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Volume XXVII, No. 4
CLARK COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
February, 1964
COLLEGE HAILS 95th BIRTHDAY
IN FOUNDERS DAY PROGRAM
Clark College will celebrate the 95th Anniversary of
its founding on February 27. Seniors in caps and gowns
and scores of alumni, Methodist Churchmen and friends
of the institution will be on hand for the formal obser
vance of the occasion in Davage Auditorium.
Founded by the Freedmen’s
Aid Society, now the Board of
Education of The Methodist
Church, Clark’s will be celebra
ting a history that extends
back to within a few years after
the last Federal troops with
drew from Atlanta after the
Civil War.
The college was established in
a small chapel in the Summer
Hill section of the city in 1869.
In 1872 it moved to it:: first real
campus on a gently rolling hill
where not long before Union
soldiers might have paused to
look back at the city they left
in flames as General William
Sherman burned a path to the
sea.
The institution was chartered
as Clark University in 1877 and
announced as its basic purpose
“the promotion of learning, the
provision of suitable opportuni
ties for the acquirement of
knowledge and the fostering of
piety and virtue as essentials of
proper education.”
Clark granted its first degree
in 1883. It went to Walter H.
Nelson. In the next few years
Clark produced graduates who
became presidents of Philander
Smith, Bennett and Morris
Brown Colleges as courses in
woodworking, harness-making
and iron work gradually gave
Atlanta Symphony,
Shirley Verrett
Here This Week
Miss Shirley Verrett will sing
as guest soloist with the Atlanta
Symphony at Clark College this
week on Thursday and Satur
day. In addition to the two even
ings with Miss Verrett as guest
soloist the Atlanta Symphony
will offer an all orchestra pro
program on Friday evening at
the college. Maestro Henry Sop-
kin will conduct all three pro
grams.
The beautiful Miss Verrett has
skyrocketed to fame in the past
two years. She has appeared as
guest soloist with the New York
Philharmonic under the direc
tion of Leonard Bernstein and
with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Leopold Stokowski describing
her as “A great artist” chose her
as soloist for his recent historic
return to the Philadelphia
Orchestra.
Lincoln At Yale
Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, director
of the Social Relations Institute,
lectured at the Yale Uni
versity Divinity School on Feb
ruary 4. He appeared in re
sponse to an invitation issued by
Divinity School Dean Liston
Pope, who made a joint ap-
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way to purely academic train
ing
The period from 1924 to 1934
was one of transition It was
marked by efforts to get some
departments of the college ac
credited and other programs de-
vloped. A more modern college
brought many changes, some of
which affected concepts pertain
ing to discipline and the phil
osophy of organization of the
curriculum.
The beginning of divisional or
departmental organization came
in 1934, and by 1938 the ad
ministration was advancing the
idea of the “student-centered”
college, in which goals were to
“challenge, stimulate, guide and
counsel students toward the end
of development of “a wholesome
and integrated personality.”
The opening of the current
period in Clark’s history came
in 1941 with the changing of
the name from “University” to
“College,” the move to the pres-
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William J. Trent
Former Fund Head
Program Speaker
William J. Trent will be
speaker for Clark College’s 95th
Anniversary Founders’ Day ob
servance on February 26. Trent
is former executive director of
the United Negro College Fund,
now assistant personnel director
for Time Inc.
Prior to joining the staff of
Time on January 1, Mr. Trent
had been with the United Negro
College Fund since its inception
in 1944. Under his leadership the
organization — the first joint
collegiate fund raising effort in
this country — raised more than
$46 million for its member col
leges.
He is a native of Asheville,
North Carolina and was gradu
ated from Livingstone College
and the University of Pennsyl
vania. Mr. Trent has served on
the faculties of Livingstone and
Bennett Colleges.
CLARK STUDENTS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY UN PROGRAM
Judy Dimes, Elias Oye, Lamond Godwin, Mary Jones and Spruill White
College Debating Team Wins
At University Of South Carolina
Clark College’s Debating Team
last weekend became the first
group from a Negro college to
compete on the campus of The
University of South Carolina.
The debators won first place in
the University’s Fifth Annual
Camellia Tournament and a
Clark student was awarded the
trophy as “Best Speaker” at the
tournament.
Jacqueline Bennett of Louis
ville, Kentucky, a freshman, and
William Gordon, a sophomore of
College Starts
Pharmacy Major
President Brawley has an
nounced opening of a program
in pre-pharmacy at Clark Col
lege. His statement indicated
Orchestra.
be offered in the program during
that eight full scholarships will
its irst year.
Students in pre - pharmacy
will be enrolled at Clark and use
college in an accelerated course
present science facilities of the
during their first two years.
Subsequently, they will complete
their study at a registered school
of pharmacy under special
arrangements by Clark and the
school involved. The degree will
be awarded by that institution.
In making the announcement,
President Brawley called the
program “another step toward
completing a full curriculum in
pre-professional study.” The col
lege already offers such pro
nursing and various technolo-
grams in medicine, dentistry,
gical areas.
Atlanta, represented Clark in
the cross examination tourna
ment centered around Federal
In keeping with the annual ob
servance of Negro History Week,
which was celebrated throughout
the country during the week of
February 10-16, the Department
of Social Science at Clark Col
lege devoted the morning
assembly period, Feb. 11, to a
consideration of the achieve
ments the Negro has made in the
United States and the role that
he is playing in our society. The
guarantee for a higher educa
tion for qualified high school
graduates.
theme of this years celebration
was “Negro History, the Basis
of The New Freedom.”
Dr. Clarence Albert Bacote,
professor of history at Atlanta
University, was the keynote
speaker for the program. Dr.
Edward F. Sweat, chairman of
the Clark College Social Science
Department, served as director
of the observance.
University of South Carolina Tournament Winners
Jacqueline Bennett and William Gordon
Campus Observes Negro History Week