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January, 1961
Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia
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Nine Clarkites Were
Arrested for Sitting
BY BENJAMIN BROWN
On October 19, 1960, the
world spotlight turned to At
lanta, Georgia, where 3* stu
dents and Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. were arrested lor
merely seeking food service in
two of Rich's department
store exclusive dining rooms.
On the following day, 18 other
students were arrested for at
tempting to be served at the
railroad Terminal Station ca
feteria, and finally on that
Friday two students were
hauled off to the city jail from
L he Lane Rexall Drug store
for the same reason. All stu
dents and Dr. King who were
arrested accepted jail rather
than pay the $500 bonds which
were imposed upon them.
In light of these develop
ments, the City of Atlanta, the
State of Georgia and the
United States as a whole were
put on the defensive. These
incidents are regretable in as
we, the Negro in a democracy,
should be entitled to the many
privileges that are freely ac
corded our fellow Americans.
However, it took such drama
tic action to bring about any
effort on the part of the Mayor
to alleviate some of these dis
criminatory practices which
confront us here in Atlanta
and the south, particularly the
segregation of the lunch coun
ters.
As a result of the actions,
Mayor has taken positive steps
in seeing that our city, have
desegregated lunch counter
within a short period follow
ing the 30-day truce period
which ends of the 22nd of No
vember, 1960.
I must state here that Dr.
King was by no means taking
over the Atlanta Student
Movement, but only partici
pating at the request of the
Committee on Appeal For Hu
man Rights (Atlanta U. Cen
ter). He indicated at the out
set that he “felt a moral obli
gation in taking an active role
in the demonstration.
You should be proud to
know that nine fellow Ciark-
ites weer among the courag
eous sacrigicial “Lambs" who
saw the need for action which
would ultimately lead to first
citiznship for us all. These
stuclnets includ:
Eva Kendricks, freshman
from Atlanta; Wilford Hep-
bum, Miami, Louis Flanagan,
Atlanta, both sophomores; Ca
rolyn Long, Wylma Long, Mat-
tie Cox, Solloman Taylor,
Christine Sparks, all juniors
of Atlanta; and Benjamin D.
Brown, a senior of Atlanta.
Miss Linda White of Chica
go was among 18 students re
leased after a court hearing
ruled not guilty.
Almnus Lee, ‘S3,
Wins Doctorate
At Indiana
Carson Lee, Clark College so
cial science graduate of the class
of 1953, has been awarded the
Doctor of Education degree by
Indiana University
Dr. Lee, whose field of specia
lization is counseling psychology,
did a “Study of the Effect® of
Counseling in Reducing the
Number of Problems Indicated
by High School Freshmen and
Senirs.” His study was one of
the few of this nature ever con
ducted solely among Negro stu
dent®.
The holder of a masters degree
FRESHMAN GUIDES HIGH, WHITE AND HAI L
HOLD SESSION WITH THE NEWCOMERS
Four Clarkites Earn
Medical, Dental And
Nursing Degrees
Four Clark College graduates
earned medical, dental and
nursing degrees at Howard Uni
versity and Meharry Medical
College in June.
Recipients of the M. D. degree
are Martin L. Edwards, class of
1953, and Samuel B. Rosser, class
of 1954. Edwards studied at Me
harry and oRsser at Howard.
Harry M. Thompson, class of
1953, wa® awarded the D. D. S.
degree from Howard, and Cas
sandra McBryde, class of 1954,
received the R. N. deree from
Meharry.
Eleven other science gradu
ates are at various stages of
medical and dental study, and
two others entered private prac
tice in the past two years.
Faculty Attempts
To Raise Who's Who
Dr. Stella B. Brooks, Dr. Pear-
lie C. Dove, Mrs. Dave Ford, Mr.
Averett Burress, Dr. Alfred
Spi-iggs, Dr. Edward) Brantley
and Mr. Harold Hamilton were
appointed by Dr. Brawley as a
committee with the purpose 1 of
establishing a criterion for stu
dents nominated to WHO’S
WHO.
The committee formulated a
plan of selection to replace the
system which had been used and
had proven dissatisfactory to the
student body.
To be eligible for nomination
to WHO’S WHO a student must
have an overall average of
1.750, and at lease half of his
semesters here in 2.000 work. An
F makes a student ineligible and
serious academic probation re
quires on minor probation may
be nominated.
Each person must also be an
active participant in extra-curri
cular activities as a member or
an officer.
These standards have been set
in an effort to evolve the best
method of selecting nominees
for WHO’S WHO and make the
program more meaningful to the
student body.
in sociology from Atlanta Uni
versity, Dr. Lee has taught at
Oglethorpe County High School
and at Atlanta’s Turner High
School.
He has been appointed Chair
man of the Department of Psy
chology and Professor of Psy
chology at Albany State College
where he wilt also direct the in
stitution’s testing program.
He is a native of Columbus,
[Mississippi and is married to the
former Miss Barbara Holloway j
of Atlanta.,
Clark to Test Student?
For CIEP Scholarship?
President James P. Brawley
has announcea that Clarkte Col
lege will be one of the 30 col
leges participating in the test
ing of 8,000 to 9,000 scholarship
and admission candidates from
more than 900 high schools dis
tributed throughout the United
States and the Virgin Islands.
Clark will cooperate in ad
ministering the Cooperative In
ter-collegiate Examination Pro
gram between November 28
December 10, 1960 which will be
given in 20 test centers across
the nation during this period.
The Cooperative Intercollegiate
Examination Program is an edu
cational service of the United
Negro College Fund. The exami
nation is open to qualified high
school seniors and to a limited
number of high school juniors
and sophomores of exceptional
ability and promise.
