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Negro Priest Honored As AuthorityPORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Dom Basil Matthews. Negro priest member of Trinidad's interracial Benedictine Abbey and founder of the Institute of Social Research at the Abbey, is one of 40 international authorities on specific fields listed in the latest supplement of the ‘‘International Who's Who.” This brochure gives biographical sketches of 425 persons, but only 10 (of whom Dom Basil is one) are earmarked for publication in , the next biennial volume of “Who’s Who”. He is given as an authority on anthropology (culture patters in the Caribbean) and on Gregorian music.Dom Basil studied at Louvain University and later at Fordham, where he took Bachelor’s and Master's degrees. He was for a year assistant professor of religion at Manhattanville College, New York, and in 1942 he was awarded a fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation for research in social science in the Caribbean. He wrote a thesis based on his doctorate of philosophy at Fordham.
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Hartford Connecticut Chronicle
Hartford, Connecticut, US
Sat, Jun 05, 1948
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