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THE CLARK PANTHER, MAY, 1954, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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Five Bars, Four Spaces
Prominent on the musical scale recently has been the Seventh
Annual Festival of Music and Arts, senior recitals and the Women’s
Ensemble and Male Glee Club Concert. These activities of the Colleges
Music Department have drawn favorable reviews and comments from
all in attendance.
Festival of Music and Arts
Coordinated by Dr. J. DeKoven Killingsworth, head of the Depai i-
ment of Music, the Seventh Annual Festival of Music and Aits was
one of the cultural highlights of Atlanta. Concerts by the Fair Street
School Band of Gainesville, Georgia; and Turner High School Band of
Atlanta, conducted by Mr. Rufus Tucker and Mr. Borah Walton, respec
tively—both Clark graduates, officially initiated the Festival. Also
appearing on opening day was Miss Laverne Gaither, Clark organist,
and several contestants who competed in a solo contest.
The Festival’s second day saw a musical event of uncommon interest
and artistic significance when the Philharmonic Society, under Dr.
Killingsworth’s direction, presented Victor Herbert’s “The Fortune
Teller.” This production was an opera workshop performance with
emphasis on group participation and group performance. The title part
was sung by Dorothy Hunter. She was supported by principals Thomas
Lofton, John Dudley, Frankie Lowe Webb, Florence Ponder and Walter
Willis. Mrs. Marion Sykes and Miss Laverne Gaither were the excellent
accompanists w 7 ho made all the music sound interesting.
Sareba Gripper, senior music student, was presented in a soprano
recital the following night. She was accompanied by . Mrs. Marion
Sykes and proved herself a soprano of charm and promise.
The senior members of the Philharmonic Society climaxed the
LITERARY SYMPOSIUM HONORS DR. BROOKES. Willie Frances Kelsey, vice-president of the Literary
Symposium, presents a bouquet of roses to Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes, Head of the English Depart
ment. The Symposium, an organization composed of English majors and minors, observed Dr. Brookes’
thirtieth anniversary at Clark College.—Williams Photo.)
Festival with a superb performance of “Dorothy’s Wedding Day”, a
song cycle about a girl who did not cvant to be married but changed
her mind. Seniors participating were Betty Green, Sareba Gripper,
Wallace Hartsfield, Dorothy Hunter, Elridge McMillan, Vera O’Neal,
Betty Sutton and Walter Willis. Other numbers included a scene from
Act Two of Gounod’s opera “Faust” which featured Willie Mae Dorsey
in the jew 7 el song—which she sang with sensitivity and authority; and
a concert by the College Band under the direction of Mr. Wayman
Carver. With this, the Festival ended on a high note.
Women’s Ensemble and Male Glee Club Concert
Under the direction of Miss Ollie B. Brown, the Women’s Ensemble
and Male Glee Club were presented in their annual concert, May 2.
The 46-voice women’s chorus sang “A Grace Before Singing” by Golds
worthy; “Vespers” by Leoni; Mendelssohn’s “See What Love Hath The
Father”; Brahms’ “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place”; “Chinese
Lullaby” by Bowers-Riegger; “Little Red Shoes” by Ivanovici; Price’s
“Witch of the Red Shadow” and “The New Moon.”
As guests of the Women’s Ensemble, the Male Glee Club presented
“The Builder” by Cadrnan; Romberry’s “Deep In My Heart Dear”;
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” by Kern and Porter’s “Night and Day.”
Lillian Sowell, freshman soprano, w 7 as also featured on the piogram.
Women’s trios and quartets were also featured with Virginia Flournoy,
Bernier Roscoe, Ruth Kimble, Loretta Blaine, Mary Cowsei, Evelyn
Cowser, Elsie McDonald, Cassandra McBryde, Rosa Bailey and Eddie
J. Sanford being the featured singers.
Editors for ’54.’55
Publications
Announced
Announcement has been made by
Dr. J. F.ySummersette, Director of
PublicityJftfTat; Jeannette Reynolds
and Harold* Wardlaw have been
appointed to co-edit “The Clark
Panther”, student paper, for 1954-
’55. Fred Morgan has been ap
pointed associate editor.
The co-editors are both English
majors and are students interested
in journalism. Having worked on
this year’s staff, they will fill the
position left vacant by Ernest M.
Pharr, editor for two years.
Jeannette, wdio hails from Mi
ami, Florida, is minoring in speech
and is the recently elected secre
College Observes Mothers’
Day
Mothers and guardians of Clark students who were m
attendance at the College’s joint Mother’s Day Vesper and
the exhibition of art and floral presentations Sunday after
noon, May 8, heard Mrs. Sujette Fountain Crank, Executive
Secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley Branch YWCA, deliver the
address in Davage Auditorium. Special music was furnished
by the Women’s Ensemble under the direction of Miss Ollie
B. Brown and Dorothy Hunter, senior music student, who
sang.
Principals in the service were The Student Art and r loral Ex-
Dean of Women Phoebe F. Burney, Dibit, under the supervision of Art
Helen Everett, Maurice Fitts, Ger- Instructor Chestyn Everett, por-
aldine Scott and Rosa L. Orsborn. frayed uniqueness, interest and
Immediately following the service, festive beauty. The former quali-
Clark College Faculty and Staff ties were typical of the creative
members greeted the mothers at a products by the painting and draw-
reception in the Trustee-Faculty ing classes. The latter quality of
Room of the Haven-Warren Ad- beauty especially appropriated the
ministration Building. display of the Art Education class
tary of the Student Government
Association. She is a sophomore.
Wardlaw is a junior and makes
his home in Atlanta. His minor is
Secondary Education. Morgan,
freshman political sciene major, is
also from Atlanta.
