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February, 1957
THE CLARK PANTHER
Page 5
Brookes, Holman Honored
At A.U. Center’s Book Fair
By WILLIE POWELL
Two Clark faculty members, Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes, chairman
of the Department of English, and M. Carl Holman, professor of
English, were among the academic authors in the Atlanta University
Center honored at the Campus-Community Book Fair sponsored by
Atlanta University recently.
Dr. Brookes is author of Joel
Chandler Harris, Folklorist, pub
lished in 1950. This work was fa
vorably reviewed by many literary
critics and Yale University listed
it among the notable books of
1950.
Subsequently, Dr. Brookes was
elected for membership in the In
ternational Mark Twain Society
and was requested by Encyclopedia
Britannica to write the critical
sketch of Harris for the revised
edition. Her book reviews have ap
peared in The New Mexico Quar
terly and Phylon, and in the cur
rent number of the latter publica
tion, she reviews Richard M. Dor-
' son’s Negro Tales In Michigan.
Mr. Holman is author of “And
On This Shore,” which was award
ed the John Billings Fiske Poetry
Prize at the University of Chicago;
“Aliens From the Commonwealth;”
and he has won a Blevins Davis
Playwriting Prize at Yale. He has
been a recipient of the Rosenwaid,
Carnegie and J. A. Whitney fel
lowships.
On Author’s Night, which con
cluded the week-long Book Fair,
Mr. Holman was principal speak
er. His subject was “Authors and
Readers: Some Reflections On Re
lationships.” He said the class
which wished merely to be enter
tained was decreasing in number,
since this sort of person had
turned to television. Those who
wish to find an artistic expression
are large in number but propor
tionately small.
In addition to the author’s ex
hibits from Clark, two other fac
ulty members, J. Raymond Berry
and William V. Harper, prepared
art work for the exhibit. Mrs.
Dovie Patrick served as a member
of the Book Fair Committee and
Mrs. Pearlie Craft Dove served as
a hostess. Students assisting were
Bobbie Jean Henderson and Avon
Lee.
AKA’s Assist
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huge success with your aid. From
the March of Dimes Dance, which
was enjoyed by approximately
four hundred students, and from
the chapel program during which
time you gave generously we were
able to report a total amount of
over $100.00, solicited for this
much needed drive.
During the month of December
we decorated a Christmas tree at
Grady hospital. We contribute an
nually to the Community Chest
and many other such drives of this
nature. (
The 36th annual Boule of Alphia
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., con
vened in Atlanta, Georgia during
the month of December from the
26th to the 31st. Members of
Alpha Pi were joint hostesses along
with Gamma Gamma Chapter—
Morris Brown College and Kappa
Omega-Graduate Chapter, Atlanta,
Georgia. The theme of the boule
was: “The Role of Alpha Kappa
Alpha In Times of Transition.”
Those Alpha Pi sorors attending
the boule were: Bernestine Cordy,
Fannie Davenport, Barbara Lov-
inggood, Alberta Fugate, Ann Ma
son, Bobbie Anderson, Clementine
Burney, Gloria Burney, Bobbye
Duren, Emmajean Moses and Mary
Frances Early. Our advisor Mrs.
Barbee Boone was also present.
Members of Alpha Pi were con-
spicious during the Boule as ushers
for the public meeting at Sisters
Chapel on December 27, as mem
bers of important boule committees,
and participants on the program
for our closed banquet on December
31; and as hostesses for the un
dergraduate “bull session” held in
Kresge Hall Sunday evening, De
cember 30.
The month of February is a very
important month for AKA’s all
over the world because at this time
Founder’s Day is celebrated. Alpha
Pi celebrated yesterday Founder’s
Day with a program in Davage.
Mobley Treats
Lit. Symposium
As literature, and especially the
dramas of Shakespeare, appeals to
the taste of the erudite with other
area interests as well as to English
majors, The Literary Symposium
recently presented four plays by
William Shakespeare via tape re
cording. The hospitable Holmes
Hall Lounge served as the sympos
ium site. Here several listening and
discussion sessions transpired with
Dr. Stella Brewer Brooks, Eng
lish Department head and advisor
to the symposium, moderating and
explaining with critical analysis
and expert perspicacity.
The works presented included
portrayals by renowned actors and
actresses of the British stage.
Their sincere and comprehensive
interpretations lent apprecible en
hancement to the roles.
