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Vol. XXIX, No. 6
CLARK COLLEGE - ATLANTA, GEORGIA
April, 1966
Clark Concert Band Presents
23rd Annual Attraction
Six Clarkites Honored
Pictured left to right are Prentis Cook, Jacqueline Bennett, Nathaniel Jackson,
Mr. Fishman, Robert Bryant, Josephine Harris and Antonio Thomas.
Clark Students Attend NMGA
NEW YORK — Clark students were included along with eight
hundred students from 105 other colleges and universities in 27
states to participate in a four-day mock session of the United Na
tions General Assembly. The session, which was the 39th spon
sored by the National Model General Assembly, was held at
United Nations Headquarters
and at the Statler-Hilton Hotel.
Clark College represented
Portugal at the Model General
Assembly. The members of the
Portugese delegation were Jose
phine Harris on the Economic
Committee, Jackie Bennett on
the Legal Committee, Prentis
Cook on the Colonial Commit
tee, Robert Bryant on the So
cial, Cultural and Humanitarian
Committee, Antonio Thomas on
the Special Political Committee
and Nathaniel Jackson on the
Political Committee.
Each school represented a
U. N. member-state selected by
its delegation before going to
New York. The purpose of the
Model General Assembly is to
reflect the procedures and op
erations of its real counterpart.
Delegates had accordingly made
themselves experts on the roles
played by their nations in the
General Assembly.
After registration delegates
received briefings at the em
bassies of member-states, at
tended an opening plenary ses
sion at the U. N., and then
divided into committees for the
discussion of problems facing
the organization. Jn the next
three days committees discussed
such problems as nuclear dis
armament, admission of com
munist China to the U. N.,
American involvement in the
Dominican Republic, the Kash
mir border dispute, and the
Southern Rhodesian question.
Activities concluded with an
address by Rep. Jonathan Bing
ham of New York, a banquet,
and a ball at Fordham Uni
versity.
The high point in the delega
tion’s trip was the visit with Mr.
Lorenzo, a Portugese delegate
to the United Nations. Mr. Lo
renzo briefed the Clark delega
tion on Portugal’s position in
ragard to the situations in
Southern Rhodesia, Viet Nam,
On Sunday, March 14, at
7:30 p.m., Davage Auditorium
was the setting for the twenty-
third annual concert of the
Clark College Concert Band.
“The Sound of Music,” was
the theme for this attraction.
The program featured numbers
spanning from the Baroque Era
to the Era of Modem Jazz.
Features of the program were
the performance of Fackeltanz
in B. Flat by G. Meyenbeer
and “Concerto Grosso” for Jazz
Combo and Symphony Band.
This number was composed by
Ralph Mutchler, a former in
structor of Director Carver. The
solo jazz combo parts were
played by the “Masters Com
bo,” a very popular local outfit.
Mr. Wayman A. Carver was
director. Dr. J. deKoven Kil-
lingsworth is chairman of the
Music Department.
Six new members were initiated into Beta Kappa Chi National
Scientific Society. They are Barbara Jeane Bums, William Gordon,
Lillie Harden, Hewitt Matthews, Joseph Robinson, and Gustavius
Walker.
Beta Kappa Chi is a National Honorary Scientific Society and
was founded in 1923 by the
science faculty and science stu
dents of Lincoln University,
Lincoln, Pennsylvania.
The purpose of this society is
to stimulate and encourage un
dergraduate and graduate edu
cation in the Natural Sciences
and Mathematics; to inspire and
support the continued pursuit of
knowledge and achivement, and
the capture of scientific truths
during the entire career of each
member.
Harden Crowned
Miss U.N.C.F.
and South Africa. It was the
opinion of the experienced
members of the Clark delega-
ion that the students from our
school were better prepared and
performed better than most of
the schools represented. Other
schools participating in the Na
tional Model United Nations
session were: Yale, Harvard,
Providence and many other
well-known colleges and uni
versities.
The Junior Class (the Class
of ’67) has done it again. Its
candidate, Miss Lillie Harden,
will soon be crowned Miss
U.N.C.F. for 1966.
Miss Harden is the only girl
who has a major in Mathemat
ics and a minor in Physics at
Clark College. She is president
of the Association of Women
Students and a member of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority. She is
also a member of Beta Kappa
Chi Chemistry Honor Society
and is listed in Who’s Who
Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities.
Past winners from this class
are Miss Sandra Hardin (1964)
and Miss Arcie Bennett (1965).
President Henderson
Accepts New Post
Dr. Vivian Wilson Henderson, president of Clark College, has
been named to a ten-member advisory committee which will as
sist the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights in a nationwide study
of problems related to race and education.
The study originated from a request by President Johnson and
will investigate problems related
to race and education as they
arise from such race-isolating
factors as housing patterns,
school districting, economic
stratification and population
movement.
Commission chairman, John
A. Hannah has described the
study as “an opportunity to put
before Congress and the coun
try a definitive analysis of the
problem and our recommenda
tion for action.” He described
the study as “perhaps the most
important assignment this Com
mission has ever undertaken.”
The primary role of the Ad
visory Committee of which Dr.
Henderson is a member will be
in aiding the Commission to
plan the study and to evaluate
its findings.
The committee is headed by
Dr. Thomas Pettigrew of Har
vard University. Other members
are Dr. Kenneth B. Clark of
New York City College; Dr.
Elizabeth R. Cole, education
specialist of Chevy Chase, Md.;
Dr. James Coleman of Johns
Hopkins University; Dr. Rashi
Fein of Brookings Institute; Dr.
John H. Fischer, president of
Columbia University’s Teach
ers College; Dr. Philip Hauser
of The University of Chicago;
Dr. Peter Rossi, director of
the National Opinion Research
Center; and Dr. Robin Wil
liams, of Cornell University.
Clark Observes Founders' Day
The annual Founders’ Day was observed at Clark in a chapel
program, held on February 23, 1966. The program, presided
over by President V. W. Henderson, with top college officials in
attendance, had as its principle speaker Dr. L. Richard Meeth,
Assistant to the President of Baldwin-Wallace College. Berea, Ohio.
Clark students heard Dr. Meeth review the growth and de
velopment of the institution over the 97 years since it was estab
lished. Dr. Meeth also made several observations as to the future
of the institution, saying that with continued perseverence, Clark
will make an even greater contribution toward the goal of dis
pensing academic excellence.
Dr. Meeth has to his credit the publication The Predominately
Negro Colleges and Universities In Transition, published in col
laboration with Dr. Earl J. McGrath. He is also the author of
Selected Issues in Higher Education.
Charlotte Gibson Sings
| With the Atlanta Symphony |
“Charlotte Gibson, a Clark College student, was the Atlanta
Symphony’s guest artist at a concert Thursday, March 24, 1966,
at 8:30 p.m. in City Auditorium.
Miss Gibson is a former winner of the symphony’s Youth
Audition during the 1961-62 season through which she earned a
scholarship to study with Boris Goldovsky in New York.
She was the first audition winner to sing with the symphony,
although others have played with the orchestra in concerts.
On the program, four Strauss compositions were sung by Miss
Gibson, and the smyphony played Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 and
the “Negro Folk Symphony” by William Dawson.
Dr. Dawson, a native of Anniston, Ala., is a former director
of the Tuskege (Institute) Choir of 100 voices and has guest-
conducted concerts in Carnegie Hall.
In 1963 Leopold Stokowski, conducting the American Sym
phony Orchestra, recorded Mr. Dawson’s “Negro Folk Smy
phony.”'
1 “Charlotte Gibson Is Symphony’s Guest,” The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta
Constitution, March 20, 1966, Section D, p. 11-D.