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Volume XXVI, No 1
November, 1962
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CLARK COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Broadway Actors Here For
Day-Long Theatre Conference
Alderman Massell Delivered Welcoming
Address in Davage Auditorium Friday A. M.
Two stars of “A Raisin In The Sun” were on Clark
College’s campus Friday as speakers and panel leaders
for a conference on “The Role of the Theatre in American
Life.”
They were playwright - actor
Ossie Davis and stage screen star
Ruby Dee, Who are actually Mr.
and Mrs. Ossie Davis. They join
ed a group of college admini
strators, professors, public school
officials, local government offi
cials and theatre-minded citizens
who were here to discuss “The
Theatre as a Way of Understand
ing Basic Issues of Our Times,”
“Theatre and the Liberal Arts
College,” and “The Theatre In
Atlanta.”
The conference opened in
Davage Auditorium at 9:00 a.m.,
with Clark President James P.
Brawley making opening re
marks. Alderman President Sam
Massell made the welcoming ad
dress. The main address was
given by Mr. Ossie Davis who
spoke on “The Playwright and
Social Issues.”
A panel led by Dr. Thomas
Jarrett of Atlanta University
followed. Discussing “The Theat
re and Main Issues” was Morris
Brown President Frank S. Cun
ningham, Dr. Richard Barksdale
of Atlanta University, Dr. Arthur
Banks of Morehouse and Dr.
George A. Reynolds of Clark.
At the conference luncheon in
Kresge Hall Miss Dee talked
on “Problems of The Actor.”
Clark senior Ted Price was
TAKING THE HALF-TIME SPOTLIGHT
Homecoming Queen Ernestine Holliday (center) and atten
dants Dorthy Jackson (left) and Sharon Watson.
Ernestine Holliday Captivates Campus
As Charming Homecoming Queen
Ernestine Holliday has capti
vated the hearts of all Clark
College, and the beauty of her
coronation on October 19 served
only to heighten the effect which
she has had on Clark as its home
coming queen.
Charming, quiet, poised, un
assuming and genuine, Miss Hol
liday in her first two years at
Clark had set herself apart by
her manner as one to whom this
honor could justifiably be given.
A junior home economics ma
jor, Miss Holliday last year won
a full scholarship from the Scott
Paper Company. Also last year
she served as Clark’s “Miss
UNCF,” and represented the col
lege at a UNCF meeting in Wash
ington. Being a homecoming
queen is not exactly new to
Ernestine; she won this title in
her high school days at Atlanta’s
Washington High School.
The queen's attendants were
Dorothy Jackson and Sharon
Watson, charming, and serving
only to add beauty and grace
to the court. Miss Holliday was
surrounded by the fraternity and
other campus queens at her cor
onation. They were Ann Wil
liams, “Miss Alpha Phi Alpha;”
Lelia Thomas, “Miss Kappa
Alpha Psi;” Brenda Cothran,
“Miss Phi Beta Sigma;” Jocelyn
Scott, “Miss Omega Psi Phi;”
Drucilla Maddox, “Miss Loyalty,”
Beverly Bailey, “Miss UNCF;”
Escorts were members of the
football team and class officers.
Mrs. Flora Davis, chairman of
the Home Economics Department
was director of the coronation.
Dr. J. J. Dennis was director of
the homecoming parade.
master of ceremonies for the
Luncheon.
“The Theatre in the Liberal
Arts College” was the subject
of a 2:00 p.m. panel chaired by
Dr. Baldwin Burroughs of Spel-
man. Panelists were Dr. J. M.
Smith who is regional represent
ative of the U.S. Office of Edu
cation, Dr. Carl Bain of Emory
and Finley Campbell of More
house.
Dr. Julia Bell Jackson of Mor
ris Brown headed a /panel
on “The Theatre in Atlanta.”
Participants were Mrs. Lila
Kennedy, who is regional di
rector of the American National
Theatre Academy; Mrs. T. M.
Alexander; Frank Wittow, who
is director of the Southeastern
Theatre Academy; and William
Howland of the Mayor’s Office.
At 7:30 p.m. the Duo-pianists
Neal and Nelson appeared in
concert in Davage Auditorium,
followed by a conference recep
tion in Kresge Hall.
Clark Theatre
Conference Draws
National Attention
Local and national interest has
been shown in Clark’s “Confer
ence on The Role of The Theatre
in American Life.”
