Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1955-02-26
Dr.. Walter hager
ToSpeak At88th
Anniversary0f
Founding Of
Howard Univ.
Three Alumni To
Receive Annual
Achievement
MedalIiOns For
st-Graduate Service

Washington, D. CDR. Walter
E. Hager. president of Wilson
Teachers College Cd. c., will be
the principal speaker at Charter
Day ceremonies concentrating
the 88th anniversary of the found
ing of Howard University Wednes-
day, March End, at 1920 am. The
program will be held in Rankin
Memorial Chapel, Sixth Street and
f, Howard Place, northwest.
At the exercises three Howard
alumni will receive medallions for
postgraduate achievement. They
are DR.. Russell w. Brown, of Tus-
kegee, Ala; James A. Cobb, of
Washington; and DR.. John D. Will
liams, of Manassas, Va. The 1856
Alumni Achievement Award recip-
tents will speak at the Charter
Day banquet in the Baldwin Hall
dining room at 8 pm.
DR.. Hager, who is a native OF
Bellwood. Neb., has been president
of Wilson since 1941. Prior tt
heading the District of Columbia
school he served as a public school
teacher in Fender, Neb., a profess
sor at the University of Nebraska
supervisor of school in Adams anc
Cozad, Neb., and secretary and as.
sociate director of student person.
mel at Columbia University:
!. Teachers College, He holds the
Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of Nebraska, anc
the Master of Arts and Doctor Of
Philosophy degrees from Columbia
DR.. Hager first attracted ma
tional attention in 1850 when HI
became the first ranking white
District public school official tt
advocate public school Indignation
In his annual report to the super
intendent Of school DR.. Hagel
called for immediate action to enc
segregation in the two teacher!
colleges, terming it "the logica
and eminently desirable next stel
in the organization of teacher!
colleges"
In the report he urged member:
of the board of education ant
, school officials to take steps i'm
mediately in order that the actor
, could be completed in five years
Present plans calls for the merger
pf Wilson, formerly white, anc
Miner Teachers College, formerl!
Negro, in September.
Active in many national educa
ton organizations, DR.. Hager pres
entity holds high positions in three
such groups. He is secretary 0:
the American Council on Educa
ton, chairman of the Council OF
Cooperation in Teacher Education
and vice-chairman and member o:
the executive committee of the Ma
tional Conference for Cooperation
in Health Education. Past office:
held by him include presidencies o,
the American Association of Col
leges for Teacher Education, East
ern States Association of PROBES
sional Schools for Teachers, ane
Interstate Teacher Education Con
ference.
This years achievement aware
winners bring the number of alum.
nj who have received the citation
since the practice was started ir
1913 to SO.
DR.. Brown, who is a 1926 grad.
uate of the College of Liberia
Arts, will be cited for his work in
the field of education. A native
of Gary, La, he is director of the
George Washington Carver Foun.
dation at Tuskegee Institute. Ir
1851, he received the Alumni Merit
Award at Iowa State College
where he had earned his Master of
Science and Doctor of Philosophy
degrees.
Mr.. Cobb, an 1899 graduate of
the School of Law, receives the
award for his work in the field
of law. He also received the Mas
Ger of Laws degree at Howard in
1900, and was admitted to prac-
tice in Washington the following
year. From 1926 to 1886, he
served as judge of the Municipal