Wilberforce University - Forcean Yearbook (Wilberforce, OH)

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Foundefs Day ' Convocahon Wilberforce University's annual Founder's Day Con- vocation was held on Friday, February 23, 1973 in Jones Auditorium, Shorter Hall on the old Wil- berforce campus, at 10:30 a.m. Featured speak- er for the event was Rev. Vinton Randolph Ander- son residin Bisho of the Ninth Episcopal' Dis - P 8 P ' trict fAlabamai of the A.M.E. Church. A ' Dr. Rembert E. Stokes, President of Wilberforce University. confered the Honorary Doctor of Hu- manities degree on Bishop Anderson. Bishop Anderson received the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Divinity with honors from Wilberforce University and Payne Seminary, the Master of Arts fromthe University of Kansas, and the Doctor of Divinity from Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas. ' Dr.-Anderson was a delegate in three triennial as- semblies of the National Council of Churches and attended, as a delegate, three World Methodist Conferences in Oslo, Norway, London. England, and Denver, Colorado, In December, he was one of a team of four churchmen visiting New Zealand and Australia representing the World Council of Churces' Program to Combat Racism. Dr. Anderson is currently sewing as pastor of St. PauI's parish in St. Louis, Missouri. ,

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-W1fWi1pw--:iee?1efI- 'safe ' A6 I.. ff Fall Convocation 1972 November 16, 1972 Rev. Dr. Samuel Proctor, Sr. Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor, Sr., Minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, Mr. Alexander J. Allen, Deputy Director ofthe National Urban League, and Ms. Son- ja Sanchez, poetess, were jointly honored at Wilberforce University's Fall Convocation held on Thursday, November 16, 1972. Dr. Proctor, a recipient of many awards in- cluding the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Boston University and the Distinquish- ed Service Award from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, received the Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from President Rembert Stokes, Dr. Proctor, a past president of two institutions of higher learning, Virginia Union and North Carolina A 84 T State University, delivered a challeng- ing and inspiring convocation address. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Negro College Fund, Meharry Medical College, Ottawa University, St. Paul's College and the Institute for Poverty Re- search at the University of Wisconsin, and currently holds the Martin Luther King Me- morial Chair in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. Alumnus Alexander J. Allen, a member of the Class of 1937, received the Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree. Joe Allen, as he is fondly referred to by the members of the Wilberforce family, has held several administrative posts in the National Urban League prior to his present position as Deputy Executive Director, and in 1963 was on leave from the Urban League to the Phila- delphia Council on Community Advance- ment. He has also served as president of the National Association of intergroup Rela- tions Officials, and is one of the founders of the Adirondack Workshop, jointly spon- sored by the National Assembly for Social Policy Development and the United Com- munity Funds and Councils of America. Dr. Allen, a member of the Wilberforce Uni- versity Board of Trustees, is also a board member of the National Conference on So- cial Welfare and the New York Regional Planning Association. Along with Dr. Allen, Poetess Sonja Sanchez also received an Honorary Doctor of Human- ities Degree. We Must Again be the People Who Built Pyramids on this Planet Earth. stated Ms. Sanchez. Ms. Sanchez also re- ceived a recognition award presented to her by the Student Government Association from the Student Body of Wilberforce Uni- versity.

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