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A JOURNAL OF NEGRO COLLEGE LIFE
Second
Semester
Begins
January 28
Volume II
Clark College, Atlanta, Ga., January, 1946
Number 3
Famed African
Dr* Charles Keith,
Guest Lecturer at
Clark College
Clark Students
Hear Stirring
Message on
P o w e
Guests of Clark Colege Wednesday,
January 9, were Reverend Thomas
Anderson and Dr. Charles Keith.
Reverend Anderson, pastor of the
Central Congregational Church of At
lanta, Georgia, under who influence
such forceful speakers as Dr. Keith
are brought to the Atlanta area, in
troduced Dr. Keith, who, like other
speakers, came to Atlanta “to share
more fully and effectively in the cul
tural development of the Southeast.
Dr. Keith, pastor of the Elliott
Congregational Church in Boston,
Massachusetts and national lecturer,
marveled at the “grandeur and size
of the student bodies” which he met
and addressed at Spelman, Morehouse
and Clark Colleges. His address to
the Clark student body had as its
theme—Power. He said, “We live in
a world dominated by the idea of
power. The concept of power has to
be reckoned with.” He cited the im
portance of the power of the U. S.
Navy, the importance of power (line
power) on a football team, the im
portance of power in transportation.
The domination of the idea of power
he climatically illustrated by refer
ring to the world’s recent state of
paralysis by fear of the power of the
atomic bomb. Success in life, he told
his audience, is determined by power
—this time “intellectual power.”
“Power,” he said, flows to the one who
knows. By reason of the power of
learning we may scale the heights
of success.”
After vivid illustrations of the
power idea, Dr. Keith limited his' lec
ture to a challenging and stirring
discussion of the power of personal
ity. “There can be no great success
without it,” he said. He continued,
“Personality is character—what you
are as a result of the forces in life
that play upon you. It is based upon
a result of attitudes toward the world
and toward people. It is a power to
be developed.” The speaker then
named, discussed, and illustrated
vividly three means of developing this
power. He advised that we must
first eliminate worry and ignore the
croaker. We must eliminate worry,
according to Dr. Keith about social
life, about the future, about exami
nations which can be met without
worry if day by day preparation has
been practiced. “Worry,” said Dr.
Keith, “destroys happiness, weakens
the power of personality. It is not
to be confused with planning and in
sight. Iti s rather a wearing force.”
He beautifully illustrated ^lis ignore-
the-croaker idea by giving an im
pressive reading of Joe Lincoln’s
poetic fable of the frog who croaked
incessantly not because he could not
see the beautiful pointed out to him
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Clark College
Mourns Death
Of Mrs. Pfeiffer
Wednesday, January 9, the students
and faculty members of Clark College
joined President James P. Brawley
in mourning the passing of Mrs. An
nie M. Pfeiffer, New York philan
thropist and benefactor to man.
Reached by long distance telephone
at Cleveland, Ohio, where he is at
tending a series of educational con
ferences, Dr. Brawley expressed re
grets at the loss of so great a friend
to Negro education and so personal a
friend to Clark College. The full
text of the president’s tribute to Mrs.
Pfeiffer follows below:
“Clark College and the cause of
Negro education have lost a most val
uable Christian friend in the passing
of Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer. Mrs. Pfeiffer,
at the time of her passing, ' was a
member of the Clark College Board of
Trustees and had been connected with
the College in this capacity for sev
eral years. It was through Mrs.
Pfeiffer’s generous gift of $400,000
that Henry Pfeiffer Dormitory for
men and Annie Merner Dormitory for
women were erected on the Clark
College campus.
“The College Family had come to
love and appreciate Mrs. Pfeiffer not
only because of her philanthropy,
but because of her Christian spirit
and the faith she had in the integrity
of all human beings. Her annual
visits to the campus in the spring of
each year were looked forward to by
students and faculty because she
showed such genuine appreciation for
the simple kindnesses that were ex
tended her during her visits.
“Mrs. Pfeiffer’s gifts to Clark Col
lege and Bennett College exceeded the
total of $2,000,000. Lasting memo
rials to her Christian philosophy and
the magnificent obsession, she had for
sharing now stand crystalized in brick
and motor on Clark and Bennett
campuses. For countless years in the
Dancer at Clark College
Asadata Dafora—
Third Guest on
All-Star
Concert Series
Sunday School
Group Cheers
Aged Atlantans
Sunday morning, December 16,
1945, the Sunday School members of
Clark College gathered in Davage
Auditorium, whence they went heavy
laden with gifts and the spirit of
giving to the Home for the Aged on
Camilla Street, where they spread
Christmas cheer. Christmas carols
were sung by the group and gifts
were given to the eager and appre
ciative residents of the home. The
entire Sunday School group found
great joy in applying the Christian
principle of giving not so much of
the material but giving of themselves,
and an equally great joy in “living”
Christ rather than merely “talking”
Christ.
