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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)