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The Panther SEPTEMBER, 1965 3 My Year At Wellesley by Addie P. Shopshire After spending my very profitable and enjoyable junior year at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, I am now back at Clark for my senior year. In “bull sessions” at different places on the campus, many students and teachers have heard about certain experiences that I had while at Wellesley. And although my fel low-upperclassmen here at Clark have heard quite a bit about the Wellesley “way of life” from Clark’s first guest junior, for the benefit of the freshmen, I’ll briefly give some details about the guest junior program and for the benefit of all, I’ll tell about my adjustment and matriculation at Wellesley. Three years ago, Wellesley in cooperation with UNCF (United Negro College Fund) colleges initiated a guest junior program. Nine young ladies from different UNCF colleges were chosen to attend Wellesley on the basis of their academic performance and on the basis of their other qualities. This program has been very successful and is being continued and enlarged upon. This year there are ten guest juniors and again one of them is from Clark. After being chosen, I began to make plans to go to Wellesley and to leave Clark for a year. After being there for a few days and becoming acquainted with some of Wellesley’s 400 acre campus and with some of my dorm mates (of which I was the only Negro), classes began. In one of my French classes, I found that it was very hard to understand the spoken French of my instructor. This made me very uneasy. However, after hearing Miss Clapp (president of the school) talk in chapel about the fact that there was no need for anxiety (even in foreign language classes), my anxiety subsided and I began to make progress and I con tinued to do so. I found my classes interesting and stimulating and I found that there was a tremendous amount of reading and study ing that I had to do in order to prepare for them. At Wellesley, I found an open-door policy where deans, teach ers, directors of residences, etc. are concerned. It seemed to me that these people were always ready and willing to help with any student’s problems, be it academic or personal. They made us all feel that we were individually important and significant. This in deed lends much to the adjustment and stability of a student. In my dormitory, I had a single room (as do most juniors and seniors). There was never a need to lock my room since Wellesley operates on an honor system. In fact, no keys were ever issued. Because of this same honor system, the library had free, open stacks and when one desires to check out a book, she merely signs the card and stamps it in her book. After “trying-out”, I was notified that I made the choir. Sing ing in the choir was a worthwhile and enjoyable activity. Each choir member had to sing at chapel once a week and at Sunday worship twice a month. The 170-voice Wellesley choir rendered beautiful and impressive concerts a number of times during the year. I was a member of Phi Sigma society. The six societies at Wellesley are open to all juniors and seniors in diploma grade standing. Each girl who desires to become a member of a society can become one. Membership is not based upon popularity or ini tiation duties. In fact, initiation is simply a ceremony. I enjoyed the use of my society house and its facilities. Many have been interested in knowing how I adjusted socially at an all-girls’ school Well, I’ll assure you that “where the girls are”, you’ll find boys. During most of my year I dated young men from Harvard, Boston and Yale Universities. I must say that the social espect of my year at Wellesley was gratifying. Before I left Clark, I made a statement in chapel that I tried at all times to live up to. I promised that I’d do my best. I have done this and I am grateful to Clark for sending me and I am grateful to Wellesley for making my experience a beneficial, en joyable, and enlightening one. VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (Continued) high percentage of ill prepared lectures and unconcerned instruc tors. Faculty and student body alike seem to concern themselves with too many irrelevant projects and traditions that should be discarded in the light of the challenge that faces this institution. The administration needs to carefully study its concepts of student freedom and develop a philosophy of Student Freedom that allows the student to accept the consequences of their acts. I welcome all students to assist me in my efforts to awake the mentally lazy faculty and student body alike. There is no possible justification for allowing those members of the faculty who pre pare poor lectures to go unannounced. Our struggle will be a long and difficult one. We are fortunate to have Dr. Henderson as our President along with the dedicated members of the faculty. New Faculty (Continued) ment. In Business Administra tion are Mr. Benjamin Brown, a graduate of Clark and Howard University Law School, and Mr. K. K. Das, a graduate of Dacea University, University of Lon don, and Harvard University, and Mr. John Petrof with a B.A. and M.B.A. degree from Emory University. We are pleased to have these persons join us for the school A Bit of Humor What’s yellow and weighs a thousand pounds? — Two five- hundred pound canaries. * * * Why does an elephant paint his toe-nails green? — So that he can hide in the grass. year 1965-66. Among the new members we are especially hap py to welcome the several Clark- ites joining the faculty to work at their Alma Mater. New Equipment for Research Program The physics department is presently housed in Haven-Warren Hall of Clark College. The plans are now underway to move the department to its new facilities in the proposed modem, air-con ditioned, science building. The last two years saw a number of events which brought dynamic changes in the department in terms of students, funds, additional fa cilities, grants, scholarships and visiting scientists programs. As one walks through the depart ment, one sees and hears the activity and excitement of the students and faculty. During the 1964-65 school year, the department of physics has added two new laboratories, namely: X-Ray Diffraction and Optics. Also the department re organized the four year