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[[caption]] Barnard's Statue of ABRAHAM LINCOLN [[/caption]]


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TWO PUBLIC APPOINTEES      231

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[[caption]] DR. E. P. ROBERTS [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] MRS. G. A. ROBINSON [[/caption]]

TWO PUBLIC APPOINTEES

DR. EUGENE P. ROBERTS has recently been appointed by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel a member of the Board of Education of the City of New York to serve the full term of five years.

Dr. Roberts served as medical inspector for the Board of Health from 1898 to 1912 and has carried on a successful practise of his profession in the city for twenty-one years, specializing in lung and heart diseases. He was born in Louisburg, N. C., in 1870. He graduated from Lincoln University with the degrees of B.A. and M.A., and took his course in medicine at the New York Homeopathic Medical College and at the Flower Hospital.

Dr. Roberts much important civic and philanthropic work.

MRS. GEORGIA A. ROBINSON has been appointed to the office of police-woman in Los Angeles, Cal., by Chief of Police, Snively. She is the first colored woman in the United States to receive such an appointment, which is inconnection with the juvenile bureau and comes under the Civil Service.

Mrs. Robinson is from Leadville, Colo. She worked for woman suffrage there before she was old enough to vote. In coming to Los Angeles she has been even more active in civic and political affairs. She has been the treasurer of the Los Angeles Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ever since its organization; in fact, she is one of the organizers.