Prairie View A and M University - Pantherland Yearbook (Prairie View, TX)

Text from Pages 1 - 228 of the 1943 volume:

THE 1943 PANTHER Published by The Students and Faculty of PRAIRIE VIEW STATE COLLEGE Prairie View, Texas Leonard L. Wallace, Editor Roby W. Hilliard, Sponsor Prairie View is recognized as a class A” college by the Texas State Department of Education, the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, is approved by the American College of Surgeons and has a Senior R. O. T. C. Unit. FOREWORD Mindful of her large objectives — serving the Negroes of Texas at the point of their greatest need — Prairie View presents in this annual something of her efforts to help the Negroes of Texas defend that noble American ideal, Democracy, in World War I and II. ----77T pledg© allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. (Idea of Mr. B. Holbert) PRINCIPAL OF PRAIRIE VIEW W. R. BANKS, A.B., A.M. PRAIRIE VIEW STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE PRAIRIE VIEW. TEXAS January 6, 1943 Greetings: During this era of global conflict, bringing about unparalleled civic, social, and economic changes, Prairie View State College recognizes its bounden duty to direct and gear its training to the needs of the times. In keeping with the spirit of a Land-Grant College, the institution is keenly sensitive and conscious of the demands for a functional and comprehensive program of education for the training of efficient and useful citizens, so that they can successfully cope with the in' ricate problems growing out of the present world cataclysm. Consequent to the College's objectives and philosophy, training shall be made available to citizens, as far as it is possible, for effective fighting on all Fronts: every branch of military service; health and physical fitness; stimulating production for Victory; and, training worthy leaders for effective participation in the social and economic endeavors of the Nation. Finally, Prairie View State College re-dedicates its available resources to the program of the Government in the gigantic struggle to Win this 7 ar and also to Win the Peace. I am Yours truly, W R Banks Principal 7iRB:bt THE SENIOR R.O.T.C UNIT IS REALIZED f — ——— ■------i — j Hamilton an d Staff IN MEMORIAM TO THE MEMORY OF J. M. ALEXANDER He held a place in the affections of his family, his friends, and his students over a long period of years which he was peculiarly fitted to fill as gentle companion, eager helper, wise counsellor and guide. Now that what was physical and mortal of him is no more, he will be missed because that place is empty. But in a higher sense all that was best and immortal of him still survives. Colleges somehow catch in their very being, in their finest traditions, and in what we are pleased to call 'College Spirit' the very personality and soul of their choicest spirits who have succeeded in unselfishly building themselves into the college life through one group of students to another, budding, flowering, fruiting, and seeding from generation to generation and from age to age. —From an address by Mr. G. W. Morton. IN MEMORIAM TO THE MEMORY OF C. H. WALLER ... He always placed his family first, his work second and Prairie View next. He built an extension program second to none for Negroes in these United States and passed off the scene loved and respected by all who knew him.” —Anon. PRAIRIE VIEW IN WORLD WAR I On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the war against Germany, thus beginning the struggle which served only as a prelude to the present conflict. A peaceful nation, we were not prepared for war and a swift mobilization was begun. Prairie View faculty members and students rushed to enlist, for all who were not engaged in some war activity were classed as slackers. Army training camps were established at the most strategic points in the country, so, on March 1, 1918, a Student Army Training Camp was established at Prairie View, staffed by five officers, one of whom was a Negro, Lieutenant W. A. Giles of Yoakum, Texas. Military discipline extended throughout the college. Strict sentry regulations were imposed and the College Dining Hall became a soldiers' Mess Hall with students, a necessary adjunct. In connection with training in Military tactics, the trainees were offered courses in Auto Mechanics, Woodwork, Automobile Electricity. Truck Driving, Battery Making, and Radiator Repair. Some of the faculty members who were active in World War I are still on the campus and are very active in World War II. Mr. J. J. Abemethy, Mr. F. G. Fry. Mr. D. W. Martin, and Mr. Armstrong Lewis enlisted during World War I. Mr. Abemethy entered the Des Moines, Iowa Officers Candidate School, received a second lieutenant's commission and was sent overseas. Mr. Armstrong Lewis was sent overseas as a master mechanic. Mr. D. W. Martin and Mr. F. G. Fry, though enlisted, remained to work with the unit at Prairie View, Mr. Fry serving as assistant engineer and finally as chief engineer at the power plant. Mr. G. W. Buchanan, at that time mathematics and bookkeeping instructor, operated the Army Canteen, which has since grown into the present College Exchange. At the close of the war and the resultant demobilization, a school for disabled veterans was established at Prairie View with Mr. J. J. Abemethy as its coordinator. These veterans were given training that would fit them for entrance into a post-war world far different from the pre-war world which they had known. Many of those men are now successful citizens, some holding responsible positions in leading schools and colleges. Outstanding are: Arthur L. Hammonds, Agricultural Department, Lincoln University; William T. Wells. Principal School, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Wheeler E. Sims, Agricultural Department, Langston University; and John H. Williams, District Agent, Extension Service, Prairie View State College. (Continued on page 154.) THE ROAD TO “THE HILL” I B 0 A R D O F D 1 R E C T O R S When Governor W. Lee O'Daniel (left) and President of the board, F. M. Law, visited Prairie View. TERM EXPIRES 1943 F. M. Law, President......................Houston H. L. Kokemot, Jr..........................Alpine G. R. White.................................Brady TERM EXPIRES 1945 R. W. Briggs.....................San Antonio A. H. Demke........................Stephenville Neth L. Leachman.........................Dallas TERM EXPIRES 1947 D. S. Buchanan............................Buda H. J. Brees........................San Antonio John C. Bums......................Fort Worth PRAIRIE VIEW COMMITTEE NON-RESIDENT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE F. M. Law, Chairman D. S. Buchanan A. H. Demke T. O. Walton, LL.D.—President G. A. Long, B.S.—Supervising Accountant J. K. Walker, B.S.—Supervising Engineer 4)1 Colonel West A. Hamilton and Principal W. R. Banks with one of Prairie View's W.A.A.C. officers. EXECUTIVE CABINET L. A. POTTS, Director of Agriculture MISS E. C. MAY, Director of Home Arts C. L. WILSON, Director of Mechanic Arts C. W. LEWIS, Local Treasurer N. B. EDWARDS, Executive Secretary DR. E. B. EVANS, State Leader, Extension Service MRS. I. W. ROWAN, Colored State Home Demonstration Agent R. W. HILLIARD, Personnel Director MISS M. E. SUAREZ, Dean of Women G. W. BUCHANAN, Manager, College Exchange DR. J. M. FRANKLIN, Superintendent, Division of Health DR. T. R. SOLOMON, Registrar DR. E. M. NORRIS, Chairman, Committee on Graduate Studies DR. R. P. PERRY, Director, Arts and Sciences Division COLONEL WEST A. HAMILTON, Professor of Military Science and Tactics Prairie View College attempts to serve the colored citizens of Texas and the Southwest, at the points of their greatest needs and endeavors to bring the students' training into closer relationship with life's occupations. I Left to Right: C. L. Wilson, Director of Mechanic Arts; Dean M. E. Suarez. Dean of Women; George W. Buchanan, Manager of College Exchange; Miss C. E. May, Director of Home Economics; R. W. Hilliard, Personnel Director; J. M. Franklin, Director of Nursing Education. C. W. Lewis, Treasurer N. B. Edward, Executive Secretary ZTl LLA'Po,,s-D— - - TOP l©ft: R. P. Perry. Director of Arts and Sciences Division. Bottom: Mrs. I. W. Rowan. State Home Demonstra- tion Agent. The Cooperative Extension Division is stressing poultry as a part of the food for victory program. 2.“’ CABINET Inspecting welding at an N.Y.A. shop. Left to right: O. J. Baker, Librarian; E. M. Norris, Director of Graduate Study; T. R Solomon. Registrar: E. B. Evans, State Leader of Cooperative Extension DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE The Division of Agriculture offers two four-year curricula leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. The entrance requirements for these curricula are the same as for the other divisions of the college. The work in this division centers around instruction and practice in Agricultural Education, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Horticulture, Rural Economics, Rural Engineering, Rural Health, Rural Sociology, Special Agricultural Science and Veterinary Science. In addition to’subjects purely agricultural the student is given instruction in professional and vocational subjects and the f sciences closely related to agriculture. The division furnishes leaders in the vocational agricultural field, in the extension service, and in farming. The 174 vocational agriculture departments in Texas public schools are active in activities directed toward the war effort. L. A. POTTS PIERCE ANDERSON Director of Agriculture. B.S., M.S.A. farm Blacksmithing Formorly Stato Itinerant Teacher Trainer. f°r 25 yoars. manager of own black- Agriculture. Texas. smithing shop. JULIA M. BENNETT Secretary—Agriculture Graduato Study. A.B. 7= HARRISON DOUGLASS Profossor of Crop and Soils in charge of Practice Farms, B.S., M.S. Formorly Profossor of Agriculture, Southorn University and Assistant Director of Agriculture, Bordentown Institute, Bordentown, N. J. ERNEST M. NORRIS Director of Graduate Studies, Resident Teacher Trainer, Agriculture, B.S. M.S. Ph.D. Formerly Rosfdont Toacher Trainer and Director of Special Study, Kentucky State Colloge, Frank-fort, Ky.; Stato Manager and Supervisor of the National Survey of Vocational Education and Guidance of Negroes, Kentucky. A. B. PITTMAN Associate Profossor of Veterinary Modicino, D.V.M. Formor Votorinary Inspector, U. S. Buroau of Animal Industry. G. L. SMITH Professor of Poultry and Assistant Athletic Manager. B.S., M.S. Advance study Kansas A. M. College. Formor Toachor of Vocational Agriculture and Principal of High School, Georgia Pub- CORINNE M. THOMPSON Secretary Certificate Hondorson Business College, Memphis, Tennossoo. Junior College, Texas Colloge, Tyler, Toxas. JOHN C. WILLLIAMS Dairy Husbandry. B.S., M.S. Former teacher at Hungerford Industrial I School. Maitland, Florida. C. A. HARRISON Supervisor of Rural War Production Training in Toxas. B.S. Advance Study at Prairio Viow. Formerly Profossor of Agriculture, Southern U. in Scotlandvillo. Louisiana. CHARLES H. THOMAS Area Supervisor—Agrkrulturo B.S. Advance Study Prairie Viow. Formerly toacher of Vocational Agriculture. Goliad, Rosenberg and Waolder, Texas. O. I. THOMAS State Itinerant Teacher-Trainer Agriculture, B.S. Advanco Study U. of Chicago, Columbia U.. Hampton, Prairie Viow. Former principal of O. I. Thomas High School, Cameron Texas. Ptosldcnt of State Teachers Ass'n 1937. RURAL WAR PRODUCTION TRAINING When the emergency came the Federal Government established training programs for the purpose of spreading skills to more of its citizens in order that they could be of greater service directly and indirectly in the war effort. One of these programs was the Rural War Production Training Courses. At the present time 269 courses are operating in 141 schools. One hundred twenty full-time teachers are working in the program with 2,886 students in attendance. This program is under the direction of the State Department of Vocational Education, Vocational Agriculture Division. Mr. C. A. Harrison heads the program and is assisted by the Area Supervisors of Agriculture (part-time) and the Vocational Agriculture teachers. The area supervisors are: Mr. E. E. Collins. Mr. S. E. Palmer, Mr. Paul Rutledge, Mr. Gus Jones, and Mr. Charles Thomas. Mr. O. J. Thomas, State Itinerant Teacher-Trainer, assists also. When the P. V. band did its bit by playing 300 Negro Navy volunteers off in Houston. Texas. DIVISION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The Division of Arts and Sciences offers courses in Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Economics, Education, English, History, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics. Political Science, Sociology, and Modem Foreign Languages. Courses lead to the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Science in Education. Courses in the Division have been geared to a wartime basis with the training process designed particularly to contribute to the war effort. This is seen in the operation of special war training courses and in the continuation of established courses modified in content to contribute specifically to the war effort. The mathematics of navigation, pre-flight physics, respiration physiology, sanitary bacteriology, drug chemicals, munitions and explosives, war economics, anthropology, propaganda analysis, first aid and physical fitness are only a few of the subjects being taught in the Division and pointing specifically to the war effort. In some departments of the Division research projects bearing specifically on the war are in progress. The faculty personnel is composed of forty-eight full-time members holding the doctorate and degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and Master of Science. WALTER BOOKER Head of Dept, of Biology, A.B., M.S., Ph.D. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT R. P. PERRY Director, Division of Arts and Scioncos; Chairman. Department of Natural Sciences; Head Department of Chemistry, B.A.. M.S., Ph.D. ARTS and SCIENCES THOMAS P. EOOLEY Biology Director of Extension School, A.B., M.S., Ph.D. Former Head of Biology Department, Ark. State College. E. E. O'BANION Professor of Chemistry, A.B. M.S.. Ph.D. Former Instructor of Chemistry, Louisville Municipal Collogo, Louisville. Ky. ARTS ami SCIENCES A. CRITTENDON PRESTON Profossor of Rural Education, Supervisor of Nogro Schools Waller County. B.S., M.A. Advance study Columbia U. Formerly teachor Virginia Stato College, Social Scionco Work. Now York City. N.Y. FRIEDA E. RHONE Prairio View Community School, Collogo Psychology. B.S., M.S. Advance study Univorsity of Chicago. THOMMYE C. BOOKER Teacher Prairio View Community School. Education—College. B.S.. M.A. Former Assistant Librarian Prarie View. M. A. BULLOCK Teachor Prairio View Community School, English—College A.B., M.A. Formerly Instructor Public School, Now Boston, Toxas. GEORGE W. REEVES Proiossor of Education. A.B.. A.M. Advance study University of Michigan, Teacher Education. Work Shop, Durham. N.C. Formorly teachor at Miles Memorial College, Birmingham. Alabama; Alabama Stato Teachers Collego. Montgomery. Alabama. ANNIE G. H. SASSER Prairio View Community School. College Mathematics. B.S.. M.S. Former teacher in Washington High School. Raleigh. N.C. ANNIE L SHEFFIELD Instructor in Education. B.A.. M.A. Advanco study Chicago U. Formerly toachor Texas College, St. Phillips N. I. School. Philander Smith Collego. Little Rock. Ark. BESSYE A. THOMAS Prairio Viow Community School. Education — College, B.S.. M.S. Former toachor public schools, Cameron, Texas. Left: MARIE R. VERNON Left: ANNIE M. P. WILSON Instructor Education. B.A., Ph.M. Advance study, U. of Wisconsin. Right: JOHN H. WINDOM Education. B.S., M.S. Advance study, Columbia, Indiana. Former School Principal, Madison, Illinois; Director of Teacher Training. Georgia Normal Col-logo. Prairie Viow Community School, Education—College. A.B., M.A. Formorly instructor and adviser for girls, Clark University, Atlanta. Georgia. Right: THELMA S. WELLS Prairie View Community School. B.S., M.S. THE COMMUNITY TRAINING SCHOOL H. E. WRIGHT, Principal The Community Training School at Prairie View, is an accredited 12-year public school, with nine teachers and a supervising principal, and serves 162 pupils from Waller, the Farm Projects, Wyatt's Chapel and the campus homes. As a result of this enlarged and heterogeneous enrollment the program has undergone a revision growing from a cooperative study lasting four years. The underlying philosophy of the program assumes that the best curriculum grows from the needs of a particular school situation, and must consider the community which the school serves. The curriculum consists of real, basic experiences of life, and must be found in the life of today, through consideration of the group at hand. Our task is to develop wholeness of the individual, integrated within himself and his environment, to know each individual's interests and needs, recognize his capacity, and endorse active participation rather than passive assimilation as moves toward real growth. Since education is pupil growth and development, the teachers encourage those situations through which desirable development will come. The State Course of Study is abetted by the functional approach, with the community serving as a natural laboratory. Our objectives are compatible with and integrated into the college program. The school also serves as a demonstration of model teaching, where students observe and participate in, under guidance, the best accepted teaching practices. Student teachers are learning to reckon continuously with the individual differences in ability, aptitudes, health, temperament, social relationships, and experiences of pupils. This demands a clear understanding of the principles underlying healthy human growth, development and behavior. The spirit of the program aims to give the growth and development everyone must have to live intelligently in his culture. The child is trained to make the most of his resources, in order to make adjustments to life. This enables pupils to become self-directing and intelligent members of a democratic society by learning to solve problems which have significance in their own lives and it sees knowledge as most effectively acquired when it is used in the process of solving these problems. PRAIRIE VIEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL HOWARD E. WRIGHT Principal, Community Training School, ! Psychology—Collogo, and Supervisor of Student Teaching. A.B., A.M. Advanco } study U. of Chicago. Formerly High School I Principal, Logan, West Va.; Supervisor of Adult Education, Columbus, Ohio; Professor of Education, Georgia Normal, Albany, Georgia. DOROTHY BURDINE Assistant Principal, Community School; Associate Professor of Education—Collego. A.B., A.M. Formorly teacher Tennessee State College and teacher Denver Public English Department EARL L SASSER Hoad of Do porticonl of English. B.S.. AM.. Ph.D. ANNA L CAMPBELL Instructor English. B.A.. M.A. Advance Study Northwestern University. ROSA B. ISAAC Instructor English. B.S., M.A. Advance Study University of Southern California. YOURA QUALLS A.B.. M.A. Advance Study Radcllffo Collogo, Cambridge, Massachusetts. EDWYNA A. OFFUTT Instructor English. A.B., M.A. Formerly Interviewer al Sheppard Square Federal Housing Project. Louisville. Kontucky. GEORGE W. MORTON English. A.B.. M.A. Advance Study. Columbia University. Formerly Acting Head of English Department. Pralrlo View; Head of English Department. Mississippi Industrial College, Avory Institute. Charleston. S.C.; Assistant Professor of English. Talladega College. ROMANCE LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT CHARLES E. CARPENTER Head of the Department of Romance Languages. B.L., M.L. Advance Study U. ol Iowa. U. of Kansas and Kansas State Teachers College. J. L TERRY HAYES Associate Professor of Romance Languages. B.S., M.S. Advance Study at Unlvereidad Nacional de Mexico. A. W. RANDALL Head of the Mathematics Department. B.S., A.M. Advance Study U. of Colorado. S. B. TAYLOR Hoad Athletic Coach and Mathematics. B.S., M.S. Former Coach at Clark U., Atlanta. Georgia. JOSEPH SIMEON FLIPPER, III Instructor of Mathematics. A.B., A.M. Advance Study. University ol Kansas. Former teacher Edward Waters College, Jacksonville. Florida; teacher and football coach High School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. MUSIC DEPARTMENT PART OF THE 200-VOICE CHOIR R. VON CHARLTON Head of the Department of Music. B.S., M.Mus. Advance Study U. of Michigan. Former Head of Music Department, Florida A. M. Colloge. CONSTANCE N. THOMAS Instructor of Music. B.Mus., M.Mus. Advance Study U. of Michigan. WILL HENRY BENNETT Instructor of Music. B.S. Advance Study U. of Iowa, U. of Colorado. ELLA W. CULLINS Instructor of Music. B.A., M.A. FRANCES E. WARTMAN Instructor of Music. B.A. Advance Study U. of Michigan. Formerly Toachor of Music at Virginia Industrial College. QUINTET (At Top) Left to right: R. Von Charlton, Johnnie McDaniel, Charles Estus, Clifford Bradshaw, Shelton Garrett, Louis Johnson, II. GLEE CLUB (Bottom): Members are of the Music Department and College Choir. The Quintet and Glee Club travel yearly through Texas. SAMUEL E. WARREN Chairman of the Department of Social Sciences. A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Formerly Instructor at Texas College and Morehouse Colloge. Personnel Director and Associate Professor of Sociology. B.S., Ph.M. Formerly Business Department, Prairie View; State Supervisor of Adult Education. San Antonio. Texas. ___________________________________________ LOUISE E. COLES Typing and Shorthand. B.S. JUANITA NELLEVONNE DAVIS Social Science. B.S., M.A. Advance study U. of Southern California. Former District Supervisor of Personnel, California State Department of Education. HENRY ALLEN BULLOCK Professor of Sociology. A.B., A.M., Ph.D. Formerly Professor of Sodal Science at A. T. College, Greensboro. N.C. MABLE LEE ALSTON Head of Department of Physical Education. B.S. SOCIAL SCIENCE R. GRANN LLOYD Economics and Political Science. B.S., M.A. Professional Diploma. Advanco Study. Columbia University. LEE C. PHILLIP College Ministor, Professor of Philosophy, Sponsor Y. M. C. A., Student Adviser. B.S.. B.D., A.M. THOMAS R. SOLOMON Registrar and Professor of Political Science. A.B.. M.A.. Ph.D. DORSEY E. WALKER Professor of History and Political Science. A.B., M.A. Advance study U. of Michigan and Wayne U. Dotroit. Former teacher Inkstor Public Schools, Inkster, Michigan; teacher Dotroit Public Schools. NURSING EDUCATION JAMES M. FRANKLIN Director of Nursing Education Division and Resident College Physician. A.B., M.D. There is now more than ever a great demand for nurses. Prairie View's Department of Nursing Education offers two courses of three and five years respectively to eligible young ladies between the ages of 17 and 35. One, the basic course leading to