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The SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
Wednesday, April 18, 1962
Editorial
The Right Time
Editor Nelda J. King
Associate Editor Ida Rose McCree
Business Manager ... Patricia Smith
News Department Angela Owen, Editor
Priscilla Rowe, Ann Ashmore, Lessie Jackson, Mary Ray
Emma Joyce White, Yvonne Weatherly, Clara Prioleau.
Feature Department
Lugenia Beasley, Gloria Willis, Joycelyn McKissick, Diane
Matthews, Josephine Dunbar.
Circulation and Exchange Barbara Martin
Betty Lane
Lay-out Department Bronwen Unthank, Editor
Ann Ashmore
Photographer Emma Joyce White
Typists Gwendolyn lies,
Adye Bel Sampson, Hattie Shannon, Carol Barker, Nancy
Fesson.
Proofreaders Josephine Dunbar,
Patricia Smith, Priscilla Rowe.
Adviser Mrs. Naomi Chivers
The opinions expressed in the SPOTLIGHT are not necessarily those
of the Editors or Staff.
Heidelberg College
Tiffin, Ohio
Mardh 20, 1962
The Editor
Speknan Spotlight
Spelman College
Atlanta 3, Georgia
Dear Editor:
I chanced upon the article
“Spelmian As Seen By Our Afri
can Students” — S. S. February
28 — and I wish to express my
sincere appreciation to all the
Spelmanites and Sub-Spebnanites
for their fraternal attitude to
wards Africa — a plausible con
tribution towards internationalism.
And incidentally I hope that by
now Connie has realized that the
‘twist’, instead of upsetting the
insides simply accelerates the di
gestion of spaghetti meals;
that homesickness may result in
hormone shortages; that the heavy
overcoats will soon be replaced by
light rain coats which in turn will
be succeeded by tight swimming
suits; and that the from-the-oven-
to-the-refrigerator effect will soon
be reversed.
, Israel Mayenigo
* * *
Dear Fellow Students,
It has been approximately eight
weeks since I arrived in Chicago,
exhausted from a long trip and
feeling utterly lost. Before long I
was greeted by a bright-eyed
girl who asked, “Are you Jeanne
Terry?” This was my roommate
and she had been waiting for
three hours, because the train was
late, and yet she still managed to
retain a friendly smile. I was real
ly impressed .and I began to won
der if all the students at North
Central College were like her.
When I arrived on campus I ceas
ed to wonder. I found that the
Other students exhibited the same
type of warm-heartedness and
sincerity that I had found in my
roommate. In fact, the general at
mosphere that prevailed seemed
to suggest to me that this was not
a strange place at all but a place
that I had visited many times be
fore. Therefore, I felt at home
from the beginning.
When classes began and I set
tled down to study, I did not lose
the feeling of belonging that I had
acquired because academic life
at North Central is generally the
same as that of Spelman. The
range of assignments and readings
is not different from, that which
I had been accustomed to. Class
schedules run differently, how
ever, for two reasons. First, most
of the courses are four and five
hours each. Therefore, a student
at North Central takes less sub
jects than a student at Spelman;
but, they carry the same number
of hours. Second, classes do not
meet on Saturday. I found no dif
ficulty in adjusting to this because
the library is the favorite meet
ing place for students on Saturday
morning.
The students are closely ac
quainted with faculty members
outside of the classroom. A facul
ty member often invites individual
students or an entire class over
to his house for dinner or tea.
Faculty members and students
share the experience of weekend
retreats. The retreats encompass
discussions of universal and per
sonal issues and recreational ac
tivities.
The students at North Central
enjoy a very diversified and un
restricted social life. They have
many privileges, but as typical
students they still complain. Most
students spend their leisure time
at the student union where the
activities range from dancing to
indoor sports. On the weekends
students are allowed to visit other
cities. Other activties include: go
ing to operas and stage shows in
Chicago, skating, and attending
special artist series concerts at the
college.
