Texas Southern University - Tiger Pride Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Samuel Milton Nabril, Ph.D. Dr. Samuel M. Nabrit, executive director of the Southern Fellowship Fund, is a native of Georgia, hie was born in Macon and received his pre-college education at the Walker Baptist Institute in Agusta. graduating as class valedictorian. He continued his education at Morehouse College in Atlanta, earning the Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1925. That same year he began his teaching career as an instructor of biology at Atlanta University. Dr. Nabrit earned the Master of Science degree in 1928 from Brown University, and in 1932, became the first black to earn the Ph.D. degree from that institution. Dr. Nabrit has had a richly diversified professional career as a teacher, scientist, administrator and am- bassador. He served as professor and chairman of the Biology Department at Morehouse College, and later as dean of the Graduate School of Atlanta University. In 1935. he was elected to the position of president of Texas Southern University, and served in that post for I I years until he was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to membership on the Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. Nabrit has rendered many valuable services to government, educational institutions and foundations. He was appointed to the National Science Foundation Board by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and dur- ing the Kennedy administration was made a Special Ambassador to Niger. He is member of the American Society of Zoologists, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Brown Uni- versity, among others. Dr. Nabrit holds membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and served as the third president of the National Institute of Science, which he helped to establish. In recognition of his many achievements and services rendered to mankind. Dr. Nabrit has been awarded honorary degrees from eight institutions. Dr. Nabrit is regarded by his students as a scholarly, deliberate teacher: one who is patient, but demand- ing. His teaching methods have been designed to develop individual initiative, responsibility and self-reli- ance. These traits he has sought to inculcate in his students through research, seminars, and colloquia. To date, more than 25 of his former students have received the Ph.D. degree. Dr. Nabrit and his wife, Constance, reside in Atlanta, Georgia.