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Vol. I, No. 5 SPELMAN COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA Wednesday, April 18, 1962 Our Marian Wright Was Here L. to R. -- Renee Adkins, Bettye Darden, Ann Ashmore, Josephine Dunbar Spelmanites To Take Part In Project Operation-Crossroads Africa is conducting its fourth study-work camp project during the summer of 1962. The project is operating in twenty countries of West and East Africa in a study, travel, liv ing, and work experience. Each unit is being joined by an Afric an co-leader and a group of Af rican students. There is being planned ample opportunities for meetings and seminars with po litical and government leaders, educators, businessmen, labor leaders and village chiefs. The majority of the time will be. spent living and working with tribal groups in rural areas, thus mak ing possible an extended oppor tunity to study and gain insights into the culture, folkways, relig ion, and family structure of the people. Operation - Crossroads Africa was conceived as an effort to re late students of high leadership potential and concerned faculty members of all religious, racial and national backgrounds of the Western Hemisphere to the Afri can continent in creative, positive, and constructive ways; to help them begin a relationship for a mutually profitable future; to stimulate and encourage their pur suit of African studies and prepa ration for future work with or ganizations and agencies at work in Africa; to enlarge our aware ness and to deepen our under standing of our need of the people of Africa and their need of us. Operation - Crossroads Africa was organized three years ago by Dr. James H. Robinson, an Amer- (Continued on page 4) dfnuduaf Opportunity Offered Summer Pr rogrcun A unique summer experience for college students, 18 to 23, is offered by the 17th annual En campment for Citizenship — a six-week “workshop in democra cy” — to be held in New York, California and Puerto Rico from July 1 to August 11, 1962. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Honorary Chairman of the En campment for Citizenship, has de scribed the program as “one of the best ways that I have seen to bring before young people in a vital and interesting way the dy namics of democracy.” Conducted on the campuses of the University of California in Berkeley, the Fieldston School in New York City, and at Camp Tor- tuguero in Puerto Rico, the En campment provides an opportunity for students to live, study and play with alert young people from around the world, as well as from all sections of the United States— representing diverse racial, relig ious, ethnic and economic back grounds. Major areas of study include government, civil rights and civil liberties, international affairs, economics and practical techniques for civic and community action. Field trips to government, labor, management, farm, industry and community organizations located in New York, San Francisco and San Juan supplement the lectures, workshops and discussion groups. A varied recreation program makes use of the rich cultural and recreational resources of these areas ,and daily on-campus activ ities include all summer sports, folk and square dances, commun ity sings, etc. A growing number of colleges and universities grant academic credit for attendance at the Encampment or for special projects undertaken during the session. Founders' Day Activities Impressive Beginning Sunday with the Shirley Verrett-Carter Concert, setting the cultural tone, the Founders’ Day activties were as follows: TUESDAY NIGHT, April 10, The Health and Physical Educa tion Department of Spelman pre sented Students in Activity. This years’ theme “Around the World” was interpreted by many varied dances and activities. WEDNESDAY MORNING, in Howe Hall the Grandaughters’ Club decorated plaques commem orating the founders of Spelman, Miss Sophia B. Packard and Miss Harriett E. Giles. After the me morial services the Founders’ Day Luncheon was shared by faculty, students, and guests. The special features of the luncheon hour were the inspiring speech by An na Hankerson, president of the senior class, and the introduction of the new college song. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, the reknowned Dr. Theodore Distler, president of the American Association of Colleges and Uni- (Continued on page 4) Miss Verrett-Carter Mezzo - Soprano Appeared Here Shirley Verrett-Carter, mezzo- soprano, appeared here at Spel man College in recital on Sunday, April 8, 1962. Her visit here is one in a series of several which she will make to colleges and uni versities during the 1961-62 sea son. All of her campus visits, dur ing Which she also offers a work shop or master class for students interested in vocal music, are planned by the Arts Program As sociation of American Colleges. Miss Verrett-Carter was bom in New Orleans, educated in Califor nia, and completed her vocal stu dies as a scholarship student of Madame Marian Szekely-Freschl at the Juilliard School of Music, from which she received her dip loma in music. Numerous scholarships and -awards have been received by Miss Verrett-Carter. These in clude the John Charles Thomas Scholarship, Marian Anderson Award, Berkshire Music