The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-01
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR Names
committee on negro EDUCATION
Wilbur Appoints
Advisory Group
OF 70 Educators

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 3d.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the
interior, announced Monda1 the or
ganization by the office If educa-
ton, department of the Interior, of
a national advisory committee of
twenty educators on Negro educa-
ton.
The general purpose of the COM
mittee will be to give counsel upon
policies to be pursued n dealing
with major problems. Tie plan is
for the members of the committee
to serve as contact representatives in
the various geographical centres in
interpreting the educational needs Of
colored people to the offi;e of educa-
ton.
DR.. William J. Copper, commission
er of education, and Dr.. Ambrose
Caliver, specialist on Negro educa-
ton in the office of edu,ation, will
direct the work of the committee.
The three fields to be covered by
the work of the committee will be
elementary and secondary education
and teacher preparation
Nominations for the committee
were made mainly by tie officers of
the National Association of Teachers
in Colored Schools. Thu members of
the committee are as fdlows
of the valena C. Jong, Elementary
School, New Orleans, md president
of the National Association of Teach
ers in Colored Schools.
Fred McCuistion, associate direc-
tor of the julius Reenwald Fund,
Nashville, Tenn.
DR.. J. H. billiard, PRESIDENT of the
John f. Slater Fund ind the Ann T.
Jeans Fund. Charlottesville, Va.
II. Council trenholm, president of
State Teachers College, Montgomery,
Ala, and chairman ii the high school
division of the National Association
of Teachers in ColoIed Schools.
Garnet c. Wilkinson, first assist
ant superintendent pf public schools,
Washington. D. c.
w. A. Robinson, principal of the
Austen High School Knoxville, Tenn.
H. L. Trigg, STATE inspector of
cofored high schools, Raleigh, N. c.
H. o. Cook, principal of the Lin
coin High School, Kansas City, Mo.
]. w. Seabrook, dean of the State
Normal School, Fayetteville, N. c.
DIR. Jane Ellen McAllister, chair
man of the Department of Educa-
ton, Miner Teachers College, Wash
ington, D. c..
Harry w. Green, professor of edu-
cation, West Virginia State College,
Institute, w. Va.
N. c. Nev'bold, director of the di-
vision of Negro education, Raleigh,
N. C.
B. F. Hubert, president of the
Georgia Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College for Negroes, Savannah,
Ga.
Dwight O. W. Holmes. dean of the
college of education. Howard Uni
versity, Washington, d. c., and presi-
dent of the Association of Colleges
for Negro Youth
c. W. Florence of Virginia State
College, Petersburg, Va, and pref
dent of tie National Association of
Collegiate deans and registrars in
Negro schools.
DR.. John W. Davis, president of
the West Virginia State College. In
stitute, w Va, and chairman of the
executive committee of the Confer
ence of Negro Land Grant Colleges.
DR.. w. J. Hale, president of the
Agricultui al and Industrial State
College, Nashville. Tenn.
DR.. Mordecai W johnson, pfesi-
dent of Howard University, Wash
ington, . c.
Dr.. John NJ. Candy. president OF
Virginia State College, Petersburg
Va.
DR.. W. A. Daniel. associate execu.
tive secretary Of the American Mis-
sionary Association