Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-09-27
Changes NOtedAt
Fisk University

When FISH University opened It's
57th school year on Friday, Sept.
&c, several new faculty faces were
seen by old students, and some others
were missed. The former dean, DR..
Ambrose Caliver, who last year was
granted a leave of absence to conf
plete his work for the doctorate at
Columbia, has accepted a position
with the U. S. Bureau of Education,
and Mr.. A. A. Taylor, who was act
ing dean last year, will now become
dean. There will be no other changes
in the officers of administration, eX-
cept in the office of the dean of men.
Prof. Bertram w. Doyle, who acted
in that capacity last year, has been
granted years leave to study at the
University of Chicago on Rosen-
valid scholarship. Mr.. Lloyd Golfer,
graduate of Tufts College and for
mer worker in the Y. NJ. c. A. in
New York City, becomes responsible
for personnel work with men as as
sistant to Dean Taylor.
DR.. Charles S. Johnson, who will
return about October first from in
vestigation in Liberia, will continue
his work as head of the department
of social sciences at Fisk. A new
man, DR.. Homer L. Morris, will head
the department of economics. DR..
Morris is a graduate of Earlham Col
lege and has his doctors degree from
Columbia. He is a Quaker and for
sixteen years taught at Penn College,
Oskaloosa, Iowa, and at Earlham Col
lege. Three years ago ne was chos-
en- by the Carnegie Foundation for
international Peace to study political
conditions in strategic centerS in Eu-
rope. Previously he had studied
Germany and Russia for the Amer
lean Service Committee. DR.. Nor
ris has one son and his family will
hive in one of the new faculty houses
on the Fisk Campus.
The new head of the department
of education is DR.. Harold +. Smith,
a resident of California, a Presby-
terrain, a garuate of Stanford Uni
versity and doctor from Columbia.
Most of his teaching work has been
in China, where he had wide eXpe-
rience in college administrative work
and the formation of educational pol
icies for whole provinces. DR.. Smith
has two children, boy and a girl.
Miss Edith Johnson, graduate of
Smith College, former teacher IN
the Louisville High School, will teach
in place of Mr.. Frederick A. Browne,
former Chemistry teacher, who does
to Claflin College. Mr.. Lloyd Alex
ander, master of arts from the Uni
versity of Michigan, will assist DR..
Folger in the department OF biology.
Mr.. F. A. Lanier, formerly professor
of English at Atlanta University and
A. & T. College in North Carolina,
is added to the department of Eng
lish. Miss Eulacie Shamberger, a
graduate of Fisk and a recent n1ls-
Ter of arts from Radcliffe, will also
teach English Miss Henrine Ward,
formerly of the Y. w. C. A. staff in
Cincinnati, succeeds Miss Luella Hoo
yer as director of physical education.
Fisk faculty, has returned after stu
Miss Alice Simmons, formerly of the
diving in Oberlin, to do extension
work for the Fisk School of Music,
fostering choral music in towns near
Nashville, under grant Of the JUL
lizard Foundation. Mr.. Warner Law
son. graduate of Fisk and bachelor
of music from Yale, son of another
distinguished Fisk alumnus, will be-
come professor of piano after study
ing for the past sumner with Schuabel
in Berlin.
Miss Lillian E. Cashin, for years
professor of English, has been grant
ed a years leave of absence to con-
itnue work on her doctorate at the
University of Chicago on Rosen-
valid Fund Scholarship. Many of
the faculty and staff are returning to
school after study during the sum-
mer: Miss Thresa A. Birch, registrar,
Mr.. |. T. Creswell, cashier, studied
at the University of Chicago; Miss
Edith Baker, instructor IN music,
studied at Oberlin College; Louis 5.
Shores, librarian, taught at McGill
University in Canada; Mrs. Adele
Shaw, assistant Professor of French,
studied at the Corbonne in Paris;
John w. Work, director of Jubilee
Music, studied at Columbia. Mr.. John
r. Coffin, who has been on leave the
past year studying at the University
of Grenoble in France, returns as
professor of Romance languages.
John Knox, minister of the Univer-
sity, has spent the summer on his
honeymoon abroad. He returns this
week to live on the campus with his
bride, who was Miss Lois Bowles, OF
Agnes Scott College in Georgia.