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CLARK PANTHER; NOVEMBER, 1953, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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Fred Morgan
On McCarthyism
From the Residences
On the Literary
Scene
HAPPENINGS IN HOLMES HALL
Always the scene of much activity, residents of Holmes Hall have The first novel by Gwendolyn
I do not purport to discuss here every attendant facet of McCarthy- made their debut in Clark society this year with two big vents and Brooks, Negro Pulitzer Prize win-
ism, rather, I shall be duly concerned with, its definition and character, many individual accomplishments in addition to entertaining and hous- ner in ^ poetry, was published re-
fither than that, however, , I shall offer slightly more than random ing many guests of the College
thoughts, Moreover, these thoughts will be purely personal, biased and
possibly opinionated, kgers. What will be the results of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s
One writer has stated that, truthfully, what we have come to iden- hearings? It will be interesting to wait and see as we hope they will
tify, as McCarthyism had its beginnings during the late forties in the House, Sunday, November 11, programs were presented by the Educa-
Ho.use Committee on Un-American Activities and also in a Senate Com- officers were elected: Chairman of the House, Geraldine Scott; Co-
mi.ttqe whose purpose paralleled the purpose of the aforementioned tional Committee and tea was served by the Social Committee. Immacu -
House Committee. It was pointed out that Senator McCarthy had noth- } a t e housekeeping was displayed by the young women of the hall, at
ing to do with the conduct of either of those committees until the very which time room 115, occupied by Georgene Broadnex and Billy Well-
early part of 1953, when he assumed the chairmanship of the Senate mon . room 203, occupied by Yvonne Southall and Deborah Smith, and
room 213, occupied by Florence Ponder, were outstanding. Pictured y™d the safety of the neighbor-
“life in Holmes Hall,” the Educational Committee sponsored a socio
drama at a chapel program and the scenes pictured were “Breakfast
Time,” “Mail Call,” “Room Check at 10 o’Clock,” “Study Hour” and
“Hen Session.”
At the initial meeting of the Holmes Hall Senate the following
cently by Harper and Brothers of
The to big events were Open House and a chapel program. At Open New York City. Titled “Maud
problem! Some places have instigated a 9 P. M. curfew on many teen- Martha ”, the story centers around
fij) ’ ” ' ” ’ i_ ° “ a Negro daughter, wife and moth
er who live in the Bronzeville sec
tion of Chicago.
According to the pub'ishers’
statement, the novel tells in vivid,
poetic prose, “the fear that under
lies every moment—fear that be-
Investigating Committee.
hood world the person bom with
a dark face will be looked upon
as an intruder.”
Miss Brook’s first volume of
poetry, “A Street In Bronzeville,”
of the House, Dorothy Hunter; Chairman of Educational was publl ^® d b J C ° m '
Ndw- what I have come to identify as McCarthyism is a set of
tactics-tactics that follow a strict pattern of callousness and dema
goguery. That these tactics originally belonged to Senator McCarthy
'is,'undeniably, simple and obvious logic. Inasmuch as it is linguistically
Impossible to disassociate McCarthy (the man) and the “ism” which,
.u'riquestionably, must he either the act of MeCarthyizing or simply an
(espoused principle or doctrine of the man.
•-•••. •I- ffiave-Tnuch- respect and possibly -much of something other than
■respect for both the motivation-andthe purpose of Joseph McCarthy’s
ealous, demagogic-tactics.-The motivating force of McCarthyism—mote
than* being an • abominable curse for Communism—is an indomitable
love for-'America. Proceeding in logic, the purpose would be naturally
to' protect''Americaagainst Communist infiltration. This purpose and
sfihis motivation I confeider- high and glorious, certainly I consider it noble.
Howeyer,' tjiis indomitable love, when channeled by McCarthism, is
blind and yeckless. It loses the patience and perseverance so character
istic of love .and intrinsic to its survival, Moreover, it ceases to be a
iove and becomes an obsession, ruinous, and destructive as all obses-
sions sig.
’ Eileen Jonas spoke at the observance of World Community Day at
McCarthy ism is a sinister force that profusely slings dangerous and Bethlehem Center, November 2. she has received four Poetry
black; accusations and charges at innocent people—people rendered help- Miss Dorothy M. Hunter, co-chairman of the House, represented Workshop Awards given by the
less!(to tile charges in the face of congressional immunity. McCarthwism Holmes Hall at the November meeting of the Intercollegiate Personnel Midwestern Writers’ Conference
fe alfiet of tactcis of the untempered, the unsobered, and of the dicta- Council held in the lounge of the Morehouse Chemistry Building,
tarial when it intimates and implies guilty by association (and it so November 3.
very often does).'It is evil, menacing, and certainly, no less than a Martha Jo Echols has been giving dancing lessons to the members
foe of freedom when it penetrates the press with uncalled-for interro- 0 f the Y-Teens at David T. Howard High. She was also featured in a
dance program at the Herndon Elementary School.
