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CAMPUS MIRROR 7 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- (Continued on Page 8) 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. 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