Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
HOWARD APPOINTS
THREE NEW DEANS
Departments of Medicine,
Liberal Arts and Dentistry
Get New Heads.

Three deans Of departments at
Howard University were appointed by
| the Howard board Of trustees at its an
nual meeting yesterday afternoon. DR..
Numa P. G. Adams was named dean OF
! the School OF Medicine: DR.. Arnold B.
Donowa was chosen dean of the College
of Dentistry, and DR.. E. P. Davis was
made Gean of the College Of Liberal
Arts.
Progress in scholarship, enrolment
and the broadening Of the work Of the
Law School, the library and the de-
partment of biology, the latter through
numerous special gifts, was indicated
in the annual report of DR.. Mordecai
w. Johnson. president of Howard.
DR.. Emmett J. Scott. secretary,
treasurer of the university. reported
that the schools budget for 192S-29 is
81 ,030 076.l8 and that the education
plant at Howard now is valued at more
than 100000.
Successful Year.
In his report, Dr. johnson declared
that in the history Of the university,
the year Just ending has been the most
successful from the standpoint of
governmental appropriations, grants of
scholarships to faculty members who
are to take leave for advanced study,
and gifts for special purposes. Notable
among the years gifts. the president
cited donations from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the General Education
Board. and the Julius Ros invalid Fund
Academic salaries also have been in
creased. he said.
DR.. Adams. new medical school dean
is an alumnus Of Howard University.
graduating from the College of Liberal
Arts in the class of 1911 with the dis
tinction of magma cum laude. From
1912 to 1919 DR.. Adams was member
of the college faculty holding the posi-
ton of instructor, assistant and as
ISOLATED professor Of chemistry. He re-
ceived his medical education in the
University Of Chicago and Rush
Medical School.
Upon completion Of his interneShip In
1925 DR.. Adams began the private prac-
tice of medicine at Chicago.
Graduated in 1929.
DR. Donawa, dean of the Dental
School. is also a graduate OF Howard
University, receiving the degree Of doc
tor of dental surgery in 1922. At the
end Of his Junior year at Howard ne
received scholarship for under
graduate inferno at the Forsyth Dental
Infirmary. Boston. He was the first OF
his race to be admitted to this institu-
ton. In his senior year at Howard he
was appointed by the board Of trustees
to serve rs student instructor in dental
anatomy Upon the completion OF this
interneship he was appointed roentgen-
ologist of the Forsyth Infirmary.
DR.. Davis, head of the department
of German who was appointed dean
of the College of Liberal Arts to NIL
the vacancy made by the resignation
Of Dean D. w. Woodland, was awarded
the degree of bachelor of arts by How
ard University in 1907, the degree Of
master of arts by the University of Chi
cago in 1911 and the degree of doctor
of philosophy, magma cum laude, by
the University of Chicago in 1928. In
1922 he was university fellow in German
at the University of Chicago He has
travelled in Germany, Switzerland,
France and England. DR.. Davis. in
addition to being head OF the depart
ment of German, is also chairman of
the academic board OF examiners and
president OF the board of athletic con-
troll.