The Omaha guide., 1939-06-17
100 Guests Greet Father
Wilson Al Harlem
Reception
JUDGE WATSON MAKES AD-
DRESS; DIR. SAyORY is
PRESENT

hundred guests, among them many
of the leaders of educational, bust
ness and social circles of Harlem,
greeted the Rev. Gladstone Or
lando Wilson, eminent young
Catholic priest from Kingston,
Jamaica at an informal reception
IN Room A on the second floor of
the YMCA $50 w. 135th street,
Tuesday evening May 80, between
8 and 10 o'clock.
Invitations were sent out by
Floyd J. Calvin, editor of Calvin's
Newspapers Service, who met
Father Wilson three weeks ago IN
the new DePorres I%rterracial Cen
ter, 20 Vesey street and was so
impressed with his personality and
bearing that he told Editor George
K. Hunton of the l~nterraclal Re
view, who had arranged the meet
ing between Mr.. Calvin and Father
Wilson that he believed many
more of Father Wilson's own peo-
ple in Harlem would appreciate
an opportunity to meet him.
Father Wilson was delighted
with the offer of a chance to meet
more of his own people in New
York. and Immediately gave the
date of May 80 at the only one
available. (Father Wilson, who is
secretary to The Most Reverend
Thomas A. Emmett, Roman Cath
Ole Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica,
has been in New York since last
October, doing special study IN
social science at Fordham Uni
vensity. At the age of only 81,
Father Wilson is the holder OF
three Doctors degrees-Doctor of
Philosophy, Dortor of Sacred The
ology, and Doctor of Canon Jur-
isprudence-the law of the Catho-
lie Church. He is also vice chan
cellor of the Diocese of Jamaica,
a very high administrative posi-
ton in his church. He speaks SIX
languages fluently, and has stu
died at several European universe
ties, and at the Vatican in Rome.
He delivered an address in Italian
In the presence of the late Pope
Pus XI, and was personally com
mended by the Supreme Pontiff.)
The Harlem meeting was entire
w informal. Among those present
were DIR. P. H. H. Savory, chair
man of Victory Mutual Life In
Company and co-publish-
CT of the Amsterdam News; Judge
E. Tyer, principal of Public schooi
James S. Watson; Mrs. Gertrude
No. "a; DIR. Willis N. Higgins,
instructor of history in Bushwlck
High school, Brooklyn; DR.. Ed
ward E. Best; Attorney and Mrs.
H. Eustace Williams; Attorney
Fitzgerald Phillips; Miss Bernice
J. Calvin; and Prof. Norris +.
Roach, business school principal.
Among prominent out of town
guests were DR. Tennyson Sim
clair of Jamaica, B. W, l.; Attor-
ney Patrick Deleponha OF Man
deville, Jamaica, B. w. l.; and DIR.
M. Dubois of Kingston, Jamaica.
Assisting Mr.. Calvin as hostess
SEES were Miss Daphne Atkinson,
Miss Beulah Clark, and Miss Roxle
SterreG.
Distinguished white Catholics
present were Father John LaFarge
noted writer and critic, and a
professor at Fordham University;
and Editor George n. huhtoh VI
the Interracial Review.
Father Wilson Speaks
After greeting all guests dur
ing the course of an hour, a group
of about seventy persons remained
and Mr.. Calvin, master of cere-
monies, asked Father Wilson If he
would not give those who had
never heard him speak the OPP
portunity of hearing his views on
America. During his stay here,
Father Wilson has spent most OF
his spare time lecturing in white
Catholic universities, and preach
ing in large white Catholic Chur-
ches.)
Father Wilson spoke for thirty
five minutes reviewing his exper-