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The SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
Wednesday, February 28, 1962
Sociology Class
Has Guest
Mr. J. Howard Gregsby spoke
to Dr. Marilyn Pearsall’s one
forty-five section of Sociology 301
on January 12, 1962 on the topic
of Urban Renewal in Atlanta as
conducted by the Atlanta Hous
ing Authority. Mr. Gregsby is con
nected with displaced persons in
the city.
There are three areas in which
Urban Renewal operates: 1) slum
clearance, 2) conservation, and
3) rehabilitation. Although the
ratio of whites to non-whites in
Atlanta is 63.3 per cent, the non
whites occupy only one-sixteenth
of the residential land, located
for the most part in the center
of town.
Mr. Gregsby continued by giving
the seven basic objectives of the
federal government. They are: 1)
a Code of Ordinance for land,
which gives the city control in
keeping industries out of resi
dential sections, 2) ‘an administra
tive organization composed of the
mayor, board of aldermen, city en
gineers, board of education, 3)
neighborhood analysis of slum
areas and their treatment, 4) com
munity planning, 5) financing i.e.
one-third from city and two-thirds
from federal government, 6) hous
ing of displaced families, and 7)
citizen participation.
In a rather comical way, Mr.
Gregsby described the three types
of houses with which Urban Re
newal works—“sound, deteriorat
ing, and delapidated.” Mr. Gregsby
was accompanied by Mrs. Doris
Chappie and Mrs. Juanita Lester.
Cecile Marshburn
18 SPELMAN STUDENTS
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$800 from Spelman students,
Spelman staff and faculty, sym
pathizers in Atlanta and in dis
tant areas such as California and
New York City, and a small
charge for each rider. Carl Wilen
of the Clark College art depart
ment contributed posters, which
were much appreciated by the
picket line in Washington.
Travelling through the night
Thursday and fortified by box
lunches packed by the Spelman
dining hall and gifts of fruit and
candy from the Zinns, Steinmetzes,
and Manleys, Atlanta’s delegation
arrived in the capitol early Fri
day morning. Shortly after reach
ing the picket line, snow began
to fall, continuing throughout the
day. Emergency purchases of ga
loshes and five gallons of coffee
from the President helped a lot.
Most of the students at the
demonstration slept on church
floors Friday night, but the At
lantans were comfortably lodged
at private homes, half of the bus
load enjoying the wonderful hos
pitality of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
L. Smith.
Saurady morning, the num
ber of picketers had increasad tre
mendously, and as Atlantans fell
into line, bus after bus rolled in
from other ciies. No one who was
there will ever forget the sense
of solidarity with students from
dozens of colleges all over Am
erica, first on the picket line, and
then in the long (five-mile) si
lent march to Arlington cemetery.
The countless rows of white grave
stones, standing mute against the
snow and the bright blue sky,
brought home to all participants
their reasons for coming to Wash
ington.
A supporting petition against
resumption of nuclear testing
signed by 195 Atlantans who could
not be on the bus, was sent to
McGeorge Bundy, the President’s
advisor on testing.
While most of the Atlanta del
egation marched and picketed,
two committees visited foreign
embassies and Georgia legislators.
//I III
Speaks
The Y. W. C. A. extends an in
vitation to all students to partici
pate in the activities of the second
semester. Every Saturday until
March 24, all interested students
may participate in a weekend
work project. The children of
poverty-striken families will ac
cept appreciatively instructions in
music, games, arts and crafts,
swimming, foreign languages, and
anything else that you are capable
of teaching them. Those who are
too young to participate in these
activities will enjoy having some
one sit with them. If you have any
talent, any love for children, any
sense of responsibility, or an inter
est in others — this is your op
portunity to display it..We need
your help. Won’t you please lend
a helping hand. The program is
called NASH. If you are interested
see Martha Randall.
The second Thursday in March,
which is the 8th, at 7:00 in the
Polly Kline Lounge, the “Y” in
vites you to listen and participate
in an interesting discussion by
five students from the Atlanta
University Center. The topic is
“My ideals, my convictions, and
my attitude as a Christian on my
campus.”
The biggest activity of the year
— The International Ball — will
be held on March 17, 1962. Are
you interested in other countries,
other cultures, other people, and
new ideas? Then don’t miss the
International Ball.
Lagt, but not least, are the
luncheon discussions once a
month. Watch for the annuonce-
ments and go. They promise to
be interesting, stimulating, and
quite informative.
Martha Randall
The embassies of Greece, Guate
mala and Malaya received the At
lanta committee, composed of Gra
ham Prindle, Samuel Varner, Dor
cas Boit, and Cecile Ganpatsingh.
The second committee, consisting
of Julius Coles, Hilliard Lee, Paul
Berrien, Damaris Allen amji Tish
Moye, obtained audiences with
Georgia Congressmen Landrum
and James C. Davis. Both were
barely courteous. The next day,
this committee interviewed the
principal assistants to Senators
Taknadge and Russell. Both men
agreed with our committee as to
defense shelters, but supported
the resumption, of testing.
