The Panther. (Atlanta, Georgia) 19??-1989, April 01, 1973, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextCAPITAL CAMPAIGN Continued from page 1 that Dr. Henderson, a natio nally known figure, is pre sident of Clark, it would pretain to the three pro grams we are expanding, which are presently of na tional interest.” Lehfeldt said, ‘‘the col lege is running ahead of schedule in terms of re ceiving gifts from initial prospects.” He said some of these early gifts include a $375,000 expansion grant for the health program from the Pfeiffer Research Foun dation and a $25,000 from Cox Broadcasting, Company which will be paid over a period of five years. The college is not only soliciting monies from cor poration and foundations. The development director pledged amounts of $5,ud0 to $10,000. The College’s alumni has accepted a chal lenge to raise $1 million to support construction of a gymnasium. Besides this Lehfeldt said, ‘‘we are going to send in a $1 millio n proposal to the Board of Missions of the United Methodist Church for the mass com munications building. A lot of stuff has been generat ed and as a result some thing we predicted happen ed. ‘‘In other words, there are people who are not going to give us program money, or shall I say, capital money for buildings or en dowments, but who are so PROCTOR CLARK On February 13, Clark College observed it’s one hundred and fourth Found er’s Day. Seniors and honor students were recognized at the convocation. Rev. Hen derson, the college’s minis ter, prayed and read the scripture. Clark’s Philhar monic Society provided the lovely music, anathemanda heritage song for this oc casion. The greetings given to the audience were inspiratio nal. Edward. L. Simmon, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, requested that students recognize the im- Board and help them keep the name of Clark influen tial in the community. ‘‘Courage is the prime virtue, with its others are possible,” expressed Mrs. Davis, Associate Professor of English. She advised stu dents to maintain faith, uni ty, work, and the prime vertue to succeed in the fu ture. Bruce Merchant, Pre sident of the Student Go vernment Association, gave the idea that students are trying to convey to the world. ‘‘Students should move for ward with vital velocity in order to obtain' their goals,” he said. Merchant advised students to learn as much as possible, edu cate others with this know ledge, and organise a na tion that will exist peace. The most momentous excited about what we are doing and they are sending in money grants for pro grams.” Lehfeldt said the grant from Cox Broadcasting Company., which was pre viously mentioned is an example of such a situa tion. Clark is not the only col lege in the AUC involved in capital campaign. Spel- man and Morehouse col leges are already in capital campaign and have been for some time, however, they have not made a national announcement of their cam paign, the development di rector said. There are nine chairmen of the college’s capital campaign. They are: George M. Daniels, board of Global Ministries of oThe United Methodist Church; James C. Hager- ty, vice-president of Cor porate Relations American Broadcasting Company; Philip Hammer, president of Hammer, Greene, Siler Associates; M. Carl Hol man, president of the Na tional Urban Coalition; Ro bert Hooks, actor and di rector; Charles P. Kindle- berger, professor of eco nomics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William D. Randolph; vice president and secretary of Norton Simon, Inc.,; James J. Storrow, publisher of The Nation magazine; and Theodore Weisman of Weis- man & Dreisen. ADDRESS STUDENTS event of the program was the dynamic speaker, Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, Pro fessor, Graduate School of Education Rutgers Univer sity. Dr. Proctor, presen tly, is the pastor of Abys sinia Baptist Church in New York. Dr. Proctor begun his address by appealing to students to reach out for discipline in order to make the most of their four years in college. ‘‘We should be gan by ignoring people like President Nixon and do not allow him to frighten us in obtaining success,” he said. There are three things one should obtain while at Clark College fo r four years: 1) self concept, 2) skill, and 3) commitment. He stated every student should believe that he is worthy of himself. It was pointed out that this occurs skills so that you can be independent. The most im portant skill to obtain is the matter of the English lan guage. It is the key to com munication. The way to make American live up