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CLARK PANTHER, MAT 21, 1952, ATLANTA, GEORGIA PAGE THREE Fifth Annual Festival of Music and Art Great Success With well-executed programs, the Fifth Annual Festival of Music and Arts was a great success featuring ‘the college band, a morning musicale, a pageant of living masterpieces, a monologists character sketches, and an opera entitled “Trial by Jury.” The four-day festival of Music and Arts began auspiciously on April 17 with a concert by the versatile col lege band under the direction of bandmaster Wayman Carver. High lighting the concert of classics and semi-classics were Tchaikovsky’s “Marche Slave”; Anderson’s “Syn copated C^pck”; Bennet’s “Broad cast from Brazil”, a trumpet solo, Vidal’s “Concertino”, toy Mason Johnson; a bass solo by Burtram Davis; a slim trombone novelty; a 7 % baton-twirling demonstration by Marjorie Alexander; and an Easter parade fashion display. Also feat ured on the program was a male quartette with Wallace Hartsfield, Alvin Turner, Walter Willis, and Charles Ross singing a group ol se lected numbers. Organist Laverne Gaither opened the morning musicale on April 18, followed by the Male Glee Club, (under the direction of Miss Ollie B. Brown;) Mason Johnson and Wilson Bostic in a trumpet duio accompan ied by Julius Wimiby; the Women’s Ensemble directed by Miss Ollie Brown; and the Creative Dance Group directed by Miss Rogermae Johnson and accompanied by Rob ert Thmas. Highlighting the musi cale was a solo contest featuring five high school students—four Georgi ans and one Floridian. The partici pants were Franklin McCord, bass, from Cairo, Ga.; Jimmie Brown, tenor, from Bradenton, Fla.; Lillian Mitchell, soprano, of Booker T. Washington High School, Atanta; Theodore Jones of Columbus, Ga.; and Luther Stripling, baritone .from Avondale Negro High School, Avon dale Estates, Ga. All received niusi cal scholarships to Clark and were very cordially received by the Clark family. A pageant of Living Masterpieces inspired by the paintings of Rubens, Poussin, da Vinci, Gainsborough, Whistler, Rembrandt and Vermeer, and portrayed by a group of selected students, was presented on Friday evening. Mr. Arthur D. Sherrod, art in structor, directed the following por trayals: Whistler’s “Portrait of My Mother”; Rembrandt’s “Supper at Emmaus”; Murillo’s “Immaculate Conception”; Ruben’s “Lot and His Family Leaving Sodom”; Gains borough’s “Blue Boy”; Poussin’s “Shepherds of Arcady”; Vermeer’s “Young Woman With a Water-Jug”; and; da Vinci’s “Last Supper.” Cornelia Stabler, monologist, pre sented a program of Original Char acter Sketches on Saturday evening, April 19. The noted artist, who is the author as well as the interpreter of her monologues of veritable pic tures of people one meets everyday, presented sketches of “Showing the Home Movies”; Grandma and Sears Roebuck”; “After the Ball”; Grace and Poise”; and the “Gourd Enthus iast” which were appreciatively re ceived by the audience. In beautiful and colorful costumes, the Philharmonic Society climaxed the four-day Festival of Mtusic and Arts with a superb performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's one-act Opera “Trial by Jury.” The cast of fifty or more students delighted the audience in the 45- minute opera about a breach of promise suit which ends with the judge marrying the plaintiff. Final Exams May 26-30 Collage Band Presented In Spring Concert More than forty musicians partici pated in the Clark College Band’s Annual Spring Concer recently in Davage Auditorium. Directed by Bandmaster Wayman A. Carver, the aggregation played a program of classical and semi-classical selec tions before a sapacity crowd. The program included the follow ing selections: “Invincible Fidelity” by Albert Fradeneck; Orlando Pal- andrino” by Joseph Haydn; “Fin landia” by Jean Sibelius; a clarinet solo—“Rhapsody in G Minor” by Endresen, featuring Marshall Smith as soloist; “Excerpts from Faust” by Gounod-Hayes; Marche Slave by P. Tschaikovsky; “Silver Jubilee” by Albert Fradeneck; a saxophone so lo, “Prelude to a Mood” by Paisner, featuring Rufus Tucker as soloist; “Zigeuner” by Noel Coward; “The Syncopated Clock” by Leroy Ander son, and “Brodcast from Brazil” by David Bennet. ^ Also featured on the program was a Male Quartette which sang two se lections. Members of this quartette were: Walter Willis, Wallace Harts field, Charles Ross, and Alvin Turn er. | Seven of the band members: Wil son Bostic, Avis Carver. Joseph Chambers, Mason Johnson, Ivan Roper, Marshall Smith, and Rufus Tucker are candidates for gradua tion, and appeared in their final Spring Concert. To augment the group, four form er band members took part in the concert. They were: Phonecia Mor ris, ’50, who is now with the Eng lish Avenue School Band; Borah Walton, ’49, who is beginning