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Volume IX. October 15, 1932 Number 1.
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Greetings from President Read
An id(‘;i—like a fact—is a cold and dead
thing unless clothed with imagination and
action. It is a dry bone that needs flesh
and blood to make it live. So it is with
tin phrases we hear at the beginning of a
college year. “Thoroughness,” “reality,”
“courage," “truth,” self-reliance,” “ad
venture"—they are noble words. But they
have value for us only if we translate them
into living, and every-day living at that.
What will you do with them on this campus
this year? Florence M. Bead.
Spelman's 52nd Opening
With a strengthened faculty, sixty Fresh
men, seventeen new upper classmen, and
the normal enrollment of old students, Spel-
man begun another year of academic work
on September 28.
The advantages offered by the new At
lanta University Library make opportuni
ties for study and development this year
excellent. The libraries of Spelman, More
house, and Atlanta University are com
bined in this new library, making available
approximately Id,000 bound volumes and a
large number of periodicals.
Members of the Spelman College faculty
have bachelors degrees from 21 institutions
in 10 different states and Germany, and
have done graduate study in 31 institutions
in America and 11 institutions in four for
eign countries.
Mrs. John W. Davis
Our love for Miss Ethel McGhee, our for
mer Dean, would not let us feel satisfied to
have her leave us; yet this same love of ours
would not let us feel satisfied to know that
she is one degree less happy than she is
capable of being. And, however reluctantly
we gave her up to become the wife of Presi
dent John W. Davis, of West Virginia State
College, we are happy in the thought that
she will always have Spelman and its inter
ests in mind and that her interests and good
wishes will ever lurk over us.
Four years ago she came to us, not as a
stranger, because she had been a student at
Spelman. At once she became one of us
through the gentle qualities which she pos
sessed. We think of Miss McGhee not as one
in a certain capacity, doing things because
she was expected to do them, but as one of
the humanly sympathetic type, soft, yet
stern, considerate yet positive, believing that
her contact with every young woman not
only brought something new into the lives
of these women, but also brought something
into her own. She was happy to see others
happy and hoped that as a result of her
teachings someone might learn to live. Her
personal contact with the girls extended fur
ther than many suspected. She thought noth
ing of writing long personal letters to many
girls, some who were graduates, compliment
ing their accomplishments and offering sug
gestions as to methods of improving their
ways of doing things. On the campus she
not only knew each girl personally, but she
knew this girl’s ambitions and home rela
tionships. As a result, she always knew what
was in the girl’s heart. This made her work
easier.
After two year’s stay as Student Adviser,
she was granted a leave of absence for one
year and completed her study for her Mas
ter's degree at Columbia University. 1 he
third and last year she spent with us,
1931-32, as Dean of Women. Her persistent
effort to see that every detail of her work
as Dean of Women had been finished, kept
her on the campus until a few days prior
to her marriage, September 2nd, at 6:00
o’clock.
The marriage ceremony was performed be
fore an improvised altar in one corner of
the garden at her mother’s lovely home at
Englewood, New Jersey. Balms and gladi
olus lent color and charm to the spot. “Du
Bist Die Rube” was sung very effectively
by Mrs. Charlotte Wallace Murray. Dr.
(’banning Tobias, Senior Executive ot the
V. M. C. A., performed the simple cere
mony in the presence of about seventy-five
guests. The bride's gown was of blush pink
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Dean Jane Hope Lyons
Communication is at the very base of
civilized society. Every individual needs the
stimulus and outlet of talking to—or, better,
of talking with—other persons. That person
is fortunate who has the opportunity to know
people of taste and discrimination. A small
college is one of the best places we have of
providing that opportunity for young people
of this generation. The faculty and the ad
ministrative staff exist for the sake of the
students. But even inside such a group there
has come to lie felt a need for some specially
understanding and unusually wise and sen-
sible and sympathetic person who is free
enough from classroom and routine duties to
be always available to students—a person
who has had enough experience of life to
know pretty well all the kinds of troubles
and all the kinds of joys, and who cares
enough for people—especially young people
—to enjoy spending time with them.
Spelman College is highly fortunate in
having as the specially designated confidante
and counsellor of students a person of the
kind I have described, Mrs. Jane Hope
Lyons.
Florence M. Read.
Greetings By I'el eg ram
My very best wishes to the Campus Mir
kor for a red letter year from the standpoint
of literary achievement and financial success.
Greetings and love to all.
Ethel McGhee Davis.