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THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
Tuesday, March 7, 1960
Campus
Highlights
As is usual, Spelman’s campus
is buzzing with activities. Let’s
take a look at some of the past
and future events and activities.
The Freshman Production was
presented in Read Hall on the
night of February twenty-seven
th. It was an extravaganza talent
show consisting of jazz, rock and
roll, skits, and some more cul-v
tural acts. Brenda Gibson was in
overall charge of the production.
Members of the Sophomore
Class and their guests will be at
tending a closed, semiformal
dance on the night of March
eighteenth.
The Sophomore Class is also
making preparations for its
production which will be pre
sented on March twenty-sixth.
The production is to be in the
form of a play.
Morgan Hall residents were fet
ed at a tea by their Head Resi
dent, Miss Roberta Cifors, during
the semester break.
Under the capable leadership
of their Head Resident, Mrs. A. A.
Howard and their president, Lana
Taylor, residents of Morehouse
South have planned and carried
out several successful activities.
Among some of these activities
were an installation ceremony, a
coke party, several dormitory
parties, and an open house. Other
similar activities are being plan
ned to further aid in the resi
dents’ social growth and develop
ment.
The Spelman Sunday School
has had a very favorable year
thus far. Plans are now being
made for the annual Sunday
School Picnic in May.
Spelman students are urged to
attend Sunday School each Sun
day.
The Mid-Week Meeting Com
mittee has begun a series of Pre-
Religious Emphasis Week pro
grams. The first of these was pre
sented on February eleventh.
The English Club, with the
Library Club, sponsored a tea for
Dr. Rosey Poole, on February
tenth. Dr. Poole, a Fulbright Lec
turer from London, England,
spoke twice in Chapel to the Spel
man students during the week of
February 7th.
Dr. Charles Wesley, president
of Central State College, was the
speaker at the Negro History
Week Convocation held in Sisters
Chapel on February eleventh. He
spoke on the subject “The De
fense Against the Concept of In
feriority.”
The Swimming Club is getting
ready for their annual swimming
show which will be held April
29th and 30th, in which there will
also be participation by the
Morehouse Swimming Club.
' Other activities for the year
will include intramural swim
meets, splash parties, a swim
meet between members of the
Spelman and Morehouse Swim
ming Clubs.
Gwendolyn Eagleson is the
president of Spelman’s Swimming
Club which meets every first and
third Monday nights.
The Physical Education Majors’
Club is planning to become a
member of the National Associa
tion for Health, Physical Educa
tion, and Recreation.
A new project of the club,
which will be getting under way
soon, will be the formation of a
basketball and football clinic to
fully acauaint the Spelman wo
men with the rules and techni
ques of the two sports.
The club has formed a basket
ball team, the PEMS, to play in
intramural games.
Miss Vogue
Have you observed the well-
worn path between the gates of
Spelman and the opposite hedges
at Clark?
While canvassing the campus
during calling hours recently, I
passed Miss Spelman seated on a
bench in the center of the cam
pus. I decided to join her and en
joy the sunshine. As we sat there,
a multitude of Spelman Women
ventured on and around the cam
pus, unescorted. Having been at
Spelman for several years, Miss
Spelman remarked.
“Never before have I seen so
many frustrated and lonely wom-
men.” Previously Morehouse men
v/ere stepping over each other
on our campus. But now, they
have become almost as extinct as
the dinosaur. The only time that
we really see them is when we
venture to one of the sports
events. They fail to patronize the
activities that we plan, and the
few times that they do come, they
are not in any condition to be
entertaining or to be entertained.
What has happened between
Morehouse and Spelman (besides
CLARK, GRADY MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL, A. U., AND MORRIS
BROWN?)
I list five contributing factors:
Neither has the right attitude
toward the other. Morehouse men
are not “conceited,” and Spelman
women are not “snobs.” Neither
is “God’s gift to the other.”
Morehouse men are becoming
younger each semester.
Each has a tendency to be
possessive of the other.
Morehouse men have lost some
of their aggressiveness and charm,
while Spelman women have lost
a great deal of their femininity.
Morehouse men have discover
ed that the grass is greener across
Greensferry Street, especially af
ter 6:00 P.M. in the recreation
room.
Since we are equally to blame
for the present relationship, it is
up to us to deactivate this crisis.
I would like your opinion and
suggestions on this problem.
Won’t you send your ideas to:
MISS VOGUE BOX 210 CAM
PUS MAIL.
Reminder: Morehouse men are
not here for our entertainment
and pleasure, and we are not here
for their convenience.
