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Friday, February 26, 1965
SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
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Spelmcm Welcomes Exchange Students
Sitting L to R: Tina Willis, Jo Ann Freisl, Patricia Walker, Diane Brause,
Margaret Hiatt. Standing L to R: Marion Arons, Beth Gore, Sandra Chris
tensen, Kirsten Running, Caudia Ligbler, Joyce Smyfhe. Not shown -
Barbara Boudurant.
Every year Spelman College
co-operates with various other
colleges in the country to ex
change students for no less than
one semester. This exchange
program brings about a better
understanding between the stu
dents from different schools
and areas of the country. This
year's twelve exchange students
are the following:
Marion Arons, from Elmira
College, Elmira, New York,
says Spelman is great. Marion
is a junior majoring in psychol
ogy-
Barbara Bondurant is a soph
omore from South Western
College in Winfield, Kansas.
Her major is social science. She
comments about Spelman,
“Friendly ... I feel at home,
I like it.”
Dianne Brause, who is a bio
logy major, enjoys our Southern
hospitality. She is a sophomore
from North Central College in
Mayersville, Illinois.
Sandra Christensen says,
“Spelman kids are friendly.”
She is a junior majoring in ele
mentary education at Luther
College in Decorah, Iowa.
Jo Ann Freisl is a sophomore
from Luther College, Decorah,
Iowa, whose major is undecid
ed. She is impressed by Spei-
man’s warmth, friendliness—
and stone wall.
Beth Gore, whose major is
undecided, is a sophomore at
South Western College. She
finds Spelman teachers and stu
dents friendly, but she doesn't
care for dorm regulations.
Margaret Hiatt, a junior from
Western College for Women in
Oxford, Ohio, who is majoring
in Indo-cultural studies, admires
the magnolia trees and her sweet
roommate.
Claudia Liebler, majoring in
German, is a junior from El
mira College. She says about
Spelman “It’s great!”
Kirsten Running comes from
St. Olaf College in Northfield,
Minnesota, where she is a soph
omore majoring in social psy
chology. Her comments on Spel
man are, “A school with high
ideals, and excellent academics
. . . turns out cultured youth.”
Joyce SmyChe is a sophomore
from Elmira College whose ma
jor in history. The things that
strike her most about Spelman
are genuine friendship, compli
cated registration, and those
constant breakfast grits.
Patricia Jo Ann Walker is
from North Central College in
Naperville, Illinois. Jo Ann, a
junior, finds Spelman a warm
and friendly place.
Tina Willis, a sociology ma
jor, is a junior from Elmira Col
lege. She comments, “It’s really
nice to be in warm territory.
Everyone here is so friendly
and helpful.”
These are our exchange stu
dents. Meet them, they’re
friendly.
—Henrietta Turnquest
Andrea Williams
Honoring The
Noble Nobel Peace
Prize Winner
Some call h i m Mahatma
Gandhi, others, Moses, and still
others call him “the Frederick
Douglas of the Twentieth Cen
tury”; however, most know him
simply as Martin Luther King,
Jr. He is really all of these. It
is he who re-emphasized the
use of non-violent tactics of the
black man to the white man; it
is he who so loudly repeated
the call, “Let my people go”
and freed us from the shackles
of civil oppression; it is he who
so eloquently expressed our
needs to America and the world;
and it is he, Martin Luther
King, Jr., who for his efforts
was awarded the prize, the cov
eted Nobel Peace Prize.
Still another honor awaited
him at his alma mater, dear
old Morehouse, on January 7,
1965. The administrations and
the students of the colleges in
the Atlanta University Center
hailed Dr. King for his great
achievements at Archer Hall
on this day. The event was
marked by a maximum capacity
crowd, television cameras and
several standing ovations in
honor of this great man.
The text of bis speech em
phasized a very important is
sue of our present-day problem
-—the end of segregation now
and forever. The sentiment of
the audience rang out “step
lightly Mr. Charlie, no more
second-class citizenship for me.”
Dr. King is truly the guiding
symbol of the new, emerging
status of the Negro. In the
words of James Weldon John
son:
“ . . . We have come over a
way that with tears have been
watered,
We have come, treading our
path thro’ the blood of the
slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our
bright star is cast.”
{second stanza of “Lift Every
Voice and Sing")
—Phoebe Lydia Bailey
SUPPORT THE
SPOTLIGHT
CAROLYN AND ART
Carolyn
Many students here at Spel
man are talented in many dif
ferent ways. For this issue the
Spotlight has chosen to inter
view one of these talented stu
dents. Her name is Carolyn
Simmons. She is a senior, ma
joring in art and minoring in
education.
Her interest in art began as
early as elementary school. In
high school she had a few paint
ings on exhibition in the art
classroom and also at the South
eastern Fair. One of her most
memorable experiences dealing
with art then was when she and
a few of her classmates painted
a mural to Leare Turner High
School in remembrance of the
Class of “ ‘61”.
Of all the art media, Carolyn
likes oil painting best for its
brilliance of colors, permanence,
ease and challenges.
Most of her work can be
classified as either abstract or
non-objective. A rendering of
anything in abstraction is of
course a distortion of what ex
ists or did exist. Non-objective
art is an expression of that
which does not take as its sub
ject forms or objects which
really exist; such compositions
are truly figments of the artist’s
imagination.
According to Carolyn, many
people today have unjustly con
demned abstract and non ob
jective art, admitting a lack of
understanding. To her, they
long for a rebirth of emphasis
on realistic compositions, but
they might as well thrust them
selves into the “mainstream”,
Simmons
because “modern” art is here
to stay. Why? The reason is
that with the invention of the
camera the artist in some areas
has become outdone. The cam
era produced much of what
he was able to do and with
greater speed. Previously, be
fore its advent, whenever there
was a request for a portrait,
landscape, etc. the artist would
devote himself to the task for
days, weeks, months, and even
years. But now, with the press
of a button the camera pro
duces in seconds that which
would have taken the artist
longer. The artist, refusing to be
be stripped of an oc
cupation, sought to find other
outlets for his artistic expres
sions. As a result, “modem”
art emerged. Splotches and blobs
of paint, unimaginable shapes
and unusual color combinations
have, somehow, given many ob
servers the absurd idea that the
“art” is not artistic. Yet, nine
times out of ten he is actually
saying something. The differ
ence between how he presents
what he wishes to say and the
way of the realist is that his
message is not exactly on the
surface and sometimes more at
tention to what he is trying to
say is demanded of us.
Last year Carolyn was privi
leged to have had two entries
in the Atlanta University Art
Exhibit. Though she did not
win any prizes or awards it was
to her honor to have had
her pen and ink drawing and
piece of sculpture included with
(Cont. on page 6)