Atlanta Daily World

Dr. Willa Player Speaks At A. U. Convocation Jan. 24

President Willa B. Player of Bennett College will address the annual Atlanta University Center Convocation on January 24, at 3:00 p. m. in Sisters Chapel, Spelman College. The convocation is sponsored by the six institutions in the Center. Atlanta University. the Interdenominational Theological Center. and Clark. Morehouse, Morris Brown and Spelman Colleges.

Dr. Player, who has been president of Bennett since 1955, has been with the college since 1930 as instructor in French and Latin, director of admissions, coordinator of instruction. and vice- president. In 1953-54 she served on the visiting committee of the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges.

She is a member of two national honor societies, Kappa Delta Pi and Pi Lambda Theta. and studied under fellowships at Columbia University, where she received the Ed. D. in 1948. She is also active nationally in the work of the Methodist Church, and is third vice-president of the North Carolina Council of Churches.

As a Ford fellow with a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Learning. Dr. Player made a study tour of twelve American colleges and universities. She is listed in Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who of American Women. Who's Who in Methodism, and Leaders in Education.