Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Dorothy Hastings wills her petiteness to Big House Gaines. Cordelia Gibbs wills her perfect diction to Doris Jeffries. Maethclda Morris wills her ability to do things well to Naomi Cannon. David Sloan wills his secrecy with the girls to the Junior men. Nathaniel Wicks wills his biblical expressions to Philip Harley. Samuel Young wills his success in Commerce 205 to Josephine Ryan. Carl Drake wills his Sonatra aid to the future Morgan men. Martin Marquez wills his sedate mannerisms to McAdoo Ramey. Betty Williams will her rapidity of speech to Evelyn Hines. Novene Thomas wills her Venus to all those who are over-weight. Aubrey Blackmore leaves his scientific mind to those lost on Morgan's rolling hjlls . Sevilla Boyd wills her cherished love for Morgan to all. Camline Bundara wills her sunny disposition to Juanita Perry. Bernice Ohester wills her collegiate mien to Betty Graves. Corinne Fry wills her store of energy to Dr. Coleman's Low Souls . Anne Fulwood leaves her willingness to cooperate to Bessie Keene. Alice Hall wills her candidness to Virginia Smith. Lillian Hinton wills her originality to Francis Ogle. Ernestine Welch wills her sedulousness to Alvin Brown. Harriet Peat wills her business-like ability to Gwendolyn Grisby. George Stansbury wills his good quality to the rabble room. John McGraw wills his conscientiousness to the non-doers . Bettie Sullivan wills her over-weight to Mary Carter. Garland Martin wills her sense of humor to Ruth Myers. Ruth Morrow wills her infant chatter to Mallie Morrow. Marie Kelly wills her suppressed desires to John Hurst. Thelma Hill wills her good nature to Maeives Parsons. Ruvh Mosley wills her quiet disposition to Dorothy Wolfe. Dorothy Roberts wills her surplus of good will to Melba Graves. Catherine Russell wills her knowledge of library science to Margaret Reynolds. Ethel Willis wills her race-consciousness to Frances Wilson. Elberta Hunt wills her individualism to Dellyne Hopewell.

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CLASS by Josst MNE SEEWAKT AND ANNE JottNsoN We, the Cla.u of Nineteen Hundred and Forty-four, being of good faith and lincmty on this twenty-ninth d0 y of May, do h eby, in the prest.'nce of witnesses, declare this tp be our last will and testament. To President Holmes, the members of the class of '44 leave their cooperation and assistance as alumni in helping him to make a bigger and better Morgan. To dean Grant, we leave our deepest apprc-ciation for his careful guidance and warmth of concccn. To the Department of Sociology we leave our never dying interest ;uxl a hope for an increase in the number of instructors. To the department of Physical Education we leave our hopes for better facilities and improvements and hope for its increasing success in «ill athletics as lias been evident in the years we have s|)cnt here. To the department of Music we leave a hope for more voices like Dorothy Harris's.. Sylena Anderson wiUs her consev ativcncss to Agnes White. James Cole wills his keen-minded „ess to Lucretia Greene. Margaretta Ramey wills her dietetic's ability to Inez Jones. Viola O'Neal wills her Spanish accent to Marian Pope. Gladys Miller wills her inquisitive statistical aibility to Maude Willis. Catherine Wiggins wills -lier charm to Nola Simpson. Anne Coleman wills her gift of gab to Dorothy Williams. Ruth Gilmore wills her soft voice to Ruby Keyes. Annie Johnson wills her dancing abili to Hazel Hill. Dorothy Harris wills lier singing ability to Leona Jackson. Geneva Job son wills her sophistication to Beatrice Mann. Josephine Stewart wills her leadership ability to Muriel Dougall. Connye Steward wills her optimism to Christeen Williams. Nannie helps wills her individualism to Mildred McGlotten. Lcttie Carter wills her popularity to Roscarl Westcon:. Lydia Nelson wills her sweetness to Beatrice Short. Gwendolyn Smith wills her personality and ability in making friends to Marguerite Thompson. David Trader wills his scholastic ability to Martha Gover.