with the band at Turner High School; Thomas Howard, ’50, who is direc tor of Carver High School’s band; and Nina Lester, ’49. \ Clark Seniors In Joint Recital Appearing on the final joint sen ior recital were Alvin Turner and Mason Johnson, who were presented in a piano \ and trumpet recital by the Music Department on Sunday evening, April 6 in Davage Audi torium. Alvin Turner of Atlanta, played selections by Bach, Paradies, Mo zart, Leschetizky, Schumann and Mowry. He is an honor student and member of the Philharmonic So ciety. Mason Johnson presented selec tions by Chopin and Debussey on the piano, and selections by Delmas, Fitzgerald, Saint-Saens, Bizet, and Vidal on the trumpet, Johnson, also of Atlanta, is a member of toe Clark band Both artists presented their selec tions very well and were cordially received by the audience. They were accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Marion E. Sykes. U. N, C. F. (Continued From Page 1) Through friendly class rivalry and generous other contributions, Clark reached its goal of $25001' Walter Willis is president of the sophomore class, and Mrs. Carolyn Chandler and, Professor J. J. Green were were Dramatics 0 Superlatives Listed At a costume party held on April 26 in the Thayer HaU Recreational room, toe Clark Playhouse superla tives were chosen for the past year. The selectees were voted upon by students dressed in elaborate cos tumes who were invited to the gala affair. Those selected were: Andrea Thompson, best female upperclass man actress; Maurice Thompson, best male upperclassman actor; Claretha McAlpin, "tfest female freshman actress; Aaron Favors, best male freshman actor; and Simon Edwards, best all-around for stage management. Also cited were Joe Morgan, Charles Teamer, and Alfonza Goggins, for their service as lighting technicians. The group was entertained at in termission by Marjorie Alexander and Walter Cook, who performed a •hot" dance number; Marjorie Alex ander, who sang; Herman Wilson, the campus clown, who presented some timely jokes; and Miss Roger mae Johnson with creative dancing, accompanied on the drum by Michael Olatunji. The following were awarded prizes for the best costumes: Miss Rogermae Johnson, for the best costume; Andrea Thompson, for toe prettiest; Joe Morgan, for the ugli est; and William Daniels, for the sil liest. Miss Esther Jackson, director of dramatics, -is advisor of toe Dramat ics Club, Gibbs High Choir Presented In Chapel Program Band In Mother's Day Concert By JOSEPH P. CHAMBERS In its final appearance of the sea son, the Clark College Concert Band presented a Mother’s Day program at Gainesville, Ga. on Sunday, May 11. This was the Band’s second con cert at Gainesville, and it is my pre diction that it will become an an nual affair. With a well-organized program, toe Band played toe following selec tions: “Adoramus Te” by Palestr- ino; “Excerpts from Faust” arrang ed by A1 Hayes; “Marche Slave” by Tchaikovsky; “Broadcast from Bra zil” and “Syncopated Clock”, which concluded toe program. From the audience’s reaction, 1 think that this was one of the best concerts ever presented by toe band. The audience, with a terrific re sponse, accepted us cordially. All of the credit goes to our director, Mr. Wayman A. Carver, who is the one who has worked hardest to Women's Glee Club Appears In Recital Under toe direction of Miss Ollie Brown, the Women’s Glee Club ap peared in recital on May 11 in Dav age Auditorium at 7:45 p. m, In this, toe final phase of the series of musical activities on the Sunday Evening Cultural Hour, the En semble had as their guests toe Men's Ensemble, also under toe direction of Miss Brown. More than thirty young women sang the following- selections: “Ves pers” by Leoni; “Peace I Leave With You” by Roberts; “I Heard A For est Praying” by DeRose; “Now The Day Is Over” by Barnby; “Chinese Lullahye” by Bowers; “When Through The Night” by Liszt, with Miss Theodosia Jackson as guest so loist ; “Little Red Shoes" by Ivano- vici; and “The New Moon” by Price. The Male Chorus, performing in the second group, sang “Pilgrim’s Chorus” from Tannhauiser by Wag ner; “My Creed” by Garrett; “Play Gypsies-Dance Gypsies” by Kalman; and “The Way You Look Tonight” iby Jerome Kern. In the third group, “Grateful O Lord, Am I” by Roma was sung by a duet, Carolyn Ware, and Con stance Gay; a trio Constance Gay, Carolyn Ware, and Glenna Flour noy, sang “Desert Song” by Sigmund Romberg; and a quartette, Walter Willis, Ernest Pharr, Horace Laster and Edwin Pratt, sang “Sylvia” by Speaks. The Women’s Glee Club was ac companied by Bernice Winston and the Men’s Ensemble was accompan ied by Robert Thomas, Ninety-eight (Continued From Page 1) Ala.; Dorothy Lucille Hoppins, At lanta; Doris Johnson, Richmond, Texas; Mason Phillip Johnson, At lanta; Mildred Beatrice Jones, Co lumbus, Ga.; Retice