A (party for the cast and production staff of “The Man Who Came
to Dinner” was held in the Panther Lounge, November 9
Chairman
Committee, Earlene Walker; Recording Secretary, Dorcus Phoenix;
Chairman of Social Committee, Celestine Brown, and Cabinet President,
Barbara Edwards.
NEWS ITEMS
Ten young women from Holmes Hall served as hostesses at the
“kickoff” dinner for the Atlanta Community Chest Drive held in Crog-
man Dining Hall.
Misses Betty Green, Evelyn Hodges, Glendora Patterson, Geraldine
Scott and Irma Wesley were in attendance at Gammon Theological
Seminary’s annual Hallowe’en Party.
On November 1, in the Panther Lounge, Psi Chapter of Zeta Phi
Beta Sorority gave a tea for the freshmen young women.
gations and intimates a desire to circumscribe its (the press’) views.
I inveigh and renounce McCarthyism fiercely and continuously. Ad
visedly and;'with deep-seated feeling do I renounce McCarthyism. I
call McCarthyism and all its practitioners bellowing shepherds of
bafridtisni ■'who have come to keep watch over the liberty of inciting
and-invoking-the fears and suspicions of brothers. I renounce them for,
-White fheir. purpose-is plausible, their tactics are venomous and ruinous.
pany in 1945 and in 1949 she won
the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for
her second volume of poetry, “An
nie Allen.” The novel is her first
book of prose, and sells for $2.50.
The author was born in Topeka,
Kansas, and has lived in Chicago
since infancy. She was graduated
from Englewood High School in
1934 and from Wilson Junior Col
lege in 1936. After doing newspa
per, magazine, and general office
work, she married Henry L. Blake
ly in 1939. They have a son and
daughter.
four
(1943, 1944—two, and 1945). In
1945 she received the Mademoiselle
Merit Award as one of the ten
women of the year. A thousand-
dollar award by the Academy of
Arts and Letters followed in May
1946 and two Guggenheim Fellow-
Marilyn Robinson was chosen to reign as “Miss Kappa’ for the ships in 1946 and 1947.
Pharr
(Continued from page four)
Morehouse chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity for the school year
1953-54.
Ruby T. Davis attended the Y. W. C. A. conference held at Spelman
College.
Juanita Mitchell was invited to extend greetings to the N. H. A.
-Regional Conference for serving as State President of the Georgia
Association of New Homemakers of America 1950-51.
“green stuff’’••interchanging-hands. When policemen must be stationed
at high schools, athletic events) etc.,-to keep law and order, something
must be wrong! --V - - '
, ; Finally/ America is -waking up to this problem! She still believes
.that juvenile delinquency often begins at home and that church, school
and Rome must merge to solve the problem. Juvenile Delinquency will
be the subject of televised hearings before a Senate Judiciary Com
mittee; in-Washington, later transferred to other cities. Its purpose is
to unite .-federal,, state and local organizations in the fight against teen-
,age .crime.of which three out of four offenders are boys, average age 16.
OTHERS
Carl Milton Hughes examines
the complete output of American
Negro novelists from 1940 to 1950
in his new book, “The Negro Nov
elist”, which will evaluate com
ments of leading American critics
on the works of Negro novelists
and which was published in Decem-
Under the competent leadership of House Directress E. B. Hrown her by the Citadel Press,
and Dean of Men Charlton R. Hamilton, the ninety-eight men of Pfeiffer f Albert Murrav now
are constantly striving to improve their humble abode and to promote ^ ^ absence from -^ ke .
its general welfare. The dormitory atmosphere has long been known for Institute>s English Department,
PFEIFFER HALL
its congeniality and, as a result, many guests have also spent pleasant
hours in the Hall.
At an early house meeting, Walter Willis, Jr., was elected to serve
as President of the famed Pfeiffer Senate. Other officers are Nimrod
Reynolds, 1st vice-president; Aaron Favors, 2nd vice-president; Joe
Louis Spears, 3rd vice-president; Elridge W. McMillan, secretary;
Most offenses are proven to have been against property and by §amuel B. Rosser, parliamentarian, and Ned Johnson, chaplain,
teen-agers who come from broken homes. The cause for banning night Charles Carl Teamer serves as chairman of the Discipline Commit-
high school games, in Atlanta resulted from one youngster being knifed tee, an office in which he is commonly known as Chief of the PBI. ^
tp death at a night game. Rumored to be taking a tremendous loss at (Pfeiffer Bureau of Investigation.) John W. Dudley and Theodore Mat- baV g done ag muc b with American
;t$e. gate, Atlanta high schools have saved we don’t know how many thews are co-chairmen of the social program committee while Joseph eX p er i ence as Jelly Roll Morton,
lives By its action. Recently, in a large northern city, ONE THOU- T. Reddick is chairman of the academic committee and Douglas F.
