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C A M P US MIRROR
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Events of Interest in the
Music Department
After a hot summer of hard work, the
teachers and students of the music de
partment, like those of the other depart
ments on our campus, are expecting and
planning an extremely interesting and
profitable year.
Our campus Y. W. C. A. is starting the
season off with a bang by presenting
Kemper Harreld in violin recital, Friday
evening, November 8. 1946, in Sisters
Chapel. All the students have at one
time or another heard Mr. Harreld in the
music field—either on the organ, piano*
in the string quartet, or lecturing in class,
but not all of us have heard him play
his chosen instrument, the violin. We are
eagerly looking forward to his recital on
November 8th.
Featured among the program numbers
are the popular Mendelssohn’s Concerto
in E Minor and Chausson’s Poeme. Mr.
Harreld will also play two numbers,
Jennie IF ith the Light Brown Hair, by
Stephen Foster, and Prophet Bird, by
Robert Schumann, arranged by Jascha
Heifetz, master violinist and eminent
composer-arranger. Of special interest
will be the Prelude and Allegro, in the
style of Paganini, by Fritz Kreisler,
Viennese artist-composer. Kreisler is
noted for his stylistic qualities in adap
tations of Viennese folk music, as well as
for his virtuosity. A particularly delight
ful number will be the Jamaican Rum-
ha by Benjamin-Primrose. You may rest
assured that tnis number will appeal'
net only to musicians who attend the con
cert, but also to those who come merely
out of curiosity or to those who come
because of genuine interest.
Mr. Harreld will be ably assisted at
the piano by Mrs. Sara Owsley Stivers.
Chatter, Chatter
The Glee Club and Chorus greatly miss
the golden melodic voices of Mattiwilda
Dobbs and Mae Belle Finch. In getting
to know our Freshmen better, it is clear
that some good new voices have come
which will help fill in those vacancies:
Helen Marshall. Irma Marshall. Rubye
Warren, and Ernestine Johnson.
We all are interested in knowing what
the members of the class of forty-six are
now doing. Jacqulyn Warren is studying
music at Columbia University, New York.
Mattiwilda Dobbs is studying voice under
Mint. Lotte Leonard in New York City.
Anita Lewis, now Mrs. Thomas Massey,
is living here in Atlanta. Bernice Warner
is employed at the Atlanta Life Insurance
Co. Claragene Parks. Catherine Burney,
and Ollivette Smith are attending Atlanta
University. Blanche Sellers is continuing
Do You Know Your Friends?
Romae Turner. '47
Any upperclassman who has been to
the women’s locker room of the Atlanta
University Library can uphold me in the
acknowledgement of a very likable in
dividual in the person of Mrs. Mary
Stroud. Our attention is drawn to peo
ple not only by the position they hold,
hut by the kindness they exhibit towards
others. Mrs. Stroud has been the attend
ant in the women’s locker room for quite
a long time. The seniors became ac-
ruainted with her in their freshman year
when they were permitted to go to the
library to write term papers. Since then
most of the upperclassmen have met her.
Mrs. Stroud always greets you with a
big smile and a hearty salutation. She
then accosts you with some sort of inter
esting news of the day or, maybe, a
comment on the weather. If you are feel
ing down and out in spirit, she seems to
cheer you up and ease the load you were
carrying by her congenial smile and
cheery words. If you happen to spill
powder on the floor or some other place,
she will graciously consent to assist you
in clearing it up. Many times you may
fail to do your part in keeping the room
clean, but may show some intention of
doing your part; then she will take the
extra responsibility upon herself to do
the task.
When one so magnificently performs
her tasks and duties, and does all she
can to make you comfortable, it is our
next move to return kindness with kind
ness and by so donig make her tasks
more pleasant.
If you see a little lady in the Atlanta
Ufniversity Library locker room about
five feet four and one-half inches tall,
with hair slightly streaked with gray,
and a pleasant, cordial smile on her face,
that is Mrs. Stroud.
We salute you. Mrs. Stroud.
her study at Meharry. Clara Yates, who
recently returned from Europe, plans to
continue working in behalf of the World
Student Service Fund, touring the South
eastern portion of the United States.
Muriel Sherwood is teaching music in
Florida. Mary Jeanne Parks is teaching
at Carter Elementary School.
The Freshmen of Laura Spelman were
sorry to lose Miss Appleby as their
housemother. As an expression of their
affection, they gave a farewell party for
her at which an antique music powder-
box was presented to her. Among those
at the party were Dean Curry and the
new housemother, Mrs. Chute, who was
welcomed by the group.
Vacationers
Ellen L. Barnette, ’47. and
Pinkie Gordon, ’49
“Goodbye to summer!” Whether we
said it happily or with a tinge of regret,
we said it. And why not? Indian sum
mer is wonderful! Think how Mary Jones
must feel. She spent her vacation in
New York and Chicago. W hile in New
^ ork she worked with the “People’s Cul
tural Society.” As she is a prospective
social worker, she just couldn’t get away
from it completely. In Chicago, she visit
ed relatives. Now she can enjoy the mild
weather and remember things like “Deep
are the Roots” and other stage produc
tions. Then there is Alma Powell who
had her vacation in New York and reports
a wonderful time.
Mafir Harris had her first experience
as a Nurse’s Aid. She spent the entire
summer working in a hospital in her
home town. Pueblo, Colorado. She found
working with orthopedic, obstetric, and
post-mortem cases especially interesting.
In fact—she liked it so well that she re
turned to Spelman this year determined
to prepare herself for nursing school.
Theresa Smith, on the other hand, tried
her hand in labor and industry. She
worked in a baseball factory in Hartford,
Connecticut, and, says Theresa, “It was
really fun.” Lavaughn Force spent her
summer at home in Gainesville, Georgia,
but it was one of interest and variety.
The first thing that commanded her at
tention was the July elections. The Vet
erans’ Club of Gainesville and other
youth organizations canvassed the rural
districts of Hall County to encourage
registration of Negro citizens. Lavaughn
says that these groups had to compete
with such opposing forces as Klu Klux
Klan intimidation of the Negroes, also
lack of knowledge on the part of many
people as to their rights as citizens.
Romae Turner remained in the city
of Atlanta, and she says the plays given
by the University Players were “simply
super!”
So we see the summer can be a vaca
tion whether spent at home, or away,
even though we weren’t lucky enough to
do all the things we would have liked
to do.
Before you flare up at any one’s faults,
take time to count ten—ten of your own.
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Genius does what it must and talent
does what it can.
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All young girls get “bride” ideas.
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Have you heard about the patriotic
little worm who joined the apple core?