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AWARDS
Every year during the commencement
season at Spelman, several awards are
presented to girls who have merited them
by special and unusual work and effort.
Every student at Spelman is eligible to
try for these honors. Since the fresh
men may not be aware of these facts, I
believe they will be glad to know some
thing about the opportunities for vying
with their college mates. These are set
forth in numbers 1. 2, 3. 4, and 8, below.
1. The Mary L. Simmons Prize Fund
provides for a prize of $20.00 for the
student that writes the best essay on
Self-Help.
2. The Chamberlin Scripture Reading
Prize of $10, offered through the gener
osity of the late Willard W. Chamberlin,
Dayton, Ohio, goes to the student that
excels in reading certain specified pas
sages of Scripture.
3. The Lucinda Hayes Scripture Reci
tation Prize of $20. also given by Mr.
Chamberlin, is won by the student that
excels in reciting certain specified pas
sages of Scripture.
4. The Lucy Upton Prize, endowed by
the Spelman Graduates Club of Atlanta,
gives $12 to the student that stands high
est in the community for Christian char
acter. leadership and Scholarship.
5. The Seymour Finney Prize offers
$15 to the student in the graduating
class with the highest scholarship record.
6. The Eula L. Eagleson Prize is given
as a memorial to Eula L. Eagleson, ’39,
by Dr. H. V. Eagleson. This is an annual
award of $5 to the senior student that is
deemed best to represent the spirit of
Spelman as exemplified by her manifest
love for its ideals and traditions, her
influence for good among the students,
her industry and unselfishness, and her
participation in the life of the college.
7. The Arnett Scholarship is made
possible by the generosity of Mr. and
Mrs. Trevor Arnett. This is a scholarship
covering full tuition for the year and is
offered to a member of the junior class
who makes high record in scholarship
and shows such qualities of character and
personality as give promise of making
wise use of further educational oppor
tunities.
8. The Jerome Award for Creative
Achievement is made available through
the interest of Mr. and Mrs. William
Travers Jerome. Jr., and is offered for a
piece of work in any field—in art, dra
matics, writing, music, or research—
which shows creative ability of a high
order. This award is one of the most
popular and most interesting ones made.
It is determined by recommendation of
the faculty and is conferred only if there
is some original achievement which
seems to the President and to the donors
to merit this distinction.
CAMPUS MI R R O R
CHAPEL NOTES
Once again our own Miss Bowers
spoke to us in November about her ex
periences while working with the Red
Cross during the war.
Miss Bowers rescued us after having
left us stranded in the English Channel
for quite some time by her previous
Chapel talk. She told us of her contact
with the soldiers overseas and of the
problems that she sometimes found her
self up against.
Before describing her journey home,
she took us on a little trip to Paris. She
gave to us a detailed description of
everything that she saw while there and
she finally told us about everything that
she missed and that she longed for.
She finally concluded by describing her
journey home and the feeling that she
experienced when she landed once again
on good old American soil.
One chapel morning brought us a very
interesting speaker in the person of Dr.
Alaine Locke.
Dr. Locke spoke to us on the Negro
and Art. He discussed the Negro in
various fields and gave a lot of en
couragement to those that had an idea
of going into the arts. Dr. Locke’s talk
was a very interesting one and will be
remembered.
OPERATIONS CROSSROADS
Alma Powell, ’47
I feel confident that if, after the ex
piration of this college year, a student of
Spelman were asked to enumerate the
three most dynamic visitors to the college
community, the name of Bruce Thomas,
world famed news commentator, would
be among those mentioned. Bruce Thom
as will be remembered as the “big”,
frank, outspoken guest who addressed the
college assembly and wbo shared his
storehouse of knowledge on three inter
esting subjects:
1. Operations Crossroads
2. We Slam the Door on the Past
3. The Orient Is Our Business.
The speaker expressed his opinion
that the Operations Crossroads experi
ment was one of the worst reported
stories in the history of journalism. Ac
cording to Mr. Thomas, 132 men—out
standing for the most part—were selected
to cover this experiment. Many of this
number, according to the speaker, were
guilty of writing their stories in advance.
The Operations Crossroads experiment
was the main topic under discussion.
Minor reference was made to “We Slam
the Door to the Past” and “The Orient
Is Our Business.” In reference to the
latter thesis he concluded by declaring:
“We cannot live in blissful isolation to
day. What happens in the Orient, as to
any other place in the world, is our
business.”
In conclusion Mr. Thomas said, “We
DR. B. R. ANDREWS
The departure of Dr. B. R. Andrews,
from Spelman College campus in Novem
ber, was marked by a farewell dinner
given in his honor in the fireside dining
room.
The faculty and staff members present
greeted a much surprised and delighted
Dr. Andrews upon his entrance with sing
ing, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”
After a hearty meal. Miss Saine, on be
half of faculty and staff expressed the joy
that the Spelman College community had
experienced in having Dr. Andrews on
the campus this year and the benefits
received from his visit. Dr. Andrews ac
cepted these sentiments graciously with
the hope that he might return some day.
A TRIBUTE TO THE
UNIVERSITY PLAYERS
They did it again! Those of you who
saw Mrs. Partridge Presents will heartily
agree with me when I say that the first
production of the year by the University
Players opened the dramatic season with
a bang.
This play by Mary Kennedy and Ruth
Hawthorne, humorously relates the un
usual incidents that occur as Maisie
Partridge tries to mold the lives of her
two children, Delight and Philip.
Matched by her sure-thinking, compe
tent, and admiring lawyer, Stephen,
played by Charles Crenchaw, Maisie
Partridge, an impulsive, self-sufficient
woman, was brilliantly interpreted by
Marian Davis. The children. Delight and
Philip, were played by Irene Moore and
Robert Franklin, respectively. Other
members of the cast included:
Lee Young as Sydney Armstead, Ann
Harris as Katherine Everett, Virginia
Turner as Ellen, Bismarck Williams as
Charles Ludlow, Ella Mae Gaines as
Madame La Fleur, Thelma Kellogg as
Miss Hamilton and Lauretta Lewis as
Clementine.
We congratulate Miss Eloise Usher
on her superb first production as head of
the dramatics department at Spelman
College.
are living in a different age. We have
enemies within and without. Right must
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