George Allen Johnson, sopho
more from West Point, Ga., has
been appointed editor of the 1954-
’55 yearbook. He is majoring in
Business Administration.
Other members of the student
publication staffs wall be announced
in September.
Officers Elected
(Continued from page one)
The service, a tribute to moth
ers and guardians of Clark stu
dents, is sponsored annually by
the College’s Personnel Depart
ment. Mothers who live in Atlanta
and within a 100-mile radius were
invited to the service. Ushers and
hostesses for the service, the re
ception and the exhibition were se
lected from each of the residences.
and featured over 1500 hand-made
carnations and roses. This part of
the exhibit was especially designed
for the significance and beauty of
Mother’s Day. The exhibit w 7 as de
signed to display the creative ef
forts of the students in the Art
Department over the past school
year.
the capacity of secretary come
Fall. Majoring in English and
minoring in speech, she is vice-
president of the Dramatics Club;
corresponding secretary, Holmes
Hall Senate; president, Florida
Club; solo twirler, majorettes;
class editor, yearbook; assistant
secretary, sophomore class and a
member of Alpha Pi Chapter, Al
pha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
The three amendments to the
constitution were to Article VI,
sections one, two and three. They
provided for placing in office can
didates of a party if they are un
opposed after time has been al
lowed for other parties to announce
their candidates and after the one
party has presented its platform
for student body approval; for the
nomination of candidates by a
nominating convention composed of
members of the sophomore and
junior classes; and for the provi
sion that at least two parties must
be nominated. All three amend
ments were voted for inclusion in
RETIRING EDITORS Elridge W. McMillan, left, and Ernest M. j-pg SGA Constitution by very vide
Pharr, right, of the yearbook and newspaper, respectively, look for- .
ward to continuing their journalistic studies. majorities,
The Schenley Report On
The Behavior of The Human
Male When First Awakened
by Aaron Favors, Jr.
Sleeping people are like cooking
bread without yeast—it’s so hard
to get them to rise. This study
was made because of the belief
that there needs to be an exten
sion of knowledge in an area in
which scientific information ap
pears limited. The report is en
tirely objective in its treatment
of the subject and correlated is
sues. No attempt is made to color
the thinking of the reader. These
are the facts.
Because of the existing dogmatic
tendencies, on the part of school
officials, to prohibit the research
being made in the female dormi
tories, we have been forced to con
fine our study to a sloppy, sloth
ful, sleepy bunch of knuckleheaded
males. We would also like to give
three daggers to the married cou
ples who were too selfish to allow
us to observe their waking-up hab
its. Here’s hoping that all of their
troubles will be the big ones.
Our study, therefore, is confined
to single males, especially those
without wives. The figures show
that 95% of the males were sleep
ing w 7 hen we w 7 oke them up. Of
this 95%, 70% greeted us with a
tirade of wrathful epithets and
certain inquiries into our ancestral
background. 20% w 7 ere prone to
make excuses for their sleepiness;
that ranged from stories about
working late (this we accepted be
cause it does take quite a long
time to open a bottle of beer with
the teeth), to tales of studying
late, therefore, burning the “Mid
night Oil.” This story was entirely
absurd. About the only oil burned
was from a cigarette lighter
bummed by the interviewee for a
cigarette (also bummed by the in
terviewee from cigarette repre
sentative on campus). 30% were
just befuddled and maintained a
Directories
(Continued from page four)
Clark’s administrative personnel,
their college affiliation, address and
telephone numbers are also listed.
Another feature of the bulletin is
a complete listing of all Clark
clubs and organizations and their
officers for the past year. In the
book, the officers, executive com
mittee and members of the Clark
Board of Trustees are also listed.
Persons wishing to buy one of
these directories, the second pub
lication, should contact either Dr.
Summersette, Yvonne Southall, El
ridge W. McMillan or Ernest M,
Pharr,
drawn up, shivering position while
looking at us with Clark College
eyes. (Blood shot red and black).
We found that the best results
could be obtained from the study
by proceeding to immediately yank
all remnants of covering from the
interviewee and raising the win
dows. Some of them turned an odd
shade of blue on those mornings
when the temperature was a balmy
23 degrees.
Our study would have been more
extensive except for several pre
vailing tendencies. (1) Our keys
wouldn’t fit the locked doors. On
one occasion we tried (in the in
terest of science) to force a key in
the lock, only to have it jam, thus
locking the occupants in the room,
causing them to miss all classes
that day. Which, because the
teacher decided to give mid-term
examinations, resulted in their re
ceiving an F for mid-semester.
These persons became very undo-,
operative after this minute inci
dent, and to this day, there comes
a menacing glint in their eyes
whenever w 7 e approach them. (2)
The weight of the interviewees
(particularly the All-American
athletes). Our total poundage was
155 lbs. (soaked). The total pound
age of one of the interviewees yyas
205 lbs. (dry). This factor could
have resulted in our receiving sev
eral minor compound fractures, a
chip in the hand, and a dislocated
shoulder (without having to go to
the spring training camps of the
Dodgers or the Red Sox). The final
reason for the culmination of the
report is that for the last several
weeks we have had the darndest
time waking up. Just can’t seem
to keep our eyes open . . .
(YAWN) . . . Oops! EXCUSE ME,
PLEASE!
Faculty
(Continued from page four)
Miss Rogermae Johnson, In
structor of Modern Dance, carried
a troupe of her dancers recently
to Talladega College (Alabama)
where their performance received
favorable comment.
Miss Dovie T. Reeves, Merner
Hall House Directress and Assist
ant Dean of Women, was recipient
of flowers and gifts at a surprise
party given in her honor by the
residents of the dormitory Satur
day evening, May 15,