60 MARYLAND MANUAL
STATE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NEGROES
Edward N. Wilson, Secretary
Morgan State College, Baltimore 12 Telephone: Clifton 6870
The first State scholarship fund for Negroes was established in 1933
when the Commission on Higher Education for Negroes received an
appropriation for this purpose. Since 1939, the fund has been admin-
istered by the Board of Trustees of Morgan State College. It is the
purpose of the fund to render financial assistance to qualified Negroes
of the State for the pursuit of professional and graduate studies not
available to them in this State. Three grants are made each year—
first semester, second semester, and summer semester.
Expenditures, 1950 $142,247.85
Appropriation, 1951 $150,000.00
Staff 1. The Secretary of the State Scholarship Com-
mittee is the Registrar of Morgan State College and his
salary is paid from appropriations to the college.
ST. MARY'S SEMINARY JUNIOR COLLEGE
Members of the Board of Trustees:
President: R. Bascom Broun, Jr., 1953
Agnes C. Sasscer, Vice President, 1955; Edward Early,
1953; Mrs. George L. Ewalt, Jr., 1953; J. Donelan Hurry,
1953; C. Ethelbert Abell, 1955; Robert C. Palmer, 1955; Mrs.
Felix E. Wathen, 1955; George L. Radcliffe, 1957; L. J.
Sothoron, 1957; Lawrence P. Williams, 1957; Hilda C. Hoke,
1957.
May Russell, President and Chief Administrative Officer
St. Mary's City Telephone: Great Mills I
The members of the Board of Trustees are appointed by the Gov-
ernor for a term of six years. The school was chartered in 1839
as a monument to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of
the founding of Maryland. The school operates as a four-year junior
college; the curriculum covering the last two years of high school
and the first two years of college. The State has established twenty-
nine four-year scholarships, one for each county and each Legislative
District of Baltimore City. The scholarships are awarded annually on
a basis of need after examination by the County Board of Education
or the Board of School Commissioners for Baltimore City (Code 1939,
1947 Supp., Art. 77, sec. 235A, 236). The 1950-51 enrollment is 84.
Expenditures Appropriation
1950 1951
General fund $ 49,790.00 $ 66,440.00
Special fund 51,124.49 50,000.00
Total $100,914.49 $116,440.00
Staff: 26.
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