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8 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. 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