under graduate curriculum leading to a B.S. degree in physics. An in dependent study research par ticipation program has recently been introduced in order to stimulate interest in physics among the undergraduates at Clark. This program received further support and encourage ments by the initiation of a vis iting scientists program, which received its financial assistance from the American Institute of Physics, Western Electric Com pany and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Under this program the department was visited by Professor P. J. Bray, Chairman, Physics Department, Brown Uni versity, Dr; Edward Sturcken of DuPont and Dr. E. J. Bowers of Western Electric. These visitors not only benefitted the students, but also provided opportunities for physics staff members of Clark to discuss their research and teaching problems with the visiting scientists. Many useful suggestions for the development of the department have resulted from these discussions. In order to upgrade the un dergraduate laboratories and to meet the present day demands of excellence, the National Sci ence Foundation has recently awarded an equipment grant in the amount of $14,000.00 to the physics department under the Music Department It is with pleasure that the teachers and advance students wish to welcome the incoming music majors for 1965-66, also Miss Ray Patterson (organist) a new staff member. The Clark College Marching Band of sixty-five members are daily preparing for the football season. The Philharmonic So ciety of sixty members is now working hard for a good balance of voices. Several programs are planned for early fall. The following graduates have changed their addresses: Dr. Harold Johnson, Chairman of the Music Division, Maryland State College, Prince Ann, Maryland; Judge J. Cleveland, Chairman of Music Department, Jarvis Christian College, Haw kins, Texas; Jesse S. Hardeman, Choral Music Director, Harper High School, Atlanta, Georgia. Class of 1965 graduates: Curtis Byrdsong, Band Direc tor, Henry County Training School, McDonough, Georgia; Larry Matthews, Band Director, Lyons Industrial School, Lyons, Georgia; Beverly Jackson, Chor al Music, Canton, Canton, Georgia. The recently appointed band director of South Carolina State College, Marcus Rowland, is a graduate of Clark College. direction of Dr. O. P. Puri, Pro fessor and Chairman of the de partment. A dedication to instruction, research and development has always been the hallmark of the physics department according to Dr. Puri, it is a standard by which we judge the past, shape the present, and most important, by which we plan the future. As a result of the efforts which Dr. Puri and his faculty have been making, the General Electric Company, Western Electric Company and Bell Tele phone Laboratories have poured a significant amount of equip ment into the department for the purpose of upgrading the laboratories and aiding the present high quality of in struction. The faculty research headed by Dr. Puri and Mr. Rowe also received two grants from the Atlanta University Center Research Committee. The department of physics is also now cooperating very ac tively with Harvard University in development of its “Harvard Project Physics.” Dr. O. P. Puri is in charge of this program at Clark which is now in its be ginning stages. The undergraduate research program has become a great Dr. 0. P. Puri success at Clark. Mr. William Gordon, a junior in the depart ment, presented a paper on “X- Ray Diffraction” at the annual meeting of the National Insti tute of Sciences during the 1964-65 school year. At present there are five undergraduate students who are working under this program which secures its financial support through the grants which have recently been awarded to the department. Tangibly this means that the grants and the development pro grams have helped the depart ment to meet directly the needs of a good physics program on a scale commensurate with the importance of this subject in the college curriculum and equal in quality to the most up-to-date and efficient laboratories else where. Faculty Member Returns Home Economics Receives Grant Mrs. Flora Davis and Mrs. Evelyn Gilliard of the department of home economics at Clark College have received a grant from the Atlanta University Center Corporate Research Fund to engage in a research study of “The Managerial Problems of Family Living” in an impoverished area in a northwest section of Atlanta. The primary purpose of the research design was to study managerial problems related to socio-economic conditions of a selected group of families. After analyzation of the data and spe cific problems focused, the re searchers are desirous that fur ther development will continue by offering the families in the community personal and practi cal experiences in areas such as family economics, management, food and nutrition, housing, and household equipment. The research is now in prog ress in that the data have been collected and the researchers are engaged in compilations and analyzations. Y.W.C.A. Makes Plans For Coming Year The Y.W.C.A. held its first meeting of the year September 22, in Holmes Hall. Officers for the year are: Deborah Edwards, President; Jean Ivey, Vice Pres ident; Mary Ann Reid, Secre tary; Leila Bailey, Assistant Secretary; Vera Walker, Treas urer. The advisors are Mrs. Lin ton and Mrs. Gilliam, who will also be assisted by members of the advisory board. In the very near future the club will conduct a workshop under the supervision of Miss Rosetta Gardner, the regional president, to make plans for the coming year. They will also plan activities in conjunction with the Y.M.C.A. Mr. Paul McGirt of the French Department has returned to Clark College after a two- year leave. He was studying toward a doctorate degree in Romance Languages at Western Reserve University in Chicago. He received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from North Caro lina College and has done fur ther studies at Laval University, Quebec, Canada; Ecole Nor- male Superieure and Institute Haitiano-Americain, Port-au- Prince, Haiti; Sorbonne, Paris, France; and College Duvivier Hall, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He has been associated with Clark College since 1957. He is Acting Chairman of the Foreign Language Department this year.