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April 25, 1959
Vol. XVII, No. 2
CLARK COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
APRIL, 1959
NEW LANGUAGE LABORATORY OPENED
Foreign languages at Clark Col
lege have been taught with the
aid of a languages laboratory since
the fall of 1944, and the institu
tion has for many years prior to
that time had a well-developed pro
gram in three languages, but in
the near future the Foreign
Languages Department at Clark
may become the focal point for a
great number of students in the
Southeast who are interested in
the study of foreign languages as
a major or minor.
The most recent major step in
this direction has been the in
stallation of a new electronics
teaching laboratory, designed to
give students more experience
with spoken French, Spanish and
German as a supplement to their
classroom work.
Clark’s new laboratory, located
in the administration building is
the only one of its type in the
State of Georgia and is one of not
more than two others of its type
Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes,
Chairman of the Department of
English at Clark, author and con
tributor to Encyclopedia Britan-
nica, is included among the 19,000
prominent American women listed
in the first edition of Marquis
WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN
WOMEN recently released.
She is a graduate of Wiley Col
lege, holds a Master of Arts from
the University of Michigan, and a
Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell
University, where she was elected
to membership in Phi Delta Gam
ma and Pi Lambda Theta.
A native of Austin, Texas, she
is the daughter of Mr. J. H. Brew
er and the late Minnie Tate Brew
er. Her late husband, E. Luther
Brookes, was for twenty-one years,
Director of the Science Depart
ment and Professor of Chemistry
at Clark.
Mrs. Margaret Davis Bowen,
wife of Methodist Bishop J. W. E.
Bowen, has presented Clark Col
lege complete furnishings for a
meditation room in memory of her
mother, the late Mrs. Lelia Swan
son Davis. The room was present
ed and dedicated during Clark’s
recent Founders’ Day and Re
ligious Emphasis Week) observ
ances.
Mrs. Lelia Swanson Davis, in
in colleges in the Southeastern
United States. It is the same type
of facility as used by the United
States Armed Forces in its broad
foreign languages training pro
gram, in this country and abroad.
Language teaching with the help
of electronic equipment has come
into wide use among colleges in
the past decade with excellent re
sults. Clark was a pioneer in this
development when it installed a
laboratory in the spring of 1944.
Recording tapes are the major
tool of the laboratory. Exercises
on tapes involve practice in pro
nunciation, reading, conversation,
and diction. The laboratory in
creases teacher efficiency and
acts, to a degree, as a substitute
teacher. By giving each student
an opportunity to recite and re
ceive undivided attention of the
teacher—all on recording and
auditing machinery—the labora
tory does what is impossible with
in the limits of classroom time.
The new laboratory at Clark con-
Dr. Brookes has previously been
listed in WHO’S WHO IN AMERI
CAN EDUCATION, WHO’S WHO
IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTH
WEST, WHO’S WHO IN METH
ODISM, WHO’S WHO IN COLOR
ED AMERICA and THE DIREC
TORY OF AMERICAN SCHOL
ARS.
Recently Dr. Brookes delivered
the main address for the 75th An
niversary of Gammon Theological
Seminary. The basis for Dr.
Brooke’s message were lines from
the familiar hymn, “I Would Be
True.”
Other participants for the pro
gram were Mrs. Carrye Jackson,
’39, who presented Dr. Brookes
with' a corsage, Robert E. Jones
Felder, who spoke for the SGA,
and Dr. Copher and Miss Anna E.
Hall, who cut the Annversary cake.
whose memory the meditation
room is dedicated, was an individ
ual who made many intrinsic and
noteworthy contributions to the
betterment of our social order
and the moral, social, intellectual
and spiritual development of man
kind. Spending the major portion
of her adult life in Cincinnati,
Ohio, Mrs. Davis was a pioneer
in the field of social work in the
area of community welfare.
sists of ten individual sound-proof
booths, each equipped with an
electronic dual-track, binaural
tape recorder. One track contains
the recorded lessons of the teach
er; the other is blank for recita
tion and recording by the student.
Each student plays his individual
tape on his own machine and re
cords his response to the teach
er’s questions through a micro
phone. Then he listens to the tape-
again and compares his pronunci
ation with that of his instructor.
Each student will be required to
spend at least one hour per week
in the laboratory to supplement
three hours of classroom time.
Another reason why Clark is
likely to become a widely-known
foreign languages center is its
new Junior-Year-Abroad Program,
in which a language major spends
his junior year studying at a for
eign university instead of Clark.
The program will enable a prom
ising student not only to broad
en his cultural background, but
also to perfect his knowledge of
the language of the country he
visits.
AT THE CONSOLE the instruc
tor monitors work done in each
booth seperately or talks with all
students simultaneously.
Alumni Set New
Record For Gifts
During the Alumni Associa
tion’s recently concluded Found
ers’ Day Fund, 842 alumni and
former students of the College
contributed $9,887.50 to set two
new records for giving to the in
stitution.