All-Star Concerts
Begin With Kovacs
Beginning with the appear
a nee of Stephen J. Kovacs, H'ln-
garian pianist, on Sunday, Nov
ember 13, the 1960-61 Clark All-
Star Concert Series promises to
.be the most exciting entertain
ment series yet offered Atlanta
music and drama fans.
Virtually everything h the
series this year could be consid
ered a highlight-
Clark College’s actors will fol
low Mr. Kovacs on the 17 and
18 of this month, then the Phdl-
narmonic Society will offer it®
Annual Christman Vesper Pro
gram on December 4.
The appearance of Lawrence
Winters, New York City Opera
Star, on January 15 is an event
vhieh will be warmly received
here. Of course, the Clark Con
cert Band’s Annual Vesper Pro
gram will be well attended.
“The Merchant of Venice”
staged by Players, Inc., will fol
low the Annual Recital by Dr.
Killingsworth’s music students.
In succession after that will be
the Concert Band’® major con
cert, the Clark Playhouse, and
then the Virginia Symphony Or
chestra will appear.
From April 25 through 30, the
College will present its highly
entertaining and colorful Festi
val of Music and Arts, the four
teenth annual offering.
Lit Symposium
The L it e r a r y Symposium
elected officers for this school
year at its first meeting which
was held in late October. Elect
ed to the presidency was Louria
Bailey, and Carolyn Long won
the election for vice-president.
Rebecca Brown is the group’s
new secretary, and Harriet Bry
ant is Chairman of the Program
Committee. Jimmy Williams be
came the club’s Reporter in the
election.
The “Symposium” is composed
of English majors and minors
who have reached the sopho
more level or above.
The club is founded on the as
sumption that literature can be
of great value to everyone. It
believes that literature can give
one a beter knowledge of human
nature; can provide an outlet
from everyday events; can shew
one the glory of the common
place; can provide a source of
pleasure and entertainment and
can give one a beter mastery of
one’s language, tl is therefore
the purpose of this club to dte-
dicate itself to the development
of higher appreciation for litera
ture and the English language
not only among majors and min
ors in the English department
but in the entire student body.
Organization of freshman
Theatre Guild Elects
Officers, Set Comedy
The members of the Theatre
Guild elected their new officers
m the first meeting of the year.
Heading the Guild this year is
Joe Carter, with Elise Hooks
serving as vice president. Other
officers are Jamella Nelson, se
cretary; Yvonne Smith, assistant
secretary; Henry Clark, trea
surer; Theodore Price, program
committee chairman; Theopia
Johnson, reporer; and Randall
Ponder, business manager.
Tenaivelty scheduled for the
first presentation is the three
act comedy “Harvey.” A date
tor tryouts is to be set and the
production is slated for the lat
ter part of November.
The advisors for this year are
Miss Ruth Dennhardt and Mr.
William Dutch, both newcomers
to the faculty. Miss Dennhardt
comes to Clarkk from Carnegie
Institute of Technology, where
she was assistant professor of
voice and speech. Mr. Dutch was
formerly head of the English
Department at Mobile County
t raining School in Alabama.
Listing Hour
Makes Debut
In the first offering of a ser
ies of Listening Hour Programs,
the (Literary Symposium recent
ly presented recordings , of the
poetry of Langston Hughes,
James Weldon Johnson, Countee
Cullen, Paul Lawrence Dunbar
and many other well known Ne
gro Poets.
During the hour of literary en
tertainment, some members of
■the Symposium also read some
of the works of these authors
not featured on the record.
The Symposium has announc
ed that on November 29th, Miss
Dennhardt will lecture on His
torical Poem® featuring “The
Ballad of the East and West,”
“Columbus” “The Explorer” and
others.
IMiss Dennhardt is a member
of the English Department
Claudete Will's Back
From Study iu France
Clark College French major,
Claudette Willis, daughter of
Mrs. Lola A. Polk of 353 Adding
ton Street, S. W., has completed
her studies in the Junior Year
Abroad program at the Irurtitute
for- American Universities in Aix-
! or.-.Provence, France. The Instit
ute cooperates with 85 Ameri
can colleges and univerities and
is affiliated with the University
cf Aix-Marseille, which was
groups interested in book re
views, poetry, presentation of
public programs and group dis
cussions has been considered as
potential projects for the year.
founded in 1409 and is now the
second largest in France.
At the Institute’s closing exer
cises in June Miss Willis re
ceived the Certifieat d’lnscrip-
tion of the University of Aix-
Marseille.
During the year Miss Willis,
who is majoring in French at
Clark, carried on intensive stud
ies in the Institute’s French lan-
guate and literature program
and had classes in English in the
American curriculm which is of
fered to faciliate the transfer of
credits. Faculty members with
whom Miss Willis s tudies includ
ed scholars from the University
of Paris and Oxford University
While at the Institute Miss
Willis lived in an international
as well as American professors
dormitory and attended classes
held in building® near the cathe
dral of Aix-en-Provence,, a
city, noted for its architecture
and many fountains.
Miss Wallas was able to par-
'ticipate in the numerous fields
trips arranged by the institute
in connection with her classes
which included trips to French
schools, Roman temples and
arenas and French industrial es
tablishments. The Art classes
painted and sketched in the
countryside portrayed by Cezan
ne, and ail oif the students regul
arly attended French plays,
films and lectures.
The Institute’s location pro
vided Miss Willis with many op
portunities for travel and sports,
including skiing during the win
ter months in the near-by Alps
and swimming in the warmer
months on the Rivier® or in Abe's
ancient Roman baths. During
! the holidays Miss Willis travel
ed in Italy.
HI-JINXS AT THE POLLS DURING SJJ.A. STRAW VOTE