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The Panther, Clark College, Atlanta, Ga.
May 20, 1960
VALEDICTORIAN GIVINS BEAMS OVER
WOODROW WILSON
Shown here with English Department Chairman Dr. Stella
Brewer Brookes following notification (of grant for graduate
study.
Medical, Dental
Degrees Sought by
Twelve Clarkites
Twelve Clark men are on the
way to becoming doctors and
dentists at three of the nation’s
medical and dental schools, ac
cording to Alumni Office rec
ords.
They are Alfred Turk, ’51; Er-
skine Tucker, ’51; Edward Ross,
’59, at Howard, Meharry and
Indiana University Medical
schools, respectively. All are
first-year students.
Robert Ricks, '55, and Dan
Bailey, ’58, are second-year
medical students at Howard.
'Maurice Thompson, ’53, and
David McLaughlin, ’56, are den
tal students at Howard.
Sam Rosser, ’54, and Martin
Edwards, ’53, are senior medical
students at Meharry.
Serving internships are Stan
ley Patterson, ’49, at a Brook
lyn, N. Y., hospital; James Kel
ly, '50, at a Winston-Salem,
N. C., hospital; and William
Pleasant, at a Youngstown,
Ohio, hospital.
Entering private practice in
Los Angeles last year after
armed services medical duty in
Europe was Dr. Robert E. Cure-
ton Jr., ’49, and Dr. Thdrkield
E. Cravens Jr. is head of Oph
thalmology at a St. Louis, Mo.,
hospital.
Dr. William H. Hale
To Speak at Langston
Dr. William H. Hale, chair
man of the Social Sicence De
partment, will speak at class re
unions at Langston University
on May 28. He and Mrs. Hale,
chairman of Clark’s Business
Department, are Langston grad
uates of the class of 1940.
Mrs. Grissom at MENC
Mrs. Gwendolyn B. Grissom
of the Music Department rep
resented Clark at the Music
Educators National Conference
in Atlantic City on (March 18-
22 and was recently appointed
to the Committee of Music Ed-
ducators Representatives. Mrs.
Grissom, in recent weeks, served
as judge for music festivals in
Covington, Griffin and Atlanta
schools
Sophomore Attends
Conference on Youh
Cleamontine Lovelace, sopho
more social science major, at
tended the White House Con
ference on Youth in March.
Mrs. Lovelace was sponsored by
the Congress of Parents and
Teachers Associations.
Claudette Willis
Soon To Return
Clark College French major
Claudette M. Willis is scheduled
to return to Atlanta in the next
few weeks after completing a
year of study at the University
of Aix-Marseilles, in Southern
France, under sponsorship of
Clark College and the Junior-
Year-Abroad program.
Claudette will resume her
studies here as a senior in the
fall, receiving full credit for
studies abroad for the junior
year. While in France she was
awarded a UNESCO grant to
supplement funds made avail
able by the College.
Alumni to Return for I
Class Reunions May 28
Upwards of 150 Clark College j
alumni are expected- to return
to the campus May 28-31 to
celebrate class reunions and
participate in the commence
ment season activities.
Clarkites of the classes of
1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930,
1940 and 1950 are holding their
regular ten-year reunions, and
by special arrangements the
class of 1935 will hold a twenty-
fifth year reunion.
The Clark Alumni Association
will hold two meetings on the
campus on May 28th, with Rev.
M. J. Wynn presiding. Rev.
Wynn, president of Gammon
Theological Seminary, is nation
al president of Clark’s Alumni
Association. Representatives
from Clark’s fourteen alumni
clubs are expected to be on hand
to formulate a plan for action
for the Association in 1960-1961.
Boston College Has
New Program Ready
A program that will produce
teachers who will instruct blind
men and women to walk more
easily and with greater safety
has been announced by Boston
College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
The 14-month program leads
to a Masters in Education de
gree and carries a $3,800 grant.
Curriculum includes psychol
ogy of l’earning, abnormal psy
chology, dynamics of blindness,
medical aspects of rehabiliation,
etc.
Applications may be obtained
from Mr. Joseph Runci at Bos
ton College.
President Speaks
At Commencements
Dr. James P. Brawley, presi
dent of Clark College, deliver
ed the commencement addresses
at Philander Smith College and
Houston-Tillotson College on
May 8 and 23.
Both of these Methodist in
stitutions have presidents who
are Clark College graduates:
Dr. M. L. Harris at Philander
Smith, and Dr. J. J. Seabrook at
Huston - Tillotson. President
Brawley is a graduate of Sam
uel Houston, now Houston-Til
lotson College.
New York Alumni Give
S’ship To B. Williams
Betty Pearl Williams has been
awarded the New York Clark
College Alumni Club’s annual
scholarship of $200. Announce
ment of the award came from
the Club’s president, Mrs. Glad
ys Jackson Weekes.
Miss Williams, an English ma
jor with minors in elementary
education and drama and speech,
was chosen to be recipient of
the scholarship in competition
with a number of Clark student
applicants whose applications
were examined by the New
York Club’s Scholarship Com
mittee.
Two previous winners, since
the Scholarship Program of the
Club was renewed three years
ago, were Joe Carter, ’61, and
Edward Cody, ’58. The Club has
announced that applications for
next year’s scholarship will be
available early in the fall.
