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4 DECEMBER, 1964
The Panther
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Clark College SNEA Chapter
Observes American Education Week
by Maxie E. Williams
The Clark College Student
National Association (SNEA)
with the assistance of the Clark
College Chapter of the Music
Educators National Conference,
and Department of Education
and Psychology joined many
civic and educational groups
throughout the nation in the
annual celebration of American
Education Week. The observ
ance was held in the Clark Col
lege Davage Auditorium Mon
day, November 9, 1964. Guest
speaker for the occasion was
Mrs. Frances Green Williams.
She is a 1959 honor graduate of
Clark with a major in music
and a minor in secondary edu
cation. Upon graduation, she
was granted a scholarship to
attend Illinois Weslyan from
which she received the M. A.
degree in Music Education in
1960. At present she is Music
Supervisor for the Thomasville
School System.
The speaker centered her
timely and interesting remarks
around the national theme:
“Education Pays Dividends.”
Professor Wayman Carver, Fac
ulty of Music, introduced the
speaker; Miss Vivian Brown,
Vice-President of SNEA, of
fered meditation. Music was
furnished by Miss Beverly
Jackson, student in the Music
Department; and Gilbert Petty,
President of the SNEA, pre
sided. Presentations to the
speaker from the Clark College
Departments of Music and Edu
cation was made by Bettye Mar-
able, member of the Philhar
monic Society; and Gilbert Petty
of the Education Department.
Sorority Boasts Achievements
Everyone likes to call attention to great achievements and as
wc look upon the sorors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Alpha
Pi Chapter, Clark College, one is likely to be struck by their
tremendous accomplishments.
Academic living for the moment is often blended with the
problems of competition and
eternal combat.
Despite this, there is fierce
idealism as well: a conception
of honor in one’s self.
There are many honored
sorors of Alpha Pi Chapter of
which wc shall but mention a
few:
Soror-Jean West has become
the first co-ed to be elected
President of the Clark Student
Government Association. Soror
West was also selected by the
National Science Foundation as
one of the eight undergraduate
research participants at Tennes
see A & 1 State University.
Soror Barham Burns repre
sented Alpha Pi Chapter at
the Boulc in Philadelphia. She
served as a member of the
Hodegus Committee.
Soror Andrea Luster partici
pated in a Study-Travel Semi
nar this summer which took
her and 28 other college stu
dents to Eastern European
countries and the Soviet Union
under the auspices of the Meth
odist Board of Education and
American University.
Soror Vivian Brown studied
for six weeks during the French
Summer session at the Univer
sity of Laval, Quebec. Soror
Brown is a member of the Pi
Delta Phi Honorary French So
ciety.
Soror Addie Shop shire is
studying in the Guest Junior
Program at Wellesley College,
in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Soror Eva Lawson was chos
en as Miss A.K.A. and Soror
Yvonne Lowe; Miss Alpha Phi.
Alpha Phi Chapter is proud
of these sorors and wish them
luck as they truly strive to glori
ous heights.
*Dtd tyou 'Know?
by
Willie Paul Berrien, Jr.
That Mr. Wayman Carver,
bandmaster at Clark, was the
first to play the jazz flute. He
introduced the instrument to
jazz in the Chick Webb band.
* * *
A Negro, John Patterson
Green is responsible for the na
tional holiday. Labor Day, and
that he is sometimes referred to
as “the daddy of Labor Day.”
* * *
Benjamin Banneker, a Negro,
is said to have constructed the
first clock here in America.
JjC SjS
You throw away approxi
mately 70,000 dollars in life
time earnings when you do not
finish college.
* * *
A contribution of $1.00 to
CARE will buy a glass of milk
apiece for 432 kids.
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Omega Looks to Big Year
The Brothers of Beta Psi Chapter are presently experiencing
a very successful year at Clark.
The first major success of the year occurred during the Home
coming celebration when the Brothers so graciously accepted the
first place trophy for the most beautiful float in the Homecoming
parade.
During the week of Novem
ber 15-22 the Brothers of Beta
Psi celebrated the Annual Na
tional Achievement Week. Two
outstanding speakers were fea
tured on the Wednesday and
Friday assembly hours. They
were Brothers Charles Copher,
Dean of I. T. C. and Attorney
Wiley Branton, Director of the
Voter Registration Project in
the Atlanta area.
