The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-21
Stdff of USO
Club Versatile
And Qualified

In an all-out effort to give
the enlisted men and women of
+ ort Huachuca the best posi-
bic service, USO has brought
the cream of its professional
crop to the staff of its club at
Fry.
The staff is composed Of per-
sons having the necessary skills
and backgrounds for effective
service, and their record for
the nast five months speaks for
itself.
Director a Fisk Grad
The club director. w. P. Adkins.
is a graduate of Fisk University.
where he was three-letter man.
and he holds a Masters degree from
Ohio State University.
After graduation from college. he
accepted the position of athletic di-
rector and teacher of political, sci
ence at LeNIoyne COLLEGE. where he
remained from 1926 to 1943 and was
Ia successful coach.
His football team was one of rthe
most highly respected grid. outfits
in the Southern Conference, and.
while never winning the loon title,
was successful in bowling over. such
elevens as Alabama State, T,lskeoee,
Xavier, Morehouse, Knaxvilles Lin
coin of Missouri, Arkansas State,
Fisk, Talladega, and Lane.
Before coming to Fort Huachuca,
he served briefly as assistant direr-
ttor at the Buchanan Street USO
Club in San Francisco, Calf. At
this post he assisted in coaching the
TSCU 1922 football team. 80
Miss Washington Is Popular.
Z The YWCA Representatives, of the
staff is Marian A. Washington, who
has endeared herself to. the officers
and enlisted men of Fort Huachuca.
Miss Washington is a graduate. ef
iCheyney State Teachers Co1lede and
Tennle University. At the latter in :.
Stitution, where she obtained bor-
B.A. degree with a major in social
work, she. was a scholarship student.
She has done graduate study at the
University of Pennsylvania.
{ Miss Washington has been err
ploved as assistant supervisor CT
Philadelphia Unemployment survevs.
as girl reserve secretary at the
Southwest Branch of the Philadel-
phia YWCA, as handicrafts teacher
for the Philadelphia Board of Edu-
cation and as associate director of
the USO Club serving Fort Leonard
Wood. Because of her work at Fort
Leonard Wood, she was selected to
represent the, YWcA Oh a Vso nm
gram ofoaocc$sst nationally by NBC.
S1H las worked closely with the
Beauticians Club and other activity
groups at Fort Huachuca.
DIR. Gl0Ster from Atlanta
The program director, DR. Hugh
M Gloster, comes to USO from
Morehouse College and Atlanta Uni
versity, where he served as profess
sor of English.
A graduate of Morehouse with
high honors. he received his Masters
degree at Atlanta University and his
Ph.D. at New York University; where
he maintained a straight-A averag ge.
At New York University he was a
General Education Board fellow
during the year 1938-1939 and an
AlDha Phi Alpha Research fellow
during the summer of 1910.
Before his connection with the
Atlanta schools, DR.. GloSter was a
member of the faculty of IeMoyne
College. He is founder and first
president of the Association of
Teachers of English in Negro Col
leges, a member of the National Ad-
viSory Council of Delta Phi Delta,
organizer and director of the first
Negro collegiate verse speaking
chorus to take an extensive tour, and
co-editor Of t'The Brown Thrush"
G935) anthology of college verse.
He has written articles on NEGRO lit
eratllre for Crisis Opportunity"
and "Phylon": and his dissertation,
American Negro Fiction" is in line
for early publication by New York
firm.
A member of the USO inter-
agency class which was graduated at
Columbia University in August, 1943,
he was elected president of the j
group. IN order to .integTate the
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