Writer and editor Orde Coombs delivered 2 lectures on 9/23/1975 (2015-0002/RR123) and on 3/22/1977 (2015-0002/RR125 reel 2). RR 123 is mislabeled; identified as Bill Cole but the date is presumed to be correct. RR 124 is a duplicate of 2015-0222/RR125. Coombs was born on Saint Vincent in the Caribbean in 1939. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1965, where he was the first black student initiated into the secret society Skull and Bones. He earned his M.A. degree from New York University in 1971. He then worked as an editor for Doubleday & Company and later for McCall Corporation. In addition to editing, he produced documentaries on West Indian culture, and was an adjunct professor at New York University. He was a co-host for <title render="italic">Black Conversations</title>, a talk show on WPIX in 1975. His publications include <title render="italic">Do You See My Love for You Growing?</title> (1972), <title render="italic">Drums of Life</title> (1974, with Chester Higgins Jr.), <title render="italic">Sleep Late With Your Dreams</title> (1977), and <title render="italic">Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black Americans from 1850–1950</title> (1980, with Chester Higgins Jr.). Coombs was the editor of <title render="italic">We Speak as Liberators: Young Black Poets</title> (1970),<title render="italic"> What We Must See: Young Black Storytellers</title> (1971) and <title render="italic">Is Massa Day Dead? Black Moods in the Caribbean</title> (1974). Coombs died in August 1984 at the age of 45. [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/01/obituaries/orde-coombs-writer-dies-former-editor-at-new-york.html] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orde_M._Coombs]
