The SPHNX | Fall 1962 | Volume 48 | Number 3 196204803

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OMEGA CHAPTER AN OUTSTANDING SOCIOLOGIST PASSES BHO. E. FRANKLIN FRAZIEH Bro. E. Franklin Frazier, 67, sociologist and former chairman of Howard University's Sociology Department passed May 17, 1962, at George Washington University Hospital after a long illness. A student of Negro life in the United States. Mr. Frazier coined the phrase "black bourgeoisie," as the title of his controversial book on the "new Negro middle class." In that book he expounded the theory that too often educated middle class Negroes isolate themselves from the problems of their race in the manner of a "leisured upper class." Mr. Frazier urged that the Negro middle class take a positive position on the problems of their race, "acknowledging the weaknesses of Negro culture and working to eliminate them." Bro. Frazier wrote extensively on other Negro problems including "The Negro in America," which is a comprehensive profile of the American Negro community. Born in Baltimore, Bro. Frazier was a graduate of Howard University in 1916 and received his doctor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1931. A member of Howard's Department of Sociology from 1934 until his retirement in 1959, Mr. Frazier had taught also at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Hawaii, and Carlton College at Northfield, Minn. In 1948 he was president of the American Sociological Society and he had served also as president of the Eastern Sociological Society. In 1940 and 1941 he was a Guggenheim fellow in Brazil and the West Indies. In 1949 he became Chairman of UNESCO'S Committee of Experts on Race, and from 1951 until 1953 he was Chief of UNESCO'S Applied Science Division in Paris. Also he was president of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Race Relation. He won honorary degrees from Morgan State College, Baltimore, in 1955-and from Scotland's University of Edinburgh in 1960. His wife, Marie, of 220 Rhode Island Ave., now survives. BRO. C. M. CAIN HOW DO YOU MEASURE A LIFE WHEN IT HAS COME TO ITS CLOSE? Brother Cain lived on earth 79 years. He lived among us 58 years. We of 'Alpha Theta Lambda Chapter feel that our lives have been greatly enriched because he lived and worked with us. He was a YMCA Secretary, manager of a housing project, a founder of the Community Chest and an ordained minister. Imbued with the high ideals of true fraternity, he was one of the founders of Nu Chapter while a student at Lincoln University. He was also one of the charter members of Alpha Theta Lambda Chapter in Atlantic City and became a life member of our fraternity in 1944. Many a young girl and boy was helped to further his education by the encouraging words and deeds of Brother Cain. Many a man and woman, even families, can recall with grateful hearts his beneficence to them. Yea, it is by all of these - the length, the height, the breadth, the depth of sincerity, understanding, service and devotion that a life is measured. These are the threads which, woven securely and tenderly, create a tapestry handsome to behold.

OCTOBER, 1962

BRO. WILLIAM HENRY ROBINSON Beta Theta Lambda Chapter, Durham, North Carolina, regrets to report the death of Bro. William Henry Robinson, March 27, 1962. Bro. Robinson was chairman of Department of Physics. North Carolina College at Durham and had been on the faculty since 1938. He was 62 years of age. Bro. Robinson was most outstanding in his field. He had received many honors and was recognized as an author in the field of physics. He had just been awarded a grant of $18,350 from the National Science Foundation for an In-Service Institute for Secondary School Teachers of Science and Mathematics. The Institute was to have been held in September. Bro. Robinson was intimately associated with athletics, having served for a number of years as chairman of the Eligibility Committee of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Results of his research have appeared in such journals as "Nature Magazine" of London; "The Indiana Journal of Physics"; "The American Journal of Physics": and the Beta Kappa Chi "Bulletin". Brother Robinson held memberships in such societies as the Mathematical Association of America; American Institute of Electrical Engineers; American Association of Physics Teachers; Beta Kappa Chi and Alpha Phi Alpha. Memorial services were held in the B. N. Duke Auditorium, March 29th. His body was returned to Louisville, Ky., his home, for burial. BRO. DR. WARRICK CARDOZO Bro. Dr. W. Warrick Cardozo, pediatrician, for whose grandfather. Travis, the Cardozo High School was named, died Saturday, August 11, during hospitalization for a heart attack. He was 57 years old. Funeral oervices were held Wednesday morning at 11:00 o'clock at the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel at Howard University. followed by burial at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. A practitioner of medicine in the District since 1937. Bro. Cardozo was also an assistant clinical professor in the Howard University College of Medicine. He maintained an office at 5030 16th St., NW. Bro. Cardozo was third Vice President, 192931; second Vice President, 1931-33; recipient of two $500.00 Alpha Fellowship Awards to publish his articles in 1935-36, "Immunologic Studies in Sickle Cell Anemia", 1936-37, and "Investigation of Sickle Cell Anemia among Negroes". He was a school medical inspector of the District Health Department and was on the staffs of Children's and Freedmen's hospitals and the Washington Hospital Center. A native of the District, he received his elementary education in Washington public schools; was a graduate of Hampton Institute and attended Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was graduated from the Ohio State University in 1929 and from its College of Medicine in 1933. He was a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha national honorary medical fraternity. He was a founder and at the time of his death, secretary-treasurer of the Howard University chapter of the fraternity. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Julia Manly Cardozo, and a daughter, Judy Cardozo and many other relatives.

Bro. Dr. W. R. Robinson, Physics Department, North College at Durham. '

Chairman, Carolina

BRO. GERALD BROWN A picture of Bro. Brown may well be painted from his characteristics. He was affable, understanding, sagacious, and farsighted. Brother Brown was a coal miner by experience and training. He acquired a scientific knowledge of coal mining that created for him a position training miners. Many men in supervisory capacities in the coal industry owe their attainment and rank to the capabilities of Bro. Gerald Brown. He passed this span of life, August 25, 1961 at his residence, 28 Virginia Avenue, Welch, W. Va. Funeral services were held at the Court Street Methodist Church, Sunday, August 27, 1961. Bro. Rev. C. Anderson Davis delivered the funeral message. BRO. CARTHENTINE WITTEN Brother Witten exemplified the influence of the community in molding the life of the individual. He had several brothers and sisters and, he being one of the oldest, accepted their care as his natural responsibility. He was a likable schoolmate, a desirable pupil, and a developing student. After graduation from Bluefield State College he returned to the Gary District High School to teach commerce, where he was employed when he met his untimely death, possibly from acute indigestion, at his residence in Anawalt, W. Va., Nov. 11, 1961. BISHOP J. W. E. BOWEN Bishop John Wesley Edward Bowen, a distinguished member of the Methodist Church and a retired Bishop, passed this span of life July 12, 1962 in Atlanta, Ga. He was the son of the late Dr. J. W. E. Bowen who was well known as a great teacher and at one time president of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta. Ga., and is the father of J. W. E. Bowen, Jr.. Columbus, Ohio, general chairman of the 1962 convention. Bishop Bowen held degrees from Wesleyan University at Middleton. Conn., and Harvard University at Cambridge. Mass. During his life time he worked as college president, pastor, district superintendent, editor of the Central Christian Advocate and was elected to the episcopacy of the Methodist Church in 1948. He presided over the Atlantic Coast area, headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, for twelve years, hefore retirement in 1960. As an eoiscopal leader of the church. Bishop Bowen made many noteworthy intrinsic contributions to the church and the nation. He was indeed an inspiration to mankind, a wholesome example in word, in conversation. in love, in faith, in chasitv and in purity. - and now that he has fulfilled his course, he will receive the crown of righteousness and everlasting life.

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