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2 CAMPUS MI R R0 R THE CAMPUS MIRROR The Students' Own Publication "SERVICE IN UNITY" THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Nina Charlton Associate Editors-in-Chief Catherine Acklin Charlie W. McNeill News Editor ... _ Gwendolyn Harrison Associate News Editors Evangeline Few Marguerite Pearson Sports and Jokes Carolyn Taylor Music Editor ... Dora Kennedy Social Editor. Madeline Patterson Art Editors Geneva Higgins Mary Parks Ethel Boykin Lois Blayton Special Features Ida Kilpatrick BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Ella Lett Circulation Manager Del Alexa Eagan Treasurer Charlotte Linder Secretaries . .. Marie Lauray Barbara Mosley Marion Edwards Advertising Manager Eleanor Milton Exchange Editor Lelabelle Freeman Faculty Advisor Claudia White Harreld SUBSCRIPTION RATES 75 cents a year, 10 cents a copy, 40 cents a semester—Postage 2 cents a copy 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 Referring to them as defense securities is as out-of-date as tak ing three lumps of sugar in your coffee.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 (Continued on page 6) 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!!