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CA M P US MIRROR
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Class Will
Georgia, Fulton County:
We. the graduating class of Spelman
College. 1944, do hereby make, declare
and publish this our last Will and Testa
ment. hereby revoking and annulling any
and all other wills by us heretofore
made.
We collectively and individually be
queath our virtues to those friends to
whose needs they seem best fitted.
We have tried to be just unto those
who will make the best use of such gifts
as we have in our power to bestow. We
have sought to distribute the talents that
have served us so faithfully these four
years; such possessions, therefore, as we
think we have, we hereby give unto the
following classes, praying that they will
accept them as a sacred trust from those
of us who have gone before.
We desire and direct you to note care
fully, one and all, the document as duly
drawn up:
We, the class of 1944, in 69 individual
parts, being about to pass from this
sphere of education, in full possession
of a crammed, cramped mind, do make
and publish this, our last Will and
Testament. We do dispose of the above
as follows:
Barbara Mosley gives and bequeaths
her black 42c “Nylons" to Althea Palm
er, hoping that, she can get an addi
tional year’s wear from them; to Marion
Ellison, Barbara bequeaths her dramatic
ability.
Lelabelle Freeman bequeaths her abil
ity to state her forthright opinions in
any situation to Barbara Lockett; (we
shall hope that Barbara will not be too
shy to use it).
Norma Payton bequeaths her ability
to lead her partner through all difficult
jitterbug routines (without having her
ready “to fall out” from fatigue at the
finish) to Eunice Jackson.
Rose Lee bequeaths to Theresa Smith
her successful social life and to Cather
ine Bell her stream-lined figure.
Since Charlie McNeil has grown to be
such a great friend of Mable Emanuel’s
goldfish, Mabel gives and bequeaths the
said goldfish with and to her. (Keep up
the old friendship, Charlie.)
Josie Telefare bequeaths to Dorothy
Allen her ability to be on time for every
appointment, and to Cessie Hutchinson
a deeper interest in campus life and
activities.
Del Eagan bequeaths her ability to
see good in everything to Rachel Coates.
Charlotte Linder bequeaths her library
books (and fines) to Hazel Williams;
her volumes of mysteries Charlotte gives
to Rebecca Guyton, to he read only after
all class assignments have been done.
Carolyn Taylor bequeaths her excel
lent appetite to Mattie Mays and her
A Tribute to the Passing
Seniors
Mary English, ’45
We pay tribute to you Seniors who so
soon must leave us and we pledge our
selves ever to carry on the work you
have done so well on the Campus Mirror
Staff, in the Students Association, in the
University Players, and in all of the other
student organizations. None will ever for
get the memorable Founders Day edition
of the Campus Mirror this year, the part
you played in the Student Rally on
Founders Day, your superb performances
in Cry Havoc, or your splendid work
with the Dance Workshop. These and
many other activities we will remember
and cherish long after you have gone
out from these halls. Ours is hut to strive
to attain the high mark you have made
and surpass if we can your achievements
here. It remains for us to work, ever
mindful, ever cognizant of the example
you have set and carry forward the name
of Fair Spelman to greater glory and
lasting fame.
And now to you who can no longer
stay we say, “Dear Seniors, Farewell.”
room 219 in Morehouse South (complete
with kitchenette, in which she spent three
happy years) to Barbara and Imogene
Lockett.
Ella Tyree bequeaths her leadership
and interest in Spelman activities to any
enterprising freshman.
Estella Ashmore gives and bequeaths
her athletic ability and progress to Re
becca Guyton.
Mary Martin bequeaths her vivacity
and energy to Vivian McEall.
Marguerite Pearson wills her wind
blown hair style to Dorrie La Roche.
Lula P. Lundy bequeaths her dainty
appetite to Sarah Webster.
For use during afternoon snacks,
Gwendolyn Dowdell bequeaths to Walta
Demby her dishes and can opener.
Anna Grimes bequeaths her grand
father's walking cane with the crooked
handle to Madeline Patterson, so that
when Madeline feels too feeble to close
that front door behind her she can just
reach back and close it with her cane.
Della Bannister bequeaths her endur
ing smile to Edith G. Johnson.
Marion Edwards bequeaths her excess
weight to Evelyn Caldwell.
Emma Salter bequeaths her absent-
mindedness to Nellie Brown.
\ irginia Tillman bequeaths her versa
tility and industry to all newcoming
Seniors.
Cleo Ingram bequeaths her height to
Ruth Lanon (since she seems to have
so hard a time seeing over the cafeteria
counter in the dining hall, and never
knows what she has for dinner until she
gets her tray to the table).
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Youth at the Gate
Carolyn Taylor, ’44
In a time when man’s energy, knowl
edge and intelligence, once used to make
humanity live happily and comfortably
together, is being used to the Nth degree
to destroy mankind, perhaps the greatest
concern of the world is “whither bound
youth?”
About this season of the year cartoon
ists devote a great deal of their attention
to the college graduate. One cartoonist
has pictured him with his diploma in
hand, a baffled look on his face, walking
unsteadily into the outstretched welcom
ing hand of War. The title of this picture
is Education for Death?
Another cartoonist pictures him stand
ing at a gate at the end of a walk, writ
ing. In the background are his high
school and his college and standing near
the graduate are his parents. The title
of the picture is Youth at the Gate.
Below the pictures are these words: “Go
through, go through the gate, prepare ye
the way of the people, cast up, cast up a
highway, gather out the stones, lift up a
standard for the people,” taken from
Isaiah 62:10.
While youth’s elders stand under the
shelter of institutions, the home, the
church, the school, that have protected
and instructed youth for lo, these many
years, he marches along the walk to the
gate that opens out into a wider, un
fenced. confused world. The trainers in
the background are anxious to know the
purpose of youth as he stands at the gate
writing. He is checking his program for
the tasks that lie ahead. Yes, he must
go through the gate, he will cast up a
highway, he will gather out the stones.
But. if youth is not careful to plan his
program so that men will endeavor to
acquire attitudes of understanding and
discernment needed to build social ef
ficiency of the people of the world so
that they will maintain and not destroy
this new T order of mutual dependence he
plans to build, his effort will merely be
the prelude to an even greater World
War III.
Youth must include in his program
means to build a world in which rulers
of countries and their diplomatic am
bassadors shall find a way in keeping
with modern civilization to settle na
tional and international disturbances
other than by resorting to the cruel war
practices of the ancient emperor.
Wars have never settled a dispute nor
established a safe style of peace, hut,
rather, have fanned the flame of unrest,
engendered a spirit of retaliation and
thereby bequeathed suffering, desolation
and ruin to past society.
Youth must plan living conditions that
will convert the large sum of money
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