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Vol. XX October, 1943 No. 1
Editorial
This year at Spelman College will be a
good year if there is cooperation on the part
of all members of this community. By
cooperation we mean easy adjustment to
various situations and working together to
make the best of all those situations.
The Freshman Class, as is the Sophomore
Class, is the largest in the history of Spel
man. The enrollment of the entire school is
the largest in the history of the college. This
large enrollment can be an asset or a li
ability— the matter rests with each indi
vidual member of this community.
We must become adjusted as quickly as
possible and as quietly and easily as pos
sible to the changes which of necessity have
been and will be made. It is not possible
that every change will suit our likes or dis
likes, because it would necessitate a differ
ent way of doing any particular thing for
each individual. For example, it would be
difficult for the person in charge to have 500
different methods of giving out mail. After
a single way of action has been decided on,
for the good of all concerned, it is then up
to us to become adjusted to it as quickly as
possible.
This 1943-44 student body is to be admired
for the cooperative spirit which has been
so clearly shown in the girls’ volunteering
to help keep the campus beautiful. Raking
leaves is a lot of fun and yet it is work, but
when the job is done, the campus is more
beautiful and a man has been released to do
a more necessary job elsewhere. Such is the
spirit that we hope will be maintained
throughout the rest of this college year.
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Tomorrow
No doubt each of us has come to college
or is returning to college with more enriched
aspirations. We shall aspire for the higher
qualities of life and our vision of Tomorrow
shall take form.
Tomorrow is inevitable. Your tomorrow
is inherent in your today. It is as stern a
reality as the need for daily bread. More so,
for the qualities of tomorrow are the ac
cumulated, the compounded power for good
and ill that is drawn from the experiences
that go before. Youth’s tomorrow is a stark
and stern reality which faces youth in each
day.
Each person deep down in his secret self
has a vision of the kind of woman or man
he would like to he. Each boy or girl car
ries within his heart a vision of himself at
his finest and best and that vision is colored
with hopes and dreams and powerful desires,
the realization of which becomes the measure
of satisfaction with one’s way of life.
Nobody is forced to the trial. It is as if
the Creator said, “Here you are. You have a
mind and a will, a wish and a way. Go to
it; no more will be given you save what
you put into each day’s labor, each day’s
growth.”
Achievement and worth demand high quali
ty of living in terms of control, service,
labor and devotion; quality in our work for
the sake of the glory ahead, for it is quality
that lends beauty and strength to our tasks.
Let us use our todays wisely and our To
morrows will serve us well.
Spelman Welcomes New
Faculty and Staff
Appointees
Ida Kilpatrick, ’46
We are fortunate to have with us this
year a number of new additions in the
departments of English, Fine Arts, Physical
Education, and Science.
In the department of English, we have
as a visiting professor Dr. Norman F. Cole
man, fromerly President of Reed College in
Portland, Oregon. In addition to his courses
in English, Dr. Coleman will offer during
the year a one-hour lecture-discussion course
on post-war problems. Dr. Coleman is not
a new figure in these surroundings. In 1939,
he spent several weeks on the campuses,
lecturing on various aspects of the interna
tional situation; again in 1942, he was a
guest of Spelman and the affiliated institu
tions conducting a weekly forum series on
international affairs and a seminar on the
English Bible.
Dr. Coleman earned academic degrees at
the University of Toronto and Harvard Uni
versity, and has been awarded the hon
orary degree of doctor of laws by Mills Col
lege and the University of Oregon. For the
last five years, he has been special educa
tional advisor and visiting professor of Eng
lish at Macalester College in Minnesota. He
has travelled extensively in Europe and the
Orient, visiting Russia, Japan, China and
India. On his travels through Russia he was
accompanied by Sherwood Eddy. During
the first World War, Dr. Coleman was edu
cational advisor of the Y. M. C. A. and a
special lecturer for the A. E. F. in France.
He has been president of the Oregon Social
Hygiene Society, the Portland Americaniza
tion Council, the Japan Society of Portland,
and the Boys and Girls Aid Society of Ore
gon.
In the Department of Fine Arts, we have
on the music faculty Miss Portia Jenkins of
Davidson, North Carolina, and Mrs. Sara
Owsley Stivers of Tuskegee, Ala., Mrs. Marg
ery Wheeler Brown of Atlanta, will teach
painting and drawing and Miss Frances
Perkins will assist in dramatics and speech.
Miss Jenkins earned the bachelor of arts
degree at Atlanta University and the degree
of bachelor of music at Syracuse University.
She has taught at Mary Allen Junior College
in Crockett, Texas, and in the Washington
High School of Reidsville, North Carolina.
Miss Jenkins has had more than ten years’
experience in teaching music.
Mrs. Stivers is a graduate of Tuskegee In
stitute and has taught music for five years.
Mrs. Brown, a 1932 graduate from Spelman
College, later studied Fine Arts at Ohio State
University for two years. She is a former
art instructor at the Hillside High School
in Durham, North Carolina; and has taught
for several years at the Booker T. Washing
ton High School in Atlanta.
Miss Marguerite Simon, now connected
with the department of Physical Education,
taught for three months at Spelman College
during 1942-43. She is also a 1935 graduate
of Spelman College, and has taught at the
Conecuh High School in Evergreen, Ala
bama; the Eddy High School in Milledge-
ville, Georgia; and in the public schools of
Atlanta.
Dr. Warren Elliott Henry of Tuskegee In
stitute has been appointed professor of chem
istry. Dr. Henry has specialized in the field
of physical chemistry and his appointment
is significant inasmuch at it will strengthen
the offerings in physical chemistry in the
Atlanta University System.
A native of Evergreen, Alabama, Dr. Henry
earned the B.S. degree at Tuskegee Institute
in 1931; the M.S. at Atlanta University in
1937; and the Ph.D. at the University of
Chicago in 1941. With the exception of
three years when he served as principal of
the Escambia Training School in Alabama,
Dr. Henry has been on the faculty of Tuske
gee Institute.
In April, 1937, Dr. Henry, in cooperation
with John T. Williamson, prepared a manual
of the Procedures in Elementary Qualitative
Chemical Analysis.
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