I forgot the speakers’ name for this lecture, but she was a woman. She was very strict too because some of the students who were sitting in the front were talking, and the speaker stopped talking to ask the students if they were done with their conversation. She started off her lecture talking about scribes. A scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand, or a representation of someone in writing. There were Scribes of Cattle and Scribes of the Field as well as scribes of Architecture, so there were many types of scribes. She then started talking about people like Geneeral Oliver Otis Howard, who Howard University was named after. She talked about Alaine Leroy Locke, Lulu Vere Childers, Frederick Douglass, Ira Aldride, Louis C. Cramton, George Washington Carver, Charles R. Drew, Harriet Tubman and more. She was naming all the people our buildings on campus are named after. She also gave us some background information about them.
I was confused as to why she started off talking about scribes and then she started naming people who our buildings are named after. They have nothing to do with each other.
-Rebecca Zoll
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