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C LARK PANTHER, DECEMBER 21, 1953, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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Howard University Author-Sociologist
Presented in Chapel Address
Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, noted author-sociologist and head
of Howard University’s Sociology Department, addressed
members of the College in Davage Auditorium Tuesday morn
ing, December 8 in a Social Science Club sponsored chapel
program. Club President Aaron Favors, Jr., presided and Dr.
William H. Hale, Chairman of the Department of Sociology
introduced the speaker.
Dr. Frazier, who was appearing
in Atlanta on the Atlanta Univer
sity Arts and Sciences Forum Se
ries, was Chief of the Research
Division of UNESCO’s Social Sci
ence Department, and is the author
of several books, the most recent
of which is “The Negro in the
United States.”
Using as a theme the function
and structure of UNESCO (the
United Nations Educational, Scien
tific, and Cultural Organization)
the speaker said that the organiza
tion is built upon the belief that
through scientific knowledge, ex
change of culture, and through
education, we can build a better
world.
In describing the various de
partments of UNESCO, Dr. Frazier
Said that the Department of Edu
cation is concerned with making
fundamental education available to
people the world over, “since peo
ple want to help shape their des
tiny,” but are prevented because of
high illiteracy rates.
The Department of Cultural Re
lations, he said, is interested in
preserving monuments, preserving
the culture of the people, and in
bringing about an exchange of cul
ture so as to point up the fact that
all people are essentially human
beings,^ „while sending experts to
set up science projects and bring
about an understanding of science,
is the focal function of the Depart
ment of Physical Sciences.
The speaker concluded with an
analysis of some of the work done
by the Department of Social Sci
ences with which he was connected.
Study in such areas as the rights
of Women, and the social impact of
Western Culture on the African
people—-with the idea of providing
knowledge that could be used as a
basis for building a new type of
society—constitute the major ac
tivities of this Department.
Faculty Notes N.A.A.C.P. Youth Mass Meeting Held
Barbara Edwards
In Senior Piano
Recital
For forty delightful minutes,
presented in the first of senior
piano recitals by the College’s Mu
sic Department, expressively ren
dered her well-chosen selections to
a very enthused Sunday Evening
Cultural Hour audience, December
6 in Davage Auditorium at 7:30
p.m.
Miss Edwards, whose home is
Albany, Georgia, displayed the
finger finesse and sensitiveness to
her music for which she had been
trained. To open her program, the
senior music student, rendered for
eighteen minutes Beethoven’s “Son
ata Quasi una Fantasia Op. 27,
No. 2” with its three movements of
“Adagio sostenuto”, “Allegretto”,
and “Presto Agitato.”
Continuing with the heavy clas
sics, her second group consisted of
Chopin’s “Prelude Op. 28, No. 15”
and “Rhapsodie, o. 79, No. 2” by
Brahms.
Shifting from the heavy classics
to the light, she thrilled her audi
ence with Moussorgsky’s “Hopak”;
Schutt’s “Tendre Aven” and “An-
dalucia” by Leuone for her final
group to which overflowing ap
plause greeted her.
This recital was a feature of the
College’s All-Star Concert Series
which is scheduled by Dr. J. de-
Koven Kiilingsworth, Head of the
Music Department.
^President James P. Brawley at
tended the meeting of the Ex
ecutive Commitotee of the Board
of Economic and Social Rela
tions in Chicago.
^President and Mrs. James P.
Brawley entertained the mem
bers of the Faculty and Staff at
a Christmas party recently.
Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes, head
of the Department of English
and author of “Joel Chandler
Harris, Folklorist,” wrote for
the forthcoming edition of the
“Encyclopedia Britannica” the
article on Joel Chandler Harris.
Home Economics Department
Head, Mrs. Flora Davis, spoke
recently to the teachers of Henry
County, Georgia, on thes ubject
of etiquette.
Mrs. Edward F. Sweat of the
Department of Social Science
attended the annual meeting of
the Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History at Ten
nessee A. and I. State University
and Fisk.
Dean A. A. McPheeters attended
the joint meeting of the South
ern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools and the Asso
ciation of Colleges and Second
ary Schools for Negroes in Mem
phis, Tennessee, early this
month.
^■Dr. J. F. Summersette served as
a consultant for the Public Rela
tions Seminar for the Atlantic
Coast Area of the Methodist
Church held at Ariel Bowen
Methodist Church, December 15.
ADr. William H. Hale, head of
the Department of Social Sci
ence, was cited as “Citizen of
the Year” by Beta Psi Chapter
of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity,
Inc., at their annual Achieve
ment Week Program last month.
Dr. Hale was recognized for his
outstanding leadership in the
College’s annual United Negro
ICollege Fund Drive.
Speaking to an interested audi
ence of college and high school stu
dents, Mr. Herbert J. Wright,
National Youth Secretary of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, pre
sented an enlightening address in
Davage Auditorium, Sunday, De
cember 6, relative to the implica
tions of the segregation cases
which came before the U. S. Su
preme Court the following day.
In the course of his address, Mr.
