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Campus Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
VOL. XXIV NOVEMBER. 1947 No. 2
STUDENTS-IN-INDUSTRY
PROJECT
Hartford, Conn.
Bettye Washington '48
Four Spelman daughters helped to
make up the “community” of thirty
students and two leaders in the project
sponsored by the Community Responsi
bility Commission of the New England
Student Christian Movement. We lived
under the leadership of Dr. and Mrs.
Alfred Painter, of Bates College, and
our home was the picturesque Hosmer
Hall on the Hartford Seminary Campus.
One of the most wonderful things
about a project like this is the fact
that you can meet so many interesting
people. We students represented 14
colleges, came from 11 states and three
foreign countries (Canada, Finland, and
China), and had just as many different
personalities as there were individuals.
Our task for two months was to get
a job in industry and to study as we
lived and worked together the problems
of labor, management, and the worker.
Every Monday and Thursday evening
after the chores of cooking, cleaning
and eating had been taken care of, we
met in the living room to hear and
question men in and around Hartford
who were familiar with one side or the
other of our self-imposed problem.
School, I assure you, was never like
this, nor were there any assignments.
However, we all felt that we had learned
a great deal more in those few weeks
than at any other single period of time.
Our acquisition of knowledge did not
stop with our seminars. We were for
tunate enough to get Dr. Painter to
lead us in a study of the New Testament
one night a week. Through our nightly
student-led vesper services, we learned
not only to appreciate such an ex
perience and to gain from the various
points of view expressed there, but also
to express ourselves. These services
were highlights in our day.
Week-ends were usually spent in some
group-planned actitvity such as trips to
New 't ork by plane, a week-end at the
home of one of the projectors in Massa
chusetts. or picnic suppers.
Living and working together, we made
friendships that will always he enduring
monuments to the enviable experiences
we shared. If we had any qualms before
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MOREHOUSE CROWNS
“MISS MAROON AND WHITE”
Spelman Dominant in Homecoming Celebration
Climaxing the 47th annual Homecoming activities for the year 1947, Morehouse
crowned “Miss Maroon and White” during the half of the homecoming game with
South Carolina State College November 8. Following a traditional program, “Miss
Maroon and White,” after being crowned and presented with a football by Captain
Edwin Smith, was the guest of honor at the Maroon and White Dance held divi
sionally in the Morehouse Gym and Robert Hall that night.
“Miss Maroon and White ’ is elected by the Morehouse men as the junior or
senior at Spelman College who, to them, best exemplifies character, personality,
intelligence, and sisterly spirit toward Morehouse. Chosen this year was Juanita
Sellers of Atlanta, a senior majoring in English and minoring in music. An extremely
popular member of the Spelman community also, Miss Sellers is a member of the
YMCA, the glee club, the chorus and the Cam ms Mirror business staff.
Among other Spelman students serving as queens or attendants were Mary
Bowman (junior), Eloise Dunn (junior), attendants to “Mi-- Maroon and White”;
Mrs. Eleanor Bryson Jackson (a 1945 graduate and “Miss Maroon and White"
for 1944, “Miss Omega"; Ethel Minor (sophomore), “Mi-- Sigma”; Maxine
Wilson (sophomore), attendant to “Miss Kappa"; and Caressie Warner (fresh
man), attendant to “Miss Alpha”,
“Miss Maroon and White” and her attendants. From left to right: Mary Bowman;
Juanita Sellers, “Miss Maroon and White”; Eloise Dunn.