Seven stouthearted young
men have pledged themselves
to Omega and arc presently
members of the Lampodas
Club. They are Lamps Calvin
Sharpe, Wilbert Solomon, Jesse
Baskerville, Eddie Phelts, Danny
Bradley, Richard Jackson and
Lee Singletary. These men have
expressed a desire to cross the
burning sands and earn the
right to wear the Omega brand.
The chapter has many other
social and civic activities
planned for the school and
community. Omega men dream
dreams of the future, and dare
make those dreams come true.
DELTA SIGMA THETA
HAS FULL SCHEDULE
Sigma Chapter. Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Inc., continues
with its 1964-65 activity pro
gram. A rush party, chapel pro
gram, and an entry in the
Homecoming Parade comprise
past projects of the chapter.
Upcoming events include a De
cember assembly presentation
and a benefit dance.
The theme for the Rush
Party was “The Evolution of a
Delta.” All freshman young
ladies were invited to this event.
The assembly program was cen
tered around the “War on
Poverty” Program. "War on
Poverty — A Challenge to the
Student” was used as the Del
ta’s theme. Dr. Anna Grant,
professor of psychology at
Morehouse College, was the
guest speaker.
In compliance with the gen
eral Homecoming theme of the
college, the fourteen sorors of
Sigma Chapter made a float
entry in the Homecoming Pa
rade. For this entry, entitled
“Stairway to the Stars," the
sorority received the second
place trophy.
As the pledge period began,
nineteen young ladies were in
ducted into the Pyramid Club.
The members of the soror
ity congratulate the following
sorors: Glenda Stein, Miss Sen
ior; Andrea Gwyn, Miss Loy
alty; Joyce Williams, attendant
to Miss Clark; and Mary Jones,
recipient of the Omega Psi Phi
Achievement Award.
The officers of Sigma Chap
ter arc: President — Mary
Jones, Vice-President — John-
etta Bettis, Recording Secretary
— Jean Wright. Corresponding
Secretary — Joyce Williams.
Treasurer — Lela Goodrum,
Dean of Pledgees — Peggy
Days, Reporter — Bettye Mar-
able.
News of Business Forum—
Banker Sutton
Guest of Forum
Mr. R. O. Sutton, vice presi
dent of Citizens Trust Com
pany, was guest speaker at the
regular meeting of the Business
Forum on November 23, 1964.
Drawing from his training and
extensive experience as a bank
official, Mr. Sutton described
the nature and practical aspects
of bank operations. Emphasis
was placed on the importance of
banks and banking institutions
to the welfare and economic
growth of the people. An inte-
resting question-and-answer
period followed. With Mr. Sut
ton, the Business Forum initi
ated a series of presentations of
visiting guest speakers and con
sultants.
A central purpose of the
Business Forum is to bring ex
perienced men and women of
the business world and related
areas to our campus in an effort
to bridge the gap between the
armchair theory of the class
room and the realities of busi
ness.
The Business Forum is head
ed this year by President Leon
Davis. Other officers are Ve
ronica Sims, vice President;
Porter Sanford, treasurer; Ber
tha Ware, secretary; Dianne
Jennings, assistant secretary;
Raymond Ruffin, reporter; Di
anne Jennings, program chair
man; Leo Shingles, membership
chairman.
Under the direction of Miss
Jennye Townsend, the faculty
advisor, and through the coop
eration of the other faculty
members of the department,
plans for an excellent program
of forums, business week, visits
to business firms and socials are
being deliberated.
A Call to Arms
Education and the Vote:
by Willie Paul Berrien, Jr.
An alarming breeze has swept
across the nation. It has fer
mented the minds of the ma
jority of the Negro race. As the
breeze passed it whispered to
the Negro, you're free, free! Now
that the Civil Rights Bill is the
law of the land.
To anyone entertaining such
a belief 1 would say, be careful,
for we arc no further now, in
any respect than we were dur
ing the period of reconstruction,
that the Civil Rights Bill is only
a step in the right direction,
which has caused the hands of
justice to move a few spaces
past midnight, and that the
morning has yet to come for
the Negro. With this in mind 1
submit, that, unless we in
crease our drive toward aca
demic success, unless we con
tinue to vote we are subject to
being recast into the institution,
segregation.
Negro college students, hear
ye! hear ye! hear ye! Arm your
selves. It is up to us. Hear ye!
hear ye! hear ye! hear ye!