, last
week received her fifth honorary
doctorate from Moravia college,
Bethlehm, Pa. Miss Anderson was
awarded an honorary Doctor of
Music degree.
The contralto and honorary
member of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority was highly lauded re
EDITH SAMPSON APPOINTED TO U. S. NATIONAL COM
MISSION FOR UNESCO—Mrs. Edith Sampson, Chicago attorney,
shown above receiving congratulations from Howland H. Sargeant,
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, upon her appoint
ment to the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO.
The National Commission, composed of 100 leading citizens,
serves as liaison between the United Nations Educational, Scien
tific, and Cultural Organization and the American people and %d
vises the Department of State on matters pertaining to UNESCO.
Mrs. Sampson was an alternate United States representative
to the Fifth Session of the United Nations.—(ANP)
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Mrs. E. Jones
1st Negro Grad
Becomes M.D.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The
first Negro to graduate from a
formerly all-white southern med
ical school — 24-year-old Mrs.
Edith Irby Jones — will get her
diploma from the University of
Arkansas School of Medicine
Monday.
After graduation, Mrs. Jones
will set another precedent by
becoming the first Negro to intern
at the University Hospital here.
Mrs. Jones was admitted to the
school — without segregation —
in September, 1948, by placing
28th in a group of 230 Arkansas
residents who took preentrance
examinations.
She decided to become a doctor
“because I thought I could do
more in that profession as one
person to help my race.” She said
she saw a lot of suffering as she
grew up.
She plans to stay in Arkansas
upon completion of her training
and internship, ministering to the
needs of Negro children.
Medical school officials describe
Mrs. Jones as an average student
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79. They said her grades had beer
satisfactory.
She worked with both white
and Negro patients while the class
was involved in clinical training,
but skirted a possible segregation
problem in the school’s cafeteria
by either bringing her lunch or
going home for meals.
One Negro has been admitted
to the Arkansas Medical School
each year since the board changed
its policy to admit Mrs. Jones in
1948.
cently at the mamoth Presbyterian
meet in New York’s Madison
Square Garden where she was
cited for her humanitarian efforts
in the cause of better race rela
tions and world brotherhood.
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: icrow in Churches
jncil of Churches
CHICAGO (ANP)—Spearheaded by the work of Oscar
Lee, the General Board of the National Council of Churches
of Christ in the U.S.A. pledged its member churches to the
task of establishing of a non-segregated church and a non
segregated society.”
The board voted with only two abstentions and no
votes against it to adopt a statement calling for member
churches (29 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox denomina
tions) to end iimcrow within their own spheres of operation.
Students Missing
Opportunity for
Graduate Study
NEW YORK—(ANP)—Only a
few Negroes know how to obtain
Fulbright fellowships awarded by
the federal government for study
in some 22 foreign countries.
Consequently, many qualified
students have missed an oppor
tunity to do graduate study out
side of the continental U.S.A.
The Fulbright fellowships are
administered through the Institute
of International Education, U.S.
Student Program, 1 _ East 67th
Street, New York 21.
Countries In which study grants
are available are Australia, Aus
tria, Belgium, Burma, Denmark,
Egypt. France, Greece, India, Iran,
Iraw, Japan, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan,
the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey,
the Union of South Africa and
the United Kingdom.
The awards enable students in
’ all fields of graduate work anc
*tEo3e with specialized reeeard
1 projects to study in foreign insti
tutions and universities under re
nowned professors and specialists.
Grants also are available to stu
dents with records of accomplish
ment in such fields as music, art,
architecture, and drama. A few
opportunities in workers’ educa
tion and social work are provided
In the United Kingdom.
The grants are made under
Public Law 584, 79th Congress,
the Fulbright Act, which author
izes the department of state to use
certain foreign currencies and
credits acquired through the sales
of surplus property abroad for
programs of educational exchange
with other nations.
Grants are made for one aca
demic year and generally include
round trip transportation, tuition,
a living allowance, and a small
amount for necessary books and
equipment.
Graduate students should write
directly to the Institute of Inter
national Education, U. S. Student
Program, 1 East 67th Street, New
York. Students who are still in a
college or a university should con
sult their campus Fulbright ad
visor.
Brunswick, N. J., Gets
1st Negro School Marm
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—
(ANP)—It was left to a tal
ented young woman, Miss Ellen
Hart, to break the educational
color line in the schools of New
Brunswick, N. J. Miss Hart is the
first of her race to serve on a full
time basis in the local school sys
tem. A physical education in
structor, she will serve in Sep
tember as instructor in her field
gt the Roosevelt Junior ( High
school.
Holder of the gold pin the high
est'athletic honor which can come
to a physical education major
from New Jersey College for
Women in New Brunswick (Wom
en’s College of Rutgers)
in otner action at tne jnuucj
board meeting, the Council voted
New York as temporary national
headquarters for the next 10 years
and that a midwestern city, yet
to be chosen, eventually become
the national headquarters will be
the non jimcrow facilities available
to nonwhites.
Action taken on segregation
climaxed months and months of
haggling over this issue which has
stood ever since the Council was
formed in 1950. Only outspoken
opponents of the proposal were
two delegates from the Presby
terian Church U.S., representing
southern Presbyterians.
Lee, who serves as chairman of
the Council’s Department of Racial
and Cultural Relations, was the
key figure in promoting the pas
sage of this bill. A large number
of white and Negro delegates co
operated with him in promoting
this statements.
| After the meeting, held at the
Morrison hotel, board member
t after board member shook hands
j with Lee and praised him for his
s excellent work. I
The statement did these things:
1. Gave a general statement on
“The Pattern of Segregation.” It
. noted as evils of segregation that
. jimcrow “subjects sections of our
population to constant humiliation
and forces upon them moral and
psychological handicaps in every
relation of life” . . . “The theory
of ‘separate but equal’ does not
work out in practice. . .” Segre
gation handicaps the U.S.A. in in
ternational relationships . . . in
creases and accentuates racial ten
! sion ... is a denial of the Christ
ian faith. . . .
2. Tells a story of almost com
plete jimcrow under “The
Churches and the Pattern of
Segregation.” It says:
“While the pattern of segrega
tion is too common in our public
education at all levels, it is even
more general in the churches in
worship and fellowship.” Only Vs
of 1 per cent of all Negroes at
tending church in the United
States belong to mixed congrega
tions.”
Noting that church institutions
such as hospitals, educational in
stitutions, and theological institu
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Two Earn Degrees
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(ANP)—
A man and a woman last week be
came the first of their race to re
ceive a degree from previously
all-white schools.
They are Mrs. Edith Irby Jones,
who was scheduled to be grad
uated from the University of Ar
kansas School of Medicine in tat
tle Rock, June 16, and Harry
Alexander, a native of New Or
leans, La., who was graduated
from the Law school at George
town university, Washington.
Mrs. Jones will set another pre
cedent by becoming the first Ne
gro to intern at the University hos
pital at Little Rock. She was ad
mitted to the Medical school in
September, 1948.