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2 OCTOBER, 1964
The Panther
The Clark Panther
A journal of college life published from October to June by
students of Clark College, Atlanta, Georgia.
A promoter of school spirit by encouraging projects and ef
forts among student groups and individual students.
A medium through which an opportunity is provided for stu
dents to obtain experience in newsgathering, reporting, review
ing and writing.
An instrument for fostering friendly and constructive criticism
of campus activities.
Leondria Epps
Editor
Robert Holloway
Feature Editor
Jacqueline Bennett
Co-Editor
Gloria Lester
Sports Editor
Patricia Hudson
Secretary
Ellen Magby Ivan Hakeem
Advisors
Sdita'iCaCly Sfiea&iay—
In Defense of Nonconformity
By Jacqueline Hardy
Do you know that you are a very unique person in this ever-
changing age of aeronautics and space travel and that your individ
uality played a great part in helping you to become what you are
—a believer in nonconformity? Of course you would not go to the
Alps in a bikini or drive your car on the wrong side of the street,
but you do have that certain amount of “self” that makes you dif
ferent. Oh, you are not an extremist or a rebel against authority and
you are greatly in favor of the good of humanity. But suppose for
a moment you lacked that space of “self” to add to your personality.
Suppose your tag which distinguishes you from others was taken
away and you were no longer yourself but rather part of an organ
ized group in which everyone is really no one for their true idenity
of true “self” has been lost.
It has been noted that the biggest job of any Dean of Students is
to get the college freshman to be themselves. Most people are afraid
to be nobody; they must conform, be like everybody else. And so
the job of distinguishing one individual from another begins. The
task of finding the matchless few isn’t as hard as it may sound for
the individualist usually stands out in any crowd. They are the non
conformist who set the pace. Whether his ideals are good or bad,
he'll be the one well-rounded with as much “self" as possible.
Nonconformist is a definite and welcomed part of any society. Al
though it may seem as if we’re losing our idenity to serial numbers
and zip codes, we aren’t. The world is in an urgent need of more
“believers in self.” Therefore one can easily set himself apart from
the numbered many and be a definite part of the rare individualists
by being a sensible nonconformists. “To conform is good; to know
when to conform is better; but to know when not to confrom is best
of all.”
Clark Students Omega Psi Phi
Receive Scholarships Begins New Year
Two science majors at Clark
College have become the latest
recipients of many academic
awards won by graduates of Birm
ingham area schools at Clark
College.
They are seniors Robert Mar
cus and Ernest Long.
Marcus, a graduate of Ullman
High School, was recently named
winner of one of four National
Methodist Scholarships awarded
to Clark students. It is valued at
$500. This is the second recent
scholarship award to the mathe-
mathics major, he studied during
the summer at Harvard Univer
sity under a scholarship in that
institution’s Summer School Co
operative Program.
Rounding out a solid series of
academic activities geared toward
a career in research, Marcus is a
student assistant in Clark’s De
partment of Physics. He helped
organize a student mathematics
tutoring service at the college.
For the second consecutive year
Marcus is Vice-President of his
class, and last year he was select
ed to be a student leader in
Clark’s Freshman Orientation
Program.
Ernest Long, from Bessemer, is
a Brighton High School graduate.
He has been awarded his second
Radio Corporation of America
Beta Psi Chapter of Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity has begun another
year of dedicated service to the
community. A number of civic
and recreational activities have
been planned for the year.
Officers for the chapter are:
Thomas Gay, Basileus; William
Gordon, Vice-Basileus; Harvey
Palmer, Keeper of Records and
Seal; Antonio Thomas, Keeper of
Finance; Joseph Strawbridge,
Dean of Pledgees; and Gilbert
Petty, Reporter. Other members
of Beta Psi are Johnny Bryson,
Wallace McMichael, James Lewis,
Robert Edwards, Ronald Hamp
ton, Ralph Long, and Homer Mc-
Ewen.
Miss Yvonne Worthem is the
charming sweetheart of Omega
men for the year. Her attendants
are Miss Christine Coleman and
Miss Mildred Paggett.
Omega marches on to greater
heights through dedicated service.
Scholarship—an annual science
award to a Clark student covering
academic expenses and accom
panied by a supplementary grant
to the College. The awards have
been made to Clark students for
nearly ten years under a program
established by RCA to encourage
students to prepare for careers in
science teaching.
Five Faculty Members Study On Fellowship This Summer
The home of Billie and Otis
Franklin in Alaska was the home
of faculty member Mrs. Mamie
Robinson for three weeks of this
past summer. She also spent eight
weeks studying at the University
of Wisconsin studying in the
Mathematics Institute sponsored
by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Places of interest vistited by
Mrs. Robinson in the land of mid
night sun were the gold dredges;
the campus of The University of
Alaska in Fairbanks and the In
dian Burial Grounds at Eklatna,
Debate Team
Begins Year
The Clark College Debate
Team enjoyed a very successful
season for the school year 1963-
64. They participated in various
tournaments across the country
including Howard, Hampton,
New York University, University
of South Carolina where Clark’s
debating team won first place
trophy for best negative team and
Clark’s debate captain William
Gordon won the best speaker's
trophy.