a diploma in nursing; the other the same course with two years Liberal Arts leading to a degree in nursing. . Students in this field are selected. It is necessary to apply for admission. The health unit is geared to wartime services. Red Cross emergency courses are being offered. The nurses from Prairie View are eligible for Red Cross enrollment which includes Army and Navy nursing; several are now second lieutenants in the various army camps. A class of housewives in Home Nursing. Seven of the fifteen persons who took a special First Aid Course. £v. ,i CORA A. ESTUES Superintendent of Nursos. R.N. Formerly Superintendent of Brewer Hospital, Greenwood, South Carolina, and Collego Nurse, Alabama State Teacher XACADENE A. HILL Physician, Department of Health. M.D. Intern Flint-Goodrich Hospital, New Orleans. La. MABLE LOUISE HOOD Record Librarian, Hospital. B.S., R.R.L Formerly Record Work, Morehouse College, Atlanta School of Social Work and Dillard University. s EMERY OWENS ALVIN KIRKE SMITH MATTIE A. WATSON Intern. M.D. Resident Dontist. Roentgenologist and Night Supervisor Hospital. R. N. Assistant Director of Health Depart- Former Instructor of Nurses. Prairie ment. A.B., D.D.S. Vew. A Portion o f the 103 M en of tke Enlisted Reserve Corps J •or' In addition to the Prairie View men and women in the services of the country shown on pages 121 and 122, one hundred three students of the college enlisted in the Reserve Corps while in attendance the first semester 1942-43. They are: Alexander, John L Alexander, Raymond Allen, Andrew V. Alsobrooks, U. D. Alsobrooks, D. L. Aldrldgo, Carlton Amoy, Thomas Austin, Bertrand Baker, Vomon G. Boll, John A. Borry, Joseph N. Berry, Porry Lee Bias, Jamos L. Blackwell, Jodie G. Bolden, Will R. Boloward, Thomas Brackons, Brown L. Brown, Aubrey Burley. Roy W. Caldwell, Booker T. Carreathers, Raymond Carrington, Joel A. Carpentier, Louis J. Clouser. Ernest Z. Collins. Limon C. Colo, Harbort Johnnie Curl, Kenneth Harlan Daniols, Kay Homer Davis, Martin V. B. Dorsey, Robert Sherwood Dowo, John Emory, Goorge Dlls Evans, Edward B., Jr. Farris, William M. Fishor, Nathaniol A. Fitzgerald, Willie Flewellen, Jesse J. Frazior. Tommio L Gee, Cleophus C. Gooden, John E., Jr. Goven, Shannon Grays, Zack Wm. Hall, Harold E. Hamilton, John L Harris, Margwyn S. Homphlll, Loonard Henry, John Hoosior. Willie James Hutchins, Bertrand Jay Ingram, Thomas Jackson, Jamos Franklin Johnson, E. C. Johnson. Daniel Defoe Jones. Richard Dennis Jones, Charles E. Jonos, Robert Lacy. Raymond T. Lewis, James Orville Martin, Chauncey L Melonson, Douglas Mooro, James O. Morgan, Flotchor Moseley, Frederick McGaughoy, Paul McGill, Daniel Gay Noal, Thoophilus E., Jr. Nicholas, Frank H. Owens, Kelly B. Pornettor, Sidnoy M. Pipkin, Edward Polk, Ollie C. Rodus, Raloigh C. Roliford, Tommie L Riddle. John R. Roberts, Eddie F. Robinson. Horman D. Rocquomoro, Charles R. Scott, Calvin R.. Jr. Shirloy, Marcellus Simpson, Richard L. Simon. Jesse A., Jr. Smith. Walter L. Smith. Fredoric D. Smith. Lewis Stain, Stanley Stewart, Timothy Thomas, Lloyd Thompson, Warren H. Tuckor, James F. Tuckor, Royall Walker. Sidney Wallaco. Leonard Leroy Washington. Edward West, Burton G. Westbrook, Harvey Wells, Luther T. Whoadon, John R. Whito, Inman Wickliff. Aloysius M. Williams, Josoph E. Williams. Alonzo B. Woodard, Robert C. Yates. Josoph The Sixth Annual Post Graduate Assembly of NegroPhysicians in Texas SPONSORS Texas Tuberculosis Association Miss Pansy Nichols, Executive Secretary Texas State Department of Health Dr. George C. Cox, State Health Officer Lone Star State Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association Dr. O. W. Phillips, President Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College Mr. W. R. Banks Hogg Memorial Foundation, University of Texas Dr. Robert Sutherland, Director National Tuberculosis Association Dr. C. St. C. Guild, Director of Negro Program aalfor ta. , cmd teachers. . Home and family life, for preparation of teachers Home Economics training is allied fields, in homemaking and workers in related and closely a equipment , , , 11 furnished foods and clothing laboratories, nursery Three-story fireproof building. d classrooms A separate home management house is school reading rooms equipped and offices and classrooms. used by the senior students. STAFF As thoroughly trained as can be found. Sympathetic and experienced in working with young people. CAREERS THROUGH HOME ECONOMICS Teaching home economics and parent education groups, managers of tea rooms, school dormitories, fn nutrition'and'relill? w 'tf h‘Id health centers, nursery schools, home demonstration agents, homemak-mg. nutntion and rehef work, and food demonstration with commercial concerns. ! PEARL E. FOREMAN Associate Professor of Foods and Nutrition. A.B., M.A. Formerly Head of Home Economics Department, Mary Allen Junior College, Crockett, Texas. m. ; L. i_________i ELIZABETH C. MAY Director of the Home Economics Division. B.S., M.S. Advance work U. of Chicago and U. of Minnesota TOMMIE GIBSON Cosmetology. Graduate Henrietta Beauty School, Los Angeles; Attended Franklin Beauty School, Houston, Texas; Junior College at Prairie View. ANNA K. MORRISON Instructor in Clothing. B.S. Advance work, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Formerly Vocational Home Economics Teacher, Lexington, Missouri. HOME ECONOMICS LILLIE MAE PALEY Resident Teachor Trainor, Home Economics. B.S., M.S. Formerly County Homo Demonstration Agont and Joanos Supervisor. MAYME L. POWELL Professor of Clothing. B.S.. M.S. Advance Study, Columbia U. Formorly Teacher Trainer Homo Economics, Langston U.; Acting Hoad of Homo Economics Department, Kentucky State College and Prairie View. A. M. PARRISH Homo Economics, Prairie View Community School. B.S. RHETTA S. RAGLAND . Instructor, Child Development and in charge of Nursory School. B.S., M.S. Formorly teacher of Home Economics, Phoenix. Arizona; County Homo Demonstration Agent, Texas. JOY B. SINYARD ROSS Food Economics and Nutrition. B.S., M.S. Advanced study Chicago Univorsity. Formerly Home Demonstration Agent, Smith County. Texas; loanes Supervisor San Augustine and Sabine Counties; Instructor of Nutrition and Diototics, Tillotson College, Austin, Texas. LOUISA MAE TAYLOR Stato Itinerant Toachor, Homemaking Education. B.S. Advance study Iowa State College. Formorly teacher of Home Economics, San Marcos and Tylor, Toxas. ROBNETT Y. SPATES Supervisor of Adult Homemaking in Waller County. B.S. Formorly Rural Electrification Home Economist, Supervising Teachor-Trainer, Tillolson Collego. JUANITA THOMAS Cosmetologist Graduate of Madam Coleman Boauty School, Dallas, Texas, and attended one year at Sam Houston Collego. TUCKER A. WALLACE Art Instructor. B.S., M.A. Formerly Art Instructor, St. Phillips Junior College, San Antonio, Toxas. M E C H A N I C A R T S D E P A R T M E N T OFFERS: 1. Four-year college courses in Engineering and Industrial Education. These courses are designed to train engineers for private industry and governmental positions, and high school industrial arts teachers. All graduates of the division in the last twenty years are employed with salaries ranging up to $3600.00 yearly. Technical training will offer opportunities to Negro youth heretofore not open to them. 2. Two-year trade courses with certificates in: A. Auto-mechanics; B. Broom and Mattress Making; C. Cabinet Making; D. Carpentry; E. Dyeing and Dry Cleaning; F. Electrical Maintenance and Repair; G. Laundering; H. Machine Shop Operation; I. Painting and Interior Decorating; I. Plumbing and Sheet Metal Work; K. Printing and Linotype Operation; L. Shoe Making and Repairing; M. Tailoring; N. Stationary Engineering. The present demand for skilled artisans and the post-war period will offer many advantages to the trained tradesman. 3. Along with the Home Arts Department, training for work in the field of trades and industries. Headquarters for this work are at Prairie View. At its peak the department had 326 evening and part-time classes conducted in more than 80 centers in Texas employing 166 teachers and had an approximate enrollment of 6,500 students. C.L WILSON KATHERINE ACREY Director of Mechanic Arts Division, Laundry. B.S. Superintendent of Buildings and Utilities. B.S., MX.. M.S. ROLAND ADAMS In chargo of Buildinq Maintenance. Trado Certificate, Prairie View. MECHANIC ARTS DIVISION H. R. C. ARNOLD. JR. Hoad of Printing Dopartmont. B.A. Trado Certificate in Printing, Tuskoqoo Institute. Former Linotype Oporator, Houston Informor. E. H. BAKER Chief Custodian of Public Buildings. Old Normal Graduate, Prairie Viow; Senior Aqriculturo. Formorly Teacher Public Schools, Shorman, Texas; Project Supervisor N.Y.A., Prairie View. W. T. BAKER Powor Plant. Colloge Work. Prairie View. LAMAR CALDWELL In charge of Department of Truck Instructor. B.S. Stationary En-Operations. gineering. Former teacher. E. S. M. W. T.. Prairie Vlow. Instructor in Drawing and Instructor in Rural Engineering. B.S. Formorly forgor, Midvale Stool Co., Philadelphia, Penn. A. E. CHARLESTON Engineer, Power Plant. B.S. For-mor High School Instructor. A. G. CLEAVER Instructor Broom and Mattress Making. Old Normal Graduate, Prairie View. Formerly County Training School, Round Rock. Texas: toacher D.D.6B. Institute. Austin, Toxas. HORTENSE COLLINS B.S. Hoad Telophono Operator. HENRIETTA T. FARRELL F. G. FRY Manager of Laundry. B.S. Home Chief Utilities Oporator Instruc- Economk . Formerly Public tor. Radio Engineering. Chief School Teacher. Engineer Steam Plant. B.S. H. E. FULLER Instructor of Painting and Interior Decorating. Trade Certificate. Hampton Institute. KATHERYN WADE HERNDON H. S. HOUSTON, Instructor oi Engineering Drawing. B.S. Laundry. B.S. Formerly Instructor in Industrial Arts, Denison, Texas, and Instructor E.S.M.W.T., Prairie Viow. W. R. GERALD Teacher of Carpentry and Woodwork. A.B. Trado Certificate, Prai-rie View. Formerly teacher of In- dustrial Arts, Mexia and Waco, Tox. FRANCIS I. HOWELL Telophono Operator. B.S. E. J. JOHNSON Instructor Auto Mechanics. Certificate, Prairie Viow Stato Col-logo. Former operator of Private Automobile Repair Shop. RUFUS F. JOHNSON Instructor Shoo and Leather Work. Trade Certificates. St. Louis Trade School and Prairie View State College. Formerly Public School Teacher. D. W. MARTIN Instructor of Electricity. B.S. Advance study Pittsburgh State Teachors College. MILLER Z. MARSHALL Assistant Printer. B.S. Former Lino-typist Houston Informor, Houston, Toxas. A4.ecli anic Arts LUCY PURDENCE RAY R. W. RAYFORD A. RICHARDS Supervisor at Laundry. B.S. Instructor Dry Cleaning. Diploma Prairie View State Collego. Engineer. Power Plant. Special Work: Ramsoy Dry Cleaning System; C. C. Hubbard Dry Cleaning and Dyeing System; Member Hubbard Textile Bureau. Formerly Instructor of Tailoring, Prairie Viow State Collego and D.D. B. Institute, Austin, Toxas. Left to Right: FIELDING RICHARDS Steam Plant. Apprentice, Prairio Viow. 0. D. THOMAS Machinist. Trade Certificate in Automochanics and Machine Shop Practice. Prairie View College. ELI THOMPSON fBteam Plant. Apprentice, -Prairie View Steam Plant. WESTERFIELD TUCKER Custodian Gymnasium. A.B. Formerly Matron St. Philip's Junior Colloge. PAULINE WALL Socrotary to the Director oi Mechanic Arts. B.S. A. I. WATSON Engineer Power Plant. B.S. Students are taught to operate the Linotype machine. WILL WEST Power Plant J. M. WILSON Instructor of Tailoring. B.S. Certified Mastor Designors School of Desic ing. Former instructor D. D. 5. Institute, Austin, Texas. THE OBJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS AT PRAIRIE VIEW STATE COLLEGE By WEST ALEXANDER HAMILTON Colonel, Infantry, Army of the United States September, 1942, marked a significant event in the history and life of Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College, for it was then that the Senior Unit (Infantry) Reserve Officers Training Corps was established. To be sure, Prairie View College has had a military unit and military training for many years prior to this time. The question naturally arises: What is the difference, what is so unusual about this new senior unit of the R.O.T.C. that it deserves especial comment? The military training unit formerly existing here was authorized under Section 55c of the National Defense Act, the basic law for the present military organization of the Army of the United States. It was similar to hundreds of other units, located mostly in secondary schools throughout the country. It was a limited-in-scope, non-credit, extracurricular activity. Of course, large and beneficial results were seen even from this limited type of military training. To the credit of the present administration of Prairie View College, let it be said that its faith in the future demanded and insisted on a continuance of the 55c training, even when at times its record was not altogether flattering. Came 1942 and the War Department, giving fuller recognition to the needs and ambitions of Negroes for a fuller participation in the National Defense efforts, authorized the establishment at Prairie View of one of the four new senior units of the R.O.T.C. Now we have at this college, a recognized, accredited unit of the Army of the United States. Briefly, the objects of the Reserve Officer Training Corps are to give basic military training in graded courses to physically fit men of college grade?16 offer additional training to especially selected individuals with a view to commissioning them as officers in the Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States. Thus it will be seen that the conception of the R.O.T.C. is based on a belief that the college trained man with his background and assumed or presumed superiority to the individual who has not had that training is the very best possible basic material from which to fashion the wartime leadership in the junior grades of the Army. COL. WEST ALEXANDER HAMILTON Professor of Military Science and Tactics (Miner Teachers College, Washington, D.C., Army of the United States since 1905). Printer and Publisher (Hamilton Printing Company. Washington, D.C.). Formerly commanding officer, 2nd in command 366th Infantry, Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Someone has aptly said: The grade or elementary schools convert the iron ore into pig iron; the secondary or high schools convert this pig iron into steel, and the college takes this steel and tempers and fashions it into useful tools or weapons—fine outstanding men and women—leaders in peace and in war. This we hope, will be the results at this college. We hope that the youth passing across the campus and through the halls of Prairie View will have a lasting impression made upon them. In this effort the R.O.T.C. hopes to take its proper place. It must be regarded as an additional asset to the college—as a beneficent influence upon all concerned or else its establishment is a mistake. I leave the question as to the place the Department of Military Science holds in the hearts and affections of the faculty and students of Prairie View to you Prairie View people. However, I will make bold to say that the R.O.T.C. unit, itself, feels that it has and is making a definite constructive contribution to the life and progress of the college. The administration and leadership of the unit works on the fundamental theory that discipline is the underlying foundation at every effort of this kind—that an army and likewise a school or college without discipline is a mob. It tries to instill into the students of the college the basic concept that a good soldier is always a gentleman; that a gentleman is usually a good soldier. Emphasis on the Spartan attributes of manhood; the building up of a real contempt for the weakling, the softy, the people whose wishbones are (Continued on bottom of page 56.) - LT. JOHN R. REAVES LT. TOLBERT HARRIS STAFF SGT. WOLFOLK SGT. OTIS F. BAILEY tnlantry. Am! to P.M.S.T. In! an try, Aut to P.M.S.T. Inrtnjctor o Military Sctooeo. Instructor oi Ml’ltary Sctoncs A-B. Advance study Coluts- Instructor ot Military Sctonc . bla and Now York Unlvorsltlos. (Three members of staff not shown.) where their backbones should be. Finally, it seeks to glorify those line mottos emblazoned in 150 years of glorious West Point military history—duty, honor, country. If the R.O.T.C. accomplishes nothing else but the strengthening of the character of the lads who come under its influence, it will have justified its presence here as a real and integrated part of Prairie View. Among the practical things which the unit carries on as an aid to the orderly administration of the college are the following: 1. Responsibility for the maintenance, cleanliness and order in the men's dormitories. 2. The posting of a guard from retreat to taps to supplement the very meagre watchman personnel of the college. 3. A constant vigil against, and reports and deciplinary procedures against, all forms and types of rowdyism. 4. An educational program designed to make military discipline a real force in improving the moral, culture and general deportment of all of the students of Prairie View, including the women. 5. A recruiting service to facilitate the enlistment of Prairie View men in the enlisted reserve corps. 6. Guidance to students, who seek it, on matters concerning their continuing in college, joining the army, selection of a branch of the service, etc. The Army and Reserve Officers Training Corps at Prairie View recognizes the problems which confront them as very definite challenges. It accepts them. WEST A. HAMILTON, Colonel. Infantry. LIBRARY O. J. BAKER Head Librarian A.B., B.L.S., M.L.S. OLA MAE HINES Assistant Librarian B.A., B.L.S. Former Librarian, Cherry St. Branch Library, Evansville, Indiana. THE NEGRO’S BELLUM SERMON 1942 Version By C. LEROY HACKER I've known rivers, ancient as the world; I've builded civilizations upon their banks that defied the ravages of time and from their oozy mud I have raised crops to fill the storehouses of the world. I have been master, slave, king, serf, ruler, and the dust of the earth. I have been proud, humiliated, arrogant, humble, impossible, genius, and plain dumb. I have strutted, walked dejected, sung, cried, laughed, and moaned. With this rich background I come to join the other underprivileged peoples of the word in this present conflict. They ask why I fight; Hell I I fight for the same things the other guys fight for—AN EQUAL BREAK; no more, no less. I ain't special, I'm just human—just a man. Then don't ask me to be a super-man; don't ask me to do a steam shovel's job with a cigar box top. But give me a man's job with a man's training, getting a man's pay and I'll turn you out a man's job that'll make the Allies wcfge war with a new spirit and the Axis green with envy. WHY? Because America, I am the leaven in your bread of life. I am the ever present, thinking, emotional, fearless, American Negro—YOUR MEASURING ROD OF DEMOCRACY. GRADUATE STUDIES The principal aim of graduate work at Prairie View State College is twofold: (1) to provide the student with a comprehensive view of a major field of interest; (2) to train the student for individual or independent investigation in that field of major interest. It is expected that a high grade of scholar work, the true spirit of research, and the practice of a scientific approach to all problems will distinguish the work in Graduate Studies from the fulfillment of routine requirements. The program of Graduate Studies at Prairie View was formulated during the school year 1937-38 at which time the institution secured the services of Dr. E. M. Norris to direct the work. The first classes were organized during the summer session, 1938, with a group of 27 persons for the first term. Since then the annual enrollment, on the basis of head count has increased to an approximate of 200, principally during the summer. Since the inception of the program 541 persons have registered for graduate study, and 35 have earned the Master of Science degree. The graduate program is set up by fields rather than departments—a system of departmental integration which allows a field of study to cut across more than one department. Courses are organized in the following areas: Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Education, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Administration and Supervision, General Education, English, Home Economics (Education—technical), Political Science, History, Mechanic Arts, (Industrial—technical) Mathematics, Rural Education, Rural Sociology, Sociology. Administrative policies are determined by a committee of 10 persons and the instructional program is managed by a group of 25 consultants coming from the different departments concerned. During the summer session a number of visiting professors are employed and several special projects are instituted to broaden the emphasis of work on the graduate level. -R. W. Hilliard. SOME OF THE PRAIRIE VIEW-ITES IN THE ARMED FORCES (Of the many wo contacted, these sent pictures) C. R. HALL I. W. KAFFIE B. S. LUTER ERISTUS SAMS Fiscal Office N.Y.A. Agriculture Extension FORMER STUDENTS (Below) LIEUT. L. G. BROTHERTON Horace McMillan WILLIE HAWKINS CASPER ARMSTRONG ANDREW (HIPPO) HOPKINS THORNTON LAMPLEY GEORGE MERVIN EMANUEL PETERSON COOPERATIVE EXTENSION DIVISION DR. E. B. EVANS, SR. State Leader, Negro Extension Service and Professor of Veterinary Science. Dr. V.M. Advance Study, Iowa State College. State Staff about to meet to plan for the Food For Victory program. Headquarters for the Texas Cooperative Extension Work are at Prairie View State College. Seven State officials work out into the State with eighty-three (83) County and Home Demonstration Agents in fifty-three (53) counties. This force represents the largest organization for Negroes in the United States. These ninety (90) State and county officials work directly with seven thousand (7000) county, community, and neighborhood leaders. This organization reaches 57,000 Negro farm families. The extension service is playing a vital role in the Federal government's food and feed for victory program. They are faced with the task of increasing production by 25% for 1943. The service furnishes the educational aspects for all action programs for rural people. Work in Texas. B.S., M.S. Formerly mer Vocational Agriculture Teacher. Demonstration Agent. B.S. Formor teacher. Dallas Public Schools; Kendleton, Texas; County Agent. Gregg County Home Demonstration County Homo Demonstration Agent, Brazoria County. Agent. Nacogdoches. S E ' R V I I C E I S JEFF1E O. A. CONNER District Homo Demonstration Agent. B.S. Advance Study, Prairie View State Collogo. Formerly County Home Demonstration Agent Extension Service. H. S. ESTELLE District Agent, Agricultural Extension. B.S. Advanced Study. Formerly Teacher of Agriculture, Superintendent of Farm, Acting Director of Agriculture, Prairie View State College. J. H. WILLIAMS District Agent, Agriculture Extension Serv. ice. B.S. Advance Study. Prairie View State Colloge; Meat Specialist. Former County Agriculture Agont. 