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The Panther
March 2. 1979
Give Of Yourself
Give To UNCF
By A. Lineve Wead
Panther Editor
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“A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste” was, and will remain
the continuing theme of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF).
This year at Clark College, it is our joint effort as a Clark
College Family to raise $12,000. This amount is about average if
every student, faculty and staff member contributes no less than
$5.00. Five dollars is a small amount to give towards an effort to
continue the financial obligations that black colleges face.
It is something that I look forward to every year. As freshmen,
under the leadership of president Raymond Johnson, we raised a
considerable amount of money towards the 1976 UNCF cam
paign. The same challenge lies before all classes — to raise the
most money possible for the UNCF campaign.
Many persons on the UNCF steering committee have been
planning for this year’s campaign for many months now. Our
Miss UNCF, Nema Roman recently participated in the national
Miss UNCF pageant in Birmingham, Ala. Although Clark did
not place in the competition this year, we are looking forward to
becoming the winners next year.
The faculty and staff have their individual campaign going for
a member of the faculty and or staff to contribute over and above
10% of their monthly salary. The winner will receive a weekend
stay at the Marriott in downtown Atlanta.
Also plans have been made to have chartered organizations
start the annual ‘can’ drive at local shopping centers. During the
weekend of March 16-17; 23-24, organizations will ask Atlantans
for donations.
There are numerous other efforts that the Clark College family
is providing for everyone to get involved with.
As we approach this year’s effort, I would like to offer sugges
tions to those who find no purpose for supporting the UNCF
drive.
Get concerned - get involved - get moving, because the en
thusiasm that you generate for this year’s effort may continue
for years to come. Therefore, we are talking about your children
coming to a school like Clark, and being offered the best possible
education, facilities, etc., because you got involved in 1979.
It is very easy to let this year’s campaign slip hy without con
tributing anything. But I hope that as the responsibility of every
student, we will ask questions, seek donations, and become in
novative to raise the necessary money this year for the cam
paign.
It is very easy to generalize and say, “UNCF hasn’t done a th
ing for me.” This may be true - when you are .speaking about
yourself individually. But we m ust remember that we are talking
about our fellow students for years to come, who are affected by
the monies of UNCF.
Clark College it is time for us to stop being selfish. We must
contribute substantially to UNCF.
I offer the challenge for every individual affected by Clark
College in some way to give more of themselves in this year’s ef
fort, than ever before.
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An ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER Insu
? '979
The Panther is published twice monthly by the
students at Clark College.
Editor Ann. L. Wead
News Editor Marcia Jones
Feature Editor Denise Green
Sports Editor Charles Anderson
Photography Editor Tyraun Patterson
Business Manager Jack Jenkins
Staff Artists Linda Dyson
Felton Fedrick
Faculty Advisors Denise Johnson
Osker Spicer
All articles, poetry, photographs and other con
tributions to the newspaper may be dropped off at
our offices in Thayer Hall.
Address all correspondence to: PANTHER
Newspaper, Box 154, Clark College, Atlanta, Ga.
30314.
Clark College is to have the
1979 United Negro College
Fund Kick-off on February 27
at 1:00 P.M. in Davage
Auditorium.
AWARDS
The class raising the highest
per-capita chooses the queen to
represent Clark in the MISS
UNCF Pageant next
February. The Pagent will be
held in Detroit, Michigan in
1980.
The Chartered Group rais
ing the highest amount of
money receives the Dean of
Students Affairs Annual
Award.
The Residence Hall raising
the highest amount of money
will receive an award.
The student raising the
highest amount of money
above $100 receives the
President’s Annual Award.
The Campaign begins
February 27 and ends March
30, 1979. To be eligible for the
competition - all money must
be reported by 4:00 p.m. March
30, 1979.
PURPOSE OF THE CAM
PAIGN
. To support the United
Negro College Fund and in
turn Clark College financially.
2. To learn together through
cooperative sharing and
working.
3. To cultivate our God given
talents that will further our
educational goals.
SPECIAL FEATURES
President Elias Blake will
bring the opening remarks.
Challenges from classes, the
Student Government
President and others. Music to
your liking.
RATIONALE
Clark College has been the
recipient of the generosity of
the United Negro College
Fund since the Funds incep
tion. Clark has given finan
cially, but not in relation to
funds she has received.
The more financial support
these UNCF schools give to
the United Negro College
Fund the greater the returns
are for them.
These funds support
scholarships for students and
faculty, capital fund programs
and other areas.
YOU WILL BE THE
WINNER BY SUPPORTING
THE UNCF CAMPAIGN IN
1979
Another View
A Mind Is A
Terrible Thing
To Waste
By Veverly Y. Byrd
Panther Staffwriter
The time has come again when the Clark College family rallies
together to raise funds for an organization that is dedicated to
serving us. The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is an
organization which provides financial assistance to 41
predominantly black colleges and universities throughout the
country.
March is the'monththat is set aside for the Clark College family
to compete to see who can raise the largest amount of money for
UNCF. The goal this year is $12,000.
The UNCF Steering Committee has planned several events to
help motivate the faculty, staff, administrators and students.
This committee is composed of representatives from each class,
faculty, administration and staff. The committee is in charge of
publicity, awards and programming during the UNCF Drive.
Some of the special activities planned for the 1979 fund raising
drive are class competition, chartered organization competition,
faculty competition, staff competition, administrators
competition and contestants for Miss UNCF competition. An es
say contest is being sponsored in two categories:
freshman/sophomore and junior/senior. An awards hall is ten
tatively being scheduled for the drive’s end.
In order for Clark to survive, it must rely heavily on money
from businesses, corporations and its alumni. As to all of the 41
member institutions, the United Negro College Fund is essential
to the survival of Clark College. Everyone is asked to participate
with your classes, departments, etc. This could very well he the
winning year for Clark. The Steering Committee challenges all
to raise as much money as they possibly can.
“Nothing that is worth something costs nothing,” said th<
Honorable Carl Ware, President of Atlanta City Council, Mr
Spizzerinktum of UNCF Kickoff. He said that education is cos
ting more everyday.
“Our responsibility to inspire that Clark and the other fort\
member institutions of the United Negro College Fund survive al
a quality high standard,” Ware said.
In national competition, Clark College’s student contribution
placed poorly with its $6,000 from last year. Other schools in the
AUC had contributions of $15,000, as did Morehouse and an em-
barrasing $50 by Morris Brown. Student support is very im
portant in that it shows the businesses that you are concerned
about the future of your college. With effort and support, Clark is
surely to fair better than last year. Please support the UNCF ef
forts of Clark College.
By Veverly Byrd
Black child destined in the world to be
A Thurgood Marshall or Booker T,
A Marion Anderson with a beautiful voice,
A Martin Luther King or W.E.B. DeBois,
A James Weldon Johnson, a wiz with his pen.
A famous architect like Washington’s Ben,
A Wilma Rudolph or Muhammed Ali,
A Cecily Tyson or Billy Dee,
Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman or maybe Diana Ross.
Without the existence of schools, all hope is lost.
He may even want to build a character of his own
and contribute his best and be well known.
But where ever the dreams of the black child lie
Without people who care his dream will die.
A mind is a very terrible thing to washe.
Please support UNCF to set a black child’s pace.
Updates of Progress
In The 1979 UNCF
Will Appear in the Next Panther