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C A M P IJS MI R R 0 R
THE CAMPUS MIRROR
The Student's Own Publication
“SERVICE IN UNITY”
THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF
Editor-in-Chief
Mary Jeanne Parks
Assistant Editor
Associate Editors
Genevieve Lawless
Amanda Keith
News Editor
Hariett Myers
Charlotte Arnold
Associate News Editor
Catherine Burney
Special Feature Editors
Ella Lett
Humor Editor
Charlie W. McNeill
Mattiwilda Dobbs
Sports Editor
Peggie Arnold
Social Editors
Art Editors
Bettye Washington
Hattie M. Parks
Music Editors
June Wade
Jacqulvn Warren
Fashion Editors
Madeline Hildei
Rebecca Jackson
Ollivette Smith
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STAFF
Business Manager
Anita Lewis
Secretaries
Blanche Sellers
Treasurer
Alice Smith
Ruth Bullock
Bobbie Gaston
Rosetta Wimberly
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Circulation Editor
Assistant Editors
Cleopatra Jones
Claracene Parks
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Alberta Jones
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Romae Turner
Virginia Turner
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Vol. XXII Oc' roBER, 1945 No. 1
Letter From the Editor-in-
Chief
Dear Spelman Sisters:
We are once more one large family,
and even greater than ever before with
the coming of the large Freshman class
and new students. I wish to take this
opportunity to welcome these new mem
bers into our midst, and especially to
greet readers of the Campus Mirror.
It is very important and essential that
students take an enthusiastic interest in
their school paper for it is a means of
expression of the students, for the stu
dents, and by the students, and not the
staff alone.
The Campus Mirror has conceived
some new ideas to make the paper more
appealing this year. We are making it
our business to make the activities on the
campus current news in our paper. It is
our hope that the cooperation between
the various campus organizations and the
Campus Mirror will be a profitable one.
I be Campus Mirror staff sincerely
hopes that the paper this year will help
to make the students more aware of the
opportunities that are offered at Spelman
College.
Some of the young women whose pic
tures appear in this issue are recipients
of the awards made in June, 1945, by
President Read. The Campus Mirror
staff feels that this is the most appropri
ate time to introduce them to you.
Students, this is a challenge to you,
New Members of Spelman
Faculty and Staff
New appointments to the faculty and
staff of Spelman College have been made
in the departments of Biology, Mathe
matics, Fine Arts, Spanish, English, and
Home Economics.
In biology the College has obtained the
services of Dr. Barnett Smith of Mont
gomery. Alabama, a graduate of More
house College, Atlanta University and
the University of Wisconsin, and a for
mer member of the faculty of Alabama
State College; and of Miss Alice Ann
Steiglitz of White Plains, N. Y.. a gradu
ate of the University of Rochester.
Miss Virginia F. Curry, a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of the University of
Kansas with the degrees of bachelor of
arts and master of arts, has joined the
department of Spanish; and Mrs. Geor
gia Caldwell Smith, a graduate of the
University of Kansas with the A.B. and
M.A. degrees and for a number of years
previously on the Spelman College fac
ulty, has returned to accept a post in
mathematics.
Miss Alice W. Dunbar, a 1945 gradu
ate of the Boston Museum School of
Fine Arts and the winner of numerous
prizes in art, is teaching courses in
sculpture and ceramics; and Miss Geor
gia Poinsette, a graduate of South Caro
lina State College and of Columbia Uni
versity with the bachelor of science and
master of arts degree, respectively, is in
the department of Home Economics.
Mr. Henry Thomas, who was educated
at Morehouse College and the University
of Michigan, and who was a member of
the Summer School faculty at Atlanta
University during 1945, is on the English
faculty.
Miss Minnie M. Felton of Moultrie,
Georgia, a Spelman graduate of 1938
and formerly a teacher of Home Econom
ics at Washington Park High School,
and the Marnett County Training School
is the new assistant dietitian.
Secretarial appointments have been
made as follows:
Mrs. Rae Jamison Anderson, a 1942
graduate of Spelman College.
Miss Rebecca R. Durhart. a graduate
of Lincoln Business School of Philadel
phia, and holder of the bachelor of sci
ence degree from Temple University.
Miss June Strong of Memphis, Ten
nessee, a 1943 graduate of Spelman Col
lege and a former employee of the At
lanta Life Insurance Company in Mem
phis.
and may you aspire to stand with those
who represent the very high ideals of
Spelman.
\ ours for cooperation,
Mary Jeanne Parks.
Miss Read’s Greeting
1 he Quaker philosopher, Rufus Jones,
quotes the following lines from a poem
by a young Cambridge man who was a
casualty of the First World War:
“/ have a self 1 never yet have met;
My inner and eternal me.”
“We all carry, hidden deep within, un
suspected by our friends, and only dimly
glimpsed by ourselves in our highest
moments, this inner possible self, which
the mirror when we brush our hair never
presents to us.”
Whatever happens to the world or to
us as individuals as a result of the release
of atomic power, our major business is
to develop, liberate, that deeper possible
self. No human being knows to what
stature you might grow if you really lived
up to your highest possibilities. No one
knows what talents and powers are latent
in you — buried deep perhaps — crusted
over by pride or laziness or bad habits.
There is dormant power in you as there
is in the atom. College provides many
means of developing and increasing your
intellectual power and your social power,
even your spiritual power. Are you ready
to take advantage of them and to face
the consequences?
Florence M. Read.
An Inspiring Speaker,
Mary McLeod Bethune
Charlotte Arnold. ’46
On Tuesday morning, October 9, 1945.
the students and faculty of Spelman Col
lege were honored to have Mrs. Mary
McLeod Bethune as speaker during the
chapel service.
The theme of Mrs. Bethune’s talk was
the importance of real, true, rugged
womanhood. She impressed upon us the
importance of taking advantage of the
cultural atmosphere which is provided
by such institutions as Spelman College.
By doing so. we shall he better equipped
to go forth and make the world a better
place in which to live. Mrs. Bethune also
stated that, since no race can rise higher
than its womanhood, it is our duty to
be courageous, stalwart, upright and
willing to sacrifice for the advancement
of our race.
The audience was impressed with the
poise and eloquence of Mary McLeod
Bethune, and throughout our years we
shall carry with us the challenge of this
great woman.
support —
THE UNITED NEGRO
COLLEGE FUND