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Front row, left to right: Katherine Pierce, Elizabeth English, Lucia McClintock, Pamela Park
er, Betty Schultz, Janet Hayward. Back row: Caroline Warren, Marsha Moore, Mary Shafland,
Mary Lee Rugh, Barbara Fick. Missing: Kathy Wothouse. Second Semester Exchange.
BEVERLY WHATLEY NAMED
SSGA PRESIDENT
Annual Religious
Emphasis Week To
Begin March 1
For many years during this season,
the students of the Atlanta Universi
ty Center have looked forward to
the beginning of Religious Emphasis
Week. For many this particular week
is a much needed period for reflec
tion upon and re-evaluation of their
spiritual lives. During this time, the
students are given an opportunity
to talk over their problems with some
of the outstanding religious leaders
of our community and nation, as
well as with each other.
This observance is usually divided
into two inter-related programs—that
of the Atlanta University Center and
that of the individual campuses. This
year the Atlanta University Center’s
observance of Religious Emphasis
Week will take place March 1-4. A
committee composed of all the col
leges in the Center has met to make
plans for this event. They have chosen
as guest speaker, Dr. Mordecai John
son, former President of Howard
University, Washington, D. C. Al
though a theme has not as yet been
selected, a tentative program has
been set up as follows:
Worship Services— (All to be held
in Sister’s Chapel)
Sunday: 3:00 p.m.
Monday: 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. (Holy
Communion)
Other activities such as receptions
and informal discussion periods fol
lowing each service will take place.
Tentative plans also call for the pre
sentation of “Murder in the Cathe
dral” by the St. Rartholomew
(Episcopal) Players, directed by Mrs.
Katherine Hocking. This performance
will probably take place in Dean
Sage Hall; time and date will be an
nounced.
The Spelman Campus program will
take place March 1-6. The Campus
Speaker is Dr. Clarence Jordan,
founder and member of the Koinonia
Farm, Americus, Georgia. Dr. Jordan
is a native of Georgia. He graduated
from the University of Georgia with
a B.S. Degree in Agriculture, and
Facts
Atlanta's Image
The New Year opened with an all
out drive on the part of high school
and college students under the aus
pices of SNCC to rid “our fair city”
of the law-supported policies of seg
regation.
This impetus was directed by
SNCC Chairman, John Lewis, and
Chairman of the Cambridge Non
violent Action Committee, Gloria
Richardson. The targets were public
and private restaurants and hotels.
Leaders are also pressing for more
jobs for qualified Negroes.
To spur the drive on, comedian
Dick Gregory has played an active
role by picketing, sitting-in, and do
ing public speaking at various
churches and to diverse organizations
throughout the city.
On February fourth, Mr. Gregory
addressed a large group of students,
educators, and workers at a mass
meeting held at Mt. Moriah Baptist
Church. The main speaker was in
troduced by Rev. James Bevell of
the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. He pointed out the
ironies of this system of segregation
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from the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, with
a Th.M. Degree (Masters of Theolo
gy) and Ph.D. Degree in Greek.
For four years he worked in the inner
city of Louisville under the Baptist
Mission Board and at the same time
taught at Simmons University and
pastored rural churches. In 1942, he
helped launch the Koinonia Farm
and has been there since then. He
has spoken at many college campuses
throughout the U. S. and has written
books for senior high and older
youths. He is presently working on
a “Cotton Patch” translation of the
New Testament.
Although Dr. Jordan is our speaker
for this observance, student commit
tees will assume responsibility for all
other activities during this week. The
program will be similar to that of
last year, however, some changes are
expected.
Opinions
The Time Is Now
There is in these United States
a revolution taking place. A revolu
tion, according to Webster, is a com
plete change of any kind, an over
throw of a government or a social
system. Only two points in this def
inition apply directly to our purpose.
The revolution of today is geared
toward a complete change and over
throw of a social system. This social
system is the cancer that has been
eating away at the souls of all Ameri
cans for hundreds of years. Segrega
tion! A cure of this disease would en
tail a complete alteration of the pres
ent system. Who are to be the doc
tors?
Indirectly, the movement, in all
honesty, is an attempt to overthrow
the government; not as it exists theo
retically in the Constitution, but
rather as it has been distorted and
colored to discriminate against mi
nority groups. Two sets of rules exist
for Americans in this country. One
group of citizens is free, the other
is not. It is as simple as that. Ine
qualities and injustices prevail on all
fronts of American life. However,
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Senior Beverly Whatley was re
cently appointed president of the
Spelman Student Government As
sociation. Former president, Betty
Stevens, who completed her require
ments for graduation after the first
semester, made the appointment be
fore leaving. Miss Whatley is a na
tive of Atlanta, Georgia. She was
a recipient of the Merrill Study
Grant for the year 62-63, during
which time she studied in Norway.
Miss Whatley has expressed that
we need more and better communica
tion between the Student Council
and the student body this semester.
