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THE CLARK PANTHER, SEPTEMBER, 1949
THE
CLARK PANTHER
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A Journal of College Life
Published from September to June
VOICE OF THE STUDENTS
MOUTHPIECE OF THE COLLEGE
A promoter of school spirit by encouraging projects and efforts
among student groups and individual students.
A medium through which an opportunity is provided for students
to obtain experience in news gathering, reporting, book-previewing, edi
torial, and creative writing.
An instrument for fostering friendly and constructive criticism
of campus activities.
DAVID CHARLES COLLINGTON
Editor-in-Chief
HULEY B. DODSON WILLIAM STANLEY
Associate-Editor News-Editor
Ethel Watkins ..
James Woodard
Harold Hamilton
Fred White
Harry Atkins —
Society
Feature
Feature
Art
.. Sports
Julius Conway __
Lillian Graves
Alfred Wyatt .....
David Stanley ...
Fred Ross
Photographer
Fashion
Circulation
Poet
Business Manager
ADVISORS
John F. Summersette, Darwin T. Turner, Franklin S. Jones
REPORTERS
Alfonso Goggins, Emanuel Fryar, Lorenzo Jones,
Lorenzo Manns, and David Kilgore
TYPISTS
Lois Richardson, Annie Burts, Ruth Paradise,
Jerodene Hodges and Frances McGuire
Helen Thomas, Marion Brown Staff Secretaries
BE YOURSELF .
An often misused and reversed interpretation has been
attached to the quotation “Be Yourself.” This old adage has
meant for years that a person is attempting to be facetious,
obtrusive, or offensive toward someone else.
Many of us seldom stop to think that such a quotation may be
used to their own advantage. We never stop to analyze our abilities
because we are too busy attempting to adopt the traits of someone else.
It is a tremendous task for a person to be himself. A great per
centage of us actually underestimate our abilities and, of course,
there are those who overestimate themselves. We underestimate our
selves because we lack the inspiration to plunge feet first into a task.
Opportunities are open to all of us, but we shelve those opportunities
and are content to remain placid because of an overwhelming fear of
failure. Failing once, we are too discouraged to start again.
Overestimation of one’s ability may often prove detrimental; how
ever, we must give this person credit for his sweat and toil to achieve
the success that slips farther and farther away with every effort.
This complex problem could and will eventually lead to frustration.
Such a person need not rationalize or compensate because he has taken
more of the pie than he could eat. The simple adage “Be Yourself”
may be just the cure for this person’s many ills.
It is here that he should accept the stark realization that reaching
for the stars is futile. He should stop, check his potentiality closely,
and choose those endeavors which will come within the range of his
ability.
Ultimate solution to the problem of overestimation nears when the
person admits to himself that he cannot surpass or reach his intended
endeavor and must step down to a level within his means of attainment.
A wise choice in this man over makes a happier and more mentally
sound person. Thus success is his to achieve.
The best may be gained from life when a person recognizes the
true extent of his ability; at this time he recognizes himself. Then,
he gears his level of aspirations in accord with his personality and
intellectual ability. —Huley B. Dodson.
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR “Y” REPORTER
By Daughtry L. Thomas
Did you know that when you join the YMCA you become a part of
an amazing fellowship which reaches back in time to 1844 and reaches
around the world? The first YMCA was founded in London in 1844,
followed by the London YWCA in 1855. The first student YMCA was
formed at the University of Virginia in 1858 and the first campus
YMCA at Illinois Normal University in 1873. The YMCA on this cam
pus has a very rich heritage also.
The YMCA and YWCA are pioneering organizations. Many features
of campus life had humble origins in the “Y’s”. Among them are
student employment bureaus, student counselling, campus cooperatives,
student government, freshman orientation, summer camps and confer
ences, and use of the discussion method.
A unique contribution to church life has been the training of students
who now in their adult life are leading the movement toward church
unity in communities and in the World Council of Churches. But the
greatest contribution of the “Y’s” is the awakening of the minds and
spirits of students who later become leaders in the social, political and
religious movements of small communities and of the world.
