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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Davage Auditorium February 27-29. 8:00 p.m. cEiu' pautltrr “Hamlet” Davage Auditorium March 9-14 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- Cont. on Page 3 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- Cont. on Page 2 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