Hazel Jones, Alapaha, Ga.; Theresa Quistnor Jones, Suffolk, Va.; Harriett Rose Junior, Waycross, Ga.; Beatrice Lo retta Lee, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Ben jamin Lloyd, Waycross, Ga.; Vera Marie Longshore, Atlanta; Bennie O’Neal Lowe, Thomaston, Ga.; Rosa- lyn Mangham, Griffin, Ga.; Juanita Marshall, Atlanta; Frances Lorraine McGuire, Chattanooga, Term.; Har- “There will never be another chapel program like it!” Man! They were good.”, “Stupendous!” Colos sal!” t These were the words of Clark chapel-goers as they filed out of chapel bn May 2 after hearing the Se. Cecilia Choir of Gibbs High School, St. Petersburg, Fla. The 40-voice choir, under toe di rection of Mr. B. A. Ponder, who is an instructor in toe Social Science Department at Gibbs High School, sang “Sanctus”, “Listen to the Lambs”, and ‘“Praise Ye the Lord” song. A quartette under the diree- as they opened their symphony of tion of Mr. Ralph James, also splen didly rendered “Pale Moon”, “All through the Night”, “Let Us Break Bread Together”, and a novelty, “Tra La La La.” The choir conclud ed the program with “I’ve Got Ry- thmn” and “Battle Hymn of the re public.” Many of the students praised Clark highly. One such student said, ‘1 think your campus is beauti- snd T like it very much especially the beautiful women. Everyone has treated us nicely.” Many of these students have high aspirations of coming to Clark in September. The quartette, in which all members are seniors, have high aspirations for becoming Clarkites. They were im pressed very much by our campus and the hospitality that they receiv ed, During their stay in Atlanta, the well-balanced choir made a record ing at radio station WERD, and sang for the employees of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. From Clark, the students traveled to Valdosta, Ga-; Jacksonville, Fla.; St. Augustine, Fla.; Daytona Beach, Fla.; and back home to St. Peters burg for final examinations. They were very cordially^eceived by the members of toe Clark family in what was, perhaps, toe best chap el program of the year. The group was accompanied fay Mrs. Edwia Graham, Supervisor of Music at St. Petersburg, and Mrs. Leggett who acted as chaperone! during their extensive tour of Geor gia and Florida. » ville, Ala.; and Edna Ruth Wright, Marietta, Ga. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE make our band second to none. 0 This was toe last concert in which other seniors and I will take part as members of the Clark College Band. It is sincerely hoped that the band will continue to do superb work as has been done during our sojourn here. We senior members of the band have truly enjoyed working with Mr, Carver and the other mem bers, Freshman Week Sept. 16-21 \ their hard-working sponsors. The U. N. C. F. is an organization which helps support thirty-three privately-owned Negro colleges. The national goal was set at $1,500,- 000. The Central Student Commit tee members of this driv were Ed win Pratt, Martha Lee, Walter Wil lis, Clifford Ferguson, Willie Maude Knowles, Robert Knox and Nathan iel Thomas, Morris Ogletree, Glassboro, N. J.; Barbara Joan Oliver, Ben Hill, Ga.; Eva Elise Palmer, Atlanta; Forrest Bernard Patterson, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Edna Harvenia Price, Fayetteville, Ga.; Bertha Lee Quarterman, At lanta; William t Reese, Atlanta; Reuben McKennely Simmons, Ft Lauderdale, \ Fla.; Marshall Joe Smith, Gastonia, N. C.; Sylvia Smith, Monroe, Ga.; Mary Elois Staley, O- cala, Fla.; David Luther Stanley, Athens, Ala.; Doris Christine Stroz- ier, Greenville, Ga.; Nathaniel Thomas, Jacksonville, Fla.; Vienna Lula Thorn, Atlanta; Ruth Rosalind Thornton, Atlanta; Rufus Felton Tucker, Atlanta; Alvin Turner, At lanta; Eleanor Sylvia Turner, Atlan ta; Rose Ophelia Ward, Atlanta; Richard Washington, Atlanta; Fan nie Mae Watson, Carteret, N. J.; Herbert Wellons, Tampa, Fla.; Will iam Reid Wilkes, Atlanta; Clarence Williams, SL Petersburg, Fla.; Earthem Herman Wilson, St, Peters burg, Fla,; Alice Louisa Wood, New- Thirkield Ellis Cravens, Chatta nooga, Tenn.; Simon Austin Ed wards, Hawkins, Texas; Dorothy Palestine Garrison, Athens, Ga.; Ruth Hastings, Griffin, Ga.; Warner Hudson, Atlanta; Charles Ellis Jack- son, Tampa, Fla.; Bobby Alexander Kirby, Atlanta; Willie Theo Neal, Altamonte Springs, Fla.; Arthur Perry, Columbus, Ga.; Ivan Joseph Roper, New York, N. Y.; Lloyd Clover Smith, Atlanta; Eunice Rufus Wilson, II, Atlanta. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN HOME ECONOMICS Arica Arnold, Newnan, Ga.; Eve lyn Rosalia Burns, Atlanta; Adiel Cantrell, Atlanta; Ella Derricotte, Atlanta; Helen Odessa Dixon, Jones- Euzera Thorne, Sanford, Fla,; and boro, Ga.; Constance Marie Fields, Montezuma, Ga.; Mary Lynne Gay, Dalton, Ga.; Willie Maude Knowles, Atlanta; and Mary Ann Wilder, At lanta.