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CAMPUS MIRROR
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Spelman’s 64th Anniversary
Founders Day
Ida Gatrell, ’46
The celebration of Founders Day each
year is always looked forward to with
a great deal of enthusiasm by all Spel-
man students. This year on April 11 as
we observed our sixty-fourth annivers
ary we were especially fortunate in hav
ing Mr. Trevor Arnett, chairman of the
board of trustees, to share in our cele
bration.
The events of the day began with exer
cises by the students in physical educa
tion and folk lore activities on the center
campus. These included a formation of
the Spelman Seal by the seniors and
juniors, a marching drill by the fresh
men, and a letter formation by the sopho
mores. The letters formed were “P”
and “G” honoring our founders — Miss
Packard and Miss Giles. The folk danc
ing included an early American Quad
rille. Darling Nellie Gray, and circle
sets. These were rendered by the juniors
and seniors. The exercises, closing with
a flag ceremony and the National An
them, were followed by a rally and the
decoration by the Granddaughters club
of the Memorial plaques to the founders
in Howe Memorial Hall.
The rally was participated in with
high spirits by the classes and $4,103
w r as raised toward a gymnasium build
ing fund. In the competition between
the classes, each endeavoring to raise
the largest amount, the juniors won top
honors. Other contributions included
those received from the Spelman Clubs
in various cities, faculty, friends and
employes of the College.
The formal Founders Day Celebration
was held in Sisters Chapel in the after
noon. when Dr. Horace Mann Bond,
president of Fort Valley State College,
addressed the assemblage on the subject
The Seven Labors of the Modern Woman.
The audience was also privileged to
hear Mr. Arnett, who told the students
that whether or not Spelman is doing a
good job as a college depends largely
on them.
Music for the occasion was provided
by the Spelman College Glee Club under
the direction of Mr. Willis Laurence
James and the Spelman College Quartet
under the direction of Mr. Kemper Har-
reld.
Miss Packard and Miss Giles
Owen Dodson
Two women here in April prayed alone
And saw r again their vision of an altar
Built for mind and spirit, flesh and bone.
They never turned away; they never said:
“This dream is air, let us go back to our
New England spring
And cultivate an earth that is not dead;
“Let dark mothers weep, dark children
bleed,
This land is barren land.
Incapable of seed.”
They made their crucifix far more
Than ornament; they wrestled with
Denial
And pinned him on the floor.
They made defeat an exile::
And year by year their vision shed its
mist:
And still they smiled their Noah smile,
Knowing that they had no death to fear,
Knowing that their future would be now
And all the Aprils we assemble here.
Who’s Who Among Spelman
Alumnae
Mrs. Gertrude Fisher Anderson—-
Founder and owner of Nannette
Candies.
President of Spelman Alumnae Asso
ciation,
Birmingham, Alabama.
Dr. Georgia Dwei.le—
Organizer of the first Baby Clinic and
Mothers Club in Atlanta.
Author of a book on personal and
home hygiene.
Founder and director of Dwelle Sani-
torium, Atlanta.
Now practicing in Chicago. Illinois.
Mrs. Sadye Harris Powell—
Owner and director of the William A.
Harris Memorial Hospital in Atlan
ta. Georgia.
Miss Mabel Fountz—
Head nurse of St. Catherine s Hospital.
Ocean Park. California.
Miss Blanche Baugh—
Public Health Nurse, working especial
ly with foreigners, Chicago, Illinois.
Mrs. Helen W ingood Fullii.ove—
Laboratory Technician at Flint-Good-
ridge Hospital, New Orleans. Loui
siana.
Mrs. Lohenda Rkld Harris—
Superintendent of Nurses at the Mu
nicipal Hospital No. 2. Kansas City.
M issouri.
Spelman Broadcast
Eunice Jackson, ’45
Tuesday, April 10, at 10:00 P.M.,
central war time, the annual broadcast
in connection with Spelman’s Founders
Day celebration took place in Howe
Memorial Hall.
The program was sponsored by the At
lanta Spelman Club of which Mrs. Mexi
co Mickelbury is president. Announce
ments were made while the Spelman
College Glee Club, under the direction
of Wdllis Laurence James, hummed
Fair Spelman. The Glee Club then ren
dered A Grecian Landscape by Jenkins.
Appropriate remarks by Mrs. Mickle-
bury preceded the rendition of Owen
Dodson’s Miss Packard and Miss Giles
by a verse choir under the direction of
Miss Frances Perkins. This w r as fol
lowed by a brief message from Mr. Tre
vor Arnett, president of the trustee hoard
of Spelman College.
President Florence M. Read delivered
the main address in which the history
of Spelman was briefly reviewed. One
of the points emphasized was that Spel
man College places greatest emphasis
upon growth of Christian character al
though intellectual development has its
position of due importance.
The program ended with Four and
Twenty Elders, a Negro spiritual, ar
ranged by Mr. James and led by Miss
Mabel Finch.
Miss Mary Logan Reddick—
First graduate to obtain a Ph.D.
Holder of Phi Beta Kappa Key.
Professor at Morehouse College.
Miss Carol Blanton—
First graduate of Juilliard School of
Music to receive a Master of Science
degree in Music.
Acting Head of Department of Music.
Dillard University.
Concert Pianist.
Mrs. Selena Sloan Bi tler—
One of the founders and first presi
dent of the Negro National Parent-
Teachers Association.
Mrs. Mary White Blocker—
Second president of the Negro National
Parent-Teachers Association.
Mrs. Sue Baily Thurman—
Honorary Editor of the Aframerican
Woman’s Journal.
Mrs. Charity Collins Miles
f irst Negro public school health nurse
in Atlanta, Georgia.
Received gold certificate from U. S.
Surgeon General Rupert Blue for
service during flu epidemic.
Hrst Negro nurse to appear in V ars
ing History, Nutting-Dock, fourth
edition. 1911.
(To be continued)