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WHO'S WHO IN COLORED AMERICA
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BARNUM, JOHN L., mortician; b. Lumpkin, Ga., Dec. 5, 1892; s. Dennis and Lorena (Robinson) Barnum; m. Mabel Elliott of Albany, Ga., Oct. 17, 1917; two children: John L., Jr., and Lois Barnum Greene. A.B. Lincoln U. (Pa ), 1914. SLnce 1915 director of funeral home founded by his father In. 1910; son and daughter now active partners of business; mem. Alpha Phi Alpha. Clubs: Eight O'clock and Eight - Twenty. Methodist. Democrat. Address: 205 E. Forsjth St., Amerlcus, Ga.
BARROW, LUCY CLAY, coll. prof.; b. Phoebus, Va.; d. Daniel and Elizabeth (Armistead) Barrow. B.S., Hampton Inst., Va., 1929; M.S., Hosenw-ild Fellowship), Cornell U., 1932; M. A. Columbia U., 1941; further study, U. of Minn., 1943;Ohio State U. (Genl. Ed. Fellowship), 1945. Organizer and dir., home econ. dept., Philander Smith Coll. , Little Rock, Ark., 1929-present; chrm., div. of arts, 1939-present; consultant, workshop for prins., 1950. Mem. N.E.A.; A. A. U.W. ; State Teachers Assn.; Progressive Ed. Assn.; Little Rock Interracial Comm., State Consumer Nutrition Program; Alpha Kappa Alpha; pres., faculty, Philander Smith, 1939-present. Baptist. Business address: Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark. Home address: Post Office Box 427, Phoebus, Va.
roeder; A. M. (hon.), Xavier U., New Orleans, La., 1934; D. F. A. (hon.), St. Francis Coll., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1947. Began career as painter, 1924; changed to sculpture, 1928; Internationally recognized. Represented tn the collections of Whitney Museum of Am. Art, N. Y. C. ; Hackley Museum, Oberlln Coll.; Pa. Acad, of Fine Arts; Va. Museum of Fine Arts; Metropolitan Museum; Dallas, (Tex.) Museum; Philadelphia Museum; Chicago Art Inst.; Baltimore Museum; Theological Soc. , Adgar, India; has done commissioned pieces for Arthur Brisbane Memorial, N. Y. C.; Klngsboro Housing Project, Brooklyn,. N. Y.; Social Security Bldg., Washington, D.C.; Booker T. Washington Inst., Hall of Fame, N.Y. Univ. , N. Y. C. ; also represented in collections in Austria, Germany. France, England, Airlca, Canada, the Virgin Islands and Haiti; has been widely exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe; recipient of Rosenwald Fellowship, 1931, 1932; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1940, 1941; received James J. Hoey Award for Interracial Justice, 1945; citation and $1000 award, Am. Acad, of Arts and Letters and Natl. Acad, of Arts and Letters, 1945; Audubon Artists gold medal of honor, 1945; commissioned to execute two monuments for the Haitian government, 1950; mem. Natl. Sculpture Soc. Roman Catholic. Democrat. Address: 285 8th Ave. , New York City, N.Y.
RICHMOND BARTHE
BARTHE?, RICHMOND, sculptor; b. Bav St.
Louls1 Miss.^ Jan. 28, 1901; s. Richmond and Marie Clementine (Roboteau) Barthe?; ed. , St. Rose de LimaParochlcal Sch., andValena Jones J. H. S., Bay St. Louis, Miss., Chicago (111.) Art Inst., 1924-28; private study under Charles Sch-
LUAS. BARTLEY
BARTLEY, LUA STEWART, coll. prol.; b. Jacksonville, Fla., May 16, 1913; d. Henry W. and Carrie L. (Pegues) Bartley. A_B. (cum laude), Howard U. , 1932; M.S., U. of Mich., 1937; further study, 1947-50. Instructor, physical ed., dir. women's auuettcs, Bethune-Coolc-
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