Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21
FINAL GLEE CLUB
RECITAL THURSDAY
Howard University Students
viii Close Series With
Concert in Chapel.

The Howard University Glee Club
VIII conclude the lecture recital series
for the present school year with a con-
cert In Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel Thursday at 8:15 pm. The
club includes % singers, with Prof. Roy
w. Tibbs as director; Lester Dorsey,
baritone soloist; Prof. Cecil Cohen and
Aladdin Redmond, accompanies.
The program to be presented by the
club includes many new numbers as
well as several old favorites.
The club was organized by Prof Tibbs
10 years ago. He has been director
since It's organization. Prof Tibbs is
an honor graduate of Oberlin Conserva-
tory of Music, and one Of two colored
members OF the American Guild Of
Organists. Prof. Cohen also is a grad
uate OF the Oberlin Conservatory Of
Music and Is assistant professor of
piano and organ at Howard University.
The club has often been heard In
concert both In Washington and other
cities Of the country, including radio
broadcasts. Among its appearances
during the present year was a dinner
concert at the Raleigh Hotel for Senator
Arthur Capper and his guests. The club
rendered similar program for Mrs.
Hattie M. Strong, at the Mayfiower
Hotel, when she entertained 100 guests,
including Chief Justice and Mrs. VIII
liam Howard Taft and Vice President
and Mrs. Charles G. Dawes.
Booked at Conference.
The club is scheduled to appear in a
music festival to be given In connection
with the American Interracial Peace
Conference, to be held in Philadelphia
on May Is, at which time Fisk, Tuskegee
and Hampton will be represented by
their musical organizations.
Members of the club are James Z.
Tretman, New Rochelle, N. Y: Ralph
H. Jones, Philadelphia, Pa: Charles H.
Freeman, Merchant Tille, N. j.; Harold
Culmer. Miami, Fla: Eugene G. Wealth
ers, Clarksburg, w. Va: Lexington
Smith, Washington; j. Percy Bond,
Birmingham, Ala: William C.. Syphax,
Washington; william Beckett, Mont
clair, N. j.; Walker Allen, Chester, S. c.;
Russell w. White, Hampton. Va; James
G.. Tyson, Uniontown, Pa; Lester
Dorsey. washington; Stanton L. Worm
ley. Washington; William Sales. Scott
dale, Pa; Lawson ]. Veney, Homestead,
Pa; James P. Scott, Nome Alaska;
James w. Butcher, jr., Washington;
Randolph Robinson, Martinsburg, W.
Va; Ogden Groomes, Washington;
Oliver Roberts, Mount Pleasant, Pa;
Paul Smith, st. Joseph, Mo-; Daniel
C. Roane, Hartford, Conn, and James
Parker, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Prof. William Leo Hansberry has Just
received notice that the faculty Of
the Peabody Institute of Harvard Uni
versity has granted him fellowship
for research In African anthropology
and archaeology. Prof. Hansberry Is
4R - TT.
has conducted research in African an
thropology during the past 10 years.
Offers Three Courses.
He organized at Howard University
the African civilization section Of the
department of history. which offers
three courses. His research in this field
will be embodied in a text book for
each of these courses, two of which
will be completed within the next year.
Among the visitors at the university
during the past week were DR.. j. II.
billiard and w. T. B. Williams, repre-
sentatives Of the Jeannes- Slater Fund.
The occasion for their visit was to In
spect the work Of DR.. Eva B. Dykes,
of the fund on the How
ard faculty.
DR.. Dykes is graduate of Howard
University with the distinction sumna
cum laude. later receiving the degree
Of doctor of philosophy at Radcliffe
College. Miss Dykes is native of WASH
ington, former teacher in the Dunbar
High School and now associate profess
sor of English at Howard.
The Dental College was addressed
yesterday morning by DR.. Alexander M.
Rivera Of Greensboro, N. c., graduate
of Howard University dental class Of
1909. DR.. Rivera was the official repre-
sentative of the Interstate Dental So
ciety, which sends its representatives.
each year. to Meharry and Howard
Dental Schools to address the students
on the practical aspect of the profess
sion. The Howard University Dental
Library will be enlarged as the result
of a gift by the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, recently announced by
President Johnson.