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CLARK PANTHER, NOVEMBER, 1968, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Pace Three
Two Hundred and
Sixty-one Frosh.
Enter College Life
679 Students Enroll
Bringing a wealth of versatility,
ability and initiative to the cam
pus, two hundred and sixty-one
freshmen have been inducted into
Clark life for pursuance of their
chosen career's and have become
adjusted to their new environment
with few, if any difficulties.
Coming from as far north as
Connecticut, as far west as Ohio
and Indiana, and from Liberia and
the African Gold Coast, the neo
phyte degree-seekers were first
greeted by their “big brothers and
sisters”, thirty upperclassmen who
worked as freshman guides to help
the 1967 class members understand
the ideals and values for which the
College stands.
Prom sun-up to bed-time, the
freshmen were kept busy with a
series of placement tests, physical
examinations, fellowship hours,
sightseeing tours, intercollegiate
hours, and huddle-group sessions.
They were formally inducted into
College life at the annual Fresh
man Induction Service at which
time President James P. Brawley
delivered his annual challenge to
the new students as the special
feature of the program and after
wards the entire class formed a
candlelight procession in the center
of the campus for conclusion of
the service.
After registration had been com
pleted, the freshmen entertained
upperclassmen and faculty mem
bers at the annual Freshman Tal
ent Show which was supervised by
Freshman Guides Vivian Vaughn
and Aaron Favors.
Also included in the orientation
period for the class of '67 was a
Career Conference arranged espe
cially to start the freshmen con
sidering possibilities for a life's
work and to provide those who
have already made a vocational
choice with additional information
on their chosen profession. The
Career Clinic was supervised by
Mr. M. T. Puryear of the National
Urban League.
The outstanding feature of
orientation was the “huddles"—
where groups of ten to fifteen
freshmen gathered with a fresh
man guide and a faculty member—
which explored collegiate socio
economic problems.
Deans Phoebe Burney and Charl
ton Hamilton, Mrs. Eva S. Martin
and Mrs. Marie Copher of the Per
sonnel Department were in charge
of the orientation program.
> With the entrance of the 261
new members to the College,
Clark’s enrollment was set at 679
for the first semester. Other fig
ures include that of 103 advanced
freshmen; 127 sophomores; 82 jun
iors; 96 seniors and ten special
students, according to a release by
Registrar Edward J. Brantley. The
enrollment figures for this semes
ter show a decrease from the fig
ures of the same period last year
when 730 students registered for
classes.
ONE-MAN ART EXHIBIT
By Chestyn Everett
In the New
Haven-Warren Gallery
Sunday, December 13,1953
7:00 P. M. to 9:00 P. M.
THE COLLEGE BAND under the baton of Director Wayman A. Carver has completed its marching sea
son with the termination of the Thanksgiving Day fo otball classic, and is looking forward to tremendous
success during the coming concert season. John Peek is president of the hard-working aggregation which
has gained the acclaim of all Atlanta.— (Lowe Photo;
All-Star Concert Series Filled
With Number of “Must See” Attractions
Opened October 25 by two gifted
American singers, baritone Robert
McFerrin and soprano Geraldine
Overstreet, the College's All-Star
Concert Series is proclamed to be
one of the best that has ever came
to an Atlanta College. Dr. J. de-
Koven Killingsworth, Hear of the
Department of Music has schedule
an array of artist that challenges
the cultural public with a series of
“must-see” attractions.
Singers Robert McFerrin and
Geraldine Overstreet opened the
series with a program that is one
long to be remembered when they
thrilled the overflow audience from
the first number, an aria from the
Marriage of Figaro to Gershwin’s
songs from Porgy and Bess. To
perpetuate the scheduled impres
sive performances of this year’s
Series, Roy Eaton, brilliant twen
ty-three year old American pianist,
excited the interest of his house,
November 16, and won the sort of
applause that goes to genuine
artists rather than that which at
tends mere brilliant executionists.
The next attraction is the Vir
ginia Concerto Orchestra with Wil
liam Haaker, soloist conductor. The
players come from virtually all of
the major symphony orchestras.
Mr. Haaker is also a protege of
the famed pianist Jose Iturbi. The
last of the Series will be the cele
brated Leon Destine and his Hai
tian Dance Group. Destine, Haitian
bora, has selected for the group’s
appearance at Clark a range from
the Old French Court dances to
primitive voodoo rhythms.
