The Panther. (Atlanta, Georgia) 19??-1989, February 01, 1945, Image 1

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VOL. I CLARK COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY, 1 945 NO. 4 Clark to Celebrate 76th Anniversary - Feb. 21 One of the dramatic scenes from “Meet the Husband,” by Robert Hilton. Reading from left to right the characters are: Carter Carruthers, better known as “Ducky,” portrayed by Edward Smith; Gregory Sargent, the lawyer, portrayed by Adolphus Lester. Dramatic Miss Humphries, portrayed by Dorothy Elliott; Fania Petroff, portrayed by Portia Thomas. Franklyn Carruthers, portrayed by William E. Thompson and Caroline Stanton, portrayed by Ora J. Bohanon. Fellowship Among All Our Challenge Our present-day Clark College! This is the animated shrine! This is the embodiment of a Utopia now in carnate never to be parted with, but upon the ideals of integrity, loyalty, and cultural service will rest until the end of time. In the year 1890, Clark Universi ty was founded. Little did those who so nobly strove for the magnificent institution know that their dreams, though vague they may have been, would now be exemplified in the per spective of that new birth of educa tion. This was the challenge they ac cepted and translated into a never dying reality of the true meaning of possible seed. Was it not with awe, assiduous toil, a spirit of benevolence and serv ice, a limitless faith that they com bated many obstacles so that we may now hold the luminous torch of proud and staunch triumph ? Can we, for all we’re worth, let this flame burn out.? We must remember that we are the heirs of a priceless victory, the inheritors of a looming, growing success. Though we may want to shirk obligations, we are reminded that the world soon forgets the liar, the dodger, the proud and haughty, and hurries to place the crown of approval on the brow of him who works, because work is the ordained plan of life. When we hear the names Brookes! Thayer! Lavage! Brawley! we want to shout for the victors. But, it is not enough to shout for them. We must take hold of the imperishable, the limitless. We must hold fast to that which is true, just, eternal, rather than that which is ephemereal. We are the progeny of a long line of true Clarkites. While reminiscing we cannot but remember and day dream, though we have been with this family a short while of the sweet music, the rich teaching, the religious inspiration, the philosophi cal nursings of those known and un known. These are the incentives that spur us on to:— “Build thee more stately mansions, G my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!” When this is done, we can write the finale as though to a brilliant opera, “Clark College is Second to None!” Are you truthfully and whole heartedly accepting the challenge? Lolita D. Guinart. Prexy Speaks CLARK COLLEGE’S SEVENTY- SIXTH ANNIVERSARY On February 21, 1945, we shall pause to do honor to the founders and builders of Clark College. This will mark the Seventy-sixth Anni versary of this renowned Institution. “Where there is no vision, the peo ple perish.” The founders and build ers of Clark College had vision and courage; thus a great institution has played a significant role, not only in helping to keep a great race of people from perishing, but in inspir ing in youth the vision for great ac complishments. As the years roll on making up the historic tradition of the College, our task is to carry on the spirit of devotion of those who have gone before. At this crucial period in the his tory of the world it is ours to dedi cate and rededicate this College and ourselves to the making of a new world order and thus prove ourselves worthy of the heritage to which we are heirs. In the living faith of our founders and builders we may pass on to those to come after us a richer heritage and a greater Clark Col lege. Many See Clark Players In Farce The Clark College players under direction of Mrs. Norma Hull Bland presented to overflow audiences here last Friday and Saturday evenings, January 19 and 20, their first major production of the year —- “Meet the Husband,” by Robert Hilton. The three-act farce, with its unexpected twists and comic situations, kept the large audience roaring with laughter. The superb acting of the players, gave to the play a touch of finish seldom achieved. In “Meet the Hus band,” the proverbial poor young man falls in love with the dashing rich girl who keeps him an easy mark for the bill collectors. In order to gain large sums of money to solve nis vexatious problems in short or der, he marries a wealthy spinster on the agreement that they be divorced as soon as she comes into the pos session of the fortune left her on condition that she marry anybody save her “Ducky”—the man she has loved for years. With that marriage the complications began and rose to a smashing climax. Gregory Sargent, the struggling young lawyer in such need of a cli ent that he accepts a matrimonial case, was ably portrayed by Adol phus Lester, who lent his own keen sense of humor to the role in which he was completely at ease. Marilyn Garrett and Maurice Downs alternated