The demonstration closed with
a mass meeting at the foot of the
Washington Monument. The prin
cipal speaker wa i s Norman Thom
as. All speakers stressed the ter
rible danger of continuing the
arms race, and the essential unity
of the civil rights and peace
movements. ,
At 6 P. M. Saturday, thirty-
seven exhausted Atlantans climb
ed back into their bus, to return
home and attempt to share with
their fellow-students a most mov
ing, impressive and educational
experience.
Staughttom Lynd
Leronia Stokes
SECOND SEMESTER
(Continued from page 3)
cation. Upon arrival to our cam
pus, Linda was especially impress
ed by the weather here, our cam
pus, the congeniality of our stu
dents and the proficiency with
which we do the “twist”.
Linda is not accustomed to
wearing skirts to classes because
in Elmira, students are allowed to
wear dungarees, slacks and ber-
mudas to classes, on campus and
even in the library. You see,
there are no co-educational classes
at Elmira. As a matter of fact,
Cornell University, where the
boys are, is located approximate
ly forty miles away. Being very
talented, Linda plays both the pi
ano and the organ.
Terry, who is a history major,
came to Georgia to have direct
contact with the problems of the
Negro in the South and the Stu
dent Movement, which is history
in the making. Minoring in Span
ish, she would like to go to Spain
one day. Terry enjoys all sports
and knitting, as well.
From Carleton College in
Minnesota comes Cathy Cade who
is majoring in Sociology and does
not have a minor. This is due to
the fact that Carleton had initiat
ed the three quarter system,
whereby three courses are taken
during each quarter. Students
with high averages are allowed to
take four courses instead of three.
When asked how she liked Spel
man, so far, Cathy answered that
she liked it very much, especially
the campus with its magnolia
trees, the friendly and courteous
students, and the inspirational
hymns that we sing in chapel.
Cathy is the only one of our sec
ond semester exchange students
who has ever been to the South
before. She lived in Memphis,
Tennessee for four years.
Anne, a student at Western Col
lege in Oxford, Ohio, is majoring
in Art History. This includes
Greek, Roman, African Art and
the art of other nations of the
present. Having traveled in
Africa last summer with the
Operation Crossroads Africa Pro-
pect, Anne was able to have per
sonal contact with Africans and
their art. Discussing politics and
making mobiles are Anne’s pre
vailing hobbies.
All of the students seem to think
a lot of Spelman, and also of
Morehouse and its men of chi
valry. They feel that Spelman stu
dents have a definite advantage,
because the college is located in a
large city where it is convenient
to lectures, concerts, and an intel
lectual atmosphere. Another very
definite advantage is that of be
ing an integral part of the Uni
versity Center that incorporates
an exchange program of students
j who take courses at either one of
| the colleges in the Center.
I’m sure we will enjoy having
these seven young women here for
the second semester and we hope
that they will gain all that they
expect from this enriching experi
ence.
— Emma Joyce White
ON THE TWIST
(Continued from page 5)
It just so-hapened that after
this little escapade, Marion Ruc
ker, twisting her ponytail, saun
tered aimlessly into the room. I
conjectured that surely a calm,
level-headed young leady like
Marion, who is, nevertheless, up
to date on the latest occurrences
on campus would know. So I put
the question to her just the way
I knew she would answer it —
straight forward.
“Marion, what is the ‘twist?”
Well, she wrinkled up her nose,
looked at me as though I were
a half-wit and with confidence
explained:
“When we think of the ‘twist’
today, we think of the new dance
fad; but before that I thought it
was a thing for your hair.”
“Uh huh, any more about it?”
I asked.
“Well, I used to think of the
twist as being vulgar.”
“And now?” I questioned.
“It’s all right!” she anxiously
responded.
I left Marion in the same spot —
well, almost the same spot. She
had decided to stop twisting her
ponytail and instead she was
thrusting her sacroilliac to and
fro like a neurotic locomotive.
Marion would have simply said
that she was doing the twist, but
the dance is rather impression
istic, if you observe it. Just like
a neurotic locomotive.
I next ventured upon Constance
Nabwire and decided to try my
luck with her. Constance, you
understand, is a very serious-
Calling
All Poets
The American College Poetry
Society is pleased to announce
that its fifth semesterly anthology
of outstanding college poetry is
now being compiled for publica
tion May, 1962. Ibis is an excel
lent opportunity for those of you
who are interested in writing po
etry to have your work published.
Contributions must be the orig
inal work of the student (who
shall retain literary rights to the
material), submitted to the exec
utive secretary Richard A. Brian,
in care of the American College
Poetry Society, Box 24083, Los
Angeles 24, California, with the
entrant’s name, address, and
school on each page. Poems, which
may reflect any subject, should
not exceed 48 lines, nor may any
individual submit more than five
poems. Entries that are not ac
cepted for publication will be re
turned if accompanied by a self-
addressed, stamped envelope. The
Society, this year, will offer Rec
ognition Awards of Five Dollars
each, to the five outstanding col
lege poets. The poems cannot be
otherwise acknowledged, nor can
the Society compensate students
for the work that is published. All
entries must be postmarked not
later than Thursday, April 12,
1962, to be considered; decisions
of the Society judges are, of ne
cessity, final. Begin now and get
your entries in early.
