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

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•cond Ar+' t« UUt Of erie. At P. P ,ysj ira' ' PRAIRIE VIEW ftillis Wheatley ouston, air ie View. »rch 14. The f'c ans Open yissemWy -At lev . d frW' rch 14. The ;'RirPrt, cation is un 0umJ r ® Mrs Matt.e 2« r tuatc Vl Codwel Utli ' -u' an' A Assembly o { I, Physiciaas in Texas waxNfi | .oo ' Held at Prairie View A M Col 1 Tt °u«ii cy « •. Prnlrie View. March fejvaUd T Ottering th- — - fVcar a ° ' view. March 1-4. K- metering the only source of post- ME fvear a °, ,:ra ,'iafe medical study available [tne -l.unttel ° ,n the state 10 Ntf,fr0 Physicians. fon APT.1) if,e Assembly featured lectures Lk oRi v.oten clinics on tuberculosis, syoh- tctlAcc . ills internal mcdici ?» r4,nc ' • - P.V.SmasKe ’Records In Enrollment r0lV8%5Iud- ®ver; • tr ifcordlnc By Vf. 1L Hilliard .. Dr. T. R ; Prairie View, Texas—On Septem-U thp ?.101 Her »er 12, Prairie View's all time re- axtheCpartm In :ord enrollment was broken when VX) to makf ! Eebrhe 18001h person paid tees. Also on Jf. Miss Lan •nntcihat date the record lor Freshmahlijs V. Fox r A blni:nro m :nt v,as broken when 620 by ma team lor classes. Aiat 1 the •corin„ Velma Uvlngston was lhf second 3-Rrby jirst trerhman to complete regls-lltf, 34 son tratlon In this Tecord breaking w with ’year. Women students numbered-Jon 180 a? «'udcnts number 10 Id 1.05C -i —«» retus- 11T5 J5K' £52 - '£££ S«V, « «? £ Mown y 4 m’ Pf- r. ■ View o h„ 0l ngc nfdstn ,1 .„ . D . Pr on whh f-avanirl Henderson, a Junior In..! 11 ®J| ' -'- bar , Committee 0. K.s £ VOr. H. A. Bullork Tn l n,ia e for the semester closing Jan-1 . U UUIIUIK l(J Negro U Board 1 f,,arr aL ,M8-He w 0,6 ,on® per- nw ca i d - -www IV w Faculty it AUSTIN. Apr.. 14.-(A» —tfiel senate’s committee on governor ! nominations Monday recommended' J| • • that the Senate confirm Governor] w Ul Beauford Jester's nine appointments' B| to the board of directors of the newly-created state university for Negroes to be located at Houston. . For six-year terms—Dr. W. R. Banks. Prairie View; Craig Culli-nan. Houston, and Dr. J. N. R. |bcore, Georgetown. For four-year terms—Major T. ,Bcll, Beaumont; Ben Morgan. Cor-sicana, and Dr. M. L. Edwards, Hawkins. «IKP ,,r 'ur v — t ifUary 31. 1 18. He was the lone per- Bradshaw car • ion of 1800 to accomplish this. accounted te ----— ------------------------- a.u 1 I . , pr.ur e vii rainc View nil' , ,n rccital : ■ lljc faculty rf versatile. irv.i)fK-,c dpp;u J volntbin unive fS two-year terms-J- K- ® ‘T,f rnp,c,p » 51 P. V. EXES” START jo Kurnrr ? MEMBERSHIP DRIVE PRAIRIE VIEW. Tex.—According to R. W. Hilliard, president of tho Prairie View Alumni and Ex-Students Association. O. J. Thomas, m c m b chairman, i s launching ty»- ' ntembership drive for tV IM L. The aim is to more berflhip by In con; ship driy ing Prr 5 Sc Commencement tor Wheatley Sanh'S 1 HOUSTON — Dr. H. A. Bullock,! « ia iSt l l,rof ,KOr c.I Sociology’ and research lic Smok' t'' Pra,n' Co’1' ' n 1 co'- Ch Jumnl8t tor the Informer Now -■ j nar cs ”• A Papers, is commencement speaker K BnroWn ,an3 or the Wheatley High School Mid-directorW°o( 7T- -.. --playing tk- J 8 p- „ w.vucsi---—■ j m, n a. m. Both ser- Curtis R Kii v‘crs ar‘: t° be held in the Wheat-Knoxville colic Ky H'8h ?( bool auditorium, voice in seve ffKSf. Hc!?; p. V. Elects | w. Football Captains PRAIRIE VIEW’. Texas. — The second place Prairie View Pan. member of the instructional ata, rjSon. Mo - c V- b'K agile ize A to a • !to r.n is a J 4 fi I cohere1 h KICIiliAi wi •••% — — - —• of Texas Stale .University and n alumna of Prairie-View A and Prairie vj Cohere, will b - one of U»e parti to an amid ‘t ants on the radio pragrat. to Vlew Meet a New Worl Ucen. rcilvv, . Saturday February tk anr. Mar cl1 CVfr F-LEE at 5:15- ill bc Satunlay's broadcast will be thu’ do,jarimon| th!rjj jn % of broadcasts or big agile as chosen Beasley, s named! Nicks “•;no 'JcV Hie phjn W ,fXce - clu» « Hoi' U appear at Prairie v- -o0 p.m. Sunday March ' cutstnnding aggregation the direction of M-Robcrt. Dr. .»' 'ipal o' l ch..rKC ,||r ihrmv “Prairie I he now c 1 xa£ ... c of SocioU lew Serves the sludy. Dr. George Woolfolk will fcrrixre Wi nounee the program. Messrs • sting in t IV Hilliard and Dr. F.merson [L i' Norris trill also appear on o' ir.ir.r%»i . M.sr - v Vc®«0 V.vtvA fi.