as lawyer Sar gent’s witty Secretary, each giving the role her own vivacious interpre tation and charm. The much needed client and frus trated spinster, Eva Humphries, was so commendably portrayed by Doro thy Elliott that only seeing made it credible. Franklyn Carruthers was ingeniously portrayed by William Thompson who kept the audience hys terical with alternating tenderness, violence and fainting. Caroline Stanton was portrayed by Ora J. Bohanon, who with feigned, child-like simplicity, kept the com plexities mounting. Eva Humphries’ nurse was brilliantly enacted by Em ma Phillips, who not only threatened to steal the show but Miss Hum phries “Ducky” as well. With the appearance of Edward Smith, whose vivid, life like portray al of Carter Carruthers, better known as “Duckie,” we thought the cast complete until the unexpected en trance of Fania Petroff, ably por trayed by Portia Thomas. One-Woman Show Visits Clark Sunday evening, February 4, 1945, the Clark College Playhouse present ed Miss Marjorie Moffett in the sec ond dramatic recital given on the campus this year. Miss Moffett’s pro gram consisted of five dramatiza tions, one being “Shropsy Topsy” which was done by Mrs. Norma Bland in her recital earlier this year. Miss Mrs. Overton Speaks to Clark Students Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton started the first week of the semester off with a series of lectures and discus sions on Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life. Mrs. Overton is a na tive of Indiana, but makes her home with her husband, Dr. E. A. Overton in Athens, N. Y., just outside of New York City. Before entering her pres ent type of work she taught Psy chological Interpretation of Dramatic Literature in a school of the north. She has taught this and other sub jects in schools all over America. Mrs. Overton often works under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A. and other institutions; concerted efforts of Clark, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. She has given lectures at Tennessee State College, Fisk University; Bennett College and other Negro and white schools throughout the north and the south. Mrs. Overton’s initial interest in social problems began immediately after World War I while she was teaching. She did not start lectur ing then; she continued teaching and studying the personal and statistical nature of the field. She looked to see what was wrong and sought a solution to the many besetting prob lems of the field. The answers she found to solve those problems are the same as those needed today; a practical attitude to ward pre-marital relationships; be lieving and acting in behalf of so ciety as well as one’s self. She went on to say that there is a great deal of good straight thinking going on among the men and women on Clark’s campus—more than there was three years ago when she was here. She states that the women are think ing straighter than the men. The women know that men want “good girls” for their wives and they have made up their minds to be “good,” but some of the men make it diffi cult for them, by their (using her pet word) “primitive” actions. How about that? Are there cave men at C. C. ? ? ? The girls are concerned about what men mean by “good girls” and how they expect to have any left. Mason Wilkes II. Moffett, incidentally, is the author of “Shropsy Topsy.” Her experience on the stage was exhibited in the easi ness with which she projected herself into her roles. After the recital Miss Moffett was honored by a reception given in her behalf by the Playhouse. The stu dents and faculty had a chance to become acquainted with her and to hear some of her interesting experi ences. One very complimentary re mark Miss Moffett made of the Clark students was that she believed that they were beteer able to enjoy her program because of our coeducation al system. A History of The Alpha Kappa Mu Honoring Scholarship As a part of the silver anniversary program of A & T State College, Phi Beta Tau Honorary Scholarship Society invited all Negro Colleges having honor societies to send repre sentatives to consider the possibility of forming a national organization. Six colleges responded and a feder ation of honor societies was estab lished. In a second meeting at A & T College, Greensboro, North Caro lina, ten additional institutions were represented and definite plans were laid to form a national organization. An executive committee was elected to draw up a constitution, a ritual, and to adopt an emblem. At Arkansas State College in Pine Bluff, the con stitution was adopted, the name se lected and plans completed to extend the organization. Today, Alpha Kappa Mu has a membership of over nineteen col leges. It grants chapters to institu tions rated by regional or national accrediting agencies. Election to stu dent membership is limited to mem bers of junior and senior classes who have maintained a grade ratio of 2.3 points in a grading system where A is 3 points, B is 2 points, and C is 1 point. The purpose of Alpha Kappa Mu as set forth by the constitution is as follows: “The purpose of the Society shall be to promote high scholar