NON-WESTERN PROGRAM
(Continued from page 5)
and beaten probably on the very
spot on which I stood. I feel that
it was at a social activity sponsor
ed by the first church in which I
worked that I was finally able to
visualize the brutality of the ju
veniles, for I was caught in the
middle of a Puerto Rican gang
fight. Having worked with the in
dividual members of this gang, I
had felt that their anxieties were
somewhat mitigated. It was after
the fight that I suddenly realized
what a momentous task I had be-
minded, mature, young woman.
So I greeted Constance with the
usual question, “Constance, what
is the ‘twist’?” When she exclaim
ed, “Oh,” I just knew our worries
were over, and that she had the
answer quick and simple. But she
too began snapping her fingers
and defiling her normal body
contour. She looked rather like
a toy snaping turtle with a loose
spring. However, I waited patient
ly with vain hopes that if she
would stop, if she could stop, she
might give some clue to what
everybody seemed to be doing.
Finally, she did speak:
“The ‘twist’ is something which
when done upsets your insides.
If you don’t take it gradually, you
may have your spinal cord dis
located. But it is quite exciting
in spite of . . . you know.”
“In spite of the risk, Constance.
It is exciting, though?” I expect
ed her to go on, but she only de
clared, “Oh, very!”
And that was that. I assumed
that I just wasn’t going to find
any better answer to “what is
the ‘twist’?”, I decided to formu
late iny conclusion according to
the material I had gathered from
my astute classmates.
What is the ‘twist’? The “twist”
is a torso wiggling, sacroilliac-
thrusting, locomotive-like snapp
ing turtle gyration which when
done hurts your hips, upsets your
insides, fatigues you drastically,
and dislocates your spinal cord.
But it is not vulgar and it is
exciting. ”Oh, very!” And that’s
the twist.
That’s the twist? That is the
twist — isn’t it?
Diane Matthews
fore me. As I visited in their
homes and attended social func
tions held in the community, I
kept this in mind.
Aside from the work that I did
with the gang, I taught Daily Va
cation Bible School, and took a
religious census. This census was
taken in an area that had just
been created by the Urban Re
newal Program. I found many
atheists, agnostics, Catholics, Pro
testants, and people who just did
not “want to buy any.”
Student Summer Service partic
ipants generally find their work
to be challenging, demanding, yet
equally rewarding. For nothing
can produce a greater feeling than
the knowledge we shared, that in
some little way we had provided
the faith, and trust that was need
ed by many, or maybe we had in
a sense stopped a potential rob
bery.
I might seem that this job
would require a lot of time, but
because of the arrangement of
the program, we had leisure time
in which we visited noted scenic
attractions — The United Nations
building, the Statue of Liberty,
the Empire State Building and
Radio City Music Hall. I also at
tended several meetings held on
behalf of the student movement in
the South. Several weekends were
spent in Rhode Island at the sea-
shoe and in Connecticut where I
particularly enjoyed horseback
riding. The project itself spon
sored picnics and trips to plays in
neighboring cities.
It is my hope that Spelman will
be well represented throughout
the country in this project this
summer as there are cities in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Alas
ka, California, and Puerto Rico,
participating. If anyone de
sires more information about the
project, I gladly offer all that I
have.
Josephine Dunbar
ODETTA
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highly regarded Sylvania Award
for herself. Mr. Belafonte said,
“Odetta is a vast influence on our
cultural life . . . we are fortunate
indeed in having such a woman
in the musical world.”
Much of Odetta’s greatness
stems from her ability to make
her performances one of great
emotional depth. She attempts,
with great success, to' provide an
insight into the situations and
feelings prevailing at the time the
songs arose out of the people.
Ticket prices are $3.50, $2.50,
$2.00 and $1.75.
Tickets are on sale at
Rhodes Salon of Music, The Rec
ord Hunter, and Paschal Brothers.
Lost And Found
Found — A number of Spelman
students who made all A’s
and B’s for the first semester.
Reward ’— 1,000 congratulations
to the students who particip
ated in the March for Peace
in Washington, D. C. You may
pick them up at your leisure.
Found — Two Spelmanites, in
tellectually curious, with good
grades and excellent citizen
ship records to participate in
the exchange program at Sa
rah Lawrence College in
Bronxville, New York.
Found — A number of tired eyes
and minds that have not as
yet recuperated from semester
examinations.
Reward —• For the return of the
Spelman faculty members to
the confines of their quarters;
they are dangerous, i.e. pos
sibly armed with tests, more
reading assignments, reports,
and grades. Be on the look
out!
Josephine Dunbar