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CLARK PANTHER, NOVEMBER 9, 1951, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
PAGE FIVE
Homecoming Yesterday and Today
Homecoming yesterday? What was it like? Yesterday is the sound
of cheers 'before the homecoming classic—for many years played against
Morehouse College. Yesterday is the football team going about it’s busi
ness of electing “Miss Clark”—searching for a woman to characterize the
Clark ideal. Yesterday is the graduates who came back to visit again the
halls, to see again the friendly faces with which they had been associated
in their college years. Yesterday is all, the Clark family looking forward
to the day on which they renew old loves and see old faces.
It lives in the memory of a fraternity queen, reflections <5? “Miss
Loyalty”, seeing the red and black tags which indicate that Clarkites
have been loyal to the spirit of the day .... the homecoming dance ....
a full orchestra .... a gay spirited occasion .... an alumni speaker ....
aiji alumni recital.
Yesterdays homecoming, too, lives in the shadows of the old Clark
.... memories of Dr. Brawley as dean, of Dr. Davage as President there.
In the now! whispering sound of half-forgotten cheers, the Cardinal and
Black became a flying wedge through an opposing line at Harper Field.
It has passed, but it lives in hundreds of thousands of ways .... like
the sweep of leaves across the campus in the wake of a late October wind
.... just as inevitably. Homecoming yesterday has put its mark on those
who knew it. Yesterday’s homecomings have passed, but their memory
and their mark are still, imprinted upon the minds of others who knew
them then. * •
While browsing through the stacks of newspaper cuts which have
been used in Clark College publications/through the years we came a-
cross several cuts of Homecoming Queens of ytsterday. We decided that
• it would be interesting to bring these photographs again to the attention
of Clark College students. Strengthening our decision was the fact that
so many of the alumni will be present tomorrow at Homecoming. Seeing
these pictures will bring to their memory the days they spent at Clark,
especially the Homecomings of yesterday ....
-The ’51 Panthers
Martha Lee To Reign At
Homecoming Game
Adorning- the coveted throne of “Miss Clark” tomorrow at
the Homecoming game at Herndon Stadium will be Martha
M. Lee, a tribute to the taste of the men of the football team
who elected her to reign as “Her Majesty, the Queen of Clark
College for 1951.”
Poise, sterling character, diligence, Our hats are off to you, Your Ma-
and achievement are her brands, jesty; may your reign be a glorious
Personally, charm, and friendliness and happy one. We toast to your
are her virtues. She fits well into beauty; wte adore your charms; we
the long line of women who are her wonder at your poise; and we hon-
predecessors. A more stately queen or you as our queen,
has never won the favor of the e-
lectors.
In private life the queen is a stu
dent in the Department of Home
Economics; a junior who has shown
ability by maintaining a high scho
lastic average. Her home is Barnes-
ville, Georgia. She is a member of
the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
“Her Majesty” succeeds Juanita
Marshall, “Homecoming Queen” of
1950 who, no less than she, exhibits
all the characteristics of fine wom
anhood that is characteristic of
Homecoming Queens everywhere.
The men of the football team, who
elect the queen every year, are cer-
' tain that they have sustained Clark’s
tradition, and are determined that
they will not mar the reign of “Her
Majesty” they have also resolved to
To all the fair ladies who during
the years have won the favor Of the
men of the Clark College Football
Team and were selected to reign as
Miss Clark, do we dedicate this
page.
We hope that perchance these
pages will find their way to the
women who, since their glorious,
days at the school on the hill, have
been cherishing a fading memory of
days gone by, days that were filled
with joyous adventures, days that
they will live no more.
We hope tjaat some departed stu
dent who has long since parted from
the halls of Clark College will find
in seeing these pictures a solace, an
evening of pleasure in reminiscence.
We hope that these lines Will re
establish contact through some way,
between the men and women who
once trod the same paths as we
Clark students of today are doing
now, paths that we too will tread
but once, then depart to go our
ways, in many cases never to see
each other again.
To you, fair lasses, noble creatures
of the tender sex, to your memory,
does the staff of the Clark College
Panther, dedicate this 1951 Home
coming. May you see these pages
and live again in your memory the
joyous days you spent at Clark Col
lege.
The years have taken their toll on
the pictures, as they take their toll
on you. Though the metal used in
these reproductions is of much hard
er stuff than you are, it too is sub
ject to the wear of years. We only
hope that you have not rested dorm
ant and unseen as have these pic
tures done through the years. We
hope that your lives have been hap
py since your departure, we hope
that your days have been filled with
prosperity.
We are all subject to the strife of
the years and find consolation in
knowing that the elements can only
change one physically, inside
though not unseen, there always re
mains stately character, noble poise,
dignity of purpose.
Fraternity Sweethearts are shown with Miss Juanita
Marshall, who was Miss Clark of 1950-’51, at Herndon Stad
ium.
Former Coach Ralph Robinson and “Miss Clark” of 1943-
’44 Miss Earlene Burns.
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,te their every effort tomorrow ^ 1M9> her j unior Ye ar.
they meet the Blue and
wore the Crown of “Miss
Clark” at the 78th Homecom-
dent Brawley presents the crown. Grace Hendricks was a
personnel attendant.
ier as
d invaders of Fisk University
3 will march into Herndon Stad-
i bent on destruction.
Homecoming
Queens from 1936
1936, Georgia Arnold; 1937, Mary
C. Williams; 1938, Charlotte Points;
1939, Marjorie,Hensley; 1940, Ethel
Brown; 1941, Carole Stanton; 1942,
Virginia Coles; 1943, Earlene Burns;
1944, Cynthia Perry; 1945, Dorothy
Hisle; 1946, Minnie Holmes; 1947,
Betty O’Neal; 1948, Mildred Braw-
ner; 1949, Lois Richardson; 1950,
Juanita Marshall; 1951, Martha Lee.
Join the N. A. A. C. P.
“Miss Clark” of 1938, Charlotte Points, and Dr. Matthew
Davage, former Clark University president.
Prof. Dewitt Dikes crowned Miss Virginia Coles at Home
coming, 1942, at B. T. Washington’s Harper Field.