Wright assailed Georgia’s Gover
nor Herman Talmadge, South Caro
lina’s James F. Byrnes, Mississip
pi’s Governor White and Texas’
Allan Shivers, calling them “Pro
phets of Doom.” He specifically
referred to the Honorable Gover
nor Talmadge’s article, “Why I
Defend Segregation” which ap
peared in the Sunday morning (De
cember 6) magazine of “The At
lanta Journal-Constitution.”
He stated that Governor Tal
madge is “all wet” in his proposals,
that he is referring to the United
States Constitution as a “fixed doc
ument.” In this article, the Georgia
Governor stated what his adminis
tration had done for the Georgia
Negro—also pointing out that
there are only 25 Negro teachers
in the state of Connecticut while
there are more than 7,000 Negro
teachers making more than 15 mil
lion dollars in Georgia.
Mr. Wright said that the things
the Georgia Governor, his father
and others state they have done
for the Negro are actually items
of which they openly opposed a few
years ago. He said there are more
than 25 Negro teachers in Connec
ticut and that the State’s non-seg
regation policies and greater lee
way of freedom allow the Negro
to specialize in other fields than
teaching.
The NAACP Youth Secretary
stated that if segregation were
outlawed nothing would happen to
the Negro teacher who is qualified
for the profession. He further
brought to the Youths’ attention
the fact that the five cases which
came before the Supreme Court
were technically dealing with seg
regation in Topeka, Kansas, Dela
ware, Washington, D. C., Virginia
and South Carolina, but they
would have a bearing on the com
plete wiping out of school segre
gation—providing for eventual in
tegration.
He issued a call for greater back
ing of NAACP’s program and a
challenge to the young people for
further discussion of the problem,
pointing out that they needed “pub
lic opinion” to carry on their work.
He expressed the hope that more
people would present their views
and thoughts of segregation and
discrimination.
In closing, he cited Dr. William
H. Hale, Director of Youth Activi
ties for the Atlanta Branch and
Chairman of our Social Science De
partment and Professor C. L. Har
per, President of the Atlanta
NAACP, for their outstanding
work.
Music for the occasion was pro
vided by Carver, Washington,
Howard, Turner, and East Point
High Schools.
The Youth Council is composed
of the officers of the six local units
which are College Park, Summer-
hill, the Atlanta West Side, Clark,
Morris Brown and Morehouse Col
leges. Expectations are high to set
up similar groups all over the city.
The meeting was called by Dr.
Hale who nominated the purpose
for the very timely assemblage.
Band Presented
In Christmas
Concert
Under the baton of Director
Wayman A. Carver, the Clark Col
lege Concert Band made its first
concert appearanee before the Col
lege in its annual Christmas con
cert program Friday, December 11,
in Davage Auditorium before a
well-enthused audience.
Opening their program with a
“Christmas Prelude” the well-liked
aggregation rendered a march,
“Jolly Roger” written by its direc
tor; Charles Cook’s overture, “Fu
turama” and “Excerpts from Fi
nale, New World Symphony” by
Anton Dvorak. Irving Berlin’s
“White Christmas” with the stu
dent body harmonizing and the
band providing the:: accompaniment
concluded the enjoyable program.
John Peek, president of the band
for this school year, extended
Christmas greetings to the College
from the band, while Deborah
Smith read an .original Christmas
poem. Marilyn Broks, student di
rector of the aggregation, intro
duced the officers and members of
the band to the student body.
This was their second concert ap
pearance of the season. The pre
ceding Friday they journeyed to
Grantville, Ga., where they were
presented in their annual concert
in that city.
PHILHARMONIC
(Continued from page one)
The officers for the organization
are Dorothy Hunter, president;
Betty Sutton, secretary; Walter
Willis, treasurer; Reba Gripper and
Vera O’Neil, librarians; and El-
ridge W. McMillan and Betty
Green, reporters.
The 51-voice group consists of
Loran M. Gray, Lillian Mae Sowell,
Rosa Lee Bailey, Willie Floyd Bel
ton, Addie Flora Brown, Vernell
Bryant, James Carter, Ermalene
Cooper, Gloria Daniels, Kathryn
Dobbs, Willie Mae Dorsey, John
Dudley, Elfrida Cardnell, Clifford
Ferguson, Claudia Garrett, Betty
Green, Rebecca Gripper, Reba Grip
per, Vissadean Hamilton, Jimmie
Harris.
Barbara Hawkins, William Her
ring, Jr., Jeralyne Hill, Dorothy
Hunter, Virgil Blake, George John
son, Ruth C. Kimball, Rudolph
Kirkland, Howard N. Lee, Robert
Lewis, Anne Reida McKoy, Elridge
W. McMillan, Floyd Miner, Eleanor
Mitchell, Joe Louis Spears, Vera
O’Neal, Florence Lee Ponder,
Gwendolyn Rhodes, Millicent Sam
uels.
Luther Stripling, Betty Sutton,
Carolynne Taylor, Jennie Mae
Townsend, Naomi Turner, Irma
Wesley, Walter Willis, Wallace
Hartsfield, Marilyn Wilkes, Thomas
Lofton and James Patterson.
MERRY CHRISTMAS—HAPPY
NEW YEAR.
