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^Ue QlakJz Panther COMMENCEMENT EDITION VOL. II MAY 30, 1951 No. 6 PRATT, CARVER WIN Edwin Pratt, (Liberal, Miami, Fla.) has been elected by the student body of Clark College to serve as President of the Clark College Student Council for the school term 19gl-52, it was announced' in Davaga Auditorium on May 18. A second voting, which came about as a result of the inability of ballot counters to decide on what grounds a ballot should be considered invalid, showed that Ed- w|in Pratt had defeated Richard Byrd, (People’s-Abington, Va.), his only op ponent, by 37 votes. Miss Avis Carver, (People’s-Atlanta) was elected in the first voting to serve as Secretary of the Council during the next school term. Her only opponent was Miss Johnetta Henderson, (Liberal-Chatta- nooga, Tenn.) After being declared eligible to run for the office by the student body, which voted unanimously that sophomores, who will be juniors the following year, should be eligible to run for the office of presi dent, Edwin Pratt won the election with 209 votes to a total of 172 for Byrd. This total of 381 votes represents less than half the number of students enrolled at Clark. Pratt and Miss Carver will assume of fice in September. In the voting last year William Breed ing, (People’s-Birmingham) won the of fice of Student Council President by a landslide, over William Stanley, (Lib eral-Athens, Ala.). Clark Senior AKD President Miss Eula Jones, Chattanooga, Tennes see, was recently elected by the Atlanta chapter of the Alpha Kappa Delta Nation al Honorary Sociology Fraternity to serve VALEDICTORIAN, Eula Jones Exchange Day Held Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown sent senior class representatives to Clark’s Davage Auditorium on May 23 to speak in connection with the annual observance of “Senior Day” and three Clark seniors visited those colleges dur ing the final week of the school year on similar missions. As it has been the custom for a number of years, the senior class of each school in the university system annually ex changes senior representatives to speak at the Senior Exchange Day program held at each of the four undergraduate colleges in the A. U. system. Miss Eula Jones spoke this year on be half of Clark seniors at Spelman; Gerald Johnson spoke at Morris Brown; and Hor ace Scott spoke at Morehouse. Mr. Scott as president of the chapter during the 1951-’52 school year. Miss Jones plans to hold office at At lanta University where she will be en rolled in the A. U. School of Social Work (Continued On Page 5) SALUTATORIAN, Ethel Watkins is president of the Clark College Class of ■51. Representing Morehouse at the Clark program was Mr. James Mitchell; Miss- Elynor Pettus represented Spelman. Women’s Ensemble In Spring Concert Miss Ollie Brown of the Department of Music directed the Clark Women’s En semble in a musical concert in Davage Auditorium on Sunday, May 20. Among the selections rendered by the ensemble of well-trained voices was “Lift Thine Eyes to The Mountains” by Men delssohn, and “The Night Has a Thousand- Eyes.” Also on the program was “The Chimes” by Dubussy, and “I Heard A For est Praying” by De Rose. Walter Willis, a freshman, appeared as guest vocalist and sang “Elegy” and' Giordani’s “Caro Mio Ben”. The Wom en’s Quartet captivated the audience’ with its renditions of “Moonglow” and “Stardust.” ELECTION