Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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The staff of the 1978 Promethean would like to dedicate this volume to the memories of two Morgan faculty members who passed in 1977, Dr. James Haywood Harrison, professor of education and vice president for institutional planning, and Dr. Robert Collagan, professor of Science Educa- tion. Dr. Harrison, a Baltimore native, graduated from Dunbar High School with honors in 1949. In 1953 he received his bachelor’s degree from Morgan as a Magna Cum Laude graduate. One year later he earned his master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and in 1965 the Univer- sity of Maryland awarded him the degree of In a career which spanned 23 years. Dr. Harrison was Dean of S.A. Owen Junior College in Memphis; taught in the Baltimore public school system, and at Morgan advanced from instructor to chairman of the division of Social Science; chairman of the Department of Education, and finally to vice president of the university for institutional planning and development. He had also been a visiting professor at New York University and the Johns Hopkins University, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Maryland. He teas involved in many professional and community activities, and was instrumental in making Morgan radio station WEAA a reality. Professor Harrison was voted Distinguished Teacher of the Year by MSU students in 1964, 1977 Omega Psi Phi fraternity Man of the Year , and member of Dunbar High’s Hall of Fame, among his many other accomplishments as an educator, writer, and community leader. Dr. Harrison died of a heart attack in September 1977 at the age of 45. Dr. Collagan, a geophysicist who was head of the earth and planetary sciences departments at Morgan, was born in Quincy, Mass, forty-five years ago. The Professor matriculated at the University of Massachusetts for his bachelor s degree, obtained his master ’s degree at the ( niversity of Nevada, and received his doctorate at Catholic University in Washington. Just prior to his death. Dr. Collagan, an earthquake expert, had returned from a Jive-month study of earthquakes and volcanoes in the Pacific by means of a fellowship as a senior research professor at the University of the Phillipines, visiting China during the trip. During a 15-year tenure at Morgan, he wrote several books in his field of study. Dr. Collagan died in May, 1977, a heart attack victim while on a Florida vacation. Men of such distinction are irreplacable. but during their earthly existence they enriched the lives of those who came in contact with them and were a credit to themselves and the I:niversity they served. They will not soon be forgotten. liolxri H. Collagan mi- «77 James Haywood Harrison 1931-1977 Doctor of Education. 3