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LOOKING AHEAD
Mr. and Mrs. Donn Clendenon — With a good year behind them,
as the man of the family snared MVP, All-Star and All-League
honors in the Sally League, Donn and Myrna Clendenon smile across
a Pirate winter-league contract which will take the young couple
to Ponce, Puerto Rico where Donn will get further seasoning in the
outfield and try his best to equal his league-leading records in
homers and RBl’s. Eventual destination, they hope — Pittsburgh.
Sally Star Clendenon
Heads for Bigger Things
Recovered from a shoulder in
jury which may have knocked
him out of a possible World Series
berth with the Pittsburgh Pirates,
Donn Clendendon, 1960 Most Valu
able Player in the Sally League,
renewed acquaintances in his
hometown this week and com
pleted plans for winter league
play with the Ponce team in
Puerto Rico.
Battling his way to the top in
what was once expected to be
too tough a league for Negroes to
crack. Donn not only hit like a
house afire for the Savannah Pi
rates and made the All-Star and
All-League teams but wound up as
one of the most popular players
in the league. Posting a .332 aver
age which ranked him second in
the Sally, Donn adjusted smoothly
to the switch from first base to
the outfield and was chosen
“Tops” Player of the Year.
Back in 1957. Donn attended a
sports banquet at which Branch
Rickey, then adviser to the Pitts
burgh Pirates, was the principal
speaker. Having wound up one of
the most spectacular careers in
Atlanta sports history with twelve
letters and All-City. All-SIAC, and
All-Southern recognition in foot
ball, basketball, and baseball dur
ing his four years at Morehouse,
Clendendon was on the verge of
casting his lot with the Cleveland
Browns.
Baseball had always been a big
thing in Donn’s life, though. His
stepfather, “Nish” Williams, had
once played with Baltimore’s Elite
Giants. Coach Pinky Haines of
Morehouse had already got in a
few licks for Abner Doubleday’s
sport before Donn went to the 100
Per Cent Wrong Club Banquet and
exchanged words with one of the
most persuasive men ever to sell
an opportunity. Pro football faded
out of sight as a possibility as
Branch Rickey talked, and it
didn’t hurt that master-of-rhetoric
Rickey had a quiet but firm ally
in Donn’s fiancee, Myrna Smith,
a former Miss Maroon and White,
now Mrs. Clendendon. Though her
father. Vernon “Red” Smith, Sr.,
was a former Morehouse grid
mentor. Myrna made it clear that
she preferred baseball to a pro
football career for the man she
was going to marry.
Convinced that he had a future
with the Pirates. Donn signed a
contract on April 18. 1957. He
started in Class “D” ball in
Jamestown. New York, and Salem.
Virginia, and climbed steadily un
til he was in Triple “A”. In 1958
he displayed his wares as a first
baseman and slugger in Grand
Forks. N. D.. and Salt Lake City.
In 1958, with the Idaho Falls,
Idaho team, Donn batted at a .356
clip and was All-Star first base
man. He received a major league
contract from Pittsburgh. The big
brass decided to move him from
first base and send him down to
learn to play the outfield. Accord
ing to Donn, he now prefers the
outfield to the first base spot
since he rests more and is able
to hit better.
Another player in Donn's place
might never want to see the out
field pastures again, since it was
in the final game of the Shaug
nessy play-offs in Knoxville that
outfielder Clendenon sprinted
back to catch a fly ball and
crashed into the fence. Savannah
won the play-offs but the shoulder
injury Donn suffered meant good
by to his cances of joining the
Pirates and getting a look-in on
the Series.
Looking back on spring training
with the Pirates. Donn credits
Danny Murtaugh. Virdon and
Clemente with doing most to help
him with his fielding and overall
play. Famous batting coach
George Sisler passed on valuable
hitting lore to the apt and able
youngster from Atlanta. But Donn
feels that nobody has been more
important to his baseball career
than his wife, Myrna. Inclined to
be hot-tempered at first, Clende
non has gradually taken on some
of the calmness and cool-headed-
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with him in spring training and
on trips and is quick to note any
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got him out of a batting slump
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Mrs. Clendenon is a graduate of
Washington High, a former stu
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College. She and Donn first met
in 1955, announced their engage
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married at Friendship Baptist
Church in August of that year.
