The Panther. (Atlanta, Georgia) 19??-1989, May 01, 1950, Image 9

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THE PANTHER 9 College Secretary Awarded Scholarship Through the Woman’s Division of Christian Service, the Crusade Schol arship Committee of the Methodist Church has awarded Miss Wilhelmina J. Gilbert, for seven years secretary to President James P. Brawley, a scholarship for graduate study. She has been admitted to the graduate division of the Boston University School of Public Relations where she expects to matriculate in September, 1950, to study for the M.S. degree in public relations. Miss Wilhelmina Gilbert Miss Gilbert, a native of Titusville, Fla., has had a distinguished aca demic record in Methodist Schools. From Boylan-Haven High School in Jacksonville, Florida, under the aus pices of the Woman’s Division of Christian Service, she was graduated as valedictorian of her class. She received the A.B. degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Clark College in 1942, majoring in business administration and social science. Immediately fol lowing graduation, she taught at Allen High School in Asheville, N. C., a position which she held until her re turn to Clark as secretary to the Presi dent in 1943. In addition to her secretarial duties, she has served as adviser to the local chapter of Alpha Kappa Mu Honorary Society of which she is a member, as adviser to Sigma Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Soror ity, and has worked acitvely with the college committee on public relations and the committee on decorations and arrangements. The College wishes Miss Gilbert much success in her new endeavor and hopes that the efficiency which has characterized her work here will continue at Boston. English Professor CBS Award Winner Mr. M. Carl Holman, instructor in the Department of English at Clark College, was the first Negro to win an award for writing an original play in the “Dr. Christian” Script competition recently. Mr. Holman flew to New York, at the expense of the sponsors, to appear on the May 17th broadcast, and to receive a prize of $350.00 for his script, “The Other One.” Mr. Holman is a graduate of Lin coln University, Missouri, and re ceived his master’s degree from the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the Clark faculty for two years. * Mr. M. Carl Holman In 1945, he won the Fiske award for poetry which is awarded by the LTniversity of Chicago. His poems have also been published in Poetry of the Negro which was edited by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes. From 1944 to 1946, he was a Rosenwald Fellow studying creative writing. He is married to the former Miss Mariella Ama of Atlanta, and has one son, Kerry Glenn. Announced Harold Hamilton and David Stan ley, both juniors, have been appointed co-editors of the Clark Panther for the next year. Hamilton and Stanley have worked with the Panther this year as staff members and as guest editors. They have been studying journalism for the past year, and look to their new positions as an opportunity to in crease their journalistic training. Both Hamilton and Stanley are majoring in English.