Slave Parents Honored By Bullock '04 Fund

In memory of his mother and father, who were born in slavery, Matthew W. Bullock '04 has established a life-income trust fund of $10,000 that will eventually provide scholarship aid for Dartmouth students with preference given to needy and deserving Negro students.

After Mr. Bullock's death, income produced by the Jesse and Amanda Bullock (1904) Memorial Scholarship Fund will be added to principal for 30 years. Income will then be paid to the College for scholarship aid as stipulated, and after another 30 years the principal will be turned over to the College for the same purpose.

Jesse and Amanda Bullock moved to Boston in 1889 with seven children and ten dollars and in 1894 settled in Everett, Mass. After graduating from high school there, Matt Bullock came to Dartmouth where he was one of the great football players of his day. In 1907 he acquired a law degree from Harvard and then taught and coached at Morehouse College in Atlanta for four years. As he expresses it, "It was my four years at Morehouse that showed me what could be done with education, and what was being done all around me without it. It was then that I vowed to do something for the needy Negro student if and when it was possible."

After a long legal career in Boston, Mr. Bullock now makes his home in Philadelphia with his son Matthew Jr., who is a Deputy Solicitor General for that city. His daughter, Mrs. Julia B. Gaddy, is a librarian in the Detroit school system.