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The Panther
OCTOBER, 1964 3
We Welcome You—
Clark Introduces New Faculty
An impressive list of academic achievements characterize additions
to the Clark College faculty. They were introduced by Dr. James P.
Brawley, president of the college.
Joining the Department of Education and Psychology to bring to
four the number of doctorates in that department is Clark alumnus
Dr. Carson Lee, who comes to
Clark after two years on the
faculty at Albany State College.
Also new in the Department is
Miss Ruby B. Dooley, a former
public school supervisor in this
state. Miss Dooley has studied at
Spelman, Atlanta and New York
Universities, Tuskegee and The
University of Kentucky. Dr. W.
A. Mason received his training
from Ohio State University, Me-
harry Medical College and Yale
Medical College.
Rev. William A. Charland has
become a member of the Religion
and Philosophy Department. A
Woodrow Wilson Intern who was
graduated Magna Cum Laude
from Yankton College, Rev. Char-
land holds the Bachelor of Di
vinity Degree from Yale Univer
sity Divinity School. He will also
be associated with Clark's Honors
Program.
In the Department of Modern
Languages, Alfred L. Gourdet has
joined the faculty. He is a native
of Haiti and a candidate for the
doctorate degree at Cornell Uni
versity. Mrs. Laura Smith Irvin,
who has studied at Northwestern,
Catholic and New York Univer
sities and John Marshall Law
School is a new member in the
Speech Department.
Joseph D. Meeks, whose train-
Clarkites Attend
European Seminar
During the past summer two
Clark College students, Andrea
Laster, a senior from Chattanoo
ga, Tennessee and John R. Shock-
ley, Jr., a junior from Wilmington,
Delaware, were participants in an
Eastern European Travel-Study
Seminar which took them to sev
eral countries behind the Iron
Curtain including the Soviet Un
ion. The program was sponsored
by the Methodist Board of Higher
Education, the Methodist Board
of Missions, Methodist Student
Movement and several Methodist
Church related universities and
colleges in cooperation with the
School of International Service,
American University.
The objectives of the seminar
were to understand Marxism-Len
inism on the cultural and intel
lectual levels of life in the com
munist countries of Eastern Eu
rope and the Soviet Union; to ex
plore what the fact of communism
in Eastern Europe means to the
informed Christian; how mere co
existence may evolve into con
structive interaction and how the
essential content of the Christian
faith is to be communicated to the
Communist mind.
Countries visited during the
seminar included the German
Democratic Republic, Czechoslo
vakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bul
garia, Romania, and the U.S.S.R.
Freshman Class
One of Largest
More than 330 students had
registered in the freshman class
at the 96-year old college by the
fourth day of registration in mid-
September, giving the institution
one of the largest first-year
classes in its history.
Clark is a Methodist-affiliated
institution offering degrees in
liberal arts and sciences programs.
Its students come from many
parts of the country and several
foreign nations.
ing has been at Converse College,
The University of Georgia and
Yale University, is joining the De
partment of Music. Additions to
the Department of Business are
Clark alumna Jennye Townsend,
who holds the masters degree
from New York University, and
Mrs. Eva C. Galambos, a Summa
Cum Laude graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia and holder of
the masters degree in labor and
industrial relations from The Uni
versity of Illinois.
New members of the English
Department announced by Dr.
Brawley are Mrs. Kathryn M.
Harris, a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and a former Woodrow
Wilson Fellow, and A. Lyn Pal-
adino who is a doctoral candidate
at Columbia. Mrs. Harris is pre
sently a Woodrow Wilson Intern
at Clark and will be associated
with the Honors Program. Mr.
Paladino studied at Champlain
College and earned the masters
degree from Columbia.
Additions to the science depart
ments at Clark are Philip I. Veira,
who holds his degree from Cam
bridge University and will teach
in the Biology Department, and
John Edward Rowe, who will
teach several courses in the De
partment of Physics.
Joining the Student Personnel
Department in the area of coun
seling and guidance is Mr. Carrie
O. Gibson, a candidate for the
doctorate degree at The Universi
ty of Wisconsin where she re
ceived the masters degree. Also
in this department are William R.
