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VICTORY
TOMORROW
OR BUST!
Panther
SUPPORT
THE
PANTHERS
Volume XXV, No. 1
CLARK COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
November 23, 1961
Panthers and Wolverines
In Showdown Tomorrow
Clark College’s Panthers will be out to break a jinx
which has put them on the short end of the score with Mor
ris Brown since 1949. Tomorrow marks the thirty-seventh
renewal of this contest, which annually pulls a crowd suffi
cient to fill Herndon Stadium.
tossed two incomplete passes, then
tried another on third down.
Coming up from his defensive
position, fullback Herman Hunter,
who came back to Clark as an as
sistant coach several years ago,
snatched the errant ball from a
would-be received and raced 70
yards to clinch the game for Clark.
The Panthers added insult to in
jury by scoring the extra point and
gaining a 14-6 victory.
Although the Clarkites have lost
two games this season, a victory
over Morris Brown would be suf
ficient to rate the 1961 season as
“the best in many years.” Some
fans would even rate it over the
1959 season in which the Cardinal
and Black was defeated only once.
Since 1924, the earliest record
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As in several years, the 1961
contest is rated a toss-up. Both
teams stand at about mid-point in
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic
Association ratings, with Clark
rated just above Morris Brown.
Defense was the major concern
of the Clark coach staff as they
went through final drills in prep
aration for the season’s finale. If
the Clarkites can muster the de
fensive strength which they have
displayed in several outings this
season, they stand an excellent
chance of ending the famine which
has prevailed in games with Mor
ris Brown for a dozen years.
Clark last beat Morris Brown in
1948. It was a crowd-pleasing
game, for Clark fans. The Panthers
were leading 7-6 with seconds re
maining on the clock. Morris
Brown had possession of the ball at
about the mid-field point. With
time running out, the Wolverines
Clark Inaugurates A
DevelopmentProgram
A development program aimed
at broadening the base of support
for Clark College among corpora
tions, foundations and individuals
has been instituted.
Serving as Associate Director of
the program is Randall L. Tyus,
formerly field director for the
United Negro College Fund and
presently on leave from Bache and
Company, New York investment
house.
Lincoln Speaks at
Ford Hall Forum
Addressing an overflow audience
at Boston’s famous Ford Hall
Forum recently, Dr. C. Eric Lin
coln said the “mature and rational
manner in which the desegregation
problem has been handled in At
lanta has set the Muslim program
in the South back five years.”
The Clark College professor of
Social Philosophy was teamed with
Arnold Forster, national civil
rights director of the Anti-Defama-
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Enrollment Levels at 799
Records in the Registrar’s Office at Clark show that there
are 799 students enrolled at the college this semester.
Women again lead in numbers, with U96 members of the
fairer sex listed on the books, as against 303 men.
By classes, there are U50 freshmen(including new freshmen
and “second-year” freshmen). Sophomores number 169; there are
150 juniors, and the class has 125 members.
By sex, the freshmen have 211 women and 139 men. There
are 100 women in the sophomore class and 69 men. The 150-
member junior class numbers 93 women and 57 men. There are
90 women in the senior class and 35 men.
In the four classes there are 52 students who are continuing
their education after interruptions of one or more semesters.
Seven students transferred to Clark from other colleges.
Fourteen Listed In Who’s Who
Fourteen Clark College Students
have won listing in WHO’S WHO
AMONG STUDENTS, an annual
listing of outstanding students in
American Colleges and Univer
sities.
Elected by the faculty, SGA
President and Presidents of the
junior and seniors classes were De-
lores Patricia Aldridge, Shirley
Frazier Banks, Robert E. Glover,
Patricia Anne Guines, Gwendolyn
E. Kornegay, Gladys Luster, Willie
Allen Moss, Alyce Fay Ringer,
Johnny Washington Scott, James
M. Shopshire, Mark Sullivan, Rob
ert Houston Tucker, Christine
Sparks and Linda White.
Students were elected on the
basis of academic average, campus
citizenship, and participation in
extra-curricular activities. Accord
ing to criteria established last year,
a student must have an overall
average of 1.750 and an average of
2.000 (honor roll) in at least half
of the semesters he has studied at
Clark.
Clark students have been listed
in the publication each year since
1952 with present Clark faculty
members Avery Burress and Har
old Hamilton among the original
Clark students to appear in the
listings. Since that time some 154
Clarkites have had their biog
raphies listed.
Procedure for electing students
to the publication was changed in
recent years when it was deemed
necessary to establish more rigid
qualifications, including successful
completion of the English Funda
mental Examination, a 1.750 (C)
average, and honor roll listing in a
minimum of half the semesters a
student has studied at the college.
Five Clark Gridders
To Play Last Game
Five seniors will be playing
their last game for Clark to
morrow. They are Gilbert Tur-
mon, stand-out tackle, and half
backs Johnny Scott, Ray
Hughes, Joseph Mullins and
fullback Charles Hood.
