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Vol. XXX, No. 3
CLARK COLLEGE - ATLANTA, GEORGIA
December, 1966
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
Each year, betwen the end of a successful football season and
the beginning of an even more successful basketball season, there
occurs at Clark a happy interval, known as Christmas Vacation.
It is that time when we college students, weary from the rigors
of class, tests and endless reports, lay our burdens down for
a moment of rest, relaxation and holiday fun. To the seniors, it
is “old hat,” but still a welcomed respite in the school year. The
remainder of the student body also shares the senior’s sense of
relief.
It is well to enjoy the holiday season in the traditional manner,
but we should keep in mind that, upon our return in January,
semester exams will be upon us. A word to the wise is sufficient.
Enjoy the season, but use your head about it. Don’t lose your cool!
Finally, we the members of the Panther staff wish to extend
to all members and friends of the Clark family a wish for the
Merriest of Christmases and the Happiest of New Years. See
you next year!
In One Word . . .
GREATNESS
by Jerry Allen
Mr. George McMillan, a journalist-in-residence at Clark Col
lege, is nearing the end of his tenure at the College. His mature
guidance and never yielding encouragement has made the college
achieve an ultimate goal in newspaper coverage. Mr. McMillan
has not only helped greatly in improving the efficiency of the
Panther, but has also assisted . . _ ,
’ It is a pity that such greatness
is going to leave the halls of
Clark College. For his absence
will be felt by all those who have
been fortunate enough to have
come in contact with him.
in improving the other campus
newspapers of the A. U. Center.
One of the ways of accomplish
ing this task was by having a
workshop of editors under his
instructorship.
Mr. McMillan, a native of
Knoxville, served as acting chief
of the news bureau of the Office
of War Information in the early
days of World War II. In fact,
he later enlisted in the Marine
Corps, serving as a combat cor
respondent.
In 1949, Mr. McMillan wrote
“The Old Breed,” a book tracing
the history of the first Marine
Division in World War II. It
was later to be listed as one of
the best books by an American
author for that year.
Mr. McMillan, a writer of
many articles on the Negro
movement for civil rights, has
had several feature articles and
special reports appearing in Life,
Look and the Saturday Evening
Post. He is also a former Lasker
Fellow in Civil Rights and is
a winner of the Benjamin Frank
lin Award for the best magazine
article of the year.
Annual
Christmas
Vesper
The Clark College Philhar
monic Society gave its Christmas
Concert in Davage Auditorium
at 4:00 P.M., Sunday, Decem
ber 4, 1966. The performance
was open to the public. Handel
composed Messiah (there is no
“The” before the name) in the
space of three weeks: from
August 22 to September 14,
1741. He took respectively
seven, nine, and six days for
each of the three parts, and
another two days to fill out the
instrumentation. The Christmas
Portion (Part one) was sung by
Charlotte A. Gibson, soprano;
Van Dee Perry, Bezzo-Soprano;
Samuel Hagan, Tenor; Judson
Smith, Bass and the fifty chor
isters under the direction of Dr.
J. deKoven Killingsworth; as
sisted by Joseph D. Meeks,
piano; Kay Patterson, organist
and Dr. Jonathan Jackson, Col
lege Minister.
Washington Lectures
At Clark College
Institute Held
At Clark
The directors of the Federal
ly-supported institutes held last
summer and fall on problems of
school desegregation and equal
educational opportunities made
a visit to Atlanta Wednesday
for a three-day institute of their
own.
The institute directors held
their institute at Clark College.
More than 50 participants,
representing nearly all states,
were expected.
According to Dean Wiley S.
Bolden of Clark, who was
designated by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
as Coordinator of the evaluative
institute, the main purpose of
the meeting was to “discover the
strengths and weaknesses of the
institutes in the light of the Fed
eral government’s Equal Educa
tional Opportunities Program.”
The institute directors also
discussed measures for acceler
ating school desegregation.
