Dr. Ernest E. Just (1883-

Ernest E.  Just was born August 14, 1883 in Charleston South Carolina.  With vigor he pursued his work at the Industrial  School of State College, Orangeburg, South Carolina.  Through.  Though this school did not have the most modern equipment, the thoroughness and the enthusiasm of the teachers inspired Ernest Everett, gave him an excellent start, and pointed to him the direction in which he should go for further training.  Because of his early childhood guidance, he bade his home state goodbye and started North for the land of fuller educational opportunity.  As he had been informed of the efficiency leges and universities of the North, he enrolled at Kimball institution he graduated in 1903 and in the fall entered Dartmouth College.  His record there as usual was outstanding, for when we graduated from Dartmouth in 1907, he had won the Phi Beta Kappa key, which is the highest scholastic award a student can receive as an undergraduate.  In the fall of 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, he joined the faculty of Howard University as an instructor in biology.  He has been with Howard ever since.  He engaged in intensive research and at intervals to do graduate work at the University of Chicago.  In 1915, after Brother Just had attracted nation-wide attention by unusual brilliancy of research, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People conferred upon him the Spingarn Medal, which each year is given to a Negro who has been most outstanding in achievement.  The following year he received from the University of Chicago the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.   

Ernest E. Just was born in Charleston, South Carolina.
Graduated from the Industrial School of the State College, Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire 
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa)
Doctor of Philosophy Degree, University of Chicago
Awarded the Springarn Medal

Interred at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 4001  Suitland, Maryland Section 1 plot #226, Site #12

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