12 of the 30-odd former high school 4-H girls now in college. There is approximately an equal number of boys attending college who formerly were in 4-H clubs. IDfOUAIC WHS A WlTm5 HS7 WHWSE . fOMAMTiMIt 1 immnr k j n ifc | Trmma tJ ml‘XT' J h m taprTi ;■ rm' Left: County Homo Agents exhibit food requiromonts for one person for one year. (End of Stato Extension) WALLER COUNTY LOVIE M. MURPHY HILL County Home Demonstration Agent. Waller County. B.S. Former teachor of Home Economics. McKinney, Toxas. CHARLES L. SADBERRY Agricultural Extension Agent. Waller County. Texas. Formorly School Supervisor. Burleson County,- Principal and Vocational Agriculture Teachor, Lexington, Toxas. tL J lour Prairie View College Graduates Wko Are Officers These four Prairie View College graduates are officers in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, holding the rank of Third Officer—the equivalent of a Second Lieutenant's commission in the army. All are members of the first class of officers commissioned at the First W.A.A.C. Training Center at Fort Des Moines. Left to right, they are: Third Officers Anne Lois Brown, Ruth L Freeman, Geraldine Bright, and Alice Marie Jones Officer Jones is currently assigned to recruiting duty for the W.A.A.C. with headquarters in the Eighth Service Command. The others are company officers at the training center, assisting with the training and administration of affairs of companies of auxiliaries replacing men in non-combat army jobs. PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, FIRST W.A.A.C. TRAINING CENTER. FORT DES MOINES. IOWA. OFFICIAL W.A.A.C. PHOTOGRAPH. NOTE: These four were recently promoted to the rank of first lieutenants. f Before Pearl Harbor—The Mechanic Arts float, Homecoming, 1941. The local alumni club has suspended this practice for the duration. N.Y.A. TRAINEES AT WORK tc (Beginning of ) Administrative Assistants D ining Hall RUTH H. DOYLE DURIA HENDERSON Dinlnq Hall, Clerk. Typing Hoad Baker. College Work. Certillcate. Prairie View. VIRGIE P. MASON Assistant Hostess Cafoteria. B.S. Former teachor of Laundering Industry; Dietician. Prairie View. SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT C. M. MICKENS Chef Formerly employed by Southorn Pacific R.R. A. M. College. J. W. ROWLAND Teacher's Chef Formerly employed by A. M. Colloge Subsistence Department and Southern Pacific Railway System. EARNEST STERLING Instructor in Cooking, N.Y.A. Former student Prairie View, Chef private R.R. diner. CLARa e. torry Cafeteria Supervisor Certificate Hughes Business College, Houston. B.S. Former Tennessee State College Cafeteria Supervisor. Assistant Hughes Businoss College. College Exchange GEORGE WASHINGTON BUCHANAN Manager College Exchange since 1915. Came to Prairie View in 1912. Was Professor of Pedagogy, Science, and Mathematics, Librarian and for seven years Manager of the Dining Hall in addition to Manager of Exchange. ANDREW JACKSON BURNS Clerk, College Exchange (Advance Junior, Prairie View College, Texas.) fiscal ANNE JACKSON SAMS Stenographer. B.A. Advonce work Northwestern U., Chicago U. and Prairie View State College. T. R LAWSON Teller and Manager cl Filling _ DOROTHY EGGLESTON Secretary. Businoss Certificate. Wood-Purington Business College. Extra V ork. Ford-ham U. and College of City of New York. H. L. C. FORTSON Toller. Fiscal Department. B.S. Former Supervisor of N.Y.A. Girls. Prairie View. 1 LA VAUGHN C. MOSLEY. SR. Assistant Cashier. B.S. FISCAL OFFICE LLOYD SCOTT HARVEY R. TURNER Bookkoepor. B.S. Assistant Treasurer. B.S. in C.E. Formorly Science Teacher, Samuel Huston College. Austin, Texas: Teacher Mathematics. Bishop College, Marshall. Texas. C. S. WELLS, SR. Accountant. Business Practice Diploma. Tuskegee. Former Accountant Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT E. M. GREENE Head Matron. Former Matron D.D. B. Institute, Austin. Texas. STUDENT DORMITORIES Top—A room in Schuh-macher, the new dormitory for men. Left—A room in Evans Hall. Bottom—Evans Hall Parlor. Office of Principal N. B. EDWARD Executive SocTetary; Journalist; Editor oi the Prairio Viow Standard. B.S., additional special study. Formerly Principal. Guadalup© County Training School. Soguin. Texas; Teacher of English. Grant Junior High School. San Antonio, Texas. BENNIE M. TAYLOR Secretary to the Principal. A.B. Registrar s Office JOHN M. HALL Transcript Clerk. B.A. Forraor Toachor Public Schools, Kilgore, Texas. DELCENIA A. POWELL Secretary. Samuel Huston College. Former Clerk, National Health Accident Insurance Company. Beaumont, Texas. LILLIE C. MANN Assistant to Registrar. B.A. Former Secretary of Bookor T. Washington School. Galveston, Texas. JIMMIE DYKES FIELDS Secretary. B.S. Formor Instructor Dallas Public Schools. (Part Year) ROSS E. RYDOLPH Transcript Clerk. Registrar's Oifice. B.A. (Part Year) THE THREE WAR DEPARTMENT CIVILIAN PROTECTION CLASSES HELD AT PRAIRIE VIEW AUGUST. OCTOBER, AND NOVEMBER, 1942 Engineering, Science and Management ar Training By J. J. ABERNETHY, Coordinator In January, 1941, the Regional Supervisor of E.S.M.W.T. and representatives from A. M. College of Texas and the Prairie View College met at Prairie View and decided to offer such defense training courses for Negroes of Texas and the Southwest, using the facilities of the College in addition to essential equipment to be loaned to the college by the Federal government. The classes were started and have been going practically continuously as follows: First courses began February 1, 1941, with an enrollment of thirty-eight (38). The courses were: Internal Combustion Engines, Engineering Drawing, Power and Heating Engineering. Second courses began May 20, 1942, with a larger enrollment of sixty-two (62). The increased number of courses was: Radio Maintenance, Architectural Drafting, Construction Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Electrical Maintenance. The third courses began September 29, 1942, with seventy-four (74) students enrolled: Construction Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Radio Engineering, Architectural drafting, Engineering Drawing. Fourth courses with ninety-two (92) students began February 2. 1942: Advanced Engineering Drawing, Electrical Maintenance, Elementary Mechanics, Internal Combustion Engines, Construction Engineering, Radio Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Testing of Materials, Fundamentals of Radio Communication. The Fundamentals of Radio Communication course was offered at night for the benefit of graduating seniors, faculty and employees. The fifth courses began June 8, 1942. The fifty-five (55) students enrolled during these summer months were largely instructors from the various communities. They enrolled in the following courses and carried the principles of education for industry and war back to their students: Electrical Maintenance, Structural Drafting, Advanced Construction Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Testing of Materials. r The six courses, approved by the U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., in September, 1942, are more than ever before authorized for presentation at Prairie View. Total enrollment amounted to ninety-eight (98). Fundamentals of Radio Communication, Radio Engineering, Radio Communication. Engineering Drawing, Power S Heating Engineering. Internal Combustion Engines, Chemistry 6 Chemical Testing, Electrochemical Engineering, Elementary Chemistry of Pyrotechnics Munitions. Elementary Mechanics, Industrial Mechanics, Electrical Maintenance, Structural Drafting. Advanced Drafting, Advanced Construction Engineering, Surveying S Mapping. The interest in men and women, already employed, in becoming proficient in some essential trade was gratified when on October 26, 1942, two night courses in Radio Communication were opened in Houston, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and A M College, directed and supervised by Prairie View College. The total enrollment in these two classes was thirty-eight (38). These courses were not sufficient to meet the demand; consequently two other courses in Fundamentals of Radio Engineering and Fundamentals of Radio Communication were organized on November 31, 1942. Still the people of Houston rush to enter, and to meet this growing demand two more Radio courses and two Engineering Drawing courses are to be started there during the month of December. The interest in the Dallas Negroes to become skilled laborers was recognized when Prairie View again branched out its ESMWT courses on December 2, 1942, and started two night courses in Radio Engineering and Radio Communication. There was a total enrollment of over fifty. A great percentage of the students who finished these courses have been given employment by the U.S. Government Army, Air Signal Corps and in many private industries. Those drafted into the services have been placed in or promoted to positions in line with the ESMWT training received here. V V V V V V V V V JOSEPH J. ABERNETHY Co-ordinator, National Defonso and War Training. B.S., M.S. Formerly Director of Mechanic Arts. Pralrlo Viow State College. NOLAN HOUSTON Instructor Radio Engineering. Certificate. National Radio Institute. Formerly Manager of Radio Shop in Houston, Texas. Engineering Science Management anc 1 War Training Program ROY L. BAILEY Internal Combustion Engines. B.S. Formor N.Y.A. Instructor in Shop Work. Jasper, Texas; Teacher of E.S.M.W.T., Prairio Viow. A. E. JORDON Instructor in Radio. B.S. Own Radio Business in Dallas, Texas. T. H. BRITTAIN National Defense, Technical Study, Tuskegee, Bradley Polytechnic Instructor. Kansas Teacher Collogo. Former Head of Manual Training Department. Prairie View. MARY LOUISE MARSHALL Stenographer E.S.M.W.T. Certificate in Business Administration. It Above: Hope the Dean won't show up. Right: That visiting cat took him out. Upper right: The man in the uniform has a way with women. NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION The department of National Youth Administration was organized at Prairie View State College in l- , with an enrollment of over one hundred boys and girls from various sections of the State of Texas. In 1941, the Prairie View Resident Center discontinued the enrollment of girl trainees and is now offering instruction for boys only. This plant consists of three dormitories and one main office and shops for work experience purposes. Young men who have high school training or above and are between the ages of 17 and 25 are eligible for enrollment. At present the Prairie View Resident Center has an enrollment of 175 trainees pursuing three-month courses in welding, angle forging, pattemmaking, sheet metal and machine tool operation. Youths completing these courses receive employment in the machine plants of the nation, ship yards, and other phases of the war industry, making salaries of ninety cents to one dollar and fifteen cents per hour. Others receive private and public employment. Nearly two hundred such youths are employed in war work, and others are going out at regular intervals. JOHN W. RICE Regional National Negro Affairs Representative. A.B. Former Principal Booker Washington High School, Dallas; Executive Secretary State Teachers Association. In addition to the invaluable training these men receive in the different occupations they are also provided with a very wholesome social and intellectual atmosphere on the college campus. The NYA trainees are a part of the college, and they are participants in the many school activities just as the regular college enrollees. The resident administrators sponsor many visual aid programs, instructional movies, lectures by the professors from the college staff and the like. From October to December, 1942, more than one hundred thirty youths, completing these courses, were sent to take defense jobs in the states of Washington, Oregon, and California. HARTSELL LAMPKIN Project Manager, Master Project N.Y.A. B.S. Advance Work, Atlanta U. Former Dean of Men, Bishop Collogo; Residont Supervisor N.Y.A. five years. THEODORE R. GRIFFITH N.Y.A. Resident Supervisor. A.B., A.M. Formerly Instructor at Prairie View; Field Supervisor of Adult Education, Waco, Texas. PERCY CARTER Welding Foreman Apprentice and 22 years experience in welding. NATHANIEL CONNOR Wolding Apprentice Texas Construction Materials Co. Former employee of T.C.M. Company for 20 years. WAID HAMILTON Instructor in Foundry Apprentice and 21 yoars experience in foundry work. 3 r hr v L K. H. MONTGOMERY Rosidont N.Y.A. Supervisor A.B. Former assistant to Personnel Director, Prairio Viow. LEE P. MUCKLEROY Instructor of Arc Welding Certificate in Plumbing, Prairie Viow. Study, Kansas Stato Teachers Collogo. Former journeyman plumber. JESSIE H. STERLING Youth Porsonnol Officer B.S. Formor principal of school. Pecos, Toxas. N.Y.A. Training Program MILAS M. WESTBROOK Electricity Certificate in Eloctricity, Prairio View. HORACE J. WATERS Shop Operations Officer N.Y.A. B.S. Extra study Wostern U., Kansas. Formerly omployod at Missouri Pacific round house. Coffeyvlllo, Kansas; Baltimore and Ohio R. R., Youngstown, Ohio. H. L. WASHINGTON Wolding Foreman. B.S., A.B. Former National Defense Toacher. El Paso; Supervisor Vocational Education, Kansas. 4 Training for W ar Industries at Prairie View By THOS. L. HOLLEY, State Supervisor Vocational Training for War Production Workers As in World War I, Prairie View is making an important contribution to the winning of this global war by cooperating with State and Federal Agencies in the training of youth and adults in skilled trades. In October 1941, a group of State and Federal representatives met at Prairie View to discuss the possibilities of establishing a training center, using the spacious shops and other facilities of the college for this purpose. The State Board for Vocational Education, Trade and Industrial Division, agreed to furnish $20,000 worth of additional equipment, supplies for instruction, one-half the teachers' salaries (the other half furnished by the NY A), and all other expenses incidental to training persons in the skilled trades so they may enter into the various war industries. The WPA and NYA agreed to send the students to Prairie View for training. The college authorities readily consented to sponsor the program and make all of its facilities, including • buildings and college-owned equipment, available. THOMAS L. HOLLEY Teacher-Trainer. Trades and Industries. B.S., advance study Kansas A. M., Stout Institute. Colorado State, Dunwoody Institute, Bradley, Polytechnic Institute. On leave from San Antonio Public Schools, former State Supervisor of Adult Education. On November 17, 1941, 34 WPA and 60 NYA students enrolled. Within a week there were 48 WPA students and by December 1, the NYA discontinued a girls' project and made available a dormitory for 60 more boys. Early in 1942, the NYA constructed another dormitory to accommodate 60 additional boys. The WPA and NYA furnished transportation, board and lodging and paid an amount of cash to the trainees just as though they were on a work project. The first courses established were Electric Welding, Machine Tool Operation, and Forging. Later a course in Foundry was added. More recently, a course in Pattern Making completed the offerings. Machine Tool Operation classes are conducted in the college Machine Shop, while all the other courses are in a spacious pre-fabricated metal building, 56 x 140 feet, erected by the NYA. All classes are operated on three eight-hour shifts, in line with the general policy to speed up training and bring the war to as early a termination as possible. One hundred and twenty-six WPA men and three hundred and forty-five NYA youths have received training since the program was organized. Practically every trainee who has completed his course has either obtained employment in industrial plants with war contracts or other private employment. Some were drafted or volunteered their services in the Navy and Army, and were placed in positions in line with their major training. Vocational Training ior War Work N. A. JONES Machine Tool Oporation, Langston, Prairie Viow, Kansas State Teachers College. Formerly Chief Engineer Prairie Viow. ARMSTRONG LEWIS Instructor in Forging. Diploma, Tuskegee, Alabama; Special Trade Courses: Black-smithing and Woodwork, Tuskegee Institute; Auto Mechanics, Detroit School of Technology; Machine Shop Practice, University of Wisconsin. LEE ARCHIE ONEAL Hoad Instructor in Foundry Practice. Twenty-three years of exporionce in Foundry Work. JOHN REESE Timokoeper. Industrial Certificate, Prairie View. GERALDINE WASHINGTON Secretary E.S.W.D.T. B.S. graduate. J unions WILMA ROLIGAN HOGAN f}enham, Toxas B.S. Prairie View, English Major. IORDAN T. WASHINGTON Bessmay, Toxas B.S. Prairie View, Education Major. Principal. Bossmay. Texas. GRADUATE STUDENTS (A portion of the full-time and part-time graduate students) MABLE E. KILPATRICK Houston. Texas B.S. Prairie View, Education Major. Teachor Public Schools. Houston. VERA E. MALONE Waco, Toxas B.S. Prairie View, Rural Education Major. Home Demonstration Agent, Waco. RICHARD A. MOODY Hempstead. Texas B.S. Prairio View, Agriculture Major. Vocational Agriculture Teacher. f « 1 LUCELESTINE WALKER WILSON Prairie View, Toxas B.S. Prairie View. Education Major. (For certain technical reasons all pictures to lollow aro n-t in alphabetical order.) ISAAC WILLIAMS Pledger, Toxas B.S. Prairie View, Agriculture Major. Principal and Vocational Agriculture Teachor, Pledger. ROSCOE WEBBER Prairie View, Texas B.S. Sam Huston College Education Major. N.Y.A. Stall, Prairio View, Texas. 1 THE SENIOR CLASS I. V. MYERS . Reporter JACOB BOYER Vice-President MARGARET GRISBY Socrotary LEONARD WALLACE Business Managor MARTIN A. DAVIS Treasurer EVELYN IORDAN CHARLES DENTS Assistant Secretary Chaplain In September, 1939, 479 bright and eager young men and women entered Prairie View College as Freshmen. Of that number, the remaining 132 constitute the Senior Class of 1943. Many of them have been called to the armed services of our nation, and have cheerfully laid aside their studies to answer our nation's call for manpower. The Senior Class has many outstanding members at present, and has sought throughout its history to maintain the brilliant record it made as a freshman group. At that time, they pledged to synthesize their scholastic and athletic leadership with dignity and poise. The Class of 1943 has also shown great interest in our nation's defense. Many of the men are Reserve Officers Training Corps officers, and a large number of the class attended the War Department Civilian Defense School, in which they learned many things which enable them to take an active part in our country's war effort. The class also boasts of many star athletes who have brought honor to their alma mater. These men and women are: Henry Warren, competent captain of the football team and a good basketball player; Kathryn Jones, a tennis champion of national and college fame. The class also was undefeated intramural champions for two years. The history of the class would not be complete without mentioning its sponsors who have constantly inspired and advised the group. They are: Dr. E. B. Evans, Miss A. L. Campbell, and Dr. T. R. Solomon. The Class of 1943 played its role well and as time draws near for its departure from the college scene it wills its scholarship, prestige, and leadership ability to the Class of 1944 and wishes success to the many other classes which shall follow it. A new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” SENIORS RUTH AARON Public School Music Austin. Texas Choir. '40-'42, Glee Club '40-'42, Y.W.C.A., French Club. Modest, studious, musically Inclined. JERICA F. ALEXANDER Chemistry Dallas, Texas Y.W.C.A. '41-'43. Studious, reserved, a charming smile. JOHN L. ALEXANDER Agriculturo Groosbeck. Texas Y.M.C.A. '39-'43, Varsity Tennis '39-'43, N.F.A. '39-'43, Dramatics '40-'41, Intra-mural Sports '39-'43. Abdominous, qood-natured big shot. DILLARD L. ALSOBROOKS Mechanic Arts Pittsburg. Texas Math Club. Y.M.C.A.. Presidont Mechanic Arts Club, R.O.T.C., Motion picture operator. Chief II. CORIDA JONES ANDERSON Home Economics Longview. Toxas Choir 37-‘42, Y.W.C.A. '37-'42, Annie Laura Evans Club '39-'40, Co-Eds Club '38-'39. MILDRED JEWEL ANDERSON Physical Education Houston, Texas Y.W.C.A.. French Club. Co-Ed Club '40. Annie Laura Evans Club, PV-Houston Club, Majorette '39-'41. Cute, timid, neatly dressed. ALICE ETHEL BARRETT Physical Education Liberty, Texas Y.W.C.A., Captain Basketball Team '40-'42, Varsity P Club. Co-Ed Club, Coach of Intra-mural Basketball ’39-'43. Versatile, swell kid. DEBORAH L. BEDFORD k Home Economics Dallas. Texas Annie Laura Evans '41-'42, Grandchildrens' Club. Y.W.C.A.. P.V.-•Dallas Club, Choir '40-'41, Panther Staff '42. Co-Ed Club '40. Val-orous, friendly, companionable. SENIORS WILMA BOUDREAUX Nursing Education Opelousas, Louisiana Lovable, efficient. ELBIE W. BOYD Public School Muse Dallas, Texas Concert Choir, College Choir. Co-Ed Club. Annie Laura Club. Concert Orchestra. Y.W.C.A. '39-'42. Spoiled, cocky, musically inclined. JACOB L. BOYER, JR. VICTORIA C. BLANKS English San Antonio. Toxas Spanish Club '41 -'42. Dilettante Society. Y.W.C.A.. Co-Ed Club. Quiet, well-mannered. WILL ROBERT BOLDEN Biology Houston. Texas P.V.-Houston Club. Intramural Football. Y.M.C.A. '40-43. Sden-tific Soc. Conservative, the lover type. ESTELLA MAE CALLIES Music Galveston. Texas Choir '39'43. Co-Ed Club. P.V.-Galveston Club. Concert Orchestra. Y.W.C.A., Annie Laura Evans '41- 42. Neat, industrious, a good frlond. RAYMOND EUGENE CARREATHERS Agriculture Denison, Texas N.F.A. ’39-'43. Usher Board '40-'43. Y.M.C.A. '39-'43. Friendly, steady. EULALIA VELMA BUTLER Mathematics Palestine, Texas Y.W.C.A. Friendly, modest. Agriculture Port Arthur, Texas Pres. Y.M.C.A. '41-'42. Vlce-Pres. Senior Class '42-’43, Treasurer Port Arthur-P.V. Club ’39'40. R.O.T.C.. Annual Staff 42-'43. Undaunted, debonair, trust-worthy, collogiate. 15 SENIORS WILLIE PEARL CHAMBERS Home Economics Dallas, Toxas Panther Stall '41 -'42. P.V.