Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

t Basketball: Clark vs. Morris Brown Jan. 14; 8:00 p. m. Debating: Clark Debators Enter Morgan State Open Tourney January 7 VOL. XIX, NO. 1 CLARK COLLEGE, ATLANTA; GEORGIA JANUARY, 1961 During half-time activities at the homecoming game, Neletta O’neal, Miss Clark for 1960-61, along with her attendants, Tehopia Johnson (I) and Louria Bailey (r) pose briefly for the photographer. Clark Biology Major Among Seven Winners In Nationwide Examinations She junior Mrs. Willje Mien Moss, a biology major and che mistry minor, and resident of Atlanta. She is one of two oo-eds among the seven winners. Mrs. Moss won top honors in the nation-wide chemistry ex amination (although he is a bio logy major, in competition with students from 2,000 participating colleges. She was the highest scorer from the Southwest Re gion. As a resuiit of her winning first place, she will receive a Special Old Enrollment Record Tumbles; Stood 12 Yrs. An enrollment mark which fctoood since 1948 was re-made by the end of registration in September when 854 students had put their napnes on the books in the Registrar’s Of fice. Pending review by the Reg istrar there are 335 freshmen; (new and advanced), 236 soph omores, 160 juniors and 114 seniors. Unofficially, the enrollment; iby sex is 310 men and 544 women. Records show that the 1948 enrollment figure of 849 stu dents was the all-time record high until this year. Until this year, enrollment had been running on an even line since 1955, with 1958’s 822 studnts being the greatest-de viation from the 811 students of 1955. Registrar Brantiey points out that while freshman enroll ments are about where they were last year, the increase in enrollment now is largely at tributed to a decrease in the number of withdrawals. j Certificate of Recognition by the Chemical Rubber Company, and Clarkk College will receive from the Company $100 worth of sci entific books to foe donated in her name. Mrs. Moss also receiv ed the “Handbook of Chemistry and Physics” from the Chemical Ruhber Company. Mns. Moss was selected to par ticipate in the contest by the Chemistry Department Chair man, Dr. Alfred S. Spriggs, who will be given the privilege of selecting the books which will be awarded to the college. Mrs. Moss served as a research par ticipant in a National Science Foundation research program at Tuskegee during the summer. Other winners oame from Wesleyan University, Swarth- more College, New Mexico High- 1 lands University, Notre Dame College, Vanderbilt and Brig ham Young Universities. Detroit Alumni Club Awards Scholarship Clark College sophomore edu cation major Cora Jean Zach ary, from Anniston, Alabama, has been awarded the Detroit Clark Club’s Scholarship of $75.00 for the fall semester. The award was made on a competitive basis, with the club itself deciding the recipient on the basis of comprehensve appli cation forms. Detroit Club Pre sident, William Stevenson has in dicated that annual scholarships in increasing amounts will be of fered by the Club in the future. Debating Team Victorious At A&T College Open Tournament The, Clark College debating team won second place at the , tive half, fourth annual Debate Tournament sponsored by Kappa Phi Kappa Debating Society at A.&'T. College, Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 19, 1960. Two negative and two affirm ative teams represented Clark in the four-round tournament that was eventually extended to five rounds for two of Clark’s teams due to an error in the first round. Naomi Smith and Daniel Mitchell represented tire negative faction of, Clark’s “A” team and Haskell Ward and Robert Glover made up the af firmative half. On the “B” team Elise Hooks and James Felder represented the afffahnative half and Robert Tucker and James Shropshire comprised the nega- In the first round Clark’s af firmative “B” team was march ed against Clark’s negative “B” team. The negative won 34- 31. Also, in this round Clank's affirmative “A” team defeated the negative team of A.&T. Col lege 29-23, and the negative “A” team of Clark took a 43-37 vic tory from South Carolina. State College. Continued on page 8 The Cast From “Harvey”: (1-r, standing) Florence Miller, Richard Albert, Carl Ajroold, Mattie Cox, Eugene Price, and Roy Wynn. Seated are Joyce Tuft, and Ralph Reeves. Alumnus H. W. White Wills Clark $4,000 A bequest of $4,000.00 has come to Clark College from the estate of the late Rev. Henry W. White, Clark alumnus for whom White’s Chapel Methodist Church here is mamed. Acdbrding to the terms of the late Rev. Whit’s will, the be quest will be invested by the College and the income used to grant scholarships not exceed ing $100 to worthy students. Dr. James P. Brawley has indicated that the fund established through the bequest will -be called “The Henry W. White Memorial Scho larship." A Life-long resident of Atlanta, Rev. White finished studies at Clark in 1887, married the late Forum Sponsors Cahill In Lecture The Reverend Edwin Cahill, minister of the North Avenue Unitarian Church, led a dis cussion on “Religion and Pol- tics” at Kresge Hall on No vember 7. His points of dis cussion were the background of the church and state, na ture and effect on Catholicism and Kennedy, Kennedy’s posi tion and the church’s position. The speaker emphasized the fact that our country upholds the “Doctrine of separation of church and state.” He referred Emma Nelson the following year and soon after entered Gammon Theological Seminary. His firsrt pastorship was at Vine Street Methodist Church, here in At lanta. Subsequently, he pastured in the then existing Savannah Conference of the Methodist Church, later the Georgia Con ference. At the time of his re tirement in 1920 he had-return ed to Vine Street Church. to the colonies unsuccess ful attempts made to de velop theocratic forms of gov ernment. “American Catholicism and European Catholicism differ because of church-state rela tions in the two countries,” Rev. Cahill stated, “And it is because of this fact that Ken nedy’s religion will not con flict with his position as Pres ident, . should he be elected.” Referring to Kennedy's posi tion, Cahill explained that, “When all the questions and answers have been given, then it is time to drag the issue. This has been done by Ken nedy on many’occasions.” The speaker expressed a Jim view on the main anti- sematie attacks which h a d been used against Kennedy. He observed that most of these attacks were spearheaded by Protestant groups with the Clark Opens New Labs New laboratories In art, bio- , iogy and chemistry have been opened at Clark doubling car trip ling the space formerly avail able in these areas. Most extenstlve construction i and renovations are in the Bio logy Department, where all new desks and seating equipment has aeon installed 1 . The new biology laboratories occupy the completely renovated structure on the east side of the campus behind Pfeiffer HalL Gaining the space formerly oc cupied by biology, the Chemis try Department now has two major laboratories, with a separ ate room for measuring equip ment The construction and renova tions also provided considerably greater space for art. instruction on the upper level of the Bio- .ogy Building. The college spent over $3.00, 000.00 in these developments. tacks had been geared to Nixon, a Quaker, which show ed inconsistency on the part o fthe American people. After the speech there was an open discussion which gave the people present an op portunity to have some oi their individual questions about religion and politics ans- Baptiat leading the, way. Rev. Cahill cited that no such at- wered.