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CAMPUS MIRROR Platter Chatter “I don’t know what's wrong with me. I can get English, hut History and I just don t seem to hitch horses right.” “Guess 1 II go home and wash some socks. 1 had to borrow a pair yesterday. That always tolls me that my supply is about depleted. “This lady of leisure is plan ning to spend her afternoon in bed.” “I just can find no other reason. It must be this war. Honestly, it’s the hardest thing for me to get my mind on my books.” “Don't say a thing to me — I’ve just received my first ‘good’ on a History paper and at present I’m in another world. So pull-e-a-s-e, say nothing.” Just a bit of colloquial jabber that goes on and on day after day. Everyone pro ceeds on her way plugging diligently (at least appearing to do so). But, ah! The note of conversation has changed. This is what we hear now. “This time two weeks from now—oh! happy day.” “I've told Mother not to buy one thing for me this year. I’m going to make what I have do and give my money to the Red Cross.” “I wish Junior could be home this Christmas, hut no chance of that. He just had a furlough last month.” And so the tide turns. Conversation is now mostly concerned with “What I m going to do when I get home.” Marian Clark declares Christ mas isn't Christmas unless it is spent in her own house. So if there are hut three days’ vacation, she is determined to spend them there. Chicago! Here she conies. Doris and Roselyn Daniels are making plans to show two visiting Spelmanites the sights of that great metropolis, Orangeburg, South Carolina. They tell me inviting stories about the beautiful Edisto. That's their largest theater— somewhat comparable to Radio City Music Hall in N. Y. Evangeline Bron- seau seems to have finally settled on re turning to her native city. The Juniors say, “Oh. give me a home.” Some of our farsighted folk are visiting their families this Christmas because they intend to remain in summer school. In this cate gory we find Edith Johnson, Gwen Hins- ley, Lois Blayton. Ferris Fowler and a few others. “Fine Latson is planning to return for the specific purpose of getting acquainted with her “ancestors.” Her "ancestors,’' for the benefit of the puzzled reader, are her relatives that she has overlooked on the past two years’ sum mer vacations. Dora has promise of a good time in the near future. Merry Christmas and Cheerio to all—. MRS. LUDIE ANDREWS (Continued from page 3) by side with the white nurses and do whatever they did but we couldn’t write ‘R.N.’ Today you can see its importance. 1 hink of the places colored nurses would he barred from without it. There is a pressing demand for the Registered Nu rse. “Finally, we all had our vouches signed. I then notified the State Board that we were ready to take the state examination, but the examinations were given without notification to us. It was then that I employed a lawyer — a Mr. Douglas of Douglas & Douglas. “I put the facts before him and paid him half of his fee. As I was leaving his office, I asked. ‘Now, Mr. Douglas, when the case is won, will all of the colored nurses in Georgia be able to register?’ ‘Oh, no, tins is just for you,’ was his re ply. ‘Oh. Mr. Douglas, may I come back for a few minutes? You see, I am now the superintendent of the colored nurses of Grady. This is the highest position I can hold in the state. I am thinking of the privilege for those who come after me because, you see, all of them can’t be superintendents of Grady. I have been working on this idea for ten years and the period of active duty for a nurse is supposed to he just seven years so, you see, I have already worked three over time.’ “Mr. Douglas then raised his fee; I paid him half of the increase and left. “In 1920 the case was won and from then on the colored nurses of Georgia have been able to write ‘R.N.’ after their names.” When Mrs. Andrews left Grady she went to Morehouse College where she was superintendent of the student infirm ary and instructor in health education at Morehouse Summer School and at the Atlanta School of Social Work. In 1927 she came to Spelman where she is still serving as superintendent of McVicar Hospital, being responsible for the health of the students of Spelman, of Morehouse and of Atlanta University. I left McVicar with a promise to Mrs. Andrews that I would return to see her “notes and papers.” My return proved to be just as inter esting as the first visit. “I feel a little tired.” began Mrs. An drews, "I have just returned from an in terracial meeting.” So we began to talk about interracial affairs, and Mrs. Andrews revealed the fact that she is a member of the Fulton and DeKalb Committee on Racial Coop eration. I learned further that Mrs. An drews had served as volunteer worker of the Atlanta Tuberculosis Association Social Science Forum The social science majors of Clark, Morris Brown, Morehouse, Spelman, At lanta University School of Social Work, and Atlanta University met in the ex hibition room of the Atlanta University Library on the evening of December 1 to organize themselves into a group for discussion of the social problems that are facing them and the world. Dr. Ira De A. Reid acted as temporary chairman. The forum is to he a student organiza tion, but members feel free to seek the advice of any faculty member of any in stitution they choose. The problems con sidered will be those presented by the membership and will he discussed in any way the group decides. I his is a step forward in student dis cussion of social problems and there is much to he learned in many fields. The success of this organization will depend on the interest manifested by the social science majors, and it is the hope of the group that the enthusiasm shown in at tendance at the first meeting will be main tained throughout the year. Now is the time to broaden your experience. from the time of its organization up to the present. She was president of the Neighborhood Union for 15 years—an organization that ministered to underprivileged mothers and children. She organized the Georgia State Association for Colored Nurses and reorganized the Atlanta group. She showed me a copy of the first letter sent out to the nurses in Georgia, on March 15, 1927, in her attempt to start the State Association. She also showed me the original constitution of the Atlanta col ored nurses, compiled in 1907, and the one of 1920 when she reorganized them. Of very great interest are the two re ceipts from Mr. Douglas, the lawyer, for his services in obtaining the oppor tunity for the colored nurses of Georgia to register. On October 31, 1943, at a meeting of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, held in the First Con gregational Church in Atlanta, Mrs. An drews was given the Mary Mahoney Award. This award is in the form of a gold medal which bears the name of Miss Mary E. P. Mahoney, the first colored woman to prepare herself for the nurs ing profession. She was graduated from a New England hospital in 1879. The award is designed to keep alive Miss Mahoney’s memory and is given for dis tinguished service and accomplishments in the field of nursing. As we survey the achievements of Mrs. Andrews, we become confident that cour age, patience, persistence and endurance will overcome what may seem unconquer able forces and bring success.