The Ohio Daily Express

Youngest PH.D
To Address
British Group

SILER CITY, N. C. (ANP)-- The nation's youngest Negro Ph. D., Dr. Clement Paige, 19, will fly to Great Britain this week to address the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He will be the first Negro ever to speak to this learned group.

A native of Siler City, Dr. Paige is the youngest Negro in the nation's history to attain a doctor's degree. He gained his education through hard work and scholarships. He holds his degree as a physiological psychologist.

One of the eight children of a farmer, he worked hard to save enough money to attend high school in New York. He then returned to North Carolina where he studied for his bachelor's degree at A & T college in Greensboro.

At this time his money ran out, but Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune heard about him and helped him to attain scholarships which financed him through graduate study at the City College of New York and at McGill university in Montreal, Canada.

His next study will be in Europe as the recipient of the $4,000 Elizabeth Crompton Memorial award of the American Institute of Psychoanalysts.

When this study is completed he will become head of the biology department of Fort Valley State college in Georgia. At present he is professor of biology at Bethune Cookman college, the school founded by Mrs. Bethune.