Festival Opera Scholarship, and the John Hay Whitney Foundation Grant. As winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Award, Miss Verrett-Carter made her de- . . . And everybody felt her presence. Marian Wright, of the •class of 1960, and one of the most outstanding students to graduate from Spelman College returned home on March 26 exploding a “bomb” which we hope by this time has infiltrated every Spel- manite’s mind. She gave a very stirring message in chapel at 8:00 in which our sleeping, -apathetic brains were awakened to the in adequacies which exist in our val ues, our goals, and in our so-call ed achievements. All d-ay the stu dents commented on her brilliant presentation which attacked the very roots of the intellectual ap athy which prevails here. Marian is now in her second year at Yale Law School. She said that she did not realize her ignorance or lack of intellec tual association until she entered an atmosphere like Yale’s, bound ed by intellectuali-sm. Her senti ment was directed toward the in crease of intellectual concern here at Spelman. “Read -everything you can get your hands on. Don’t wa-ste time. Take advantage of the opportunities open now to Negroes in various professional fields. De velop- yourself to your highest po tentials.” These w-ere highlights of her address which hit us so un mercifully. In two discussion groups in the afternoon and evening following her chapel talk, students were able to talk at length with Marian about these inadequacies and What we can do to overcome them. The subject of grades was brought up. Why Should so much empha sis be placed on grades when they do not hinder the student’s intel lectual progress? In answer to this it was brought out that grades should not be of prime importance to a college -student. One should know his limits and capacities. A reevaluation of education should come about here as well as an awareness of the great importance of eduction today, a point which can never be overemphasized. What about our backgrounds? Many of us come from communi ties of limited intellectual and cul tural outlets. It is true that the small town and the South limit the individual in college and in graduate school, but we must ex pand beyond the provincialism of our backgrounds and make an outright effort to partake of the intellectual and cultural activities here in the University Center. How can we start and what can we do to bring about a more in tellectual atmosphere here at Spelman? The first thing to do is to start with yourselves. All of you who are interested, gear your intellect toward a goal. Even though at first you may be in the -but at Town Hall in New York in November, 1958. Her European re cital debut was made in the Kam- merspiele Hau-s in Cologne, Ger many. In November, 1960, Miss Ver rett-Carter received the Blanche Th-ebom Award. She has perform ed extensively in the fields of re cital, opera, oratorio, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokoiwski in February, 1960, and with the London Phil harmonic, Joseph Krips conduct ing. Miss Verrett-Carter can be heard on Everest and Columbia records. minority, be strong in that posi tion. Complain about anti-intellec tual classes and facilities. Discip line yourselves. Talk with foreign students to get -a -cross-section of world opinion on various issues. Take advantage of the cultural opportunities such as the museum and galleries here which have been recently desegregated. Go to hear the excellent lecturers who speak in the center. Demand that research techniques be afforded and that independent study be in itiated in classes. But, in the pro cess of protesting use the facil ities available to you now. Read and then read more, for this is the key to intellectual: growth. Marian mentioned that we have three strikes against us already, being a Negro, being a woman, and then being a Negro woman. The challenge is there, will you take it? Ida Rose McCree Mrs. Brazeal Spelmanite Earns National Fame Mrs. Ernestine Erskdne Brazeal, wife, mother, teacher, church- worker, club woman, community and national leader has- been elect ed third woman president of the National Alumnae Council of the United Negro College Fund and a member of the College Fund’s board of directors. Mrs. Brazeal, a native of Jack- son, Mississippi and Chicago, Il linois, -entered the grammar school of Spelman in the sixth grade and continued on through both high school and college. She graduat ed from Spelman with highest honors, an A. B. degree with ma jors in history and English and certificates in cooking and Sun day school teacher training. She obtained her M. A. degree in his tory from the University of Chi cago. Mrs. Brazeal’s first job was at Washington High School as a Physical Education teacher. Spelman then required four years of Physical Education in order to graduate. She came to Spelman in 1931 as a teacher in the History Department. In 1943 she became secretary in the Alumnae Office. Mrs. Brazeal’s working time is (Continued on page 3) Students who are inter ested in job opportunities (under the sponsorship of the Agricultural Technical Assistance Foundation) in the Congo, North Borneo, Sarawak, and Thailand should contact Mrs. Seaton, 109 Giles. (Continued on page 4)