Roger Williams University Seeking national Support. $150,000 Needed to Place -Baptist Institution on Stable Basis, p. 1

Roger Williams University Seeking national Support. $150,000 Needed to Place -Baptist Institution on Stable Basis, p. 1

“Among the many events worthy of mention on the coming 4th of July, our national Independence Day will be the launching of the big Summer Drive for $150000 by Roger Williams University of Nashville, Tennessee. The Drive is to be carried under the leadership of Dr. John Newton, Washington, General Director, Prof. Henry Nathaniel Bacon, Corresponding Secretary and Dr. J. Singleton, Treasurer, with Dr. Lee Henry Harlan, President of the University, The Trustees, Alumni and a select group of citizens serving as an Advisory Committee. Forces on all sides view the outcome with unrestrained optimism because of the friends the school made during the last few years, especially under the present administration. Established since 1866, Roger Williams University has had a career marked by the misfortune and hardships always encountered by pioneers, for the institution is indeed a pioneer in Negro Christian education. Its numbers among its hundreds of students and Alumni, people from over thirty states and these sections are being appealed to for aid that the University may maintain that high degree of efficiency for which it is famous. The public in this Drive is asked to invest in character building of the type so indispensable to the settlement of our present social and racial problems. Moreover, the uses to which this fund is to be put guarantees the success of Roger’s extensive program for character training and keeping the school abreast of recognized scholastic standards enlarge laboratory equipment, improved libraries, payments of outstanding debts, needed repairs in buildings and grounds and a reserve for the payments of teachers’ salaries. Many figures nationally prominent in public life, sponsor the movement as Trustees, Alumni or well-wishers of the Institution. Notable in this list are the following. Dr. E. W.D. Isaac, Secretary of the B.Y.P.U. Board, Robert S. Abbott, Editor of Chicago Defender, Dr. E. W. B. Burry Normal Industrial Institute, Urbana, Ohio, Rev. T. J. Goodall, noted Philadelphia minister, Anthony Overton, President of the Douglas National Bank, Chicago, Judge William Harrison, Ass’t Attorney General of Ill., Dr. J. F. Westbrooks of Indianapolis, Jesse Binga, President of the Binga State Bank of Chicago, Rev. E. M. Lawrence of Nashville, and a host of others. Painstaking efforts have been put forth to guide the Drive thru to a victorious close but entrusting the work of a well-organized group or workers, who optimistically expect the public to respond liberally to their appeals an and after Independence Day.”

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Negro Star

1926-7-2