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With the help of James Gamble and other men of means, it grew into a flourishing secondary school and later, after merging with the neighboring Cookman Institute for Men, into a full-fledged four-year coeducational campus. Bethune-Cookman's assets rose to more than $3,500,000, its enrollment to 750, its faculty to 52. Meanwhile, Mrs. Bethune was making a name for herself in other ways...
...left Obibi-Ezena in Nigeria's Owerri Division in 1948 to study political science and international law in the United States. After a brief stay at Bethune-Cookman College in Florida, he came to Adelphi College in Garden City, Long Island, and by 1950 had won his Bachelor of Arts degree. Enrolling at Harvard that fall, Eze proceeded to win both a Master of Public Administration degree from Littauer, and an M.A. in Government...
...Negroes look upon Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune as the First Lady of their race. She was born of former slaves in South Carolina, walked five miles a day to school. Years later, she founded a school of her own, finally became president of coeducational Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla. At 73, she is a dumpy, bright-eyed lady with a penchant for floppy hats and an unquenchably quiet determination to better the lot of her race. "I like Mary Bethune," Franklin D. Roosevelt once remarked. "She has kept her feet on the ground-and they are definitely planted...
...other newsworthy hats got together when Eleanor Roosevelt (in a small, fussy one) and Bethune-Cookman College's Mary McLeod Bethune (in a forthright, big one) put their heads together over tea in Manhattan (see cut). Occasion: a fund-raising drive for a rural school for wayward boys...
...Bethune's school merged with the Methodist Cookman Institute (for Negro boys...