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CLARK PANTHER, MAY 29, 1953, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Year by Year With the
Senior Liass
"OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY”
September. 1949: High in spiiit, eager with ambition, plenty of humor
■and great in number were the “green crabs” who entered Clark. The
sky was the limit as we set on toward a new horizon under the able
leadership of Frank Odom.
Those were the days when we looked on college as a glorified win
ter resort. “Our hearts were young and gay.” Through many chaotic
experiences we managed to complete the year.
“THE RAINS CAME”
The walls finally tumbled and “the rains came” with our sopho
more year as the realization of college, being a serious situation, began
to dawn upon us. Martha Lee and Fannie Neely led us with 3.00 aver
ages.
During the football season the crowds thrilled to the wonderful
playing of Henry Collins, Harold Barrett, Frank Odom, Arthur John
son, Norris Muldrow, Clarence Lewis, Percy Evans, Joe Butts, Bill
Rogers, John Cannon, Hubert Ricks and James Crute.
Strutting to the music of their band classmates—James Hudson,
Stanley Goseer, Walter Sullivan, Carl Ogletree, Julius Wimby and Wil
bert Christain.—were smart-stepping Charlie Mae Willman, Annie Sin
gleton, Joan McWilliams, and Marjorie Alexander.
- -.Elsewhere on the extra-curriclar scene: Basketball—James Trice
and'William Powell. Clark College was consolation winner in the SIAC
that year. Track—Captain John Cannon, (top conference hurdler), Ar
thur Johnson. Hubert Ricks. Murray Cruse, Robert Knox and Harold
Barrett.
Dramatics—Marjorie Alexander, Carter Lowe, Edwin Pratt, Robert
Wynn, Pauline Postsll and Jonathan Jackson. Philharmonic Society—
Washington Butler. Isabella Taylor, Marjorie Alexander, Murray Cruse,
Johnetta Henderson, and Lola Parks.
There were members of the class scattered through all campus or
ganizations and this was the year that Greekdom was “remodeled” with
additions from a darling class.
This was also a year of leadership with Washington Butler as Presi
dent. Our class broke tradition when it placed a candidate in the race
for the Student Council Presidency. After a second vote (d-ue to a
“tie”) Edwin Pratt became Clark’s first Student Council President to
be elected during his sophomore year.
“JUST AROUND THE CORNER”
There were several departures during our junior year, but others
came—Terah Ann Whitten, “the humor bug”, and Wardelf Woods, “the
walk of a century.” Robert Knox was our able guide as prexy.
We were crowned with many honors. Martha Lee was “Miss Clark”;
her attendants were: Fannie Neely and Charlie Mae Willman. Othel
Homecoming Queens were Mae McCombs, “Miss Omega”; Joyce Butler,
“Miss Sigma”; Dorothy Livingston, “Miss Kappa”; and Gloria Thomas,
“Miss Alpha”.
Alpha Kappa Mu inducted into its realm Samuella Gray, Johnetta
Henderson, Solomon Sears. Joan McWilliams, Fannie Neely, Martha
Lee and Lola Parks.
Three classmates were nominated to “WHO’S WHO AMONG STU
DENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES"—Pauline
Postell, Samuella Gray and Edwin Pratt.
We ended our junior year with the annual Junior-Senior Prom,
which shall linger long in our book of memories.
“WING AND A PRAYER”
September, 1952 brought with it the near clrnax of a long wait. The
dignified senior year, tinged with the age-old headache, The Compre-
hnsive Examination.
Having been in the limelight throughout, our senior year could be
no different. Opal Gay and Leila Ingersoll were attendants to “Miss
Clark.” Alpha Kappa Mu selected Walter Sullivan and Willie Stoney-
Dennis. To “WHO’S WHO" went Martha Lee, Johnetta Henderson. Frank
Odom, Walter Sullivan, Lota Parks, Washington Butler, Jonathan Jack-
son and Fannie Neely.
For some Clark will, be another stopping- point, but others of this
class shall continue to write history in other institutions and in the
world itself. From Clark we carry Culture; to Clark we have given our
services and a “class” that will be long remembered through these
educational, halls.
—PRATTOWSKI.
SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS—Typical of Clark’s candidates for gradua
tion are the senior class officers for the past year who are pictured above.
Left to right, Edwin Pratt, president; Robert Lewis, \ice--president; Opal
Gay, secretary, and Alfred Knox, business manager.— (Lowe Photo.)
On Graduation
ED. NOTE: The following was
written by David Luther Stanley,
class of ’52, who is now serving
with the United States Army,
Stanley wrote this as a memoir
of all the things he felt about
Clark.
As we climb another stepping
stone,
Each toward a chosen career,
We think of all the things
That to us are most dear.
We remember freshman initia
tion,
Get-acquainted socials, the Presi
dent’s Ball,
The football games, the Homecom
ing dances,
All the excitement in the Fall.
We remember the warmth of Spring,
The couples seated on the grass,
How happy and relaxed they look
ed
While we were still in class.
We remember Sunday Vespers
speakers
The speeches they would make,
Which, although good, would often
fail
To keep us wide awake.
We remember the chap:! programs,
concerts,
The raffles and the drives,
The ball games and the picnic
When we had the time of our lives.
We remember basketball and track.
They way that we’d raise sand
To let the world know we were
backing
The best team in the land.
And we demember the dining hall,
The way that we would feel
When sleeping just a little late
Caused us to miss a meal.