McFERRIN-OVERSTREET
This was the first appearance for
Mr. McFerrin and Miss Overstreet
in Atlanta, and if Mr. McFerrin’s
performance here turns out to be
a preview of the Metropolitan de
but predicted for him, Clark Col
lege may well be proud of this
first.
CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE
(Continued from page two)
Since pupils enjoyed the many il
lustrations presented and the story,
how they could be motivated to
explore many other books in the
library with the theme of Inter
national Understanding was the
focal point of discussion following
the report.
The visiting United Nations
member related the importance of
the organization and the extent
pupils could participate in realiz
ing the goals of the organization.
A colorful bulletin board, dis
playing hand painted flags of all
the member countries by three di
mensional figures joining hands,
was prepared by Miss Catherine
Chestnut, Clark College junior of
Atlanta.
The members of the class who
evaluated the group project after
the playlet were Misses Mildred
Lyons, Viola Lewis, Catherine
Chestnut, Elaine Jordan, Fannie
Evans and Joyce Mitchell.
Accompanied by Miss Amelia
Myers, formerly of the Fisk Uni
versity Music Department, the two
artists adequately interpreted their
solo groups with profound sincer
ity, effective drama, tenderest
lyricism, and wonderfully fine pro
nunciations which increased the ef
fectiveness of their repertoire. The
two forces joined for modern
American musical show excerpts
that are now truly part of the na
tional folk culture in the final por
tion of their program. The high
point was inevitably their tremen
dously moving presentation of two
great “Porgy and Bess” numbers:
“Bess, You Is My Woman Now”
and “I Loves You, Porgy” of which
audience reaction was so great that
the applause could not be refrained
until the last note.
ROY EATON
Playing with finesse of touch and
exhibiting clean, precise technique
which prevailed throughout the
program, pianist Roy Eaton pre
sented a well-selected program of
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Cho
pin. His concluding group con
tained the Chopin numbers for
which he is so well known, having
won the Kosciuszko Foundation’s
first Chopin scholarship offered pi
anists in national competition in
1960. In “Scherzo in B flat minor”
and Antanta Spianto and Grand
Polonaise Brilliant” he took full
command of the situation with all
the freedom and assertion of a
knight errant. And it was in this
group that he displayed notions of
his own and revealed that he was
a clear-headed musician — highly
independent in interpretive outlook.
He adapted the instrument to the
composer whom he, at the moment,
had under view, lending appropri
ate tone to each number and adapt
ing his style to each in turn.
TO WHOM I OWE
(Ed. Note: The following was
written by Charles Norman Diggs,
freshman of Baltimore, Md.i
To Whom I owe my life, my all
To Whom I owe my grief, my toil
To Whom I owe each breath I
breathe
To Whom I owe life’s purities.
To Whom I owe the rain that falls
To Whom I owe my best, my all
To Whom I owe the flowers that
grow
To Whom I owe good seeds I sow.
To Whom I owe the food I eat
To Whom I owe the flowers so
sweet
To Whom I owe the heavens above.
When troubles near or death ap
pear,
To God I go, to whom I owe.
O Master, let me always know,
Tis Thee, the one to whom I owe.
Dr. Killingsworth
Speaks To
Symposium
By Betty J. Snype
At their November meeting,
members of the Literary Sympos
ium got a glimpse of five Euro
pean countries through the eyes of
Dr. J. deKoven Killingsworth,
Head of the College’s Music De
partment.
“And quite an enchanting view
it was” is the sentiment of mem
bers of the organization who
gained new meaning from the cus
toms, traditions, significant places,
and important festivals in France,
Italy, Austria, England and Ger
many related first-hand by the
Clark professor.
Members of the Symposium, an
organization consisting of junior
and senior English majors and
minors, were particularly inter
ested in scenes of London and
Stratford-Upon-Avon, St. Paul’s
Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, The
House of Parliament, Picadilly Cir
cus, Church of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields, Buckingham Palace, The
Shakespeare Hotel, the Shakes
peare Memorial Theatre and Anne
Hathaway’s Cottage—all of which
had deep literary meaning to the
students of English.
