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The Panther
SEPTEMBER, 1965 5
Clark Students Receive
Methodist Scholarships
Six Clark College students have been awarded National Meth
odist Scholarships by the Board of Education of the Methodist
Church. They are Francine Abbott, Hawnethia T. Mitchell, Mary
Ann Reed, Lolita Victoria Ross,
Richard Shockley, Jr.
The scholarships cover tuition
and fees up to $500 and are
granted on the basis of superior
academic standing, leadership
ability, active 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
inception of the program in
1945.
Francine Abbott is a sopho
more from Atlanta, Georgia,
majoring in sociology.
Miss Mitchell is a senior 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.
Miss Reed is a sophomore
from Jacksonville, Florida, with
a major in sociology.
Lolita Victoria Ross is a
freshman from Atlanta, Georgia,
where she finished Booker T.
Washington High School and is
majoring in mathematics.
Myrtle Ann Simon is also an
Atlantan majoring in history.
John R. Shockley, Jr. is a
senior from Wilmington, Dela
ware, where he is majoring in
biology. He is active in several
campus organizations and a
member of Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity.
Strength in Unity!
A school newspaper is an as
semblage of past, present and
current events that is of concern
to the school and made avail
able for the students by an or
ganized group of staff workers.
If the Panther News Staff is
to serve the institution in the
above manner, then it is also the
responsibility of the students to
cooperate with the staff by ren
dering any information that is
of importance to the student
body and faculty alike.
The editor and co-workers
urges you, the student, to submit
any article or editorial that you
feel would be informative and
adequate for publication.
With the aid of the students
and faculty helping to transmit
news through the paper, this
year should prove to be the best
year of publication Clark Col
lege has ever had.
“In unity there is strength!”
CLASS OFFICERS
Freshmen Class
President George Trip
Vice-President Joseph Potts
Secretary Barbara Williams
Treasurer Mildred Terrell
Parliamentarian Alexander Brown
Sophomore Class
President Harold Moses
Vice-President Leroy Slade
Secretary Josephine Harris
Treasurer Annette Fannings
Business Manager
Rudolph Jackson
Junior Class
President Jesse Baskerville
Vice-President Nathaniel Jackson
Secretary Willie Lou Furges
Treasurer Eddie Phelts
Senior Class
President Joseph Robinson
Vice-President —.Herman Watson
Treasurer Ronald Briggs
Business Manager -Lee Singletary
Myrtle Ann Simon, and John
Clarkite Attends
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a liberal
arts college for women and is
located in Wellesley, Massa
chusetts. In 1963, this college
developed a special type of pro
gram for the purpose of giving
some Southern Negro students
with high academic status an op
portunity to spend their Junior
year at Wellesley. This experi
ence was to expand the intel
lectual strength of these stu
dents and to enrich their over
all background and interests.
Wellesley invites nine or ten
students from United Negro
Fund colleges to become Guest
Juniors. These students are se
lected on the basis of high
scholastic achievement and abil
ities.
Clark has participated in this
program ever since it was
started. The first guest Junior
from Clark College to attend
Wellesley was Marshall Ann
Jones who had a major in So
ciology and the second student
was Addie Shopshire who is
majoring in French.
This year, for the third time,
another Clarkite is attending
Wellesley. She is Audrey Thom
as, a Junior and a native of
Miami, Florida. She has a ma
jor in Sociology with a concen
tration in History and a minor
in English. Since being at Clark
she is an honor student and an
active participant in many
school activities.
We hope that her year at
Wellesley will be a profitable
one.
A New Perspective
Of the Y. M. C. A.
The Y.M.C.A. is entering a
new era of hopeful achievement.
It is the aim of the body to pre
sent a well-balanced program
which will be a valuable aid to
the student body and the com
munity. It is also our aim to be
more useful to freshmen who
are presently adjusting to col
lege life. We shall endeavor to
make this transition between
college high school life as
smooth and fruitful as possible.
The Y.M.C.A. is currently
conducting a membership drive
and all men who are interested
in working with the Y.M.C.A.
to project its objectives should
contact either Richard Jackson
or Carrell Smith, both residing
in Brawley Hall Dormitory.
The Junior Class
Elect New Officers
The Junior Class has great
expectation of proving them
selves academically and in any
other capacity that would show
that they are potential seniors.
The following officers will
lead the junior class for the
school year 1965-66. President,
Jesse Baskerville; Vice Presi
dent, Nathaniel Jackson; secre
tary, Willie L. Furges; treasurer,
Eddie Phelts.
Clark Graduates Win
Scholarships in Physics
A New Record
Clark Registers
400 Freshmen
More than 400 students had
registered in the freshman class
at the 97-year old college by
the fourth day of registration in
mid-September, giving the insti
tution one of the largest first-
year classes in its history.
Clark is a Methodist-affiliated
institution offering degrees in
liberal arts and sciences pro
grams. Its students come from
many parts of the country and
several foreign nations.
President of the institution is
Dr. Vivian W. Henderson, who
was elected to this post in April,
but officially took office Sept.
1, 1965.
Scholarships Available
To Needy Seniors
The Chain Scholarship Foun
dation is currently awarding
Scholarships of up to $1,000 to
enable needy students to com
plete their college educations.
If you are a senior in need of
funds; if you plan to seek em
ployment upon graduation rath
er than undertake a post-grad
uate curriculum; if your grades
are of degree candidate status;
and if, when you are able, you
will help Chain support future
needy students — you may be
eligible.
