Vol. XXXI No. 8 An ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER Institut^ February 15, 1979 -t ‘Bronze ¡Hooks Leads Crusade For J i ! Black History Month i Attracts i By Michael H. Cottman ■ Artistic Panther Staff Writer I “If we as blacks should forget the sacrifices made by so many | Leadership 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 ■ Clark Grad, a native of Griffin, Ga. will return home to famed Dr. Benjamin Hooks, National Executive Director of the ! address Clark’s Founder’s Day. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People J By Denise L. Green | (NAACP). Panther Feature Editor Ward to Address Hooks, a former Federal Communications-Commissioner.and I and A Lineve Wead ■ Tennessee’s first black criminal judge, initiated Black History | Panther Editor ■ Month, by speaking to Georgia State University students Tues- | ■ day,J-----«v» in z-kan4’4’z» veffort»4 to encouragevnrrn black ainrloniestudents tnto hnrnmobecome mnrPmore in- 1| 110th Founders Day _ „ . Evolved in the NAACP’s crusade to obtain equal rights for blacks. I Following an informa | jj00ks wh0 is also a minister and a lawyer, said the NAACP When Haskell Ward, a I As a near capacity crowd survey among the students at | needg thg portofyoung blacks in order for the NAACP to con- viewed the second annual graduate of Clark College and Clark College, it was interes­ I WETV - 30 sponsored “Bronz Griffin, Ga. native, comes to ■ tinue their plight for equal rights. ting to note how many | “I want the young brothers and sisters to realize that it's not I Jubilee” awards, preparations Atlanta to deliver the Clark students were unfamiliar with I were being made for Atlantans College Founder’s Day ad­ | your donations we want, we want you,” said the esteemed the purpose of our annual | veteran civil rights leader. I to celebrate in other WETV dress, he will probably bring a Founder’s Day celebration. week - long activities (Feb. 4 - familiar story. | Hooks encouraged students to support the NAACP, and | Yet, when our speaker | stressed the importance of black students becoming a part of an | 10.) The story deals with Clark Haskell Ward, delivers the ad­ ■® organization - - n that will l-vbe z-x »instrumental 4 v- » i tv» z-»t-x 4 r» 1 XT-»in nfstrengthening vnn rrf ilYl 1 n (T fnmrtheir B| Capturing the awards this College while he was working dress this year, he will be stan- . year in Morehouse College’s as a research assistant when ! black awareness. ding in the gymnasium of a B| <“ It is important for black students____ ____to support a black cause,” . Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel he happened upon a written building that was dedicated in | pj00k sajd “jf not the NAACP, become a part of somethingg so our ■ were: Joe Jennings, teacher, evaluation of himself. It is said that he has a lot of ambition honor of our late school |nation will continue to move forward.” performer, musician, Music; president, Vivian Wilson _■ Hooks pointed out that young blacks must be unified in order I for someone from a deprived Valjean Grigsby, founder Henderson (VWH). I background. His ambition ■ for blacks to assist each other in achieving their goals. Valmar Dance Co., Dance; VWH is the eleventh build- « z./A»“please do1 not. forget/• ./» from whenceyou1 came;” ITHooks__ 1_____ said-J __with I Ray McIver, author “God is a then was to become a ing erected on Clark’s present •jintensity, ¡Tilnncif x’ “‘‘nvi/ir,once youwrz-»!» open<-»»-» z»T-» 4V-»that o 4 /Innrdoor, Lvibring v» rr ao brotherhrnfhor orilV a sister«Ifit.PY* I Guess What?” Literature; psychiatrist, and Ward is look­ site in 1976; following was ■through that door with you.” I Curtis Patterson, sculpture, ing at a long term career in Clark College Courts, acquired Hooks went on tosay that it is time for white America to realize I Visual Arts; Walter Dallas, politics now. He laughs , as he in 1975; McPheeter’s-Dennis recalls this ironic story while ■that blacks now want something in return for the many years I Proposition Theater (two - time Hall in 1971; Brawley Hall in Ithat blacks were oppressed. winnerO, Drama; Chet Fuller, at Clark. 