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Campus Mirror Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta. Georgia Vol. XV APRIL 15, 1939 No. 7 Spelman Celebrates Her 58th Anniversary Founders Day Service Alma Stone ’40 The fifty-eighth Founders Day address was delivered April 11 in Sisters Chapel hy the Rev. Charles Whitney Gilkey. Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Preach ing at the University of Chicago. Dr. Gil key began his address with the story of a tree which undergoes the process that his scientific friend. Dr. Coulter, describes as “destructive distillation.” After a tree has been burned in a vacuum furnace or distilled, the products that remain are not material that the tree has obsorbed through it> roots, but are material that the tree has derived through its leaves from intimate contact with a carbon-laden atmosphere. Dr. Gilkey chose to relate this parable to the process of education. The facts that one recites in class, or- ganizes in the library, or discovers in the laboratory are soon forgotten as life goes on. he said. The abilities that seem so promising in one s senior college year re main undeveloped. The skills that arc s (( important on the athletic court are lost as one grows older. They are like the roots of a tree w ithout which the developmental Entrance to Spelman College process would be impossible; they are visible, essential, but transient. They do not survive the destructive distillation of living. The values that do persist often can not be put into words, but come from contact with a carbon-filled atmosphere. Dr. Gilkey said that of his years of con tact with William James there are few psychological terms that he remembers, but that his life is different as a result of this experience. He told of a college ath lete who considered contact with the Coach staff the most valuable aspect of his col lege career. These values: respect, co operation. good-will, reverence, and the like, which are the carbon of an atmos phere. are derived from individuals of character and experience with whom the student comes in contact. The Founders of Spelman College, he said, were respon sible for the physical structure of the early school, but though the buildings have long since turned to dust, the spirit of the founders still supplies carbon for the atmosphere of the college, generation after generation. Dr. Gilkey found a reference in the ((iont inner! on Page 2 l A Birthday Gift to Spelman Anatol Reeves ‘39 Spelman, we bring from each daughter Blesings to thee, our own Alma Mater. To thee we pledge ourselves to be true. Thy teachings we'll follow whatever we do, Spelman. dear Alma Mater divine. Some day thy halls we shall know no more. And the friends we now have may be gone. But our love will abide in the strength of its might. And brighten our struggles with mem ory's light. As thy name we bear forward to honor and fame. Warm in our hearts is our love for thee. \s we live to bless thee through the days. \s we strive for success in the labor of life. May our thoughts turn to thee in the heat of the strife. \nd tin- h onor and glory be thine.