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Vol. 1, No. 1
Clark College, Atlanta
January, 1970
Clark occupies new unit February 1
$2.2 million building
best-equipped in Center
Community program
needs volunteers
L. Andrews
D. Jones
Coeds take helm
of campus paper
Seniors Lillian Andrews and Desdi-
monia Jones have been named co
editors of this newspaper. They will
serve during spring semester.
They replace Ronald Coleman, who
resigned in mid-December.
Student Government Association
President John Wyatt recommended
the appointments of the new co-editors
to Clark President Vivian W. Hender
son. Henderson accepted Wyatt’s rec
ommendation and officially appointed
the editors at a meeting Dec. 9.
Desdimonia Jones is a psychology
major from Atlanta. Lillian Andrews,
from Redan, Ga., is an accounting
major. Both worked on The Panther
last year.
Dr. Henderson
named to Ford
committee
Dr. Vivian W. Henderson, president
of Clark College, has been named as
the first Negro member of the Ford
Foundation Committee.
The Foundation was created in Jan
uary 1936 “to receive and administer
funds for scientific, educational, and
charitable purposes”. Its worth has
been estimated to overlap $3 billion.
Henderson, a noted black economist
serves many governmental committees
and holds chairmanships in several of
them.
Haven-Warren Hall
gets new tenants
As Clark science departments get
ready to move into their new home,
other departments are preparing to
move into the vacated science areas in
Haven-Warren.
Clark’s Admissions Office and the
economics department, both currently
located on Fair Street, will move into
Haven-Warren, as will the social
sciences department. Other depart
ments may eventually move into Hav
en-Warren, President Vivian W. Hen
derson told The Panther.
The college Business Office, already
located in Haven-Warren, will be able
to expand its facilities, Henderson
added.
Clark’s Student Community Service
Program, designed to close the gap
between campus and community, has
a shortage of volunteers.
Additional students are needed to
help the program expand, according to
its director, Clark junior Araminta
Lett. She said students wishing to par
ticipate in service projects can volun
teer at the program office, 761 Fair St.
“Students should render their best
service to the community, and in re
turn they will receive a service,” Miss
Lett said. “No education elicited from
books, classrooms and laboratories is
compatible with the real experiences
and education one receives by getting
involved with the community.”
During the fall semester the program
has worked to set up tutorial programs
for community students. But the lack
of Clark volunteers has hampered the
program’s efforts, Miss Lett said.
“One of the program’s problems in
the past has been getting sincere per
sons to work as tutors,” Miss Lett
noted. “Last year, for example, there
were only two young men working with
the program. This was a very depress
ing figure, especially in relation to the
different reports of the matriarchal
system found in many black homes.
“Young blacks need a strong male
image today more than ever.”
Miss Lett also expressed disappoint
ment over the small number of Clark
education majors who are working in
the service program.
“Usually when an education major
applies,” she said, “it is because it is a
class requirement, and then the educa
tion major will work with the program
only one semester.”
The Student Community Service
Program grew out of the Community
Service Committee set up by the Clark
SGA in the fall of 1967.
Exams ahead
Clark's fall semester reading period
begins Thursday, January 15.
Exams begin Jan. 19. Spring semester
registration follows the exam period.
Workmen add
Science departments move
Clark’s new academic building will be ready for occupancy Feb. 1, according to
President Vivian W. Henderson.
He said construction on the $2.2 million unit is on schedule and that campus
departments now located in Haven-Warren Hall will soon be moving into the new
facility.
“The new building will be the best-
equipped science unit in the Atlanta
University Center and one of the finest
in the South,” Henderson said.
The building has not yet been given
a name.
It will house Clark’s departments of
mathematics, biology, physics, chemis
try, medical technology and modem
foreign languages. The Cooperative
General Science Project and the Thir
teen College Curriculum program will
also move into the new building on
the corner of Chestnut and Fair.
Among its features the building
boasts:
—Built-in gas lines and other science
laboratory equipment.
—A language lab that will allow an
instructor to coach an individual stu
dent without disturbing the rest of the
class.
—Individual stock rooms for biolo
gy, chemistry, physics and medical
technology.
Georgia Smith Keeney Library will
move from its present cramped quar
ters in Haven-Warren to modern fa
cilities in the new structure. Space will
be provided to accommodate 36,00Q
books recently acquired.
Clark’s new library will be fully
carpeted and will have an open stack
system that will allow students to track
down books they need. A special area
will be set aside for microfilm equip
ment recently donated to the college.
There will be semi-private study areas
and a special section for research
volumes.
The building will also contain stu
dent lounges and smoking areas.
According to Henderson, the build
ing will be restricted in its use. He
explained that part of the building’s
construction was financed by funds
from the U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, and the de
partment grant prohibits use of the
building for administrative or religious
purposes.
In addition to HEW, Clark alumni
and private donors also helped pay for
the new building, Henderson said. He
said tuition payments were not used to
help pay for any of the architectural
or construction work but that tuition
payments may be used toward the pur
chase of instructional equipment.
Edward C. Miller and Heery &
Heery were the new building’s archi
tects. Beers Construction Co. was gen
eral contractor.
The building is the first to go up on
finishing touches campus since the completion of Braw-
into modern facility shortly ley Hall in 1965.
Campus plans
provide for
dorms, gym
Clark's new academic building is
only the first phase of the campus
master plan.
The next phase, according to Presi
dent Vivian W. Henderson, provides
for the construction of men’s and
women’s dorms to accommodate 250-
300 students each. He said a site for
the new dorms had not been chosen
but that he expected construction to
begin by the end of 1971.
“Clark is healthy, and this expan
sion reflects our health,” Henderson
said. “We’re expanding to meet stu
dent needs and to keep pace with
accrediting requirements.”
Long-range plans map out campus
progress up to the year 2000, Hender
son said. He said one item on the
long-range drawing board is the con
struction of a gym.
College enrollment is expected to
grow to 1,350 by 1975, Henderson
said. Currently 1,059 students attend
Clark.