Did you know that our YMCA and YWCA are a part of the Cen
tral-Geneva Region? There are very good chances for us to send
representatives to these conferences where one will have the chance
to meet students from other colleges.
Brady Jones, past president of the YWCA and Jesse Gibson, past
president of the YMCA, attended conferences at Berea, Kentucky last
year as our representatives from Clark.
We here at Clark College are members of the campus units of the
YMCA and YWCA and of the National Student, YMCA and YWCA.
Membership is open to all young men and women of the campus com
munity who share our purpose and wish to further the program.
Marva Bell is president of the YWCA. Rodney Reed is president
of the YMCA.
THE POET’S
CORNER
TO BE WITH YOU
By David Stanley
My •every waking hour
Is spent in thoughts of you,
All through each dreary day,
There’s nothing else I do.
I long to see your smile,
See you in all your grace,
And all the things you mean to me,
Which no one can replace.
To me you are like a heavenly star,
Brighter than all the rest.
Shining for me alone,
And bringing me happiness.
Though we’re apart for now,
Fate will soon play its part,
And you’ll be in my arms again,
With love for me in your heart.
REMEMBERING
By David Stanley
A dance floor, music, a girl,
That I held in my arms,
Alone in a noisy crowd,
As I floated on a cloud.
Strolling down a lonely path,
Humming a lovely tune,
The brown eyes I gazed into,
Under the light of the moon.
As I recall these things,
My lonely heart feels blue,
I remember many things,
But they all add up to You.
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE
That the President’s name be
tween 1900 and 1904 was, and still
is Harry S. Truman.
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That the Geigar-Counter can be
used to locate and outline brain
tumors.
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That the life span of bachelors
is shorter than married men.
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That the present world birthrate
is 55,000 born per day.
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That the giraffe has no vocal
cords; he talks with his tail.
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That a camel can see backwards
without turning his head.
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That 69 out of every 1,000 men
in Georgia are psychopatic cases.
The National average is 52.
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That fish actually breathe.
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That approximately 61 million
men and women of our 155 millibn
people in America drink some form
of alcoholic beverage; 750,000 of
these are chronic alcoholics.
THE FRESHMAN SPEAKS
By Councille Blye
After I gave driver number six
of the Lincoln Cab company tend
ings, things began to happen
around Clark College.
Upon my arrival, I was greeted
by a group of seven upperclassmen
who exclaimed, “They have started
coming in, poor fools.” That was
no more than I expected because
before I left for Atlanta, I was told
what to expect from upperclass
men.
I was given a warm welcome by
Mr. Mazyck and Mother Fraser.
After meeting Mother Fraser, the
slight homesick passion left in a
whirl. I had informed the home
folk of my safe arrival, and was
altogether at ease until I went to
lunch and learned that I was “Dog
Blye” and had to purchase a dog
cap the next morning.
I was told to come in one room
and make a skirt from a very ex
quisite blanket. I began to cut the
skirt out and stitch it. When fresh
man week ended, I was just about
to insert a dot and adjust the band.
After carrying 18 glasses of wa
ter, 6 pints of ice cream, 12 cokes
and 4 dozens of donuts, I was re
leased at 5:30 a.m. I never thought a
piano would be of any use to me
while taking lessons, but I found it
to be the ideal front on which to
put a mattress for an all night
snooze.
I was released during the place
ment examinations hours, but had
a list of chores to perform after
each test.
When freshman week ended, I
began clases and had become ad
justed to college life. After meeting
my teachers, going to classes and
meetings of various organizations,
I felt as though I was a full-fledg
ed college man.
I ended my freshman week ex
perience by writing a letter home.
In the letter, I made the assertion,
“The beautiful buildings and
grounds of Clark make me feel
proud to be a Clarkite. The teach
ers and fellows here aren’t so bad
after all.”
ART AS EXPERIENCE
In our times many words are often confused as to their denotative
meanings and we are often baffled at the multiplicity of definitions
given for the same word. The term “art” has suffered this abuse and
for centuries has lived in a vacuum of mystery and uncertainty. Im
properly used, it has been concerned with only the museum, the gallery
and the concert hall. “The realm of art is identical with the realm of
man’s deliberate control of that world of materials and movements
among which he must make his home, of that inner world of random
impulses and automatic processes which constitute his inner being.