-Dallas Club. Lubricous. DOROTHY MAE CONLEY Home Economics Tyler, Texas Home Economics Club '40- 41. Tall, trim, steady. ERNEST CLOUSER Business Administration Galvoston, Toxas Y.M.C.A. '40-'41, Usher Board '42, Bus. Adm., Catholic Club '42, French Club. Ambitious, the business type. ANNA F. CLARK Home Economics Dallas, Texas Usher, Dramatic Club, Tennis, Y.W.C.A. Goodlooking. DOROTHY MARGARET COOK Nursing Education Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Band Majorette. Cute, sweet disposition, choorful. CHARLES EDWARD CRAWFORD Mechanic Arts Craftsman Staff. An artist, quiet. L. C. COLLINS Biology San Antonio. Texas Y.M.C.A., Beta Phi Chi, Dramatics. Intramural Sports. French Club. Don Juan, provocative. WILLIAM G. CRAWFORD Stationary Engineering Paris. Texas Y.M.C.A., Intramural Sports, Mechanic Arts Club, R. O. T. C. Deeply sincere, woll dressed. SENIORS THEODORA C. CRENSHAW Physical Education Fort Worth. Texas Dramatics Club, Y.W.C.A.. Girls' Track, French Club, Business Administration Club, Usher Board. Co-Ed Club 40-'41. Athletic, collegiate. MARTIN ALVIN DAVIS Biology Jacksonville, Texas Class Treasurer '40-'43, Treasurer Scientific Society ‘41-'43, Capt. R.O.T.C. '40-'42, Reception Committee '40-'43, Intramural Sports, '39-'43, Y.M.C.A. '39-'42, Grandchildren's Club. Reserved, very popular, UT Mutt CHARLES DENTS Agriculture Education Georgetown, Texas Y.M.C.A. '38. '41-'42, N.F.A. '38. •40-'42. Austin PV Club. R.O.T.C. | Sergeant '42-'43, Ushor Board '41-'42, Tonnis '41-'42, Panther Staff '42, Class Chaplain '42. Gentlemanly, sincere, intelligent. LUCILLE KATHERYN DOTSON Physical Education Austin, Toxas Drum Majorette '40-'42, French Club '41-'42. Choir '42. PV Austin Club '39-‘42, Usher Board '42. Y.W.C.A. ’39-’41, Band '40'42. Sweet, neat, chic, majestic. N.F.A.. Y.M.C.A., Tennis. A swell fellow, sedulous. OLENKA E. DAVIS Home Economics Dallas, Texas Student Day Teacher '39-'43, Sun- | day School Teacher '39-'40, Matron of Girls Dormitory '39-'42. Gentle, earnest. GEORGE ELLIS EMERY Mechanic Arts Austin, Texas Mechanic Arts Club '39-'42, Dramatics Club '40-'41, Prairie View Collegians '39-'41, R.O.T.C. Band '39-‘42, PV-Austin Club '39-'42. Nonchalant, vory kind. MARGARET ELLIOT San Antonio. Texas Y. W. C. A. '42. Dramatics '42. Noat, charming. SENIORS MERLE T. FIELDS Elementary Education Chicago, Illinois Grandchildren's Club '39-'43, Y.W.C.A. ’39-'43, Annie Laura Evans Club '41-'42, Co-Ed Club ‘40, Panther '39-‘40, Out-of-Stato Club '39-'42, Dilettante ‘41-'42. Fiction lover, likes solitude. FLORENCE CARLOTTA FEDFORD Mathematics Galveston, Texas Grandchildren's Club '39-’43, Co-Ed Club '40-'41, Dilottanto Society '40-'42, Annie Laura Evans Club '41-'42. Math Club '39-'43. Y.W.C.A. '39. Fronch Club '40-'43. Nice, pleasing. ERNESTINE FISHER English Houston, Texas Dramatic Club. Annie Laura Club, Y.W.C.A.. The Choir. Dilettante Club. PV-Houston Club. Witty, happy-go-lucky, regular. THELMA JOHNNIE FLOYD Home Economics Pittsburg, Texas Choir '40-'4I-'42, Co-Ed Club '41. Annie Laura Evans Club. Gloe Club '40-'41, Dramatic Club, '40. Grandchildren's Club ‘40-'43. Sympathetic, friendly. DORETHA VIVIAN FRANCIS Chemistry Houston. Texas Alpha Pi Mu '41-'42. Bota Phi Chi '40-'42. Y.W.C.A. '39-'42. Prairie View-Houston Club '39-'42. A math wizard. MARION FRANCIS GEE Agriculture Galvoston, Toxas N.F.A. '40-'43. P.V. - Galveston Club. Dependable, a dancer, witty. SHELTON GARRETT Music Mt. Vernon, Texas Choir '39-'42, Glee Club '40-'42. Dramatics '40-‘41, Concert orchestra '40, Band '41-'42, Le Cerclo Francois '41-'42, Y.M.C.A. 4'l-'42. Music lover; a pleasing personality. CYNTHIA A. GOLDBERG Business Administration Houston. Toxas Pres. Business Adm., Pres. P.V.-Houston Club, '42-'43, Treas. Dramatic Club '42-‘43. Usher ,'42-'43, Social Science Club '42-'43. Impartial, impulsive, pretty, dramatic. HORTENCE A. GOODSON Physical Education Yoakum, Toxas Y.W.C.A. Quiet, plump, sweet. SENIORS BIRDIA ROSETTA GOVAN Physical Education Rotan, Texas Basketball '41-'42. Lively, always smiling, basketball star. EDDIE MAE GRAHAM Homo Economics Yoakum, Texas Illustrious, dignified. BETTYE JEAN GREENE Home Economics Fort Worth, Texas Dramatic '41. Y.W.C.A. '40-'41, Co-Ed Club '40. Annie Laura Evans Club, Choir '40, Dramatic Club '42. Well dressed, jovial, artistic. MARGARET ELIZABETH GRIGSBY Biology Houston, Texas Grandchildren's Club '39-'43, Dilottanto Society. '41'43. Charles Gilpin Club '39-'42, Secretary oi Sonior Class. Band ‘39-'43. Beta Phi Chi '41-'43, Alpha Pi Chi '41-'43. Y.W.C.A., P.V.-Houston Club '39'43, Le Cercle Francois '40-'43. Versatile, Jntelligoncia. LILLIAN VALRIE GRIMMETT Homo Economics Houston, Toxas Drum Majorette 39-'41, Y.W.C.A. Varsity Tonnis Team, Honor Student, Miss P.V.'s attendant '42-'43. Interesting, intelligent, ambitious. GLORIA VIVIAN GUICE English Navasota, Toxas Grandchildren's Club, Dramatic Slub '41-'42. Y.W.C.A. Well-read. babyish. HAROLD EUGENE HALL Prairio View, Toxas Y.M.C.A. '40 '41. Debating See. '40-'41 Capt. R.O.T.C. '41-'42. Major R.O.T.C. '42-'43. Militarist, aggressive SENIORS LODIE J. HENDERSON Public School Music Itasca, Texas Glee Club, Concert Orchestra, Music Club, and Choir. Congenial, likeablo, conscientious. ROBERTA O. HARRIS Homo’ 'Economics Corpus Christ!, Texas Alpha Pi Mu '39- 43, Choir ’39. Co-Ed Club '40-'41. Home Economics Club '39-42. Y.W.C.A. '39-'43, Usher Board '39-'43, Anna Laura Evans '41-'42, Dilettante Society ’41- 42. Clever, artistic, cheerful. KATHRYN HARRIS Music Bryan, Texas Music Club ‘42, Annie Laura Evans Club ‘41-'42, Choir '39-’43, Co-Ed Club '40-'41. Dilettante Society ’41-‘42, Y.W.C.A. Lively, a bridge lover, regular. CONSTANCE J. HANK Chemistry Dallas, Texas Debating ‘38, Alpha Pi Mu ‘38, 42, French Club ‘42. Dilettante ‘38 ‘42. Y.W.C.A. ‘38 41. Annio Laura Evans ‘40, Dramatics ‘38-42. Bota Pi Chi '38-‘41-’42, Grandchildren's Club '39-'40, Prv.-Dallas Club ’39-'42, Panther ‘42. Insurmountable. swoll to know, diligent. BERTRAND J. HOLBERT Ch fmlstry Dallas, Texas Panthor Staff ’39-'43, Beta Pi Chi Scientific Society 42- 43, French Club '40-‘42, Sigma Nu Debating Society ’39-‘43, President Concort Chorus ‘42-'43, Choir '40'43, Dramatics ’39-'41, Y.M.C.A. ‘39- 43, Dilettanto Socioty 41-‘42, Math Club '39-'41, P.V.-Dallas Club '39'43. THERESA R. HILL Homo Economics Houston. Texas Co-Ed Club '40-'41. Annie Laura Evans Club '41 -'42, Y.W.C.A. '39-'43 (President '42-'43), Grandchildren's Club '39-'43. Ambitious, a very good friend to have. JOE CLINTON HILL Agriculture Pittsburg, Toxas Y.M.C.A.. Glee Club '40-'42. Intramural Sports, Dramatics Club '41. Tall, dark and handsome. ERNEST HINES Graduate Student Agriculture B.A. Education Tyler. Toxas President P.V.-Tyler Club. (U.S. Navy). Father. very attentive. VIVIAN MARIE HUFFMAN Physical Education Dallas. Texas Y.W.C.A. An appealing smile, poised, modest. SENIORS JESSYE JACKSON Homo Economics Bay City, Texas Annie Laura Evans Club '41-'42. Timid, conservative, nice. ■MHB i NELVA E. JOHNSON Nursing Education Alexandria. La. Patience personified. E. C. JOHNSON Agriculture Corrigan, Toxas N.F.A. '42, Sgt.-at-Arms Sr. Class '42-’43, Battalion Adjutant R.O.T.C. '42-'43. Lt. Col. R.O.T.C. '41-'42. Tho Colonel. good to know, advisor type. FLORINE MILDRED JOHNSON Home Economics Texarkana. Texas Y.W.C.A. '39-'41, Choir '39'40, Track '39'40, Co-Ed Club '40. Annie Laura Evans Club '41 - 42. Cute, has a winning smile, mischievous. diligent. R. G. JOHNSON, JR. Agriculture Longview, Texas Y.M.C.A. '39 '43, Intramural Football '41-'43. Intramural Track '41-'43. Choir '39-'43, Gloe Club '40-'43 Alpha Pi Mu '41-'43, N.F.A. 39 '43, Dilettante Socioty '41-'43. Goot, too talkative, well read, tuneful. WENDELL PHILLIPS JOHNSON Mechanic Arts Austin. Texas Band '39-'42, Mechanic Arts 39-'42. Y.M.C.A. '39-'42, P.V.-Austin Club '39-'42, Grandchildren's Club '39-'42. Possessed with ambition. MARIE ETTA JONES Home Economics Denison, Toxas Y.W.C.A. '40-'41. Usher Board '40-'41, Homo Economics Club '42-'43. Unconcerned, neat, generous. MONROE W. LAWSON Agriculture Montgomery, Texas N.F.A.. Y.M.C.A.. Captain R.O.T.C. Pete, ono woman's man, handsome. SENIORS NANNIE KIRK Home Economics Jefferson. Texas EVELYN LUCILLE JORDAN Sociology Athens, Texas French Club '40-'42, Grandchil- I dron’s Club '39-’43, Annie Laura | Evans Club '41-'42, Y.W.C.A. '39- 43, Social Sc. Club '40-'43, Cheer . Leader '39-'41, Choir '39-'41, Asst. Sec'y. Panther 41-'42, Asst. Class Secy. '42-’43. Sec'y. Panthor '42-'43. Co-Ed. Club '40-'41, Concert Orchestra '39-'40, Usher Board '41-'42. Annual Staff. Liliaceous, a business ladv. KATHERENE LAWSON Nursing Education Longview, Texas DEV ALIA HAZEL LEE Physical Education Fort Worth, Texas Choir. Co-Ed Club, Spanish Club. Cheerful, generous, comical. . Nursing Education Dallas. Texas Courteous, Trustworthy. LA VERNE LILLIAN LEE Physical Education Austin. Toxas P.V.-Austin Club. Y.W.C.A., Co-Ed Club, Annio Laura Evans Club. Choir '40-'42. Frank, friendly, an ace bridgo playor. JAMES ORVILLE LEWIS ! Biology Henderson. Toxas Beta Phi Chi ‘39-'43, Varsity Bas-kotball. Intramural Football '39-'40. Basketball star, natured. GERTRUDE NOVLEINE MARSHALL Physical Education Dallas. Toxas P.V.-Dallas Club '39-'43, French Club '42-'43, Y.W.C.A. 39’43. Garrulous, amicable, funny. SENIORS JESSE JOE MATTHEWS Biology Rosenburg, Texas Y.M.C.A.. R.O.T.C. Lieutonant. An unlovable militarist, conservative. MERCEDES GLORIA McClellan Public School Music Kansas City, Kansas Co-Ed Club, Annio Laura Evans Club, Dilottanto Club, Cosmopolitan Club, Asst. Director of Glee Club, Choir, Music Club. Coquettish, rofinod, musically talented. NELDA ROMA McELROY Homo Economics Fort Worth, Toxas Glee Club '30-'42, Orchestra '40-42. Y.W.C.A. ’39-'42, Annie Laura Evans ‘40-'41, Co-Ed Club '39-'4Q. P.V. songbird, popular. CLARENCE ROY McGOWAN Mechanic Arts VEDA N. MEDLOCK Bryan, Texas Alpha Phi Mu 42. Band '40-'42, Chairman Usher Board '41-'42. Editor Craftsman 42. Telephone Red, Romeo. Chic. Mathematics Groonvillo, Toxas Track, Cheerleader. Y.W.C.A., Varsity P Club, Math Club, French Club. Athletic, a Jitterbug. winning personality. BARTRINA T. MITCHELL Business Administration Paris, Texas Businoss Administration Club, Spanish Club. Y.W.C.A.. Co-Ed Club. Annio Laura Evans Club. Dependable, a good stenographer. IRENE J. MONTGOMERY Homo Economics Henderson, Texas Y.W.C.A., Homo Economics Club. SENIORS MILDRED F. MONTGOMERY Business Administration Dallas, Texas Y.W.C.A. '39'42, Cosmopolitan Club '39 42, B.A. Club '39-'42, Double V Club. Steady, has a sweet disposition. FLETCHER MORGAN, JR Agriculture Bay City. Texas Dramatic Club '39-'40, Business Administration Club '39-'43, Panther Staff '41. Vice-President Y '42-'43. Sunday School '39'41, Class Officer '41 42. N. F. A. Treasurer '41-'42, N.F.A. President '42-‘43, 1st Sgt. R.O.T.C. '41-'42, P.V.-Galveston Club '40-'43, Usher Board '40-'43. LAURA JANE MORRIS Physical Education Nowton, Texas College Choir '39-'42, Y.W.C.A. Resorved, sorious, likable. EDDIE L. PANNELL Home Economics Reagan, Texas Y. W. C. A. Modest, unrufflod, lovely. Music San Antonio, Toxas Choir, Orchestra. Grandchildren's Club. Count. a musician from tho heart. THEOPHILUS EALEY NEAL Biology Tusk ogee Institute, Alabama Tennis Team '39-'43, Dramatic Club 39-'43, Band '39-'43, Cosmopolitan Club '42. 1st Sgt. R.O.T.C. Gallant, gentle. IVERY VERNON MYERS , Businoss Administration San Antonio. Texas President Businoss Administration! Club '41-'42, Feature Editor Panther Staff '41-'42, Senior Class Reporter '42-'43, Dramatics ‘40-'43. Y.M.C.A. '39-'43, Ushor Board -39-'43, P.V.-San Antonio Club '42-’43. The Myers. a shrewd businoss managor, a Pha lover. LUCILLE M. MOSLEY Mathematics Houston, Texas J Y.W.C.A. '39-'43, Choir '39-'43. President Annie Laura Evans Club '41-'42, Dilettante Society. 1 Math Society, French Club, Annual Committee, P.V.-Houston. Fine to know. SENIORS ANNIE INELL PERRY Nursing Education Oakhurst, Texas Purposeful, friondly. Jovial. MARIANNA PERRIN POLLARD Sociology Evanston, Illinois Co-Ed Club '40'41, French Club, '40 '42, Annie Laura Evans '41-’42, Typist for School Paper ’41-’42. Choir 41 -‘42. Glee Club ’41-‘42, Concert Orchostra. String Ouartot ’39-’41, Soc. Sci. Club ’40-’43. Y.W.C.A. 39-'43, Cosmo-politan Club ’39-'43. Talkative, argumentative, rarlcal, witty. FOSTER PRICE Agriculture Atlas. Toxas N.F.A., Y.M.C.A. Handsome, woman hater, rural. LOIS LEE REED Home Economics Liberty, Toxas Boaumont-Port Arthur-P.V. Club ’39-'40, Annia Laura Evans Club •40 ’42. Choir. Co-Ed Club '40 ‘41. Y.W.C.A. 39-'43. Unaffected, tidy, solf-roliant. TOMMIE LEE RELEFORD Agriculture Jefferson, Toxas N.F.A., '39-‘43, Y.M.C.A. '39-'43. Ambitious, a caroor man. VERNA MAYE RICE Home Economics Jefferson. Toxas Home Economics Club, Y.W.C.A., Co-Ed Club. Lovoly to look at, demure, well poised. WILSON RICHARDSON Vocational Agriculture Houston. Toxas Glee Club '41. Panther '42. Y.M.C.A. '41. Obese, kindhearted, a gentleman. (fib SENIORS GARLAND ELDEAN SAMUEL Agriculture Wharton, Texas N.F.A. Club '39-'43, Dramatic Club '39-'41. P.V.-Houston '39-'43, Track '39-'40, Y.M.C.A. '39-'43, R.O.T.C. '39-'43. Big timor, slick, dobonair, persuasive. ALTON E. SCOTT Agriculture Marlin. Texas Dramatics, '40-'42, Y. M. C. A., N. F. A. Sarcastic, rough. ■ HORTENSE SCOTT Elementary Education Waco, Texas Y.W.C.A. '40-'43, Annio Laura Evans ’41-'42, Dilottanto Society •41-42. Co-Ed Club '40-'41. The loved typo. LEE SHELTON Chemistry Dallas, Texas Spanish Club. Beta Pi Chi '41-'43, Intramural Football '41-'42. Cowboy, amicablo. , MELBA Q. SLATON Businoss Administration Cleburne, Texas Dilettante Soc. '39-’40. Bus. Adm. Club '40-43, French Club '39-'41. Annual Staff. Tho essence of feminine pulchritude. LILLIE B. SIMON Home Economics Corpus Christi, Texas Varsity Basketball. Y.W.C.A. Miss Prairie Viow, that's enough. RICHARD LEO SIMPSON Tailoring Dallas, Texas Dramatics '40-'42, P.V.-Dallas Club (President 42), Football '41-42. Grandchildren's Club '40-'42, Choir '40-'41. N.F.A. Club '40-'42. Well-dressed, garrulous. BERNICE ANITA SMITH Home Economics Houston. Texas P.V.-Houston Club '39-'42,'Dllet-tanto Club '40-'42, Home Economics Club '39-'42, Y.W.C.A. '41-'42. Very sweet, prim, playful, sweet. FREDERICK D. SMITH Agriculture Texarkana, Texas Alpha Pi Mu. '39-'43, Captain R.O.T.C. '42 '43, Varsity FootbaU, N.F.A. Sedulous, neat, eccentric. SENIORS JUNIOUS W. SMITH Agriculture Gause. Texas N.F.A. '39-'42. Y.M.C.A. '39-'42. Dramatics. The Dark Ag. Slumbering beauty, rural but royal. MABLE INEZ SMITH Home Economics Groveton. Texas Choir '38'40. Y.W.C.A. '42'43. Co-Ed Club '38-'39. Childish. Smart. NAOMI EDNA SMITH Music Houston. Toxas Concert Orchestra '41-'42. Y. W. C. A.. P.V.-Houston Club. Un-assuming, untiring, timid. HELEN MARIE SMYTHE Home Economics Corpus Christi. Texas Dramatics '40-'41, Basketball '40-'41. Co-Ed '40'41. Usher Board '41-’42, Dilettante Literary Society '41-’42. Annie Laura Evans Club '41-'42. Boastful, important, always happy. BESSYE LOIS SPEARS Biology Houston. Texas Choir '41-'42. Dramatic Club '41 '42, French Club '42, Beta Pi Chi 41. President '42. Y.W.C.A. '41- 42, Annie Laura Evans '41. R. O. T. C. Sweetheart. Co. B. '41. Radical, nice, lady-llko. GLADYS MAXINE STERLING Physical Education Beaumont, Texas Choir. Y.W.C.A., golf. DORIS STEARNE Home Economics Bryan, Texas Co-Ed Club, Annio Laura Evans. Sweet, -gay cooperative. SENIORS WINIFRED THOMAS Agriculture Dallas, Texas N.F.A., Y.M.C.A. Conservative, undisturbed, loved. TESSYE BELLE THOMAS History San Antonio, Texas j Co-sponsor Double V, Businoss !] Administration and Social Science i Club. San Antonio-P.V., Choir, I Dilettante Society, Annie Laura Evans Club, French Society, Dramatic Club, Y.W.C.A. Innocent, modest, earnest. Double V girl. WILLIE LOUISE THOMAS Home Economics Houston. Texas P.V.-Houston Club '39-'42, Treasurer of P.V.-Houston '42-'43, Annie Laura Evans Club '40-'42, Y.W..CA. '39-’42, Dilottante Soc. •41-'42. Choir '39-'40. Co-Ed Club 40- 41. Mama Lou, hepped to the jive. WARREN THOMPSON Mochanic Arts Little Rock. Arkansas Playboy, regular, JoviaL EDDIE MAE TOLIVER Homo Economics Hempstead. Toxas Congenial, steady, accommodating. MOZELLE TRUSCOTT Education Houston, Texas Very ladylike, modest. Elementary Education Galvoston, Texas Choir, '39-'41, Y.W.C.A. '39-'40, Trahvr of Basketball Team '41-‘42. Small, cute, timid. ROYALL W. TUGKER Sociology Athens, Texas Intramural Football '39-'40, 'R. O. T. C. Club '39-'42, Dramatic Club '39-'42, Ushor Board '40-'42. Y. M. C. A. '39-'42, Debate Club '39-'42 Blatant, handsome, just a poor boy. LEONARD LEROY WALLACE Biology Corpus Christi, Toxas Editor of tho Annual '43. Studont Supervisor of the Panther '42-'43. Business Mgr. of Class ,42-,43, Pros, of Grandchildren's Club '42-’43. Beta Phi Chi Scientific Society '41-'43, Personnel Director Student Day '42-‘43. Student Personnel Comm. '39-'43, Class President ‘39-'42, Major R.O.T.C. '41- SENIORS HENRY A. WARREN Agriculture Linden, Texas Basketball '39-'43, Football Capt. '42, Sunday School, Y.M.C.A., R.O.T.C.. Honor Roll '40-'41. Pres. Senior Class ‘42-'43, N.F.A. and Annual Comm., Football ’40-'42. Versatile, obstinate. CHARLYE MAE WASHINGTON Home Economics Dallas, Texas Dramatics '40-'42. Glee Club '40-•42. Choir '40-'42. Y.W.C.A. '40-'42. Annlo Laura Evans Club 41-'42. EDWARD WASHINGTON Agriculture Groesbeck, Texas ''Barber,' bashful. '42. Supt. Sunday School '41-'42, Y.M.C.A.. Intramural Sports '39-'43, Studont Coordinating Cabinet '39-‘40, Bus. Mgr. of Panther '41-'42. French Qub '40 43. Dramatics 41-'43. Graduate of W. D. C. P. S. '42. Doan's understudy, the executive type. BERNICE WINIFRED WATKINS Public School Music Houston. Toxas Choir ‘41-'43, Concert Chorus 42, Annie Laura Evans '41, Music Editor of Panthor '42, Concert Orchestra '41, French Club 42. Vice-Pros, of Music Club '42. Agriculture Houston, Toxas Band '39-'42, Orchestra '40-'42, Y.M.C.A.. N.F.A. '40-'42, Graduate of W.D.C.P.S. A saxophonist, noat. MACK LAWRENCE WILSON Agriculture Hondorson, Texas N.F.A. ‘39-'42, Y.M.C.A. 39-'43, Dramatics '41, Grandchildren's Club 39-'43, Panther '41-'43. Shrewd, a prophet. JAMES WHITE Mathematics Plodger, Toxas Businessman, quiet. ■MM BERNICE JEWELL HEED Public School Music Houston, Texas P.V.-Houston Club. Choir. Co-Ed Club. Y.W.C.A.. Glee Club. Annie Laura Evans Club. Concert Orchestra. Majorette Band '41-'42. Innocent, vivacious, a tennis lovor. SENIORS JEARLDINE DAVIS Physical Education Houston. Texas Choir '40-'41, Mamma Green Co-Ed Club. French Club '41-'42, P.V.-Houston Club. Annie Laura Club. Y.W.C.A. '39-'42. Butch. good-natured. CHARLES W. WHITE Agriculture Giddings, Texas N.F.A., Y.M.C.A. ETHEL MAE HILL Homo Economics Galveston. Texas Annie Laura Evans Club, Y. W. C. A. '39-'41. Math Club '42. Choir '40-'42. Just a plain, sweet child. HELEN MARIE JAMES Public School Music Navasota, Texas Y.W.C.A., Co-Ed Club. Facetious, thin, unconcerned. WALTER L. SMITH Biology Dallas, Texas Captain R.O.T.C. '41-'43. Y.M.C.A. '41-'43. Choir ‘41 '42. P.V.-Dallas Club. Panther Staff ’41-'42. Lil Dooloy. esquire. JAMES F. JACKSON Biology San Antonio. Texas French Club, Beta Pi Chi. Grandchildren's Club. P.V.-San Antonio Club. Football ’41-‘42. The perfect athlete. Buckwheat. SAMMIE LEE WHITING Agriculture, Brenham N.F.A.. Y.M.C.A. BURTON G. WEST Mathematics Port Arthur, Texas Choir '39-‘40. R.O.T.C. '39-'43. Mathematics Club '40-'43. Y. M. C. A. '40-'43. Asst. Chaplain '41-'43. Rev would make a good minister. JUNIOR CLASS EDDIE RICHARDS Prosidont FLORES J. DAVIS Assistant Socrotary VERNON BAKER VIco-Presidont BERT ETTA DAVIS Secretary CHARLES JONES LUTHER WELLS ROY BURLEY Sergoant-at-Arms Business Manager Treasurer In September, 19?0. over 400 bright-eyed and enthusiastic graduates from high schools of several states, chose to make Prairie View their Alma Mater. As leaders of this ardent group for the freshman year, the following students were chosen as class officers: President, Lawrence Harrison; Vice-President. Horace Marshall; Secretary, Ann Boston; Assistant Secretary, Jennie Allen Burnett; Treasurer, Edward Evans. At the beginning of the Sophomore year, the enrollment had decreased but the spirit was still the same. This year, an entirely new executive staff was elected: President, William Muckleroy; Vice-President, Raleigh Redus; Secretary, Leroy Knox; Assistant Secretary Ann Boston; Treasurer Juanice Pollock. Still working and still achieving, the Junior Class of '42-'43 finds itself with more zeal than ever. To accomplish the program planned for the year, the class elected: Edward Richards, as President; Vernon Baker as Vice-President; Bert Etta Davis as Secretary; Flores Jean Davis as Assistant Secretary; and Roy Burley as Treasurer. Throughout the years this class has had as its efficient sponsors Dr. R. P. Perry and Professor G. W. Reeves. With the present officers and sponsors, the Juniors plan a bigger and better program than ever attempted in previous years. VERDA LOUIS OSCAR MAE ALLEN CAROL JOY ANDREWS ALEXANDER Public School Music Sociology Business Administration Victoria. Texas Dallas. Texas Troup, Texas IDA BESS BARTON Biology Taylor. Texas VERNON BAKER Chomistry Galveston, Texas BLANCHE MARGARET BIGGERS Homo Economics Denison, Toxas JAMES BIAS Biology Beaumont, Toxas WILMANETTE BOLTING ROY WILLIS BURLEY BROWN LEE BRACKENS Homo Economics Mechanic Arts Agriculture Jacksonville. Toxas San Antonio. Texas San Antonio. Texas JENNIE ALLEN BURNETT Homo Economic Wichita Fall , Texas GERTRUDE VIVIAN BURTON Education and Biology Houston, Toxas BERNICE BUTLER Physical Education Houston, Toxas JANE M. CONNER Homo Economics Itasca, Toxas ID ALIA DELOISE COOPER Homo Economics Marshall. Toxas DELLA MAE COOPER Home Economics Jefferson. Texas JOEL A. CARRINGTON Political Science Houston. Texas RUTH COWAN Nursing Education Chicago. 