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_ Lincoln 3, Nebraska, % ^egal Newspaper September 18, 1952
Miss Majors, Va. Girl,
Wins Babe Ruth Award
By ALICE A. DUNNIGAN
WASHINGTON (ANP)—M i s s
Jacqueline Majors of Floyd, Va.,
was one of two outstanding high
school graduates who was recently
honored by the National Babe
Ruth Sportsmanship Awards com
mittee, it was announced this
week by the National Education
Association.
Miss Majors, who graduated
from the Harris Hart high school
in 1950, received her award for
being an all-round, wholesome in
dividual, stated Walker E. Camp
bell, her high school principal.
Referring to Miss Majors as a
“true sport,” the high school prin
cipal said:
“She should be especially com
mended for attending school for
11 years under many hardships
without being absent a single day.
She cherishes her award more
than anything she has ever re
ceived and wears Babe Ruth me
dallion around her neck at all
times as a reminder of her strug
gle for an education—all of whi.*h
she realizes did not come from
textbooks."
In compiling a perfect attend
ance record, this young lady had
to walk more than two miles to
the school bus stop, fording a river
in three places through the worst
kind of weather. Many times this
trek through the woods meant
wading snow up to her knees. In
spite of this, the principal said
she could always be depended
upon to help at school activities
or to join and boost school or
ganizations. Later, when her
brothers and sisters were old
enough, she bundled them up and
took them with her to school.
Miss Majors along with Ralph
Thomas, white graduate of Sis
tersville high school of Sistersvilie,
W. Va., were selected by a com
mittee of 42 of the nation’s lead
ing sports writers.
Award winners are chosen on
the basis of leadership ability,
personality, enthusiasm, athletic
ability, ability to overcome han
Miss Anderson Featured
In New RCA Victor Album
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. ’52 —
Contralto Marian Anderson ts
featured this month in a new RCA
Victor classic album on a coupling
with famed cellist Gregor Piati
gorsky and her accompanist Franz
Rupp.
Following a historic pattern set
by such memorable recording
teams as Enrico Caruso and
Mischa Elman, John McCormack
and Fritz Kreisler, RCA Victor has
issued an album of “Great Com
binations," featuring the finest of
modern-day vocal and instru
mental artists, whose combined
performances are in every way
worthy of this great tradition.
Miss Anderson sings two tradi
tional American favorites from
her extensive repertoire of folk
music; “Carry Me Back to Old
Virginny” and Stephen Foster’s
“My Old Kentucky Home.” The
accompaniment b y Piatigorsky
and pianist Franz Rupp is sympa
thetic and adds charm to these
well known songs.
All the artists in the current
album are among the most famous
in their respective fields and pre
sent a collection of songs im
mensely popular with the public
and not usually found in the
repertoire of concert stars,
characteristics are considered,
MRS. PLUMMER
Earns Doctorate in
Physical Ed.
Mrs. Tomi Carolyn Plummer of
Knoxville, Tenn., recently earned
her Ph.d in physical education at
the University of Iowa during
commencement exercises. Mrs.
Plummer, who became the fourth
colored woman to achieve that
distinction in this country, will
teach at Maryland State college,
Princess Anne, Md. She is a mem-|
ber of Delta Sigma Theta so
rority.—(ANP).
dicaps, and scholarship. Other
such as grooming, honesty, fair
play, co-operation, citizenship,
school spirit, dependability, con
duct, loyalty, courtesy, and the
ability to get along with others, j
N.B.C. Officers
All Reelected
By Acclamation
CHICAGO — (ANP) — By the
motion of the body that rules be
suspended and all officers be re
elected which was passed, the en
tire group of officers of the Na
tional Baptist Convention, U.S.A.
Inc., was re-elected. They are as
follows:
Dr. D. V. Jemison, Selma, Ala.,
pres.; Rev. E. W. Perry, Oklahoma
City, vice pres, at large; Revs.
W. D. Carter, Pasadena, T. S. Har
ten, Brooklyn, and J. H. Jackson,
Chicago, regional vice presidents;
Rev. U. J. Robinson, Mobile, sec’y-J
Revs. W. P. Whitfield, Jackson,
Miss., G. W. Lucas, Dayton, T.
Moore King, Joliet and M. K.