1959; Kresge Hall in 1954; I Yet, on Feb. 20, 1979, Ward, I “America, we as black people have paid the price,” Hooks said Journal Associate Editor and Holmes Hall in 1949; Turner- I the newly appointed deputy (with authority, “whatever you have required of us, we have done. author of series, “Black Man’s Tanner Building in 1946; I mayor for Human Services for |and now it’s time for you to cash our checks. Diary,” Communicative Thayer, Pfeifer, Merner and I New York City, will show how Hooks commented briefly on President Carter, by saying that Arts; Alma Simmons, Arts Haven-Warren Halls erected I wrong this instructor was. ■there is a “grinding hault” to America’s commitment to their Educator; Iris Little, I Formerly, Ward served as a in 1941. ■poor and underpriviledged, and he attributes this problem to Spelman student, Outstan­ Clark, founded in 1869, had deputy administrator in New ■President C I ding Student; Georgia Allen, its beginnings in a virtually York. Since leaving Clark, ■ “I’m not ; to give up on him yet,” Hooks said, “but I am | Long Term Contribution to unfurnished room in Clark Ward spent two years in the ■very cl__ by some of the things he’s doing, particularly in | the Arts; C. A. Scott, Editor, Chapel Methodist Episcopal (3 as they involve the budget.” Atlanta Daily World, Com­ Peace Corps in Ethiopia, ■his latest i Church in Atlanta I Hooks l._. that he is dedicated to the black cause, and again | munity Service Award; and a returned to the U.S. as a Woodrow Wilson and John H. (Summerhill section). lurged black L..L) to become part of the move to strive for | special contribution to the Arts Beginning as Clark Community Award was given Whitney Fellow to receive his (equal rights. of obligation to the black cause, and I cannot | University, its purpose then | “I feel a c* to Fulton County Com­ master’s degree in African was to serve as a religious jforget from \ I came,” said Hooks with sincerity, “and you ■ missioner, Michael Lomax. Studies at UCLA. Later he was institution to provide Negroes ¡■also cannot i---- to forget, by the way, what you are doing to I As former director of Bureau on the policy planning staff with a formal education make this world of Cultural Affairs, Lomax’s with the U.S. State S Department and worked at the following the Civil War. recognition was considered Clark University was “timely” by the award Ford Foundation in Washington from 1970 - 76. named after Bishop Davis W. presenters, Jocelyn Dorsey, Clark, the first president of the and Lt. Governor Zell Miller. According to Ward’s ex-wife, Jennifer Ward, “Haskell is an Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Responding to the award Methodist Episcopal Church. given, Lomax said, “This extraordinarily committed in­ dividual. He’s basically One leader in the church award ... is not mine in­ visualized that Clark would dividually ... it belongs to the honest. A man of his word and a man of action.” “set the tone” for all other city of Atlanta.” Methodist educational Among the national figures institutions for all Negroes. participating in this year’s Today Clark continues to awards program, were Belinda SUPPORT “set the tone” in its many ways Tolbert of CBS’s “The through its many areas of ad­ Jeffersons,” and Robert vanced study. Johnson, Editor, Jet. UNCF Page 2 The Panther February 15,1979 Guest Editorial Greeks News Clark: Deserve Briefs Second To None by Floyd L. Donald A RECOLLECTION Relief SGA President OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS By A. Lineve Wead Clark College has “increased its options.” More importantly, MOVEMENT Clark is moving ahead of the other institutions in the Atlanta Panther Editor IN ATLANTA University Center. Enrollment for the academic year 78-79 is 1854 students. On the other hand, Morehouse has 1550, Spelman A workshop sponsored by 1543 and Morris Brown 1500. The question has been asked How many times have you caught yourself saying something the Samuel Williams Collec­ several times,” “Why does Clark have the largest enrollment?” like, “That Kappa Ralph is so jive, just like all the Kappas.” Or, tion of the Atlanta Public Increasing the options was enunciated by the late Vivian “I don’t like that Delta.” Library will be held Friday, Wilson Henderson. Henderson realized the growing need to If you found yourself saying something like this, then you, like Feb. 16, 1979. 9am - 3:30pm, produce more professional and graduate students. It was here a majority of your fellow Ciarkites have what is known as Trust Company Bank meeting that Clark College transformed from the standard liberal arts “nurdism.” This is a fast growing disease that has been around a room, Edgewood Ave., institution to one that provided the liberal arts and professional long time, yet is being exposed to everyone now. Downtown Atlanta. In its ef­ programs for its students. Dr. Henderson recognized the fact that Since I came to Clark four years ago, people have consistently fort to develop information students needed more career options. With the creation of In­ talked about Greek organizations particularly, yet supported sources where none exist, creasing the Options came the Mass Communications program, many of the social functions that Greeks provided for the cam­ particularly for and about the Allied Health, Business Education, Speech Communications pus.