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4 CAMPUS MIRROR Our Benefactors It was truly an hour with far-reaching purpose in that prayer meeting in Cleve land. Ohio, when Mr. John D. Rockefel ler, Sr. heard the earnest pleas for the needs of Negro women and began a re sponse that has continued to this day. When M iss Packard and Miss Giles re turned to Atlanta, they received the sum of five hundred dollars with greetings from the donor to themselves and to their students. In 1884 Mr. and Mrs. Rocke feller with two of their children and Mrs. Spelman. mother of Mrs. Rockefeller, while making a tour of the South, stopped at Spelman to see how the little school was progressing. The visitors left with a determination to aid in the maintenance of the school and with a real interest in the individual students. Mrs. Spelman and Mrs. Rockefeller kept up a regular correspondence with a number of the girls. Mr. Rockefeller not only gave large sums of money to the school, but was the constant adviser of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, giving them in their early struggle the benefit of his practical knowl edge of financial management. His inter est in the personal welfare of the girls led him to advise the building of a substantial brick laundry for them, to which he gave the most of the funds. When Union Hall was burned and the school was in dire need of additional buildings, money came from an anonymous donor for the build ing of Giles Hall. The funds for building the other brick structures have come al most wholly, directly or indirectly, from the Rockefeller family. Valuable and needed as these gifts have been, yet more Right: Harriet Gilks, Principal of Spelman Seminary, 1891-1909. Left: Sophia Packard, Co-Principal with Miss Giles. 1881-1891. Can't We Get Together? In a recent article in The Allied Youth, Mrs. Grace Sloane Overton, who visited our campus with the University Christian Mission, told the story of Charlotte and Maurice. When Maurice, who was engaged to Charlotte, went to her house drunk, her parents strongly objected. When put on the witness stand. Charlotte said she knew he drank and thought that her parents were quite narrow minded because in her crowd getting a little drunk was some thing of a joke. Her parents could not understand how any girl in her senses would even think of marrying a drinker. Charlotte's parents might have told her that she did not have to pick a “drinker” for a husband. The ordinary marriage has sufficient hazards and it really isn't neces sary to begin marriage with such a handi cap as a drinking husband. Says Mrs. Overton. “Young people today are great ly in need of understanding and guidance in place of criticism and disapproval in facing and solving important personal problems.” than the gifts is cherished the spirit in which they have come, for with each con tribution, whether material or spiritual, made by the Spelman-Rockefeller family, one can feel the warmth of tenderness, the human love of these people pulsating and enriching the souls of the members of the Spelman student family. Dogwood Blossoms Mattie Mae Freeman 42 The thing that impressed me most dur ing that pleasant Easter drive was the dogwood blossoms. Some were growing wild among the oak trees and the honey suckle vines, and there were some in the yards of the homes in Druid Hills. A beau tiful tree had grown along the side of the road with blossoms as thick as they could possibly grow. The branches hung low, weighted down with blossoms, and some extended into the air triumphant with the glory of waving plumes. All the trees were beautiful, but this special one was my choice, because it seemed to greet the people on the highway full of cheer.