The breaking of a stick, the building of a hut, a skyscraper, or a
cathedral, the use of language for communication, the sowing or the
harvesting of a crop, the nurture and education of children, the
framing of a code of laws or morals, the weaving of a garment, or
the digging of a mine—all of these are alike examples of art no less
than the molding of a relief or the composition of a symphony”, says
Irwin Edman, professor of Philosophy, Columbia University.
Experience then, is the very essence of art. This experience might
be as simple as the aimless movements of a baby or as complex as
of the working of some chemical formula. It is the segment of one
of these experiences that the artist works with, be he poet, sculptor,
musician, architect. It is one of these segments that we enjoy. To the
extent that experience has form, it is an art. Painters sometimes speak
of dead spots in a painting: areas where the color is dull or unin
teresting or the forms weak technically. Experience is full of dead
spots. Art gives it life.
It is one of the chief functions of the artist to render experience
satisfactory by rendering it alive. The still life is not to be gaped at
for practical satisfaction; rather it is to be looked at with the aesthetic
eye, a satisfaction for the soul. The symphony is not to be listened
to for commercial reasons, but should rather transport us to another
world—a world of aesthetic sensuality. The artist does something to
events that compels the eye to stop and find pleasure in the beholding,
the ear to hear for the sake of listening, the mind to attend for the
keen impractical pleasure of discovery or suspense or surprise.
Won’t you help re-live some of these experiences of Beethoven, Van
Gogh, Rembrandt, Wordsworth and' some of the others who beg
us to live with them, seeing this life as an experience? Won’t you
try to think as Edman thinks about the whole realm of the arts?
Note :Mr. Sherrod is instructor of art at Clark College.
—Arthur Sherrod
PRESIDENT BRAWLEY
WELCOMES THE FRESHMEN
It is indeed a pleasure to have
this opportunity to welcome new
Clarkites to the family circle. It
seems to be a tradition to think
of this program as a welcome to
freshmen alone. This I think is
very erroneous. An important ele
ment "is overlooked—-the faculty. It
is antiquated to think of a college
faculty as being on one side of a
stream in a tug-of-war game with
students on an opposite bank. We
like to think of our faculty as our
close friends and trusted advisors.
In this spirit we greet you and say
we are especially glad to have you.
There is one feature of this pro
gram, however, that seems never
to change. It always turns out to be
an experience meeting in which
considerable effort is exerted to
advise freshmen. In fact, in many
instances, it is a series of warnings
against the proverbial pitfalls to
be encountered in life. As for me,
if there was any value in this sort
of welcome it was not obvious then.
I was actually bored.
But, when I tried to devise a new
scheme, I found the task harder
than I expected. It seemed heart
less to skip it. This exercise today
makes me very conscious of the
fact that time is elastic; for it
seems only yesterday that my class
was welcomed. I mention this not
as a boastful reminiscence of how
long we have been here, but rather
with a note of seriousness. I can
think of many things I would do if
we were starting again. But there
are circumstances over which we
have little or no control—such as
growing four years older.
The plight of the human race
would be a horrible thing to imag
ine if we did not profit by the past
experience of our predecessors. We
would be not better than the low
est forms of animal life. So, if ex
perience means anything, I would
urge you to remember three things.
Socrates, one of the greatest
philosophers of all time summed up
the art of living in two counts.
Said he, “Know thyself,” and “Be
moderate in all things.” If you add
these two to the golden rule of our
Lord, you will have a code that
covers. all the laws of morality,
justice and fair play.
Remember that all life is like an
ever moving procession. Clark Col
lege is like a piece of fabric and
we are all weavers. The design has
been schemed, but the pattern that
it will become depends upon each
of us.
You will pass this way once only.
First, observe, for an observing
freshman makes an inquisitive
sophomore; then, work, for the stu
dious junior often makes a wise
senior; and the wise senior is the
gift of the college to the betterment
of society.
The student body of Clark Col
lege welcomes you and sincerely
hopes that the years you will spend
here will be the fullest and richest
of your young experience.