The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-03-28

onorS ConVocadon of the Trustee Board Of this nstt-
The week gala one for the college and every
one seemed full of enthusiasm.
The public relations department, Virgil D. Hawkins
director Lucius Davis and Alvin A. Reid assistants
doing good job Mrs Doris Lee is the efficient secretary
of this department.
The launching of the Mary Mcleod Bethune Founda-
ton at dinner on Tuesday evening of the high
lights in the weeks activities 1t is educational corpo
ration to commemorate the work of Dr. Bethune She has
decided the home furnishings and her other possessions
to the foundation The real property valued at 600
The foundation has been Incorporated
The home will be remodelled and the trustees will
maintain shrine. Research facilities will be organ
lied for students and scholarships provided.
In dedcatng the home Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, for
first lady and well known humanitarian, expressed
her happiness at being present and said that the giving of
her properties to the foundation symbolic of what DIR
Behune had been doing for several years. in giving her
self TO the service of humanity Dr. Bethune, in her
spouse said Mrs Roosevelt 'the most beloved and
most outstanding woman in the world today
The dinner interracial and attended by about
150 including city officials and prominent figures 1t
the first of it's kind in Daytona Beach,
Because Mrs. Roosevelt not able to remain in the
city for Wednesday night, special assembly held
Wednesday afternoon in the college auditorium when
Mrs Roosevelt addressed the students and DR.. Bethune
and President Richard " Moore conferred her the
honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities
On Wednesday evening Dr. Lee Nicholas presided at
the Honors Convocaon held in the Peabody auditorium in
downtown Daytona. There was capacity audience and
given by the Rt. Rev. John Branscomb, presiding
bishop of Florida and Cuba Conferences of the Methodist
church, Reflections JOhn u executive Secre
tary of the board; The Bethune Goodman College choir
and college band furnished the music.
Honorary degrees We're conferred upon Bishop
Branscomb, Bishop W. E. Bowen and Mr. Herbert Marc
Davidson, publisher of the News Journal of Daytona
Beach, by President Moore.
The next big event the Marian Anderson Recital
at Skateland Gymnasium Friday night More than 1906
listeners present and enjoyed this concert. They
heard classics by Handel and Schubert folk songs b!
Howard Swanson and Benjamin Brtten and Negro spri
tuals by William Lawrence, Nathaniel Dett, Hamilton
Forrest and Hall Johnson She sang only Marian An
could sing, thrilling her audience and receiving
merited
Following the concert a reception given for the
singer in Faith Hail.
Upon Miss Andersons arrival at the college she was
given very reception and beseged by students and
others seeking autographs.
1t my pleasure to meet Mr. Henry Koestline, a
representative of the Christian Educative and Motive
Magazine. With Lucius Davis and A. A. Reid we inter
Miss Andesons first visit the college, She has been to
Miami three occasions She especially grateful for
the invitation Miss Anderson thinks Dr. Bethunes work is
astounding She rs very pleasing person to interview
might also mention that it my privilege TO ride
to the concert in the with two very distinguished
ladies-Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune and Miss Marian An
derson.
Wednesday were Mrs Buelah Mcclellan of the Journal
and Mr. Uriah Portee of the Times Union.
We were also shown over the campus by Mr.. Davis
Construction of $3.50, 900 gym goes and new ten
mis- courts are in use.
The college is crowded with nearly 1900 students
100 girls 1t is not necessary to tell anything
about Dr. Bethune's work that's we'll known and goes
on. Her successor Dr. Richard V. Moore is able ad
mnistrator and in six of leadership the institution
oh He nd he foil roff