Brooklyn College English Professor Wins "Excellence in Teaching Award since 1965, has taught in the Special Baccalaureate Degree Program, an intensive program of seminars and independent study for adults with extensive experience. He has also taught English in the Graduate Division since 1969. He has been busy on and off campus. For the College English Association, ho has been president of the New York Regional, Chairman of its Program Committee and on the National Board of Directors. He has been on the Board of Directors for the College Language Association, a member of the National Committee on Comparative and World Literatures of the National Council uf Teachers, and a member of the National Shakespeare Association, the Shakespeare Society and the Renaissance Society of America.
Brother Hobart Jarrets
A Brooklyn College English professor who has taught for twelve years in the college's evening division, Brother Hobart S. Jarrett, has been named the recipient of The City University Award for Excellence in Teaching. Brother Jarrett, one of 20 City University professors selected this year, was honored at the college's 48th Commencement. President John W. Kneller presented to Dr. Jarrett a citation and the Brooklyn College Medal. Brother Jarrett was nominated for the award by a faculty-student committee. On the staff at Brooklyn College since 1961, he had a long previous history of teaching. He taught from 1937-49 at Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma, and at Bennett College, Greensboro, No. Carolina, from 1949-61. He served as chairmen of the Humanities Division at Bennett for seven years. Born in Arlington, Texas, and a product of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bro. Jarrett received a B.A. in English from Wiley College, Marshal, Texas, in 1936 and an M.A. in English the following year from Syracuse. After study at Harvard, he received a Ph.D. in English from Syracuse in 1954. He has taught in the college's evening division since joining the faculty and, 66
He is very active in Gamma Iota Lambda Chapter and the United Negro College Fund. He has been an active brother since he was initiated into Alpha Sigma Chapter at Wiley College in 1933. Brother Jarrett was the banquet speaker at the Tulsa Convention. He has held office constantly and has been president of three chapters. Recently, he has paid for life-membership in Alpha Phi Alpha. He has also been elected a member of Sigma Pi Phi, "Boule," a fraternal organization of outstanding Negro men. As president of the Greensboro Citizens Association, he was actively involved in the civil rights movement to desegregate public accommodations in the South in the late 1950s. At the college, he has been a member of the college's Faculty Council since 1964, and on various campus-wide and departmental committees, including the Presidential Committee on Educational Opportunity, the Faculty-Student Committee on Student Organizations, the presidential advisory group known as the Committee of Seven and the Appointments Committee of the English department Brother Jarrett lives with his wife, Gladys, a librarian at York College, on Willoughby Street in Brooklyn. The CUNY Excellence in Teaching Award carries a grant of $2500. It replaces the college's annual outstanding teacher of the year award.
THREATT (Continued from page 65) South High School and then obtaining a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Howard University. He presently is Rehabilitation Administrator in the Department of Planning and Urban Re~ newal for the City of Akron. He has rr.ld that post since January, 1971. In this position, he supervises the Rehabililaton Staff and coordinates Akron's Rehabilitation Program and Code Enforcement Programs in selected areas of Akron. Prior to this position, he was employed by the Akron Board of Education as an Assistant to the Akron School Architect. He has put his architectural talents in numerous private efforts as well as work related efforts, some of them being additions to Stewart-CalhounBlack Funeral Home, the Marhofer Cheverolet Service Building, Stow, Ohio, and is presently working with Second Baptist Church in the designing of their new proposed church. It is worthwhile to note that his efforts have not only been devoted to the "big" groups but he has given much time to the Lane-School area. Under his leadership as Chairman of the LaneImprovement Association's Parks and Recreation Committee, the City of Akron in 1968 developed Old Lane Field into an $875,000 neighborhood park development along with the cooperation of the Board of Education. Later, in 1971, he was instrumental in obtaining a $15,000 grant from the Akron Model Cities Program to assist the South Ranger, Bantam Football and Little League Baseball Teams operating in the area and inaugerating a winter recreation program for Jr. High School age youngsters. He is a member of Wesley Temple A.M.E. Zion Church and some of his other activities include being President of the Akron Chapter Howard University Alumni Club, Member of the United Fund Budget Panel No. 1, Member of the Akron Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and Chairman of the Channelwood Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. For the past nine years he has worked as a volunteer in the Local and National Soap Box Derbys as a member of the Bridge Operations. The Sphinx / October 1973