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The Clark Panther
VOL. VII
CLARK PANTHERS, MARCH 19, 1951, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
No. IV
Students Replace
Faculty on Senior Day
Administrators, teachers, and
ntaff members at Clark College
made way for an enthusiastic and
carefully-selected corps of substi
tutes on Friday, February 23, as
the Senior Class of the college took
over classrooms and offices in cele
bration of Senior Day. Inaugu
rating what they hope to see estab
lished as a tradition at the college,
“Miss U. N. C. F. w
By John L. White
In a recent interview with Miss
Emma Johnson, she had the fol
lowing statement to make concern
ing her selection as “Miss United
Negro College Fund” for the year
1950-51.
“I consider it a real honor to
reign as Miss U.N.C.F. for the
school year 1950-51. I am very
humble and greatly appreciative
to the senior class and its sponsors
for the wholehearted support in
the competitive campus campaign.”
The U.N.C.F. is an organization
which helps support thirty-three
privately owned Negro Colleges.
Miss Johnson is a native of West
Point, Georgia, a senior with a ma
jor in Home Economics and a min
or in Secondary Education.
She is a member of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Alpha Kap
pa Mu Honor Society, Y.W.C.A.,
N.A.A.C.P., President of the Home
Economics Club and an active mem
ber of the church school.
During the first semester she was
chosen as one of the ten top rank
ing Clark young ladies,—“Miss
Personality”—student with best
personality.
the Class of 1951 planned and ex
ecuted activities which embraced
every phase of the school day.
Senior Day activities began at
7:30 a. m. when the seniors had
breakfast in the college dining hall.
After breakfast the newly-created
faculty and staff took their places
behind the desks in buildings all
over the campus to begin their 24-
hour stint of teaching and counsel
ling their fellow-seniors and the
lower classmen. The morning as
sembly featured a skit called “The
Best Years of Our Lives,” a comic
review of the four years the class
has spent at the college, written by
Senior Lillian Graves of New Ro
chelle, New York. The program
concluded with the singing of the
Class Song, lyrics by Miss Graves,
music by Gerald Johnson, Pulaski,
Virginia, and Rodney Reed, New
Orleans, Louisiana.
President of the college for
Senior Day was William Breeding
of Birmingham, Alabama, who re
linquished his post as Student
Council head for the day; Dean of
the college for the day for Horace
Scott, of Atlanta; Registrar was
John L. White, of Philadelphia, Pa.;
Dean of Women was Malinda
McDonald, Pickens, S. C. Dean of
Men was Reverend Edward Hinton
of Villa Rica, Georgia.
Clark’s first new-style Senior
Day was planned by a committee
headed by Senior Myrtha Williams
of Atlanta. Other members of the
committee were Alma Bryant,
Philadelp’ma; Marian Brown, Bev
erly Hills, California, Alfonza Gog-
gins, Gadsden, Alabama, Gerald
Johnson, and Lillian Graves. Fac
ulty advisors were Mrs. Phoebe F.
Burney, Dean of Women, and Class
Sponsor Edward F. Sweat, Profes
sor of History.
DID YOU KNOW . . . Clark Col
lege is rated by the Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools of
the Southern States as a standard
four-year college, Class A. The rec
ognition given Clark by the State
Departments of Education of Geor
gia, Texas, North Carolina, Flor
ida, other Southern states, and the
American Medical Association, en
titles Clark graduates to Profes
sional Teachers certificates and the
right to teach in the public schools
of those states without examina
tions.
President Brawley addresses the student body at Founder’s Day program. Dr. Alva I.
Cox seated, principal speaker is flanked on his right by Dean Phoebe Burney, Rev. L. Scott
Allen, and Dr. D. H. Stanton of the Clark Board of Trustees. On his left by Dean A. A. Mc-
Pheeters and Dr. H. V. Richardson.
82nd FOUNDERS DAY
OBSERVED AT CLARK
Dr. Alvin I. Cox At Chapel Exercises
President James P. Brawley was
featured on a broadcast over Sta
tion WERD on Wednesday morn
ing, February 28th, as the begin
ning of the eighty-second observ
ance of Clark Colege’s Founder’s
Day.
After tracing the history of Clark
since its Methodist-supported in
ception in 1869, the president re
lated briefly the progress of the
Clark Endowment and Expansion
Campaign begun in 1948 and dis
cussed the future program of the
college.
A concert group drawn from the
Philharmonic Society under the di
rection of Dr. J. De Koven Kilings-
worth rendered several selections
on the broadcast.
