The Negro Journal of Religion
Marian Anderson, world famous singer, has added her name to the nationwide sponsoring committee which is
raising funds to erect a monument to
James Weldon Johnson Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
The second nationwide Essay Contest
sponsored by the National Negro Insurance Association is open to students
of junior and senior high schools. The
prizes are $100, $50 and $25 for the
first, second and third best essays in the
nation; and $12.50, $7.50 and $5.00 for
fijcst,, second and third best state essays.
The contest which ops.ied February 15
will close at midnight, April 30, 1940.
Faculty members of the School of
Medicine at Howard University, recently tendered a luncheon to Dr. Numa P.
G. Adams, who is serving his tenth year
as Dean of the School and College of
Medicine.
Rev. J. Raymond Henderson, pastor
of New Rochelle Baptist Church, was
elected president of the New Rochelle
Federation of Clubs.
Miss Fay Tull, graduate of the home
economics department of Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo., now a graduate in home economics at Columbia
University, was selected as one of the
thirty young women to serve as air hostess in the service of the American Air
Lines, Inc.
The Washington Bar Association, at
its last meeting, authorized its committee on civil rights, headed by George
E. C. Haynes, to proceed with the framing of a Civil Rights Bill to be submitted to Congress.
William S. Jackson, graduate of the
Atlanta University School of Social
Work, is community secretary of the
Spring Street Y. M. C. A., Columbus, O.
Dr. Emmett J. Scott delivered the anniversary address of the Attucks Pageant Committee in Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass.
Aubrey Williams, Administrator of the
National Youth Administration, recently announced the appointment of Miss
Mary Stewart Anderson as State Youth
Administrator for the state of Illinois.
Dr. Richard M. Carey, of New York
City, has 'been appointed medical examiner for the New York Insurance
Company—the first. Negro to receive
such an appointment.
William H. Roberts, the first Negro
to be elected Magistrate in Atlantic City,
N. J., is now serving his thirty-fifth consecutive year.
The Negro Chamber of Commerce of
Philadelphia celebrated its first anniversary at the White Rock Baptist
Church in Philadelphia, February 23.
Mrs. Chrsytal Byrd Fauset was the principal speaker for the occasion.
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, president
of Bethune-Cookman College and Dr.
J. R. E. Lee, president of Florida A. &
M. College were recently honored by being appointed to serve on the Advisory
Board of the Florida Congress of Demo-
ocracy.
Joseph E. Walker, president of the
National Negro Business League, Memphis, Tentn., recently stated that the
week of April 7 had been set aside as
the date for holding commemorative
meetings by business leagues, chambers
of commerce and similar groups to honor
the memory of Booker T. Washington.
More than 1,000 persons attended the
testimonial banquet recently given Rev.
J. L. Henry, pastor of the Tenth Street
Baptist Church, Washington, D. C.
H. H. Harris, associate professor of
chemistry at Meharry Medical College,
Nashville, Tenn., was recently awarded
the degree of Master of Science at the
University of Iowa. He was also made
a member of Sigma Si honorary scientific society.
During Negro History Week, recently
observed by leading Negroes and organizations, schools and colleges throughout the country, a Nebraskan woman
shared honors with other prominent Race
women. Mrs. Joseph D. Lewis, of
Omaha, the former Hazel Terry of Emporia, Kansas, has been outstanding in
her oratorical work. Mrs. Lewis, the
wife of undertaker Joseph D. Lewis,
just recently completed three years of
civic and religious work, delivering intellectual addresses in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Colorado and California. Although nationally known, her program
is extensive and she is often called upon
by ministers and civic leaders to participate in their programs. She has
served a great many political and fraternal organizations. She has been Precinct committee woman for four years,
and Grand Matron of the O. E. S.
Dorothy Maynor, ranking soprano,
was selected by unanimous vote, as the
winner for 1940 of the Town Hall Endowment Series Award by the Town Hall
music committee of which Walter W.
Naumburg is chairman, it was announced in New York. The award is
made each season to the artist who is
under 30 years of age whom the New
York music critics and the committee
consider to have given the outstanding;
performance of the year at Town Hall..
The committee cooperating by suggesting candidates for the honor.
Dillard University faculty board announced today that Paul Williams, noted
architect of Los Angeles, California, will
conduct the fourth annual Homemaking
Institute exercises to be held there from
April 1-6. It will be centered around
"The Planning and Decoration of a
Home." Williams has been outstanding
for his work in architecture. He is perhaps the best known, having designed
the homes of several cinema stars in
Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
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In closing this discussion the
writer asked, "what would you do,
if in heaven you were seated next
to a Methodist?" His answer was
quick and good. He snapped,
"that couldn't be!" The writer is
still not sure whether he meant
that he would not be in heaven, qx
that no Methodists would be there.
What a task our Christianity has
to finally save itself.
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