A call to the Publicity Office
from the Theatre Editor of The
New York Times is the most
recent indication of significant
interest in the Department of
Drama and Speech’s upcoming
conference. The call followed a
news release sent to that paper.
Local interest has been shown
by Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen and
members of Atlanta theatre
groups, and coverage of the con
ference is expected by several
Atlanta news media.
Clark Debating Team
Is Third Place Winner
In Emory Tournament
Clark college’s two-year-old
Debating Team which has com
pleted successfully against teams
from many of the nation’s best-
known schools, won third place
in its first debate of the year at
the Fourth Annual Peachtree
Festival Debating Tournament at
Emory University.
More than 14 teams represent
ing colleges in Georgia and else
where oarticipated in the tourn
ament which centered around the
National Collegiate Debate Topic:
“Resolved: That Non-Communis-
tic Nations Should Establish an
Economic Community.”
Last year the team, coached
by Social Science Department
faculty member Robert Fishman,
presented formidable competition
for colleges throughout the east
ern United .States.
Veteran members of the De
bating Team at Clark are Bob
Tucker, Patricia Guines, Haskell
Ward, Robert Anderson, Robert
Williams, Freeman Walker and
James Shopshire.
A second east coast tour has
been planned. It will pit the team
against such institutions as
George Washington University,
American University, Harvard,
Dartmouth, Howard and Boston
University.
HUSBAND AND WIFE WERE CONFERENCE PRINCIPALS
Actors: Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.
Alumna Early Speaks
in Chapel Program
Alumna Mary Frances Early,
salutatorian of the Class of 1957,
was speaker when Clark Col
lege's Department of Education
held its American Education
Week Chapel program Thursday.
Miss Early chose for her sub
ject “The Teacher as a Person,
As a Professional Worker and as
a Citizen.” Speaking from nearly
four year’s teaching experience
the University of Georgia grad
uate cautioned her audience of
students to approach the teach
ing profession with full realizat
ion of what is involved.
She urged Clark's education
majors to accept the challenge
extended to them when they
become responsible for develop
ing children in their classrooms.
“Only when we can instill with
in children an intellectnal cur
iosity which impells them to
pursue knowledge can we consi
der ourselves teachers of merit,”
she said.
“The teacher has a certain
social responsibility beyond that
of the ordinary person,” she con
tinued, “the good teacher realizes
that he must at all times main
tain ethical and moral standards
of the best tradition. Each time
a teacher is involved in deviant
behavior the status of all teachers
is relegated to a lower rung on
the ladder by citizens of the
community, and it spreads
its tentacles throughout the
entire profession,” she said.
Clark Forum
Presents Discussion
On Baldwin
More than 200 students and
faculty members heard Alan
Levinsohn discuss the works of
author James Baldwin at a
Forum and Forensic Society pro
gram in Kresge Hall on Novem
ber 6.
Speaking on the topic “The
Glory of The Dead Negro: the
fiction of James Baldwin,” Mr.
Levinsohn was the second spea
ker in the Forum and Forensic
Society series which brings no
table speakers to the Clark cam
pus each year.
Levinsohn, a free-lance writer,
is a former senior editor of Bea
con Press. He called Baldwin’s
novel, Giovanni's Room “the
greatest contemporary American
novel.”
Panthers Shoot For Victory In
Finale With Morris Brown
Clark’s best season since 1928
or just a fine season comparable
to the 1959 'record — it all hinges
on the outcome of the annual
Thanksgiving game between the
Panthers and Wolverines.
Indications are that there
hasn’t been a better year than
now for Clark to put an end —
once and for all — to the domi
nation of Morris Brown gridiron
teams and end the humiliation
of fourteen lean years of con
secutive defeats.
The Panthers this year are the
scoringest team in Clark’s foot
ball history. They are also the
stingiest. The Clarkites have
pushed across 168 points for a
28 point average. Their opponents
have gathered only 27 points and
an average of 4.3 points per
comes next, with Morris Brown.
Although nothing would look
better than an undefeated season,
the next best thing would be a
victory over Morris Brown.
There is no doubt but that
the Panthers can do it this year,
and it would seem that all they
have to do is play the way they
have in all but one of their
games so far. Pound for pound,
talents for talent it appears the
Clark team may have a slight
advantage.
The two teams have had one
mutual opponent this year —
South Carolina. Early in the sea
son the Clarkites handed State
game. The Clarkites have had
only four touchdowns scored
against them in six games.
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