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CLARK PANTHER, JAN CARY-PEBRUARY, 1951, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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TO BE OR NOT TO
BE BROTHERS
By John L. White, Jr.
“We few, we happy few, we band
of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood
with me
Shall be my brother.”
These famous words of the great
king, Henry V, seem to have a
special message at this crucial era.
Even in those times the men,
whether great or small, were cog
nizant of the great need for broth
erhood. Basically mankind has not
forgotten it today; we all want to
have a feeling of belonging to a
group; no one wants to be an out
sider. So on our small campus with
its family atmosphere we have
fraternities and sororities.
Some students may or may not
have heard some definite things
about these organizations; fre
quently one forms opinions solely
on these statements before coming
to college. These fraternities and
sororities are not merely social or
ganizations, but each one has a
definite aim and a major program.
In these organizations, there is a
spirit of comaraderie and a kin
ship which grows through the
years.
Scrollers
By Richard E. Byrd
The Scroller Club of Gamma
Kappa Chapter, Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity, presented its annual
chapel program on January 10,
1951. The program was an original
skit written by Clarence Williams,
president of the Scroller Club. The
theme of the skit was The Expan
sion Campaign. At the conclusion
of the program the club made a
contribution of $10.00 to Dr. Hale
for the campaign.
One of the hottest teams in the
This part of college life is very-
essential for you as students if you
are to get the full benefits which
college has to offer you. You will
encounter experiences that will live
as long as you live—happy experi
ences, memorable experiences which
you may share with other members
of the same organization whom
you will meet in later life.
“When we our betters see bearing-
out woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our
foes,
Who alone suffers suffers most
i’ the mind,
Leaving free things and happy
shows behind;
But then the mind much suffer
ance doth o’erskip
When grief hath mates, and bear
ing fellowship.”
Edgar, in Shakespeare’s “King
Lear,” spoke these words, and if
you scrutinize them carefully you
will become cognizant of what he
is saying; he, too, realizes the con
sequences of being alone, without
a friend in whom he can confide.
What better means is there for
a true friendship than for the per
sons involved to have a mutual in-
“Preliminary Basketball League”
is the Scrollers. In collaboration
with the Scroller Club of Pi Chap
ter, Morehouse College, the team
has won 3 and lost 1. That loss
on the team’s record was a closely
contested game that saw the Cres
cent City Five win by 2 points. We
want that team to know “pay
back” when they* see it. Revenge
is sweet.
The Scroller Club hopes that all
members and friends of Clark Col
lege will do their parts in making
the Expansion Campaign a success.
It will benefit all of us in the time
to come.
terest in the same things ? And
what better means is there for this
mutual interest to be perpetuated
than through these organizations,
fraternities and sororities?
Before entering the sacred por
tals of Greekdom, emphasis is
placed on scholarship, character,
general attitude and many other
things which the organizations
think should be stressed. So,
young men and young women, take
inventory of your natural resources
and consider your future life here
at Clark; then you will undoubt
edly realize this need for closer re
lationship with your fellow stu
dents.
OMEGA
Beta Psi Chapter is now in the
process of founding a scholarship
aid program which will enlarge its
present scholarship grants. The
grant will be made to the male stu
dent showing the greatest diligence
in class work, in extra-curricular
activities, and in showing his value
as a member of the Clark student
body.
Gerald Johnson was the Beta Psi
delegate to the Omega National
Conclave held in Boston, Massa
chusetts the latter part of Decem
ber.
Mr. Adams
Addresses
Symposium
Addressing the Clark College Lit
erary Symposium at its January
meeting held recently in Holmes
Hall Mr .Lewis F. Adams of the
Department of Modern Languages
discussed the various elements in
the works of Moliere, the seven
teenth century French playwright.
Mr. Adams stated that the satire
contained in the works of Moliere
was perhaps comparable to that
found in the works of the English
writer Jonathan Swift. He cited
also several works of Moliere, in
cluding “Le Milade Imaginable” and
“Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.” Sev
eral selections from the latter play
were read to the gr oup and used in
illustrating Moliere’s style. The
speaker concluded with an analysis
of Moliere’s character.
