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CLARK PANTHER, MAT 29, 1953, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Appreciative and Overflowing Audiences
Laud Sixth Annual Festival at Music and Arts
With an appreciative and over
flowing audience, the Sixth Annual
Festival of Music and Arts began
auspiciously with a concert by the
versatile College Band under the
direction of Professor Way man Car
ver, Thursday evening, April 23.
Opening with a stirring delivery
lege’s English Department when
she discussed “Patterns and Mis
conceptions of American Folklore”
following the organ selections.
Introduced by English Professor
Doris D. Holmes, Dr. Brookes said
that folklore is the scholar’s word
for something that is as natural as
were accompanied by Betty Green
and Edwin Hughes.
Under the direction of J. deKoven
Killingsworth, assisted by Mrs. Ma
rian Sykes and Miss Laverne Gai
ther, the Philharmonic Society pre
sented Gilbert and Sullivan’s de
lightful opera, “The Mikadc”, the
following evening.
of “Jolly Roger,” a march compos-
el by Director Carver and Bach’s
“If Thou Be Near”, the concert
moved swiftly into Olivadoti’s “Av
alon Night”; Verdi’s “II Travatore”;
excerpts from “Symphony No. 6,” by
Tschaikovsky; Soussa’s “King Cot
ton”; GrofeJ3ennetfs “Mississippi
Suite” and Jambalaya” by Will
iams.
Majorette Jeannette Reynolds
thrilled the audience with a twirl
ing demonstration while Ella Carol
Phillips sang “The Jasmin Door”
by Alicia Scott and the Firestone
Theme Song, “If I Could Tell You.”
Also featured on the concert was a
male instrumental quartet which
rendered selected numbers. Mem
bers of the foursome were Wilson
Bostic, Lawrence Rizer, Walter Sul
livan and Alfred Wyatt.
The Festival continued the follow
ing morning with a musicale by
Organist 'Laverne Gaither and a
lecture by Doctor Stella Brewer
Brookes. At the organ, Miss Gaither
rendered Dubois’ “Grand Chorus”;
“My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice”
by Saens; and Purcell’s “Trumpet
Voluntary.”
“America’s folklore comprises
patterns and designs as varied as
the human diversity of these Unit
ed States,” declared Dr. Stella
Brewer Brookes, head of the coi-
Band Receives
Gifts
By AARON FAVORS, JR.
On the occasion of it’s 10th An
nual Concert, the Clark College
Concert Band was the recipient of
many gifts from its former mem
bers. Band Director is Professor
Wayman A. Carver.
singing songs and spinning yarns—
the mincskill and handskills that
have been patterned by common ex
perience, varied by individual re
petition, cherished by generation
after generation. The speaker trac
ed the history of folklore in Amer
ica and discussed the material as
“the folk”, “the academic” and “the
popular.”
Following Dr. Brookes’ lecture a
group of students from nearby high
schools competed in a music schol
arship contest.
The following night, the Creative
Dance Group under the direction
of Miss Rogermae Johnson present
ed a program of dance numbers.
Members of Miss Johnson’s advanc
ed and freshman classes ably in
terpreted the dance numbers while
entertaining an appreciative audi
ence. The dancers were (advanced):
Loretta Brooks, Martha Jo Echols,
Reba Cripper, Joyce Mitchell, Wal
ter Mae Robinson, Deborah Smith,
Earline Walker, Roy Buckner, Of-
fie Clark, Willie Futch, Samuel
Tate, Grady Rogers, and Clarence
Hubbard; (freshmen) Edna Bran
non, Mary Brooks, Yvonne Epps,
Maurice Fitts, Princess Glover,
Emma Heard, Mildred McDowell,
Florence Ponder, Mamie Rowe, Bet
ty Sims, Katherine White, Marynell
Brooks and Mary Worthen. They
tion to Director Carver when they
made their appearance here with
the choir and band from Rosenwald
High School, Panama City, Florida,
and was very much appreeia ted by
the band and its Director, Mr. Way-
man Carver.
Bostic In
In feature roles were Willie Bol
ton as “The Mikado”; Walter Wil
lis as “Nanki-Poo”; Borah W. Wal
ton as “Ko-Ko”; Wallace Harts-
field as “Katisha”; and three sis
ters. "Yum-Yum”, “Pitti-Sing”, and
“Peep-Bo” played and sung by Es-
tella Burch, Reba Gripper and Flor
ence Ponder.
Encores galore, from a full audi
ence, greeted the Society as the
curtain rung down the final act
of the entertaining, delightful and
comical opera.
Five celebrated masterpieces of
art were presented the following
evening by Art Director Arthur D.
Sherrod to conclude the festivities
of the four-day Festival.
Brought to life within gilded
frames were Murillo’s “Immaculate
Conception”; Ender’s Holy Wo
men at the Tomb”; “Hope” by
Watts; “Supper at Emmaus” by
Eichstaedt; and daVinci’s “The Last
Supper.”
Portraying the masterpieces were
Helena Miller, Juanita Gideon, Syl
via Lee, Dorothy Vines, Gloria Mat
thews, Arthur Coleman, Aaron Fa
vors. Walter Willis, Robert Sellers,
Robert Knox, Clifford Ferguson,
Lloyd Hebert, Ernest Pharr, George
Johnson, Samuel. Rosser and Theo
dore Watthews. Edwin Pratt pro
vided the exposition as the narra
tor.
Florida High School Band and
Choirs Appear Here
Under the auspices of the Clark College Department of
Music, High School Choirs from St. Petersburg and Panama
City, Florida, and a band from the latter high school were
presented in recital Thursday and Friday, May 7 and 8 in
Davage Auditorium.
