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12 THE PANTHER /Humtti rleuAb 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.