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Atlanta University
Summer School
Attracted by a varied program which
included several new features, 806 stu
dents attended the 1940 summer school
session. Of this record-breaking enroll
ment, 351 were graduate students. Many
vocations and professions were repre
sented; teachers, librarians, dentists,
ministers, social workers, laboratory
technicians, secretaries and insurance
agents, who came from twenty-five states
of the Union, from the District of Co
lumbia. and from the Bahama Islands.
The Education Department was the most
popular, with an enrollment of 387 stu
dents.
Regular features which were continued
this summer were the French Institute,
the Curriculum Laboratory, the Progres
sive Education Demonstration School,
the One-Room Rural School, the Library
School for Teacher-Librarians, the Min
isters’ Institute, the Summer School Cho
rus, and the Summer School of the The
atre. This year the Theatre was under
the direction of Miss Anne Cooke who
was assisted by Mr. Owen Dodson, of
Spelman College, Mr. James W. Butch
er, of Howard University, and Mr. Thom
as D. Pawley, of Prairie View State
College. The wide range of plays pre
sented included: “What A Life,” by
Clifford Goldsmith; “R. U. R.,” by Karel
Capek; Richard B. Sheridan’s “School
for Scandal "; “Mamba’s Daughters,” by
Dubose Heyward, and Bernard Shaw’s
“Pygmalion.”
“The World After the Present War”
was the general topic of the summer
forum series, which was under the chair
manship of Dr. Ira DeA. Reid. The
speakers and their subjects were: Mr.
Olivers, “How Effectively Can Social
Science Be Taught in Negro Schools”;
Dr. Coulborn, “International Politics in
a Totalitarian World” and “Thoughts
and Ideas in a Totalitarian World;” Dr.
Reid, “Social and Political Institutions
in a Totalitarian World”; and Mr. L. I).
Milton. “Commerce and Finance in a
Totalitarian World.”
In the Arts and Crafts Workshop, con
ducted this summer for the first time, the
students learned the techniques of weav
ing, basketry, leather-tooling, finger
painting, tie and dye, pottery, puppet
making. linoleum block printing, char
coal drawing and water coloring under
the guidance of Mr. Hale Woodruff and
Mrs. Elaine Hill Snowden. The main
purpose of the Workshop was to pre
sent teachers with interesting projects
which were useful yet inexpensive, and
which could easily be carried on in any
school, no matter how limited its resour
ces and equipment. The Carnegie Libra
ry on old Atlanta University Campus
was utilized, and its spacious and well-
New Faculty and Staff
Members Welcomed
Eleven new r members are welcomed to
the Spelman Community this year, in
cluding six teachers, three graduate as
sistants, and two staff members in the
administrative offices. The newcomers to
Spelman have had wide and varied ex
periences, including both travel and
study.
Coming to Spelman from Annandale-
on-Hudson. New York, is Dr. Irville Fay
Davidson, who is teaching Classics to
both graduate and undergraduate stu
dents. Dr. Davidson earned his A.B. at
Harvard, and the A.M. from the Univer
sity of Chicago. From St. Stevens Col
lege he received the A.M. and L.H.D. de
grees. Dr. Davidson has taught at Mt.
Pleasant Military Academy in Ossining,
New York, and at Lakewood. New Jer
sey. He has served as professor, library
director, dean, and acting president at
St. Stevens College (now Bard College).
The History Department welcomes as
a new member Dr. Alice Hotchkiss, from
Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Hotchkiss
has served in both administrative and
teaching capacities at Bishops School in
La Jolla, California, and the Castilleja
School in Palo Alto. She received her
A.B. and A.M. from Mills College and
her Ph.D. at the University of California.
Miss Julia Ruth Denham from Buf
falo, New York, has been appointed in
structor of the Dance; she is also teach
ing in the French department. Miss Den
ham has studied with Miss Elizabeth
Duncan in her school at Munich, Ger-
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lighted rooms made an effective work
shop.
In the Oglethorpe building on the
same campus another workshop was in
progress. Under the direction of Princi
pal W. A. Robinson of the Laboratory
Schools, a selected number of high school
principals met together in the workshop
in Secondary Education. They investi
gated the various problems of the high
school. Lectures were given by different
leaders in the field of education.
The two-day conference (June 24 and
25) on Safety Education offered a pro
gram of leadership training, field work,
and research in safety education. This
conference was a part of a nation-wide
program on safety education with its
center at New York University. It was
led by Dr. Charles C. Hawkins, More
house 30, Research Associate of the
Center.
From July 1 to July 4. a School for
Agricultural Workers was conducted,
under the auspices of the l nited States
Department of Agriculture.
A very helpful Reading Clinic was
supervised by Mrs. Poole.
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