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PAGE FOUR CLARK PANTHER, MAY 21, 1952, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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Dr. Lyda In
Crogman Lecture
In the Crogman Day lecture, held
annually at Clark College in mem
ory of Dr. W. H. Crogman, first Ne
gro President at Clark, Dr. Wesley
J. Lyda, head of Atlanta Univers
ity’s School of Education, spoke on
certain essentials of Georgia’s Mini
mum Foundation of Education in
Georgia.
The speaker explained that as
parly as the 1930’s reports or studies
were being made to determine the
nature of democratic education,
education. Education, the group de
cided, should provide for a contin-
ous and orderly change of society
for democracy, aid in meeting pro
blems of health, earning a living,
and problems of boys and girls in
relationship to society.
MAY QUEEN AND COURT. Pictured above is the May Queen and her court as they appeared at the annual
Crogman Day exercises on May 5th. Left to right: Sal lie Stephens, Addie Brown, Nathaniel Thomas (Queen’s
escort) Marilyn Robinson, Mary Ruth Smith, Dorothy Livingston (seated, ’51 Queen) Martha Lee, Aim Wilson
(Queen), Claretha McAlpin, Jacquelyn Laughlin, Andrea Thompson, Charlie Mae Willman, Marjorie Alex
ander, and Pauline Postell.
SnHth-Engram Pharr Named
Take Vows June 3 Editor, ’52-53
Realizing that to obtain these
goals there was a need for compet
ent teachers, textbooks and teaching
aids, in January, 1946 a joint resolu
tion of the Houses of the General
Assembly set up an educational
committee to study the problems of
Georgia.
The Minimum Foundation Pro
gram, which in a realistic and fund
amental sense may be viewed as the
budgetary implement for the im
provement of instruction in Georgia,
was established by laws which a-
dopted the pragram and increased
taxes.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Frank En-
gram announce the coming marri
age of their daughter, Willie Eva,
to Mr. Marshall Joe Smith on Tues
day, June 3rd at 5:30 p. m., in Mer
rill J. Holmes Hall, Clark College.
According to a recent announce
ment by Dr. J, F. Summersette, Di
rector of Publicity ahd Faculty Ad
visor to the staff of the Clark stu
dent newspaper, Ernest M. Pharr
has been named to succeed Harold
M. Carl Uoluiaii
Fellowship Winner
M. Carl Holman, former member
of the Clark English Department
and Director of Publicity, was re
cently announced as one of fifty
Opportunity Fellowship winners by
the John Hay Whitney Foundation.
The program makes stipulations
for funds needed for teachers’ sala
ries, employment for extension
services, transportation of pupils,
and the economic irrdex.
Dr. Lyda challenged each pros
pective teacher to see that the pro
gram is applied to Negroes. This
must be true If boys and girls of the
State of Georgia are to adjust them
selves to the continous order of a
changing democracy.
Dean A. A. McPheeters, who pre
sided at the lecture, explained the
significance of Crogman Day and
the Crogman Lecture.
The bride and groom-to-be are
both members of the senior class
and candidates for graduation.
Miss Engram, of Panama City,
Fla., is a member of the Philhar
monic Society, the Y. W. C. A., the
Florida Club, Vice-President and
Dean of Pledgees of Delta Sigma
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Theta Sorority, and chaplain of the
Alpha Kappa Mu Honorary Society.>
Her major is music and her minor-
secondary education.
Mr. Smith, of Gastonia, N, C., is
*a member of Omega Psi Phi frater-
Hamilton as Editor-in-Chief of the
PANTHER. The change of editor
ship is effective with this edition.
In assuming the position, Pharr
vacates the position of Associate
Editor, which he held during the
past year. No announcement has
been made concerning the appoint
ment of a new Associate Editor. .