Donn flew in on a Saturday, the
marriage was performed on Sun
day and on Monday the young
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moon amid the scenic splendors
of Yellowstone National Park.
Named to the All-Star team in
Panama last year and cited as
“Most Likely to Make the Ma
jors”, Donn has the highest con
fidence in the Pirates as they go
into the Series. “They’re a young
ball club, known for their hustle,”
he says. “Now that they know
they can win they’ll be in conten
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that his favoriate team could use
a little more long-ball power and
hopes to be able to supply that in
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William Hutchins, first violinist with the Atlanta Symphony, Colonious Davis, Chairman of the De
partment of Music, Morris Brown College, John Heard, principal oboist of the Atlanta Symphony, chat
with Miss Diane Branch, who will study the flute and her mother, Mrs, Thelma Branch, who teaches
at Stanton Elementary School where her daughter plays the flute in the school band.
Morris Brown Staffers Launch Youth Training Program
The East Lounge of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA hummed with low-keyed activity last Saturday
morning as curious youngsters and their parents conferred with members of the Morris Brown College
music staff. Two members of the Atlanta Symphony, William Hutchins, Ist violinist, and John Heard,
principal oboist, joined with Colonious Davis, chairman of the Morris Brown Music Department m ask
ing questions and making tentative assignments of instruments as a quietly ambitious experiment in
music training got underway.
The brain child of Mr. Davis,
the new specialist program is de
signed to give students intensive
training in instruments not found
in the usual military band.
Though the college is not officially
connected with the classes, all the
teachers are members of the Mor
ris Brown staff and President
Cunningham has given his active
support since Davis first broached
the idea of securing top-flight
teaching personnel, with broad ex
perience as performers, who could
diagnose the musical ability of
children from Atlanta’s Negro
community and eventually develop
the nucleus of a concert orchestra.
In addition to Mr. Hutchins and
Mr. Heard, the Morris Brown
staff includes Mr. Charles Cox,
Professor of Orchestration and As
sociate Band Director, Mr. Tranus
Long, instructor in piano, and Dr.
Edwin Christian, Band Director.
Children already enrolled in the
program include James Patrick,
Olivia Boggs, Karen Holman,
Phillipa Brisbane, and Rembert
Brown, violin; Kim Weaver, clari
net; Diane Branch, flute; Carol
Dove, flute, Janqueline Newsome,
woodwinds; Kerry Holman, clari
net; and Leroy Binns, clarinet.
Other parents have been calling
all week, according to Mr. Davis,
many of them recruited by Mrs.
Ernestine Comer, able secretary
to the President of Atlanta Uni
versity, whose daughters will also
be taking violin lessons. At pres
ent. instruction is available in the
violin, cello, double bass, flute,
clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and Eng
lish horn. As the program grows,
instruction in still other instru
ments will be provided.
The facilities of the YWCA are
being used for the Saturday
classes through the good offices
of Mrs. Sujette Crank, Executive
Secretary of the Phllis Wheatley
YWCA. A feature of the program
which many parents have found
attractive is the fact that instru
mens are rented and need not
necessarily be purchased. Should
a parent decide to purchase an
instrument for the young learner,
the rental fees already paid will
be deducted from the purchase
price.
Just before picking up the phone
to supply information to another
parent whose child may be a
Kreisler or Kell in the making,
Mr. Davis reminded our reporter
that there are several Negro mu
sicans in the Atlanta community
who, by ability and training, are
capable of staffing a teaching pro
gram such as this. “The trouble
is,” he said, “that most of them
are already so overworked that
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they simply do not have the time
to take on an additional schedule
like this one.” He smiled, “But
we’re still hoping to have some
of them on hand when our young
ones have grown up to the point
of starting that concert orches
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