We remember exams, semester
grades,
How anxious we would be
To know who “set the curve”,
Who made “A” or “B”, who made
“C”,
We remember the comprehensive
exams,
Wondering what we had made,
And after making it through.
Who else made what grade.
Then we remember all the people
Who have shared these things.
And it’s a kind of sadness
That this memory brings.
For we have reached the cross
roads,
And these things for us must end.
Some go one way, some another,
Perhaps never to meet again.
But if we never meet again
And the meories bring us sadness,
sorrowlt’s only because we regret
the loss
Of all the moments of gladness;
And wherever we may go from
here,
Our souls will ever hark
To the song our hearts have loved,
To our dear, wonderful, wondrous
Clark.
VALEDICTORIAN GRAY SALUTATORIAN McWILLIAMS
’53 Honor Students
Announced By Registrar
Samuella Gray, average 2.69, Joan McWilliams, 2.64
Slated for top honors in a class cf 116 candidates for graduation at
the eighty-fourth exercises of commencement are Samuella Gray,
Augusta, Georgia, and Joan Blondell McWilliams of New Orleans, Lou
isiana. Miss Gray will present the valedictory address while Miss Mc
Williams will hake the salutatory address.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rodrick Gray of 413 Gilbert
Manor, Augusta, Georgia, Miss Gray is a 1949 graduate of the Augustus
B. Johnson High School of Augusta where she was valedictorian of her
graduating class. While in high school she was the first Negro Girl
Scout in Augusta to receive the Senior Service Scout bade (highest hon
or) and was also elected to represent her high school at the NAACP
Youth Legislative Council in Washington, D. C.. her senior year.
Receiving a tuition scholarship to Clark. Miss Gray has since affili
ated herself with the following campus organizations: The Women’s En
semble, the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the Alpha Kappa Mu Honorary
Society, the Student Council, the newspaper staff, the Usher's Guild,
the NAACP, the Business Forum, the Intercollegiate Personnel Council
and the Holmes Hall Senate of which she has served as chairman for
the past year. She has twice been elected to WHO’S WHO AMONG
STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, a di
rectory of distinguished students.
She has majored in Secretarial Science while minoring in Business
Administration and for the past year has served as Secretary to the
Dean of the College, A. A. McPheeters. Her plans for the future in
clude Secretary to Dean McPheeters and to later attend graduate
school at New York University for her master’s degree in Business Ad-
minstration.
“Helping others to solve their problems has always given me a
great deal of satisfaction. Since the profession of social work is pri
marily concerned with helping others tc help themselves. I am almost
compelled to specialize in the area of social work due to the very na
ture of the profession,” says Salutatorian Joan Blondell McWil
liams, daughter of Mrs. Dorothy McWilliams of 2706 S. Derbigney St.,
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Majoring in Social Science and minoring in Secondary Educa
tion, she came to Clark from New Orleans’ Gilbert Academy where
she 'receieved an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Scholarship and a
scholarship to Clark.
During her tenure at Clark she has participated in the fol
lowing organizations and clubs: the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
She has also been a mensbar of the creative dance group, the
Holmes Hall Cabinet, Les Bons Social Club and a majorette for
three years with the College Band. For the past year she has serv
ed as an assistant in the Department of Social Science.
Her plans for the future include attending graduate school for
further study in social work or sociology.
More Than 100 Students Honored On Awards Day
More than 100 Clark students were honored when the adminstration, fraternal
organizations, and departments of instruction observed Annual Awards Day during the
commencement season in Davage Auditorium last Thursday morning. With Dr. J. J. Den
nis presiding, the following awards were made:
The James P. Brawley awards for students keeping the neatest room during the
year: Holmes Hall—Ellaween Lowery, Ottie Middleton, Rose Griffin and Ruby Davis.
Honorable mention went to Samuella Gray, Virginia Tucker, and Onell Smith; Merner
Hall—Lucille Gunter, Montez Hezekiah, Constance Moore and Juanita Mitchell while hon
orable mention went to Claretha McAlpin and Addie Flora Brown; Pfeiffer Hall—Harold
Barrett and Joseph Morgan. Honorable mention went to Carson Lee, Walter Sullivan,
Solomon Sears, Willie Harris, Willie Levett, Walter Willis, Aaron Favors, Robert Lewis,
Jesse Abner and Rawleigh Lowd; the J. P. Brawley Work Award to Everlina Ridley; the
Ida H. Goode Home Economics Department Award for most outstanding upper level
home economics student to Nina Manley Morrow; Samuel F. Harris Award (donated by
Mrs. Sara H. Cureton in memory of her father) for the freshman young man showing
excellence in attitude and achievements to Lawrence Rizor; Rev. J. W. Queen Award to
the young man making the greatest improvement in personality, attitude, and scholar
ship to Robert Knox while Douglas Rowland received honorable mention; the George
W. Lewis award donated by Dr. and Mrs. D.H. Stanton to the student showing exception
al personality improvement, outstanding scholarship and favorable general attitudes to
Virginia Tucker; the James P. Brawley Award to the senior maintaining the highest
average over 2.5 for four years to Samuella Gray; the Professor Lawyer Taylor Award
for the student majoring in mathematics and maintaining the highest average for four
years to Ellaween Lowery; the N. A. Bridges Award to the student majoring in religi
ous education with the highest academic record to Jonathan Jackson; the Marie Hard-
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