Union Baptist Church & Joseph Carter Corbin

Union Baptist Cemetery & Joseph Carter Corbin

Give to UAPB Founder Memorial Scholarship

PROFESSOR JOSEPH CARTER CORBIN DAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 SESQUICENTENNIAL FOUNDER CELEBRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF WON’T YOU PLEASE HELP? TO ENDOW THE UAPB PROFESSOR JOSEPH CARTER CORBIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP For mathematics and science majors Ways to Give 1. Give by check payable to UAPB Foundation Fund In memo write: Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Memorial Scholarship Mail to: UAPB Office of Development, 1200 North University Drive Mail Slot 4981, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71601 2. Give on line at www.uapb.edu/give or call 870-5758701 3. Give by mobile phone.(TextUAPB19 to 41444) THANK YOU FOR GIVING Dr. Gladys Turner Finney

Family Members Buried at Randolph-Damacus Cemetery, Grady, Lincoln County, Arkansas Without Headstones

By Dr. Gladys Turner Finney

Mary Inez ("Arned) Williams Scoggins
B.D. July 28, 1897
D.D. September 8, 1947

Adward Williams
B.D.
D.D. September 8, 1957

Drucilla Turner West
B.D. March 24, 1884
D.D. October 16, 1955
Burial Date: October 21, 1955

Robert Turner
B.D. October 24, 1913
D.D. October 24, 1986

Emma Lee Turner Glanton
B.D. June 23, 1895
Burial Date June 8, 1974

Savannah Dozier Bluford
B.D. March 20, 1876
D.D. January 24, 1966

Cora Taylor Williams
B.D January 1, 1876
D.D September 8, 1957

Thurman Jones
 B.D. 1903
 D.D. Unknown Waterbury, Ct.

 Margaret Bluford Donaldson
 B.D. May 8, 1918
 D.D. May 21, 1987
 Burial Date May 27, 1987

 Robert Donaldson
 B.D. July 15, 1915
 D.D July 22, 1981
 Burial Date: July 27, 1981

  Chester Lee (Johnson) Bluford,   B.D.December 13, 1897,   D.D. April 8, 1993,   B.D. April 14, 1993.

Donor Pledge for Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Memorial Scholarship at University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff

DONOR PLEDGE FORM Please return to Dr. Gladys Turner Finney gtturnerfinney@gmail.com Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Day September 27, 2023 Sesquicentennial (150 Year) Founding of Branch Normal College, now University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff Donor Pledge Amount_________________ To establish the Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Memorial Scholarship at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. To memorialize Professor Corbin, an educator extraordinaire, who produced the first African Americans in Arkansas with Artium Baccalaureus (AB) degrees, and the founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Name___________________________ Address__________________________ Phone____________________________ On -line Giving: Uapb.taforms.net/ UAPB Office of Development: development@uapb.edu

Professor Joseph Carter Corbin Day: Sesquicentennial Celebration

PROFFESOR JOSEPH CARTER CORBIN DAY SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Dr. Gladys Turner Finney DATE: September 27, 2023 PLACE: Pine Bluff, Arkansas Purpose: To commemorate Professor Joseph Carter Corbin, founder of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Father of Higher Education for African Americans in Arkansas. Community Celebration: Free and open to the public, beginning with a Proclamation and Tribute Ceremony with city and state officials at the original site of the college, 2nd Avenue & Oak Street. Plans include exhibits, speakers, newly released documentary on Professor Corbin, at the Pine Bluff-Jefferson County Library. There will be a reception with panelists reflecting on Dr. Corbin’s contributions to education in Arkansas. ALL ARE WELCOMED. Joseph Carter Corbin (1833-1911) American Educator of African American heritage, Journalist, Mathematician, Scholar, Linguist, Musician. He was born free in Ohio to formerly enslaved parents, William and Susan Corbin, from Virginia. He became one of the most educated men of his day, earning an A.B. degree and two masters degrees from Ohio University at Athens. During Reconstruction following the Civil War, Professor Corbin migrated to Arkansas and in 1872 was elected Arkansas Superintendent of Public Instruction. Recognizing the need for teachers for the 115,000 “freedmen,” he help lay the foundation for a public teacher’s college for “the poorer class” that would become Branch Normal College of the Arkansas industrial University, now the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Branch Normal College, chartered in 1873, is the predecessor of A.M.& N. College, and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Professor Corbin opened Branch Normal College on September 27, 1875 with seven elementary students. During his 27 years tenure as founder and president, he produced the first African Americans in Arkansas with Artium Baccalaureus (A.B.) degrees. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is the second oldest public institution of higher education in the state. It is an 1890 Land Grant HBCU and serves a diverse student population which it prepares for careers that serve the nation. It contributes greatly to the economy of Pine Bluff.

Social Work and Economics

This article was a draft I recently found while going through old papers, a task engaged in during this Pandemic time. The article, “Economics and social work: a neglected relationship” by Alfred N. Page (January, 1977) provides an opportunity for social workers to reflect, and hopefully, consider the relationship of the discipline of economics to the profession of social work. I do think that Professor Page understates the case in that a relationship does exist at present. The problem is that social workers very often choose to ignore the relationship. This causes a disadvantage to the social work profession because the economists are very much aware of the relationship. One problem that Professor Page does not bring out clearly is that social work tends to be an “action” or problem solving direct service profession based upon value theory, while much of economic practice is based upon “empirical theory.” This causes the most common “clash” between the disciplines, with the social work discipline being the loser. Social work loses because economists do have values and these values are more than in pecuniary terms. More often their values are in political terms. Herein lies the real problem! Economists are more often the formulators of social policy than social workers. They do this because economists of nearly every political persuasion are political activists. The discipline allows them to operate from a research and theoretical base to influence business and government. It is significant that in the Carter Administration, Messrs. Bluementahl Treasury), Harold Brown (Defense), Marshall (Labor), Mrs. Krebs (Commerce), Schultze (Council of Economic Advisors), and Schlesinger (Energy) are economists. This trend has been consistent from the Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt with the exception of the Nixon and Ford years. Professor Page’s contention is that “an inherent relationship between social work and economics” is much stronger than it appears on the surface.” This should have special consideration for social work administrators and social work practitioners. To be effective as policy makers, for example, requires social workers to be cognizant of the laws of economics, particularly in regards to resources. Very often social workers have the reputation of not being attentive to details of economic scarcity. This is further intriguing because social work has a set of values that purport to be the foundation for the profession. Just to deal with the values as summarized by Page (there are others, of course) without dealing with attendant costs and economic public policy, social workers are required to work in a vacuum, or at least try to go down the river in a boat without a paddle. The social work caseworker, for example, may find on occasions, unnecessary advocacy is being performed. This is usually “written off” as having to “buck the system.” Usually what has occurred is that the social worker is running into a conflict with economic policy established at another level because the “values” of the social worker and the client differ from the “values” of the policy maker who in turn is relying on an economic principle. I do believe that Professor page inadvertently misleads in his appraisal of economists John Kenneth Galbraith and Kenneth Boulding when he note that “what social workers do not realize is the work of these authors is not respected by a majority of the economic profession.” On the contrary, Galbraith and Boulding are two of the dominant economists in the American Economic Association, American Economic Review, Omicron Delta Epsilon, (the International) Honor Society in Economics), and the American Economists. Certainly, they are read by all economists and allied professionals. What probably would be correct to say is that Galbraith and Boulding do not represent the majority of current economic thinking among economists, but even this may be contradictory because both hold office in the above mentioned organizations, having been elected by their peers.