111. MORRIS JAMES CRAWFORD Agriculture Texarkana. Toxas THELMA A. CUNNINGHAM Business Administration San Antonio, Toxas J u N I O R 5 CARRIE DAILEY JULIA ANN DARBY BERT ETTA DAVIS Homo Economics Home Economics Public School Music Grapeland, Toxas Vernon, Texas San Antonio. Texas FLORES JEAN DAVIS Homo Economics San Antonio, Toxas JERRY T. DEMUS Agriculture Dallas, Texas THELMA DEVILLE Homo Economics Beaumont, Texas ALCISTEE MEOBE DRISDALE Nursing Education West Point, Texas FANNIE MAE DRISDALE ARGIE MAE EDWARDS EMERSON EMORY Home Economics Music Biology Wost Point. Toxas Tyler, Toxas Dallas. Toxas LEON GILES ENGLISH EARLINE EPHRAN THELMA LEE ERWIN Agriculture Home Economics Home Economics Waxahachie, Texas Wharton, Texas Tyler. Texas EDWARD B. EVANS, JR. Agriculture Prairie View, Texas WILLIE FITZGERALD Agriculture Alleyton, Texas HAZEL GEE Business Administration Tyler, Texas KATHERINE GEE Home Economics Tyler, Texas DESSER MAE GLENN SHANNON GOV AN HARVEL GRANT Home Economics Agriculture Agriculture Houston, Toxas Houston. Texas Longview. Texas CORINE GUINN RALEIGH MAE GUSTER LINCOLN HANKS, III Homo Economics Arts and Sciences Agriculture Jofierson. Texas San Angelo, Texas Dallas. Texas MARGWYN S. HARRIS OPAL HATCH HAZEL HAWKINS LEONARD HEMPHILL Biology Home Economics Arts and Sciences Agriculture Columbus, Texas Crockett. Texas Cedar Lako, Toxas Columbus. Toxas HOWARD HERMAN HENDERSON Mechanic Arts Dallas, Toxas LOUIE MAE HENDRICKS THELMA LEANA HENRY Education Nursing Education Dallas. Toxas Opolousas. Louisiana CELIA HINES Horn© Economics Kerens, Texas MAE RUTH HOPPER Home Economics Tyler, Texas MABEL DOROTHY HOWARD Nursing Education San Antonio, Texas JUANITA J. HUNTER Business Administration Longview, Texas NOLL IE JACKSON Sociology Dallas, Texas ZENOBIA CLEMENTINE JACKSON Sociology Marlin, Texas EDDIE JAMES. JR. Agriculture Conroe, Texas CHARLES E. JONES ETHEL JONES RICHARD D. JONES Agriculture Junior Physical Education Elgin, Texas Columbus, Texas Galveston, Texas FAYE WYLLA HELEN INEZ McCREE PAUL McGAUGHEY McCLELLAN Home Economic Mechanic Art Sociology Houston, Toxas Dallas, Toxas Texarkana, Texas WALTER JONES Arts and Sciences Wichita Falls, Texas ETHEL MAE JOSHUA Home Economics Victoria, Toxas MARIE S. JUAREZ Nursing Education Oskosh, Nebraska GENEVA MAE JUSTICE Nursing Education Houston, Toxas MILDRED YVONNE MALONE Nursing Education Nacogdochos, Toxas ALICE MAUD McCLOUD Home Economics Houston, Texas LLOYD MABLE Agriculture Bronham, Texas I J u N I O R S DIMPLE McGLASTON History Marlin, Texas ISAAC McNEILL Mechanic Arts Galveston, Texas ALBENNIE MILLS Home Economics Bay City, Texas JAMES MOORE, JR. FREDERICK ARTHUR D. C. MURRAY Biology MOSLEY Mechanical Arts El Rono, Oklahoma Agriculture Newgulf, Texas Mexia, Texas ELISE LOREDA MURRAY Home Economics Palestine, Toxas D. RAPHAEL OLIVER Mechanic Arts Dallas, Toxas EMIEL W. OWENS Agriculture Smithville, Texas CLYDIA L. PAIGE Home Economics Pledgor, Texas EDWARD PIPKIN Agriculture Forti , Texas JAUNICE NADINE POLLOCK Music Moxia, Texas ROBBIE POWELL Homo Economics San Antonio. Texas HORTENSE RANDOLPH Home Economics Chilton. Texas RALEIGH REDUS Agriculture Bay City. Texas EDWARD A. RICHARDS, IR. Agriculture Chicago, 111. JOHN RIDDLE, JR. Agriculture Houston, Texas ALEX BENARD RIGSBY Agriculture Woodville. Toxas RUTH ROGERS Businoss Administration Mobile, Ala. CHARLES RAY ROQUEMORE Agriculture Bivins. Toxas J u N I O R 5 AMMER MAE SERON MARCELLA C. SIMPSON M INEZ LOIS SINGLETON Home Economics Homo Economics Overton. Texas Houston. Texas Business Administration Silsbee. Texas DOLORIS ELISE SMITH Nursing Education Mexia. Texas DORIS LYNELL SMITH Home Economics Houston. Texas RUTH ELLA SMITH Education Houston, Texas NATHANIEL D. SPENCER Mechanic Arts Sherman. Texas COLORES SPRAINGS Music Oklahoma City, Okla. IRA ETTA SPRAINGS Nurting Education Oklahoma City. Okla. STANLEY STAIN Biology San Antonio. Texas ( V r J U N I O R S BILLIE MARIE HAZEL STEPTOE STANDIFER EducaUon Homo Economics D01105' Tol “ Itasca. Texas VIRGIE STRONG Home Economics Texarkana. Toxas FRANKIE THOMAS LLOYD THOMAS HORTENSE ARLEANE BOBBIE VORICE TYSON Education Agriculture TYLER Arts and Sciences Chandler. Texas Caldwell. Texas Homo Economics Bivens. Texas San Antonio, Texas LULA MAE VAUGHAN ARTHUR GORDON Physical Education WASHINGTON Dekalb. Texas Mechanic Arts Dallas. Toxas I RUBY L. WATKINS English Oklahoma City. Okla. LUTHER THEODORE HARVEY ONEIDA ELIZABETH WELLS WESTBROOK WHITE Public School Music Agriculture Home Economics Liberty. Texas Elgin. Texas Pooria, Illinois REUBEN LEE WHITE ALOYSIUS M. ELLIE ALICE WICKLIFF WILLIAMS EDYTHE LOUISE WILLIAMS Agriculture Nacogdoches, Texas Biology Liberty, Toxas Home Economics Hempstead. Texas Physical Education Jofforson, Texas JEAN WILLIAMS JOSEPH E. SAMUEL REUBEN WILLIAMS WILLIAMS Music Austin. Texas Chemistry Marshall. Texas Agriculture Marlin. Toxas IDA MAE EAMES Nursing Education Baton Rouge, Louisiana ROBERT T. McDaniel Arts and Sciences Fort V orth. Toxas PAUL M. PITTMAN Agriculture Detroit. Texas EARLINE M. ROSS ALTA G. TURNER WILLHELM WILLIAMS BENNIE WINFIELD Homo Economics Arts and Sciences Arts and Sciences Arts and Sdoncos Houston, Texas Mt. Pleasant. Toxas Sargent, Toxas Galveston, Texas OPHELIA WINTERS MARY WOODS MATTIE L. WOODWORTH Nursing Education Nursing Education Homo Economics Maurice. Louisiana Loesville, Louisiana Woodvlllo. Toxas HONOR ROLL PRAIRIE VIEW EX-STUDENTS WHO ARE GIVING MILITARY SERVICE These two pages are dedicated to those noble sons and daughters who are serving in the WAAC, Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines. We publish this list of more than 300 with a bit of hesitancy because we know that at least 30% more are serv.ng whose names we have not been fortunate in securing. To those who are serving and whose names we do not have and to those who will be called after this date (March 1, 1943) we hereby include you in this dedication. Bright, Geraldine (Lt.) Brown, Lois (Lt.) Freeman, Ruth (Lt.) Goodson, Hortense (Pvt.) W. A. A. C. Govan, Birdia R. (Pvt.) larrett, Bessie M. (Pvt.) Jones, Alice M. (Lt.) Jones, Verna (Pvt.) Abram, Larry Ackerman, Bennie G. Adams. Raymond Alexander. A. C. Alexander, Jimmie Alexander, Gilmore Allison, W. Allen, Lloyd. Jr. Anderson, Edison Andrews, Robert S. Armbrister, Ollie Armstrong, Casper, Jr. Armstrong, Hodger Askey, Dennis Ballenger, Maurice Barnwell, Henry Barnwell, John Bagwell, Lawrence (Lt.) Baldwin, T. W. Bell, G. C. Bennett, Sidney Benjamin, B. J. Bennett, James D. Bernard, Louis Black, John H. Bluitt, Jenkins Booker, Robert Bonner, Clifton N. Brewer, Talmage Bright, Gerald . Brimley, Olester Britt, A. Donald Britton, Lawrence Brooks, Robert Brooks, Roy Brooks, Donald Brooks, Jack Brooks, Warren Brotherton, Lee G. (Lt.) Brown, Eugene ARMY, NAVY. COA: Brown. Connie Brown, Willie Bryant. Eddie James Burnley, Olester Burrell, Booker T. Bush, Kenneth Butler, John A. Butler, Johnnie Butler, Newman Byrd, J. C. Byrd. Eugene Campbell, Lee Lewis (Lt.) Caperton, Robert Captain, Thaddeus Carroll, John Phelps Cary, Reby Castleberry, Archie Chambers. Miller C. Charlton, George R. Charlton, Charlie H. Charlton, Terry (Lt.) Christian, Walter E. Cleaver, Leroy Clinet, Louie Cole, Austin (Lt.) Cole, Frank C. Cole, Squire Collins, Earnest E. Collins, Samuel Connor, Lovingood Cook, Dewitt Cooper, Oscar Cooper, Lonnell Cotton, Timothy Dancy, Elwood Davis, Elmer Davis, Moses C. Davis, Richard W. Davis, William O. Dawson, Alton 5T GUARD. MARINES Deese, Delton Dennison, Ernest Dickson, Mathes Dirden, Charles Dorn, Fentress Dorsey. Felix Dotson, J. L. Dotson, Stanley G. Downing, Emzy Doyle, John Dupree. Alfred Edmond, Robert E. Ellis. E. C. Fennoy, David (Lt.) Fields. Leslie Fisher, Adell Fortune, Rogers Francis, Henry E. Franklin, Marion Franklin, Frederick Freeman, Albert Freeman, William Gardner, Lonnie Gilkesson, Alfred Gill, De. Robert Given, Rodgers A. Godfrey, McKinley Goodson, Frank Goodwyn, Norman Govan. Palma I. Graham, Charles L. Grandison, Francis Huderson (Lt.) Grant, J. D., Jr. Gray, Thos. Green, Henry Greer, Walter Guinn, James C. (Lt.) Hamilton, General Hardin, Nathaniel (Lt.) Locke, Ewart (Pvt.) Nelson, Hallie B. (Pvt.) Rivers, Eula B. (Pvt.) Sykes. Naomi (Sgt.) Hardeman, Chester F. Hardeman, Curee Harris, Earl P. Harris, Earl E. Harrison, T. S., Jr. Hawkins. Willie Haynes, Wilson Haynes, Henry Heggins, Robert Hendley, V. C. Herald, A. Clyde Herndon, Daniel N. Hill, Augustus Hill, Morrison Hill, Alfred Hill, B. T. Hill. T. J. Hines, E. T. Holloway, J. M. Hopkins, John A. Hopkins, Andrew Huckabay, Bumadine Hughes, Robert Hunter, Everett A. Hubbard, General Jackson, Adolphe Jackson, Robert Jackson, Tommy Jim Jarmon, Earlie Johnson, Eddie Johnson, Charles W. Johnson, Harold Johnson, Archie H. Johnson, Jessie W. Johnson, Arthur J. Johnson, Erric Johnson, Nathaniel Johnson, Vemetis Jones, Albert T. Jones, James A. Jones, Clarence Jones, Casey Jones, Leslie O. Jones, Lowell Jones, K. C. Jones, W. A. Kaffie, I. W. Kennard, Joe Kennedy, La Verne King, Clarence King, Emory King, Jodie Joe Kirby, John (Lt.) Lampley, Thornton Lander, James LeBlanc, Charles Lee, Dale F. Lee, Fred Lee, Edward A. Lee, Wister Lewis, Luther Lilly, Arthur Livingston, John Lofton, Emanuel Love, Fred D. Loud, Leroy Luter, B. S. Lyons, Gus Mack, Freddie Mack, Sidney Madison, William Madison, Mack Manning, Frank Manning, William Marshall, Murphy D. Marks. Curtis M. Marquis, James H. Martin, Leander Martin, L. E. Martin, Carl Mason, Joe Mervin, George Merriwether, Matthew Merriwether, C. R. Monroe, J. C. Mitchell, Leon Montgomery, James A. Montgomery, John W. Moore, Lee Allen Moore, H. L. Muckleroy, William Murry, S. S. Murray, D. C. McCloud, General McCollough, A. McDaniel, Clarence McDonald, Calvin McGill, Excellent McMillan, Horace McMillan, Lemmon Nelson, Isaac Newton, Robert Nichols, Frank Norman, George Owens, Charles Patterson, Jacques Patterson, Ezra M. Patton, James M., Jr. Patton, Richcnd Payne, Robert (Lt.) Pearson, Cecil Penson, Milbum (Lt.) Perkins, Lee Peterson, Robert Peterson, Emanuel Phillips, George Powell, Jimmie Pryor, Lorenzo Punch, Vemon E. (Lt.) Ransom, David L. Rayford, Robert Reed, Otha Reyes, Joseph Robinson, Louis Rhodes. James Richard, Edward Richardson. James B. Rodgers, Percy D. Ross, Joseph Ross, Doris Ryan, James K., Ill Sadberry, Edgar Sams, Eristus Sanders, Clyde Sapenter, Purchelo Scarlett, Maxwell Shelton, J. D. Silbey, Willie A. Sillette, A. W. Sims, Charles Singletary, Henry Slaton, George Slider, Frank Smith, Harry Lee Smith, Hubert D. Smith. Hulen G. Smith, Jack F. Smith, Winfred Snell, Howard Snow, John Spears, Zack Spencer, Thaddoeus Sterling, Leroy Sterling. Jesse H. Taylor, Alexander Terrell, Robert (Lt.) Thomas, Benjamin Thompson, Marvin D. Toliver, Fred Toney, Seth Tyler, Madison. G. Upshaw, Cornelius Viola, Forest Wagner, Ernest E. Wallace, James Walker, Andrew Walker, James Walker, Lawrence Walls. Willie Walton, George J. Watkins, Emett J. Watkins, Eddie Watkins. U. W. Warren, Marshall Warren, Q. A. Westbrook, West. A. Whitfield, Jarvis Williams, George W. Williams, John H. Williams, O. D. Williams, Madison Williams, Willie B. Willis, W. T. West, Roy White, Julius Wooten, H. Wilburn, Thomas Williams, Oscar Yates, Roy Lee Young,. Cornelius Young, Alvin V. (These are exclusive of the 103 in the Enlisted Reserve Corps.) RAYMOND ALEXANDER BRADIE O. HOPPER VJco-Prosident Business Manager JEANE JACKSON MILTON G. BAKER EDWIN D. PEPPERS Assistant Socrotary Treasurer Chaplain The Sophomore Class of 1942-43 came to Prairie View's campus 484 strong, probably one of the largest classes in the history of Prairie View. It was also considered the most versatile class. The class was first organized in October, 1941. The officers who were elected are as follows: Wendell Elam, President; Joshua Smith, Vice-President; Jeannette Jackson, Secretary; Hattie Blount, Treasurer; and Sydney Pemetter, Chaplain. The class possesses much talent in almost every activity on the campus. In dancing, we have such personalities as Hattie Blount and Rupert Roett. who won first prize on the Hallowe'en program and many others. In their freshman year the class of '45 placed thirteen boys on Prairie View's varsity football team. The most outstanding Sophomore on the team was Lewis Jack Rabbit'' Smith, who journeyed to New York to participate in the Amateur Athletic Union Track Meet. In this meet. Smith finished third in the half-mile and also in the quarter-mile run. The Sophomore Class was not only outstanding in the field of sports, but also in various other extracurricular activities such as public speaking, debating. Panther Staff, New Farmers of America. The class is about two-thirds as large as it was at first. Many of the boys did not return because of their enlistment in the armed forces and defense jobs. Wherever these boys are, whether overseas or on the home front, we know that they will do their part in making this world a better place to live. Let us hope that they return safely with victory. SOPHOMORES CHARLES ABERNETHY Arts and Science Gonzales, Texas RAYMOND A. ALEXANDER. JR. Chemistry Dallas. Texas ARGIE VIRDEAN ALEXANDER DWAIN ALEXANDER Chemistry Arts and Sciences Dallas. Texas Dallas. Texas VIOLA FAYE ALLEN English Montgomery. Texas LOUISE ODESSA ALLEN Home Economics Lufkin, Texas RUTH PEARL ALLEN Physical Education Fort Worth, Texas THOMAS E. AMEY Agriculture Bay City, Texas MABLE LUCILE ANDERSON Home Economics Houston. Texas ENOLA LOUISE ARMSTRONG Home Economics Paris. Texas THERESA E. ANDERSON Home Economics Houston. Texas MILDRED OLA ANDREWS Homo Economics Fort Worth. Texas DA VEDA BAKER Home Economic Houston, Texas JOHN ALLEN BELL Agriculture Longview, Texas CLIFFORD A. BRADSHAW Music (Piano) Austin, Texas MILTON BAKER Agriculture Littig, Texas FELONESE BOWIE Music Beaumont, Toxas JODIE GUS. BLACKWELL Agriculture Queon City. Texas NORMA JEAN BOYD Home Economics Houston, Texas BETTYE JAYNE BRADLEY Arts and Scloncos Alto, Texas LA VERNE MARGUERITE BRADSHAW Denison. Texas JOHNNIE MAE BROOKINS Home Economics Dallas, Texas AUBREY BROWN Agriculture Confer. Texas VlA MAEBELLE BROWNE Homo Econo mica Ardmore, Oklahoma JOHNNIE RUTH BROWN Business Administration Mt. Pleasant, Texas LILLIAN E. BROWN English Houston. Texas DORIS MARIE BUTLER Home Economics Houston. Texas • « AGUSTA CLAY Arts and Sciences Hempstead. Texas WENDELL HARDING BUTLER Biology Carthage, Texas FANNIE CRAFTON Business Administration ______ . .. .. ' --___ JOHN RICHARD CREAR, JR. Biology Houston, Texas JESSYE PEARL BUTLER Home Economics Tyler. Texas SELMA LOIS COLLINS Homo Economics ________ HERBERT COLE Arts and Scionces Arp, Texas EMMA LOUISE DAVIS Sociology Dallas. Texas CECIL CROOMES. JR. ELBERT R. CURVEY Arts and Sciences Dallas. Toxas Agriculture Houston. Texas L K. DAVIS Homo Economics Dallas. Toxas MARTIN VAN DAVIS Arts and Sciences Waxahachie, Texas JOHNNIE MAE DIXON Arts and Sciences Dallas. Texas LIGE DE GREENE Mechanical Arts Port Arthur. Texas CHARLEEN B. DENNIS Home Economics Dallas. Texas VERNA B. DILLARD Arts and Scionces Kendleton, Toxas ROBERT SERWOOD DORSEY Mechanic Arts Houston, Texas CALVIN FRANKLIN Freshman Trinity. Texas SOPHOMORES GERTRUDE M. ELDER Arts and Sciences Austin. Texas WILLIAM M. FARRIS Mechanic Arts Denison. Texas THURLOW FISHER Mochanic Arts Austin. Texas JESSE J. FLEWELLEN Agriculture Brenham. Texas Agriculture Business Administration Zavalla. Texas Toxarkana. Texas LESLIE H. FIELDS Agriculture Yoakum, Texas MARY E. FORREST Business Administration Fort Worth, Texas GLORIA O. GERALD Home Economics Prairie View, Texas SYLVIA GLORIA DO WE Home Economics Bivens. Texas NATHANIEL FISHER Mechanic Arts San Angelo, Texas RUTH ELLA GREENE JAMES GREENWOOD EDWARD N. GUINN Biolcxjy Fort Worth. Texas Business Administration Longview. Texas Arts and Sclencos Houston, Texas JOHN LENOX HAMILTON SIMMONETTE HANCOCK MARY E. HARDEN Home Economics Dallas. Texas Arts and Sciences Cunoy. Texas Businoss Administration El Paso. Toxas ALTA THERESA HARRISON Home Economics Littig, Texas HERVY HINER Agriculture Jefferson, Texas JOHN SHIFTY'' HENRY Tailoring Edna, Texas NETTIE MAE HICKEY Arts and Sciences Giddings, Texas SOPHOMORES BRAD IE HOPPER Biology Tyler, Texas JEANETTE JACKSON Arts and Sciences Houston. Texas RUSSELL HOOPER Agriculture Timpson, Texas IANTHA MAE JACKSON Music Bay City. Texas HONORENE O. JACKSON Home Economics Kendleton, Texas DANIEL DEFOE JOHNSON Agriculture Mexia, Texas RUBY LOUIS JAMES Home Economics Carlsbad, New Moxico MAURICE C. JAMISON. JR. Arts and Sciences Dallas, Toxas HARVEY F. KING. JR. Arts and Sciences ELIZABETH JOHNSON Homo Economics Orange. Texas ERIE MAGNOLIA JONES WALTER LA RUE JONES Crockett. Toxas Home Economics Agriculture Lufkin, Texas Houston, Texas ------------------------- SOPHOMORES LESLIE KING Arts and Scioncos Dallas, Texas JEWEL KING PAULINE D. LACY WILLIE LEWIS Businoss Administration Houston, Texas Home Economics Arts and Sciences Dallas, Texas Fort Worth. Toxas WILLIE C. LOTT CHAUNCY L. MARTIN WALTER A. LEE. JR. Agriculture Texarkana. Texas ERNEST VASSAL MARTIN Arts and Sciences Prairie Viow. Toxas Tailoring Corpus Christi, Toxas Biology Lufkin. Texas Florence. Alabama FLORIDA MITCHELL Arts and Scioncos Galveston, Toxas L. W. MONTGOMERY Woodwork Henderson, Toxas ' , H NORINE C. MANLEY Home Economics Beaumont, Toxas ,yo SOPHOMORES ZENOLIA PAYNE Home Economics Longview, Texas PEARL B. NEELEY Home Economics Waco, Texas MARJORIE NEWSOME EMMA LILLIAN NORVILLE EDWIN DOYLE PEPPERS History Dallas, Toxas EDWARD D. PERNETTER SIDNEY M. PERNETTER. JR. MARGARET E. PHELPS Heme Economics Galveston, Toxas Home Economics Troup, Toxas Homo Economics Jefferson, Texas { f 1 ! Arts and Sciences Arts and Sciences Beaumont, Texas Beaumont, Texas ROSE EVELYN PHILLIPS Sociology Nashville, Tennessee LILLIAN -PIPKIN Homo Economics Prairie Viow, Toxas ETHYLE M. PENN Mathematics Dallas, Texas OLLIE CLIFTON POLK Business Administration Yoakum, Toxas WANDA LOUISE POLLOCK Businoas Administration Moxia, Toxas SOPHOMORES MILDRED ADDOLYN PONDER GENEVA PRICE LOUIS REED ROBEY Arts and Sciences Galveston, Texas Homo Economics Dallas, Texas Home Economics Paris, Texas EDDIE FOSTER ROBERTS Biology Bay City. Texas JULIA MARIE ROBERTS RUPERT O. ROETT. JR. HARRIET ROBBINS Home Economics Business Administration Houston, Texas Agriculture Bay City, Texas Houston, Texas ARTHUR JUUUS RIDDLE Arts and Sciences Houston, Texas HATTIE MARIE SAMPSON Home Economics Port Arthur. Texes LILLIAN B. SNOW LUCY STERLING MURIEL KATHLEEN SIMS Homo Economics Italy, Texas WILLIAM A. SMITH Agrlculturo Shreveport, La. SOPHOMORES THEO. E. SIMS Home Economics Shreveport, La. 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Texas Arts and Sciences Brownsvillo. Texas ROBERT H. HESTER Agriculture Groesbeck, Texas DORIS E. FORTSAN EDDIE LEE FRANCIS WILLIE A. HILLIARD Mechanic Arts Denison. Texas Home Economics Arts and Sciences Houston. Texas Houston, Texas ERMA JEAN LEWIS Home Economics Prairie View. Texas MERRIELL HIXSON Elementary Education DALLAS. TEXAS MATTIE MAE HOWELL Arts and Scionces Fort Worth. Texas SOPHOMORES ami JUNIORS ROSIE LEE WASHINGTON Sophomoro Arts and Sciences Willis. Texas LAMAR C. PAYNE Sophomoro Agriculture Hompstoad, Toxas EARL W. SHURN Sophomore Auto Mechanics Austin, Texas ZANTHYNE TOLIVER Sophomoro Home Economics Hempstead, Toxas MAXINE McGAUGHEY Junior Nursing Education Dallas, Texas HAZEL JACKSON Junior Arts Sciences Beaumont, Texas LOUIS J. JOHNSON Chairman of Freshman Committee T. J. STONE Member of Freshman Committee CESTA W. AYERS (Not Shown) Member of Freshman Committoe FRESHMAN CLASS PEARLINE KNOTTS Member of Freshman Committee The Freshman Class of 1942 is very well represented scholastically and in extra-curricular activities. In the activities in which they participate, some are outstanding. They are represented in football, basketball, track, musical organizations, and the various student organizations. The opportunity offered by the Senior Unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, recently established here, has inspired the Freshmen boys to work very hard. As a result several of them have become noncommissioned officers. The friendly rivalry between the two established companies of Freshmen boys has also had its part in making them conscientious in their military work. The Freshman Class of 1942 proposes to set a high scholastic standard this year. Individually and collectively, they intend to maintain this level throughout their college careers. The class appreciates the friendly guidance of its supervisory staff. Dr. J. M. Caruthers, Mr. O. J. Baker, Miss M. L. Powell and Mr. J. S. Flipper. I EDWARD A. ABERNETHY Art and Selroer Q Paw. Texai EDWARD ASHMORE Aru and Sciences Appling. Georgia MELLONEE ALLEN Home Economics Bryan, Trial F R E S H M E N CARL P. ANDER80N Mechanic Art Denton. Them • U. I . ALSOBROOK8 Mechanic Art Pittsburg. Teu BERTRAND AUSTIN Art and Sciences Waco. Traas ETHEL L. BASS Home Economic! Georgetown. Trias DORI8 8. BATES Home Economic Ennis. Tm« L0UI8 A. BEDFORD, JR. Arts and Sclenm Dallas. Texas AUBKA BRATCHER Agriculture East Bernird, Trial MARGIE BRADFORD Nursing Education Taylor, Trial BERN1BCE B. BR00K8 JOHN K. BROOKS EDDIE LU BURN8 Business Administration Bitslnevs Administration Business Administration Temple. TVias Austin, Texas Htwston, Texas 8MITO E. CARREATHER8 Agriculture Oetrolt, Trias SAUL CARRINGTON' VIOLET E. CARROLL Agriculture Arts and Sciences Houston. 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HARRIS Mechanic Arts Beaumont. Texas HATTIE MAE HARRIS Home Economics Hempstead. Texas JAMES HARRISON Mechanic Arts Texarkana. Texas K 'ZFi'gX in t 2 pO HO RACK EDWARD KEARNEY WILLIE LEE IIL'BERT NELVA HUDSON MARIE HUFF Social Science .Nursing Education Art and Sckncr Nursing Education Gaheston. TYxa Camden, Thu Carthacc, Texas Victoria, Texas VER8ALENK HUNT Nursing Education Palestine. Texas SARA JACKSON SHERMAN II. JACKSON. II VERNON A. JAMES Home Economics Art and Sciences Business Administration Houston. Texas Yoakum. Texas Kat . Texas DOROTHY' MAE JOHNSON Art and Sciences Tlxjupxm, Texas EDNA MAE JOHNSON Art and 8clmces Oaksond. Texas H.OKI.NK JOHNSON Home Economics Jasprr. Texas JOKKi’H l � ; JOHNSON Vocallonal Apiculture Otlmer. Trxa, F R E S H M E N VKKA IJrV. J0NB8 Arli and Sciences Kort Worth. Trias FRANKIE MAE JONES Home Kronoair GahefUa. Tm MARGIE BEATRICE KING Buslnm Administration Mt. Pleasant, Texas HAROLD B JONES Social Selmcr Fort Worth. Trias .. 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MITCHELL Home Economics Corpus Chrbll. Texas FRESHMEN RICHARD NORVIIXE. JR. D0RI8 REV A PARKER Mechanic Arts Business Administration Jefferson. Tms Marlin. Trias EMMA JEAN PERRY JEWEL PSmfflON Music Radio Cbnununlcatlon Sberman. Trias talthrlllr. Texas INEZ KVALYN PHILLIP8 Home Economic ■Prague, Texas RANDLE POLLARD Chemistry Ramton. Illinois ORELIA C. PROPHET Home Economies Houston. Texas vr RUBY MAYS RANDLE Music Fort Worth. Texas F R E S H M E N ALMA ROLLERSON Home Economics Psrls. Texas CLAY ETTA ROSS Nursing Education Corsicana. Texas JANNIE DELL SANDERS Home Economics Corpus Christ!, Texas JUANITA SANDERS Nursing Education Lufkin. Texas JOYCE LORRAINE SEARY Arts and Sciences Kerris, Texas CHARLES V. SIMPSON Tailoring Dallas. Texas OERAI.DINE SMITH Home Economics Tyler, Texas EDWARD SMITH Mechanic Arts Teague. Texas SAMUEL L. SOLOMON Arts and Sciences Detroit. Michigan T. J. STONES. JR. MATTIE STEWART GLORIA DEAN TAYLOR Tailoring Arts and Sciences Arts and Sciences Abilene. 