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HONORARY JOURNALISTIC SOCIETY ORGANIZED AS DELTA PHI DELTA By MOSS HYLES KENDRIX For more than a quarter of a century, there have existed on the campuses of American universities and colleges, organizations that are designed to promote and stimulate among students an interest in the sciences of journalism. The greater majority of American universities and colleges have schools of journalism and student publications which are maintained as laboratory projects for the students of journalism. In the Negro universities and colleges of America, there are very few departments of journalism, few representative student publications, and no student journalistic societies of national reputation. Since there exists no organization among the Negro youth of America which has as its primary function the forwarding and perpetuating of the lofty ideals of journalism, there has been formed at Morehouse College, Delta Phi Delta, a national intercollegiate honorary journalistic society. The object of Delta Phi Delta is fourfold: (1) To stimulate among Negro college men and women an interest in the science and art of journalism, and confer honor upon such students as hav e distinguished themselves by their meritorious services on the various college publications. (2) To unite in bonds of good fellowship college-trained Negro men and women either engaged in collegiate journalism or proposing to engage in the profession of journalism. (3) To confer honor upon those' who have distinguished themselves in the craft of writing. (4) To appraise the works of Negro Novelists, Journalists, Essayists, and Poets, and bespeak the value of their contributions to America. At the head of this organization there has been formed a Board of Governors, which is to function at the time of the first annual convention, a National Advisory Council, which is composed of a number of prominent Negro leaders who have expressed faith in the possibilities of such an organization as Delta Phi Delta. The Board of Governors, which serves as the national nucleus of the organization, is formed of V. Trenton Tubbs, Dallas, Texas, President; Edward Carter Maddox, Atlanta, Georgia, First Vice-President; Alphonso L. Lowry, Brooklyn, New York, Second Vice-President; Bernard Milton Jones, Tampa, Florida, Secretary-Treasurer; Toussaint Leon Crowell, Gary, Indiana, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; Moss Hyles Kendrix, Atlanta, Georgia, Editor of the Delphid; Daniel George Sampson, Sumter, South Carolina, Historian; Dr. James Weldon Johnson, President of the National Advisory Council; and Dr. William Stanley Braithwaite, Secretary of the National Advisory Council. All of the student members of the Board of Governors are students of Morehouse College. Besides the two members of the Advisory Council who are official and permanent members of the Board of Governors, the Council is represented by the following persons: Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, Howard University; Mrs. Rebecca Stiles Taylor,
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the Chicago Defender; Dr. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Howard University; Dr. John W. Davis, President, West Virginia State College; Lewis O. Swingler, Editor, Alpha Sphinx; Dr. Rufus E. Clement, President, Atlanta University; Mr. George Schuyler, Pittsburg Courier; Miss Mary E. Potter, Editor, Tampa Bulletin; Mr. Nathaniel P. Tillman, Morehouse College; Dr. Howard Thurman, Dean of Chapel, Howard University; Mr. Elmer Anderson Carter, Editor, Crisis; Mr. Ralph H. Lee, Kentucky State College; Mr. A. L. Kidd, Florida A. & M. College; Mr. Crawford B. Lindsay, Morehouse College; Mr. Carl Murphy, President, Afro-American Publishing Company; Mr. Bertram L. Woodruff, Johnson C. Smith University; Mr. Robert D. Baskerville, former Editor, Omega Oracle; Mr. Frederick C. Gassett, Bursar, Morehouse College; Mr. Lionel F. Artis, Editor, Kappa Journal; Mr. A. Russell Brooks, A. & T. College, North Carolina; Mr. Edward P. Simms, Tuskagee Institute; Mr. C. A. Scott, General Manager, Scott Newspaper Syndicate; Mr. Hugh M. Gloster, Le Moyne College; Mr. Hillery C. Thorme, W. Virginia State College; and Mr. H. S. Murphy, President, House of Murphy, printers, Atlanta, Georgia. o WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT DELTA PHI DELTA "I shall be pleased in every possible way to cooperate with your organization." W. J. Hale, President, Tennessee State College. "I consider it decidedly a progressive step and definitely worthwhile." Dr. D. 0 . W. Holmes, President, Morgan College. "I think that you have started a very good and needed organization." Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, Department of Philosophy, Howard University. " I assure you that the aims of the Society will be brought to the attention of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity." Attorney Robert D. Baskerville, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. " I am very much interested in your endeavor to stimulate interest in the principles of journalism." Lionel F. Artis, Editor, Kappa Journal. "I don't know of a more forward step in the virgin field of Negro journalism." Lewis 0 . Swingler, Editor, Alpha Sphinx. "I
shall be glad to serve on your National Advisory Board."
George S. Schuyler, Pittsburg Courier. "I congratulate you on the effort." Dr. Benjamin G. Brawley, Howard University, Department of English. 'I shall be happy to serve". Dr. James Weldon Johnson, Fisk University. "Permit me to compliment you for the initiative." A. L. Kidd, Registrar, Florida A. & M. College. "I am in complete accord with the idea." Dr. Howard W. Thurman, Howard University. "Not only is the aim of your society a good one, but it is one that is greatly needed." Dr. Bertram I. Woodruff, Johnson C. Smith University. "This is a project that should be stimulated and nourished by Negro colleges throughout America." Dr. William Stanley Braithwaite, Atlanta University.