Word: sapp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstration coordinated by Harvard AAAAS of 200 black students against the involvement of black people in Vietnam. The change in AAAAS policy and activity can be attributed largely, but not totally, to the change in AAAAS leadership. Howard is far more action-oriented than his predecessor, Hubert Sapp...
...AAAAS today performs within these three broad functions. Hubert Sapp '67, outgoing President of the organization, feels that "because the Association, was, on its fact, contrary to established liberal tenets, the Administration and the Harvard community interpreted us as a step backward. But in the past two or three years. Afro has demonstrated the kind of contributions it can make, and that these functions could not have been performed if we did not exist specifically as an all-black organization." The point of these functions has been to get black students thinking about the problems of the black community...
...Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs is the oldest of these. It is, according to Sapp, "an opportunity for expression of a highly sophisticated and relevent nature. It is also an opportunity to learn managerial skills and organizational technique." "Though Negro students can learn managerial skills with the Harvard Student Agency (and, in fact, are working with HSA at present on a evaluation of the Journal's business problems) working with the Journal they have the opportunity to enter something which is specifically theirs. As the Chinese proverb has it, "If you cut your own wood, it warms you twice...
...purpose of the "Seminar on Negro Politics," associated with the Kennedy Institute, is to prompt senior members of Afro to give seminars in the fields in which they are writing their thesis. A reading list is drawn up of books which they feel have particularly shaped their thinking. Sapp says that the seminar "offers the younger student an opportunity both for dialogue with senior members and for recognizing the benefits of majoring in certain areas while he still has a number of options open...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students last week elected Hubert E. Sapp '67 of Eliot House and Augusta, Georgia, president for 1966-67. Other officers elected were Gall Snowden '67, vice-president, Chandra Saldi '67, secretary, and Robert C. Scott '67, treasurer. Also elected to the executive committee were Charles J. Hamilton '69, Jeffrey P. Howard '69, Charles F. Lovell '68, and Elvin Montgomery...