Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1968-04-27
J. A. Beauchamp

Several Hundred Persons Attend
 Service For Dr. Clement


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 of
 N. T. Dr. Henjsmin
 retired president of
 College, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Minton, N. Y. President and
Mrs. it Gloster Morehouse
 Mr. and Mrs. David Mopin, 
Princeton, N. J. and Mrs.
Rufus R. Clement her daughter
and grandchildren from Los Angeies, 
Calif.
The chapel program included
reading, a prayer, and music by
the Atlantis-Morehouse-Spe
, conducted by Dr. Wendell
Whalt, Short statements about
Dr. Clement were made by Dr. John
W. Lestson, superintendent. Atlanta 
public Schools, Mrs. Nellie B.
Smith, president Atlanta U alumni

Association, Roswell F. Jackson,
Jr. President, Atlanta U. Dormitory
Council, and Dr. Horoe Mann
Bond, professor of Educational
Sociology. Atlanta U. Dr. Harry V.
Richardson, president, Interdenoninstional 
Theological Center,
gave the overall comprehensive
closing memorial tribute. The program 
listed some of the following
facts about Dr. Clement.
Atlanta University president Rufus 
Early Clement died in New
York on Tuesday, Nov, 7, from a
heart attack. The president was in
New York to attend an annual
meeting of the Board of Trustees
of Atlanta University, of which he
had served as president since 1837.
Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, 
Dr. Clement was an instructor 
and professor of history at
Livingston College from 1922 to
1991 and served as dean of Municipal 
College, University of Louisville, 
until 1937. He also served as
a rural pastor of AME Zion
churches in North Caroina from
1924 until 1831, during which time
he received his Ph.D. in history
from Northwestern University.
Dr. Clement was married to the
former pearl Ann Johnson of Sumner, 
Mississippi and is survived by
her and his daughter, Mrs. Robert
Foster of Los Angeles, California;

three grand daughters, Miss Alberis 
Foster of Iows city, Mrs. Alfred 
Moss of Cambridge, Massachu
setts, an Miss Joy Foster of LosAngeles; 
three brothers, Fred of
Institute, West Virginia, George of
Louisville, Kentucky and James of
Louisville, Kentucky, Ruth Clement
Bond of Washington, D. C. and
Emma Clement Walker of Fort
Valley, Georgia.
In 1952, a year before the 1954
Supreme Court Ruling on segregated 
schools, Dr. Clement was elected 
to the Atlanta Board of Education, 
this becoming the first Negro 
to be elected to a public office 
in the secutive term in 1966.
The Editor of TIME (February,
1996) NAMED Dr. Clement as one of
the fourteen most influential unniversity 
presidents in the country.
He was elected to Phl Beta Kappa
by Brown University in 1957.
The late president was member
of several civic an educational organizations, 
including the board
of directors and executive committee 
of the Southern Regional
Council, the National Board of the
United States of America and of
the Atlanta Chapter of the UNA
of the USA. He was also a board
member of the Atlanta Urban League, 
the Citizens Trust Company,
the United Negro College Fund,
Inc. and the National Science
Board.
He was an author and contributor 
to Phylon. The Journal of Negro 
Education, Saturday Review of
Literature. The Journal of Negro
History and the ournal of Educational 
Psychology, and yas listed
in Who's Who in America. Who's

who in colored America, who's
who in Education, and the Blographical 
Dictionary of American

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State To Increase
Welfare Benefits
To Adults By $2
Public assistance benefits will be
increased by $2 per month to approximately 
122,500 aged, blind and
disabled adults on the State welfare 
rolls effective May 1, William
H. Burson, State Director of the
Georgia Department of Family and
Children Services, announced today. 

There will be simultaneous increase 
from $30 to $82 per month
in the State's maximum pavement
in the adult assistance categories,
he also disclosed.
These adjustments are being
made possible, Burson explained,
through funds freed by the recent
13 per cent increase in Social Security 
benefits. Inasmuch as federal 
regulations require all income
to be taken into account in determining 
welfare eligibility, receiving
both Social Security and welfare
benefits had their welfare pay
ments reduced correspondingly
when their Social Security checks
were increased last month.

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Sometime during the spring, the
Rattlers are going to have to find
a punter, a punt and kickoff return 
specialist, seven defensive and
five offensive starters, develop a
new offense and patch up holes in
the defence, and they have 14
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OBSCENITY UNIT NAMED
President Johnson has named an
18-member commission on Obscenity 
and Pornography whose Job
will be to investigate the relation
ship between such material and
antisocial behavior, especially in
minors.
Beattie to retire as coach of U. S.
ski team.