Attention was then directed to
Miss Mary Staley and Mr. John
White, carriers of the literary lan
tern for the month of January,
Miss Staley gave a challenging re
port on race novels and Mr. White
commented on Robert Frost, a con
temporary American poet.
The advisors to the Literary
Symposium are the instructors in
the English Department.
Members of the group are:
Yvonne Abel, Moses Barrett, Con
stance Burts, Bernyce Davis, Flos
sie Goodson, Harold A. Hamilton,
Lillie B. Hart, Mildred Jones,
Juanita Marshall, Frances McGuire,
Sylvia Smith, Mary Staley, Vienna
Thorn, John L. White, Marie
Young, Barbara Taylor, David
Stanley, and Fannie Watson.
Negro Publishers
Meet Here
The Mid-Winter Workshop for
Negro' Publishers was held in At
lanta recently. Representatives
from negro newspapers came
from all parts of the country to
attend this annual affair which was
a very successful one. The host
newspaper of course was the AT
LANTA DAILY WORLD.
Discussed at the various sessions
of the workshop were the trends in
newspaper writing, popular opinion
and problems facing Negro Pub
lishers,
Beetle Bomb Arrives
ALPHA
CLARK FALLS TO XAVIER
On December 15, 1950 a new
Clark College basketball team
donned the colors of cardinal and
black to play their first game for
the 1950-1951 season. The first
contest against Xavier was close,
58-51, and our Panthers anxiously
awaited the second contest. The
following night they found them
selves in Scotlandville and at the
tail end of a 61-38 score. Southern
was tough admitted the Panthers.
So after losing the final game to
Xavier the boys packed up and
headed home.
The squad this year is new and
highly polished as I’ve often said
before. Here is the proper point;
so hang on while the Panthers and
I relate our waltz through Tennes-
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Alumni Notes
Franklin S. Jones
Times marches on, and 1951 is proving that it is waiting
on one one. The Alumni Association is fondly wishing that you
will get many of the things done early in the year that you
have included in your new year’s resolutions.
February finds our fighting hardwood men in the thick
of battle and making a wonderful showing for our dear “ole”
Red and Black; let’s cheer them on to many more victories.
The second semester is well under way now and we are
hoping that everyone will have smooth sailing from now
until June.
OUR ALUMNI HERE
AND THERE
1950
Elliott and George Waters are
science graduate students at How
ard University.
1949
Emery Wimbish is assistant li
brarian at Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania.
1948
Florida; since her graduation from
Clark she has attended Middlebury
and Colly Colleges doing advanced
work in French and Spanish.
1946
Willie A. Allen is a case worker
at the Bureau for Colored Chil
dren in Philadelphia.
1941
Lloyd Taylor, a captain in the
United States Air Force and a
The Alpha Phi Chapter of the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity held
its chapel program during Broth
erhood Week. It consisted pri
marily of a recapitulation of the
past performance of Alpha broth
ers who have been affiliated with
Alpha Chi Chapter and of the chap
ter’s progress through the years
of its growth and maturity.
The program’s agenda was com
posed of Brothers John White, Jr.,
Rufus Wilson, II, William Stanley
and Ivan Roper. The script was
written by Brothers Wiley Bolden
and Darwin Turner.
All of the fraternity’s brothers
attended the program which was
well accepted by the student body
and faculty.
It is the desire and practice that
the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
give at frequent periods programs
which will help the students of
Clark to see the application of
brotherhood at work, and the ad
vantages of combined and success
ful acts incorporated into fruitful
work for the ascertainment of bet
ter ideals and practices among the
human society.
Editor to the Sphinx, Ivan Roper.
Associate Editor, Edwin Pratt.
A new bus was purchased by ‘
the administration recently for the
use of the basketball team. The bus,
a late model, seats 16 persons and
the driver.
Upon its arrival on January 24
it was immediately christened
“Beetle-bomb” by the students.
Painted in the traditional cardi
nal and black, “Beetlebomb” will
probably serve in a general capacity
after basketball season.
This “streamlined” job will do 80
m.p.h. (downhill and loaded). It has
all the modernistic features of any
super-duper conveyance of con
temporary times. It has, for exam
ple, two headlights which can be
dimmed in passing other vehicles
(and busses) on the road. It also
has a great big red light, located
on its rear (end) which reads
Harvey Taylor, G. I.
