this important work, copies will be dispatched to leading libraries, including the British Museum, London, England; The National Library of Scotland; The National Library of Wales; The National Library of Ireland; The Library of Congress, Washington, D C ; The Bodleian Library, Oxford, England; and the Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England. Dr. Miller, a native of Henderson, Texas, is a graduate of Wiley College and has additional degrees from the Interdenominational Theological Center (Morehouse School of Religion) in Atlanta, Georgia and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has also done further study at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. Other recent a c h i e v e m e n t s of Brother Dr. Miller are: Appointed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to the roster of educators which serve on visiting committees for the Commission on Colleges and Schools; First Vice President of the Marshall/Harrison County Association for Mental Health; Accepted member of the Summer I EM Class at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts; Recipient of the Exon Education Foundation Scholarship from Harvard University; and Named to Who's Who in Religion. He is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Gamma Upsilon Lambda Chapter) and the Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity, Inc. (Kappa Pi Chapter).
1953. Guthrie began its unique plan of integration in 1969 with elementary grades being placed in separate schools and Swain became principal at Central. Mr. Swain is a graduate of Langston University where he was a charter member of the local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and received a Masters degree in Administration from the University of Oklahoma. Further study was done at Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University. For eight years he served as member of the Guthrie Selective Service Board. He is a trustee of the First National Baptist Church of Guthrie and holds membership in the National Education A s s o c i a t i o n , Oklahoma Education Association, National Elementary Principals Association, Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity, and Sigma Pi Phi Boule. Mr. Swain has one daughter, Mrs. Jacqueline Williams, who is a teacher in the public schools in Albuquerque, N.M. Jacqueline's husband is a major in the U.S. Air Force and they have 5 children. Swain's wife, Ruth is Assistant Professor of Social S c i e n c e at Langston University. Mr. Swain will miss the principal's role, but he looks f o r w a r d to retirement. He has several hobbies and he and Mrs. Swain plan to travel.
Brother J.R. SWAIN, principal of Central Elementary School, retired at the close of this school year after serving 22 years as principal in the Guthrie public school system. He spent 18 years in Fort Coffee, Oklahoma, and became principal of Page Elementary School in Guthrie in
Brother EDWARD E.TAYLOR has assumed the leadership of the 23,500 member South Carolina Education Association (SCEA). The Greeneville, Tennessee native will serve a one-year term as President. A graduate of Allen University and the University of Michigan, Taylor has been active in the field of education for thirty years, A former principal and high school mathematics teacher, he has served as president of the Richland County Education Association and as a member of the SCEA Board of Directors since 1967. Long active in civic affairs, Taylor currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Columbia Opportunities Industrialization Center, the Richland T e a c h e r s Council Federal Credit Union, Bethel-Bishop-Chappelle Memorial Apartments, Inc. and the Columbia Pan-Hellenic Council. He received the 1975 Alpha Award of Merit for Service from the Southern Region of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and 1975 Educator of the Year Award from the University of South Carolina chapter of Sigma Gamma Phi Sorority.
Brother MELVIN W. THOMPSON was appointed executive director of the Committee on Minorities in Engineering of the National Research Council's Assembly of Engineering. The Committee's program involves a nationwide effort to bring about a tenfold increase in ten years in the number of minority engineering graduates in the United States. For the last five years Thompson, a graduate of Syracuse University, served as director of the Engineering Opportunity Program at the Newark College of Engineering in Newark, New Jersey. Brother Thompson was past president of Delta Mu Lambda Chapter in Montclair, New Jersey.
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