Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Pholo by Fabian Bachrach his most diligent student. In addition to this enthusiastic teaching, Mr. Meier has made substantial contributions to reputable scholarly journals, and his book Negro Thought in the Age of Hooker T. Washing- ton will roll off the University of Michigan Press next fall. The Mill and Wang Publish- ing Company has commissioned Mr. Meier to write a short history of the American Negro. This is August Meier, the scholar! The Class of 1963 is proud to pay tribute to one of Morgan’s true scholars and men of ac- tion. To August Meier we dedicate the 1963 PROMETHEAN for his having been and con- tinuing to be effective in leading the line to- ward the “good life.” DEDICATION In his popular essay. The Ameri- can Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson indicated that the true American scholar was a man of action. Mr. August Meier is such a man. Mr. Meier has won the respect and esteem of not only the Morgan State College student body, but also that of many others in the Balti- more community who regard the struggle for human rights and dignity as the crucial challenge of our times. This Oberlin-Columbia trained associate professor of history has given himself fully to worth- while causes as the Civic Interest Group, the Americans for Democra- tic Action (as a former president of the Baltimore Chapter), and the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People (as a former secretary of the Newark, New Jersey Chapter). Mr. Meier has sat. ridden, walked, written, and spoken for the eause of freedom. Morganites can never forget how excellently he acquitted himself in the debate with the highly verbal Black Muslim Leader. Malcolm X. This is Au- gust Meier, the man of action! As a scholar and classroom teacher, Mr. Meier loses none of his students’ respect. His conduct in his classes, enlivened by a refresh- ing sense of humor, a stiff diet of colatteral readings, and a few agreeable idiosyncrasies, leaves his students with paradoxical feelings of annoyance but appreciation, inadequacy but inspiration, frustration but enrichment. The “buggy” professor never relents in working his students hard. The consolation comes in knowing that he works ten times harder than 6

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The Main Stream of our campus life flows from the quarry to the Christian Center.

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May the love of those u ho knew him keep his memory forever preen! IN MEMORIAM Dr. Edward Maceo Coleman was professor of history and former chairman of the Depart- ment at Morgan State College. He headed the College Department of History and Political Science from 1940 until 1953, was acting head of the department during the school term 1958- 1959 and acting Dean of Men at the College during the term 1942-1943. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, the late Dr. Coleman attended elementary school there and the public schools of Florence, Alabama. His degrees in higher education were earned at Taladega College, Alabama (A.B., 1923). Iowa State University (A.M., 1927) and the University of Southern California (Ph.D.. 1940). Dr. Coleman was also an authority on Loui- siana history and Creole culture in old New Orleans. Among his works was his editorship of the centennial edition of Creole Voices (1945): Poems in French by three Men of Color, first published in 1845. The foreword for Creole Voices was written by Dr. H. Carrington, hu- mer head of the Department of Romance Lan- guages at the Johns Hopkins University. This noted historian was also a member of Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor So- ciety: Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Sci- ence Honor Society: the National Social Sci- ence Research Council: The American Histori- cal Association: The American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Class of 1963 is proud to pay tribute to Dr. Edward Maceo Coleman—scholar, educator, and historian. 7