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Vol. XX April, 1944 No 7
Editorial
The Fifth War Loan
The Fifth War Loan is scheduled to
run from June 12 to July 8. Get ready to
buy that bond that will pay for that bomb
that will fall on Tokyo.
It’s not a gift, it’s a thrift. No one gives
anything away when he buys a War Bond
or Stamp; he merely invests in one of
the finest securities on the market. Buy
ing Bonds is no sacrifice — it’s common
sense.
America is on the offensive on all fronts.
The name Defense Bonds and Stamps was
changed to War Bonds and Stamps soon
after Pearl Harbor. Referring to them as
defense securities is as out-of-date as tak
ing three lumps of sugar in your coffee.
War Bonds are an investment in any
body’s future. The government guaran
tees that no one will ever lose one penny
of the amount he invests in War Stamps
and Bonds. They can he redeemed
through post offices and banks — without
loss; without commissions; and. more-
oner, with interest, if the Bond has been
held long enough.
SUPPORT
THE UNITED NEGRO
COLLEGE FUND
DRIVE
Third Annual Art Exhibit
The Third Annual Exhibition of Paint
ings. Sculpture and Prints by Negro Ar
tists opened at four P.M. on Sunday,
April 2. in the Exhibition Gallery of the
Atlanta University Library. Approxi
mately one hundred and fifty art works
were included in the show, representing
the best works of more than seventy-five
contemporary Negro artists.
Eleven of the art works on display
have won fourteen hundred dollars in
cash purchase prizes. The highest award
of $300. for the best portrait or figure
painting, was won by John Farrar, six
teen-year-old artist of New York City,
for his painting in oil entitled “Queenie.”
The coveted John Hope Award of $250
for the best landscape was awarded to
Sgt. Cecil D. Nelson Jr., of Tuskegee,
Alabama, for his “Tragedy in One
Scene”; and the first Atlanta University
Award of $150 was won by John
Wilson of Boston, Massachusetts (top
winner in the 1943 exhibit) for his im
pression of a section outside of Boston,
which he calls “Roxbury Landscape.”
Two hundred dollars went to two ar
tists for work in water colors. One hun
dred and twenty-five dollars to Frank W.
Neal of New York, for his creation
“Woman in White”; and seventy-five dol
lars to Vernon Winslow of New Orleans,
Louisiana, for his “Sharecropper’s Mi
gration No. 2.”
Awards totalling $350 were given for
the outstanding work submitted in sculp
ture. Highest award of $250 went to
Staff Sgt. William E. Artis of the 366th
Infantry for a head in plaster called
“Woman With Kerchief”; and to Selma
Hortense Burke of New York w r ent the
second award of $100 for her head in
marble, “Amazonia.”
All of the winning paintings have be
come the permanent property of Atlanta
University and will be a part of the Uni
versity’s authoritative collection of con
temporary Negro art.
Serving as judges in the show were
Lewis P. Skidmore, director, High Mu
seum of Art; President Rufus E. Cle
ment of Atlanta University; Mrs. Harold
Bush-Brown. Atlanta artist; Steffan
Thomas, Atlanta sculptor; and Hale
Woodruff, of Atlanta University.
The Senior Dance
The members of the Senior Class were
entertained by Dean Lyons on March 22
at a very elaborate and enjoyable formal
dance in Morgan Hall.
The college colors, blue and white,
and dogwood blooms combined to form
the beautiful decorations. The soft lights
and the sweet, sentimental or swing music
made it all the more a delightful oc
casion.
The girls and their escorts, after be-
What The Campus Is Reading
“Avalanche” — Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle, a native of St. Paul. Min
nesota, who since 1922 had lived in
Austria. France and England, returned
to America in 1941. The author of thir
teen hooks, she was awarded a Guggen
heim Fellowship in 1934 and has twice
won the 0. Henry Memorial Prize for
the best short story of the year.
The scene of Avalanche is laid in
France today. It is a story of the daunt
less courage that the freedom-loving
French peasants revealed in their re
fusal to submit to their conquerors. The
three main protagonists riding through
unoccupied France in the “blacked out
compartment” of a train are wary of
being drawn into conversation with one
another, lest they reveal some scrap of
information to an unseen enemy. Fenton
Ravel, daughter of an American mother
and a French father, is returning to
Treux, her home town, after an absence
of three years, in search of her childhood
sweetheart, Bastineau, who had disap
peared in the days of intrigue that fol
lowed the occupation by the enemy. De
Vaudois, the Swiss watch merchant, with
a scar on his cheek which gives a sinister
twist to his mouth, is on his way to
Treux to climb the glaciers in search of
the son of a friend who was killed in
an avalanche during the preceding sum
mer. Jacqueminot, a young French moun
taineer, has been down into the plains
to purchase wool and any other sec
ondary supplies that the enemy has not
requisitioned.
These three people, going to a common
destination for varied and definite rea
sons, are greeted with feelings of sus
picion. hostility and friendliness, respec
tively, by the townspeople. Fenton slowly
realizes there is an undercurrent of strong
resentment and antagonism toward her
among many of her former friends. But
it is not until her old friend, Cousin
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ing graciously greeted upon entering by
Dean Lyons and others who made up the
receiving line, hurried off to join the
fun of the evening. They danced to the
music of “Sweet Slumber”, the immortal
“Stardust”, and many other favorite
melodies played by the orchestra.
Not until they were stopped to be
served delicious ice cream did the couples
leave their dancing, and then immediate
ly resumed it after refreshments.
At the hour of departure, each person
tried to make the best of the last few
valuable and precious minutes and when
the time was up. everyone left very hap
py, though reluctant.
Orchids from the Seniors to Dean
Lyons for a wonderful time!!