Mr. Pharr, a sophomore and a na
tive of Philadelphia, Pa., began his
journalistic training as a member of
the staff of his high school paper
in Gastonia, N. C., on which he serv-
Opportunity Fellowships totaling
$100,000 were awarded to fifty mem
bers of minority groups from Guam,
Hawaii, Alaska, the Virgin Islands,
Puerto Rico, the District 9! Colum
bia'and twenty states. They re
ceived grants ranging from $1,000 to
$3,000 to continue their training or
pursue creative work.
Mr. Holman, who has written
plays which were produced on the
Dr. Christian radio program; is a
student at Yale University and re
ceived his Fellowship in order to
continue study and do creative work
in playwriting at Yale.
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Mother’s Day
nity, student director of the College
Band, president of the Men’s Sen
ate, a member of the Philharmonic
Society, the Alpha Kappa Mu Hon
ed his senior year as Editor-in-
Chief. He now makes his home in
Gastonia.
The new Editor is a member of
These awards are made each year
to American citizens of exceptional
promise who, because of arbitrary-
barriers such as race, cultural back-
Observed
A group of students from Clark,
Morris Brown, and Morehouse form
ed a panel to discuss “Parent-Child
Relationships From the Students
Point of View’’, when the Person
nel Department observed Mother s
Day on Sunday afternoon, May 11,
in Davage Auditorium.
orary Society, WHO’S WHO IN
AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNI
VERSITIES, the campus camel cig
arette representative, the Y. M. C.
A., and a commereiai musician. His
major is music and minor- is secon
dary education.
The best man will be Mr. Edward
Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the Y. M.
C. A., a member of the .Men’s En
semble, and treasurer of the sopho
more class.
ground, or region of residence, have
not had the fullest opportunity to
develop their abilities.
In a recent interview with the .
new Editor it wai learned that plans Stud0U.tS> ToUI*
for l <the organization of the 1952-1953
staff of the PANTHER are already Clark
Jaggers of Dallas, N. C., who is pres- underway.
Participating on the panel were
Miss Dorothy Spann and Joseph Mc
Kenzie of Morris Brown; Jacob La
mar and John W. Anderson of
Morehouse; and Mrs. Elsie Harley,
Miss Mildred Jones, Harold Hamil
ton and Waymon Cranford of Clark.
Mrs. Eva S. Martin, Resident Di
rector, Holmes Hall, moderated the
program.
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Music for the occasion was furn
ished by a sextet and soloist Doro
thy Hunter. Members of the sextet
were Dorothy Hunter, Evelyn Shye,
Mildred Jones, Willie Eva Engram,
Betty Sutton and Gussie Brayboy.
Elizabeth Campbell paid a tribute
to all Mothers with a poem, “Little
Parable for Mothers” by Temple
Bailey.
On Graduation
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For we have reached the crossroads,
And these things for us must end,
Some go one way, some another,
Perhaps never to meet again.
But If we never meet again
ently serving with the United States
Army and who is a boyhood pal of
thp groom. The Maid of Honor is
Miss Doretha Curry of Key West,
Fla., a classmate of Miss Engram’s.
The couple’s future plans include
making of their residence in the
groom’s hometown. However, both
will be working in South Carolina.
Miss Engram wifi head the Music
Dept, at Mather Private School for
girls in Beaufort, S. C. Mr. Smith
will be Band Director at Austin
High School in Summerville, S, r C.
) President Brawley and Reverend
Samuel M. Weeks, Director of
Clark’s Religious Life activities, will
perform (he marriage rites.
And the memories bring us sadness,
It’s only because w$ regret the loss
Of all the moments of gladness;
And whereever we may go from
here,
Our souls will ever hark
To the song our hearts have loved,
To our dear, wonderful, wonderous
Claris.
Music Festival
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Tenor Walter Willis, in the char
acter role of the defendant, wag in
lexcellent voice and command of his
role as he sang of his changelessness
and admitted his strange relations
with Angelinga, the plaintiff, play
ed by Dorothy Hunter.