Gifts this year came from thir
ty percent of Clark’s alumni and
former students on the mailing
list and put the institution in the
forefront of American colleges
and universities in the area of
alumni support. The national aver
age for giving is around twenty-
five percent.
Dr. Stella B. Brookes Elected
To Who’s Who of Am. Women
Mrs. J. W. E. Bowen Presents
Meditation Room For Campus
FOUNDERS’ DAY HONORARY DEGREE RECIPENTS: FIRST SINCE 1952. (1-r) Dt. M. L. Har
ris, Mrs. J. N. Rodeheaver, Bishop J. W. E. Bowen, Dr. Goodrich C. White. The degrees were presented
on Founders’ Day.
THE INSTRUCTOR’S VIEW OF LABORATORY FROM CON
SOLE. Ten students can work at one time in three languages.
DR. CASE ADDRESSES CLARK
FOUNDERS’ DAY
The four-day celebration of the
90th Anniversary of Clark College
came to a close Wednesday, Feb
ruary 25, with the awarding of the
first honorary degrees to be given
in the school’s history and with
challenging addresses by a galaxy
of distinguished speakers.
Climaxing the day’s activities
was the stirring convocation ad
dress, “Christian Education and
the Concourse of History,” deliv
ered by Dr. Harold C. Case, Presi
dent of Boston University. Speak
ing to an audience which included
members of Clark’s senior class,
visiting dignitaries and alumni and
friends of the college, Dr. Case
drew enthusiastic response as he
warned against accepting the lead
ership of two dangerous factions
—the ‘Pessimists’ or ‘Atheists’,
and the ‘Tired’ or ‘Secularists’. Dr.
Case advocated instead, joining
ranks with the “Adventurers” who
realize that this is the “forcing
time of history,” when men must
have the courage to prune away
those things which would hinder
creative growth. He challenged
Clark and all other Christian col
leges to exercise a vigorously af
firmative role in meeting the pro
blems of today by expressing “ar
ticulate and intelligent belief,”
providing for the uninhibited ac
cess to truth, stressing a predomi
nant reliance on ideas rather than
force, nuturing each individual
for his own enrichment, and estab
lishing the principle of the unity
of mankind in the fact of forces
which seek to exploit the concept
of mankind in conflict.
Honorary degrees, the first since
1950, were awarded to four out
standing leaders; Bishop J. W. E.
Bowen, was awarded the Doctor of
Letters degree, Mrs. J. N. Rhode-
heaver, Doctor of Humanities, Dr.
Goodrich C. White, Emory Univer
sity Chancellor, Doctor of Humane
Letters; and Clark alumnus, Dr.
M. Lafayette Harris, President of
CONVOCATION
Philander Smith College, Doctor
of Laws.
Founder’s Day activities began
Wednesday morning as Dr. Harris
developed a thorough analysis of
the 90th anniversary theme: “The
Small Church College: Its Re
sponsibilities and Goals.” Follow
ing Dr. Harris’s address, four
eminent educators examined cer
tain major implications of the
theme. Dr. E. Clayton Calhoun,
president of Paine College, Dr.
Thomas W. Cole, president of Wi
ley College, Dr. Hilliard A. Bowen,
Superintendent of Area 1, Atlanta
Public Schools and Dr. C. V. Troup,
president of Fort Valley State
College, noted in turn the re
sponsibilities of the small church
college to the church, community,
students and alumni. Dr. Willey
S. Bolden, Chairman of Clark’s de
partment of Education, presided
over this session. The morning
session was brought to a close
by President Brawley’s address,
“Looking Ahead,” in which Dr.
Brawley projected the philosophy
and goals of Clark College for the
ten-year period. This session was
presided over by Dr. Alfred S.
Life in a college or university
prepares one for the day when he
must participate fully in the life
of his country and in the affairs
of his surroundings. Therefore, we
are expected once we have entered
college to pursue good intellectual
cultural goals, observe and main
tain etiquette standards and above
all, develop the ability to form
one’s opinions and make judge
ments meaningless.
From this college will come fu
ture scientists, doctors, admini
strators, politicians, educators, and
engineers. They will be called upon
to shoulder heavy responsibilities
early in life. We have no doubt
that this challenge will be met and
students will follow the high road
leading to greater academic
achievements and culture.
Claudette M. Willis Will Study in
France in Jr.-Year-Abroad Program
As part of recent developments
in the Department of Modern
Languages Clark College will be
gin participation in the Junior-
Year-Abroad Program this fall
with Claudette Modestein Willis
going to France to complete her
junior year at the University of
Aix-Marseille, at Aix-en-Prov
ence.
Although Miss Willis will be the
first Clark student to go abroad
on this particular program,
Clark has been sending students
overseas each summer for the past
four years.
Miss Willis’ expenses over norm
al tuition at Clark will be provided
by the College. She will do her
major work in French, but will
pursue other subjects required for
the A.B. degree.