Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Repressing our chronic modesty for the time being, we of the editorial staff of the Promethean proclaim the year 1946-1947 a success. The job of editor of the Promethean proved at times a task of tremendous magnitude, however, thanks to the hard working business and editorial staffs, wc shared the wee hours of the morning amid masses of manuscripts and drawings as they inviegled figures, tabulation sheets, and financial reports. With the admission of some exaggeration, we say that wc loved fighting each other in staff meetings, pulling out hair, separating arms, trying innova- tions that even the high heavens could not perform. All of this we did for your yearbook. You were our seniors, not just an ordinary run of students, and we loved you—every mother’s child. If it is at all possible that the material lying between these pages will serve in any way to keep remnants of your college days alive in your memory, then the project here undertaken will have been worthwhile. Wesley Codrington, Editor

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DEDICATION DR. EDWARD M. COLEMAN By John H. Kane “Pull up a chair, make yourself comfortable, and we will begin when you arc ready.” With this informal and “at ease” reception in room 410 of the college library, Dr. Edward Macco Coleman, professor and head of the department of his- tory of Morgan State College, answered freely and fully questions about his social and professional life. On December 20, 1897, a son, Edward Maceo, was born to Isabelle and Thomas Coleman of Memphis, Tennessee. The immediate Coleman family consisted of five children who, including Edward, received their primary education in Memphis. He graduated from Talladega in 1923 with an A.B. degree. In 1927 he received his M.A. degree at the State University of Iowa at Iowa City. In 1940 he earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. In the process of pursuing an education he attended Obcrlin Business College and also the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Social Science Research Council, and two honorary societies: Phi Alpha Theta (History), and Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science). Dr. Coleman has written numerous articles and engaged in extensive research. His works are known and recognized for their scholarly approach and authoritative treatment. With the exception of his recently published book, Creole Voices, all the rest of Dr. Coleman’s writings emanated from a profound interest in the field of history. Some of his recent publications have been: “The New England Con- vention, December 25, 1776, to January 1777, A Study in Early American Par- ticularism,” in the Historian; “William Wells Brown as an Historian,” in the Journal of Negro History; “A Letter from Governor Patrick Tony of East Florida to Lord George Germain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1776,” in the September (1946) issue of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review; and Creole Voices, a work published in 1945 by the Associated Publishers, of Washington, D. C., pending pub- lication is The Third (or Baltimore) Session of the Second Continental Congress. In addition to his historical interest in the contributions of the Creole group to American life and culture, Dr. Coleman says that Creole Voices was a labor of love based on his admiration for this segment of the Negro population and for their courage and distinctive achievements. Though he has been at Morgan only six years, Dr. Coleman is deeply imbued with that traditional Morgan Spirit. He is fast becoming a father of the renaissance at the college. T he problems and aspirations of the students and institution are his. Dr. Coleman has always been one to whom a student could turn for help or advice in a pressing situation. Dr. Coleman believes that, in general, a better and greater Morgan will be had only by a faster completion of the building program, and the rebuilding and ex- pansion of our internal academic structure.

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