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SPORTS City Track Meet April 25, 1959 The Panther SPORTS City Track Meet 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.