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ROBINSON CARI. ROSS Home Economics Home Economic Home Economics Agriculture Cleburne. Texa Trinity. Texas Ennla. Texas Troup. Texas WINIFRED SMITH LAFAYETTE C. STRICKLAND HARD THOMAS PAUL WARE Mechanic Art Mechanic Arta Mechanic Art Arts and Sciences San Antonio. Texas Texarkana. Texas Denison. Texas Iowa City. Iowa 1 4 ALONZO B. WILLIAMS Arts and Sciences Hempstead. Texas RUTH LA VERNE WILSON Home Economics Houston. Texas MARY L. WOODSON Home Economics Chlckasha. Oklahoma JOE C. YOUNG Mechanic Arts Denison. Texa ■ THE PANTHER — Student P aper EXECUTIVE STAFF Aloysius M. Wickliff............................Managing Editor Luther T. Wells, Jr............................Associate Editor John E. Gooden, Jr............................Business Manager Edward B. Evans, Jr.................Assistant Business Manager Evelyn Jordan...........................................Secretary Faye McClellan................................Assistant Secretary Leonard Wallace ...............................Student Supervisor EDITORIAL STAFF Charles Ray Roquemore, Constance Hanks, Raymond Alexander, Bernice Watkins, Ida B. Barton, Jennie Allen Burnett, Harvey Westbrook, D. Raphael Oliver, Stanley Stain, Bertrand Holbert, Desser Glenn, Louis Carpentier. CIRCULATION STAFF Frederick Mosley.............................Circulation Manager Winifred Knight and Charlotte Sims, Assistants REPORTERS Wilson Richardson, Margarett Bradshaw, Hazel Hawkins, Thelma Erwin, Gloria Gerald, Gloria Guice, Dwane Alexander. TYPISTS Hortense Williams, Ruby Randle The ''Panther, voice of the students, was activated in 1929; it is the official student publication. The paper is published monthly by a staff of students selected by the student body near the close of each session. It contains news of the campus that is of interest to its readers, particularly to the student body and the alumni. This student publication is one of the few Negro college papers that continued its publication throughout the depression; and it is now witnessing a very successful year of publication by a cooperative staff of workers. Significantly, this year, has been the sending of copies of the school paper to our men in service. The Panther is proud and boasts of the great number of former Panther members who are now gaining recognition throughout the country. Thus the staff is stimulated by the enviable record set forth by its predecessors. The Panther staff has appreciated the advice of its supervisors, R. W. Hilliard and L. C. Mosley, and the helpful corrections from its critics: Miss Youra Qualls, Miss A. L. Campbell and Miss R. B. Isaac. NEW YORK HERALD 198 Advanced In .Coast Guard By Columbia Pharmacists’ Mates, First Class, Graduated ;Second Such Group at University One hundred and ninety-eight Coast Guardsmen, trained at Columbia University’s School of Pharmacy as pharmacists’ mates, first classs. In a twelve-week course, were graduated yesterday In exercises In the Little Theater of the West 81de Young Men’s Christian Association, 5 West Sixty-third 8treet. The class, whose members come from thirty-eight states, is the second contingent to be trained at the college, which is the only school of pharmacy outside the service designated as a Coast Guard training school. Certificates were presented to the men by Lieutenant Theodore Le Blanc, head of personnel of the medical section at Coast Guard headquarters In Washington. In my opinion.” he said, you hold the finest rating in the Coast Guard.” Dr. Charles W. Ballard, dean of thf College of Pharmacy, delivered tne commencement address. “The first class, which graduated last August.” he said, “was a test for the College of Pharmacy to teach technical material quickly to meet the war-time necessity; It was a test for the Coast Guard to attempt to furnish the large number of men needed In this branch of the service, and It was a test for the trainees to assimilate the generous portions of accumulated knowledge which was given out to them so rapidly. This graduating class Is a proof of the success of that experiment.” Seventy-seven ot the graduating class were high-school graduates and 127 had one or more years of college. Five had college degrees in pharmacy. The men were chosen from the regularly enlisted men in the service, with preference being given to those with previous study In chemistry and biology. Horace J. McMlllian of. Dallas Tex., one of the graduates, was tnc first Negro to receive a pharmacist s mate rating In the Coast Guard. He won honors as one of the fifth highest in the class. The Intensive training course was developed to meet the serious shortage of personnel qualified to render medical services aboard Coast Guard1 vessels with no regular doctors. It was a great moment in the life ot this new filer for Uncle Sam on his graduation day at the Tuskegee Army Flying 8chool when hi girl friend came all the way from Texas to pin the officer' bar on hi shoulders for the first time. LIEUTENANT JERRY J. CHARLTON, 19S5 Forrest street, Beaumont, Texas, beams a MISS ELIZABETH MERRILL, home demonstration agent from Prairie View College (Texas) arrives In time to put on •Aj —h.r. Th� xtlnr� had lust been pinned on him by Lt. Col. • ' -Tol V yW’ 'S It , —at Vunt • - _ r - -« .vp' IliPifORME£SAT Sweetheart Pins Bars-- U T 0’ ,eA worn1 .- e S. � t4 � ' ° LEONARD L. WALLACE Editor THE PANTHER-(A nnual) Principal W. R. Banks suggested that Prairie View publish its fourth annual to record Prairie-View's part in the war effort. The Seniors were definitely interested and strongly urged that the venture be undertaken. The Principal then appointed the following faculty group to study the proposal and make recommendations: R. W. Hilliard, Chairman Dr. E. B. Evans, Supervisor of Senior Class Dr. R. P. Perry, Supervisor of Junior Class Dr. T. R. Solomon, Supervisor of Sophomore Class Dr. J. M. Coruthers, Supervisor of Freshman Class Mr. T. R. Griffith, N.Y.A. Supervisor Mr. J. J. Abernethy, E.S.M.W.T. Supervisor Mr. John Reese, W.P.A. Project Supervisor Dr. E. M. Norris, Director of Graduate School Mr. C. L. Wilson, Director of Mechanic Arts The committee recommended that an annual be published. The following faculty members began working with the student staff: Mr. R. W. Hilliard, Coordinator and in charge of pictures and finances; Dr. E. M. Norris, Editorials; Mr. C. L. Wilson, Advertisements; Mrs. R. B. Isaac, History; Mrs. Anna G. Sasser, Foreword; Mr. T. A. Wallace, Art. The Panther (student paper) was operating under a new plan whereby the editorship was a supervisory position and the actual publication work was being done by the managing editor. This left Editor Leonard Wallace free to head the annual staff. A staff was formed representing the four classes and the student paper staff. As the work progressed new members were added (see inset pictures on next page) and as a result we present the staff. R. W. HILLIARD Sponsor THE PANTHER ANNUAL STAFF Club Editor....................Charles Dents Secretaries: William M. Farris, Gloria Gerald, Doris Peppers Proof Reading: Mariana Pollard, Charles Crawford, Eddie Richards, L. Charles Strickland Art Editor.....................Carl Anderson I It is the hope of the staff that the 1943 annual will do its part in preserving the records of the part that Prairie View is playing in World War II. vf Editor in Chief.............Leonard L. Wallace Assistants to the Editor: Jacob Boyer, Melba O. Slaton, Cynthia Goldberg, Mercedes McClellan, I. V. Myers, Elbert Curvey, Johnnie McDaniels. Athletic Editor.....................Roy W. Burley Assistant Athletic Editor . . Aloysius Wickliff PRAIRIE VIEW IN' WORLD WAR II Again the bugle has blown, and the boys have fallen in. On December 7. 1941, as the result of a cowardly stab in the back, the United States entered World War II, once more to uphold the tenets of Democracy. This time Prairie View enters the war on a much larger scale than before. To begin with, a Senior R.O.T.C. unit has been established here. This unit affords basic military training, thereby fitting candidates for Officers Training School when they are called into the armed forces. More than eighty per cent of the Prairie View students who are in the army are either commissioned or noncommissioned officers. Defense industries and various branches of the armed forces are in desperate need of skilled mechanics. In order to meet this need Prairie View has established an Engineering Defense department. The courses offered in this department are: Advanced Construction, Engineering Drawing, Radio Engineering, Internal Combustion Engineering, and Fundamentals of Radio Communication. These courses are not only advantageous to the individual during the present crisis but will also benefit him greatly at the end of the war. The N.Y.A., a peacetime project, has undergone an expansion; the department personnel has been enlarged; new buildings constructed; new equipment installed; and course offerings revised to include Machine Tool Operation, Welding, Forging, Foundation and Pattern Making, Electrical Repair, Steam Heating, and Mechanical Drawing. Upon completion of these courses, the student is qualified to enter a war plant as a helper and then may be promoted into a regular position. That Buy War bonds and stamps is the slogan of the Prairie View Faculty is evidenced by their pledge, February, 1942, to give either one day out of each month's salary or ten per cent of each month's salary for the purchase of war bonds and stamps. Prairie View's war effort extends far beyond the boundaries of the immediate campus. A most striking illustration of this fact is the Civilian Protection School, three such schools having been conducted in Prairie View since September, 1942. To these classes have come Farm Agents, Teachers, Jeanes Supervisors, Housewives, Ministers, Nurses, and students of the College. The Civilian Protection School provides training in First Aid, Extinguishing of Incendiary Bombs, Decontamination, Conducting Blackouts, Reconnaissance, and Plant Protection. A nutrition expert and member of the Home Economics department further extends the war effort by offering nutrition courses to campus wives and faculty members as well as to a class of farm women in an adjoining town. A Standard Red Cross Home Nursing course is also offered, at the completion of which the regular Red Cross certificate is awarded. The Prairie View Community School has also gone all out for the war and is sponsoring scrap metal drives, Red Cross membership drives, and competitive buying of war bonds and stamps. And so once more the call has come and once more ever ready to serve the community at the point of its greatest needs Prairie View has answered that call. (Continued on page 155) (Written by a group of students in English composition under the supervision of Mrs. R. B. Isaac.) (■ SOME LATE ARRIVALS (First three are former Prairie View faculty members. Captain Person is an addition to the R.O.T.C. Staff) G. C. BELL For mar head of Printing Department at Prairie View. Now In O.C.S. ROBERT L. GILL A.B., M.A.. Ph.D. Former instructor In Social Science Department. 301st Aviation Sq. S. S. MURRAY A.B., M.A. Former Instructor in Agrl culture Department. Now in O.C.S. CAPTAIN EPHRAM E. PERSON Instructor in Military Science and Tactics. Former First Officer in command of the Service Battery. 1st Battalion. 184th Field Artillery Rogimont, Fort Custer. Michigan. LATE DEVELOPMENTS IN PRAIRIE VIEW'S PART IN THE WAR EFFORT Since the history on the adjoining page was completed, several new developments have occurred in Prairie View's part in the war effort. a. Scores of additional N.Y.A. men have been sent to the coast to work in defense industries. b. The N.Y.A. project at the college has been given a government contract and is making ladders for ships. c. Arrangements have been completed for Seniors to take up the 80 hours per month of training in machine tool operation, sheet metal work, and welding. This is in addition to their regular class work. Young ladies and men are enrolled. d. The War Man Power Commission has selected 281 American colleges to do special training in preparing draftees for more effective participation in the war. The following Negro colleges have been selected thus far (March 7): 1. Howard University, Washington, D.C. 2. Hampton College, Hampton, Virginia. 3. West Virginia State College, Institute, W.Va. 4. A. T. College. Greensboro. North Carolina. 5. Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio. 6. Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. 7. PRAIRIE VIEW STATE COLLEGE, Prairie View, Texas. • ATHLETICS AT PRAIRIE VIEW Prairie View boasts of one of the best athletic setups in the Southwest; this program consists of every major collegiate athletic game: Football Basketball Track and Tennis. In addition to the inter-collegiate program, the college has a strong intramural program. Dr. E. B. Evans is the collegiate athletic director; S. B. Taylor is head coach of football and is assisted by coaches Walter Booker and T. R. Solomon. In basketball he is assisted by S. J. Flipper and E. S. Carr and in track he is assisted by his wife. Mrs. S. B. Taylor, and Professor C. E. Carpenter. Coach C. W. Lewis, the school treasurer, is in charge of tennis and is assisted by Lloyd Scott and T. R. Lawson. Prairie View's most profitable season was in track. They brought much honor to their Alma Mater by smashing mile relay and sprint medley records over the nation. The boys composing these all-American relay teams of 1942, were: Joe Mason, Paul Ware, Leon English, O'Neal Baldwin and Lewis Smith. The quintet won six relays at Kansas Relays, Drake Relays, Tuskegee and Southern U. in addition to the following records that were broken: Butler U.. Indianapolis. Indiana, Sprint Medley 3:42.5; Mile Relay 3:25.4; Prairie View, Texas, Mile Relay 3:22; and Xavier University Mile Relay 3:19.4. Smith ran third in 400 meter and 800 meter at the National A. A. U., New York, 1942. Lewis Smith won the 600 meter at Madison Square Garden, New York, Feb., 1943. The Panthers on the gridiron this year were quite powerful with only two pitfalls in their path. The opening game with the Texas College Steers which they dropped 60, and their post-season game with the once defeated Langston which was lost 18T3, constituted the pitfalls. The Panthers defeated such teams as Xavier University 14-0, Wiley 6-0, Langston 13-12, Southern U. 24-0 and Camp Wallace 33-0. On the field the Panthers were led by their gallant fighting honor roll captain, Henry Warren, who is an outstanding athlete, and Frank Robinson, All-American end. Captain Warren was named All-American by several writers. Receiving honorable mention on All-American selections were: Nathaniel Fisher, end; John (Shifty) Henry, center; Robert Dorsey, fullback; and Mitchell Jackson, halfback. BASKETBALL. On the hardwood court the Panthers were preparing to play a limited schedule when we went to press. This year's team is composed of freshmen players: Felix Dorsey, Dave Flowers, and Robert Maxwell joining forces with old lettermen: Monroe Law-son, James Lewis, Robert Dorsey and Henry Warren. The girls' basketball team, coaphed by Dr. S. E. Warren, has improved. These girls exhibit much fight and stamina on the floor. Miss Ethel Jones, Miss Nina Govan, and Miss Ethel Joshua are the vital 'cogs'' in this year's quintet. The outcome of their schedule is not known, but it is predicted that they will have a season which will rival the 1939 when they failed to lose a game. TENNIS. Last year. Prairie View had its most successful tennis season since 1936 when Assistant Coach Lloyd Scott won the national singles championship. This year's season saw C. W. Lewis' netters bring much honor to the purple and gold. Miss Katherine Jones, who is ranked number two nationally among women, won the women's singles at both the Prairie View and Tuskegee Relays and Tennis Tourney. Miss Jones, coupled with Miss Lillian Grimmet, won the women's doubles at Prairie View and were runners-up at Tuskegee. On the boys' tennis team were Virgil Henley, Charles Lewis. Jr., Edward Evans, and Theophilus Neal, Jr. Lewis and Henley were runners-up in doubles at the Prairie View Relays and Tourney at Tuskegee and at Xavier. Their only defeat was suffered from the national champions, Russell and Minnis. Neal and Henley won the conference championship in singles and doubles. Henley defeated Austin of Southern for the singles crown, and Henley and Neal defeated Austin and Cook for the doubles. With the loss of only one player, Virgil Henley, this year is destined to be another successful one provided the draft does not deplete the squad. INTRAMURAL. The athletic directors of the school are eager that all boys and girls participate in some form of athletics; therefore they have set up a very unique intramural program in which a large portion of the students can take part. The intramural program is in connection with the Physical Education Department. It is designed to build better physical condition and develop leadership and is in keeping with the government's physical fitness program. Each class organizes its own team in basketball, football, tennis, softball and track. The girls participate in basketball, tennis, softball, and track. One hundred and fifty points are given to the women of each event, 100 for second, and the class with the greatest number of points is the winner. Last year the Sophomores (the present day Juniors) literally walked off with the intramural activities. They won basketball, track, and softball and placed second to the Seniors in football. Here, at Prairie View, we are proud of our athletic program which builds strong figures and gallant leaders. These types of individuals are needed in the present-day crisis. A nation that is physically fit is ready to put up a fight to victory. ATHLETIC COMMITTEE Dr. E. B. Evans, Director S. B. Taylor C. W. Lewis L A. Potts H. E. Fuller T. R. Solomon G. L. Smith R. W. Hilliard TRACK AND FIELD Left: The great 1942 record breakers: Mason, Ware, English, Baldwin and Smith. John Marion, Fred Alli-niece and other P. V. Greats” left a heritage. Coach Taylor's track teams have been heard from around the world. THE 1942 PANTHER FOOTBALL MACHINE All-American Captain Henry Warren —an honor roll captain. Bottom: John Henry. All-American Center. Coach Sam Taylor (extreme right). Assistant Coach Walter Booker (extreme left) and the 1942 football squad. Top, left to right: Nathaniel Fisher and Frank Robinson the Panther wingmen. Both were selected on All-American team. Right: Triple threat Mitchell Jackson. TENNIS, BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL Top left: Jimmie McDaniel, former National Champion, shakes hands with Lloyd Scott, also former National Champion. Top right: Lillian Grimmett and Katherine Jones just after winning intercollegiate doubles in May, 1942. Miss Jones is No. 2 in the nation. MISS PRAIRIE VIEW 1942-3 Top: When Colonel W. A. Hamilton crowned Miss Prairie View at the Coronation. When Mrs. O. I. Canslor crowned Miss P.V. at Dallas. Mr. A. Wickllfl looks on. inset: Miss P.V. being assisted to the grandstand by Mr. Leonard Wallace. Right: Bottom, THE MISS P. V. CONTESTANTS 1942-43 MISS P. V. AND CONTESTANTS 1941-42 Miss P.V. 1941-42 MISS MARTHA ESTELLE of Hempstead, Texas Left: When Etta Moton crowned Miss Estelle. MISS HOMOZELLE CRAMER of Houston, Texas (Second Place) MISS LOIS MATTHEWS of Houston, Texas (Fourth Place) MISS DOROTHY N. CAMPBELL Top: Crowning at Dallas, of Austin, Texas (Third Place) Bottom: Homecoming at P. V. V � MLSS P. V. AND CONTESTANTS 1940-41 MISS P.V. MISS ADA L. EVANS (Bottom picture: The contestants at the of Prairie View State Fair, Dallas.) Seniors—Verna M. Rice. Most Beautiful. Seniors—Henry Warren. Most Versa-I tile; Dillard Alsobrook. Most Likely 1 to Succeed._____________________ F A V 0 R 1 T E S Seniors—Foster Price, Most Handsome. Seniors—Most Popular. Jacob Boyer and Lillie B. Simond. Uc !i F 2 r f I a Seniors—Most Studious: F. D. Smith, Margaret Grigsby. Not a Freshman, not a Sophomore, not a Junior, nor a Senior but certainly A FAVORITE with all alumni and ex-students of Prairie View is Mrs. M. E. V. Hunter, B.S.. M.A. Head of the Home Economics Department. Virginia State College. Petersburg, Virginia. Mrs. Hunter paid us a visit in January, 1943. She was the first State Home Demonstration Agent for Negroes in Texas and is a P.V. graduate. Juniors—Most Handsome, Monroe Lawson Most Beautiful, Ethel M. Joshua • ,1 Juniors—Most Studious: Eloise Moore Joel Carrington. Juniors—Most Popular Eddie Richards. Flores J. Davis Juniors—Most Versatile Jennie A. Burnette. Roy W. Burley. FAVORITES ■ Sophomores—Most Popular Jeanette Jackson, Robert Dorsey Sophomores—Most Studious John L. Hamilton, Emma L Davis Sophomores—Most Versatile Jewell King. Mitchell Jackson v Freshmen—Most Popular Thomas J. Stone, Margorie King Freshmen—Most Versatile W1 len tlie Cl ass of ’32 G ave a Scl 100 1 Flag-N ov. 28, 1942 Principal Banks receiving the school flag from Professor James Powell, member of Class '32. Left: Shortly after the flag ceremony. Left to right: Mr. L. Wallace. Colonel Hamilton. Miss (P.V.) Simond, Principal Banks. Miss Helen Robertson. Mr. James Powell, Miss Lillian Grimmett. Mr. Jacob Boyer, and Mr. Dillard Alsobrook. MOST BEAUTIFUL MISS GENEVA PRICE of Paris. Texas, who was elected the Most Beautiful Co ed at Prairie View College in a contest sponsored by The Crisis Magazine. February, 1943. Miss Price won out over beauties from all classes (see below). A Below: One thorn and a dozen roses. A —Can't play a phonograph. BEFORE PEARL HARBOR THE FAMOUS SOUTHERN AIRES AND PRINCIPAL W. R. BANKS Before Pearl Harbor, Prairie View had a cultural program in operation to bring outstanding artists to the area. This has been, of necessity, curtailed for the duration. ,aT- Left: A play in progress. Bottom: The Dramatics Left: The Debate team about to travel through six states. TIME OUT UNTAX” FACULTY DINNER Xlie Faculty Takes Time Out Dining Uni! Krr.Ur 0. 1 M2 8i00 I . PROGRAM Toastmaster Short Talk _ Music ______ Dr. W. M. Booker Mr . J. O. A. Conner f.hort Talk .. Short Talk _ Mr . Euln M. Dooley un l Mr . Hula Cullins __ Lieutenant J. K. Reeves — Mi Dorothy Eggleston Music — Mr . Eulo M. Dooley and Mis Ella Cullins Short Talk — Dr. E. L. Sasser Faculty Talent Show Poetry --------- Mr. H. R. Turner Music-------------- Mr. C. S. Well Poetry —-------- Dr. S. E. Warren MEM- Oyster Cocktail Turkey Salad on lettuce I.caf Assorted Saltine Crackers Olive Sweet oral Sour Pickles Cranberry Jelly Ice Cream Fruit Cake Nuts Candies Coffee • I (XuAtbru- R V. C ltd CcJKoSu, CLuJLr RV.-Di yuab'a. CLu.1 Bdiu iRd, ChL CLixlr n.RA.cuu S p CL YVXO K C Lu.tr U aKaa. C LllA -DaDJLfluft-RU CXaJlr GAOAorLlkdji i)ViCUxl w Mo-uubUrv)- RV. Clui l11ficka xm-d CU CiuG DX %UL 4 me a ijuuca t. - uyvxcku-j 5c. turoG T CilA-P V Cjlttlr l3fl(iu num£’Piytt AaIW-PV, PVrUJaxW Ctulr l3tLA.U UA0 QdUn CruAlyikliiJri ai|� kt Px hriu. n -Cirni muAumiJ G||uxa Dfbu ncj Sooitij Ttni UJtrlttn - P.V, CLxir Gcdi Cotn-RV, CLaG PV. OncliutA CL Sulr CkW CtuAr Tnc ncli cluir CUctaum Mali PRAIRIE VIEW- AUSTIN CLUB The Prairie View-Austin Club is composed of members from Austin and vicinity who now attend Prairie View. It has as its objectives: To promote leadership, and to bring Prairie View into a closer relationship with Austin. The club has been an active organization since 1939 at which time it was organized under the sponsorship of Mr. J. M. Wilson. OFFICERS Wendell Johnson............................................President Clifford Bradshaw.....................................Vice-President Lucille Dotson.............................................Secretary Gertrude Elder...................................Assistant Secretary John Brooks.........................Chairman of Program Committee LaVern Lee.......................Chairman of Entertainment Committee Mr. J. M. Wilson.............................................Sponsor MEMBERS Milton Baker John Brooks Clifford Bradshaw Fannie Crafton Lucille Katheryn Dotson Edward Elder George Emory Thurlow Fisher Alto Harrison Harold Hickey Wendell Johnson Charles Jones Charles Lewis, Jr. Madelyn Moore Earl Shum Lucy Sterling Harvey Westbrook Samuel White Jean Williams Mrs. C. L. Wilson THE CATHOLIC GROUP The Catholic Youth Organization attempts to integrate a college atmosphere similar to home-like conditions of the students during four years of work at Prairie View. The group is under the instruction of Father H. J. Vincent. An instructive and interesting program has been initiated for the members of the Catholic Club and for other interested individuals on the campus. Instruction is given Tuesday nights. Father Vincent has conference periods as follows: Mondays: 10:30 A.M.