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18 The Campus Mirror A Backward Look (Continued from Page 12) were heard—voices of j^iids who had for gotten to buy soap, and girls who hated the thoughts of the expectant drudgery. W’liat a sight they were—hair in kid curlers or in stocking caps, hair braided, twisted, awry; faces oily and unwashed; eyes half closed, sullen; laundry dresses torn, soiled, wrinkled—all inarching as if to the Bastile, swinging their clothes as they went. The laundry room sounded like a small-scale fac tory. There was the grating noise of the steam coming through the pipes, the rub bing of clothes, voices of laundry directors yelling above the din of other noises. All wet clothes were placed in a few baskets. At lunch time, the girls went to get their clothes, and here was another scramble to find a small towel, say, among four hundred others. After school one might iron. The irons were stacked around the coal stove, and if one were dropped by a careless girl, that would be the end of her ironing for that week. The elementary and the grade students had classes in Giles Hall with Hiss Nichols as principal. Miss Kmrelmeyer was principal of the high school department in Rocke feller Hall. Miss Ramson supervised the work of the few college students wherever she found space for them. Tn the flash of a second, according to my reverie, the next year began. I was at last in that wonderful high school depart ment. Here, after I had learned the prin ciples of good citizenship, sometimes through student council activities, sometimes on the mercy seat at the hands of Miss Kurrel- meyer, and ofttimes in Miss Guest’s Ethics Class, I developed into a full fledged high school student. Those were lovely days, even though we did have to walk the “chalk line”. How avc embed and Avatched the college girls! Who could challenge the frog at his OAvn game, vault the box, and perhaps play Atlas? Alma. Ferguson, iioav Math teacher in A. U. L. H. S. What tender maiden held a year ’round side shoAv and dramatical en tertainment? Julia Pate, now Mrs. Borders, and until recently English teacher of the same high school. Who Avas the Spelman Paderweski ? Irene Dobbs, iioav on a leave of absence from Spelman College studying French in the UnWersity of Toulouse in France. What modest and earnest young lady gave some students their basic training in the art of cookery? Lyda McCree, iioav head of the H. E. Department in A. IT. L. H. S. Who Avas the favorite actress of the campus, and playwright heroine? Ernestine Erskine, teacher of history at Spelman Col lege for the year 1931-32. And avIio Avas laughter, holding both her sides and mak ing you crack yours? “Vi” Branham, as sistant Dining Hall Supervisor in Spelman College. Besides the delightful contact Avith per sonalities, I enjoyed the beauty of the May- pole dance and the display of the campus May Queens, and the glory of commence ment exercises. Here I lingered in my imagination, mo ments and moments, reliving my own gradu ation exercises from Spelman High School. After those few moments of pondering over certain cases pertaining to another transition, I found myself in college. How rapidly time passes! President Tapley, after a long service had been made President Emeritus and in her stead Avas a new President, Miss Florence M. Read, and with her a new dean, Miss Miriam Carpenter, on leave of absence one year from Harvard University. Miss Ethel McGhee, now Mrs. John W. Davis, cames as Adviser of Girls the next year. The Science Building, Tapley Hall, has long been completed and Sisters Chapel graces the large space west of the entrance to the campus. The soft music of the pipe organ floats through its spacious windoAvs. The nurse training department has passed aAvay and the Spelman High School too. Cafeteria style of service has displaced the former family ser\ r ice. Students’ clothes are sent to the laundry, calls are received by all students in a cozy li\nng room from three to five on Saturday afternoon, and Senior College Avomen may have additional calls following Vespers on Sundays until five. Extra campus activities, Avhieh have always been as numerous as the students care to have, make the energetic students groAV Avell rounded. A feAV extra curricular activities at present are: The Social Problems Club, The Science Clubs, The Foreign Language Clubs, The Dramatic and Story Telling Clubs, The Glee Club, The Y. W. C. A., The Choregraphic Group, and membership in the Inter-racial Forum. Lastly, a beautiful nerv library has been constructed. It simply looks like the kind one sees in pictures. There is every modern convenience and luxury. Everything in the arrangement is conducive to study. There is every aid to quietness; there are courteous librarians, ever ready to be of help, and there is a vast collection of magazines, periodicals, and books. The reserve book system is syste matic and thorough. One may draAv out as many books—Merciful heavens! I have a book overdue. I should have turned it in Saturday. Never mind, I shall take it in the very first thing in the morning. Perhaps there Avill be no charges for Sunday. History of the Class of 1933 Josephine Eleanor Harrelii, ’33 “We Avere adA r enturers”—that jolly band of Freshmen who assembled one bright Sep tember morning in 1929 to be oriented into the mysteries of college life. We were one hundred strong, the largest Freshman class this institution has known, and represented fourteen different states. “We put from port Avithout a fear, for freedom on this Spanish Main.” We had the stirring Avords of Tennyson’s Ulysses to cheer us on our way. It Avas strikingly symbolic that two of the speakers of our Freshman Week should have read this poem to us. We were “yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.'’ It Avas a glorious beginning. That year marked the initial operation of the affilia tion with Morehouse College and Atlanta University, the opening of the new Howe theater, and renovations in the laundry and other buildings on the campus. Before many weeks Ave had become thoroughly acclimated and were joining the various college organi zations—not the least of which was the in fant Spelman orchestra that made its debut during the following April. Our argosy has touched many shores dur ing the four years of its voyage. During the second year at sea our sailors enjoyed the privilege of participating in the celebra tion of Spelman’s Golden Jubilee. We have shared in the progress of the new Univer sity; the facilities of the Library and a num ber of the graduate courses have been open to us. Our voyage has been filled with con certs, lectures, exhibits, plays, and many other interesting features. By our country fairs, the circus, the “Zander-Gump Wedding”, and the roles taken by our Argonauts in the campus actiA*i- ties, Ave have done our bit in beguiling tbe time of our fellow-seamen. A band of forty-eight Avill lay anchor in the home harbor this Aveek, but the spirit of the original hundred is ever present. In a feAV days one of that group, a very valiant Argonaut avIio left this company tAvo years ago to pursue higher adventure at Mount Holyoke College, Avill graduate. Although Ave are embarked upon different seas our thoughts are as one— “One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'’ YATES & | MILTON | I I AUBURN AND BUTLER | Walnut 1401-1402 | FAIR AT CHESTNUT Main 4114 I j I JDrugs Sundries Sodas I j J GIVE US A RING "We are as close as your phone” i i + +