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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 (Continued on Page 5) 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.