Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-01-23
Howard Teachers
Are Cited For
Outstanding
Achievements

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Twenty
teachers in its College of Liberal
Arts have been cited by Howard
University for outstanding schol-
arly achievement and activity dur
ing 1863, Otto McClarrin, director
of public relations at Howard, an
nounced today.
The citations were made by J.
st. Clair Price, dean of the Col
lege of Liberal Arts and were
based on articles appearing in
scholarly publications, active par
ticipation in scientific meetings,
honors and awards received, and
community and national leadership.
Two of the colleges youngest
teachers were cited most often in
the deans four-page report. They
were 33-year-old David H. Black.
well, professor mathematics, and
28-year-old Nathan A. Scott, Jr.,
assistant professor of humanities.
DR.. Blackwell, a graduate of the
University of Illinois, received four
citations for scholarly articles and
one for participation in the re-
gional meeting of Beta Kappa Chi
Scientific Society at Baltimore last
March. DR.. Scott, a University of
Michigan graduate, was cited on
three occasions for authoring
scholarly articles and once for par
ticipating in conference on re-
ligious education at Cornell Col
lege in November.
Also cited for scholarly publica-
lions during the year were DR..
Percy R. Barnes, professor of
chemistry; DR.. Herman Branson,
professor of physics; DR.. w. K
McAllister, associate professor of
philosophy; DR.. Lawrence B. Rob
inson, associate professor of phys
les; DR.. Frank M. Snowden, pro-
! fessor of classics; DR.. F. C. Sum-
ner, professor of psychology; DR..
Noodle D. Taylor, associate pro-
fessOr of chemistry; and DIR. Ma
rion T. Wright, professor of edu-
cation.
DIR. Sumner, who died here on
Monday, was twice cited in the
deans report.
Faculty members in the largest
of Towards 10 schools and col
leges cited for participation in
scientific meetings were DR.. Jas.
A. Dayton, associate professor of
psychology; DR.. Lloyd N. Fergu-
son, associate professor of chem
istry; DR.. E. Franklin Frazier, pro-
fessor of sociology; and DR.. Kelso
Norris, associate professor of
chemistry.
Recipients of honors and awards
mentioned in the report included
DR.. Vincent J. Browne, associate
professor of government; Mr..
James w. Butcher, associate pro-
fessor of drama; DR.. Harold E.
Finley, professor of zoology; and
DR.. Rafael A. Toro,. visiting pro-
lessor Of botany.
DR.. JOhn H. Franklin, professor
Of history, and DIR. Victor ]. Tu-
lane, associate professor of chem
istry, were cited for leadership.
DR.. Franklin, a graduate of Fisk
University (Tenn.), is consultant
to the Legal Defense and Educa-
! tiOnal Fund of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People. An abstract from
his paper, 1.-THE Genesis of Segre-
CATION in the New South, With
Special Reference to Separate
Schools for Negroes" appears in
the briefs submitted to the Su-
preme Court by the appellees in
five cases testing the constitution
atty of segregation in public edu-
cation.
A Howard graduate, DR.. Tulane
was cited for leadership in the Dis
trict of Columbia. During 1853,
he served as member of the ex-
ecutive committee of United Com
muntiy Services and chairman Of
the organizations correction Sec
ton, vice president of the Bureau
Of Rehabilitation, president of the
18th Street YMCA's board of man.
ayers, an investigator for the Sem
ate Subcommittee on Juvenile
Delinquency.