FORT MEADE, Md., Jan. 18. —
Ret. Harvey L. Taylor, 116 Solan
St., Bristol, Va., has been assigned
to the 3rd Armored Cavalry, Fort
Meade, Maryland, after completing
processing here at the 2053rd re
ception center.
Prior to his induction, Recruit
Taylor was the principal of Walker
High School, Bristol, Va.
He was graduated from Clark
College, Atlanta, Ga., receiving a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
KAPPA
Julius C. Daugherty and Arthur native of Atlanta, was killed Sun-
Combs, both seniors at Howard day, January 28, 1951,
University’s Law School, were re
cent visitors to our campus.
1939
M. I. Bannerman, Y. M. C. A.
Executive Secretary of the George
Washington Carver Branch of Mi
ami, Florida, was selected as one
among eight Miamians in “Who’s
Who in Colored America,” the illus
trated biographical directory of
notable living Americans of African
descent.
1947
Miss Lydia R. Cutton is an in-
m an air
crash along with four others near
Clinton, Ohio. Captain Taylor was
a pilot, but was riding as a pas
senger that fatal Sunday morning.
The former Miss Gloria McGhee,
structor at Florida Normal and In- also an alumna of Clark, was his
dustrial College at St. Augustine, wife.
FOUNDER’S DAY
FEB. 25-28
Main Speaker: Dr. Alva I. Cox,
Akron, Ohio; Exec. Sec’y., Bd. of
Education, N. E. Ohio Conference,
Methodist Chnrch.
By William M. Ogletree
Each year in April the Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity sponsors a
“Guide Right Movement.” The na
ture of this movement is just what
the words suggest. This is quite
early to introduce the national pro
gram, though we realize this type
of guidance is always needed. Here
on our campus we, the members of
Gamma Kappa chapter, shall have
to undertake this movement quite
early. We wish to guide you right
to the office of Dr. Hale and see
that you do right by paying your
personal contribution in full or
whatever you can give toward it.
Perhaps you will not be able to
give your five dollars in full, but
surely you will be able to make a
down payment before the deadline.
A dollar, a quarter, or any amount
that you have will go toward the
grand total we are expected to
raise.
We shall help in every capacity
possible to make this drive a sue-
STOP!” when the brake (yes, it
has brakes) are applied. It has a
new-fangled invention called a
“crank” which can be used to start
the engine (gasoline powered)
when the automatic starter fails
to function. The roof can be opened
in fair weather to permit lanky
occupants to exercise their necks,
this also permits the driver to get
up and yell at road hogs and driv
ers who get too close (for their
own good). “Beetlebomb” is a very
safe bus. It has a rear door which
can be used as an escape batch if
fire breaks out in the middle of the
bus (it is almost 14 feet long on
the inside). The door can also be
opened to throw out trash and
players who made a bum showing
in the game.
HAMILTON, N. Y.—(I.P.)~Al
though the prime employer for
male college graduates in Febru
ary and June will be the armed
forces, there is now a growing
sentiment on the part of business
against turning its back on these
men when it is searching for a
backlog of manpower.
That is the opinion of Dr. George
Estabrooks, eminent psychologist
and placement director at Colgate
University. He bases it on top-level
talks with representatives of busi
ness firms which yearly tour col
lege campuses in search of men
to enroll in their training pro
grams.
These representatives assure that
business expects to adopt the long-
range policy of starting men who
have only one month or a year be
fore the military steps in, keeping-
in contact with them during their
time in the service and replacing
them in the training for the busi
ness which was interrupted by the
military upon their release.
cess. Our purpose is to help man
kind and prepare for the future.
We probably will not reap the bene
fits of this campaign, hut it will
help others who follow us.
Therefore, we are anxiously urg
ing each of you to give your utmost
support to this drive. Push it out
front by paying your personal con
tributions. Let’s all join the band
and march directly to the offices
of Dr. Hale and your class advisors
and give five dollars. The Kats will
do it; will you?
The trouble with people who
drink like fishes is that they don’t
drink what fishes drink.
“Hey you, are there any sharks
around here where I’m swimming?”
“No, they’re afraid of the croco
diles.”