The fine set of halfbacks
Clark has had for four years
will be wiped out completely.
Johnny Scott and Charles Hood
have been stalwarts defensively,
and latel Hood has done some
exceptional ball carrying.
Hughes is one of the college’s
all-time great ground gainers
who probably would have com
piled a record for yards gained
in four years except that in
juries last year sidelined him
for much of the season.
Campus Gets Much
Needed Bulletin
Board In Lobby
With construction of a large
bulletin board at the east entrance
of the administration building a
long-felt need has been met. All
that remains now is for used of the
board to keep it attractive by post
ing notices neatly, by removing old
notices, and by avoiding use of
scraps of paper for notices.
The office of the Superintendent
of Buildings and Grounds urges
that no notices be posted on walls
throughout the building.
Bulletin boards are to be read.
Quite often a student regrets learn
ing of an event once it has passed.
Keep up to date with what’s hap
pening on the campus and partici
pate in many events.
Fifteen Hours Credit
Can Be Earned Through
Clark Honors Program
A Clark student may earn as
much as fifteen semester hours
credit in independent study and
conferences, research or field proj
ects through the institution’s hon
ors program.
According to Dean A. A. Mc-
Pheeters, director of the Clark
Honors Program, the program is
set up to provide an opportunity
for students of exceptional ability
and achievement to carry on group
and independent work as well as
to facilitate a cooperative effort in
which members of instructional de
partments can work more closely
with their superior students.
Under the honors program, a
student could finish his college
work as much as a semester earlier
than normally. To qualify for hon
ors work, however, a student must
first have a better-than-average
academic record in courses in his
field of major study.
With a thesis and an oral and/or
written comprehensive examination
as a requisite for completion of
honors courses, students will get
some idea of what they will meet
later as graduate students.
SAMUEL OKEMA and IVAN HAKEEM
Clark students from Uganda and India
President Brawley Announced
Developments At Institute
Developments in several areas highlighted announce
ments made by Clark College President James B. Brawley
during a faculty institute held prior to the opening of the
college’s 93rd year.
The annual institute, a week-
long series of discussions, brought
together members of the college’s
faculty and staff to review and
put into effect plans made earlier.
The college’s recent develop
ments in academic and non-aca
demic areas were announced by Dr.
Brawley as part of his initial ad
dress to the faculty and staff and
are part of the institution’s ten-
year program which will culminate
when the college celebrates its
100th anniversary in 1969.
First in the series of new pro-
groms announced by Dr. Brawley
was the inauguration of a Devel
opment Program. Defining the
goals of the program, Dr. Brawley
called it “a dynamic undertaking,
aimed at the continuing and pro
gressive enhancement of the ed
ucational program at Clark
through improved facilities, an able
and creative faculty and the in-
bleand creative faculty and the in
surance of continued excellence.
Although there are immediate
needs which must be met with
reference to the physical plant of
the college.” he continued, “the
long-range objectives of the De-
Magazine Describes
Research at Clark
The current edition of Science
Education News, published by the
American Association of the Ad
vancement of Science, features an
article describing research at Clark
in the Department of Chemistry.
Under a grant from the Associa
tion, supplemented by the College,
Dr. Alfred S. Spriggs, department
chairman, and several students
have been involved in a research
project dealing with oligosaccaha-
ride analysis.
BUY AND USE
CHRISTMAS SEALS
velopment Program involve induc
ing a continued interest in the wel
fare of the college on the part of
its several publics.”
Appointed to serve as Associate
Director of the Development Pro
gram is Randall L. Tyus, formerly
field director for the United Ne
gro College Fund, who comes to
Clark from more recent service
as an executive of Bache and
Company, New York investment
house. With Dr. Brawley as gene
ral director of the program, other
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Famous Church Honors
Clark Faculty Member
Dr. C. Eric Lincoln of the Clark
College Department of Religion
and Philosophy was recently hon
ored by the world famous Commu
nity Church of New York for his
contributions to literature and to
the social sciences.
At a dinner held in his honor,
Dr. Lincoln was cited as “a schol
ar with a fresh vision . . . whose
penetrating analysis of contempo
rary problems in human relations,
names him to that elite corps of
creative intellectuals who sustain
America’s hopes and expectations
for a better tomorrow.”
Dr. Lincoln was introduced by
Dr. Donald Szantho Harrington,
minister of the 1800-member con
gregation. Dr. Harrington reviewed
Professor Lincoln’s recent book,
The Black Muslims In America,
after which Dr. Lincoln responded
with a brief lecture on “The Ene
mies of Integration.”
The Community is of Unitarian
affiliation. At one period of its
long history, every member of its
Board was the president of a cor
poration. '
It became famous for its liberal
social concern under the leadership
of John Haynes Holmes, a widely-
known name in the so-called “so
cial gospel” of fifty years ago. Dr.
Holmes is now Minister Emeritus
of the mid-town church.