Johnson, whose bachelors and
masters degrees are from Lane
College and Columbia University;
and Miss Gladys Lee Brown, a
graduate of Huston-Tillotson Col
lege.
Joining the English Depart
ment is Miss Lockhart Moore, a
graduate of Wellesley College and
The University of North Caro
lina.
Three Clark graduates complete
the new appointments and bring
to five the number of alumni join
ing the institution this year. They
are Mrs. Ozie Jackson Brown who
will be an assistant in the Library,
and Robert McFadden and Lo
well Dickerson, in the Depart
ment of Athletics.
FACULTY MEMBERS
RECEIVE DEGREES
Rev. Jonathan Jackson, college
minister and member of the De
partment of Religion and Philoso
phy at Clark College since 1963,
has been awarded the doctor of
theology degree by Boston Uni
versity's School of Theology.
A 1953 Clark graduate and an
Atlantan, Jackson is a graduate of
David T. Howard High School.
He earned his bachelor of divini
ty degree from Gammon Theolo
gical Seminary and the master of
arts degree from Scarritt College
in Nashville.
His doctoral dissertation was a
study of “The Relationship of Re
ligion and Higher Education in
Paul Tillich and Thedore Bra-
meld.”
He held a pastorate during and
subsequent to his study at Gam
mon and taught at Claflin Univer
sity before coming to Clark.
Another faculty member receiv
ing the doctorate degree was Dr.
John D. Withers. Dr. Withers is
chairman of the biology depart
ment.
Clark College to Expand
Religious Life Program
Clark Junior Selected
To Study at Wellesley
A Clark College junior, Addie
Shropshire of Griffin, Georgia
has been sleeted to study at
Wellesley this year. She was
chosen on her academic record
along with the committees of the
United Negro College Fund and
Wellesley College.
The program was conceived by
Wellesley College a few years ago
and will provide full expenses for
the students during their year at
the institution.
Miss Shropshire is an active
student at Clark. She is a French
major, a member of Alpha Kap
pa Alpha Sorority and the French
Honor Society.
Last year, "Miss Clark”, Mar
shall Ann Jones studied at Welles
ley. This is the second year Clark
College has participated in the
program.
Phi Beta Sigma
Extends Welcome
The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity welcome the new
comers to the Clark College Fami
ly. We challenge you to accept
the role that leads to the new
frontier of opportunities and re
wards while here at Clark. Every
task you encounter should be met
with vigor and faith in your abili
ty to overcome.
As part of our celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of Phi Beta Sigma, we
have planned a program that will
give new dimensions to Clark Col
lege. This torch of Psi chapter
will be carried in accordance with
our Philosophy of Brotherhood,
Scholarship and Service.
As always, it is a pleasure for
Psi chapter to introduce our most
honored queen. We are proud of
the tradition that Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity is the only fraternity
that has an official greek letter
sister organization. This year the
brothers of Psi chapter have
chosen an archonian as our queen,
Miss Mary William. We know
she will reign with all of the grace
and charm during the years of
1964 and 1965 as all Sigma
Queens have done in the past.
Miss Mary William is a French
major with a minor in Secondary
Education.
It is with pleasure that Psi
chapter welcomes Brother Marion
Phillips to the chapter. He is a
transferee student from Claflin
College.
“OUR CAUSE SPEEDS ON
IT’S WAY.”
Psi chapter President;
James A. Graham
DON’T let mid-term exams
catch you in the “Rec” and un
prepared, begin today to make
best use of your spare time—
DON’T spend it stuffing yourself
with malts only—stuff in a little
knowledge also.
Making religious relevant to all
aspects of college life is the theme
of the Religious Life and Activi
ties program at Clark College this
year. The College Minister, Dr.
Jonathan Jackson announces that
Clark has planned a speaker and
lecture series for the coming year.