Other notable singing perform
ances were those given by Wallace
Hartsfield, who acted “The Judge”;
Alvin Turner, who was enjoyed as
the Plaintiff’s lawyer; Marshall
Smith as the usher; and Leon Woods
as foreman of the jury.
join The
NAACP
High School seniors from Lucy
Laney High School, Augusta, Ga.,
arid Excelsior High, St. Augustine,
Fla., recently toured Clark and oth
er neighboring colleges in an effort
to decide upon a school for the
furtherance of their education.
Eighteen girls and eight boys ar
rived on the Clark campus from
Lucy Laney High on May. 15, and
remained until the following day.
They were accompanied by three of
their faculty members. Mr. C. W.
Johnson is Principal of Lucy Laney
High. V |
Through the arrangement of Isaac
Jordan, president of the senior class
at Excelsior High, nine men and
nine: women were provided tha op
portunity to tour Clark and other
schools in the A. U. Center. They
were accompanied by two of their
parents and a faculty member.
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Mr. R. G. Murray is president of
Excelsior High, wihose seniors re
mained in Atlanta from Saturday,
May 16 until the next day.
Many of the tourists have aspira
tions for becoming Ciarkfteg,
Ann Wilson
elected May Queen
Escorted by Nathaniel Thomas,
senior, Miss Ann Wilson, gracefully
paraded before the throng of Clark’s
May Day onlookers and took her
seat on the throne to reign as
•‘Queen of May.”
The crowning of the May Queen,
which took place on Monday, May
5th, at 4:30 p. m., in the Social Cir
cle, climaxed the annual Crogman
Day activities.
Miss Wilson was elected “Queen
of May” via the selling of tickets
as she raised the largest amount of
money. She was officially crowned
“Queen” by C. R. Hamilton, Dean of
Men. The vivacious “Queen” is a
member of the freshman class, an
honor student, and a member of the
Pyramid Club of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority.
Miss Claretha McAlpin was the
only other contestant for the “May
Queen” title. She is also a member
of the freshman class, an honor stu
dent, a member of the Clark Play
house, and a member of the Ivy-
Leaf Club of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority.
The young women of Mrs. Thelma
Allison’s Physical Education classes
performed various drills and acro
batics before the “Queen” and her
court. The Advanced Creative Danc
ing Group, under the direction of
Miss Rogermae Johnson r also per
formed.
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Delores Smith, freshman, won the
title of “Best Figure” out of a group
of five young ladies. Johnnie Daw
son, junior, won second place hon
ors; Helen Bigby, freshman, third
place honors; Deborah Smith, fresh
man, fourth place; and Annie J.
Moody, freshman, fifth place.
Dorothy Livingston, junior, who
was the ’51 “Queen,” presented the
crown t o Dean Hamilton who
in turn placed it upon the head of
Miss Wilson.
Other members of the court were:
Jacquelyn Laughlin, Martha Lee,
Mary Ruth Smith, Claretha McAl
pin, Harriett Junior, Charlie Mae
Willman, Sallie Stephens, Addie
Flora Brown, Marjorie Alexander,
Marilyn Robinson, Andrea Thomp
son and Pauline Postell.
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l op Campus
Personalities
Selected
As the final feature of the Fifth
Annual Personality Clinic, the top
campus personalities were selected
on Friday, March 21.
This activity was designed to pro
mote interest in the total develop
ment of men and women and to
place emphasis on social as weli as
academic competence as a means
of developing a - well-rounded in
dividual.
The following young women were
selected as the top female person
alities on the campus: Martha Lee,
"Miss Clark” of 1951-52, was elected
“Miss Charming”; Addie Flora
Brown, best personality; Pauline
Postell, most versatile; Harriet Jun
ior, best thinker; Mae McCombs,
most popular; Marjorie Alexander,
most sympathetic; Charlie Mae Will-
man, best-groomed; Juanita Mar
shall; best conversationalist; Sallie
Stephens, most friendly; Andrea
Thompson, best all-around; and
Marilyn Robinson, best-proportion-
figure.
The top male personalities chosen
were: Edwin Pratt, “Prince Charm
ing”; Nathaniel Thomas, best think
er; Walter Willis, most sympathe
tic; Bennie Lowe, most popular;
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