The Detroit tribune., 1963-03-23

director Of the Peace Corps, de-
liyered the Founders Day Address
at Southern University. Saturday
afternoon, March 8, to climax a
two-day observance Of Southern's
49th year of existence on il pre-
sent site.
AS a part of the activities COM
memorating Southern's anniyer-
sary, Space Science Conference
was held Friday and Saturday,
which included lectures by rep
resentatives of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration.
eminent physicists and scientists,
and featured exhibits and displays
provided by the u. S. Army, the
u. S. Navy and NASA.
Saturday afternoon, a new
Physical Science and Health Re-
search Complex of over a million
dollars was dedicated.
DR.. Proctor, in his address en-
titled Finishing Up Some OF the
Unfinished Business on the Earth
cited the opportunities for Negro
es in taking a part in solving
problems of the world and pro-
noting world peace as members
OF the Peace Corps.
I'm many of the dark spots on
the earth, the American Negro is
rot only welcome addition to
countries that are trying to mat
ure out of confusion. he is more
valuable than white man, be-
cause he sees with the Negro's
eyes" said Dr. Proctor.
The thirty-third annual session
Of the national Lacy Kirk Will
liams Ministers Institute will be
held this year at Bishop College
in Dallas from April 30 to May
3. according to Rev Richard A.
Rollins. Chairman of B lis h 0 p's
Department of Religion and Phi
losophy, who is in charge of this
years Institute.
Theme of the meeting will be
biblical Foundations for World
Tensions =
Keynoter for the Mems Depart
ment will be the Rev. DR. Gard
ner C. Taylor, Minister of the
Concord Baptist Church in New
York. while the Women's key.
noter will be DR.. Lynette Sainet
of Atlanta. Dr. Saline will speak
on Great Women of the Bible
and World Tensions"
A third subdivision of the In
stitute is the "Laymens Depart
ment." Its principal speaker will
be Dallas DR.. Leslie Patton, prin.
cipal of Booker t. Washington
High School.
Silliman College Players ol
Yale University will present Oedi
pus Rex in ogden Hall at lIamp
ton Institute on Sunday evening
March "a, at 8:l5 p. m.
AS a gesture of good will, the
visiting actors from Yale will pre-
sent the play at Hampton free oi
charge.
Daniel Harris, director of the
production, says: Oedipus Rex
for an Athenian audience was an
eminently religious experience,
one in which the conflict between
fat and free will held full sway
For a modern /. audience such
a theological absorption is not
always possible. What remains
possible, however, is a full ap'
preciation of Oedipus' magnifi
cent turmoil wv ch revolves
around the quest for knowledge
and his paralleled desire to re
ject the truth, and of the savage
immediacy of restrained horror
With Oedipus Rex my goals were
to achieve the stark terror of
man ruined not only by his al
rogance, but also by his desire
for turth. Using dance, music and
chorus. -. | have attempted to
recreate for modern audiences
the beauties of Sophocles' tragic
vision"
That tnere are MANY ways in
which the individual may be
alienated from the society in
which he lives was the consensus
of a sociologist, a philosopher and
psychologist who addressed
themselves to The Problem OF
Indentification" as Bennett Col
,ege opened its 37th annual Home
making Monday afternoon.
This years institute, which has
as its theme, "The Search for
Identity" began with a sym
postum featuring DR.. Joseph S
Hines, sociologist, of North Caro-
lima College at Durham; DR.. Rob-
ert Rosthal, philosopher, of Wom-
ems College and Dr. Adrian Solo
mon, psychologist, of Bennett and
Woman's College.
DR.. Rosthal listed therapeutic
positivism and existential psyche
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