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Spelman Faculty News
Penelope Bullock. ’41
This year eight members of the Spel
man College faculty and staff are begin
ning their fir.-t year at the college, while
other members are temporarily away for
research and study.
Because of the temporary absence of
Mrs. Margaret N. Curry of the history
department. Miss Elizabeth Jackson who
holds a master’s degree from Atlanta
University has been appointed to teach
history at her alma mater. Mrs. Curry
is studying at the University of Michi
gan towards the Ph.D. degree.
A member of the Atlanta University
Summer School faculty has become a
member of the Spelman faculty, Mr.
Owen Dodson, A.B., from Bates College
and A.M. from Yale University, who
will serve in the drama department. Miss
Anne M. Cooke of this department is
studying another year at Yale Univer
sity in the School of Fine Arts.
Filling the vacancy left by Mr. Willis
L. James in the music department is
M iss Jean Coston. a graduate of Oberlin.
Named to the department of philoso
phy and religion is Dr. A. W. Loos, who
has earned the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Edinburgh.
The acting head of the home econom
ics department is Miss Stella Mather, a
graduate of Kansas State College and
Teachers’ College (Columbia Univer-
sity), who has previously held positions
in Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona, Maryland
and Washington. D. C. Also new in the
home economics department is Miss Eth
el McVeety, who received her training
from North Dakota State College and
Teachers' College. Columbia. She, like
wise. has had wide experience as a teach
er in the field of home economics.
To serve in a new position at the col
lege. that of Dean of Freshmen, is Mrs.
M. Rebekah Jeffries, who has a rich
background for working with young
women.
New appointments to the staff are:
Miss Doris Davis of Roslyn, New Vork.
as secretary to the President; and Miss
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Citizenship Dav Program —
October 12, 1939
This year the Georgia Educational As
sociation sponsored a Better Citizenship
Day Program to recognize the young men
and young women of this state who
reached the age of twenty-one since last
October 12, 1938. and by that date of
this year.
At Spelman instructive talks were
made by Ellenor Chaires, who spoke on
“Our American Heritage” and Dorothea
Irby, who spoke on “The Viewpoint of
a New Citizen.” After the oath of alle
giance by all in the audience of voting
age, twelve Spelman students were pre
sented certificates of Citizenship by Pres
ident Florence M. Read.
Jennie Mae Barnes, of Minneapolis, Min
nesota, as secretary to the Registrar.
Those who have returned after a leave
of absence are M rs. Marion Wilson Star
ling, who studied at Columbia Univer
sity; Mr. Frank Snowden, Jr. who stud
ied at the University of Chicago and
Miss Ernestine Anthony, who studied at
the Library School of Columbia Uni
versity.
Those who have gone to other posi
tions are Mr. John M. Ross who is now
at Fisk University and Dr. Luella F.
Norwood who studied at Yale last year
and is now in the Department of Eng
lish at Mt. Holyoke.
Filling the vacancy left by Miss Ethel
Wagg is Mrs. Myrta Gerrish from Maine.
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And hasn’t since benzine.
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Doretha Williams, ’42
On July 29. 1939. in a little town on
the Minnesota-Canadian border Baud-
ette, Minnesota, the culmination of a
happy courtship was effected: the mar
riage of Miss Helen Rodger, Secretary
to the Dean of Spelman College, to Mr.
Tarde Wilke, a University of Minnesota
graduate.
At Spring Valley in the southern part
of the state the couple spent a month’s
honeymoon, after which Miss Rodger re
turned to Spelman.
Mu sic Department
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man was such that she was graduated
from the Institute of Musical Art of the
Juilliard Foundation in one year—1934.
She spent one year of graduate work
at Juilliard and at the end of this year
she had won a scholarship from the
Drama League of America for study in
the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg.
Austria. This admitted her also to the
rehearsals of the Salzburg Music Fes
tival. Also while there she went to Bul
garia as a delegate to the World Student
Christian Federation. The following year
she attended Radeliffe College and re
ceived the degree of Master of Arts in a
course involving music composition and
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