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March 17,1978
Block Radio
manager lor two years. The
programming director of
the station is Frank P.
Barrow.
Childs, 25, recently
came to Atlanta from
Detroit via Milwaukee and
Las Vegas.
Despite his youth, Lie
diminutive but tough y »ung
man has had quite a bit of
experience in the com
munications field and in
tends to do big things at
WIGO.
A graduate of Inkster
High School in Detroit and
the University of Nevada at
Las Vegas, Childs looks
forward to working in the
Atlanta market for some
time and eventually hopes to
go into music publishing.
The station manager of
WIGO is Frank Edwards, a
former instructor in the
Instructional Media
Department of Clark
College.
Even though some
racial integration has taken
place in many segments of
this society, some ethnic
areas remain polarized. It
seems that black radio will
continue to serve as a
transmitter of culture to the
black community.
With WAOK and WIGO,
black communication roots
are always just a twist of
the radio dial away
Cordy agrees.
“We see our real
competition as the FM’s
among the 27 radio stations
in Atlanta - no other black
stations” he explained.
“The FMs are getting the
greater share of the black
^audience that WAOK
doesn’t.”
He lamented the fact
that the black radio
audience is so fickle
According to Cordy, man}
younger blacks are not
aware of the dues paying
that the black media has
done in the past and still
does to some extent today.
“The younger audiecne
just • wants wall-to wall
music,” Cordy noted.
WAOK’s station
manager realizes that a
merging of black soul music
and white rock is taking
place and attracting some
younger blacks to main
stream stations.
However, he em
phasized, his station is very
much in touch with black
tradition and will continue
to program primarily rhyth-
m and blues and progressive
soul music.
On the other hand,
Childs believes that the use
of some cross-over music
from the general market
may enhance black radio
programming and help his
station reach a wider
market.
Both men believe that
community invol/ement is
very important to black
radio stations.
WAOK is active in
sports activities in the black
community and has worked
with attractions such as Six
Flags, the Ringling
Brothers Circus and the Ice
Capades.
On the serious side, the
station emphasizes its
substantial amount of
locally originating black
oriented news and public
news and public affairs
programs.
WIGO, which is
presently being revamped
and upgraded, has similar
activities in the works and
plans to add significant
public affairs programming
to its new format.
Cordy, 36, who is tall,
articulate and handsome, is
a graduate of Morehouse
College, Atlanta University
and Stanford University.
He came into radio from
banking and was one of the
original black investors in
the purchase of WAOK.
I guess Morehouse is having house cleaning these days
because I went by one of the fra houses and not a soul w'as
in. (or I didn’t hear the usual Yo!) ... What famous campus
beauty was the “Belle” of the ball? She may very well be
when certain other ladies get through ringing her neck
about a certain young gent... Have you heard about the pet
shop in Memer Hall on the First floor? One certain lady has
a dog, a rabbit and an ape. I wonder w'hat is next! ... R.J.
must be doing something behind a certain lady’s back
because he sure is worried about who the Eye is and where
it could be. Maybe if you use that nose that you guvs are
suppose to have you will find out. ... This is dedicated to all
the curious people out there:
Ducking behind the water fountain, sneeking in Pfeiffer
Hall.
The Eye of the Panther is everywhere and actually
knows all.
Don’t tip out on Mary, and don’t play games with Joe.
The Eye of the Panther sees everything and knows that
others don’t know.
The Eye sees everything you do; the Eye is
everywhere.
The Eye can be almost any place and you no know it’s
there.
So keep your business to yourself and by all means be
alert.
The Eye wouldn’t want to be the cause of your getting
hurt!
Gilliam’s Seen Many Changes
By Marcia E. Jones
Mrs. Beatrice Gilliam,
the dorm director of Memer
Hall, has been here longer
than any other dorm
director at Clark College.
Mrs. Gilliam came to
Clark 15 years ago from
Fort Worth, Tex., to join the
Clark College family. She
began working in Pfieffer
Hall when it was an all-male
dorm and also when it was a
co-ed dorm. Later, she was
transferred to Brawley Hall
and then to Memer Hall.
Mrs. Gilliam has seen
many changes here at
Clark. She arrived at a time
when the rules and
regulations were strictly
enforced. She said that
young, ladies, especially,
were dealt with strictly.
The girls had to sign out
in the daytime whenever
they left the campus, she
said. There was no co-ed
vista tion.
Mrs. Gilliam also said
the chapel services .were
once compulsory for all
students, but as the years
passed chapel service has
diminished.
The students also had to
dress to go to Sunday
dinner, she recalled.
Mrs. Giliiam said she
feels that the students who
were here 10 to 15 years ago
were more interested in
their purpose for coming to
college than the students of
today.
Mrs. Gilliam said she
still enjoys dorm work
because it has been an
experience and challenge
for her. She said she has “no
regrets” in joining the Clark
College family.
Simon ;;
Mrs. Simon is include!
in the American Print-
makers (1974), Inter
national Who’s Who of
Women, Cambridge
England (1977), Who’s Who
in America in Art (1976) and
.Women Artist in America
(1975). Mrs. Simon’s in
terest in Art began when she
had to raise funds for the
high school band’s uniforms
where she was teaching. She
drew posters and sold them
to people in the community.
Mrs. Simon was also head of
the Mathematics depart
ment at Jack Yates High
School in Houston, Tex.
prior to her marriage. She
has not worked since then
because, of a mutual
agreement she and Simon
had.
The Simons have two
children and one grand
daughter. The elder Simons
live in a quaint, white house
at 67 Ashby Street, S.W.,
full of Mrs. Simon’s pain
tings and sculptures which
give the house an attractive
appearance.
“Changes have not
been evolutionary; they
have been revolutionary,”
she said.
However, she said, “I
get a feeling that there is a
gradual sense of being in
students that they would like
to go back to some of the
values, attitudes and morals
practiced in the ‘30s and
‘40s.
“Founder’s Day was a
really big occasion for us,”
Ms. Dove remembers.
“There were only 35 to 40
seniors in 1941. The
ceremony was more
dignified ansf classical and
the students had more of a
community spirit among
them.”
Today Founder’s Day
seems more informal to Ms.
Dove and almost confined to
seniors as regards concern
for the day.
A native Atlantan, Ms.
Dove is widowed and has a
daughter. She is listed in the
Who’s Who Among
American Women” (Sixth
Edition) and “Who’s Who in
American Education.”
She has this advice for
all students, “Pursue ..as
much knowledge and in
formation as possible.
Develop work-study skills
chat will make you a lifetime
learner. Prepare yourself
for duo careers. Develop a
strong sense of moral
values. By doing so you may
not always win but I don’t
think you’ll !§§§.