Activities Among Negroes
The list of names of mid-winter graduates given last week in this column should have contained the name of Miss Ida L. Jackson. She received her Master of Arts degree in August, 1923, from the Department of Education and Psychology of the University of California. The thesis which won her this degree in one year was on: "The Rate of Development of Negro Children in Relation to education." She won the degree of A. B. In 1922. Miss Jackson is one of the founders and first president of Rho chapter Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority of colored girls at the University of California. She is efficient as a saxophone soloist.
The colored citizens of Oakland are working earnestly for the success of the Community Chest drive.
Friends of Mrs. H. E. De Hart were sorry to learn that her husband was badly hurt when struck by an automobile last Sunday morning.
Rey. Kebble of Nashville, Tenn.. is conducting a series of revival services at Rev. D. C. Allen's church on Twenty-ninth street, Oakland.
An appeal has come to the club women of the northern section of the state to send for a former active member who a year ago left San Francisco for a trip to Africa. She is Mrs. Austin, who is sick and destitute and wishes to return to California.
The Rho chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority of colored girls of at University of California, will hold founders' week celebration February 10 at 8 p. m. in Fifteenth Street A. M. E. church. Dean Lucy W. Stebbins will be the speaker. Numbers on the violin, plano and saxophone will be rendered by members of the chapter,
Rev. Dr. Alexander C. Garner, pastor of Grace Congregational church of Harlem, N. Y., has been commissioned by Governor Alfred E. Smith as chaplain of the 369th infantry of N. Y. N. G. with the rank of captain. During the world war he was a member of the committee of army and navy chaplains and was interested in the appointment of all colored and all white chaplains named from the Congregational church. He was a volunteer Y. M. C. A. chaplain for two weeks at Camp Lee, Petersburg. Va., and delivered addresses to soldiers in camps from Mead to Stewart.
The New York Age (weekly) says in regard to Dr. Du Bois: "The appointment by President Coolidge of Dr. Du Bois as an official envoy of the United States government at the inauguration of the president of Liberia was a graceful recognition of Dr. Du Bois as an eminent American, as well as of his special Interest in African affairs."
The New York Age also contained the following: "The board of regents, state of New York, at its meeting held in Albany, N. Y., January 3 granted Atlanta University graduates holding the degree of Bachelor of Arts, the college graduate limited certificate which entitled them to teach in the public schools of New York."
Madam Lelia Walker-Wilson, daughter of the late Madam C. J. Walker, has sent a check to President R. P. Moten [R. R. Morton] of Tuskegee University to cover expenses for seven scholarships to be given to worthy poor students.
Mrs. Annie M. Shaffer, widow of Bishop Shaffer, recently died in Chicago. She was for forty years a member of the Womans' Parent Mite Missionary society of Philadelphia. Bishop Parks, Dr. H. E. Steward, Bishop A. J. Carey and B. J. Taylor officiated at her funeral.
The annual Episcopal church conference, held in San Francisco has two colored delegates. Rev. D. R. Wallace of Oakland and Father Cleghorn of Los Angeles.