Curry, Wichita Falls, Tex., ass’t.
sec’ys; Rev. W. P. Offutt, Jr., New
York City, sec’y. of Pub.; Rev.
Roland Smith, Atlanta, statisti
cian; Rev. T. S. Boone, Detroit,
historiographer; Rev. J. Pius Bar
bour, Chester, Pa., “Voice” editor;
Rev. B. J. Perkins, Cleveland, O.,
treas.; Col. A. T. Walden, Atlanta,
convention attorney.
Woman Wins Honor
In Insurance Exam
CLEVELAND, O. — (ANP)—A
Cleveland Negro woman placed
third in competition with several
thousand insurance workers, dur
ing the nation-wide examination
held by the Life Office Manage
ment Association in New York, it
was announced last week.
She is Mrs. Emma Stewart, as
sistant to the president of Dunbar
Life Insurace Co., of Cleveland.
She is the frist of her race and
one of the few women to rank
among the top three in the peri
odic contests.
■^NC Law Graduates
4ss State Bar Exam
Nebr. Merit
System Exam
To Be Oct. 11
The Nebraska Merit System an
lounces October 11, 1952, as the
examination date for a number of
State clerical positions. These jobs
ire for stenographers, typists,
:lerks, and machine operators in
the State offices of the Depart
ments of Assistance and Child
Welfare, Health, and Employment
Security, as well as in the county
and local offices of those agencies.
The examinations will be given in
a number of towns throughout the
State as close as possible to the
homes of the candidates, depend
ing upon the availability of ex
amination monitors and rooms.
Application blanks and more'
detailed information may be se
cured from any county assistance
office, State employment office, or
local health office; or from the
Merit System Office, 1306 State
Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska. Ap
plications should be mailed to the
Merit System Office my Septem
ber 27, in order that the necessary
arrangements can be made fox
giving the examinations.
Milwaukee Gets First
Negro Public Accountant
MILWAUKEE, Wis.— (ANP)—
Mrs. Elvera W. Taylor who bore
the distinction of being one of
only two colored women to hold
a certified public accountant's li
cense in Chicago has located in
Milwaukee. She opened a branch
of the Theodore A. Jones & Co.,
Chicago accounting firm, with of
fices at 623 North 2nd Street.
Mrs. Taylor, a long time asso
ciate or the Theadore A. Jones
Co., has been elected to partner
ship in the firm.
She became a resident of Mil
waukee recently when her hus
band, Corneff Taylor, was ap
pointed executive director of the
Milwaukee Commission on Human
Relations.
Rebecca Wyatt
New Teacher
At Wis. School
CASSVILLE, Wis.—(ANP—The
opening of school produced sev
eral surprises for teachers and
pupils of a small Wisconsin town. .
When school opened in Cass- 1
ville, pupils found that their new
commercial teacher is Mrs. Re
becca Wyatt, 21, of Paris, Tenn.
Mrs. Wyatt also surprised the
board of education which hired
her through a teachers agency.
However, this small village of
some 956 persons responded to
the situation in a democratic man
ner, and threw out the welcome
mat for her. A dentist took her
into his home as a roomer and
the sophomore class elected her
its advisor.
The new commercial teacher is
a graduate of Tennessee State
university. Her husband is with
an Army engineer unit in Korea.
It was this last which endeared
’ her to many of the residents
’ here.
r
. “When we found out her hus
band was in Korea, she was in,’
one high school boy said.
1953 Convention of
N.B.C. Coes to Miami
CHICAGO—(ANP) — The 195J
Convention of the National Bap
tist Convention will go to Miami,
Fla. The peninsula city won over
Brooklyn and St. Louis. The vote
of delegates was St. Louis, 103;
Brooklyn, 1,677; Miami, 1,803.
The Rev. J. A. F. Finlayson, pas
tor of Macedona Baptist church
of Miami and President of the
Florida State Convention, who
will be host pastor to the conven
tion, promised extensive and
thorough preparations for the 73d
annual session. He stated that the
Dinerkee Auditorium which seats
18,000 persons has already been
engaged, and the Floridan hotel
with 500 rooms committed to care
for delegates.
