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Campus Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
Yol. XXII
Saint Patrick
Ella Lett, ’46
Saint Patrick, the apostle and patron
of Ireland, was born in 387 and died in
493. His entire life must have been quite
fascinating, although historians seem not
to have become interested in his story
until he was sixteen, when he w r as taken
prisoner by some Irishmen who made a
raid on his home in western Britain and
carried him of! into slavery in Ireland.
After six years, Patrick succeeded in es
caping to the Continent where he took
refuge in the Monastery at Lerins. While
in Lerins, Patrick claims he had a vision
in which he saw himself going as a vic
torious apostle of Christianity to the
Irish. He regarded this as a divine call,
and immediately returned to Gaul where
lie studied and prepared himself along
with two other prospective missionaries
for Ireland.
Fourteen years after Patrick's training
began, he was ordained Bishop of Ire
land on the death of Pallodius, the for
mer bishop. As bishop Patrick had quite
a complex problem to solve — it was his
responsibility to gain the good will of
the local rulers and to minister to and
hold together various Christian communi
ties or districts Had it not been for Pat
ricks’ knowledge of both Latin and Irish,
and the experience that he had gained by
living six years in the country, he prob
ably would never have accomplished the
success that came to him.
It is believed that Patrick's work had
quite an humble beginning. Upon return
ing to Ireland, he had landed in Wicklow
at a place called Inverdea, and from there
he went into east Ulster and began his
missionary labors on the southwest side
of Strangford Lough. Patrick began his
work in a wooden barn which had been
given to him by an Irish convert; later,
a district ruler declared himself a Chris
tian and presented to Patrick an estate
at Trim on which he was to found his first
church. \\ ith this as a beginning, he es
tablished 360 churches, baptized with his
own hands 21.000 people, and ordained a
great many priests. Regardless of the
apparent success of his work, at the time
of his death Ireland was more pagan than
Catholic, but the significant fact is that
through tin- dynamic work of Patrick the
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MARCH, 1946
Lt. Col. Winthrop Rockefeller
Visits Campus
Charlotte Arnold, ’46
On Monday, February 25, 1946, we
wore honored to welcome as our chapel
guest Lt. Col. Winthrop Rockefeller.
We at Spelman are greatly indebted
to the Rockefeller family for many of
the advantages which we enjoy today.
All of our buildings, including beautiful
Sisters Chapel, stand as monuments to
the kindness of this family.
In the brief greeting which Col. Rocke
feller extended to us during the chapel
services, he stressed what a privilege it
is to be able to gather together every
morning in such a beautiful auditorium
to offer prayer and songs to God.
Interracial Sunday
Helen 0. Jenkins, ’47
February 17, 1946, was known to peo
ple throughout the nation as Inter-racial
Sunday. On this day, the Intercollegiate
Forum of Atlanta held its regular meet
ing at Emory University. There were
representatives from Morehouse, Clark
and Agnes Scott Colleges, Georgia Tech,
Emory University, Gammon Theological
Seminary, and Spelman College. It was
the good fortune of those attending to
hear Dr. Haywood of Gammon Theo
logical Seminary who brought a very
challenging message to the group.
Dr. Haywood pointed out that the first
step in attempting to change the general
attitude of those who want to think of
another group of people as a “disagree
able problem” is to get those persons
affected by such an attitude to want to
change it. No group, continued Dr. Hay
wood. wants to be referred to as a prob
lem. He made it clear that the problem
exists between individuals within two
separate groups, not between the groups
themselves. The reason for the per
sistence of the black-white problem,
suggested Dr. Haywood, was an emo
tional one. and the difficulties arising
between members of both groups must
he faced with rationalism, not emotional
ism.
Dr. Haywood further pointed out that
much of what is called a “race problem”
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No. 6
Georgia Youth To Publish
Quarterly
The State NAACP Youth Conference
of Georgia has undertaken the publica
tion of a quarterly newspaper to be
called FACT!, Victor Backus, a student
at Morehouse College and Publicity
Chairman of the Youth Conference, an
nounced today. The first issue will ap
pear March 1st.
Among those who will write for the
new publication are Dr. Guy B. Johnson.
Executive Director of the Southern
Regional Council; Dr. Benjamin E.
Mays, President of Morehouse College;
Dr. William M. Cooper. Director of Ex
tension and Summer Studies at Hampton
Institute; Miss Margaret Fisher, Execu
tive Secretary of the Committee for Geor
gia. an affiliate of the Southern Confer
ence for Human Welfare; Dr. Ralph
Mark Gilbert. President of the State
NAACP Conference of Georgia; At
torney Thurgood Marshall. Special Coun
sel of the NAACP; Dr. William Madison
Boyd, of Fort Valley State College; and
Miss Lillian Smith, of “Strange Fruit”
fame. Coulton Waugh, former PM car
toonist, will do a comic strip.
FACT! is being published on a non
profit basis, Mr. Backus announced, in
the interest of real Democracy for the
Negro now. Special attention will be
paid to problems of the Deep South. An
unusual feature of the new publication is
that it represents the co-operation of
young people and adults. Negroes and
Whites, and all the principal organiza
tions engaged in the struggle for inter
racial justice.
Sale of 1 ACT! will be by subscription
only. One year’s subscription costs only
fifty cents or one dollar for two years.
Subscriptions may lx* secured through
Victor Backus, Box 48, Morehouse Col
lege. Atlanta. Georgia.
Seniors Present Movie
Saturday evening, March 2. 1946. the
Senior Class of Spelman College pre
sented a movie, “The House of Seven
Gables, based on Nathanie l Hawthorne s
novel. In addition, there was a short
feature showing the places of interest
and natural phenomena of Florida. The
seniors wish to thank Spelman students.
Morehouse men. and faculty and -tall
members for patronizing the movie.