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NZ Truth, Issue 882, 21 October 1922, Page 6

■■• Belinda Davison, of San Francisco, first colored girl to receive a degree of "Master of Arts -at the University Of California, recently left for Petersburg, Virginia, to be instructor m chemistry, education and mathematics at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. Senators Hiram W. Johnson and' Samuel Shortridge secured the position for the brilliant young colored girl who carries with her to the .famous institution for colored people, a B.A. degree Bhe received at Berkeley m 1919; a high school teacher's certificate m 1920, and an'M.A. received m 1921, f6llowlnpr her presentation of a thesis on the "Educational Status of the Negro of the ,San Francisco Bay Region." Two flattering offers, from Tuskegee, Ala., and from a Missouri School for colored pupils, have -be'en received by Miss Davison since her appointment to the Virginia institution. ■ Love is like the old shells that lie around on a battlefield. Often when you think it dead it bursts with fearful results.