A Purely Voluntary Group
The Sunday School Group was only
reorganized during this school year
as a purely voluntary organization.
On Sunday, November 25, 1945, an
interested group of students met in
the lounge of Merner Hall with Mrs.
Hattie Carmichael presiding. Their
first discussion proved a lively and in
teresting one from the book of Mat
thew. The interest spread from this
small group to a large number of
students which necessitaed moving
the place of meeting to Dagage Audi
torium, where the group has met since
December 2, 1945.
Officers of Sunday School
The following officers have been
elected to carry on the business and
meeting of the group. The officers
include both students and teachers,
who share in this rich Christian ex
periment :
Mrs. H. Carmichael Superintendent
Miss Florence Wheeler...... Secretary
Mrs. A. H. Williams Treasurer
Miss Jane Clark Pianist
Sunday School teachers include Mr.
C. V. Holland, Dean A. O. Busta
mante, Allene Blake, Madone Smith,
Essie Simmons, Thelda Phillips and
Dorothy Scruggs.
Membership
The Sunday School organization
started with an enrollment of twenty-
seven and has since grown to an en-
future she will be remembered, for
in the hearts of thousands of Negro
youth she has achieved immortality.”
Clark Students
Attend Third
National Meth
odist Student
Conference
At the' Third National Methodist
Student Conference, Clark College
was ably represented by three stu
dents—Misses Ogust Delaney and
Florence Wheeler and Mr. Roland
Haynes—and Professor C. V. Hol
land, Instructor of Religious Educa
tion and Counselor of Men. The Con
ference met December 28-January 1
on the campus of the University of
Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Clark dele
gates mingled and liven congenially
and discussed problems with other
delegates (more than 1,515 students
and counselors) representing forty-
two nations.
The theme of the conference was,
“The Church Meets the Crisis of Our
Time”—the crisis treated being pri
marily a racial crisis. Eager dele
gates asked and proposed answers to
the question, “What can we do to pro
mote better race relations?”
Since twenty-six different divisions
met each day of the conference dele
gates were forced to choose confer-
ances according to their own special
interests. Mr. Roland Haynes at
tended the meeting on Race Relations,
in which he found a wholesome ex
change of stimulating ideas on meth
ods of combating and solving world
race problems. Somie active plans
discussed which Mr. Haynes reported
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Asadata Dafora, the acclaimed Af
rican dancer, was the third artist on
the Clark College All-Star Concert
Series, January 16, 1946, when he
presented “The Dream of African
Dance” to an enthusiastic and appre
ciative audience of students and
friends of the college. The entire
audience was fascinated by the au
thentic performance of Mr. Dafora
and his associates, whose presenta
tion of “The Drama of the African
Dance” consisted of a series of tradi
tional native dances interpreting the
rhythm and heartbeat of Africa.
Mr. Dafora is internationally rec
ognized as a foremost exponent and
choreographer of African dances and
music and has received high praise
and unqualified approval from both
press and public for his unique per
formances. He has made sensationally
successful appearances at New York’s
Carnegie Hall, the New School for
School Research, the American Mu
seum of Natural History, the Brook
lyn Museum, the Annual Dance Fes
tival at Fisk University and many
others.
Heritage and Accomplishments
Bom in Sierra Leone, West Africa,
(Continued on Page Three)
rollment of fifty-six. Any student or
faculty member or friend of the col
lege is welcome. Won’t you join us
next Sunday morning in Davage Audi
torium at 8:45?
Sunday, School Qroup
Southern Voting
Practices Bared
The devices which Keep the major
ity of southern citizens away from
the polls are uncovered by the South’s
leading editors and writers in a
pamphlet, “Voting Restrictions in the
Thirteen Southern States,” with state-
by-state surveys on election practices
and regulations.
The reports show that in the thir
teen Southern states, 27 per cent of
the potential voters cast their ballots,
compared to 61.9 per cent in the other
thirty-five states. The three most gen
eral limitations brought to the light
in the pamphlet are:
(1) Arbitrary interpretation of
complicated registration laws which
allowed the exclusion of great num
bers of the population.
(2) The fact that in many states
the election is actually decided by the
Democratic primary election, in which
Negroes are often not allowed to par
ticipate; and
(3) The poll tax, which, by its fi
nancial burden the nuisance which it
involves keeps many people from the
polls.
Other difficulties in the way of vot
ing include unreasonable location of
voting places, and limited hours of
voting, making it impossible for work
ers to get to the polls.
Readers of the Clark College Pan
ther may secure free copies of the
attractively-illustrated pamphlet from
the Committee of Editors and Writ
502 Chamber of Commerce Build
ing, Atlanta 3, Ga.