Recently, Nancy Fesson and
Ruby Doris Smith were elected
as secretary ond social chairman,
respectively, of the club.
Watch the paper and bulletin
boards for further news concern
ing the carnival that will be spon
sored by the Spelman PreAlum-
nae Club for the benefit of the
U.N.C.F. This activity will take
place in April.
Esther Benton is acting as presi
dent of the club in the absence
of Floris Barnett, who is away as
an exchange student.
The Granddaughters Club will
present “The Big Party” in
March. The presentation will in
clude the participation of the
Spelman faculty and staff and
members of the club. Sandra
Banks and Agnes Hodge are act
ing as co-chairmen of the pro
duction. The date, time, and place
of “The Big Party” will be publi
cized on the bulletin boards.
The club plans to have the col
lege songs and information con
cerning the college monuments
published in booklet form to pre
sent on Founders Day.
The Snelman Psychol off v Club
has become a joint club with the
Morehouse PsychoWv C’ub. Field
trips are being planned in the
snring.
Regional
Conference
From February 5 to 7, 1960, the
annual Regional Y.W.C.A. Con
ference was held on our campus.
The conference included repre
sentatives from colleges in Flori
da, Alabama, and Georgia. There
were some 50 to 60 delegates al
together.
The meeting began on Friday
afternoon with registration in the
lounge of Rockefeller Hall. At 7:30
p.m. following registration and
dinner, the first session was held.
To start the meeting off with a
bang, an international cast read
"Cry the Beloved Country.” The
cast was made up of non-profes
sionals who volunteered to read
certain parts. The players were
from institutions in Atlanta, in
cluding Georgia Tech, Emory, Ag
nes Scott, Clark, Morehouse, and
Spelman.
On Saturday morning, Mary
Geo. Dean presiding, the Rever
end Austin Ford Rector, St. Bar
tholomew’s Church gave some in
sights on the play. Later, Dr.
“Life in Africa.” At the end of
the day, to highlight the entire
conference, Mrs. Margaret Davis
Bowen exhibited her African Art.
Included in her exhibit was a
film that she had taken of the
Africans—their customs, dress,
educational system, and homes.
A review of the projects that
had been undertaken during the
past year was given on Saturday
night. The speakers were Miss
Constance Curry, N.S.A. South
ern Project, Miss Linda Walter,
and C. C. Herrman, Jr., Emory
University, who spoke in the
Athens Conference, Miss Marcia
Perry, who spoke on the summer
internship, and Virginia Powell,
who told' of her experience with
the U.S.S.R. Seminar.
The general purpose of the
conference was to awaken the
young women leaders of tomor
row to the many problems that
are facing them today.
Africa was used as a theme
because this country is one with
which we are concerned. We
learned, as many already knew,
that the Africans are industrious,
intelligent, and eager. They are
eager i n many ways; but most of
all, they are eager to be free.
The needs of students all over
the world were emphasized — of
those who have to live on 600
calories a day, of those who were
offered financial assistance but
were forced to reject it. The fact
that American students have a
great responsibility to all other
students in the world was stress
ed. In order to better fulfill this
responsibility, American students
are urged to take advantage of
every opportunity for develop
ment in the understanding of
other people and their problems,
to be initiative, to be eager, to be
curious, and to lend a helping
hand to their fellow man.
Martha Randall
Jeanette Reid has taken over
the duties as president while De-
lores Bailey is doing directed
teaching.
The Social Science Club spon
sored a tea for Dr. Zinn in honor
of the publication of his book,
LaGuardia and Congress, by the
Cornell University Press, on Jan
uary seventeenth.
A panel discussion, “Non-Vio
lence in Vio’ent Times” was pre
sented t-'v the club on Febrary
fourteenth in the Abbv Game
Room T’-p discussant' were Shive
From The
Pocket of Peola
Fourscore and like seven years
ago our old daddies came on in
this seene with a new group,
grooved in free kicks, and hip to
the Jazz that all cats make it the
same. Now we’re hung up in a
crazy big hassle, digging whether
that group, or any group so groov
ed and so hip can keep on swing
ing. We’re making it on a wild
spot of that hassle. We’ve got
eyes to tag a little of that spot
as a last lay-down pad for those
who here conked out so that
group might still score. It’s fran
tically cool and jivey that we’re
on this kick. But in a bigger rrb-
ble we can’t shake up, we can’t
sound off, we can’t even clue in
this jazz. The cool cats, with us
and down under, who flipped
here, have pegged it straighter
than we could ever mess with.
