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The Panther
APRIL, 1967
5
Negro History Week
Clark students emphasized the importance of the Negro in America during Negro
History Week in a chapel program.
DID YOU KNOW
1. That Percy Lavon Julian, a Negro industrial chemist,
found a way to derive casein, a very expensive major
protein found in milk, from soybeans? He also extracted
white crystals, called sterols, from soybean oil and used
the sterols to make a compound which proved to be an
inexpensive way of making available large quantities of
cortisone.
2. That Charles R. Drew, a Negro physician, is the “Father
of Blood Plasma” and director of the first American Red
Cross Blood Bank?
3. That Jefferson P. Long, a Georgian, was the first Negro
to be seated in the U.S. House of Representatives? He
served from 1869 to 1871.
4. That Garrett Morgan, a Negro, developed a device for
regulating the flow of traffic known as the automatic
traffic light?
5. That Granville T. Woods, a Negro inventor, developed
the “Injunction Telegraph” which provided a method of
communicating to and from moving trains?
6. That Laniel Hale Williams, a Negro physician and sur
geon, was the first to perform a successful operation on
the open heart?
7. That Jan E. Matzeliger, a Negro, in 1883 invented the
“Tasting Machine,” which revolutionized the shoe in
dustry?
8. That James Beckwith, a Negro fur trader, discovered a
pass through the coast range to the Pacific Ocean? It
bears his name.
Received from the
Department of Social Science
Dr. E. F. Sweat, Chairman
^princ^ jf^aision
Passion is slowly arising.
Your heat becomes hynoptizing,
Your lips gingerly seeking.
Your tongue yearningly moving,
Your arms longingly extending,
Your fingers impatiently reach
ing.
Your desire no longer conting,
You eagerly rush and madly
grab —
a glass of ICE WATER.
G. E. J.
JOKES
Passing a door in the wee
hours of the morning, a drunk
noticed a sign which read “Ring
the bell for the caretaker.” He
did just that, and a sleepy-eyed
man came to the door.
“What do you want?” asked
the man.
“I wan to know why you
can’t ring the damn doorbell
yourself!”
^ ^
The job applicant was asked,
“Do you smoke?” “No,” he re
plied. “Do you drink?” he was
asked. “No.”
“Do you go out with women
a great deal?” “Seldom. I really
don’t care for women very
much.”
“It’s amazing,” exclaimed the
personnel manager. “You don’t
seem to have any vices at all!”
“Oh, yes, I have one,” the
man replied. “I tell lies.”
—Edward L. Friedman.
A Wet Vigil
“It’s the dumbest thing I ever
did,” said a Michigan State Uni
versity sophomore after spend
ing 100 hours in a dormitory
show, the Michigan State News
reports.
Russell Felzke said his wa
terlogged vigil began at 10 p.m.
on a Thursday “when I opened
my big mouth at the wrong
time,” although he swears he
would have done it anyway.
The goal of 100 hours was
reached at 2 a.m. Tuesday, but
his desire to get out was over
shadowed by three exams and
a paper due the same day.
The constantly-running water
turned his skin white soon after
he entered the shower. Felzke
said his hands and feet bothered
him most, with the skin shrink
ing while he was getting his us
ual six to eight hours of sleep
a night. After 70 hours his body
began to chap and turn red —
and he was warned about a hot
water bill.
Felzke was high in praise of
the companionship given by his
friends — until they celebrated
the end of the vigil by throwing
him back into the shower.
Visitors from Western Michi
gan University and the Univer
sity of Michigan came to see
Felzke and told him the previ
ous record was 66 hours, held
by a Western Michigan under
graduate. No one, however,
seems ready to challenge the
new record.
Doctor Puri
Visiting Lecturer
Dr. Om Parkash Puri, chair
man of the Clark College phys
ics department, was a visiting
lecturer at the University of
California for two weeks that
started March 1.
He spent the first week at
the Los Angeles campus and
the other at the Berkeley
campus.
Dr. Puri has been a member
of the Clark faculty since 19961
and physics department chair
man for five years.
'Fashion'll Get You'
Everyone knows that wom
en’s skirts are reaching new
heights. But not everyone agrees
with the trend.
A graduate of Western Ken
tucky University, for instance,
believes the upward trend has
gone too far, reports the Col
lege Heights Herald.
For a recent Lion’s Club ban
quet, the young lady chose a
dress with a floor-length skirt,
which, she said, would make
her feel “more comfortable than
a short mini skirt.”
As she breezed toward the
banquet room, the hem of her
skirt became caught in a re
volving door. Not knowing what
was happening, she continued
on, only to lose the entire skirt
in the door.
A friend quickly placed a
coat around her shoulders. Said
the stunned graduate, “Fashion
will get you one way or the
other.”
Tucker Accepts
New Post
The appointment of Joe
Louis Tucker as director of
alumni affairs and development
at Clark College has been an
nounced by Dr. Vivian W. Hen
derson, president of the college.
A 1957 graduate of Clark,
Mr. Tucker for the past two
years has been Georgia field
director of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People. Before joining
the NAACP staff here, he was
a research assistant for the
Southern Regional Council and
was field director of its “voter
education project. He also has
done field research for the Uni
versity of Michigan and the
University of North Carolina.
Mr. Tucker was named
“Young Man of the Year in
Citizenship” and “Atlanta’s
Young Man of the Year” for
1966 by the Y’s-Men Club of
the Young Men‘s Christian As
sociation.
He was in the army for three
years and saw one year’s serv
ice in Korea. He is married to
the former Ruth Coleman of
Atlanta. They have three chil
dren.
Mr. Tucker will assume his
post at Clark on March 1.
The school teacher was dis
cussing proper manners with
her yobng class.
“And do you know why we
must cover our mouths when
we yawn?” she inquired.
One bright lad jumped up
with “To keep our bubble gum
from falling out.”—Jan Mc-
Keithen, Camden County Trib
une.
LETTER OF PROGRESS IN SCIENCE
Lee Singletary with instructor.
Dr. O. P. Puri
Chairman, Department
of Physics
Clark College
Atlanta, Georgia 30314
Dear Dr. Puri:
Since I have just completed
the final report for the Argonne
Summer Student Training Pro
gram for 1966, and that the
1966-67 school year is well un
der way, I thought your depart
ment and science majors would
like to know how much your
student's presence and active
participation has contributed to
the success of our pilot pro
gram. I want to thank you for
such a fine product.
It might interest you to know
that we are anticipating the op
eration of a similar program
this summer. As you may re
call, the program last summer
covered a period of twelve
weeks, June 13 to September 2.
Although some students stayed
for ten weeks only. Each stu
dent received a stipend of $50/-
week to take care of their ex
penses. We are in hope that the
stipend will be increased to
$60/week. The students attend
ed lectures from 8:30 to 11:30
a.m. and did research from
1:00 to 5:00 u.m. I am con-
cinced that if we are to conduct
another program successfully,
we must rely on the recommen
dation and cooperation of per
sons such as yourself. There
fore, I would appreciate it if
you would bring the program
to the attention of your juniors
and seniors majoring in either
chemistry, biology, mathematics
or physics and if they are in
terested, have them get in touch
with me at their earliest con
venience.
Thanking you in advance for
your help.
Sincerely yours,
Montague M. Oliver
Program Coordinator
Summer Student
Training Program
P. S. We have enclosed a pic
ture of your student at work in
his research location.
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Above are exchange students from Western Maryland College talking to Clarkites.
The "brand new bag" is coming baby. Picturde 3rd to the right is Danny Bradley
the Yearbook editor who should be issuing you a yearbook soon.