To the delight and surprise of
all present, Dr. Killingsworth pre
sented a framed graphic picture of
the home of Shakespeare to Dr.
Stella Brewer Brookes, one of the
Symposium advisors. Dr. Killings-
worth’s enlightening views of
places he visited was enthusiastic
ally received by Symposium mem
bers who, heartily, approved with
rounds of applause for sharing his
very rich experiences with them.
The officers of the Literary Sym
posium are Glendora Patterson,
president; Willie Frances Kelsey,
vice-president; Bertha Gholston,
secretary; Fera Lee Kornegay,
treasurer; Emily Johnson, chair
man of the program committee;
and Betty Snype, reporter. Other
members are Harold Wardlaw,
Eileen Jonas, Elridge W. McMil
lan, Ida Baugh, Yvonne Richard
son, Ernest M. Pharr and Rudolph
Flood.
PFEIFFER WEEKEND
CHAPEL PROGRAM
December 10th
DANCE
December 12th
Thayer Hall “Rec”
8:00 P. M.
OPEN HOUSE
December 13th
5:00-6:00 P. M.
You Are Cordially Invted.
Clark Band Looks
To Successful Year
By Aaron Favors, Jr.
Under the baton of Mr. Way-
nion A. Carver, a person of rare
ingenuity and ability, members of
the Clark College Band have tre
mendous hopes and expectations
for a banner year. With hours of
hard work and held together by
great determination and an im
pressive array of talent, this prom
ises to be a successful year for the
band and an enjoyable one for its
audiences.
Making its debut at the annual
Clark-Tuskegee classic in Bir
mingham, the Band has performed
at all home games presenting a
repertoire of intricate and original
marching formations. In addition
there will be two concert perform
ances with the first taking place
in December in Davage Auditorium
which will be the scene of the ag
gregation’s annual Christmas Mu
sic Program. On December 4, the
group is scheduled to make an ap
pearance at Grantville, Georgia,
for its annual parade and concert.
This year’s officers are John
Peek, president; Lloyd Terry,
treasurer; Burtron Davis, captain;
Marilyn Brooks, student director;
Deborah Smith, secretary and
Aaron Favors, Jr., reperter.
Freshman members of the band
are Eugene Clark, Alfred Dockett,
Lloyd Terry, Gwinn Dansby, Clif
ford Daniels, Lillian Stevens, El-
red James, James Patterson, Wil
liam Wright, Robert Daniels, Jim
mie Harris, Jerry Miner, Helen
Wright, Dan Bailey, Mary Early,
and Virgil Blake.
Veterans are Leroy Hudson, Da
vid Hudson, Rebecca Gripper, John
Peek, Marilyn Brooks, Theodore
Carten, Philip Hood, Clarence Boy
kin, Mary Smith, James Miller,
Lander Scott, Aaron Favors, The
odore Matthews, Evelyn Shye, Bur
tron Davis, Deborah Smith and
Alice Waters.
Freshman majorettes are Vir
ginia Prather, Carolynne Taylor,
and Mamie Toland. Constituting
the prancing group are veterans
Jeannette Reynolds, Princess Glov
er, Helen Everett, Martha Jo Ech
ols and Betty Ellington.
Students Come
To College
Ill Equipped
Says Emory Prof.
Atlanta, Ga.—(I.P.)—“Give me
a boy who has at 16 the curiosity
he had at six and he can get a
college education in one year and
a doctor of philosophy degree six
months later,” declares Dr. J. Sam
uel Gay, former chairman of the
chemistry department at Emory
University.
Dr. Gay said that students come
to college poorly equipped in es
sentials of reading, writing and
arithmetic and are thus unable to
undertake college work successful
ly. He said his entire sympathy is
for the student. “Colleges should
either select students more care
fully or select subjects more care
fully” and let the level of instruc
tion fit the student. Deploring the
large numbers of students flunked
out of colleges, Dr. Guy said, “The
extreme mortality—20 to 40 per
cent—in colleges is the worst busi
ness I know of.”
He added that the most experi
enced teachers should handle the
elementary courses and that the
heads of departments should teach
the freshmen. “No man should
teach freshmen unless he has at
least 10 years’ experience,” Dr.
Gay said.
PATRONIZE THE “REC”