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CLASS PROPHECY Q m xiiA G2BR, '8 on the pinnacle of chc 1 ttand and feel the winds of life Wow agairut my £ - . Yonder across the alley, up the hllsi.d.e, and along the banks of the peaceful stream, the mists cS fo 1 me swirl, and make these rcvdatiolU evident: Naive Marjorie Adams is still naively punuing lire rainbow of lift- thus time as a rural pcdag0 ,1 . Amid tire lights of New Jorlc trip» Ma,, Brown, now the social buttcdly £ the cl, dc. Thcte b Betty Bundara practicing home management and dietetics on her 6ve little Bundaras, while poor litd-e I-cttie Ca4er remajm a lonesome old maid. Can it he that my ey arc Incoming tiled . . . no it mast he the swirling of the surrounding austs • • • but I must wish Kidc K h n a B. CoIe-4Bi who will catty tfie Christian message to her followers in French. Thxre is Corinne Fr y as a graceful little jitterbug. There is FJinora Ciardner, the mosi gratifying success in her special secret undertaking. Ijooking in a new direction I sec Ann Fulwood patienl y ctdiausling herself trying to get the proper conjugations of the most dillicult of tlie Frendi verbs. Sty view is not without its pu . Jes . . . perbaPi0 the greatest is Cordelia Gibbs. I see her a an influential politician and mother. There is Ruth Gilmore as an immaculate little housewife to . . . well, that's her secret. There is Ali Hall as the glamour gW af 1972. On a far distant hill I see a evneert atage, upon which .rands Dorothy Harris, now A meri, •' num- ber I singer of true American Ballada written by J° »n McGraw. In the little Community House down in the valley I sec Dorothy Hasting,, Thelma Hill, Bthel Willis and Ruth as the backbone of a great lenirting cirdc. Time has not been changelus.. I see L'l Hutton B vinB ip dancing. Fiberta Hunt is growing taller, and Annie Johnson j,, tlic process of becoming aaompIlsJicd drum pla, ,r. Unpredictable Geneva Johnson lias become just the reverse, and b now Dean of Women h an outstanding college. There B Garland Martin as a case worker, and Glad,, Miller lias become the dietician of her fa orit.e hospital, I see F.velyn Moore adauring the rainbow that holds tlic promise of all life ofieriL Thuc b Mactbelda Morris, the winner of the Spingam Prize of 1982, charting quietly with Ruth Morrow a husbands. Nannie Phelps is ascending the mountain of mathematical Isolation and rivaling Einstein. Below on die path that leads beside a quiet seam I sec Viola O'Neal returning to her native island to teach Life in the United States”, while I.ydia Ndaon is rapidly hccoaung the leader in some feminist movement. Oeavcr Reynolds a slowly climbing the aide of a hill ac she returns from South Carolina to tcadi Physic J Education; pausing momcntaril she dials with Josephine Stewart as she h »ds toward the swamps of the same state to tabulate the cauao and extent of Juvenile Ddi ncy. Dorothy Roberts is following in her fathr'a footsteps; Catherine Russell fi one of our outstanding scientists with Guelda Scott as an unpaid assistant, There is Betty Sullivan, happily living ki the PiedmontSc, married to a soldier, The hidden secrets of the history of our people are slowly, but truth- fully brought to the attention of the nation by the diligent research efforts of Connie Stewart. High over my head passes a chartered transport, enroute to Hollywood . . . aboard is Novcne Thomas with the very latest of her ultra modem fashion presentations. Ernestine Welch b bringing much needed relief to the nude shortage-II he is busily engaged in gelling the football team h shape; standing nearby b Betty Willems, the doctor in charte aL the bruises, jpains and mL »f i mni a new direction I hear the diccring of tlic crowds as Father Time reads the brilliant feats of the male members of our dass. Thomas Bmolcs and Nathaniel Wicks arc coministers in the church they hare dreamed about . , . Alvin Jadcson b continuing in tlic insurance business. James ( |c has joined rank.s of our outstanding Negro leaders, David Sloan has become tbc outstanding literary critic; David Trader and George Stansbury have wrung from their test tidies a new and important vitamin °T . . . Pu the ausl3 ceacc swirling and settle over tlic quiet peaceful stream 1 sec Success and Gratifying aedaim being woven into crowns for the members of the Oass of '44.