Three outstanding speakers and
scholars for each semester will
come to address the student body
and faculty on Wednesday morn
ings, carry on group discussions,
and remain on the campus until
Thursday. These renown speak
ers will represent different phases
of religious, philosophical, and
social problems in order to initiate
both students and faculty mem
bers into the total religious pro
gram, including social ethics,
mental health, religion and higher
education, vocational guidance
and missions.
The Department has announced
also that there will be a Book Re
view Series, held every third Sun
day beginning in October. Certain
key books will be reviewed by
faculty members in the Atlanta
University and Emory systems,
and will be explored and discussed
by interested students. Some of
the books to be reviewed this year
are Peter Berger’s The Noise of
Solemn Assemblies, Erich
Fromm’s The Art of Loving, Ayn
Rand’s For the New Intellectual,
Joseph Washington’s Black Reli
gion, Victor Frankl’s Man's
Search for Meaning, and Peter
Bertocci’s Religion as Creative
Insecurity.
It is hoped that the total pro
gram in religion at Clark will help
to upgrade the students intellect
ually as well as spiritually.
Withers Receives
Doctorate Degree
Dr. John Withers, Chairman of
the Clark College Department of
Biology, is a native of West Vir
ginia. He earned the Bachelor of
Arts degree from Lincoln Univer
sity, Pennsylvania, in 1948. In
1949 he received the Master of
Science degree in Zoology and in
1964 the Doctor of Philosophy
degree in Biology from West Vir
ginia University.
He taught Biology and Chemis
try at Lincoln High School in
Wheeling, West Virginia from
1949 to 1955. From 1955 to
1958 he was an instructor in
Biology at Barber Scotia College,
and in 1958 he became associate
professor of Biology at Clark Col
lege. He was employed as in
structor in Zoology at West Vir
ginia from 1960-1962, and served
as research associate in the De
partment of Microbiology, the
Medical Center at West Virginia
University in 1962-1963 and the
summer of 1964.
He is a member of the Ameri
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science, the American
Institute of Biological Sciences,
the American Society of Lim
nology and Oceanography, the
American Society of Zoologists,
the American Association of Uni
versity Professors, The Society of
Sigma Xi, and the West Vir
ginia Academy of Science.
Clark Students Receive
Methodist Scholarships
Four Clark College students have been awarded National Methodist
Scholarships by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church.
They are Robert L. Marcus, Hawnethia T. Mitchell, Gilbert B. Petty
and Dallas L. Turnipseed.
The scholarships cover tuition and fees up to $500 and are granted
on the basis of superior academic
standing, leadership, ability, ac
tive churchmanship, character,
personality and need.
About 500 such awards are
given annually in a nationwide
Methodist Scholarship program,
and more than 8,000 students have
received these awards since in
ception of the program in 1945.
Robert Marcus, recently re- . _ . .
turned to Clark after a summer at
Harvard University, is from Birm- Athens, Alabama, his major is
ingham. He was president of his sociology.
Miss Turnipseed, an Atlantan,
is a graduate of Price High
School. She is a junior music ed
ucation major.
Sounding Off
By Peggy Lamar
Many students in our school
Refuse to abide by the general
rule.
They feel they’ve passed the stage
Of being treated like birds locked
in a cage.
Self expression is like reaching for
the moon
And graduation can't come any
too soon.
The officials don’t understand
That a change has come upon this
land.
A community is our school
So we must abide by the general
rule.
Man has never passed the stage
Of doing without the locks and
the cage.
If you are not wise and master
your fate
Graduation may not come, even
late.
We must all understand
That a change has come upon this
land.
Robert Marcus Hawnethia Mitchell
class last year and was elected to
that office again this year. Marcus
is a mathematics major.
Miss Mitchell is a junior from
Covington, Georgia, where she
finished R. L. Cousins High
School. Her major is psychology
and she plans to enter this field
after graduate study.
Gilbert Petty, a senior, is from
Faculty Member
Granted Leave
Miss Ruth Ann Davis, Instruc
tor of Biology, has been granted
leave to accept a graduate asso-
ciateship which began in Septem
ber at Wayne State University,
School of Medicine, Department
of Physiology.