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cian and surgeon in Hawkins, Texas;
John A. Greene, ’26, Secretary of
the Board of Education, Nashville,
Tenn.; Mrs. Myra Mebane Thom
as, ’27, music instructor at Living
stone College, Salisbury, N. C.; Dr.
M. LaFayette Harris, ’28, President
of Philander-Smith College, Little
Rock, Arkansas; Way man Carver,
’28, instructor at Clark; Bolton Con
nor Price, ’28, Chairman of the
Mathematics and Science Depart
ments at Jackson College, Jackson,
Miss.; Dr. Joseph J. Dennis, ’29,
head of the Department of Mathe
matics, Clark College .
From the 1930’s, there are Dr. J.
J. Seabrook, ’30, president of Claflin
College, Orangeburg, S. C.; Charles
Ayeoek, ’31, high school principal
and civic leader of Rome, Ga.; E. L.
Simon, ’33, outstanding insurance
executive with the Atlanta Life In
surance Company; Marvin N. Riley,
’35, president and director of the Har
lem Boys Club, and president of the
Clark Club of New York; Dr. John
Hubert Clark, ’35, prominent physi
cian and surgeon of Knoxville, Tenn.;
Mrs. Phoebe Burney, ’35, Dean of
Women at Clark College; Howard
deGrasse Asbury, ’36, Professor
and head of the Department of Soci
ology at Samuel Huston College;
M. J. Wynn, ’37, Director of Reli
gious Life at Bethune-Cookman Col
lege, Daytona, Beach, Fla.; Dr.
Charles B. Copher, ’38, outstand
ing scholar of the Old Testament
and professor at Gammon Theologi
cal Seminary.
From 1940’s, L. Scott Allen, ’40,
minister and civic leader of Atlanta,
Ga.; Joshua E. Lieorish, ’40, Na
tional President of the Clark College
Alumni Association; Mrs. Mary W.
Gray Marshall, ’40, nutrition spe
cialist with the Bureau of Human
Nutrition and Home Economics of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture;
Thomas Jefferson Pugh, Chaplain
and Director of Religious Life at
Albany State College, Albany, Ga.;
Daniel C. Thompson, ’41, Asso
ciate Professor of Sociology, Dillard
University, New Orleans.
These are, of course, but a few
of the men and women who carry
the banner of Clark College.
Clark Alumnus
Honored
Mrs. Mae Reese Johnson, ’04, of
Pasadena, California, stopped in At
lanta, Georgia, recently en route to
Hastings, England, to attend the Inter
national Convention of the Women’s
Christian Temperance Unino, to re
ceive from President James P. Braw-
ley a citation for the outstanding so
cial work which she has done in
Pasadena. President Brawley hailed
her as “one of the college’s most dis
tinguished graduates who has put
life and action into the motto of the
college — ‘Culture for Service’.”
Mrs. Johnson, a native of Newnan,
Georgia, was graduated from Clark
in 1904, and after teaching in Bes
semer, Alabama, Tuskegee Institute
and in the Philippines, went to Cali
fornia where in 1927 in one room
in a church, she organized the group
which was to become the Scattergood
Association of today — a social ser
vice settlement highly respected and
devoted to the uplift of all youth re
gardless of race, creed or color. In
the beginning, Mrs. Johnson had
only twelve children, but today the
settlement boasts of more than 250
and a modern building.
In 1948 the Women’s Civic League
of Pasadena named Mrs. Johnson as
one of the five women who had con
tributed the most — culturally — to
Pasadena in that year. In 1949 the
Interracial Club of the same city
paid her a similar honor. Praises
have been heaped upon her by the
leading civic and governmental lead
ers of Pasadena. She goes to Europe
as a result of a fund which friends
in Pasadena raised to see her make
the trip — a fact which in itself indi
cates the high esteem in which Mrs.
Johnson and her work are held.
Dr. Brawley stated that the Scatter
good Youth Center had helped in the
prevention of juvenile delinquency
and had moved young people to be
come fine citizens.