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Vo I. XXXI No. 8 ‘Bronze Attracts Artistic Leadership By Denise L. Green Panther Feature Editor and A Lineve Wead Panther Editor As a near capacity crowd viewed the second annual WETV - 30 sponsored “Bronz Jubilee” awards, preparations were being made for Atlantans to celebrate in other WETV week - long activities (Feb. 4 - 10.) Capturing the awards this year in Morehouse College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel were: Joe Jennings, teacher, performer, musician, Music; Valjean Grigsby, founder Valmar Dance Co., Dance; Ray Mclver, author “God is a Guess What?” Literature; Curtis Patterson, sculpture, Visual Arts; Walter Dallas, Proposition Theater (two - time winnerO, Drama; Chet Fuller, Journal Associate Editor and author of series, “Black Man’s Diary,” Communicative Arts; Alma Simmons, Arts Educator; Iris Little, Spelman student, Outstan ding Student; Georgia Allen, Long Term Contribution to the Arts; C. A. Scott, Editor, Atlanta Daily World, Com munity Service Award; and a special contribution to the Arts Community Award was given to Fulton County Com missioner, Michael Lomax. As former director of Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Lomax’s recognition was considered “timely” by the award presenters, Jocelyn Dorsey, and Lt. Governor Zell Miller. Responding to the award given, Lomax said, “This award ... is not mine in dividually ... it belongs to the city of Atlanta.” Among the national figures participating in this year’s awards program, were Belinda Tolbert of CBS’s “The Jeffersons,” and Robert Johnson, Editor, Jet. An ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER lnstituti~ February 15, 1979 'Hooks Leads Crusade For Black History Month By Michael H. Cottman Panther Staff Writer Clark Grad, a native of Griffin, Ga. will return home to address Clark’s Founder’s Day. Ward to Address 110th Founders Day When Haskell Ward, a graduate of Clark College and Griffin, Ga. native, comes to Atlanta to deliver the Clark College Founder’s Day ad dress, he will probably bring a familiar story. The story deals with Clark College while he was working as a research assistant when he happened upon a written evaluation of himself. It is said that he has a lot of ambition for someone from a deprived background. His ambition then was to become a psychiatrist, and Ward is look ing at a long term career in politics now. He laughs , as he recalls this ironic story while at Clark. Yet, on Feb. 20, 1979, Ward, the newly appointed deputy mayor for Human Services for New York City, will show how wrong this instructor was. Formerly, Ward served as a deputy administrator in New York. Since leaving Clark, Ward spent two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, returned to the U.S. as a Woodrow Wilson and John H. Whitney Fellow to receive his master’s degree in African Studies at UCLA. Later he was on the policy planning staff with the U.S. State Department and worked at the Ford Foundation in Washington from 1970 - 76. According to Ward’s ex-wife, Jennifer Ward, “Haskell is an extraordinarily committed in dividual. He’s basically honest. A man of his word and a man of action.” SUPPORT UNCF Following an informal survey among the students at Clark College, it was interes ting to note how many students were unfamiliar with the purpose of our annual Founder’s Day celebration. Yet, when our speaker Haskell Ward, delivers the ad dress this year, he will be stan ding in the gymnasium of a building that was dedicated in honor of 'our late school president, Vivian Wilson Henderson (VWH). VWH is the eleventh build ing erected on Clark’s present site in 1976; following was Clark College Courts, acquired in 1975; McPheeter’s-Dennis Hall in 1971; Brawley Hall in 1959; Kresge Hall in 1954; Holmes Hall in 1949; Turner- Tanner Building in 1946; Thayer, Pfeifer, Merner and Haven-Warren Halls erected in 1941. Clark, founded in 1869, had its beginnings in a virtually unfurnished room in Clark Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta (Summerhill section). Beginning as Clark University, its purpose then was to serve as a religious institution to provide Negroes with a formal education following the Civil War. Clark University was named after Bishop Davis W. Clark, the first president of the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. One leader in the church visualized that Clark would “set the tone” for all other Methodist educational institutions for all Negroes. Today Clark continues to “set the tone” in its many ways through its many areas of ad vanced study. I I I I I “If we as blacks should forget the sacrifices made by so many I people who made it possible for us to be here today, then we are ! not fit to walk into the bright sunlight of tomorrow,” said the famed Dr. Benjamin Hooks, National Executive Director of the | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | (NAACP). | Hooks, a former Federal Communications Commissioner, and ■ Tennessee’s first black criminal judge, initiated Black History ■ Month, by speaking to Georgia State University students Tues^ ■ day, in an effort to encourage black students to become more in- I voived in the NAACP’s crusade to obtain equal rights for blacks. Hooks, who is dlso a minister and a lawyer, said the NAACP ■ needs the support of young blacks in order for the NAACP to con- I tinue their plight for equal rights. “I want the young brothers and sisters to realize that it’s not (your donations we want, we want you,” said the esteemed | veteran civil rights leader. | Hooks encouraged students to support the NAACP, and | stressed the importance of black students becoming a part of an organization that will be instrumental in strengthening their I * black awareness. “It is important for black students to support a black cause,” I Hook said, “If not the NAACP, become a part of something so our I nation will continue to move forward.” § Hooks pointed out that young blacks must be unified in order ijfor blacks to assist each other in achieving their goals, jg “Please do not forget from whence you came;” Hooks said with ^intensity, “once you open that door, bring a brother or a sister ■through that door with you.” Hooks went onto say that it is time for white America to realize ■that blacks now want something in return for the many years Ithat blacks were oppressed. I “America, we as black people have paid the price,” Hooks said |with authority, “whatever you have required of us, we have done, |and now it’s time for you to cash our checks.” Hooks commented briefly on President Carter, by saying that ■there is a “grinding hault” to America’s commitment to their ■poor and underpriviledged, and he attributes this problem t< ^President Carter. “I’m not going to give up on him yet,” Hooks said, but I am ■very disturbed by some of the things he’s doing, particularly in Ihis latest efforts as they involve the budget.” I Hooks stated that he is dedicated to theblack cause, and again |urged black students to become part of the move to strive foi (equal rights. | “I feel a sense of obligation to the black cause, and I canno rget from whence I came,” said Hooks with sincerity, and voi E so cannot afford to forget, by the way, what you are doing U ake this world a better place?”