Clark has already accepted
invitations for the school year
1964-65 from tournaments being
held at Emory on November 6
and 7; University of South Caro
lina, November 12-14; University
of Georgia, November 20 and 21;
John Hopkins, January 29 and 30,
1965; and Harvard University,
February 4-6, 1965.
Members of the Clark College
Debate team are: William Gord
on, junior; Jacqueline Bennett,
sophomore; Beatrice Madison,
sophomore; and Antonia Thomas,
junior. The debate team coach is
Mr. Robert Fishman.
Art Department
Pla ns Exhibits
The Art Department has initi
ated its exhibition series with a
showing of paintings and pottery
by two well known local artists,
James Bray and Robert Wester-
velt. The exhibition remained on
display in the foyer of Davage
Auditorium until October 9. Fol
lowing this exhibition is the “Con
temporary Living Exhibition”
which will show current trends in
furniture and home decoration for
the month of October. The No
vember show will be an exhibition
of Serigraphs from the Western
Serigraph Institute of California.
Various kinds of exhibitions have
been scheduled for the school
year, dates and other information
will be announced later.
Mr. Carl Wilen, Art Depart
ment Chairman, had a painting
selected to be shown in the high
ly competitive Twentieth Annual
Southeastern Exhibition. The work
was chosen from hundreds of en
tries from Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, South Carolina, and other
states throughout the South. The
exhibition will be shown at the
Atlanta Art Association through
the month of October and will
tour major museums in the south
east.
Art films dealing with various
styles and periods are to be shown
at intervals this year. Informal
discussions are scheduled after
each film session in order to make
the material more intelligible and
enjoyable to all interested persons.
Math Club Offers
Tutoring Service
The Department of Mathemat
ics has announced plans for tutor
ing services again this year.
Students interested in this ser
vice should contact Ernest Long,
president of the Mathematics
Club.
Alaska. In Anchorage she visited
Mt. McKinley—highest peak in
North America, Alaska Methodist
University, the U. S. Air Force
Base and a view of the ruins of
the Alaska earthquake.
The most fascinating sights ex
claimed Mrs. Robinson were the
spectacular Alaskan sunsets, the
magnificent mountains and the
northern lights caused by rays of
electrically charged particles shot
from the sun which are diverted
toward the earth’s magnetic poles.
She said they glow much like the
charge particles that cause the
glow of a fluorescent tube.
Mrs. Robinson describes her
her summer as prosperous, enjoy
able and challenging.
Other faculty members study
ing this summer were Mrs. Caro
lyn Harris, assistant professor of
mathematics and physics. She
studied in the Physics Institute of
Princeton University; Mr. Frank
Rusinko, assistant professor of
Classes Name
'64-6b Officers
FRESHMEN
President Rudolph Jackson
Vice President Isadore Lee
Secretary Mary Ellis
SOPHOMORES
President Calvin W. Sharpe
Vice President Elijah Solomon
Secretary Lillie Hardin
Treasurer Jesse Baskerville
Business Manager ...
Gilbert Howard
JUNIORS
President Harvey Palmer
Vice President John Shockley
Secretary Andrea McDowell
Treasurer Herman Watson
SENIORS
President Eugene Ballentine
Secretary Sylvia Grant
Treasurer Curtis Byrdsong
biology and Mr. Solomon Sears,
instructor of biology, both studied
in the Biology Institute at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Mr.
William Dutch, assistant professor
of English, enrolled in the English
Institute at the University of In
diana.
These faculty members received
fellowships to study in summer in
stitutes designed to aid college
teachers in reorganizing and im
proving their courses. These
grants are made possible through
the Carnegia Corporation of New
York and the Rockefeller Foun
dation.
MISS UNCF
1964-65
Miss Sandra Hardin of Chat
tanooga, Tennessee will reign as
Miss UNCF for the year 1964-
1965.
Miss Hardin was crowned in
the spring by Dean Wiley S. Bold
en, when her class reported the
highest amount of money. This
is the first time a freshman class
has won such title.
Miss Hardin is a sophomore,
majoring in social science. She
plans to be a social worker after
graduation.
Our
Co
let!
on
By Jacqueline Hardy
“If you can’t be a highway
then just be a trail,
If you can’t be the sun
be a star;
It isn’t by size that you
win or you fail—
But be the best of whatever, you
are.”
We the members of the 1964-
65 freshman class of Clark Col
lege emphatically declare “to be
the best of what we are.” A con
stant struggle for perfection in all
our endeavors will be our major
concern. We vow to uphold the
ideals of Clark, morally and
spiritually, to always possess that
"tag of distinction” which will
help us project that "Second to
None” image of Clark College, to
strive for academic excellence and
to bring only fame and honor to
the Clark College campus. We
will try to become “ideal Clark-
ites" by upholding the motto
"Culture for Service." We realize
that culture without service is
culture lost and that we need both
in order to be the "best of what
ever we are.”
STUDENTS ARE INVITED
TO SUBMIT EDITORIALS
AND NEWS COPY FOR
EACH EDITION OF THE
CAMPUS NEWSPAPER.
The Executive Officers of the Student Government Association.
Front row—L-R Patricia Brown, Robert Marcus, Jean West, Hewitt Matthews, and
Marshall Jones.
Back row—L-R Betty Marable, Antonia Thomas, Mary Stansel, Ernest Long,
Yvonne Richardson, Calvin Sharpe and Barbara Bums.