Dr. Joseph Washington, au
thor of a controversial study of
the Negro church, spoke at
Clark College at 11 a.m. and
7 p.m. Tuesday (November 29)
in Davage Auditorium.
Dr. Washington is associate
professor of religion and dean
of the chapel at Albion College.
He was formerly the chaplain
at Dillard University and Dick
inson College, and an associate
chaplain at Boston University.
His book, Black Religion,
published by Beacon Press in
1964, created widespread dis
cussion and controversy in the
ological and church circles. In
it he questions whether the
Negro church in America is
Christian. A new book. Politics
of God, is scheduled for pub
lication early next year.
PANTHER NEWS DEADLINE
All articles to apear in the January issue of The Panther are to
be turned in to P.O. Box 194 not later than . . .
JANUARY 8
Harry Golden Visits Clark
by William Hammond
Harry Golden, author-editor and publisher of The Carolina
Israelite, visited the Clark campus on November 29, in a lecture
discussion program held in the lower lounge of Kresge Hall.
In his talk, Mr. Golden covered a wide variety of topics ranging
from the Georgia gubernatorial election. Chief Justice Earl Warren
and the Ku Klux Klan, to the
history of the Jewish people.
With his characteristic gentle
wit, the man who has been
called “The genial scourge of
bigots” proceeded to impress
upon the assembly the value of
the exchange of ideas between
people and races. With scholar
ly understanding, he showed
how this process has made great
civilizations and races (as with
the Romans and the Jews), or
how the lack of it has contrib
uted to their downfall.
Mr. Golden must be con
sidered as one of the most ef
fective and informative lecturers
presented on campus this year.
In satirical fashion, he pointed
out a number of social ills. He
is, in truth, a hard-hitting real
ist, but possessed of warmth,
humor and “gumption.” As The
New York Post once described
his talent, “His is the voice of
sanity amid the braying of jack
als. He combines the cool lucid-
Pictured above left to right—are Dr.
Harry Golden and Dr. Samuel Williams,
assistant panelist.
ity of a Montaigne with the
gusto of a pushcart peddler.”
The Panther applauds the in
troduction to the campus of such
outstanding speakers as Mr.
Golden and urges that this con
tinue to be the policy. We fur
ther urge the members of the
student body to support similar
occurrences at the college by
their attendance. This, after all,
is the only way that we can
show our appreciation for these
events.
Clark College Playhouse
Presented Two Plays
LeRoi Jones' The Dutchman and Harold Pinter’s The Room
was presented Nov. 17-19 by the Clark College Playhouse. This
was the first time these controversial one-act plays have been
staged in Atlanta.
The Dutchman, by one of the most strident voices in the Black
Nationalist movement, deals
with the abuse and exploitation
of Negroes by whites. The scene
is a subway in New York. The
apple eating seducer makes her
play for the fair skinned guy
from ’Jersey. The guy exposes
her little game and tells her what
she really is. She retaliates, to
the surprise of the audience, by
stabbing him.
Pinter’s work is in the gendre
of the theatre of the absurd.
Abstract and plotless, it also
deals with exploitation, but in
non-racial terms. The Room
represents warmth whil every
thing outside is cold and drab.
Everybody, including the flitting
landlord, talks of how nice the
room is. The surprise element
comes when the husband kills
This is a scene from Leroi Jone's play
"The Dutchman."
his wife’s blind father and she
goes blind.
The casts were drawn from
students of the Atlanta Univer
sity Center and the community.
Arthur Pellman, an instructor
in Clark’s Department of Speech
and Drama, was the director.
Each night these plays were per
formed to a capacity audience.
CALENDAR
The following are the remaining scheduled events of the first semester.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 7—The English Department Examination will be
given.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20—The Reading Period will begin.
MONDAY, JANUARY 23—The First Semester Examinations begin.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28—The First Semester Examinations end.
MONDAY, JANUARY 30—Registration for the Second Semester begins.