Nurse in Panama Wins UN Scholarship
COLON, R. P. — (ANP) — A
Colon Health Department nurse,
Mrs. Elma-Stewart de Dennis, has
been awarded a World Health Or
ganization scholarship for ad
vanced studies in Public Health
nursing, making at least two
members from the Negro Pana
manian group to receive the word
this year. The other was Miss
Ethel Springer of Panama City.
Mrs. Emma Stewart de Dennis,
Colon-born obstetrician, left for
the United States last week to
take a one-year post-graduate
course under sponsorship of Unied
Nations’ WHO. She will study at
Syracuse university in Syracuse,
N. Y.
This will be Mrs. Dennis’ second
post-graduate course in the United
States since she received her
nurse’s cap in Santo Tomes hos
pital School of Nursing in 1945.
Shortly after a one-year re
quired course in obstetrics in
Santo Tomas, Mrs. Dennis en
tered the Margaret Hague hos
pital, Jersey City, N. J., for work
application training over a one
year period.
Returning to Panama in 1948,
Nurse Dennis was appointed head
nurse in the Amador Guerrero
hospital, a position she held until
1951 when she was assigned to
the Public Health Department
from which she obtained the
scholarship award.
Nurse Dennis, wife of Colon
Dental Technician Beresford Den
nis, received her primary educa
tion in English in a private school
under E. A. Kerr, and in Spanish
at the Pablo Arosemena public
school.
Majoring in Commerce at Pan
ama’s Professional school in the
Capital in 1935, she was employed
for a time after graduation with
the Carlos Prado Customs Brok
erage, before entering nursing
school. Following one year in
Chitre on her first government
assignment as nurse, she returned
to Santo Tomas for the course in
obstetrics, finishing in 1947.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—(ANP) —
The end of a long struggle to prac
tice their chosen profession came
to an end recently for two Negro
graduates of the University of
North Carolina when they passed
the state bar examinations.
Harvey E. Beach, Kinston,
N.C., and J. Kenneth Lee, Greens
boro, two of five youths who made
history when they became the
first Negroes to enroll in the Law
school at the University of North
Carolina, now are full-fledged
members of the legal profession.
Beech got his degree at the
June commencement and Lee com
pleted his work in July. Another
of the five students, James Rob
ert Walker, Statesville, finished
the law course too late to take
this year’s law examinations. The
remaining two did unsatisfactory
work and thus, were unable to
be graduated.
Beech, a 28-year-old graduate
of Morehouse college, probably
will practice law in Kinston where
his father is a prominent business
man. Before going to the UNC,
Beech studied for two years in
the Law school at the North Caro
lina college at Durham.
His wife is a graduate of the
Atlanta School of Social Work and
is a case worker in Durham where
they have been living recently.
, A navy veteran of World War
II, Lee said he will practice law
in Greensboro or Winston-Salem.
He formerly studied at North
Carolina A&T college Greensboro,
the University of Hawaii, and the
Navy’s Pacific university. At that
time, his interest centered on ra
dio and electrical engineering.
. His wife is a graduate of Ben
,1 nett college and is a teacher in
the Greensboro public schools.
The couple has a six-year-old son.
The five colored students en
tered UNC last year after a year
long test case which was fought
to the United States Supreme
court. Lee was a plaintiff in the
case; Beech and Walker were not.
The original suit was filed by
Harold T. Epps of Ashville, in
1938. Lee and others intervened
after Epps was graduated from the
North Carolina college Law
school.
Newsmen listed the decision to
admit the students to the Law
school among the 10 top news
stories in the state last year. It
established a precedent whereby
others may now attend. As a mat
ter of fact, Dean Henry P. Bran
dis Jr. of the university Law school
said last week that two or three
students may study law at the
Chapel Hill institution this year.
Nigerian Receives
N.Y.U. Scholarship
NEW YORK — (ANP) — Dean
Joseph H. Park of the New York
University Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences announced this
week that Chukwudebelu Nwor
Odeluga of Onitsha, Nigera, has
received a scholarship for the
academic year of 1952-53.
Odeluga, who is 29 years of age,
will study for his doctor of phi
losophy degree in economics. His
intentions are to enter the field of
labor economics upon returning
to West Africa.
The brilliant young African
student received his Bachelor of
Arts degree from Lincoln univer
sity (Pa.) and his Master of Arts
degree from New York Univer
sity.
