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Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
VOL. VIII
April 15, 1952
Number 7
Founders Day Celebration
The celebration of the fifty-first anniver-
>ary of the founding’ of Spelman College
began with the usual rally at 9 a.m., April 11,
in Howe Memorial Hall. The total receipts,
including gifts from friends, was $1,871.86.
After the rally, the faculty, students and
friends went to the athletic field on the
northwest corner of the campus, where the
physical education classes of the Atlanta
l niversity Laboratory High School and of
Spelman College contested in the following
events: hurl ball, shot put, broad jump, high
jump, baseball, and dash. Following are
the names of the highest winning contestants
and points won:
Hurl Hall: Mabel Clayton, (it) ft., 5 in.;
Ethelynde Armstrong, 56 ft., 2 in.; Willie
Cotton, 55 ft., 9 in.
Shot Put: Lucile Thomas, 26 ft., 11 in.;
Eddye Jones, 25 ft., 11 in.; Ruth Westmore
land. 23 ft., 3 in.
Broad Jump: Ruth Westmoreland, 16 ft.,
1 in.; Mabel Smith, 15 ft., 9 in.; Edna
Bethea, 14 ft., 10 in.
High Jump: Ruth Westmoreland, 4 ft., 6
in.; Edna Bethea, 4 ft., 5 in.—a tie; Carol
Seace, 4 ft., 3 in.; Celeste Travis, 4 ft., 3 in.
Baseball: Ola Beavers, 163 ft., 6 in.; Lou
ise Solomon, 153 ft., 1 in.; Lottie Lyons, 149
ft., 5 in.
Dash (50 yards) : Rachel Davis, 7 sec
onds; Minnie Pinson, 2nd; Lulu Jones, 3rd.
The new broad jump record of 16 ft. 1 in.
was established by Ruth Westmoreland. For
mer record was 16 ft.
The prize winners were: Ruth Westmore
land. cup, first prize. Second prize letters:
Ola Beavers, Rachel Davis, and Lucile
Thomas. Third prize, letter: Edna Bethea.
Winners of each event received numerals.
In the afternoon, following the usual aca
demic procession of students, faculty and
guests to Sisters Chapel, the audience lis
tened to an address by Dr. Theodore II.
Jack, Professor of History, and vice-presi
dent of Emory University. He brought cor
dial greetings to Spelman College from the
l'niversity lie represents.
Dr. Jack emphasized the importance of
educational foundations as being the great
est forces in the development of civiliza
tion. They are of primary importance to
I Kith church and state. The purpose of the
founders of Spelman College was no less
noble and far-reaching than other educa
tional foundations have been, though few
have been made under less auspicious cir
cumstances. Miss Packard and Mi" Giles
did not found a school for the benefit of
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Dr. W. E. B. DuBois
In the last issue of the Campus Mirror
there appeared the subjects of a series of
ten lectures given by Doctor DuBois within
the period, March 8th to March 25th, the
places varying between Atlanta University,
Morehouse, and Spelman campuses.
The lectures explained tin* transforma
tion of African Negroes into modern Ameri
can working men and emphasized their re
lation to and part in the economic de-
\ elopment of the Southern United States
and consequently of the whole country. Doc
tor DuBois, in a masterly way, synthesized
the diverse movements of the 500 years
1 rom 1100 to 1900, showing that tin* first
great impetus which led the men of Europe
to seek for large numbers of laborers to
work in the 1 New World was due to the
change from trade in luxuries to interest
in trade in things to supply the common
wants of men. lie brought out not only
the complex interactions of men and forces
and economic problems but showed the ef
fects of these on the Negro himself. To
summarize such a scholarly treatment of so
long a period would be to lose tlx* inter
pretative detail peculiar to Doctor DuBois’
point, of view. The lectures proved con
clusively the claims ot tin* thesis quoted in
the Campus Mirror for March, 1932, that
tin* Industrial Revolution in Europe wa-
based on the African slave trade upon
which grew the Cotton Kingdom in Ameri
ca. From the earliest status of Negroes in
America he explained the different status
The Origin of Negro
Health Week
Mary E. Williams, ’34
Booker T. Washington, a man whose name
ranks high among the leaders of the Negro
iace and whose memory is preserved in
wood, stone, brick, and bronze, knew that
the future of the Negro race depended alto
gether upon the health of the people. He.
therefore, set about in 1915 to create some
means by which the death rate among Ne
groes might be decreased. He had observed
that 45 per cent of the deaths were pre
ventable and that about 50 per cent of the
severe sicknesses among Negroes were abso
lutely unnecessary. Today, as we are in the
midst of the eighteenth annual observance
of Negro Health Week, there are more than
thirty-six agencies, organizations, and con
cerns co-operating to put over the program
that Mr. Washington began. This movement
towards better health for the average Negro
is celebrated during the week of B. T. Wash
ington’s birthday, each day being given to
some particular phase of the health problem.
Mr. Washington’s idea was to put forth
health projects for the week which included
a general inspection of Negro communities
by members of the Health Department and
to give prizes to the best kept community.
This idea of conducting annual health
projects holds today, manifesting the fact
that the principles of the program are solid.
That these annual observances have been the
medium through which the Negro’s cause has
been furthered needs no proof and it is des
tined to promote co-operation with health
officers and agencies, contact with state and
local Negro organizations to secure interest
in the less fortunate, the training and use
of Negro nurses for public health, physical
education, medical, dental and nutritional
growth in the Negro race.
which the American Negroes have held tin
til the present economic battle In* is hav
ing for bread and butter. The lecturer
closed the series of discussions with a note
of challenge to Negroes to appreciate their
own economic power with all its potentiali
ties and boldly to take the requisite step-
tor its full utilization, thus employing for
tin* full satisfaction of their own needs and
interests till the physical and mental vigor
of the race. Doctor DuBois stressed that
to do this all fears and timidities must be
laid aside; the Negro must not only be
conscious of his desires but also of his
ability to gratify them.