Plays presented were “Romeo
and Juliet,” “The Merchant of
Venice,” “King Henry IV,” “King
Henry V,” “A Mid-summer Night’s
Dream” and “Richard III.” The
Shakespearean class considered
the plays at further length in its
sessions, and the exploitations of
particular incidents, phrases, and
keynoted points, originally per
plexing, rendered them intelligible.
Preston Mobley, a Shakespear
ean student and Literary Sympos
ium president, secured the tapes
from the British Broadcasting
Corporation through radio station
WERD, where he is a staff mem.-
ber. This is the second of Mobley’s
courtesies. Last year he shared his
personally narrated tapings en
titled “Echoes of Ancient Folk
lore.”
Other officers are vice-president,
Velma Fudge; secretary, Dorothy
Richardson; treasurer, Jesse H.
Kelly; and reporter, Rufus Powell.
Dorothy Howai'd, Shirley Dixon,
Velma Fudge, Bobbye Henderson,
and Dorothy Richardson are en
rolled in Mr. J. Raymond Berry’s
History of the Theater Class.
—Rufus Powell
Omega Frat.
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ducted are James Arrington, Carl
ton Bryson, George Blalock, Judge
Cleveland, Edward Hicks, Alphon-'
so Howard, Robert Montgomery,
Sylvester MacMillan, William Nel
son, Edward Ross, Johnny Stever-
son, Spurgeon Sayles, Roosevelt
Thedford, Bobby Truitt, and Nu-
die Williams.
You know this man, CLARK-
ITE! Countless times you’ve stood
and pledged an allegiance as he
spoke with poetic expression
through you. Campus Poet-Lau
reate at Clark University in 1921,
he wrote “Dear 01’ Clark” . . .
Our Alma Mater.
He is Mr. Herbert Morrison and
he now lives in Brooklyn, New
York.
Accounting For Time
So—it was 8:30 A.M. when I
lifted my rested eyes toward the
hills from which commeth my
health. And were those heavens
beautiful ... A mass of solid blue,
shadowed in spots by a white kind
of smoke which I am assured are
snow-clouds which have been
breathed off by bodies of water-
scattered about us and being drawn
together by a beautiful-firebright
light which has been thrown from
behind the eastern mountains and
is on its day-long journey across
the sky, going west.
And mother nature is taking her
course too — Because she has
brought winter weather to use as
a message from Heaven which
reads to us “vinter season Is
Here.” Mother Nature has a full
time job—Pulling what leaves from
the trees that she can reach and
shaking and blowing out what re
mains—plucking petals and flow
er pods and hiding them among the
leaves for safe keeping until she
exchanges winter for spring. Only
nature herself has ever been suc
cessful in sending insects to rest
to await a coming generation as
she push our little forest friends
out of their hidings to gather nuts
for winter, and chasing birds far
ther south to protect their brilliant
colors from the winter.
Ah, what a lazy person Mother
Nature made me today, she chased
Jack Frost so far from here that
I never even had to bother with
putting on overshoes and tire
chains to drive through the forest
gazing at the marvelous skill by
which Mother Nature works.
Now of course, the firebright
light has fallen beyond these
western mountains and once more
Mother Nature is allowing Jack
Frost to creep back and hide in
the grass.—V. David Blake II
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Static
^Association Sponsors
(Career C^onje
t
erence
Clark College students got first
hand information on career oppor
tunities heretofore not widely cul
tivated by Negro college graduates
when the Alumni Association and
the College sponsored their first
annual Student Career Conference
on November 10, 11, 12.
Under the direction of Mrs. Eva
Samuel Martin of the College’s
Personnel Department, the pro
gram grew out of earlier discus
sions by alumni Clarence Weekes
and Mrs. Lucy Parks Hamilton
who felt that the alumni serve a
very useful purpose to the College
through helping with the con
ference.
In September, the idea was
brought to President Brawley, who
immediately placed his endorse
ment and support behind the pro
ject. With the consent of a Per
sonnel Department committee
which in previous years had spon
sored freshman career conferences,
the committee headed by Mrs. Mar
tin secured a clearance to hold the
alumni-college program in Novem
ber.
A steering committee composed
of Dean A. A. McPheeter, Mr.
Wiley S. Bolden, Dr. Stella B.
Brooks, Mr. Harold Hamilton,
Dean C. R. Hamilton, students
Fred Morgan and Lorenzo Jelks,
Spy,
Make
Clark
In a swift volley of action coun
ter-action, two undercover journals,
The Spy and The Brain recently
hit the campus.