The Chain Scholarship Pro
gram has been in existence for
three years, and is available in
over three hundred Colleges. Its
approach to the scholarship
problem is unique in two major
concepts: faith in the average
man; and faith in his integrity
to assume a moral, rather than
a legal obligation, and thus be
come a vital link in a chain re
action which can grow to pass
along an endless continuum of
help from those who were once
in similar circumstances.
To apply for a Chain Scholar
ship, obtain an application from
the College Financial Aid Of
ficer, or write directly to:
The Chain Scholarship
Foundation
Box 550
White Plains, New York
Clark's
Homecoming
1964
Queens
Marshall Ann Jones
1963
Francenia Hall
1962
Ernestine Holliday
1961
Linda Marie White
1960
Nezetta O’Neal
1959
Gloria Gowdy
1958
Alfreda Bradley
1957
Reatha B. Clarke
1956
Marian Anderson
1955
Mary Cowser
1954
Anne Wilson
1953
Jacquelyn Laughlin
1952
Hope Vick
1951
Martha Lee
1950
Juanita Marshall
1949
Lois Richardson
1948
Mildred Brawner
1947
Betty O’Neal
1946
Minnie Holmes
1945
Dorothy Hisle
1944
Cynthia Perry
1943
Earlene Burns
1942
Virginia Coles
1941
Carole Stanton
1940
Ethel Brown
1939
Marjorie Hensley
1938
Charlotte Points
1937
Mary C. Williams
1936
Georgia Arnold
Two Clark College graduates
in science from Birmingham
have won scholarships for grad
uate study in physics at the Uni
versity of California at Los An
geles and Georgia Institute of
Technology.
They are Robert Marcus, a
graduate of Ullman High School,
and Ernest Long, a Brighton
High School alumnus.
Marcus specialized in mathe
matics and physics and served
as a student assistant in the De
partment of Physics while study
ing on a science scholarship at
Clark. Last summer he was one
of five Clark students who re
ceived scholarships for summer
study at Harvard University. He
was involved in research and
prepared several scholarly pa
pers on special studies while at
Clark.
Ernest Long, also a mathe
matics and physics major, has
won a tuition scholarship for
graduate study in physics at
Georgia Institute of Technology.
He distinguished himself at
Clark with outstanding achieve
ments in academic work and
was selected last year by a Clark
faculty committee to be recipi
ent of an annual scholarship
provided at the college by Radio
Corporation of America. He
was the second Alabama native
in recent years to win this
scholarship and follows a long
list of students from the state
who have been outstanding as
science majors.
Marcus and Long were among
A Gloomy Forecast
For Forensic Society
After experiencing one of its
worst records since the initial
formation in 1958, all pre-sea
son indicators point toward a
repeat performance by the de
bating team. This is not a pleas
ant thought after considering
the fact that Clark has had one
of the best teams in the south
and was respected across the
country.
Last year, the team was
haunted by inexperience and a
lack of interest. According to
Coach Robert Fishman, it is too
early to comment on the interest
however, inexperience will defi
nitely be a problem. As he puts
it, “We are starting with a num
ber of novices after the loss of
experienced debaters. Therefore,
we are entering a number of
novice tournaments.”
Tournament invitations to re
solve “That Law Enforcement
Agencies Should Be Given
Greater Freedom In The Inves
tigation And Prosecution Of
Crime”, have already begun to
arrive. Tentatively scheduled are
tournaments for Emory Univer
sity, October 4th-6th and the
University of South Carolina,
October llth-13th. Other invi
tations are expected from New
York University, Hampton,
Florida State, Brooklyn College
and Harvard.
Anyone interested in this part
of the Forensic Society
should contact Mr. Robert
Fishman.
Antonio L. Thomas
a number of Clark graduates of
last year who won graduate
study awards. Two others in the
areas of mathematics and phys
ics who won scholarship grants
are Wayne Knox of Atlanta,
who will study at the Univer
sity of Toledo, and Samuel
Okema, who will study physics
at the University of Makaere at
Kampala, Uganda.
A Sports First
At Clark College
For the first time in the
sports department Clark College
will have a cross-country team.
The express purpose of the
cross-country team is to con
dition participants of track for
next track season. On the whole
the track team was not very suc
cessful in achieving a satisfac
torily number of victories. This
year Coach Epps prescribed the
cross-country training program
for track participants, in hopes
that next year’s cindermen will
turn out more winning partici
pation in all track meets en
countered.
The cross-country training
program planned by Coach
Epps will consist of running
several miles a day on flat as
well as hilly surface. This type
of running is designed to build
endurance and increase speed
also.
The meet schedule for the
cross-country team has not been
released yet, but the main thing
Coach Epps and members of
the track team are concerned
with is getting the men into
condition for track season.
There will be just a small
number of participants in cross
country at the beginning of the
season but as the season pro
gresses so will the enrollment of
participants. The three main
participants of the cross-country
will be as follows: Carrell Smith
a junior from Cleveland, Ohio.
Smith will have the responsibil
ity as captain of the team.
Pervis Nesbitts a sophomore
from Plant City, Florida, is
nicely developing his running
techniques for the mile race.
William Wells another sopho
more from Gainesville, Georgia
will be running the two-mile
race.
CLARK COLLEGE
1965
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
DATE TEAM PLACE
Sept. 25—Lane Jackson
Oct. 2—Fort Valley Griffin
Oct. 9—Tuskegee .....Homecoming
Oct. 16—Knoxville Knoxville
Oct. 23—Savannah Savannah
Oct. 30—Morehouse Atlanta
Nov. 6—Open
Nov. 13—Alabama St,..Montgomery
Nov. 25-—Morris Brown Atlanta
(Thanksgiving)