ship, to encourage sincere and zeal ous endeavor in all fields of knowl edge and service; to cultivate a high order of personal living; and to de velop an appreciation for scholarly work and scholarly endeavor in oth ers.” Kappa Theta chapter, which is on this campus was founded in Febru ary, 1944, before the annual meeting at Atlanta University. Mr. George W. Gore, the national president, had already written here concerning the organization of a chapter, so at the annual meeting a group of representatives, led by Miss Lucille Davis, went to talk to Mr. Gore about further steps for estab lishment. As a result of having made application and conference with the officials of the society, Clark was admitted at that annual session. Its charter members are: Miss Lucille Davis, Miss Earline Burns, Miss Al ma Upton, Mr. Isiah Lawerence, Dr. J. P. Brawley, and Dr. A. A. Mc- Pheeters. One college president holds out the challenge to the student body that the honor society in the one Greek letter organization to which any de serving student can elect himself. The founders of Alpha Kappa Mu conceived of an organization of Ne gro men and women of superior abil ities who would be so organized that their mutual efforts might be co ordinated and stimulated. Anna M. Rice. Printed below is the third annual Message on Race Relations issued by tne Commission on Justice and Peace of the Central Conference of Ameri can Rabbis in observance of Race Re lations Week and Abraham Lincoln’s 136th birthday, entitled “Fellowship Among All.” “BUT THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF: I AM iHE LORD”—Lev. 19: 18. Our war effort, which has chan neled most of our national resources into a single drive for victory, has also highlighted the moral objectives tor which we strive. One of these is the achievement of fellowship among all the sons of men, whatever their ancestry or race. Prejudices based on differences in color are relics of a primitive age which neither the find ings of modern science nor the teach ings of hign religion can justify. We of the Household of Israel ex press our sense of brotherhood with the colored races. We pledge them our support in the struggle for the equality which is their right in all spheres of human endeavor. In seek ing justice they are claiming their birthrignt, whicti is upheld Dy the equality of all men before God and in the principles of the Declaration of independence and of the Constitution of the United States. We rejoice in the recent progress made in minimizing discrimination and segregation which have dishon ored our democratic society. We wel come the gains of the Fair Employ ment Practice Committee in opening the doors of industrial establishments and trade unions to those who were previously shut out by racial and re ligious intolerance. When that body is established, as we hope, on a per manent basis with adequate appropri ations, it will be all the more effec tive. We urge that similar commit tees should be set up by law in all the states to safeguard the rights of citizens which might otherwise be jeopardized by the forces of preju dice. We applaud the steps taken by the army and navy to admit to all branches of the services colored men and women who have been eager to demonstrate their patriotism in posts of responsibility and danger. No racial group in our country has manifested more heroism on the field of battle than our soldiers of Japan ese ancestry who have won glory in the Italian campaign. It is hearten ing to learn that an act of belated justice is permitting loyal Japanese- Americans to return to their home communities on the Pacific Coast. Despite all the encouraging epi sodes in the war against prejudice we are sufficiently realistic to ap preciate the great labor before us, if we are to triumph over the tradi tion of hate, which sanctions Jim Crow laws with their accompaniment of bad housing, sub-standard wages and inadequate educational facilities. These survivals of slavery must be abolished. We are gratified to note that reli gious groups are setting examples in racial justice. The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America elected a Negro as its vice-president and St. Louis University opened its doors to Negro students. May we all prove our consecration to the will of God by seeking to rid men of the spiritual disease of race prejudice. May men of good will of whatever dispensation hasten the day when all men, black, brown, yellow, and white, may recognize that they are breth ren, children of our father in heaven. Former Clarkite Serving With Red Cross Ralph A. Long, 67 Pinson Street, Newnan, Georgia, has arrived in Aus tralia to serve the armed forces as an American Red Cross Assistant Field Director. Until his Red Cross appointment Long was coach and athletic director for Savannah Street High School in Newman. He is one of two hundred Negro personnel now serving with the Red Cross overseas. He is a graduate of Clark College High School and Clark College. He is a member of the McDonough Ma sonic Order. The foregoing information was re ceived from Clifford B. Tigg, Direc tor of Public Information Service.