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William Pickens, South Carolina Negro, who has been actively connected with various colored educational institutions for the past 16 years and is at present field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak for the affirmative. Mr. Pickens received a Phi Beta Kappa key from Yale, and has since acquired the degrees of Doctor of Literature and Doctor of Laws from Fisk University and Wiley University. He was dean of Morgan College in Baltimore for five years, resigning in 1920 to work with the N.A.A.C.P. He is the author of five books, most of them...
...ascetic, sad faced gentleman. Unlike most radio and screen celebrities (who began college) Hoagy actually did get the law degree all the others seemed to start out to get before joining an orchestra and leaving--and Hoagy had an orchestra, too. This is a matter of pride to Kappa Sigma, the fraternity Carmichael joined soon after he entered the University of Indian in 1920. There, in the famous Indiana Book Nook, Hoagy used to make his classmates weep as he played the original Old Rocking Chair, so sad a composition that his publishers made him tone its tragic lyrics down...
...sort of boy wonder in Henderson, Kentucky, his home town. Roughing it later as a minstrel end-man and a showboat entertainer, he departed the tinseled and shabby byways of trouping to enter the University of Kentucky. There he began a one-man show, starring Tom Riley, Pi Kappa Alpha. He produced student revuea, directed the university players, the Strollers; announced over WHAS. University of Kentucky station; and found time to go to movies and review them for the "Kernel...
Dudley Hall--Knight W. McMahan '33, summa cum laude, of Flora, Illionis; marshal of Phi Beta Kappa...
...Auburn Street--Winfield A. Huppuch 2nd '33, magna cum laude, of Glen Falls, New York; captain of basketball, chairman of the minor sports council, Phi Beta Kappa...