The Omaha guide., 1941-05-03

, Chicago, May 2 (ANP) The a.
ward of 81 fellowships totalling
100000 was announced Wednes-
day by Edwin R. Embree, presid-
ent of the Julius Rosenwald fund.
The fellows include 40 Negroes
ind "a white southerners. select
Ell for their scholarship end spec
i2l talent from over 800 applic-
ants. The awards are made III
two eategories: to Negroes IN any
field from any part of the United
States, and to white Southerners
who wish to work on some prob
lem distinctive to the South, and
who expect to make IT, sir careers
in that region. The fellowships
average $1,000.
The julius Rosenwald fund has
been granting fellowships for -
years. Among the many notable
fellows of earlier years are Maj
ian Anderson, central o, xat..,l-
inc Durham, William Grant Sui,
composer, Charles S. Johnson, so
cial scientist, E. E. Just, biologist,
Aaron Douglas, painter, Richmond
Rarthe, and Augusta Savage SOUL
ptors, w. e. B. Dubois and the
late James Weldon Johnson, writ
ers.
Under the present fellowship
program awards are made once
each year by a committee on fell
lowships consisting of Will Alex
ander, adviser to the Council on
National Defense, Charles S. Joln-
son of Fisk University, Henry Al
len Moe, secretary of the John ST.
mon Guggenheim Memorial found
alton; Raymond R. Patty, presid-
ent of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES col
lege; Robert C. Weaver, admins
trative assistant, Office of Pro-
duction Management; Edwin r.
Embree, president of the julius
Rosenwald Fund, and George NJ.
Reynolds, director for fellowships.
The 1871 fellows will work on
projects in a variety of fields,
ranging from southern agriciult-
ure and South American forests
to a study of the Sponish-speak-
ing settlements of Delacroix island
Of Louisiana and the painting of
scenes of the Southwest. In adj
dition to fellowships in the acad-
emic fields, three awards were
made in art, three in creative writ
ing, and one in music.
Negroes who received fellow
ships are: Charles Henry Aston,
New York City, for creative work
in painting and the graphic arts.
Reappointment.
Thomas Henry Bembry, head of
the department of chemistry, Liv-
ingston college, N. C. for studies
in chemistry, at Columbia uni.
Cleo Walter Blackburn, super
intendent of Flanner house, India
nopolis, for studies in sociology,
at Indiana university.
David Harold Blackwell, Urbana
ILL.,, for studies in mathematics, at
the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, and the University of
Illinois.
Walter Monroe Booker, assoc
late professor and head of the de-
partment of biology, Prairie View
State college, Texas, for studies in
physiology, at the University of
Chicago.
Herman Russell Branson, in
structor in physics and mathemat-
les, billiard university, for research
in mathematical biophysics, at the
University of Chicago.
Jeremiah Certaine, Philadelphia,
for studies in mathematics at Har-
ward university. ReappoinJment.
Mamie Katherine Clark, New
York City, for studies in child
psychology, at Columbia un;yers-
ity. Reappointment.
William Montague Cobb, assoc
late professor of anatomy, school
of medicine, Howard university,
for anatomical research directed to
ward the preparation of an atlas
covering the changes in the human
skeleton, at Western Reserve uni.
Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell,
Washington, for studies in sociol-
ogy dealing with various activit-
les of the Negro woman, at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Charles Twitchell Davis, Hamp-
ton, for studies in American cul-
ture, at the University of Chicago
with special reference to the lit
erature of the Negro renaissance.