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The Augusta News-Review - December 30, 1976
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By Stan Raines "
CLARK TERRY:
Is Still Mumbling
All during the year we have
talked of musicians and how
they became known to the
public. Most of them became
known by records, some by
recommendation, but
regardless of how we look at it,
we find that their popularity
stemed from their playing or
singing.* hat is one of the odd
things about the popularity of
Clark Terry. He became
famous for mumbling.
Qark Terry was bom in St.
Louis, Mo. , Dec. 14, 1920. As
he grew up he tried to play any
musical instrument that he
could get his hands on. Finally
he started on trumpet and
became a fine musician on this
instrument. Later he switched
to fluegelhom and began
singing. Since that time he has
been back and forth between
trumpet and fluegelhom but
mostly plays trumpet. He is
also known for his coronet
playing and at one time he had
a special made trumpet which
was only half the size of a
regular trumpet. This
instrument became famous in
Europe and many European
musicians had them made also.
As a teenager and an
accomplished musician Terry
was quite in demand. He spent
nine years with Duke Ellington
and one year with Quincey
Jones before joining NBC as a
staff musician in March 1960.
It was really here that he got
his start.
He became a member of the
Skitch Henderson Orchestra
which played for the Tonight
Show. Skitch frequently
featured him and people began
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to notice that he was not an
ordinary studio musicians but
had hidden talent that needed
to be recognized. By 1965 he
was one of the bands top
personalities as a singer and an
instrumentalist.
Clark Terry was the first
Black to work steadily for
NBC’s studio band.
In 1964 he toured with J.J.
Johnson sextet and it was later
that year that he scored a
surprise hit in recording with
the Oscar Peterson Trio in
which he sang mumbles, a
blues form which wasn’t scat
singing nor normal singing. It
was just as the title suggested.
Former Augustan Heads Graduate Program
In Communication Disorders At Hampton
HAMPTON, Va. - Hampton
Institute will inaugurate a new
graduate program in
Communication Disorders in
the Fall of 1977 it was
announced by Dr. Robert M.
Screen, chairman of the
Department of Communication
Disorders, a former Augustan.
Emphasis during the first
year of the program will be on
speech pathology, but Dr.
Screen added that Hampton
hopes to add a degree in
educational audiology during
the second year.
Hampton will be seeking
accreditation from the
American Speech and Hearing
Association, but the program
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It was really mumbling and it
put Terry on top because then
no one could do it like him and
even today that is still true. His
newly acquired nickname at
the time was “Mumbles” and
still todav he is affectionately
called “mumbles.”
Clark Terry is still around
today and he is mumbling even
better. 1 got an opportunity to
hear him yesterday and today I
have caught myself trying to
mumble, guess it just isn’t my
thing so 1 will leave it to the
one who is known for it
Clark Terry, check him out and
I am sure he will have you
mumbling.
must be in existence at least
three years before application
can be made for accreditation.
Currently only the University
of Virginia’s program has
gained accreditation.
The school has trained more
Black speech pathologists than
any other college and has
produced some ot the most
prominent men in the field
including Dr. Orlando Taylor,
chairman of the department at
Howard University.
“Hampton’s undergraduate
program in communication
disorders is held in very high
regard. In 1972 the American
Speech and Hearing
Association sent a team of two
Former Paine Staffer
Elected Basileus
it
CARVER A. PORTLOCK
Carver A. Portlock, former
administrative assistant to Dr.
William Graham, late vice
president of Paine College, has
been elected basileus of the
Philadelphia Mu Omega
Chapter, Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, Inc.; he also has
been appointed chairman of
the organiz tion’s national
public relations committee by
Dr. Edward Braynon, grand
basileus.
Portlock is a graduate of
Bethune-Cookman College,
Daytona Beach, Florida where
he received the bachelor of arts
degree in religion and
philosophy. He completed
prominent persons, Dr. Gerald
Studebaker, of Oklahoma, and
Dr. Bruce Siegenthaler, of
Penn. State, to evaluate our
program. They told us that
they had been on seven
evaluation teams accrediting
masters degree programs and
that ours was better than some
and as good as any they had
seen,” Dr. Screen said.
Hampton is currently in the
process of recruiting the
faculty to staff the program,
and has openings for two PhDs.
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to Stan
Raines, January 1.
graduate work at Syracuse
University, School of Dramatic
Activities, while on special
scholarship granted by the
Methodist Board of Education.
“The Birth of Salvation”, a
Christmas pageant performed
before the Wesley Foundation,
University of Miami in 1960, is
one of several plays and
dramatic presentations,
Portlock has written and
directed. He also wrote “The
Basic Root”, a one-act play in
1958, and “When They Were
One,” which has been
performed throughout the
United States for religious and
community groups since 1968.
Portlock has received many
See “PORTLOCK”
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Mother And 5
Children Lose
Everything
In Fire
An Augusta mother and her
five children lost their
possessions in a fire last
Tuesday at 678 Gilbert Manor.
Mrs. Virginia Freeman and
her children were able to
escape injury from the morning
blaze.
The fire which began
upstairs about 12:15 a.m. was
believed to have been started
by children playing with
matches.
Donations to the family can
be made by calling Bernard
Mitchell at 722-7105, 422
Gilbert Manor.
The children range from 16
months to 8 years of age.
There are four boys and one
girl
Mrs. Freeman wears sizes
16-18, the boys wear 8/2, 6 and
4T and the girl wears a size 6X.
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