[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 65 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            IN HONOR OF ALLEN UNIVERSITY'S 125TH ANNIVERSARY

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                         HON. JAMES E. CLYBURN

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 6, 1995
  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Allen 
University in Columbia, SC, as they celebrate their 125th anniversary.
  Allen University has produced local and national leaders who have 
served their communities and the Nation in an exemplary manner, and it 
is fitting and proper that the accomplishments of the university be 
recognized.
  The late Bishop John Mifflin Brown and the people of the Columbia 
Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church had the vision to 
establish a school for the education of newly freed slaves in 1870 in 
Cokesbury, SC. The school was named for Bishop Brown's predecessor, 
Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne. Professor J.W. Morris was the school's 
first president.
  In 1880, the school was transferred to Columbia, SC, and was renamed 
for Bishop Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist 
Episcopal Church.
  During its early years, Allen University satisfied the needs of the 
African-American community by providing courses leading not only to 
degrees in law, theology and the arts, but also courses of study at the 
elementary and high school levels.
  The school has since produced numerous scholars, attorneys, 
physicians, teachers, business and governmental leaders, and other 
professionals who have risen to positions of honor in the African-
American community.
  Today, the university, under the leadership of Bishop John Hurst 
Adams and President David T. Shannon, is equipping itself to serve 
nontraditional students and others who would otherwise not have the 
opportunity for a college education, as well as remaining faithful to 
its traditional goals of clergy and leadership education.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend Allen University for its 125 years of 
progress, commitment and dedication in the shaping of productive lives 
as it strives to live up to its motto--``Heads to Think, Hands to Work, 
and Hearts to Love.''


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