Glenn Rowan, a Georgia Tech student, is the first-prize winner in the Atlanta Community Relations Commission's contest on "How Can Black-White Relations Be Improved In Atlanta?" according to Nat Welch, CRC executive director.

Rowan will receive a $25 gift certificate from Davison's.

Rowan's reaction was, "This will come in handy since I'm getting married next week."

The Tech student said in his prize-winning entry, "The key to race relations is understanding. By 'rapping' and gaining an appreciation of the community's problems, the people of both races can work together to solve these problems. The problems that face Atlanta (rapid transit, the ghetto, air and water pollution, etc.) are the concern of both races and if they work together, these problems can be solved."

The five second-prize winners are: Mrs. Ethel Virginia Shaw, Kathy Clise, E. L. Stanford, Jr., Wilton M. Pitchford and Charles L. Moore. Each will receive his choice of recent books by Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., Ivan Allen Jr., Dr. B. E. Mays and Chief Herbert Jenkins, personally autographed. The books are being donated by Elson's Book Stores.

"From physical interdependence, man has evolved the idea of tolerance. But tolerance is not enough. Beneath the color of our complexions, there are human hearts and God-given souls which cry out for love," says Mrs. Ethel Virginia Shaw.

E. L. Stanford, Jr., wrote, "What the white community must understand is that blacks want to be first-class citizens with all of the responsibilities … The fate of black-white relations depends upon adapting to change."

"I believe the best way to end racial discord would be to send Lester Maddox and George Wallace along with Dick Gregory and Mohammed Ali as astronauts on the next Apollo Moon Mission. After living and working together under such close conditions, perhaps they would believe that living and working alongside one another on this earth isn't so bad after all. They could then spread the word and we here in Atlanta could live peacefully ever after," said Wilton M. Pitchford, Decatur.

Kathy Clise, said in her prize-winning entry, "Individuals in various fields of social work, medicine, urban planning, human rights, and public officials must get together and correlate some common goals surrounding a major theme … that of strengthening the idea of common struggle between the black and white man. Two separate societies in our modern world will not exist and prosper."

"To improve black-white relations, we must wipe out the feeling of prejudice in the minds of both black and white. The most effective way to bring blacks and whites closer together, with a better understanding, is integration. Atlanta is most likely to succeed with integration because it is so ambitions, acquisitive and a social-climbing town-on-the-make," wrote Charles L. Moore.

The contest was judged by a CRC committee composed of Mrs. Harry A. Pfiffner, Tom Ward, Chico Renfroe and Nat Welch.