This is one of the main things she
intends to strive toward this semester.
Furthermore, many of the same plans
which were begun during the first
semester will be further implemented
this semester. One of these plans is
a constitutional revision which will
be undertaken in the very near fu
ture. Another pressing item is the
presentation of a full financial re
port to the student body. As has
been pointed out recently the stu
dent government is operating on a
very limited budget this semester
due to the fact that the clubs and
organizations on campus have failed
to share in the expenses for campus
activities undertaken during the first
semester.
Calendar of Events
MARCH
March 1—Beginning of Religious Em
phasis Week
March 5—Peace Corps Representative
on Campus, 6:30 P.M.
March 6, 7—Water Show, Read Hall
March 15—Alumnae Recital, Mrs.
Carolyn Diggs and Mrs. Josephine
Love, Sisters Chapel
March 16—Mid-Semester Exams Be
gin
These and other issues face Miss
Whatley and the Student Council
during the coming weeks. One can
see then that our new president
needs the support and encourage
ment of every student here, in order
that the SSGA may serve the stu
dents well this semester.
On Friday, February 7, 1964, the
Treasurer’s office at Spelman Col
lege was robbed of about $5,000. A
Brink’s truck had left only minutes
before delivering the payroll. It was
about 12:40 and Mrs. Lampkin, the
bookkeeper, and Mrs. Martin, the
cashier, were just about to leave for
lunch. Mrs. Lampkin was waiting in
the door for Mrs. Martin when the
two men rushed in and said “This is
a holdup, give it here.”
The leader of the two men march
ed Mrs. Martin over to the safe with
his gun in her back. He stood behind
her while she opened the safe. Mrs.
Martin missed the combination the
first time, and the gunman asked,
“are you stalling.” She answered,
“NO, I’m not stalling. I’m nervous.
I can’t think. If you took the gun
out of my back, maybe I could open
it.” The gunman threatened Mrs.
Martin with, “You’d better open it,
or I’ll shoot your brains out.” The
second time she tried the combina
tion the safe opened. The gunman
dropped the two money sacks in a
paper bag which he had sitting on
the floor.
Mrs. Lampkin was covered by the
second gunman throughout the rob
bery. She was forced to sit on the
window sill and look out of the win
dow. The two women were ordered
to lie on the floor, and told not to
move until the robbers left. After the
Welcome
Exchange Students
Spelman has once again opened its
doors to second semester exchange
students. This year we can boast of
twelve on our campus. As always
we welcome them to our community
and hope that their stay here will
be a rewarding experience. Present
ly, we have one student on the year
exchange, Marilyn Bartel from Bethel
College, North Newton, Kansas. She
is a sophomore minoring in Second
ary Education and Drama and major
ing in English. The exchange stu
dents for this semester are Mary
Shaflan, a junior from Luther Col
lege, Danville, Illinois. Miss Shaflan’s
major in Sociology and English with
a minor in History. She finds most
pleasure in reading, swimming, and
music—listening and playing. Her first
impressions were a little “foggy” al
though she was very impressed with
the friendliness of the campus and
the interesting classes and faculty
found here; Maryler Rugh, a junior
from Southwestern College, Win
field, Kansas, has a double major—
Elementary Education and Spanish.
Maryler spends most of her time
reading. She, too, was impressed
with the friendliness of our students
and with the beauty of the campus;
Carolyn Warren, also a junior from
Southwestern College, in Winfield,
Kansas, is majoring in public school
music with special emphasis on voice.
Her hobbies include those that might
be of interest to many young men
i.e., cooking, sewing, knitting and
hiking. She was impressed that a
girl’s school does not seem to be
drastically different from that of a
coed campus, however, she says, it
does not seem to be so tensely in
tellectual and competitive; Janet
Lynn Haywood, a junior from Illi
nois Wesleyan University, Blooming,
Illinois, comes to us from Creve Co-
eur, Illinois. She is a Sociology major
and she spends her free time modern
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two men left, Mrs. Martin notified
the police.
Two Spelman students saw a black
’59 Impala just outside the gate at
Chadwick Hall on Leonard St. One
man was sitting behind the wheel.
Two other men got out of the car
and walked across campus through
the Chadwick gate. When the two
gunmen ran out of the Treasurer’s
office and across campus, they were
running toward this car. One man
got in the front seat, the second got
in the back seat. Both lay on the
floor as the car sped away.
There are many unanswered ques
tions about the robbery. Some peo
ple feel that it was an inside job
because the robbery was planned so
well. How did they find out the
exact day and time when the Brink’s
truck would bring the payroll? How
did they know exactly which room
to rush to in Rockefeller Hall? The
gunmen seemed to know that Mr.
Coe and Mrs. Martin are the only
two people who know the combina
tion of the safe. The leader rushed
directly to Mrs. Martin and ordered
her to open it.
Perhaps these questions will be
answered in the near future.
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