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VOL. VII
NOVEMBER, 1950, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
No. n
We Launch
Endowment - Expansion Drive
Miss Harriet Junior about to sever the ribbon across the door leading to the new
Holmes Hall Dormitory Library on November 12, 1950. Looking on are: Miss Ethel Wat
kins, left, Miss Charlemae Rollins, and Dean A. A. McPheeters.
PANTHER FROLIC TO
December first marked the be
ginning of the 1950 Clark College
Endowment - Expansion Campaign,
with Dr. William H. Hale as chair
man of the Expansion-Endowment
Committee.
The 1950 effort is part of a ten
year project to raise $2,500,000.
This money is to be used in making
Clark College bigger and beter.
In an interview with Dr. Hale
it was learned that the planned
uses of the money raised in the
campaign are: (1) Student Schol
arships, (2) Endowment to guar
antee a more assured income for
the College, (3) Construction of a
new Health and Physical Educa
tion Building, (4) Construction of
a new Home Economics Practice
Cottage with guest apartments,
(5) More adequate housing facili
ties for students and faculty.
The 1950 goal is $150,000, of
which $20,000 is to be raised
through the joint efforts of the staff
and students. In the 1950 campaign
the joint effort of the students and
staff produced $15,000. Toward the
BE FIRST PROGRAM
1950 student-staff effort, the stu
dents are asked to contribute five
dollars.
In connection with the Endow
ment-Expansion Campaign the col
lege is presenting on December 14,
“The Panther Frolic,” a musical
show written and directed by M.
Carl Holman and Wayman Carver,
both are instructors at Clark. The
“Panther Frolic” will be presented
in the Atlanta Municipal Auditor
ium.
For their efforts in the campaign,
students are to be awarded the fol
lowing prizes: $25.00 to the student
raising the largest amount, $15.00
to the student raising the second
largest amount, $5.00 to the stu
dent raising the third largest
amount.
The class raising the largest
amount, per capita, will be pre
sented a trophy, a dinner-dance, and
the honor of selecting “Miss United
Negro College Fund” of 1950. The
commitee on Special Projects estab
lished these awards.
32nd Annual Book Week
Observed; Holmes Hall
Library Opened
By Harold Hamilton
The 32nd Annual Book Week was observed at Clark
College by the opening of a new library in the Merrill J.
Holmes Hall on November 12, 1950. Another feature of the
Clark observance of the nationally-celebrated week was a
Book Fair, also presented in Holmes Hall, on November 11,
1950. These two events were jointly sponsored by the Library
Department, under the direction of Mrs. Margaret Hunton,
Clark College Librarian; the English Department, under
the direction of Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes and an Educa
tion Class under Mrs. Pearlie C. Dove.
specialty books as yet in the new
library.
The library 'was dedicated by
Harriett Junior and Moses Faison
both Clark students. Prior to the
opening, Miss Juanita Traylor re
lated the story of Book Week.
Mrs. Charlemae Rollins, the guest
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Historians Meet In Atlanta
! For Annual Conference;
Woodson Honored
Dr. W. S Savage
Speaks At
Chapel Hour
Dr. W. S. Savage of Lincoln
University (Mo.) visited the Clark
College morning assembly on Oc
tober 25th. Dr. Savage commented
The new library, in the reading Athens, Georgia, there are 130 briefly on “The Negro in the West-
room of Holmes Hall, the ultra- books in the new library. Atlanta ern Movement.” Dr. Savage is an
modern women’s library, is the first d^hy newspapers and periodicals authority on that subject and he
dormitory library on the campus. be supplied through the Li- interestingly enlightened the stu-
Its use is not restricted to Holmes brary Department of the College, dents on the Negro’s part in ject, “Carter G. Woodson Among s *' a *- e< ^ that “We are living in
The annual convention of the Association for the Study
of Negro Life and History met in Atlanta recently for the
purpose of revealing the facts it had brought to light con
cerning Negro progress and achievement.
Mayor William B. Hartsfield welcomed the delegates
at the first session of the conference held in Sisters Chapel,
Spelman College, on Friday morning, October 27, 1950. The
Mayor expressed his hope that the Association would con
tinue to carry out its objective of searching for and exposing
the truth of Negro life and history. Said he, “It is unwise
for the United States to cry out for democracy in Asia and
lose it in Georgia.”
Dr. Charles Wesley, President of ment He was discoverer, organ-
Wilberforce State College, ad- ln Dava S e Auditorium, Clark Col-
dressed the first session on the sub- e ^ e * *his session Dr. Bethune
Hall residents, but it is for all fe- At present most of the books are frontier life. Scholars,” honoring the associa- new with new opportunities
male students, however, plans are novels. Other than a collection of Dr. Savage was here attending tion’s founder. Dr. Wesley ap- lz ® r ’ an< * fighter for truth. He was
under way for the installation of the works of Frank Yerby and a the recent Historians convention praised Woodson by stating that a distinguished scholar in his gen-
libraries in Merner, Pfeiffer, and set of encyclopedias, there are no held in this city. “He was a builder of his own move- eratl0n -
Beckwith Street residences.
In charge of the library will be
representatives from the sororities,
one representative taking charge
each month.
There will be no set hours for
the library to be open and the
“open shelf” system whereby a
student may withdraw books by
signing a withdrawal slip posted
in the library for this purpose.
Including a donation of thirty
books by Mrs. Mayme Rayburne,
Alumni Pledges
$25,000
In cooperation with the expan
sion and endowment campaign of
1950-51, the Clark College Alumni
officers, at a recent luncheon,
pledged $25,000.
This campaign is being sponsored
to enlarge our endowment, im
prove facilities and faculty, and to
meet current obligations.
The challenge to support this
campaign, to the more than 2,500 p ro j egsor j Sweat, instructor of History at Clark College, addressing the afternoon session of the
graduates, former students and annua ] convention of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History held in Davage Audi-
friends must be met in order for torium on Monday, October 30th, 1950. Professor Sweat is shown delivering a critique of an address by
Clark to remain a leader among General Alvin C. Gillem (Army, retired) made earlier at another session. General Gillem is seated at the
our higher institutions of learning. far right.
In the absence of Dr. Mary
McLeod Bethune, who arrived later,
her speech, “The Torch Is Ours,”
was read by Dr. Rayford W.
Logan. Dr. Bethune is president
of the Association.
The afternoon session was held
and advantages, and we must bring
ourselves to realize our individual
responsibilities to help make this
a world full of peace, prosperity,
brotherhood, fellowship, economic
security, and freedom—real free
dom, going down to the grass roots
and giving the most humble to us
the things that bring security in
years to come.” This speech by Dr.
Bethune was the impetus for the
series of discussions which fol
lowed. At the session held at Clark
College Professor E. J. Sweat de
livered a critique of a speech made
earlier by General Alvin C. Gillem
(Army, retired). Other speakers
were: Dr. W. Sherman Savage,
Lincoln University; Dr. Bell I.
Wiley, Emory University, and Dr.
Charles H. Wesley, president of
Wilberforce State College.
Miss Gwendolyn Brooks, first
Negro woman to win the Pulitzer
Prize, was honored at a luncheon
held in the Atlanta University
Dining Hall on Friday, October 27.
Miss Brooks commented on and
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