—12:30 P.M. Schuhmacher Hall Parlor 2:00 P.M.— 4:00 P.M. Evans Hall Parlor 4:30 P.M.— 5:30 P.M. —N.Y.A. No. 3 Parlor The conference periods are open to all students. The group enjoys the cooperation given it from the college faculty. The club is doing everything in its power to help promote real college spirit along with moral development. MARIE E. JONES Homo Economics Division HERMAN JONES Secretary Mechanic Arts Division MABEL MYERS Arts and Sciences Division WILLIE A. HILLIARD HELEN GORMANY Mechanic Arts Division Home Economics Division w HORL THOMAS Mechanic Art3 Division JOE C. YOUNG Mechanic Arts Division MARGARET BRADSHAW Arts and Sciences Division CARL ANDERSON Mechanic Arts Division RAYMOND CARREATHERS Agriculture Division The Prairie View-Denison Club is newly organized and has for its purpose the fostering of a closer harmony between Prairie View and potential students of Prairie View from Denison. The club is under the sponsorship of Mr. H. S. Houston, and has a total membership of fourteen, all of whom are shown above with the exception of Ruby Jewel Jones, Nursing Education Division and Drewey McKnight, Mechanic Arts Division. Like organizations with aged stabilization, it is the endeavor of the club to make a definite contribution to the educational program of the school and most especially during these times of emergency. The Prairie View-Denison Club is behind Prairie View and the part it is playing in the war effort one hundred percent. We are for a victory at home and abroad. WILLIAM FARRIS President Mechanic Arts Division BLANCH BIGGERS Treasurer Home Economics Division HASKEL S. HOUSTON Sponsor, Instructor Mechanic Arts Division VIEW CLUB BETA PI CHI SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY 1. 2. 3. 4. PURPOSE OF THE SOCIETY To promote scholarship. To stimulate more interest in science. To increase knowledge in natural science. To take up current events in science. B HOLBERT Ami. S c'y M. A DAVIS Tr a� - M. GRIGSBY Reporter L WALLACE L' ROBEY ACTIVITIES The society has started a fund by purchasing war stamps and bonds to give financial aid to worthy science majors who are unable to continue their studies. In so doing, the society is keeping uppermost in its program the need for its support and help to the nation so that future members may pursue their science courses in a world made safe for democracy. M«mb«rs nol •hown: D R. FETFERSON C R. SCOTT |. ALEXANDER C BRUNSON G. E. SHELTON W. JONES S PERNETTER R ALEXANDER L C. COLLINS B. STUBBLEFIELD F JACKSON t ALEX RIGSBY 3rd Vice-President JACOB BOYER Chaplain HARVEY WESTBROOK 2nd Vice-President M. W. LAWSON Secretary J. W. SMITH 1st Vice-President menca B. S. LUTER Adviser FLETCHER MORGAN, JR. President E. M. NORRIS Acting Adviser ALTON E. SCOTT Parliamentarian MACK L WILSON Watchman MILTON BAKER Treasurer CHARLES JONES Reporter CHARLES ROCOUEMORE Historian NEW FARMERS OF AMERICA The Collegiate Chapter of the New Farmers of America was organized for the purpose of training agriculture students, who expect to become N.F.A. advisers, in the detailed mechanism of the organization. The N.F.A. functions to train boys in the dignity of farm work and to develop the practice of cooperation in agriculture endeavors. Some of the purposes of the N.F.A. are: 1. To develop rural leadership. 2. To promote scholarship among students of agriculture. 3. To promote thrift. 4. To create and nurture a love for country life. 5. To advance Vocational agriculture education in Negro schools in the States providing for such training. The role of the N.F.A. has been extended to meet the growing needs for future skills, training and development that are so potentially vital to American culture. Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. —Swift. THE SPANISH CLUB “El Circulo Castellano ’ The Spanish Club, better known on the campus as El Circulo Castellano, was organized in 1932 for the purpose of affording to the students of Spanish an opportunity for further study and use of the language in an informal atmosphere. Membership in the club is open to any student enrolled in the Spanish Department, or who has had the equivalent of one year of college study in the language, or to any faculty member or student who has a fair speaking knowledge of Spanish. OFFICERS Gertrude M. Elder.........................................President Viola Williams.......................................Vice-President Nollie Jackson . . '............................Secretary-Treasurer Ethel Jones........................Chairman of Program Committee Willie Mae Rivers..........................................Reporter (Mrs.) Joanna Hayes.........................................Sponsor John Daniels Lillian Brown Cynthia Goldberg Otto Fridia Inez Singleton Emma Louise Davis Thelma Branche Nollie Jackson Viola Williams Hazel Steptoe MEMBERS Ruth Ella Smith Ethel Jones Harvey King Charles Lewis, Jr. Lee Alice Sheppard Ruby Allen Willie Mae Rivers Hazel Gee Helen Thomas Bennie Winfield Alma Sloan Verda Louis Alexander Gladys Sterling Johnnie Ruth Brown Argie Alexander Jeanette Jackson Joseph Yates Gertrude M. Elder Edwin Peppers USHER BOARD C. Roy McGowan............... ...........Chairman Ernest Clouser, Shannon Govan, Pearl Neeley, Cubie Faye Webster, Marcelle A. Simpson, Argie M. Alexander. Cynthia A. Goldberg, Richard D. Jones, Marie E. Jones, Celcia Hines, Virgie Strong, Helen Smith, Russell Hooper, Frederick Mosley. Wendell P. Johnson, William Farris, Reuben White, Joel Carrington, Gloria Gerald. Veda Medlock, Lucille Dotson, Geraldine Smith, Samuel Williams, Eugene Ford, Charles Dents, Charles Rocquemore, Royall Tucker, Harvey Westbrooks, John Crear, Fletcher Morgan, Nathaniel Spencer, Theodora Crenshaw, M. W. Lawson. The Usher Board has the responsibility oi caring for the seating of those who come to Sunday morning worship. In addition, they take up Sunday collections. As a rule eight of them collect contributions from 1200 people in the short time of ten minutes. Un-JlA-GCK.u 'ti-'v The Phi-Delta-Chi group, commonly known as the Prairio View-Dallas Club, is composed only of students hailing from Dallas, Texas, and has been active since 1934. Its present membership roll carries the names of 75 members, most of whom are active. The purpose of the club is to create leadership and cooperation, both socially and academically. In kooping with the war-minded trends of the present, Richard Simpson, President of the club, has organized within the club a P.V.-Dallas defense group which plans to aid, in some specific way, the defense of our country. With every member of the clubs here full of the will to do their part they repeat in unison their timely motto — GOD BLESS AMERICA —BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD. — VICTORY. f RAYMOND ALEXANDER JOHNNIE M. BROOKINS EMMA L. DAVIS LOUIS BEDFORD WILLIE PEARL CHAMBERS HAROLD HARDEN LOUIE M. HENDRICKS VEDA WEDLOCK CHARLES SIMPSON ETHEL PENN WINFRED THOMAS ARGIE ALEXANDER EDWIN PEPPERS GERTRUDE MARSHALL DEBORAH BEDFORD HAZEL STEPTOE LINCOLN HANKS CONSTANCE HANKS ROBT MAXWELL OUtDA BROWN G. L JENKINS HOWARD HENDERSON I. T. DEMUS PERUNE TYSON DAVID OLIVER CHARLIE M. WASHINGTON CAROL J. ANDREWS The Prairie View Grandchildren s Cl uh OFFICERS Leonard L. Wallace . . . Juanice Pollock........... Hattie Blount............. Hortense Williams . . . . . President Vice-President Treasurer . Secretary The Prairie View Grandchildren's Club was organized in 1932 by Principal W. R. Banks. At its beginning the club's membership was about 35 students. The present enrollment is approximately two hundred. To gain membership one's parents (mother or father) must have attended Prairie View at one time. Prairie View Houston Club OFFICERS Cynthia Goldberg President Willie Louise Thomas Treasurer Selma Lois Collins Secretary Richard Guess Assistant Secretary Arthur Riddle Business Manager John Richard Crear Reporter Johnnie McDaniels Chaplain Elbert R. Curvey Sergeant-at-Arms Miss Hortense Collins Sponsor Mrs. N. C. Allen Thomas Sponsor The Prairie View-Houston Club was organized in 1929. Singe that time it has steadily grown in ideals, achievements, and membership. The purposes of the club are to bring the students from Houston into closer proximity; create leadership and cooperation; encourage social and academic improvement; and render service to the school. These aims are achieved by meetings, socials, discussions and the sponsoring and managing of an annual pay dance. Out of the proceeds, a gift will be presented the school. In keeping with the war effort, the members are pledging to buy war stamps. Even though only 32 members are shown there is an active membership of more than 100. MOTTO: Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just. OFFICERS Upper Left: D. L. ALSOBROOKS.....................President Upper Right: WILLIAM G. CRAWFORD . . . Vice-President Lower Left: WILLIAM M. FARRIS . . . Secretary-Treasurer Lower Right: ROY W. BURLEY....................Sports Editor Officers not shown are: Wendell Johnson, Business Manager; Leonard Hemphill, Parliamentarian. The Mechanic Arts Club under the sponsorship of the Division of Mechanic Arts and its director is designed to bring into closer relationship the instructors and students. The club sponsor, Mr. L. H. Caldwell, a former student in the department, former president of the club and graduate of the Division, has unfolded numerous outstanding ideas in an effort to make the club a success. Some of the club accomplishments are: sponsor of the winning Homecoming float, 1941; sponsor of Mechanic Arts Open House; and supporter of the Mechanic Arts Seminar in addition to serving as a drive for the creation of interest and imagination. May the day soon arrive when more members of our race realize the value of a true, well-trained engineer. DIXIE-AIRES Reading from left to right: Franklin Roborson, Ba s; Ernest S. Sterling. Trainer and Baritone; Bonnie Ambrose, Second Tenor; Dave Weston. First Tenor. This group, which mainly consists of regular N.Y.A. trainees, was organized November 18, 1941, under the direction of Ernest S. Sterling, a member of the college faculty and ex-student. The trainer became interested in such an organization naturally as a result of his participation in the song activities of the school and his desire to -develop new talent. Known as the Dixie-Aires, the quartet has sponsored many programs here and in neighboring towns, on stage and radio. They are widely known for their familiar theme song, Shine on Me, and their arrangement of Negro spirituals has won for them much fame. Recently the Dixie-Aires sang for soldier camps, war bond sale programs, churches and other community organizations. As each group of N.Y.A. trainees who were members of the quartet complete their courses here, a new group is trained to keep the Dixie-Aires going. THE Y. M. C. A. Y” CABINET Charles Ray Rocquemore....................................President Fletcher Morgan......................................Vice-President Milton Baker............................................. Secretary Harvey Birtill Westbrook........................Assistant Secretary Alex Rigsby............................................. Treasurer Samuel R. Williams.........................................Reporter Cestra Ayers.....................................Business Manager Hervey Hiner and Robert Maxwell.................Publicity Managers Harold B. Hickey........................................... Pianist Frederick Mosley ........................Chairman Program Committee lacob Boyer..........................Chairman Recreation Committee Lloyd Thomas.................Chairman Ways and Means Committee Mr. Lee C. Phillip..........................................Sponsor The Young Men's Christian Association, one of the most outstanding organizations on the campus, has a very wide and valued program. It is affiliated with the World Student Christian Federation, the National Student Council of the Y.M.C.A., the Southwest Regional Council, and the South Texas Regional Council. The Y.M.C.A. has mainly a threefold purpose: To interpret the Christian religion and its ethical principles to the campus through a voluntary student group, in such a way as to influence men to make effective in their lives the ideals and standards of Jesus; to encourage and develop Christian leadership; to establish, maintain, and extend throughout the student body higher standards of Christian character and conduct. ouricr Women's CRristian Organization was organized In 1918 on Prairie View College's campus. The Y. W.C. A. of 19-42-19-43 Has an enrollment of 207 girls. The girls realize that they, too, can play a small but important role in the world crisis by writing to the boys in the armed forces. The Y.W.C.A. cabinet mailed some of the boys in the armed forces season greetings. The general discussions have fc eon centered around the present world crisis. Students, faculty members, cabinet members and guests constitute these interesting programs. The officers for 1942-43 aro: Theresa Hill Mary Hardin Gloria Gerald Nforiollo Hixson .............President . . . Vice-President . . . . Secretary . Assistant Secretary Selma Lois Collins Hattie Blount CGloria Garrett Emma Lon iso Davis Juanice Pollack: . Hattie Samp son Doretha Williams . CHAIRMEN .............. . . Program Committee . . Recreation Committee Membership Committee . Worship Committee . . Freshman Fellowship „...............Publicity • ' ....................Pianist Left: Student Staff. Bottom: Faculty Staff. PRAIRIE VIEW SUNDAY SCHOOL During the last twenty years. Prairie View Sunday School has been an integral force in the development of the religious life of the students. As far back as 1920, J. H. Rowe, v ho was then superintendent, felt the need of such training to be so vital that he made Sunday School attendance compulsory for all students. His enrollment ran up to 700. A Teachers Training Course was offered for all persons interested in becoming Sunday School leaders. A certificate was granted at the close of the school year. In 1923, Professor J. M. Alexander succeeded Dean J. H. Rowe as superintendent and remained in office until the time of his death, August, 1941. It was during Professor Alexander's administration that the Sunday School became a more democratic student organization. Students were permitted to attend voluntarily. Even though this method of procedure caused a drop in Sunday School attendance, greater interest was manifested in the work of the organization. Some of the outcomes of such an organization were as follows: students were given opportunities to come before the group and share their talents; latent talents were discovered; an annual gift to the Sunday School was made possible; the tree of lights on the campus during the Christmas holidays has become traditional; and an annual Baby Day program is sponsored each year. Dr. T. P. Dooley was appointed superintendent of the Sunday School at the death of Professor J. M. Alexander and is now serving the group most efficiently. Dr. Dooley and his staff, like those workers of the past, strive to give the student opportunity for religious development. Officers: H. B. Westbrook, Superintendent; Charles Rocquemore, Assistant Superintendent; B. Holbert, Treasurer; Mattie Howe, Secretary; Winfred Knight, Assistant Secretary; Ruby Randall and Maxine Harris, Pianists. TYLER PRAIRIE VIEW CLUB, 1942-43 row: Thelma Erwin, Argio Mae Ed ward . Mildred Choster, Ireno Walton, and Josslo Pearl Butlor. Second row: Juanita Bradley. Hazel E. Gee. Katherine Gee, and Rutha Lee William . Third row: Verta Lee Cole. Mao Ruth Hopper and Bradie O. Hoppor. Fourth row: Margie Newsome, Dorothy Mao Conley. E. T. Hines, Geraldine Smith and John W. Smith. Members whose pictures do not appear in the group aro: Cleophus Gee. Winfred Gee, Andrew Westbrook. Charles F. Downs. C. J. Johnson. Harbert J. Cole, and Jessio Lewis Wade. Officers: E. T. (Father) Hines. (U.S.N.) President; Thelma Lee Erwin. Class of '44, Vice-President. The Tyler students are honored to have Miss Erwin as president of their club. She is also secretary of the Sigma Nu Debating Society. A member of the Varsity Debating Team 1940-42; Dramatics Club 1942-43; Usher Board 1941-43; Panther Staff 1942-43; Grandchildren's Club 1940-43; Y.W.C.A. 1940-43; College Band 1931-42. Bradie O. Hopper, Secretary Class '45; a member of the Y.W.C.A. 1942-43; The French Club 1942-43; Sophomores' Intramural Football team 1942-43. Mae Ruth Hopper, Assistant Secretary, Class '44; Charles F. Downs, Treasurer, Class '45; Harbert J. Cole. Business Manager. Class '45. The Prairie View-Tyler Club which is composed of all the students from Tyler who are now enrolled in this college, was organized in September, 1941, under the leadership of E. T. Hines, who was a graduate student in the field of Agriculture and is now a second class seaman in the United States Navy. The Club has been organized for only a year and a half, but fortunately it has a number of members who do not shrink from taking the initiative in doing things which will be of great aid in the defense of our democratic country. One specific instance is the selling of war bonds and stamps during the summer months in Tyler and Smith county. During the regular session, the club gives hikes and social parties; it charges a small fee and uses it to purchase war bonds and stamps. Slogan for 1943: ''We shall educate ourselves for the task and devote our lives to the cause.'' m Prairie Vi lew Beaumont-Port Arthur cu The Prairie View - Beaumont - Port Arthur Club is composed only of students from the twin cities, Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, and has been active since 1924. The purpose of the club is to create leadership, form a close union of hearty fellowship, and to bring a closer relationship between the students and the institution. The club is making much progress under the leadership of their president, James L. Bias, hailing from Beaumont and a Junior in the Arts and Science Department. James L Bias Sallie Mae Taylor Gladys M. Sterling Hazel I. Jackson Helen Marie Smythe Jessie Lee Jones Edna Jewel Milligan Thelma Jean Simmons Marcella Gauthier Mae Lewis Nichols Frankie A. Smith Maxine Baker Shirley M. Sams Eddie M. McDonald Walter D. Smith Lige D. Greene Rose E. Delarue Gloria Lee Ells Norine Manley Lezada Rosemore Joseph Williams Guy Jones Rose Levy Edward Pemetter Sidney Pemetter Earl Harris Roy Jackson William Wallace Burton West Jacob L Boyer HELEN MARIE SMYTHE Secietar H. E. WRIGHT Sponsor THE WAITERS’ CLUB The Prairie View Dining Hall is one of the most important departments on the campus. This is true because the Dining Hall Staff has the responsibility of adequately feeding every boarding student enrolled in the college. There are about fifteen hundred students enrolled at Prairie View this year and 1260 of this number board in the dining hall. To feed 1260 people three times a day satisfactorily creates quite a complex problem, and the solution of this problem rests in the hands of the waiters' staff. The main objective of the waiters' staff is an equal distribution of the food in an orderly and intelligent manner to every student eating in the dining hall. The dining hall program is carried on under the following supervision: C. W. Lewis................................General Manager H. E. Doyle...........................................Supervisor Harvey B. Westbrook.......................Head Waiter, General Charles Downs...................Head Waiter, Freshman Section Douglass Melanson...............Head Waiter, Sophomore Section Windell Butler.............Head Waiter, Junior and Senior Section The success of the waiters' system is due to the cooperative spirit exhibited by the forty-eight well-trained young men pictured above. ' Social S ciences an JB usiness Ad ministration Club STUDENT SPONSORS Cynthia Goldberg Ernest Clouser . . Emma L. Davis . Tessye B. Thomas . Addie Lee Williams S. E. Warren . . ( . . . . President . . Vice-President . . . Secretary Assistant Secretary . . . Treasurer . . . . Sponsor The Social Sciences and Business Administration Club was reorganized in November, 1942, under the able supervision of Dr. S. E. Warren, Chairman of the Social Sciences and Business Administration Department. This club is a combination of what was formerly two different clubs, for the members of each group believed that it would be advisable as well as profitable to combine the resources and strength of their organizations into one dynamic unit. Each club, however, has had an interesting history extending back to the time when Mr. F. A. Jackson was chairman of both departments and Miss Fanenil was teacher of commercial studies. The club is especially noted for its cooperation and participation in the educational and economic undertakings of the college. This is to be expected, for its membership comprises students majoring and minoring in any of the following fields: Economics, Business Administration, Sociology, Philosophy, Political Science and History. The club is concerned mostly with current issues and problems arising out of the present crisis and the necessary steps that should be taken to cope with post-war conditions. The club sponsors such undertakings as: tours of colleges and business houses of other cities, surveys dealing with the domestic and economic life of Negroes, studies of occupations, wages, labor unions in war industries, special movies which depict matters related to our courses and occasionally, forums by visiting speakers brought to the college. Its major activity has been the promotion of the Double V campaign. The campaign is being directed by officers and members of the club such as Miss Cynthia Goldberg, Miss Tessye B. Thomas r and Mr. Ernest Clouser, who are acting as the Double V Committee. The aim of the campaign is to get victory over enemies at home and victory over enemies abroad. To accomplish these objectives, the committee has been conducting war stamp and bond drives, scrap drives as well as a drive to collect, organize and present the facts of the economic, political, and social injustices of which Negro Americans have been the victims. Through various methods Prairie View students have become more aware of the double fight for democracy at home and abroad and the increasing oportunities for their effective and loyal participation at home and abroad. Thus, in the rejuvenated club, both student majors and minors and the staff members have formed for cooperatively promoting scholarship, social consciousness and intelligent action. (Next page—some double ''V'' members) MEMBERS OF DOUBLE V CLUB—Tossy© Boll© Thomas, Cynthia Goldberg, Ernest Clouser, Hazel Hawkins, Wilhelma Williams, Mildred Montgomery, Zonobia C. Jackson, Madolyn Moore, Inez Singleton, Margie King, Pauline Smith, Bobbyo Tyson, Melba Slaton, Rosaella Delaruo, Bornico Brooks, Inoz Ford, Tompie Jackson, Glovin Lee Dls. Meril Smith, Eddie M. McDonald, Johnie Ruth Brown, Gortrudo Elder, Simonetta Handcock, Mariana Pollock, Ivory V. Myors, Virginia Smith, Miss Colo. S. E. Wanen. Julia Roberts, Theodoria Crenshaw. M. K. Honry, Vernon Jamos, Mao Louis Nichols. Fay McClollan, Ethyel Jones, Irono Winn, A. Aires, Addio Loo Williams. Wanda Pollock, Emma L. Davis, Mildred Marquis, Roso Evoly Phillips, Joanott© Jackson, Lynne Nita Barksdalo. FREDERIC D. SMITH President THE ALPHA PI MU The Alpha Pi Mu Honorary Society was organized at Prairie View in the year 1928-29. A small group of distinguished students under the direction and advice of Dean Harry W. Green, chosen as sponsor, organized the society. The purposes of the Alpha Pi Mu Honorary Society were set forth as follows: 1. To promote scholarship and scholastic achieve ment among the students of Prairie View College. 