Under the competent directorship two former Clarkites returned to
of Mr. B. A. Ponder, the St. Ce- their former “hals of study.”
‘Sonata, Op. 29”, allegro by Ben
Marcato; Massenet’s “Elegie”; “My
Heart At Thy Sweet Voice” by
Saint-Saens; “My Love For You”
by Clarke; Endresen’s “Victory” and
Goldman’s “Concert Waltz.”
Enfchusiafiscally received by the
audience, he was accompanied by
Miss Laverne Gaither.
celia Choir of Gibbs High School,
St. Petersburg, Fla., initiated the
recitals and enchanted faculty, stu
dents and friends alike in an hour
of music.
The 43-voice choir sang Bach’s
O Rejoice Ye Christians Loud
ly”; Lewiandowsky’s “Psalm 150”;
Fred Waring’s arrangement of
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Joe
Smith, graduates of the class of ’52,
were both active in campus curri
cular and extra-curricular activi
ties during their tenur-e at Clark.
Mr. Smith hails from Gastonia, N. C.,
while Mrs. Smith’s home is in
Panama City. They were married
last June 3rd in Merrill J, Holmes
“YUM-YUM” AND “NANKI-POO,” pictured above in one of their rap
turous moments of the delightful Gilbert and Sullivan opera, “The Mi
kado,” are none other than Estella Burch (Yum-Yum) and Walter Willis,
Jr.— (Nanki-Poo).— (Photo by Lowe.)
The following is a list of dona
tions: A check for $5.00 from Miss
Catherine Shannell; music stands
from Mr. Frank Hawkins, Mrs.
Rubye Howard, Mr. Thomas How
ard, Mr. Joseph Chambers, Mrs.
Imogene Yancey, Mr. Mason John
son, Mrs. Nina Lester, Mr. William
Coates, Mr. Lucius Patton, Mr. Ru
fus Tucker, Mr. Alfred Wyatt, Mr.
W. Walton.
A check from Mr. and Mrs. Mar
shall Joe Smith, graduates of tire
class of ’52, also presented a dona-
Senior Recital
Wilson Bostic, senior music stu
dent, was presented in recital on
Sunday evening, April 12 in Dav
age Auditorium. A feature of the
College’s All Star Concert series
of the Sunday Evening Cultural
Hour; this was the final senior con
cert of the year. Bostic was assisted
by Aaron Favors, reader.
Expressively on the trumpet, the
native Atlantan rendered TuthilJ’s
Favors, sophomore and a native
of Birmingham, Ala., read Shake
speare's soliloquy from “Hamlet;”
Kipljng’s “If” and “The Day Is
Done” by Longfellow,
Man, whoever may be his coun
try, has the same rights in one
place as another, the rights of uni
versal citizenship.
—From Shelley’s ‘Declaration of
Rights.”
Cornin’ Thru the Rye”; Calliet’s
“The Voice of Freedom”; and a
medley from Irving Berlin’s “An
nie Get Your Gun,” featuring Shir
ley Edwards, Roosevelt Williams,
and Richard Kelly as singers and
James Hawkins as dancer.
Also featured on the enjoyable
concert were Lonnie Brown, 10th
grade pianist at Gibbs High, who
ably interpreted Massent’s ‘Ar-
gonaise”; a male quartet which
rendered “My Country ’Tis of
Thee"; a novelty, “Student Logic”;
“Old McDonald Had a Farm,” and
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve
Seen”; Zora Leonard, soprano and
Roosevelt Williams, tenor, rendered
“Ah, I Love Thee Only” and “Holy
Angels” from scene II, act V, of the
opera “Faust”; and the female en
semble which rendered “Since You
Went Away.”
Accompanied by Miss Edwin
Graham, the choir, in its second
consecutive appearance here was
enthusiastically received by the
Clark audience which lauded them
with rounds of applause.
OUTGOING STUDENT COUNCIL—Having completed their term in office, the members of the past year’s
Student Council are pictured above at one of their meetings as they prepare to relinquish their positions to
others. Left to right, Wilbert Christian and Rober Knox, senior representatives; Harold Page, junior and
Council vice-president; Samuella Gray, senior, and Council secretary; Washington R. Butler, president;
Winfred Harris, sophomore representative; Sylvia Lee, freshman representative: and Norman Johnson, Jr„
sophomore representative.— (Photo by Charles W. Lo we.)
FORMER CLARKITES RETURN
When the High School Band and
Choir from Panama City, Florida,
made their debut the following
night in the Davage Auditorium,
Hall. While studying here they
both majored in music and minor-
ed in secondary education, and both
were members of the Alpha Kappa
Mu Honorary Society.
Under the direction of Mrs. Smith,
the choir sang Laurence’s “Let Us
Break Bread”; the Negro spirituals
“Amen” and “He Is King of Kings”;
Dawson's “Soon Ah Will Be Done";
“Seek Ye the Lord” by Roberts;
“Love Somebody” by Rhea; “Adore-
mus Te” by Palestrina; “Ave Ma
ria” by Schubert; Mendelssohn’s
"Judge Me O God”; Richter’s “The
Creation”; and Ashford’s “Lift Up
Your Heads.”
The Band, directed by Mr. Smith,
rendered Benjnett’s “Military Es-
sort”; Olivadotils "Avalon Nights
Overtur”; Rachmaninoff’s “Prelude
in C Minor”; “Deep River Rhapso
dy” by Walters! “To A Wild Rose”
by MacDowell; “Santa Fe Trail” by
Whitney; Darcy’s “March Fantas-
tique”; Walters’ “T. V. Suite” and
Mavourneen Overture” by Bueh-
tel.
It is interesting to note that in
cluded in the band were the high
school’s valedictorian and saluta-
torium—and a 213-pound fullback.