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Butler Elected
President
’52/53 Student
Council
In a very close election, Washing
ton Roosevelt Butler was elected
President of the Student Council for
the forthcoming school year 1952-
53 on Thursday, May 15. Voting was
conducted between the hours of
10:30 and 3:30.
Butler, who qualified as a candi
date of the Independent Party edged
his only rival, Robert Wynn (Lib
eral Arty), by six ballots. Mr. But
ler, a member of the junior class, is
an honor student and was recently
initiated into Beta Kappa Chi, Na-'
tional Honorary Scientific Society.
He is also a member of Omega Psi
Phi fraternity (of which he is Sec
ond-Vice Representative of the Sev
enth District), Iota Beta Chemical
Society, the ¥. M. C. A., and the N
AACP.
Harold Page, also a member of
the Independent Party, won by a 27
point margin over Charles Teamer
(Liberal Party) for the office of
Vice-President. Both are members
of the sophomore class.
Samuella Gray (Liberal Party),
junior, was elected secretary by a
vast majority of 47 ballots over her
only opponent, Joyce Butler (Inde
pendent Party).
On the day preceeding the voting,
Edwin Pratt and Avis Carver, Presi
dent and Secretary of the outgoing
Student Council respectively, ex
pressed their deep appreciation to
the students for their cooperation
during the past year and received a
tremendous ovation from the stu
dent body.
SENIOR CLASS OF 1952
The Clark Panther
VOL. VIII
MAY 21, 1952, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
NO . V
Ninety-Eight Slated For Graduation
new trustees elected
Three new; Trustees were e-
lected on May 15: Mr. Will
iam E. Mitchell, Mr. Robert R,
Snodgrass, and Miss Susie
Cunningham.
Mr. Mitchell, formerly of
Georgia Power Company, was
appointed chairman of the
Southern Armed Forces Re
gional Council. He is well
known for his civic and edu
cational interests.
Mr. Snodgrass, President of
the Atlas Finance Co. of At
lanta, has wide interests in
education. Last year he serv
ed as chairman of the cam
paign committee that sponsor
ed the drive for the Expan
sion Fund at Clark. With the
addition of these two busi
nessmen, the personnel of the
Clark Board of Trustees has
been greatly strengthened.
M?bs Curiningham, Presi
dent of the Woman’s Society
of Christian Service, Atlanta
Annual Conference, Methodist
Church was elected to repre
sent that society. She is also
a graduate of Clark, and at
present an Atlanta Public
School Teacher.
Thorn and
Avis Carver-
Top Honors
Ninety-eight seniors are slated to
receive bachelor’s degrees at the
eighty-third commencement exer
cises on June 3 at 10:30 a. m., the
Registrar’s Office recently announc
ed.
The list of candidates for degrees
are as follows:
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Verender Abercombie, Fairburn,
Ga.; Veolia H. Adams, New Orleans,
La.; Carol £. J. Alexander, Mait
land, Fla.; Joe Ella Armstrong, At
lanta; Patrick Robert Bell, Atlanta;
Wilson Bostic, Atlanta; Gussie Eliza
beth Brayboy, Augusta, Ga.; Ross
Showalter Browder, Birmingham,
Ala.; Alverta Charlotte Bryant,
Knoxville, Tenn.; Averett Andrew
Burress, Lockland, Ohio; Constance
Burts, Chicago, 111.; Richard Bird,
Abingdon, Va.; Avis Joyce Carver,
Atlanta; Joseph Phenix Chambers,
Gastonia, N. C.; Marie White Cop-
Faculty Stages OUTSTANDING METHODIST
Benefit Production LEADERS TO SPEAK
For the benefit of the United Na-
gro College Fund, the Clark College
Faculty players presented a three-
act farce entitled “Charley’s Aunt”
by Brandom Thomas on the even
ings of May 9th and 10th in Davage
Auditorium.
Brandom Thomas’ comedy find3
humor. Full of laughter, beauty of
universal appeal in its fine, tasteful
phrase, and a variety of emotions,
“Charley’s Aunt” is a story about
two Oxford undergraduates in love
with two young women to whom
they wish to be engaged. They plan
ned to propose at a luncheon in
their suite where an Aunt of one
texpected from Brazil) was to act
as chaperone, but a telegram brings
news of her inability to be present.
her, Atlanta; Clara Wallis Crim, ©etermlned to carry out their plans,
Ocala, Fla.; Doreathea Cecilia Curry,
Key West, Fla.;\lames M. Daniel,
Atlanta; Willie Eva Engram, Pana-
man City, Fla.; Willie Myra Evans,
Sparta, Ga. ; Isaac Manuel Fisher,
Columbus, Miss.; Loretta June
Fletcher, Atlanta; Chester Foney,
Alabama City, Ala.; Esther Frank
lin, Knoxville, Tenn.; Robinez Geed-
er, Atlanta; Essie Groves Massey;
Otelia Lenora Hackney, Atlanta;
Eleanor Ann Hall, Atlanta; Harold
Augustus Hamilton, Dallas, N. C.;
Elsie Fields Harley, Beaumont, Tex
as; Doris Therese Harrison, East
Point, Ga.; Jerry Hobbs, Decatur,
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the students force another under
graduate to impersonate the Bra
zilian Aunt, From here the comic
confusion that resulted was xneal-
if
suitable.