2. To develop among students at Prairie View an appreciation for things cultural. 3. To award distinction to those students who, through persistent hard work, maintain the highest degree of achievement. DR. T. P. DOOLEY Supervisor In 1939, the local chapter united with similar organizations in other outstanding Negro colleges to establish Alpha Kappa Mu Honorary Society. Alpha Pi Mu is a local chapter of the national organization, Alpha Kappa Mu striving to maintain the standards and perpetuate the purposes as set forth by its founder in 1929. The Alpha Pi Mu has three ranks of membership: associate, active, and honorary membership. Any freshman or sophomore student who earns a scholastic average of 2.3 is entitled to the rank of associate membership. A student acquiring or maintaining a scholastic average of 2.3 in the Junior or Senior year becomes an active member of the society. Honorary membership is restricted to members of the faculty of Prairie View College who made any worthwhile contribution to the Alpha Pi Mu Scholastic Society. MOTTO: The only excellence is that of learning and achieving. OFFICERS F. D. Smith...........................President Willie M. Rivers .... Assistant Secretary Monroe W. Lawson.................Vice-President R. G. Johnson.........................Treasurer Margaret Grigsby......................Secretary Dr. T. P. Dooley.....................Supervisor WAR PHRASE: We can conquer the enemy with wit and intelligence mingled with common sense. MEMBERS: Allen, Odessa; Carrington, J. A.; Coats, Malone D.; Collins, Selma L.; Cooper, Idalia; Davis, Emma L.; Farris, Wm. M.; Fowler, Gertrude; Gooden, John E.; Grigsby, Margaret; Hawkins, Hazel; Howard, Mable; Johnson, Rufus G.; Jones, Katheryn; Lawson, Monroe W.; Luter, B. S. (Honorary); McGowan, Clarence; Moore, Eloise; Perry, Altha M.; Peterson, Myrtle F.; Richards, James H.; Rivers, Willie M.; Smith, F. D.; Stubblefield, B.; Wickliff, A. M.; Wall, Pauline (Honorary). THE NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS A very important part of the R.O.T.C. is the noncommissioned officers group. F. W. Mosley Calvin Ockleberry Dwain Alexander Theophilus Neal, Jr. James R. Bradley Isaac McNeal Arthur Riddle Charles Abemethy Lloyd Thomas Eddie Richards MEMBERS Edward Pemetter Richard Ward Emerson Emory Henry Warren LA. Woods T. W. Baldwin Leon English William Farris Rupert Roett Robert McDaniels Charles Dents L. W. Montgomery Louis Robey J. T. Demus W. A. Lee Silas Johnson R. T. Lacey Randolph Ratliff Roy Burley S. Jackson Bennie Winfield SIGMA NU DEBATING SOCIETY The debating society, under the present sponsorship of Dr. E. L. Sasser who replaced Dr. F. G. Davis, proposes to carry out the usual program of competing against other colleges and universities throughout the Southwest. The members of the club prepare speeches in making preparations for the annual schedule which included the following colleges: Wiley, Bishop, Sam Huston, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama State College, Langston University, Lincoln University, Xavier University. The members of the debating society are not only benefited by developing the art of expression, and argumentation, but much experience is obtained through traveling which is a major yearly feature. The members of the club have expressed their contention that this society is most helpful for the students who desire practical training in oratory for post-college days. OFFICERS Aloysius Wickliff........... Charles R. Rocquemore . . . Thelma Erwin................ Constance Hanks............. Luther T. Wells............. Lloyd Thomas, Samuel Williams ______________________ Harvey Westbrook............ ..................President .............Vice-President ..................Secretary . . . Assistant Secretary Chairman of the Reception . . . Assistant Chairmen . . . . Parliamentarian PRAIRIE VIEW-FORT WORTH CLUB OFFICERS Edward W. Guinn.................... Paulin© D. Lacy.................... Viola R. Williams.................. Timothy Stewart.................. Betty© J. Green.................. Benny© Taylor.................... , . . . President . . Vice-President , . . Secretary . . . Treasurer Business Manager . . . . Sponsor MOTTO—Too low they build who build beneath the stars. The specific aim of the club is to integrate the Fort Worth students into the program of the institution. The Fort Worth freshmen are aided in the very important process of adjustment and the upperclassmen are encouraged to improve and carry on. The school club works with the Fort Worth alumni club on many important community problems. In the year of 1942, the club was confronted with a problem of raising fifty dollars to aid the Y.M.C.A. in one of their programs. The club raised the fifty dollars through the process of donation and solicitation. This marked one of the club's major activities of that year. The members feel that the type of work which they are endeavoring to do will aid in bettering the scholastic standard of the Fort Worth students by stimulating their interest and abilities. BENNYE TAYLOR Sponsor PRAIRIE VIEW-GALVESTON CLUB For many years the P.V.-Galveston Club has been an active organization at the college, having had connected with it, from time to time, many outstand ng alumni and ex-students who are now holding prominent positions all over the nation. The club is representative of the young Galvestonians enrolled in the college and it has been instrumental in keeping the friendly and warm relations between the members and the folks at home, such as the colored faculty of the Galveston Public Schools and various organizations and individuals. Each year, with the aid of the Prairie View Alumni Club of Galveston and Professor Frank Win-dom, the Prairie View-Galveston Club has been successful in entertaining all college students and ex-college students, who hail from Galveston, with a dance which is usually given during the Christmas holidays. It has been the purpose of this club to help Galvestonians to acquire leadership, scholarship and success at Prairie View. Mrs. Hayes is sponsor of the club. OFFICERS Richard Jones..............................................President Marion Gee............................................Vice-President Florence Fedford...........................................Secretary Mel via Wrenn....................................Assistant Secretary Margaret Phelps............................................Treasurer Frankie Mae Jones...........................................Reporter Isaac McNeil..............................Chairman of Entertainment MEMBERS Adams, Vesta Mae Baker, Vernon G. Barksdale, Lynne Nita Beavers, Rosa Lee Bell, Vera Lee Braggs, Charlotte Turner Branch, Thelma Callies, Estella Clouser, Ernest Henderson, Rosa Lee Hightower, William Hill, Ethel Hoosier, Willie James Hughes, Mary Lucile Kearney, Horace Lacy, Celestine Manning, Frank Mitchell, Florida J. Morgan, Fletcher Robey, Louis Sanders, Robert Sellers, Eleanor Tarver, John H. Tucker, Azilee Winfield, Bennie Williams, Wilhelm Tlie Prairie View C ollegians UNDER THE DIRECTION OF WILL HENRY BENNETT The Prairie View Collegians, under Will Henry Bennett, has developed into one of the foremost college orchestras in the country. In addition to playing for all campus dances they have played for A. M. College, Wiley College, T. C. U., L. S. U. and the University of Texas. As a means of doing their bit in morale work they are specializing in playing at U.S.O. centers and army posts. During the months of October, November and December, 1942, they played to more than 30,000 people. M. Hixson Mickey'' G. Garrett T S. Dow 'Schooner G. Gerald Glory Geneva Price Gene Maybelle Brown Wiggie Gloria Gerald, President Marjorie Lockhart, Secretary Sylvia Dow, Treasurer Miss Anne Campbell, Sponsor Jackson Jeane H. M. Sampson Hatsy . 1 MARGARET GRIGSBY President Le Ccrcle F rancais Le Cercle Francois (the French Club) was first organized in 1933. It has as its purpose, to increase interest in French through a reading knowledge of the language. The aims of the club are: A. To develop appreciation for French literature. B. To furnish information on French civilization and culture. C. To help in the mastery of the French speech. D. To continue the study of French in an informal atmosphere. All persons who have taken one year of French are eligible to active membership. The club also has associate members from the first year classes of French. OFFICERS Margaret E. Grigsby...................President Florence C. Fedford Constance J. Hanks...............Vice-President Vernon G. Baker . Mdme. J. L. Terry and M. Charles Carpenter.................. J. L. HAYES Sponsor . . . . Secretary . . . . Treasurer . Sponsors MOTTO: If we all catch the spirit of the 'Fighting French,' beating the Axis will be a cinch! MEMBERS Charles Abernethy Raymond Alexander Ida Barton Vornon Bakor Feloreso Bowlo Betty Bradley Wendell Butler Margaret Bradshaw L C. Collins John Crear Thomas Cleavor Theodoroa Crenshaw Lucile Dotson Florence E. Fedford Eddie Loo Francis Margaret E. Grigsby Bennie Francis Grigsby Edward Guinn Constance Hanks Margwyn Harris Cathorino Harris Louie Mae Hendricks Brady Hopper John Hamilton Walter Jones Katheryn Jones Albert Jones Evelyn Jordon Dimplo McGlaston Gortrudo Marshall Theophilus Neal, Jr. Ethyl Penn ANDERSON HALL Theresa Hill..............................President Jennie Allen Burnette.....................Secretary Lucille Dotson.......................Vice-President Juanice Pollock...........................Treasurer Miss Yuora Qualls . . . Mistress Anderson Hall, a three-story fireproof dormitory for women, was erected in 1933. It was named for L. C. Anderson, third principal of Prairie View State College, who served during the years 1884-1896. The girls who reside in Anderson Hall are chosen on the basis of their scholastic ratings, good conduct, and good housekeeping. In addition to this they enjoy working together in dramatic clubs and glee clubs which they have organized among themselves. It is a desire of the girls to erect a kitchenette and recreation room in the basement of the building and to purchase a piano for their entertainment. rairie View Ex-Students Do Their Bit There is a feeling of joy and pride ‘in the bosom of all loyal Americans; there is a longing for peace and harmony in the hearts of all liberty-loving people; there is a desire of mutual helpfulness that pervades the home life of American citizens, but there is a spirit of do and die that permeates the souls of Prairie View ex-students. The busy hustle and bustle of the innumerable industrial plants are fostered and maintained by the brain and brawn of sons and daughters of Dear Old Prairie View.” All minds alert All hands at work, No Prairie View ex-student will dare shirk. The soil must be tilled and the factories run We pledge allegiance each daughter and son. Our allegiance to America we give, We are willing to die that others might live. No duty is too burdensome for the sons and daughters of Alma Mater—Prairie View. Officers of bravery, dignity and pride W.A.A.C. daughters by their side. The aim of Prairie View ex-students is pure and determined as it moves 'through the channel of right. Our contribution to our country in this perilous hour is made with a feeling of joy in that the principles which we have been taught are being zealously defended. Men and women of valor and integrity have once walked the campus of Alma Mater—Prairie View. Those men and women, living and dead, would have the world know that no greater service can be rendered our beloved country by any other citizen than that which Prairie View ex-students are willing to render. It is our desire to give our country our best. Front lines on the battlefield in the defense of democracy. and front lines among those of us who stay at home for the purpose of supplying food, clothing, artillery and morale. All out for Alma Mater, our country and our God. —By Prof. R. T. Tatum for the Prairie View Alumni and Ex-students Association. This page is sponsored by the Prairie View Alumni and Ex-students Association. H. S. Estelle .... Mrs. Jessie Robertson S. O. Parrish . . . R. T. Tatum . . . . R. W. Hilliard . . . Mrs. Lulu M. White . Frank Robinson . . A. W. McDonald . . N. N. Tarver . . . . Miss A. Hazel Tatum OFFICERS . . . ........................President ...................First Vice-President ..................Second Vice-President ..............................Treasurer ...................Executive Secretary ...................Recording Secretary ...............................Chaplain ........................Parliamentarian .......................Sergeant-at-Arms ................................Pianist : raine V lew Aristocrats HOUSTON ALUMNI CHAPTER HOUSTON. TEXAS MRS. DEMALESTA 10RDANBATTEAU Teacher In the Public Schools. Houston (Sonior High) MRS. DAZERINE WILLIAMS-WILLIAMS Houston Public Schools Nurse MEMBERS NOT SHOWN MRS. IRENE D. BIVINS BARNES Teacher In Public Schools ol Houston (Elementary) MRS. RUTH IAMES-BROWN Member ol U.S.O. Bureau MRS. V ILHELMINIA GREEN-LOWE Teacher Vn Houston Public Schools (Senior High) MRS. FRANKIE OSBORNE-ROUSTON Sectotary to Neqto Farm and Home Demonstration Agencies MRS. DOROTHY DEBOSE LOFTON Nurse at Jetiorson Davis City-County Hospital ol Houston MRS. AIZUMA DAV SON-CRANE Nurso at Houston Neqio Hospital MRS. ERNESTINE SHEFF1ELD-PRATER Nurse in Houston Negro Hospital MISS LEONTINE OSBORNE Teacher ol Dancing The history ol the Prairie View Aristocrat Social Club is briet because ol its Iniancy. yet rich In the nobility ol its purpose. Inspired by the desire to see a hiqher typo ol social llle promoted In out communities and to inlluence a larger group ol our prospective youths to attend our bolovod Prairie V� w State College, a group ol younq Prairie View graduates and ox students discussed the possibility ol an organization dedicated to this purposo. Hence, the ideals ol ihese younq women reached their iirultion on the 12th day ol January. 1941. which marks the Inception ol this club. The chatter members woto seven in number. The club membership is limited to sixteen younq ladies who must be graduates or ex-studonts ol Prairie View State GoMeqe. At present there aro twelve active younq ladies in the club who strive to pattern their lives by the motto o! the club, which is: Wo prospor as wo qlorily and dignity our labor. THE LOCAL ALUMNI CLUB COMPLIMENTS Prairie View State College for dedicating this annual to the war effort. It is a fitting manner of recognizing the efforts of its sons and daughters in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and the W.A.A.C. It is also a fitting tribute to those on the home front (farmers, agents, teachers, etc.) who are supplying the men on the battlefront. —Members of the Local Alumni Club at the College. HAZEL A. TATUM N. N. TARVER County Agont. Harrison County. B.S. Prairie View. Was formerly County Agent of Waller County. As a studont Miss Tatum 'was (and is) ratod as ono of Prairio Viow’s ALL TIME great sopranos along with the lato Inez Speakor. Sho has held an office in the Alumni Association for five years and is activo in civic affairs in Marshall. Toxas. County Agent. Wharton County, B.S. Prairie View. Was active in extra-class activities while a student at Prairio View, having excellod in Y work and class work. Mr. Tarver is a civic loader in Wharton and is highly respected by tho Nogro and whito citizons of Wharton County. ALUMNI AND EX-STUDENT SECTION (The Annual takes this method of expressing its appreciation to the alumni participants who contributed to the cost of this book.) .-� a H M. B. DAVIS Principal of Frod Douglass High School. Jacksonville, Texas, since 1924. B.S., Prairie View, 1928. Advance study Hampton Institute and Chicago U. As a studont at Prairie Viow he was class president (1907), Y leader and was on Prairie View's first Football toam. President East Texas Teachers Association 1924-26; State Teachers President 1935-36. At present, member of Executive Committee State Teachors Association. THOMAS TITUS POLLARD Supervisor of Colored Schools of Beaumont. Was the first fulltime Negro School Supervisor in Texas. B.S., Prairie Viow. Extra study at Tuskegee. Professor Pollard was bom February 22. 1866, at Wil-lis, Toxas, and at an early age began hjs educational career. More than 57 years have been given in Beaumont. Ho was a delegate to the Republican National Convention which convened in St. Louis, Mo.. 1896, and voted for the Presidency. President of State Teachers Association 1936. PAULINE MALONE WATKINS Prairie View graduate of the summer of '30. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kimball Watkins of Huntsville, Texas. Member of a large family of college graduates—most of all having attended Prairie View. Two of her brothers, both Prairie View graduates, are now serving in the Armed Forces. Miss Watkins holds the degroo of Master of Science in Education from the University of Southern California and has bogun work on her Ph.D degroo at Columbia University. During the wintor months, she serves as Joanes Supervisor at Bryan—and during the summer months, she is a member ol the faculty of Prairie View State College. She has traveled widely in the United States and abroad Sho was influential in the reorganization of the Los Angeles - Prairie View Club. 1934, and tho Bryan-Prairio View Club in 1935. a. w. McDonald Instructor Control High School, Galveston, Texas, since 1920. B.S.. MS.. Prairio View. Corporal and clerk in World War I, serving overseas one year. He is active in all civic movements in Galveston. Was elected president of the National Baptist Laymen's League of America in Chicago September. 1942. Mr. McDonald's motto has always beon honesty, character and self-reliance. CHARLES E. WHITE Optometrist, Prairie View and Northern Illinois College of Optometry, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. White was a very activo student while at Prairie View. Ho was in Alpha Pi Mu. Y.M.C.A.. Dramatics, Band. Orchestra, Bota Phi Chi, and Panther Staff. Ho is now Section Air Raid Warden and First Aid Instructor in Houston. HATTIE M. WHITING WHITE B.S. and Richard Wendoll White, Jr. Mrs. Whito, too. was rather activo as a student at Prairie View. She graduated with Greatest Distinction at Prairie View after having made an almost perfect record. She was Alpha Pi Mu, Dramatics. Y.W.C.A.. College Choir and the winner ol the Harrison-Valien award for outstanding contributions. Sho taught in Cameron, Jasper and did substitute teaching in Houston before her marriage. C Above: Scenes at one of the Educational Conferences. League Activities Above: Two of tho winning bands which competed in the State-wide contest. Interscholastic League Activities include basketball, band contest, track, tennis, football and literary events with an enrollment of 1100 schools and an attendance of 2500. Scenes at a Boy Scout Camporal which is held annually at Prairie View. Other activities cne: Extension Agents Conferences, Educational Conferences, Unit Courses for Fanners, Cunicular Study Conferences, Mid-Wives Conferences. Vocational Agicultural Activities. leanes Supervisors Coordinated Conferences, Work Shops. Librarians Conference. Short Course for Coachos. Short Courses for Band Instructors, Southwestern Intorcollegiate Relays. Fanners Short Course. Boy Scout Camporal, Post Graduate Medical Assembly a cflhany others bringing a total of 16,500 people to the campus annually. CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS AT P. V. When Etta Moten (Center) graced our campus. Above: The noted pianist William Allen (Center) after his recital. Left: The Honorable C. C. Spalding. Below: Dr. Ernest Hoff- man and the Houston Symphony Orchestra—An annual engagement. Bottom: Dr. O. A. Fuller and the ''Elijah group. t SWINGING OUT Photos by Myers UMPH! HAM EGGS ROLLS FRUIT Fish CHICKEN POTATOES DUMPLINGS DESSERT OYSTERS (Bologna?) STUDENT DAY A portion of the students who taught classes in the places of regular teachers December 12, 1942. The leading students are selected to teach classes one day each semester. Mr. Henry Warren was Coordinator for the day. —R. W. Hilliard. TEXAS December 5th. 1942 rederick Mosley, lotion Manager, Panther, irie View Collects, pstead, Texas. ear Frederick: I have this date received copies of THE PANTHER under October and November publications. It is quite evident that you possibly had something to do with my receiving same. Flease permit me to congratulate you and other members of your fine staff in the production of such a splendid paper. The picture of the Prairie View Military Staff shows that you are making real soldiers. They are a find bunch of officers and men and I know that our State and Nation have cause to feel proud of them. •«ith best wishes for your continued success and with the compliments of the season, I am Very truly vours H. F. Mace, City Manager• THE INFORMER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBE WAAC Officer Here; Says Service Is A Great Opportunity By J. DON DAVIS “The Woman’s Army Auxiliary! ;orps offers a splendid opportunity for colored women to help ichieve success in the war effort,” Lieutenant Alice Marie Jones, native Texas, who was a member of he first class commissioned at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, and presently itationed in Houston on recruiting luty, declared to The INFORMER n an exclusive interview Wednes day. A graduate of Prairie View tate college, Lieutenant Jones as done well by her native state Pretty and charming, she, is as (See LAUDS, Pare II, Col. 4) BUGLE CALLS a n d FACTORY WHISTLES Of great importance today are these two calls to duty. O After your work is finished, amuse yourself at . . . HEMPSTEAD THEATRE o Refresh yourself at . . . HI-WAY DRUG STORE Drugs . . Sundries . . 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