SAND boys and girls were picked up by police in a gang breakdown. Rowland, chairman of the Health and Cleanliness Committee.
’In addition to the many other incidents, from stealing to murdering, The downstairs lounge of Henry Pfeiffer Hall was the scene of a
this is enough to wake ug up from a state of lethargy towards the recent Faculty meeting with the Senate acting as hosts to the faculty
come , up with a solution to curb these out-of-hand gang activities.
contributed his first fiction story,
“The Luzana Cholly Kick”, to New
World Writing, a pocket size book.
Murray, reared in Mobile, Ala.,
says he strives to “write in terms
of the tradition I grew up in, the
Negro tradition of blues, stomps,
ragtime, jumps and swing. After
all”, he asserts, “very few writers
Travel
(Con-tinUedi from (page two) !
For so swifty it flew, the sight Sunday) December 13th.
Could not follow it in its flight.
.He next, visited in Bale, Switzer
land. and .made a stopover in Mun
ich, where a study project in Amer
ican Sociology on the-matter of
refugee achievement and shortcom
ings in' the United States was dis
cussed “Wheri he went* to Vienna
Where he stayed for two months it fell to earth, J knew not where;
and worked in the Archives on a
fekedrch“project in connection with For who has sight so keen and
the Carnegie grants-in-air award
Count Basie and Duke Ellington.
Fletcher Martin, of the “Chicago
Sun-Times” rewrite staff and for
mer Nieman Fellow at Harvard
members. Preliminary to the faculty session, Senate President Walter University, has written his first
Willis introduced the members of the organization, explaining the duties book, “Famous Americans” which
and functions of each. will be published this month. The
Mrs. Pearlie Dove, of the Education Department, thanked the Sen- book, written in newspaper style,
ate on behalf of the faculty. A delicious repast was served to the records the achievement of out-
faculty by the men. standing Negroes in such fields as
Known for exercising self-government, the men are planning many education, entertainment, sports,
It fell to earth, I knew not Where; areas 0 f activities which include a chapel program set for December music and business. Highlighting
10th, a dormitory party for the 12th and Open House for the following the lives of 70 famous Negroes
from Frederick Douglass to Joe
Louis, the book is illustrated with
pictures.
THE ARROW AND THE SONG
I shot an arrow info the air,
I breathed a song into the air,
he received. .
FromVienna, Dr. Rie went to
Munich, did some work in the ar
chives there and gave, a lecture in
•American-“education before the
Pedagogical Workshop in that city.
To get away from city life, beau
tiful Sililiersoe, south of Munich
was visited by Dr. Rie, and from
there the. professor went to Paris
where it was extremely hot and
everybody still in. a bad mood as
an aftermath of the terrible strike.
After a short stap in Brussels and
London, Dr. Rie-flew 1 home aboard
a Dutch airliner.
strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to
end,
found again
friend.
in the heart of a
—Longfellow.
MERNER HALL
Like the other dormitories, Annie Merner Hall is also the scene of
increased activity, especially that -of freshmen young women experi
encing the duties of college life. Miss Dovie T. Reeves, House Direc
tress, has the trying job of keeping 94 young women “in line” with
dormitory and college regulations. She is ably assisted by senior stu
dents Lillian Stinson and Martha Sumter. The freshmen came in such
large numbers (eighty-eight) that an upperclassman is almost extinct
in the hall. All others transferred their “home” to Holmes Hall.
House officers elected tor the year are Maurice Fitts, chairman;
Annie -Shumate, co-chairman; Virginia Prather, recording secretary;
Shirley Smith, corresponding secretary; Jacquelyn Mancher, business
manager; Lillian Sowell, chaplain, and Geraldine Black, parliamentarian.
Cabinet officers are Ruth Wesley, president; Jeannie Johnson, vice-
president; Margie Brittmon, secretary, and Dorothy Terry, assistant
secretary. Dorothy Vaughn is chairman of the Social Committee, while
Ruth Cosby is chairman of the Educational Commitee.
On November 8th, the young women of this Hall showed their finesse
as housekeepers when Open House was held. Further recognition came
when the dormitory was officially recognized at a chapel program,
November 13th.
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