Jackson advocate., 1944-02-26
C[ark's 18th
Anniversary
Starts Friday
ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-

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Of local and national interest
and significance is the celebration
of the seventy fifth Anniversary of
the founding of Clark University
College, to be held February "a and
Is. Alumni and friends all over
America and Clark men and wom-
en- in the United States Armed
forces wherever they may be sta
toned will hail this historic oc-
casion with great appreciation for
a noble work done by this InStitu-
ton over a period of Seventy-flve
years.
The celebration will begin with a
special chapel service at ten O'Clock
Thursday morning, February "a
when faculty, student, and alumni
representatives give messages. Mrs.
S. B. Brookes will speak on Some
Personalities That Have Helped to
Make Clark College an Outstand-
ing Institution" Thursday evening
at 7:30 o'clock the Philharmonic
Society and the College Band will
render concert in Davage Audi
tOrium
Friday morning, February 25,
from $50 a. m, to 11:00 a. m.
there will be a symposium, the
theme of which will be "The Chris
tian College and Postwar Response
bilities.'' Speakers appearing on
this program will oe DR.. Willis j.
King, President of Cannon Theo-
logical Seminary; DR.. Forester B.
Washington, Director of the Attain
ia University School of Social
Work. and Professor E. L. Brookes,
Head of the Chemistry Depart
ment, Clark College. From HOO a.
M. to 1915 p. M, recognition will
be given to the WORK vi the Board
of Education of the Methodist
Church, and the Womans Home
Missionary Society," now the Wcm-
ans Division of Christian Service,
in connection with Clark College.
Along with local speakers will be
Miss Muriel Day of New York City.
The Alumni of the College will
have charge of the program Friday
afternoon from $50 until 500
o'clock. Under the general theme
"The College Alumni and Postwar
Demands" Mr.. Charles J. Greene,
Manager of the Birmingham
Branch of the Atlanta Life Insu-
rance Company, will discuss Post
war demands in Business; Mr.. r..
E. Cureton, Head of the Depart
ment of Social Sciences at Booker
T. Washington High School, will
speak on Postwar Demands in the
Teaching Profession; Mr.. j. H.
Touchstone, Associate Secretary of
the Board of Lay Activities of
the Methodist Church, will speak
on Postwar Demands in the Church.
At 7:45 O'Clock Friday evening the
Seventy fifth Anniversary Celebra-
| ton will reach its climax with the
Founders Day Program. Bishop A.
P. Shaw of the Baltimore Area,
Baltimore, Maryland will be the
principal speaker.
! CLARK UNIVERSITY
FOUNDED 1869
Clark University, now Clark Col
lege, founded in 1869, in Clark
Chapel in Summer Hill, southeast
Atlanta, as a primary school to
meet educational needs of the new
| ly freed Negroes of this section, was
established under the auspices of
the Freedmen's Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Churc h.
Throughout the history of this In
stitution the greatest Influence up
on it and it's largest financial sup
port have come from members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
NAMED FOR BISHOP
After years work In Summer
Hill, some of the work, particular
ly theological classes, was done in
the Lloyd Street Methodist Church
in downtown Atlanta. Around 1870
| the school was located at 277
Whitehall Street. Between 1872 and
1880 tract of $50 acres of land
was purchased just outside the city
limits of South Atlanta, and the
College was relocated on the beau
tiful site where it remained until
1941.
In the early years of its develop
ment on the South Atlanta site
Clark University was guided most
ably by such personalities as Bish-
| op Gilbert Haven, Bishop Henry w
Warren, DR.. r. S. Rust and Bishop
D. w. Clark. The name-Clark
University-Was given to the Insti-
tuition in honor of Bishop Clark
who visited this section short
| ly after the close of the Civi
War, and whose interest In the In