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SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
Thursday, May 27, 1965
Frieda Williamson
TO THE GRADUATING SENIORS
Many thanks to you for the
four years of experiences you
have brought to this college
community: for the uncertain
freshman year as you sought
your identity as a building
adult; for the pseudo-sophisti
cated sophomore year as you
asserted yourselves in your
search for more expressive self-
expression; for the settling -
WELCOME ENTHUSIASM
Great achievements are never the products of apathy. Apa
thetic groups produce apathetic leaders, who achieve nothing and
are perfectly satisfied. Conversely, enthusiasm frequently produces
greatness. Enthusiastic groups produce leaders who are enthusi
astic about making great achievements to satisfy them. Without
a doubt the Spelman student body falls in the latter group with
respect to the 1965 SSGA elections. Sources say that the en
thusiasm of this election is unsurpassed in the history of the
school’s student election.
This enthusiasm was manifested in several ways during the
campaign period. The clever publicity gimmicks and the form
ing of party alliances began this historical campaign period. The
enthusiasm of the period was climaxed by the very spirited out
door political rally and the canvasing by motorcades.
The crowning glory of the period was the students’ proving,
by going to the poles, that their enthusiasm was not just a means
of diversion from studies, but a result of genuine interest in the
SSGA. Returns showed that over 550 students, which is over
90% of the total enrollment, voiced their choices.
■If the student body will work enthusiastically for the suc
cess of the leaders it produced, the ’65-’66 Spelman family can
look forward to great SSGA achievements.
NOT FINISHED
We who started on this long
journey four years ago are not
content with what we have at
tained, nor do we feel that our
task is completed. We have not
finished but are just beginning
an even longer journey into the
spiral road of life.
It is true that during these
four years we have sown the
seeds that will defeat or pro
vide us with success in our fu
ture endeavors. But what of
these who started this long jour
ney with us?
Let us reflect for just a mo
ment. It was only four years
ago that over two hundred and
fifty energetic young ladies
came to embark on their col
lege careers. All of us were
different, yet we were all alike.
We were different in back
ground, beauty, size, weight, as
pirations and intelligence, but
alike in the fact that we were
Marian Shivers
President, Senior Class
all undertaking a new career
with not the slightest assurance
of satisfaction or completion.
We had been told that college
entailed hard work, faith, and
perseverance but whether we
had any idea of being physical
ly and spiritually drained is an
other matter. We were not friv
olous nor were we complacent.
We were aware of the hard
struggle ahead and really ac
cepted the challenge.
Later during our freshman
year, the happy group began to
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SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
Editor-in-Chief Leila Potts Campbell
Co-Editor Frieda Williamson
Associate Editor Andrea Williams
Secretary L arolyn Clark
Business Manager Helen Coleman
Cartoonist Carolyn Simmons
Reporters Judy Tillman,
Anna Belle Porter, Phoebe Bailey. Yvette Savwoir, Carolyn Camp
bell, Joyce Young, Melba Davis, Anne Carroll. Patsy Stevens.
Carol King, Jane Smith. Ruth Batev, Clara Prioleau, Alexis
Walker, Beverly Smith.
down junior year as you show
ed the wisdom of two years of
college achievement; and now
for the senior year as you now
stand like Janus looking back
ward with reluctance to serve
your under-graduate college
ties, and looking forward to the
dim and uncertain future. But
you are now ready to plunge
into a societal picture, new,
changing, challengng, perplex
ing nad at times, frustrating.
You will be bruised and hurt
as you grow in stamina and
fortitude to make your way in
a highly competitive, distrust
ful, exacting society. You will
succeed in the measure that
you hold inviolate your per
sonal dignity and belief in your
capabilities. In my first letter
this year in the “Spotlight” I
quoted the poem “Look to this
Day”. Now I end the year by
saying to you, Look therefore,
to yourselves; for the Spelman
years are already a yesterday;
but tomorrow is your hope, the
great dawn of adventure.
Sincerely,
Naomi R. Chivers
THANK YOU NOTE
As you prepare to leave Spel
man and embark upon the next
phase of your lives, we, your
little sisters, pause to reflect
upon just how much you’ve
meant to us: You welcomed us
onto the campus, showed us
the ropes, advised us on every
thing from getting registered to
dealing with Morehouse men,
boosted our morale when it
sagged, and applauded when
we achieved.
