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THE PANTHER
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By Frankun S. Jones, Jk.
AI um n i Sec retar y
The success of an educational insti
tution depends upon its graduates
The 81st school year has been re
corded and Clark finds itself today a
greater institution than ever before.
One might ask in what way is it
greater. To mention a few items,
leadership is one. Everyone is
aware of the fact that any worth
while institution, to make progress
and keep abreast of the times, must
have good guidance. Throughout the
years Clark has had good leadership
as exemplified by our present admin
istrator, Dr. James P. Brawley.
The faculty is stronger today
than at any previous time in history.
There are more and better qualified
persons who hold higher degrees
from many leading colleges and uni
versities.
The physical plant is one of the
most attractive to be found on the
campus of any American college. It
is one of the few colleges which has a
completely new physical plant. There
is also one of the best cafeteria din
ing hall systems to be found in any
institution.
The alumni continue to distin
guish themselves. A tree is judged
by the fruit it bears; likewise an insti
tution is judged by its alumni —
those who go out as products of the
college. To mention a few, from the
1890’s, we have Miss Annie E.
Hall. ’92, a retired missionary and
Christian worker who spent more than
a quarter of a century in Africa; Mrs.
Ella Cynthia Clements, ’92, a re
tired teacher after fifty years of teach
ing in Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ala
bama.
From the 1910’s, there is Mrs.
Sadie Overton Davis, ’02. wife of
the famous General Benjamin 0.
Davis and mother of Colonel Ben
jamin 0. Davis, Jr., of the U. S. Air
Forces; Mrs. Mae Reese Johnson,
’04, an outstanding social and civic
worker of Pasadena, California; Jo
seph B. F. Prather. ’06, retired
teacher and lawyer; Dr. Arthur C.
Cochran. ’09. noted physician of
Atlanta, Ca.; Alexander Joseph
Allen. TO, outstanding religious
leader and Bishop in the A.M.E.
Church; Dr. Louis T. Wright, ’ll.
physician and surgeon in World War
1 and for many years Chief Surgeon
at the Harlem Hospital, New York
City; Dr. Vernon Ayer, T4, Public
Health Officer of New York City;
Miss Ruth Gwendolyn Rush, T4.
a distinguished teacher and former
Dean of Women at North Carolina
College at Durham; J. H. Touch
stone. T6. Associate General Secre
tary of the Board of Lay Activities
of the Methodist Church, Chicago,
Illinois; Eleazar W. Rakestraw,
T6, an outstanding minister and re
nowned civic leader of Los Angeles.
California; Sewell C. Freeman,
T9, instructor in dentistry at Meharry
Medical College and a member of the
Board of Trustees of Clark College.
From the 1920's we have Charles
L. Gideons, "21, civic leader and
principal of David T. Howard High
School, Atlanta; Robert E. Cure-
ton. ’25. civic leader and outstanding
high school teacher of Atlanta, Geor
gia; Mrs. Grace Benson Albert.
25, a teacher and principal for more
than fifteen years in Miami, Florida:
Howard L. Johnson, "29, Director
of Johnson Enterprises, Little Rock,
Arkansas; Dr. Arthur Benson, ’29.
physician and neuro-psychiatrist at
Tuskegee Veterans Hospital; Dr.
Martin Luther Edwards. ’26. physi-
Six students at (dark who are studying
English under Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes,
head of the college’s English Department
lor twenty-five years, are the children of
parents wlw were taught by Doctor Brookes
during her long career at Chirk. Dr.
Brookes (behind flowers) is talking to five
of the six. Left to right: Thirkield Cravens
of Chattanooga, Tennessee, son of Prof.
Thirkield Cravens, Sr.; Carolyn Heath of
New York City, whose mother, Mrs. Wessie
Owens Heath, is a postal clerk in New
York: l Dr. Brookes) : Martin Edwards, son
of Dr. M. L. Edwards of Hawkins, Texas:
Avis Carver, daughter of Prof, and Mrs.
Wayman Carver of the dark faculty; and
Simon Edwards, brother of Martin.