The secret mimeographed sheets,
vaguely reminiscent of “keyhole
journalism” popularized by Walter
Winchell, freely distributed biting-
epithets upon some students at the
College—notably resident students.
The Spy, allegedly published in
Pfeiffer Hall was so caustic in
criticizing some on-campus co-eds
as well as some male students that
there suddenly appeared The
Brain, a similar organ, reportedly
released from Merner Hall. Where
as The Spy had carried comments
on both co-eds and male students,
The Brain limited its coverage to
men—especially Pfeiffer Hall res
idents.
According to a Panther (See p.
2) editorial by Moses Norman,
“Some of the College’s most reput
able citizens” have been accused of
editing The Spy. In his editorial,
Norman repudiates the secret
journal which he labels “blasphem-
Mr. W. T. Robie, and Mrs. Eva
Martin began preliminary discus
sions early in October.
Also called in to assist in plan
ning and conducting the program
were the Atlanta and National Ur
ban Leagues. Both organizations
were extremely helpful in suggest
ing and providing consultants as
well as brochures and displays for
the conference.
PRIZE-WINNING EDITORS. These are the persons who edited the 1956 prize-winning student publica
tions at the Sixth Annual Press Institute at Savannah, Georgia, last November. Having devoted much
of their time to these publications, these editors were extremely proud to have them win all top prizes.
They are (1-r) Fred Morgan, senior English major, journalism and Secondary Education minor
Cleveland, Ohio, editor of the Panther (Newspaper); Jeannette Reynolds Favors, a 1956 graduate
a major in English; and minors in Speech and journalism, who is presently at the State University of
Iowa with her husband; and Moses Norman, senior English major, journalism and Secondary Education
minor from Bradley, Georgia, who along with Jeannette Reynolds Favors edited the 1956 Panther (Year
book).
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with
“Quo Vodis” Clark
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of judgement, the college is be
coming more widely known for
its principles, and thereby increas
ing its scope of benefactors.
Clark College is an important
business, as well as educational
and social asset to the community,
and in recognition of Clark’s pa
tronage, the business enterprises
respond very favorably to its fi
nancial appeals.”
Dr. Brawley points out that the
Methodist Church is presently in
the midst of developing new in
terests in regards to education.
“In the most recent meetings,” he
relates, ‘stress has been laid on
the plan to appropriate to educa
tion at least one dollar for every
member of the church.” The aver
age giving now, according to him,
is less than eighteen cents per
member. “Clark College will share
this increase with a hundred and
nineteen other member colleges.”
As we turn to a view of facul
ty) aptjy we may recall Em
erson’s saying that “an insti
tution is but the lengthened
shadow of a man.” Clark
College is only so great or good
as the people who comprise ij;.
Faculty constituents, already pos
sessing lengthened understanding
and alertness, are continually
studying. The president points to
increased quality, from an instruc-
torial standpoint, by showing that
there —are-- three-*trrenibbrs “bn”’
leave” for! doctorates and that
there are, presently, members who
are nearing this degree. These are
in addition to the nine doctorates
now held by faculty personnel.
On being asked, “what will ef
fectuate the college’s retention of
qualified, desirable faculty per
sonnel?” he point-blankly informed
that “nothing will except the
small private college’s yet to find
ability to make such attractive
salary offers as these persons find
in the highly competitive market
for their service. There are ex
ceptional cases, however, where
loyalty to an institution and a
satisfaction in performing a need
ed service are a holding power.”
Some transformation, with no
great expansion, is seen for the
curriculum. The institution’s head
assures that there is intended
strength in store for the academic
program. A great number of ad
ditional courses will not be of
fered (physical training definitely
will be) but what is offered will
be of good quality with no apolo
gies for the.n.
Commenting on future increased
enrollment, and perceiving same,
Dr. Brawley believes that this will
be influenced by a number of fac
tors, namely: (1) successful grad
uates, observed by prospective stu
dents; (2) a good faculty; (3)
curriculum offerings; (4) physical
surroundings; and (5) an athletic
program in which a greater num
ber of students can actively par
ticipate.
Clark College, under competent
administrative leadership, stands,
now especially, the target for pro
lific growth. With its president on
commissions with the Methodist
Church, in a position to cultivate
friends like the presidents of De
Pauw, Duke and Emory Univer
sities, it should, in progress wax
apace with time and develop on a
sound basis. And in dedication to
the principles of human dignity
and service to mankind, through
culture, it should further be an
enrichment to mankind as it has
done since “The Founding Day.”