to her bargain, for what our fore fathers wc -ked is through committment. tSive to Easter Seals. March 1 - April 22 Joseph J. Dennis Allred S. Spriggs Clark Professors Receive Professional Awards Three members of the Clark College faculty were recently named to profess ional chairs for their out standing contributions to fur thering higher education at the college by Dr. Vivian W. Henderson, President of Clark. Dr. Joseph J. Dennis, chairman of Clark’s depart ment of mathematics, was named ‘‘Distinguished Pro fessor of Higher Education” for his more than 38 years of service to the college. Dr. Dennis is a 1929graduate of Clark College and holds a masters degree and a docto rate from Northwestern Uni versity. He is a trustee of Clark and was recently ap pointed National Alumni Capital Campaign chairman for the College’s forthcom ing $33 million fund drive. Dr. O. P. Puri, chair man of the department of physics, was named ‘‘Gar field D. Merner Professor of Science” for his signifi cant contributions in science education. The Merner chair was established through funds made available by the Gustavus and Louis Pfieffer Research Foundation. Dr. Puri has been a Clark facul ty member for 12 years and holds a bachelor’s degree from Punjab University and a masters degree and doc torate from the University of Saugar. He was a Post doctoral Fellow at the Uni versity of Notre Dame." tin addition, Dr. Puri directs a center wide (Atlanta Univer sity Center Colleges) pro gram in General Science and directs summer pro grams for College Teachers. Dr. Alfred S. Spriggs, chairman of the Department of Chemistry, was named ‘‘Fuller E. Calloway Profes sor of Chemistry” for his dedication and service to higher education at Clark Col lege. Dr. Spriggs was educat ed at Dillard University (A. B), Howard University (M. S.,) and Washington Univer sity (Ph.D) and has been on the teaching staff at Clark for 18 years. Dr. Spriggs is the Field Coordinator of the National Science Foundation Chautauqua-type Series for College Teachers at Clark College. Congressman Young Supports Protests Against Meat Prices Con gressman Andrew Young announced his support last week of protests in Atlanta against high meat prices. The protests include letter writing campaigns, leafletting tt groceries, and a “meat less week” from April 1-7 which is being organized in Atlanta and other cities by the organization Fight In flation Together (FIT). In a statement from his Washington office, Mr. Young said: “Meat is so vitally im portant to human nutrition that it should be within the means, in plentiful quantity, of every American family. But meat prices have reached a level which is prohibitive to the poor and unduly burdensome to the more advantaged.” APRILJ973 Page 7 Clark Releases 1973 Baseball Schedule The Clark College Panth er’s released their 1973 base ball schedule for the year. Opening in Tallahassee, Florida in the Florida A and M University Spring Carnival against North Ca rolina A and T College, the Clark Panthers lost a heart breaker of 2-0 to a power ful A and T College. Char les Turner, sensational Freshman of last year from Union Point, Ga., struck out eight and walked four in seven innings of play. Mi chael Ross, making his first start of the year as a catch er , served as battery mate to Turner in this game. Returning in the afternoon session, the amazing Pan thers faced a strong FAMU Rattler’s on it’s own home grounds in seventy-five de gree .weather. Playing be fore a tremendous pro FAMU crowd, the Panthers showed mid season form and whipped the Rattlers at their own game, running the bases. Larry Bradford, All SIAC pitcher and Daryl Thompson, catcher, held the Rattlers to six scattered hits and three runs, while the hot Panthers scorched the bats for nine hits and four runs. A and T continued it’s do minance over Clark in the Saturday morning session by mauling the Panthers by a score of 11-4. Playing back to back games, Clark then took on the Rat tlers again. Jackie Smith found strength in pitching a very fine game until the fatal sixth inning when the Rattlers exploded for four runs. Until that time Jackie Smith and Daryl Thompsor had the Rattlers literallj swinging bats. Clark led bj a score of 3-1. Clark Pan thers picked up one more run but the rally fell short The Rattlers won by a score of 6-3. The Clark Panthers wil! visit Morris Brown College Wolverines on Wednesday. Alabama A and M will come to town on Friday and The Amazing Panthers will travel to Montgomery, Alabama or Saturday. HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION CENTER