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[[Left Page]] 194 THE CRISIS Miss Nettie A. Cantrell is the first colored person to graduate from the West Aurora, Ill., High School in fifty years. Miss Leonora Adena Minott graduated from the Douglass School in Chicago, Ill. She led her class all term and finished with the highest honors. Miss Olga A. Wilson graduated from the high school in St. Paul, Minn., with honors. She will enter the University of Minnesota in September. Six colored students were among the graduates of the College of Dental and Oral Surgery of New York. William C. Bumry graduated from the Allegheny, Pa., High School. In his sophomore year he was awarded the official "A" in swimming and in his senior year he played on the football team, receiving another letter. Miss D.E. Tandy graduated from the Wait High School, Toledo, Ohio. Her story, "Hate," won first prize in the story contest of the school's official organ. She was a member of the Cercle Francais and first violinist in the school orchestra. She was awarded a medal for good scholarship. Cuyler Street School, Savannah Ga., graduated eighty-eight students. Allen University, Columbia, S.C., graduated 4 students in theology, 3 receiving the bachelor of Divinity degree; 5 men and 1 woman from the college department with the Bachelor of Arts degree, 31 men and 39 women from the normal department, sewing 3, printing 1. General Leonard Wood addressed the body. He was accompanied by Gov. Manning and Adjt.-Gen. Moore and his staff. Eugene F. Minor has graduated from the University of Oregon Law School. In Connellsville Pa., Miss Pauline Phillips, a colored high school student, was chosen valedictorian out of a class of eighty. The Cardoza Vocational School in Washington, D. C., graduated 4 students in brickmasonry; 5 in printing; 6 in automobile repairing and operating; 1 in carpentry; 2 in plastering. The O Street Vocational School had the following graduates: In plain sewing 5; advanced dressmaking 3; millinery 1; practical cooking 1. The Misses Lydia M. Scott and Sarah E. Woods graduated from the West Division High School, Milwaukee Wis., with high averages. Miss Alice M. Watkins of Montgomery,Ala., passed the dental board examination at Birmingham. She is the only colored woman in Alabama with a license. Joshua Smith was awarded the bronze medal in the New Jersey State Stenographic contest. John W. Freeman of Washington, D.C., won the $100 scholarship this year in the junior class at the P.E. Divinity school in Philadelphia, Pa. J. Harvey Hebron has received a teacher's diploma from the Hahn Conservatory of Music in Philadephia, Pa. He wrote a sonata for violin and piano in four complete movements as his graduating composition. There were eleven colored graduates from Ohio State University. The Misses I.J. Patterson and M. Reynolds received the Bachelor's degree in Arts. MEETINGS THE National Association of Colored Nurses will convene in Louisville, Ky., August 21-23. Dr. Dan Williams will deliver a special address. Because of the recent lynching in Memphis, Tenn., the colored National Medical Association has changed its place of meeting to Philadelphia, Pa., August 28-30. The Grand Lodge, I.B.P Order of Elks of the World will hold their 18th annual convention in Cleveland, Ohio, August 26-30. The Masonic Grand Lodge of the State of Ohio will meet in Cincinnati, August 12-17. The 18th annual session of the National Negro Business League will be held in Chattanooga, Tenn., August 15-17. The 19th biennial session of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias will convene in St. Louis, Mo., the week of August 19. The Alabama Knights of Pythias will hold their annual grand lodge in Birmingham, August 14-21. The Mississippi Centennial Exposition has been postponed to begin February 22, 1919, because of existing war conditions. The work of the Negro Department has been so well done that the Executive Committee has ordered its operations continued. A memorial to Paul Laurence Dunbar was held July 1 at the Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Ill. Richard T. Greener delivered an address. A memorial meeting in honor of the late Senator Foraker has been held in Cin- [[/Left page]] [[Right page]] THE HORIZON 195 cinnati, Ohio under the auspices of the colored societies of the city. Twenty white Southern social workers met in an informal conference on racial cooperation with a group of representative colored social workers during the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Pittsburgh. At the 13th annual convention of the New England League for Afro-American Suffrage, held in Roxbury, Mass., William Monroe Trotter was elected president. Mrs. A. W. Hunton represented the National Association of Colored Women at the meeting of the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense held in Hotel Astor, New York City, June 28. The 14th annual convention of the Colored Women's Clubs of Colorado met in June at Pueblo. Mrs. Gertie N. Ross was unanimously elected president. The State Pioneer and Historical Society held its 43d annual meeting in the Senate Chamber at Lansing, Mich. One subject discussed was "A Michigan Celebrity of Slavery Days, Sojourner Truth," by Mrs.. N.S. Lane, a colored school teacher. The South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs held its seventh annual session at Charleston. The Negro Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association of Arkansas met at Pine Bluff in June. A. A. Womack of Little Rock, was elected first president. A meeting in the interest of Red Cross work was held by colored and white citizens in Mobile, Ala. Ten thousand persons attended. SOCIAL PROGRESS JAMES A. RIVERS, a colored man, served as interpreter for New York State at the military census. The Rev. Archibald Carey and Charles B. Travis were named on the Exemption Board in Illinois. In Massachusetts, Benjamin Powell, Dr. Samuel R. Courtney and the Hon. Wiliam H. Lewis were named. The School Board of Baltimore, Md., at a recent meeting decided to make the birthday anniversary of Frederick Douglass a public holiday. Mrs. R.D. Aggrev of Livingstone College won the prize for the best original alma mater poem for Shaw University. Attorney Rufus L. Perry, in Brooklyn, N. Y., has been made a member of the Societe Academique d'Histoiore Internationale. Howard P. Drew has been credited seventeen times with running 100 yards in 9 4-5 seconds. A fellowship in the American College of Physicians has been conferred on Dr. Algernon B. Jackson, superintended of Mercy Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., for his original work on rheumatism. Harold Murray, son of Daniel Murray of Washington, D. C., has entered the service of the Havana Marine Company at a salary of $175 per month. Major R. R. Jackson introduced a second bill in the Illinois Legislature aimed against photo-plays like the "Birth of a Nation." It passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 81-3, and the Senate, 39-0. At least one colored band will be hired this summer in the parks in St. Louis, Mo. Heretofore only white bands have been used. The City of Selma, Ala., has built an excretor within one hundred yards of the girls' domitory of Payne Seminary. Negroes in Savannah, Ga., are protesting against the removal of the white tenderloin district into the colored neighborhood. Prof. J. D. M. Russell, principal of the high school at Richmond, Ky., has been appointed postmaster at Wilberforce, Ohio. The position pays $1,800 a year. At the first American Big Brother and Big Sister Conference held during May in Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles C. Allison, Jr., of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, in New York City, represented the Negro race. Mr. Allison has been appointed probation officer for the New York City Parole Commission, as a result of a competitive Civil Service examination in which 574 men participated. He was placed eight on the list. The 200 Cape Verde Negroes detained at the Boston Immigration Station because of illiteracy have been ordered deported by the Department of Labor. Miss Pauline Ernest has been appointed [[/Right page]]
