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The Campus Mirror
S pel man College
Commencement Program
1933
FRIDAY, JUNE 2
N:0() to 10:00 p.m.—President s reception
to Senior Class, Alumnae and Guests, Rey
nold's Cottage.
SATURDAY, JUNE 3
1:00 p.m. fleeting of the Alumnae Asso
ciation—Laura Spelman Rocke
feller Hall.
S:00 p.m. Atlanta. - Morehouse - Spelman
Glee Club and Orchestra Con
cert—Sisters Chapel.
SUNDAY, JUNE 4
3:00 p.m. Baccalaureate service (joint
with Morehouse College and At
lanta University), Reverend
Justin Wroe Nixon, Pastor of
the Brick Presbyterian Church,
Rochester, New York—Sisters
Chapel.
7:30 p.m. Vesper service and organ re
cital—Sisters Chapel.
MONDAY, JUNE 5
Class Day
S:00 a.m. Chapel service—Sisters Chapel.
3:00 p.m. Class of 1933—Howe Memorial
Hall.
Class History—Josephine Elea
nor Harreld.
Original Play—Senior Class.
Presentation of Emblems to
Classes—Frankie Brester Butler.
Class Poem—Birdie Lueile Scott.
Ivy Oration — Cora Estelle
Douthard.
Alumnae Procession with the classes led
by Spelman Granddaughters, and with the
College Students as Escort of Honor.
6:30 p.m. Campus Sing—Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Steps.
TUESDAY, JUNE 0
8:00 a.m. Chapel service—Presentation of
prizes and awards — Sisters
Chapel.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7
10:30 a.m. Commencement Exercises :
Conferring of Degrees.
Address—David Harrison Stev
ens, Director of the Division of
Education and Yiee-President
of the General Education Board
—Sisters Chapel.
Compliments
Eugene Harris
QUALITY CLEANERS
We Finish To Begin
Thelma E. Roberts, ’33
1 was graduated from the tenth grade, in
a small Georgia town in 1927. I had reached
the top of the educational ladder there.
Thrilled, proud, happy, curious, and eager,
I attended the baccalaureate sermon. Bub
bling with keen anticipation, 1 was con
sciously a part of the class-history, of the
poem, and the will, and above all of the
motto: We Finish to Begin. In green let
ters, if was the sole decoration on the wall
back of the stage. As 1 sat proudly with
my back to it, I wondered, as T looked into
the faces of that heterogeneous group before
me, what it meant to them.
Perhaps it would be only amusing now to
relate exactly what that motto meant to
me then; however, as it has come to lodge
in me during the six years since then, ex
periences have revealed its meaning more
clearly and fully. It means one interpreta
tion of the evolutionary process of life—
and again, another interpretation of social
progress and social self-direction. It harmo
nizes perfectly with the contacts and experi
ences which have convinced me that there is
no static perfection and finished achieve
ment. Time has proved it to be of genuine
worth. I find it, at this second goal, ready
to challenge me once again—a challenge to
begin a real service to man, not to expect
as a reward “purple dreams of power and
fame,” not to expect a life of “tame en
joyment,” but something that will accumu
late into a loaf of contentment from which I
shall administer slices of comfort and cheer
to my brothers.
My motto: We Finish to Begin, what does
it mean to you?
Senior Group Dine With
Mrs. Willis
On Wednesday evening, May 31, at 6:00
o’clock, eight girls who have had Mi’s. Willis
as their house mother during some winter
or summer of their stay at Spelman, were
asked to dine with her in the faculty-guest
dining room at Morgan. The group included
Janie Banks, Edna Hackney, Alpha Talley,
Carol Blanton, Millie Dobbs, Cora Douthard,
Josephine Harreld and Mamie Bynes. The
clever souvenirs of miniature seniors in caps
and gowns and place cards done in the class
colors were outstandingly rare and added
much to the hour.
Miss Ruttkay, present house mother of the
group, was one of the guests.
“Well, I’m educated,” sighed a senior as
she finished her last exam.
First Girl: “Girls, please be quiet, I am
trying to study.”
Second Girl: “Well, put your fingers in
your ears.”
Third Girl: “She can’t do that, for her
knowledge has to go in one ear and come
out of the other.”
Spelman-Morehou.se- Atlanta
University Baccalaureate
Speaker
Reverend Justin W roe Nixon, Pastor of
the Brick Presbyterian Church, Rochester,
New York, was speaker at the joint bacca
laureate services of Spelman and More
house 1 Colleges, and Atlanta University.
Reverend Nixon is a graduate of Rochester
Theological Seminary, did post-graduate
study at the University of Chicago and
Columbia, and received his Doctor of Di
vinity degree from the College of Ozarks. He
was lecturer on Christian ethics at Union
Theological Seminary during the summer of
1924. He is a member of the American
Sociological Society and of Phi Beta Kappa.
He is the author of “An Emerging Christian
Faith” published in 1930.
Dr. David Harrison Stevens
Delivers Commencement
Address
Dr. David Harrison Stevens, Yiee-Presi
dent of the General Education Board, is
Commencement speaker at Spelman College,
June 7.
Doctor Stevens is a graduate of Law
rence College in Wisconsin, holds a mas
ter’s degree from Harvard University and
the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from
the University of Chicago. For several
years he was connected with the English
Department, University of Chicago, and
later became Dean of the College of Arts,
Literature, and Sciences. He was assist
ant to the president for three years and
held the position of professor and asso
ciate dean of the faculties of the Univer
sity of Chicago until he went to New York
to work with the General Education Board.
In 1930 he was elected \ ice-President of
the General Education Board and Director
of its Division of Education. Since 1932
he has served also as Director of Humani
ties of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Doctor Stevens is the author of a num
ber of books, including “Party Politics”
and English Journalism,” “The Home
Guide to Good Reading,” “College Com
positions," “Milton Papers,” and “A Ref
erence Guide to Milton.”
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