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SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
Tuesday, April 27, 1965
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SPELMAN NAMES MERRILL SCHOLARS
Elizabeth Jordan
Every year through the gene
rosity of Mr. Charles Merrill,
a member of the Board of Trus
tees, Spelman selects Merrill
Scholars. These students are
awarded $3,000 which they use
for study and travel abroad dur
ing a period of fourteen months.
They leave during the month of
June of one year and return
the August of the following
year. This year’s Merrill Schol
ars are Misses Elizabeth Jor
dan, Bernice Dowdy, Mary Mc
Mullen, and JoAnn Whatley.
The following is a resume of
each girl’s plans during her stay.
Miss Elizabeth Jordan, a jun
ior, who is from Houston, Tex
as is a mathematics major. After
two weeks of travel through
England, Scotland, Holland,
France, and Switzerland she
will enter the Vienna Summer
School in Vienna, Austria which
is sponsored by Hope College.
There she will undertake inten
sive study of German in pre
paration for the winter semes
ter when she plans to study
with the Institute of European
Studies in Freiburg, Germany.
During the intersemester break
of March and April her plans
are to travel to Italy, Spain, and
Northern Africa. Upon the
completion of the summer se
mester in July she plans to
travel to Russia and to revisit
many Scandinavian countries
and places of interest.
Bernice Dowdy
Miss Mary McMullen, a Spa
nish major, is a junior from At
lanta. Upon arriving in Europe,
Miss McMullen plans to visit
England, Ireland, and France
before going to summer school
in Spain. After summer school
she plans to take a trip to Por
tugal and Africa. Her studies
will take place at the Univer
sity of Valencia under a pro
gram sponsored by the Univer
sity of San Francisco. Other
countries she plans to visit are
Italy, West Germany, Austria,
and Switzerland.
nate orientation activities. For
ums and discussions on national
and international political and
cultural issues will be completed
by a series of art lectures, daily
language classes and foreign
films. AH of this is under the
sponsorship of the Council on
Student Travel. Incidently, our
last year’s Merrill Scholars, Mis
ses Josephine Dunbar, Marilyn
Holt, and Ruth Davis will re
turn from Europe on ships with
programs sponsored by the
Council on Student Travel.
SPELMAN
PARTICIPATES IN
CHALLENGE ’65
More than a year of planning
went in the first CHALLENGE
convention-symposium presented
by the students of Wake For
est College (North Carolina),
March 11-14. The Symposium
which explored the theme “The
Emerging World of the Ameri
can Negro,” brought to the cam
pus at least a dozen prominent
speakers and approximately 600
delegates from Eastern Colleges
and Universities.
In eight seminars, a major
lecture and two panel discus
sions CHALLENGE explored
such major areas of the current
Civil Rights Movement, as “The
Negro Ghetto,” “The Negro and
Justice,” and “The Negro and
Academics”.
Ohange-of-pace highlights in-
eluded a banquet featuring
James Farmer, National Direc
tor of CORE as after-dinner
speaker. The delegates were en
tertained and inspired by the in
comparable folk singer, Joan
Baez. Her audience was impress
ed not only by the rare quality
of her artistry, but also by her
intense dedication to the princi
ples of peace and brotherhood.
In the group discussion opin
ions ranged from the conserva
tism of Russell Kirk to the lib
eralism of Henry Ashmore, Tho
mas Pettigrew, and Nat Hen-
toff.
The approach is yet another
impressive facet of the sympo
sium. CHALLENGE attempted
to examine the problems of the
American Negro from the orien
tation of the institutions in
which he seeks full participation
such as church, school, govern
ment, politics, etc. The thinking
was that prejudice is only a
part of the race problem. The
problem for the Negro says
Harold Rhodes of Wake Forest,
is ultimately a failure of this
country’s major institutions. The
church has failed to provide an
swers and leadership, schools
have not functioned to educate
equally, and the government has
failed to participate fully in
meeting this American problem.
Out of this symposium much
enthusiasm has been generated
among Spelman participants. Is
this not the type of awareness
and seeking that we as students
hope to achieve on our campus?
Do we not want to “come
alive” to the major problems of
our age? It is hoped that in the
coming school year Spelman
students will initiate an equally
“Challenging” consideration of
the social isues of interest to the
college generation. Certainly this
is another constructive way to
demonstrate our ability to as
sume responsibility for influenc
ing a society we are so often
ready to criticize and blame.
Janice S. Joyner
SHORT EXCHANGE
(Cont. from page 2)
from Cedar Crest really fell in
to the routine here at Spelman
with little or no effort.
The participants from Spel
man were Geraldine Davis, Au
drey Harrison, Jane Sampson,
Charlotte McConnell, Ruth Bae-
ty, and Alice Graham. Most of
them seemed to enjoy the ex
change. However, they did not
particularly like the way the
classes were carried on for the
most part, since there were only
lectures and very little if any
class participation.
Another exchange experiment
was carried on with Agnes Scott
College. This exchange lasted
only three days. It is very hard
to evaluate just how successful
it turned out to be because of
its brevity.
Phoebe Bailey
Miss Bernice Dowdy, a jun
ior, is an English major and an
Atlantan. She plans to spend
the month of July at L’Ecole
Pratique de L’Alliance Fran-
caise at Paris, France taking in
tensive courses in intermediate
French and French civilization
(including history, geography
and classical and modern litera
ture). During August and Sep
tember she plans to tour Switz
erland, Germany, England and
Italy. For the winter and spring
sessions she plans to enroll at
the Institut de Langue et Civil
ization Francaise at Besancon,
France. After school she hopes
to attend a workshop in Swit
zerland and do further traveling
to such countries as Russia,
Austria and those in Scandina
via.
Mary McMullen
JoAnn Whatley
Miss JoAnn Whatley, an At
lantan is a junior majoring in
art. She will spend her first
summer and the winter semes
ter studying the fine arts and
French civilization at the Sor-
bonne in Paris, France, under
a project sponsored by Central
College in Iowa. Through this
program trips will be sponsored
to Germany and England. Dur
ing her last summer she plans
to travel to Greece, Italy, North
ern Africa, the United Arab
Republic and Russia.
All of the Merrill Scholars
will sail to Europe on the M/S
Aurelia on which they will par
ticipate in the program of orien
tation for overseas study. The
program is designed to help stu
dents make the transition to a
different culture and academic
situation. A team of educators
and area specialists will coordi
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