I feel that the exchange pro
gram is an excellent opportunity
for a student to gain insight into
the academic structure and social
life of a college other than his
own. It offers him an opportunity
to share his views with other stu
dents and to compare his college
with another so that he may ap
preciate its better features or of
fer helpful suggestions toward
strengthening its weaknesses.
Moreover, I think the experience
causes a student to think mare ob
jectively, to value the opinions of
others, and to look at life from
a new and different point of view.
Jeanne Terry
* * *
Dear Editor:
I guess you are wondering why
you have not heard from us, but
we decided to wait until we were
settled here at Wesleyan.
So far I like it here quite a
bit. About the first thing I noticed
was the friendliness of all the
people here. The students have all
been very nice to us for there is
a closeness about the whole school,
students, faculty, and staff that is
really wonderful.
Our first evening here we went
to a dinner for all new students
and met the president, the other
staff members and the house mo
thers. They were all very cordial,
especially when they found we
were from Spelman.
We have been interviewed for
the school paper. I am sending
you a copy of it so you can see
how the paper is here. It is pub
lished every week -and I think it
is very good.
All my classes are quite inter
esting and ithe teachers are very
helpful and considerate. I am tak
ing Intermediate French, Elernen-
The pursuit of knowledge is
beautiful from many aspects. It
is as delicate as a downy feather,
as majestic as the soaring peaks
of a great mountain, as pure as
the righteous concept of God. But
then, it can be as base as evil it
self.
In view of the latter concept,
it is necessary for us to judge the
time, the place, and the manner
of acquiring knowledge. In other
words (perhaps more meaningful),
chapel should not be used as a
study hall. Let us approach the
subject from a slightly different
point of view. When we enter the
chapel, we expect to gain from
the services there, a knowledge
of the beautiful, the ethereal, the
Omnipotent. We sdt quietly await
ing the words which will inspire
-and direct our lives. To interrupt
this suspension with history notes
and math problems is to destroy
a magnificent ideal, one which if
established in our lives will cer
tainly surpass these trivial mat
ters.
Likewise, noise during the Chap
el service is both harmful to one’s
attainment of the ideas given there
as well as discourteous to the
neighbor whose mlind may be fix
ed on the consideration of these
ideas. Such noise is unnecessary
unintelligent, and furthermore,
“un-Spelmanlike.”
Please refrain from studying
and talking in chapel. Truly in
telligent people do refrain from
such action.
Ida Rose McCree
tary Spanish, United States His
tory, American Government, and
Contemporary Art. This class is a
slide lecture course. The exams
consist of identification of the
slides. I am always thrilled when
I can identify a slide.
I have not found the work re
quired in my classes any mare
difficult than at Spelman. The
only big difference is the study
habits of the students. They take
their studies seriously, keeping
the dorms quiet and -conducive to
study from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
I am very pleased with my dor
mitory and with my roomate. Our
room is quite large with a walk-
in closet, a fireplace, a bathroom
and a balcony. We share the bath
room with two other girls who
live next door.
The rules here ar'e so different
from those at Spelman that it took
me a while to adjust to them. We
sign out only after 7:00 p.m. un
less we are going away for the
week-end. We have to be back by
10:30 during the week, 12:30 on
Friday and Saturday nights, and
11:00 on Sundays. There are no
car restrictions. In fact several of
the students have cars of their
own. I found that most of the
-students study during the week
-and go out on the week-ends.
I have joined the orchestra and
play second violin. There was a
concert about two weeks after I
had joined, yet with much prac
tice I was -able to play with them.
We are now practicing for the op
era “Don Juan”.
So much happens every day
that I could never tell it all.
I can only say that I am thor
oughly enjoying it and that I am
grateful for this opportunity. I
think the Exchange Program is
something that should definitely
be continued so that others may
have a -chance to collect unforget
table experiences as I am now do
ing.
Sincerely yours,
Lucia Holloway
* * *
Hi Fellow Spelmanites,
Jean and I have felt “at home”
Since the minute we arrived here
at Elmira because everyone is so
warm and friendly.
