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Men Of Clark To Hear Sutton
Manhattan’s borough
president, Percy E. Sutton, will
be the principal speaker at a
fund-raising banquet for Clark
College on April 17. The banquet
has been organized by the Men of
Clark, a group of local male
alumni, in connection with the
college’s centennial.
Sutton, a native of San
Antonio, Tex., was elected
president of the Borough of
Manhattan in 1966. Each of New
York’s five boroughs has a
president—a post somewhat
similar to that of a “Community
mayor.”
Earlier in his political
career, Sutton served in the New
York state assembly. In 1966 he
became permanent chairman of
the state’s Democratic
convention - the first time in
American political history that a
Negro served in this capacity for
a major party.
An attorney with offices on
125th Street, in the heart of
Harlem, Sutton has been active in
community improvement and
civil rights efforts. He was himself
a defendant in trials growing out
of the Freedom Ride in
Mississippi and again in
connection with efforts to
desegregate eating places along
Route 40 in Maryland.
Tickets to the $50-a-plate
banquet may still be obtained
through the alumni office at
Clark.
Men of Clark was formed to
assist the college beyond the
normal support received from
national and local alumni
associations. The group is seeking
$100,000 for the college.
The primary purpose of the
organization is 1) to assist in
securing financial support for the
growth and development of a
successful college, including
scholarship funds; 2) to assist in
recruiting quality students; 3) to
aid graduates in securing
employment; 4) to aid graduates
pursuing graduate work; 5) to
promote emphasis on community
leadership and responsibility.
The group is composed of a
selected number of male graduates
who live in a 50-mile radius of
Atlanta.
Officers are Clarence D.
Coleman, chairman, Southern
Regional Director, National
Urban League; Ira Jackson, vice
chairman, business executive;
Moses Norman, secretary,
educator; Theodore Johnson,
assistant secretary, educator;
Roy L. Bolton, treasurer,
assistant business manager, Clark
College; Joseph J. Dennis,
assistant treasurer, educator; A.
H. Watts, financial secretary,
business executive; Samuel
Wallace, reporter, educator.
State Rep. Ben Brown, one of
the organizers of the club, said
the primary purpose of the men’s
group is to encourage Clark
College alumni to take interest in
the continued growth and
development of the institution
within the second 100 years.
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College Events
Wednesday, April 16
Davage Auditorium
8 p.m.
Thursday, April 17
Davage Auditorium
11 a.m.
Thursday, April 17
Kresge Hall Lounge
3:45 p.m.
Thursday, April 17
Marriott Motor Hotel
7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 18
Kresge Hall Lounge
11 a.m.
Friday, April 18
Paladium Club
10 p.m.
Saturday, April 19
Davage Auditorium
9 a.m.
Saturday, April 19
Campus Quadrangle
2 p.m.
CONCERT...The Philharmonic
Society and the Symphony Band
of Clark College in joint concert.
LECTURE...An address by
Marian Wright Edelman, civil
rights attorney, on “Law and
Social Change.”
LECTURE...A discussion of “The
Uses of History for Social
Change” by Dr. Vincent Harding
of Spelman College, followed by
questions from the floor.
BANQUET...A fund-raising event
sponsored by the Men of Clark
for the benefit of their Alma
Mater. Percy E. Sutton, borough
president of Manhattan, will give
the address.
LECTURE...An address by State
Representative Bobby L. Hill of
Savannah on “New Politics in the
South,” followed by discussion.
BALL...The social event of the
Centennial-Inaugural observance,
sponsored by the Atlanta chapter
of the Clark Alumni Association.
SYMPOSIUM...A discussion of
“The Church in Education” by
President Emeritus James P.
Brawley, Dr. Myron F. Wicke, Dr.
Charles Cofer, Dr. Major Jones,
and the Rev. Cornelius
Henderson.
CENTENNIAL CONVOCATION
AND INAUGURATION OF
VIVIAN WILSON HENDERSON
AS PRESIDENT OF CLARK
COLLEGE...The Centennial
Address will be given by Dr. L. D.
Reddick. (Reception follows.)
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MEN OF CLARK look over a proposal to raise $100,000 for the college during its centenniel. Left
to right are Clarence Coleman, chairman; Dr. Alfred Turk, charter member; Ira Jackson, vice
chairman; Harold Hamilton, president of the National Alumni Association of Clark College.
Reddick Main Speaker At
Centenniel Convocation
“Glimpse of a Possible
Future” will be the topic of Dr.
L. D. Reddick at the convocation
and inauguration of Vivian
Wilson Henderson as president of
Clark College.
Lawrence Dunbar Reddick
was born in Jacksonville, Florida,
is married, and lives with his wife
at 8029 Stenton Avenue,
Philadelphia, Pa. 19150; business
address is 100 W. Coulter Street,
OIC Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.
19144.
He was educated in the public
schools of Jacksonville, graduated
from Fisk University-A.B. ’32
(magna cum laude), M.A. ’33-
and the University of
Chicago-Ph.D. ’39. During his
graduate education, he received
scholarships from the Julius
Rosenwald Fund and the General
Education Board.
As a regular faculty member,
he has taught history and related
Social Sciences at Kentucky State
College, Dillard University,
Atlanta University, Alabama
State College and Coppin State
College, and as a part-time
lecturer at New York City
College, the New School for
Social Research, Johns Hopkins
University, and Temple
University.
Dr. L. D. Reddick
For 9 years he was curator of
the Schomburg Collection of
Negro Literature of the New
York Public Library and seven
years chief librarian of Atlanta
University.
He was written: Our Cause
Speeds On (with Sherman
Savage); Crusader Without
Violence, A Biography of Martin
Luther King, Jr.; The Southerner
as American (with nine others),
Worth Fighting For (with Agnes
McCarthy,) Our Colleges and the
Industrialization of the South,
and Library Sources for Negro
Studies.
He has edited special issues of
The Journal of Educational
Sociology “The Negro in the
North During Wartime” (1944)
and “Race Relations on the
Pacific West Coast” (1945); also
he has served on the editorial
board of the Journal of Negro
History and has contributed
articles and reviews to The
Nation, New Republic, Journal of
Negro Education and Journal of
Negro History.
During 1 965-1966, he
directed project Y-003 to
improve the education of
teachers for inner-city schools
(U.S. Office of Education grant).
Since then he has directed the
OIC Institute, training
community leaders and staffs for
establishing motivational and
skills centers for economically
disadvantaged peoples
throughout the nation.
Since 1968 l‘ e has been
Adjunct Professor, Temple
University. Since the fall of 1968,
Coordinator of Policies and
Programs for OIC Institute,
Extension Services and the
National Industrial Advisory
Council.
He has visited southern
Europe, west Africa and the West
Indies, and as biographer and
friend took a six-weeks tour of
India with Martin Luther King,
Jr. in 1959, and was on hand at
Oslo, Norway when King received
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.
He is listed in the Directory of
American Scholars and Who’s
Who in America.
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A graduating class before the turn of the century.