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CONFERENCES AND INSTITUTES Above: Leaders of the first regional housing conference held in the Southwest (Prairie View, April, 1948.) SOME FACTS ABOUT PRAIRIE VIEW COLLEGE A. In 1876 an act was passed by the Fifteenth Legislature of Texas to establish an A M College of Texas for the benefit of Negroes. The college was located in Waller County, 46 miles northwest of Houston, Texas. B. HEADS 1876-1880—L. M. Minor, first principal 1880-1884—E. H. Anderson, second principal 1884-1896—L. C. Anderson, third principal 1896-1915—E. L. Blackshear, fourth principal 1915-1918—I. M. Terrell, fifth principal 1918-1925—J. G. Osborne, sixth principal 1925- 1926—P. E. Bledsoe, acting principal 1926- 1946—W. R. Banks, seventh principal 1946 (Sept. 1)—E. B. Evans, principal 1948 (Sept 1)—E. B. Evans, first president C. INSTRUCTIONAL ORGANIZATION The Division of Agriculture The Division of Mechanic Arts The Division of Arts and Sciences The Division of Nursing Education Graduate Study D. The Institution is recognized as a Class A” College by the Texas State Department of Education, The Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and is approved by the American College of Surgeons. E. EMPLOYEES number 245 1. Teaching Faculty of..........................121 Special Certificates ........................ 19 Doctorates................................... 10 Masters ..................................... 67 Bachelors.................................... 25 F. The present enrollment is 2015 distributed as follows: 44 Graduates; 330 Juniors; 14 Special 411 Seniors; 460 Sophomores; 699 Freshmen 1049 are men and 965 arc women 57 Unclassified EXTRA-MURAL ACTIVITIES Numerous off-campus individuals and groups are brought to the campus. These contacts arc valuable to the students of Prairie View. Intcrscholastic League Activities include basketball, band contests, track, tennis and literary events with an enrollment of 1100 schools and an attendance of 2500. Other activities are Extension Agents, Conferences, Educational Conference, Unit Courses for Farmers, Curricular Study Conferences, Vocational Agricultural Activities, Jeancs Supervisors Coordinated Conferences, Work Shops, Librarians Conference, Short Course for Coaches, Short Courses for Band Instructors, Southwestern Intercollegiate Relays, Farmers Short Course, Post Graduate Medical Assembly and many others bringing a total of 16,500 people to the campus annually.

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Prairie View Grad Gets Fellowship In Public Health Work Receives Fellowship The Texas Federation of Women's clubs and the American Cancer Society, Texas Division, have joined hands to assist a young Texas Negro complete his graduate training in public health education. He is Jesse Thomas a native of Mexia and a graduate of Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College. Today he is attending the school of public health at North Carolina College in Durham, accepted . as one of a limited class under strict scholastic requirements. Thomas started the 19488 fall team at the college although the Cancer 8ociety had told hiir that it coula not award annual fellowships until the following year. Because oi the heavy load of studies required there he was unable to tackle part time employment, and could not find work for the weekend;.. He was faced with no choice othei than to resign from school when a letter from Dr. Lucy S. Morgan, professor of public health education at the University of Nor the Carolina brought his plight to the attention of Cancer Society officials in H- uston. Dr. Morgan wrote that Thomas Is a 't right student who shoifld be able to do a very creditable Job a-mong his people and assured that graduates of the North Carolina school meet all the requirements for professional health educators. She agreed to administer any funds which might be furnished to help Thomas, and he submitted to a budget showing that $850 would be get that $850 ..e eaai sufficient for tho completion of Itis graduate training year. A telephone conference between the federation president and the society’s representative arranged a special scholarship for him out of funds of the two groups. High praise tor Thomas came from C. A. Wood, health coordinator at Prairie View, and Dr. T. P. Dooley, director oi that school department of physical sciences. Twenty.four years of age Thomas was born in Mexia. Limestone county. At Prairie View, from where he graduate In May, 1948, he is best remembered for his participation in the dramatics club as an assistant In the personnel department, and as a lieutenant in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Fellowships In health education for qualified college graduates or to be offered during 1949. Informa- Jeaae I. Thomas of Mexia, Texas, has received a health education fellowship from the American Cancer Society, Texaa Division, and tha Texaa Federation •( Women’s Clubs. He is studying at North Carolina College for publie health work. tlon concerning them may be assured from the American Cancer cer Society, Texas Division, 2307 Helena Street, Houston. Hold Responsible Jobs In County and City By JAMES A. ATKINS DENVER. Colo. — With Negro representation in the inner council of the state De .ocratic party. Colorado's 20.000 Negro citizens are receiving new political recognition. As a result of the Democratic sweep in the November election, the race has one representative in the ;tate assembly, an assistant to th attorney general of the state, a deputy district attorney of the city and county of Denver, a counter clerk in the office of the district courts of Den-ver. and a messenger to the governor. O. C. ABERNETHY 0. C- ABERNETHY. first Negro Democrat to represent the jrace in the state assembly of Colorado. was elected for his first term in 1946 and reelected in 1948. In a field of 30 candidates. 15 to be elected, he rao seventh with 86.000 votes. He is 'working hard to see that Democratic prom , ises are enacted into law by Colorado's 37th general assembly. Mr. Abemethy graduated from Prairie View A. and M. university in 1930. After teaching two1 years in Texas public schools he came to Denver, where he was. appointed clerk in the city treasury. He is now assistant citv treasurer. During World War II. he saw service as a second lieutenant in the South Pacific. He is married and the father of three children. His civic interests are varied He is a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity and the Rocky Mountain Masonic Lodge. in which he is a junior warden and Chief Rabbin of the Shrine Temple.