Central State University - Centralian Yearbook (Wilberforce, OH)

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fi at . 1 L' 'Rig ' tr- Lx. 5' EL..- f Jlll Coleman, president, and Mrs. Dorothy Smlth, ad- vlser of the Central State chapter of Alpha Kappa Mu Natlonal Honor Society, welcomed the honor stu- dents and faculty and other guests to the orgonlzd- tlon's annual recognition luncheon In Mercer Cafete- rla followlng the Honors Day Convocatlon.

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Honors Day for 1980 featured QRIGHTJ an address by Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, the Martln Luther King, Jr., Me morlal Professor of Education ln the Rutgers Unlverslty Graduate School. Dr. Thrysa Svager, mathematlcs department chairperson and chairperson of the Commlttee on Honors, was iolned by Dr. Newsom ln presentlng certificates to honor students and Gold Cords to outstalndlng graduatlng seniors. D- D cn or Z I

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RITERS K BL Black Writers View the Eighties: Evolu- tion, Stagnation or Renewed Struggle? Was the theme of the three day confer- ence sponsored by the department of English in May. The conference included general sessions and small workshops. Visiting writers and humanities scholars from area colleges and universities, as well as membersrs of the audience, interacted in discussing views of the eighties in the areas of children's litera- ture, mass media, editing and publishing, drama, fiction, literary criticism, Affirician and Caribbean literature and poetry. Conference participants included: Abena Joan Brown, O. R. Dathorne, Mari Evans, Addison Gayle Jr., Virginia Hamil- ton, Stephen Henderson, John Oliver Killens, Acklyn Lynich, Haki R. Madhubuti fDon Leej, Jabari Mahiri, Lee Palmer, Kalamu Ya Salaam, and Val Gray Ward. Dr. Newsom with Kalamu Ya Salaam