Faculty and Staff
Complete First Part
Of Self-Study
Clark College’s faculty and
staff are approaching comple
tion of the first phase of a
three-year self-study which has
been underway since February,
1959, according to Dr. Wiley S.
Bolden, chairman of the Self-
Study Committee.
Last year’s efforts in the
study—which will examine vir
tually every phase of academic
and non-academic activity at
Clark — were entirely explora
tory, consisting primarily of dis
cussions by President Brawley,
the Self-Study Committee, and
the faculty and staff on the idea
and philosophy of the self-
study.
This year’s work, the descrip
tive phase of the study, seeks
to provide the clearest possible
picture of the College as it is
now in order to facilitate plan
ning the subsequent phases of
the study. Students and alumni
will became increasingly in
volved in the conduct of the
study.
Clark Plays Host
To Students’ Mothers
More than fifty mothers of
Clark College students visited
the campus on May 7 to attend
the Personnel Department’s an
nual Mother’s Day Observance,
directed by Dean Grace Walker
Phillips.
Students’ mothers from Geor
gia, Florida, South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Alabama were
on hand for the occasion. Mrs.
Bertha L. Roland, mother of
Delores Rawls of Miami, Flor
ida. and Mrs. James D, Ken
nedy Sr., mother of Mildred
Kennedy, of Black Mountain,
N. C., were cited as having
come the longest distances for
the occasion.
Speaker for the Davage Audi
torium program was Mrs. Mar
jorie Fawlkes. Student partici
pants included James Doanes,
Ruby T. Hamilton, Marjorie
Wilson, Joyce Ross, Charles
| Pierce and Ray Prince. Also,
Theopia Johnson, James Shop-
shire and John Carmichael.
Earlier in the week, under the
direction of Librarian Fannie B.
Whipple, students presented
talks on Edith Deen’s All The
Women of The Bible.
Students Cited
On Awards Day
Awards Day at the College
on Wednesday saw a number of
1 Clarkites cited for outstanding
performances in various capac
ities and activities during the
year.
The Professor Lawyer Taylor
Award, to the student of math-
1 ematics maintaining the highest
average in this field over four
years, went to senior Willie C.
Spikes.
The N. A. Bridges Award for
the student majoring in religion
with the highest academic av
erage went to Jesse N. Mc-
Dade.
The Marie I. Hardwick Award
to the sophomore student show
ing greatest proficiency in Eng
lish went to Carolyn Long and
Gwendolyn Kornegay, a tie this
year.
The Samuel F. Harris 1 Award,
made to the male student of
the freshman class for high
scholarship attainment, general
attitude and outstanding
achievements in school activi
ties for the first semester, went
to Robert Tucker.
The Rev. George W. Lewis
Award for personality improve
ment, scholarship and general
attitude went to LaVanees Free
man.
The J. W. Queen Award to
the male student of the Col
lege selected as having made
the greatest improvement dur
ing the year in general person
ality, attitude and scholarship
went to Becton- Donaldson.
The James P. Brawley Work
Award, to the student most
diligent in campus work during
the year, went to Alvin Trot
ter.
The Crisco Award, ■ for home
economics students, went to
Harriett Richardson.
The New York Alumni Club
Scholarship was awarded by the
Ciub to Betty- Pearl Williams-..
Lois Banks, Saiutatorian
GAVINS AND BANKS
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a 2.577 average (116 hours and
299 points).
Other students' in the gradu
ating class listed as honor grad
uates are William Bobby Mc
Clain, Barbara Joyce'Ross, John
nie Margurite Dave, Willie Cur
tiss Spikes, Robert James Wil
liams, Geraldine Ellis, Annette
Delores Harris Carter, Juliette
Tallulah Amey, Mary Lee Sher-
field, Agnes Louise Maxey and
Annie Lee Worthem Bryson. A
breakdown by departments
shows that there are three hon
or graduates each from English
and Social Science, two from
Elementary Education and one
each from Religion, Mathemat
ics, Biology, Secretarial Science
and Home Economics.
’55 Grad Named To
Head “Y” Branch
Clark alumnus Charles S.
Stinson Jr. has been appointed
director of the West Side Branch
of the Butler Street YMCA.
A graduate of the class of
1955, Stinson was promoted to
his present position after serv
ing four years as Physical Ed
ucation Director for the Butler
Street YMCA.
Replacing Stinson as Physical
Education Director is another
CJarkite, William Richardson,
’57, and Arthur Carter, ’60, has
'been named to Richardson’s
former position. All three were
members of Clark football
teams, Stinson a center, Rich
ardson a quarterback, and Car
ter an end.
Dr. Brawley Attends
CASC Conference
Dr. James P. Brawley attend
ed the conference of The Coun
cil for the Advancement al
Small Colleges in Washington
D. C., on Monday,
was “The Small College in the
The theme of the conference
60’s.” The meeting was held in
cooperation with the US Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare, and focused its atten
tion on the potentialities of the
small college and its relationship
to the Federal Government. Vice
President Nixon and Secretary
Arthur S. Flemming attended
the meetings.
The Rev. Archibald Samuel
Award to the male student of
sophomore or junior classifica
tion who shows exceptional
progress in preparation for the
ministry, went to Charles Nev-
ett.
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