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CAMPUS MIRROR
At The Sign Of The Blue
Gussie E. Turner, ’45
The “Y” Cabinet, which consists of three
committee chairmen, four officers, and Miss
Saine, its faculty advisor, met in the Lounge
of Rockefeller Hall on September 26, 1943,
at eight o’clock.
This meeting was the first and served as
a precedent for the ones to follow. Tentative
plans were made for this semester. These
include debates, speakers, outdoor picnics.
The “Y” Cabinet is asking that the members
at large submit other suggestions. You will
be told of the procedure to be followed
shortly after the membership drive, which
extends from September 27 to October 2,
1943.
The “Y” is hoping that it will have much
to offer her members this year. She can
boast of a great heritage and with your
individual help this women’s organization
can be assured of success in the future. Will
you support it to the best of your ability?
That is the question and you alone can
answer it!
An Introduction to the Male
Shortage
(Continued from page 3)
it would be more convenient from the dating
point of view to have it on our own campus
— and even from the reading point of view,
for we haven’t seen more of it than the ex
terior since Registration Day. Disappoint
ment number two.
Our Sunday worship services proved to be
one of the many traditions of Spelman. We
joined the Morehouse Freshmen in their
chapel services in the morning. Then later
at the Friendship Baptist Church, in the
basement of which Spelman was begun by
Miss Packard and Miss Giles in 1881, we
were told much of our school’s early history
and also that we should never scorn an
humble beginning.
Apart from examinations, talks, and small
disappointments, however, our new home is
to be commended. She is an ideal Alma
Mater.
We are well pleased with the dominant
personalities on the campus: Miss Read, our
college president; Mrs. Lyons, our Dean of
Women; Mrs. Curry, Dean of Freshmen;
Miss Ella Tyree, the student body president,
and our own Hazel Maurie Tackett, the
temporary chairman and, we hope, permanent
president of the Spelman class of 1947. We
have three lovely housemothers. Mrs. Rose
is as kind and thoughtful as is possible in
dealing with so many green freshmen. Mrs.
Sampson and Mrs. Gassett are doing splen-
Dr. Mercer Cook
(Continued from page 4)
“Can you tell he about Mr. Cook’s present
trip to Haiti and his latest hook 'Five French
Negro Authors’?”
Jumping up suddenly and telling me to fol
low, Mr. Bacote rushed up two flights of
stairs to the publication office, only to find
it closed unt’l after lunch. “These people
really close on time around here!” he ex
claimed. “I brought you up here in order
to get the correct answers to your question.
Come back after lunch.”
I returned later that afternoon to the pub
lication office. This is the information I re
ceived there: Mr. Cook’s latest book, (Le
Noire and Portrait Americains were his first
two books) “Five French Negro Authors” is
a study of the life and works of Julien Rai-
mond, Charles Bissette, Alexandre Dumas,
Auguste Lacaussade, and Rene Maran. It
represents chronologically the period from
the French Revolution to the Second World
War. Raimond and Bissette are represent
ative of the days when Negro slavery was
still a problem in French colonial life;
Dumas and Lacaussade witnessed the em
ergence of free France; and Rene Maran is
a modern.
Dr. Mercer Cook has now been granted a
year’s leave of absence to supervise an Eng
lish teaching project in Haiti sponsored by
the United States Office of Education and
the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
The Mission has been organized to further
the cause of inter-American understanding.
Home Economics Club
Edna Lemo&, ’55
The Home Economics Club held its first
meeting of the year Friday, September 29,
1943, in Giles Hall. The officers for 1943-44
were elected as follows:
President Mary F. Martin
Vice-President Kornyce Campbell
Secretary Ella Lett
Treasurer Nellie Bush
Reporter Edna Lemon
The committee chairmen elected were:
Social Committee Louise Jones
Program Committee Claudia R. Davis
Membership Committee Jessie Bivins
Decorating Committee Norma Payton
The time for meetings will be on Friday
from 5 to 6 p.m., the date to be posted. All
members are urged to attend.
did jobs in assisting her with our problems
and daily life.
A cultured or gentle background will not
be thwarted here; and a more careless one
will be exchanged for a broader and deeper
aspect of life and our surroundings.
If the best is in us, it will be brought
forth: if it is lacking, the best will be im
planted, with only one proviso — that we are
willing and eager to have and be the best.
We hail “Fair Spelman,” her traditions,
and her future.
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