The Publicity Department and
1953-54 Panther Staff join the
students, faculty and staff in
wishing all a merry Christmas
and a most enjoyable holiday
season. The Panther staff wishes
to thank all of you for your
patience in waiting upon the
publication of the paper. Your
interest has inspired us to fur
ther heights in the coming New
Year. -
Sophomores In
Xmas Program
In a program which had as its
theme, “The Christmas Story
Through Song and Verse,” the
sophomore class, headed by Presi
dent Clarence Ford, made its initial
debut to the Clark public. Davage
Auditorium was the scene of the
December 17 program.
Gwendolyn Fannin, class secre
tary, presented the Christmas
Story while Shirley Ballard and
Vernell Olive read thoughtful and
well-meaning Christmas poems.
Jeannette Reynolds made “A
Wish” for a Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year to the students,
and faculty and staff members.
Other principals on the program
were Elonzy Ogletree, Thomas
Lofton and a quartette. There was
also a selection by a sophomore
chorus and the well - known, fa
miliar hymn “Joy to the World.”
Mr. Herman Hunter is advisor
of the second-year class which has
as its officers: Clarence S. Ford,
president; Eugene Melvin Brown,
vice-president; Gwendolyn Fannin,
secretary; Kathryn Dobbs, treas
urer; Joseph Ellington, business
manager; and John Dudley and
Clarence Ford, representatives to
the Student Government Associa
tion.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
Dec. 22-Jan. 4
Men of Pfeiffer
Sponsor Enjoyable
Week End
“The most enjoyable program of
its type this year” was the senti
ment of many chapel-goers as they
filed from the auditorium, Decem
ber 10, after viewing the “Pfeiffer
Follies of Fifty-Three,” which ini
tiated the first Pfeiffer Weekend.
With Aaron Favors at the mike,
William “Rico” Herring crooned
“September Song” as the curtain
was drawn. Other crooners were
Franklin Marks, who sang “I
Apologize”; Douglas Fairbanks
Rowland, . Jr., and “Close Your
Eyes”; James Carter, “O Holy
Night,” and Charles Diggs with
his rendition of “Tenderly.”
James Ginn, Jesse McClardy and
Robert Daniels gave the audience
a thrill with their chorister act
from the record, “There Ain’t
Nothing Like a Demae.” A few
minutes later, Ginn and McClardy
returned with a miniature Patter
son and Jackson act to add a little
comedy to the scene in conjunction
with Douglas F. Rowland.
A senior quartet composed of
Walter Willis, Jr., Elridge W. Mc
Millan, Charles Carl Teamer and
Ernest M. Pharr presented the
well-known “Whiffenpoof Song.”
However, the screams of the pro
gram was George Davis, Robert
Daniels, Clarence Ford and James
Carter’s presentation of their ver
sion of the ballad “Frankie and
Johnny.” With Carter as the drug
store clerk and the strains of the
“Frankie and Johnnie” record in
the background, Shammy Ford and
Robert Daniels dressed in feminine
attire, drew large howls from the
crowd. Ford played the part of
Frankie while Daniels enacted the
lover to George Davis, who was
the man who “did Frankie wrong.”
To conclude the enjoyable show,
the cast joined hands to lead the
audience in singing Irving Berlin’s
“White Christmas.” Supervisors of
the affair were Theodore Matth
ews, Ernest M. Pharr and Aaron
Favors, Jr. Dean of Men Charlton
Hamilton also gave his assistance
to the men.
Dance Classes
In Chapel Program
Under the direction of modern
dance instructor Rogermae John
son, the College’s dancing classes
interrupted their preparations for
the February recital to portray
three reflective moods of Christ
mas. The presentation of these
moods was enthusiastically re
ceived by faculty and students in
chapel, December 18.
Realizing that Christmas moods
vary from people to people and
lands to lands, the dancers inter
preted the American mood, which
is usually one of religious sin
cerity, and gift-giving highlighted
with gaiety known as the Christ
mas spirit.
Miss Johnson, who is a former
Katherine Dunham trouper, pre
sented the classes in portrayals in
tableau of “A Scene in a Church”;
“The Birth of Jesus” (in the
manger) and a dance to “deck the
halls with boughs of holly.”
The freshman class dancers rep
resented a choir which featured
Virginia Prather, Gloria Matthews,
Vissadean Hamilton and Eleanor
Mitchell. The advanced group of
men and women portrayed “The
Birth of Jesus,” led by Offie Elliot
Clark as one of the kings from the
Orient. Martha Jo Echols led the
shepherds and others and was ably
supported by Reba Gripper and
Grady Rogers.
The following Saturday evening,
the men who exercise self-govern
ment in their dormitory, enter
tained students of the College at a
dance in the Thayer Hall Recrea
tion Room. All who were in at
tendance omnivorously took in the
strains of the Wellmaker Band,
which greatly aided the students
to literally dance away the eve
ning.
With a Christmas tree shining
brightly from a second floor win
dow and one in the first floor
lounge, spotless and well arranged
rooms, the men displayed their
abilities at good housekeeping the
next evening when Open House
was held from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.