Best Reading
The Blood of the Lamb, by Pe
ter De Vries. Humorist De Vries
continues to deal -With absurdity,
but in this bitter novel of a man’s
progress from religious to secular
fair, absurdity of the existential
kinld: life is a joke, and a bad one
at that.
The Rothschilds by Frederic
Morton. A well detailed account
of the seven generation progress
of Europe’s fabulous banking clan,
of whim it might now be said that
royalty rivals the Rothschilds.
Best Sellers
Fiction
Franny and Zooley Salinger
The Agony and the Ecstacy, Stone
The Fox in the Attic, Hughes
The Bull from the Sea, Renault
Chairman of the Bored, Streeter
A Prologue to Love, Caldwell
Twilight of Honor, Dewlen
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
Captain Newman, M. D., Rosten
Daughter of Silence, West
Non Fiction
My Life in Court, Niz-er
Calories Don’t Count, Taller
The Guns of August, Tuckman
CIA: The Inside Story, Tully
The Making of the President 1960,
White
The Last Plantagenets, Costain
The Rothschilds, Morton
The New English Bible
The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich, Shirer
My Saber Is Bent, Paar
Compiled by Mary Ray
I shall take this opportunity to
Share some of my impressions of
Elmira with you. Academically,
there is not very much difference
in Elmira and Spelman. I feel that
the students at Spelman are -as
serious about their diasswork as
the students here. However, the
students here are more interested
in international and national af
fairs. Th-ere is a great deal of de
bate now between the liberals and
the conservatives on the campus.
Mr. Wilm-oor Kendal caused much
controversy when he spoke at the
Convocation -and later informally
in one of the -dorm lounges. He, I
believe, was impressed by the in
telligent, relevant questions and
arguments provoked by his dis
cussion.
The faculty -and students are
very close. Perhaps two reasons
for this are (1) that the students
at Elmira are treated as mature,
responsible women who are en
couraged to express openly their
opinions, and (2) that the stu-
SPELMAN
COLLEGE
by Ann Cook
(Editor’s note: The following ar
ticle was written by one of the
Sarah Lawrence exchange stu
dents for her school newspaper,
CAMPUS.)
Dateline: Spelman College —
the home of “Southern Hospital
ity.”
As I looked through miy notes
taken at Spelman I tried somehow
to pull together the thoughts of
a week at- this unusual school.
Briefly my comments looked like
this:
“Speknan — very traditional
academic structure — rigid social
regulations — the most exciting
part of the college is the student
body and its concern with social
issues.
Spelman dates back to the
1800’s when it was founded as a
Seminary for Negro women stu
dents. Today it has an enrollment
of -about 800 girls from a-11 over
the South and is no longer offi
cially affiliated with any religious
sect, but rather is one of the re
cipients of the large Rockefeller
Fund. Located in the center of
Atlanta, it is today part of the
Atlanta University Center, a -com
plex of six Negr-o -colleges includ
ing its brother school, Morehouse,
and Atlanta University. The Spel
man student has the opportunity
of taking courses at any of the six
schools thus adding greatly to her
range of both teachers and courses.
(Continued on page 4)
dents are interesting discussants.
Recently the freshmen entertained
the faculty a-t a party where ev
eryone played charades and did
the Twist. I wonder how this
would work -at Spelman . . .
Perhaps Terry and Linda have
told you about some of the tradi
tions such as Blazer Day, Moun
tain Day, Winter Week-end, Fa
ther-Daughter Week- end and
many others. I must mention the
“Take-Off” on the administra
tion, faculty, and the out going
student government officers that
the Seniors d-o one a week. This
was very entertaining.
Believe it or not, I think the
students -here are unfortunate in
not having Chapel at least once a
week.
I have probably consumed more
space than Nelda and Rose had
anticipated, so I will say “so long”
until September.
With fondest thoughts of you,
Edwin-a