Heading the list of speakers for
the events of commencement are Dr.
J. Ernest Wilkins, Chicago attorney,
and member of the Judicial Council,
the Methodist Church; and> Dr. A.
Wesley Pugh, Superintendent, Fort
Wayne District, North Indiana Con
ference, the Methodist Church, Fort
Wayne, Indiana. Dr. Wilkins will
deliver the eomencement address
on Tuesday, June third, while the
Baccalaurate sermon will be preach
ed by Dr. Pugh.
The closing events of the academic
year begin Friday, May 23 with the
awarding of prizes at the chapel
hour in Davage Auditorium. The
annual Senior Communion Service
will be given Sunday, May 25 at
9:30 in Haven-Warren Hall. That
same day, at eight o’clock in the
evening, the annual Home Econom
ics Department Candlelight Serv
ice will, feature Dr. Lynette Saine
of Spellman College as speaker.
Saturday, May 31 has been design
ated "Alumni Day.” At ten o’clock
in the morning the Board of Direc
tors of the National Aluyrni Associ
ation will meet in Haven-Warren
Halt, while the annual alumni busi-
iness meeting will be held in the
same place at two o’clock in the af
ternoon. William Henry Crogman
Dining Hall will be the scene that
night at eight o’clock of the alumni
dinner and class reunions. In charge
of this program will be Rev. S, M.
Weeks and Miss Margaret Aiken,
alumni secretaries.
The Baccalaureate service will be
held at 5:30 in the afternoon of Sun
day, June. 1.
On Monday, June 2, the Senior
Class Day Exercises will be held in
Davage Auditorium at eleven
o’clock in the morning. That even
ing at eight o’clock, President and
Mrs. James P. Brawley will enter
tain at a reception to the graduat
ing class, alumni and friends. This
event will, take place in Merrill J.
Holmes HalL
The exercises of commencement
will be held at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday
morning, June 3 in Davage Auditor
ium.
Plenty of first-rate acting was
seen in “Charley’s Aunt.” Professor
George Ferguson was the leading
performer, playing the part of “Lord
Fancourt Babberley”, who imper
sonated the Aunt from Brazil.
U. N. C. F, Drive Climaxes
Commencement Speakers
“The Sophomore Class has never
done anything!” With these words,
Mrs. Ethyl Knox, a member of the
sophomore class, set fire to the
hearts of every sophomore as they
commenced the annual United Ne
gro College Fund drive on April 11.
This gave the sophomores the im
petus to take the lead on opening
day and stay in complete command
duties in the classroom to stage this 0 f the class-rivalry in order to walk
hilarious comedy for the benefit of away with all the honors on May
a worthy cause. 15, the closing day of the drive.
The supporting cast: Brasset the With cash and pledges amounting
butler (William Morrell); Ella De- to more than $1500, the drive got
The audience was amazed at the
manner in which the players de
parted from their serious-minded
lohay (Jeannette Cameron); Sir
Frances Chesney (Joseph Dennis);
Mr. Spettigue (Harold Mazyck;
Donna Lucia D’Alvadorez” the real
Aunt who finally arrives (Mrs. Doris
Holmes); Albert Berrian (Jack
underway in Davage Auditorium
on kick-off day as the sophomores
took a, commanding lead and never
relinquished, unchallenged by any
other class of the college.
In
ed by
jtiating the campaign head-
fessor Edward F. Sweat
initial
y fS'ro:
Chesney) and John Harris (Charley an d Mrs. Flora Davis, President
Wykeham), the two undergraduates; Brawley reviewed the history of the
turned in a total of J>126 and receiv
ed another $5.00 from the President.
On the final day, the sophomores,
with a total of $301.50 and a percent
age of 181.9, received an additional
$10.00 from the President for being
the winners of the drive. In addi
tion, they received a trophy given
to their candidate for the title of
“Miss U. N. C. F.,” and also a victory
dance in the Thayer Hall Recreation
Room on Friday, May IB.
The juniors placed second, with a
total of $207.50; the freshmen third
with $212.50; and the seniors fourth
with $88.68. The total amount in
pledges and cash reported at the
drive’s-end was $2577.11. Of this
amount, the Faculty and Staff con
tributed $1800; the campus organi
zations, $146.40; and the classes re
ported $810.40,
DR. J. ERNEST WILKINS
DR, A. WESLEY PUGH
and Anne Merrit (Amy Spettigue)
and Willie Ruth McMullen (Kitty
Verdon), as the objects of the un
dergraduates' affection.
Miss Esther Jackson directed this
farce which was set in England in
the year 1870.
United Negro College Fund and in
dicated the extent to which Clark
and the other participating colleges
had profited from the union.
Miss Theresa Parks, candidate
from the victorious class, was nam
ed “Miss U. N. C. F.” Other candi
dates for the title were Opal Gay,
junior class; Addie Flora Brown,
By leading all classes on opening freshman class; and Rose Ward, sea-
day, the sophomores received a $5.00 i° r class,
check from President Brawley. As
the second report day ended, they (Continued On Page 3)