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CAMPUS MIRROR
Charles Whitney Gilkey,
Founders Day Speaker
The speaker this year for Founders
Day, April 11, is Dr. Charles Whitney
(iilkey. He was born in Watertown,
Massachusetts, and received his A.B.
from Harvard, his B.l). from Union
Theological Seminary and his D.D. from
Harvard, from Williams College, and
from Vale, Brown and Colby. He has
served as student secretary for the In
ternational Commission of the Y. M. C.
A. and as pastor of the Hyde Park Bap
tist Church in Chicago, Dr. Gilkey has
been University preacher at Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Chicago Uni
versity, Toronto, and Wellesley. In 1024
lie was appointed by the University of
Chicago Barrows Lecturer to Univer
sity Centers in India. He has been since
1028 Dean of the Chapel at the Univer
sity of Chicago. Dr. Gilkey is the author
of several publications, and has become
famous as a lecturer and teacher.
Founders
On April 11, 1881, the institution for
Negro women which is now known
far and wide as Spelman College was
founded in the Basement of Friend
ship Baptist Church in Atlanta. It be
gan with two teachers, the Founders,
and eleven students, grown women who
wished to learn to write letters and
to read the Bible, and immediately the
Bible became the main text book, a
thing not at all unusual in that day.
In the years that have followed that
historic year, 1881, four presidents
have nobly and adequately kept the
ideals and principles of the institution
burning in a continuous flame. Spelman
Seminary was the first institution of
the kind for Negro women in America.
Miss Sophia Packard, one of the
Founders and the first president, was a
strong executive, a great believer in
justice, was considerate and kind and
had a very high regard for the rights
of students. A significant remark of
hers which has been handed down was
this, “I am not speaking for now, but
r am building now for one hundred
years hence. ’ ’
After the death of Miss Packard,
Miss Harriet Giles, co-founder with
Miss Packard, be came the second pres
ident of Spelman. Miss Giles was a re
served, quiet, modest woman and is said
to have possessed a very accurate mem
ory. A remark of hers which her stu
dents treasured and quoted was, “The
mark of a lady is to be quiet.” She
not only said this, but lived this poise
in her own life. A number of teachers
of the early days were held in high es
teem, among them were Miss Lucy Up
ton for whom l pton Home was named,
and Miss ( frover, for whom the alumni
named the fountain.
The Unconquerable Irish
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was an important source to the civili
zation of the Britons before the occu
pation of the island by the Romans and
through all the centuries until the in
vasion by the Norman French made
culture in England self-sustaining and
self-perpetuating.
Ireland's influence has been in direct
proportion to her firm conviction that
every nation has something that it can
contribute to the welfare and cultural
advancement of every other nation. And
as her people have migrated beyond her
borders, they have carried their Irish
faith, their Irish humor, Irish songs and
Irish love of participation in the affairs
of government. Therefore, although
they are a small nation in numbers and
extent of territory, they have had
through the ages a profound influence
upon the civilization of the world.
The song, “Carry On,” well express
es the motto of the fourth president,
who had served twenty years as a
teacher along with the founders before
the death of Miss Giles and who served
as president and still as a teacher for
seventeen more years. This third presi
dent was a woman who well understood
human nature, was a woman of keen
perception, a person of large under
standing, was easily approached and
jolly, but was a person who could not
be fooled—Miss Lucy Hale Tapley. Her
picture hangs in the entry way to Tap-
lep Hall, which was named for her.
And now on the fifty-eighth birthday
of Spelman College, Ave find the fourth
president carrying on those ideals set
forth by the former presidents and
adding others as the times change.
Gracious in manner, thorough, with a
great interest in each student as an in
dividual, and in the Avelfare of all, Miss
Florence M. Read is constantly work
ing toward the end that “Spelman
College must remain academically sec
ond to none.” In the fifty-eighth year
of the one hundred of which Miss Pack
ard spoke, Ave find Spelman College rat
ing high in comparison with other col
leges in the United States and an ideal
college for Negro Avomen of America.
It is also interesting to Spelman
women to knOAV that Mrs. Hannah A.
Reddick Avas the first Negro Avoman to
serve as a trustee of the first college
for Negro Avomen.
As our Founders Day anniversary
approaches, Ave pay tribute again to
these Founders Avho untiringly gave
their seiwice for a noble cause. They
are each examples of the type of lives
that are needed today. In the same way
in Avhich the Founders connected them
selves Avith a Avorthy cause and “hitch
ed their Avagon to a star,” may Ave also
become immortal for having lost our
selves in some Avorthv cause.
YWCA
Tknah Mae Burleigh
On March 17, 18, 1!), 1989, will be
held the annual meeting of tin 1 Georgia
Student Christian Conference. This
meeting, an interracial one of the state
student Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
and state Volunteers, will be held at.
Paine College, Augusta, Ga. The theme
is “Christian Imperatives for Us.”
This year makes one year of progress
for this young organization.
The students attending will find
open to them four general discussion
groups Avhich they may enter by their
own choice. These groups are:
The Church: What is the church's
place in the modern Avorld ? Can the
church challenge youth? What is the
church?
Jesus: What did he teach? Why was
he unique? Are we his folloAvers?
Prayer and Worship: What is pray
er? When does one pray? Why do we
pray ?
Christians in An Unchristian Soci
ety: Is man inherently good or evil?
What are the causes of the present
chaos? What can avc do to build a
more Christian society?
The Spelman branch of the Y. W.
C. A. Avill be represented by the fol
lowing people: Marjorie Greene, Char
ley Mae A illiamson, Ida Wood, Louise
Gaillard, and Zelma Thomas.
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