The squares will never buy this
bit, nor dig the lyrics we spiel
here; but they can’t ever put
down what those studs did here.
It’s for us, the on-cats, who ought
to pick up on those still-wailing
blues which the offcats who goof
ed here have blown so crazily
up till now. Man! Like we really
ought to be here with eyes fixed
on this wild gig that still needs
action, that from those far-out
D.O.A.’s we get a little higher on
that kick for which they really
went and flipped their gaskets;
that we take in on to set straight
that these cats shall not have
kicked off square; that this group
under George Shearing, shall
blow a crazy new sound, and that
a hot combo of the hipsters, by
the hipsters, and for the hipsters,
shall not cut out from this scene.
From “MAD”
N, Goyal and Pritpal Singh of At
lanta University, Ramesh Sharma
of Georgia Tech, and Dorcas Boit
and Cecile Ganpatsighn of Spel
man. June Gary served as mod
erator.
A current project of the club
is the assisting of the Atlanta
Voters League in registering po
tential Negro voters. The League
stops all visitors at the courthouse
and tells them the benefits of reg
istering to vote. Each college in
the Atlanta University Center has
a day on which to assist the Lea
gue, and Tuesday, between the
hours of nine and twelve and two
and five, is the time at which
Spelman assists. All students are
asked to help.
The members of the Home Ec
onomics Club enjoyed a delicious
dinner at Paschal Brothers Res
taurant on February fourteenth.
One of the activities for the
spring will be a fashion show.
More about that later.
The Dance Club was host to
the Bennington Dance Group
who were here on tour February
21-23. The dance group stayed
on Spelman’s campus and pre
sented a recital on the night of
February 23 in Read Hall. A
dance workshop was held on Feb
ruary 21st and 22nd. Rochelle
Rhodes and Marva Brown served
as co-chairmen of the reception
committee.
That’s all the news for now.
Clubs and organizations are re
minded that they should submit
any news they would like to have
published to any member of the
staff two weeks before the paper
goes to press.
Barbara Adams
Negro Life and History
(Continued from page 3)
On October 1, 1937, The Negro
History Bulletin was published.
This school-level and study-club
publication is issued monthly (Oe-
tober-June).
In 1950 the prolific scholar and
dynamic founder, Carter G. Wood-
son, passed away after thirty-five
years of devoted, service to leave
a heritage, legacy, and spiritual
mandate whic hthe present non-
salaried staff of the Association
for the Study of Negro Life and
History seeks to preserve and to
expand.
These are just a few of the facts
about one organization that is
striving for the advancement of
the Negro. There are many other
organizations whose work is just
as important.
N. J. Wilson
The College Girl
(Continued from page t)
themselves — until this time they
have been free to indulge most of
their interests. I don’t want to
give the impression that until the
Junior year the students have
been absolutely free to select
their courses. They do not have
a prescribed program such as we
do, but they do have tutors or
“dons” to guide them.
Students at this eastern insti
tution take only three courses a
semester and receive five credits
for each. Some of the classes meet
only once a week for a two-hour
period. The reasoning behind this
is that the student should be giv
en time to read. Their classes are
very small (seminar size). The
students have weekly conferences
with instructors, and they also
have individual projects. I would
like to have time to really in
dulge myself in reading some
good books!
The stress at this exclusive col
lege for women is on intellectual
curiosity. What rates around
Spelman? I need not say.
Spelmanlena
What Are The Freshmen
Doing?
(Continued from page I)
and equality. I see that I aid the
African and the Asian in their
struggle for self-realization by my
exafnple, as I push the cause of
freedom a step further by gaining
my own.”
Beverly Pratt
President of the
Freshman Class
Dining Hall
With the arrival of the new
dining hall manager, Mr. Richard
Mann, the meals have improved
greatly.
~ Each meal of the day is full of
unexpected treats. One day we
may have pork chops, another day
chiffon pie, and still another day
barbecued pork or chicken. These
little surprises make our meals
more enjoyable. They keep us
guessing from meal to meal what
special dish we may expect next.
Some days we need not guess, for
when the wind is in the right di
rection, the aroma of tempting
food is wafted. Because of this,
we need not be reminded of the
meal hour. Whenever you see a
group of girls hastening towards
Morgan Hall, you will know that
it is time to eat.
The meals are tasty, full of col
or, and nourishing at the same
time. Many of the girls are count
ing calories, but find the attrac
tive meals difficult to resist.
We salute Mr. Richard Mann
and his able assistants for prepar
ing such superb meals.