At 11 a. m. highlighting the
Founder’s Day Program in Davage
Auditorium, an address was deliv
ered by Dr. Alva I. Cox, Executive
Secretary of the Board of Educa
tion, Northeast Ohio Conference of
the Methodist Church, Akron,
Ohio.
Dr. Cox stated that it is a para
doxical age in which we live;
science has lengthened the average
life span to seventy years, yet
more people have died in the last
thirty years through wars than in
the preceding 800 years. America,
Dr. Cox continued, has produced
enough food to feed almost the en
tire population of the world, yet
more people are starving than in
any other time in the history of the
world.
He summed up the paradox by
asserting that the last seventy-
five years have featured more
progress and more destruction than
any other period in the world’s his
tory.
Equally disturbing, declared Dr.
Cox, are the weaknesses which may
be discerned in education in Amer
ica. “We cannot believe that educa
tion is foremost in America when
we see the deplorable conditions
existing in the various educational
systems in this country. Religion
and science also are failing to fos
ter the cause of ideal relations
among men."
Dr. Cox concluded by challenging
students everywhere to prove them
selves the salvation of humanity by
becoming liberal minded thinkers
and doing their utmost to “bind up
the wounds of the world.”
Greetings from the students,
faculty, alumni, supporting Metho
dist Conferences, and Board of
Trustees were accepted by Dr.
James P. Brawley during the Dav
age Auditorium program.
The Philharmonic Society ren
dered “A Mighty Fortress is Our
God,” “Lest We Forget,” and
“Wade in the Water.”
March 26-28
Mid-Semester Exams
During the second semester of
her Junior year she was chosen by
the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority as
—“Coed of the Year in Citizenship.”
Also in her Junior year in the April
edition of the “Panther” she was
chosen “Student of the Month.”
At the end of the first semester
of her junior year she was the only
Clarkite that maintained a straight
A average.
She has maintained a little more
than a B (2.5) average during her
entire stay here at Clark. For her
junior and senior years she has had
a National Methodist Scholarship
which pays all her tuition and fees.
She wps chosen recently by the
senior class as one of the ten top
ranking seniors.
Around the campus, the students
are greeted with her captivating
smile and dynamic personality. We,
of the senior class, are proud to
have such a distinguished person
among o.ur fold; our hats are off to
you, Miss U.N.C.F.
Rev. Earnest Smith Here For
Religious Emphasis Week
The Reverend Ernest A. Smith,
of Austin, Texas, came to Atlanta
on March 6 to lead what resulted
in an exceptionally rewarding Re
ligious Emphasis Week program at
Clark College. Assisting Reverend
Smith in this program was a group
of ministers and laymen from the
Atlanta community, as well as
Clark faculty members and stu
dents who shared in the four-day
series and participated as resource
persons and discussants. Reverend
Smith, a graduate of Rush College,
and of Oberlin, where he received
the M.A. degree, is Executive Sec
retary of the West Texas Confer
ence Board of Education.
Among the local representatives
who assisted him were the Rever
end M. L. King, pastor of Ebenezer
Baptist Church, Mrs. Eva Parks,
and the Reverend M. J. Jones, Ex
ecutive Secretary, Boards of Edu
cation, the Central Alabama and
Atlanta Conferences. Dr. C. B.
Copher, Professor of Old Testament
History and Literature at Gammon
Theological Seminary, and Rever
end S. Marion Weeks, Director of
Religious Life, served as resource
persons.
The schedule for the series in
cluded group meetings, lectures and
conferences on Tuesday, Wednes
day, and Thursday, a recreation
period on Thursday and daily medi
tation periods with the college or
ganist, Miss LaVeme Gaither, at
the console, and general assembly
Friday night, March 9, at which
time problems submitted through
the special question boxes were
discussed.
The theme of the 1951 Religious
Emphasis Week was, “Living These
Days with God.”
N. Y. Alumni Gives
$500.00 To Campaign
First of the Clark College Alumni clubs to make a sub
stantial contribution to the $25,000 pledge made by the Na
tional Alumni group is the New York Clark Club which has
presented President James P. Brawley with a check for $500.
Mrs. Anna White Robinson of Atlanta, National President of
the Clark College Alumni Association who made the an
nouncement also stated that other Clark clubs throughout the
country are moving ahead with plans to meet their pledges
by March 15th, deadline set to designate the end of the cur
rent expansion drive.
The New York Club, which is headed by Mr. Marvin N.
Riley, director of the Harlem Boy’s Club, is one of the oldest
and strongest of the Clark alumni groups. Along with At
lanta, Chattanooga, Chicago, and Detroit clubs, the New
York Club annually has given scholarships and awards to
promising students in addition to contributions such as those
represented by the $500 gift.