We’ve shared joys, problems,
and exchanged questions on the
“Know Your Spelman” quiz.
We cheered when you won the
song-writing contest for two
consecutive years, and reveled
in your approval when we won
distinction in the Thanksgiving
Basket Competition. We were
reminded of the fun girls can
have, by themselves, at our tal
ent show, hen party, and dur
ing our work on mutual pro
jects.
Next year, it will be our turn
to guide the incoming fresh
men. Remembering you, we
shall strive to emulate the kind
nesses which you. bestowed up
on us. We turn the pages of our
65 REFLECTIONS with pride
of your past achievements, and
with confident optimism for
your future successes.
May you be blessed with the
happiness you deserve.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Birchette.
on behalf of the
entire Class of
1967
QUALITIES WE SEEK TO FIND IN STUDENTS
(A talk dedicated to the Class of ’65 given by A. E. Manley in
Chapel, April 21, 1965)
I trust you had a happy Easter and that you are now rested
and ready to do your best work during the last weeks of this
academic year.
I wish to congratulate Miss Patricia Dixon, Editor of Re
flections, and Mrs. J. Q. Caruthers, Adviser, and all of the other
members of the Yearbook Staff for getting out the publication
earlier than any other staff. It is a work well done.
I want to congratulate the members of the Class of ’65 and
to take this opportunity to ask each member of the graduating
class to check and re-check, test and retest her own development
to date in terms of how she has educated herself and what seems
to be the right way for her life.
You have been here now for nearly four years and it is
my hope that in addition to strengthening your divine qualities,
your lives have been pervaded by these five values which we
have tried to emphasize here at Spelman.
First, it is hoped that as seniors, you will set the example
for others by having a sound social outlook which guides your
purposes and activities; that you seek to understand your places
in and responsibility to a democratic society and a changing
world; That you are willing, and indeed feel obligated, to work
to bring about desirable change; That you have adequate per
spective and sound judgement and realize that it is not enough
to decry social injustice, but that it is also necessary to do some
thing constructive about it.
Second, you as seniors should aim to have appreciation of
both the possibility and value of creativity in all areas of human
endeavor. It is hoped that you realize that the mastery of specific
knowledge is important, but that even more important than mas
tery and rote memory is the need to use the canons of an aca
demic discipline for understanding, application of this knowledge
to new problems in novel and unique situations and thus, you
will be original, creative and imaginative in your thinking.
Life itself makes no division between the arts and the sci
ences. There is no division between an Einstein or a Michelang
elo or between an Erasmus or a Luther or a Martin Luther
King, Jr. The creative act, whether in the field of science, art,
of indeed of all human endeavor, is a conscious one of glorifying
with the intellect what we call reality. As Paul Green puts it,
“For he is a quickened spirit, a self. He is neither scientist, Phari
see, Homo Sapien, classicist, romanticist, animal or humanist.
He is a self, a living being, a personality, a soul. And he has
his visions, his freedom of will and his ideals accordingly, and
his essential nature is creativeness. There is in him a primal im
pulse and impetus toward the making of a truly beautiful and
vital world. And however obscured, hindered, detoured by false
doctrines and prophets, he will continue to strive toward that
goal ..."
Third, you as Spelman seniors should have as one of your
main aims, freedom within a framework of order and authority.
You should realize that only the disciplined are free and that
the term “undisciplined scholar” is a misnomer. This type of
freedom is basic to a free society, for without it there is no
possibility of discovering the true essential to its very existence.
In our day of ferment and doubt arising out of the clash of
ideas and ideals, if colleges such as this one do not promote
freedom of investigation, they may die. Here at Spelman, we
try to help our students look at the various sides of the problems
of the day so that the range of alternatives may be seen before
drawing a conclusion.
Fourth, it is hoped that Spelman seniors seek to develop
a student who enjoys life, who finds satisfaction in life, who is
not frustrated, and who wants to assist others to reap these bene
fits. In providing leadership we do not have to think about some
thing utilitarian or useful; it could be something that is just
beautiful. To lead others toward the maximum means that as
a leader you will not be satisfied with second-hand experiences.
You will do something, if you believe in something, no matter
what it costs. The people who went to Montgomery for the
March had maximum social values; whereas many of the white
residents of Montgomery, because their social values were at a
minimum, dreaded the March. The last paragraph of Eugene
Patterson's editorial in the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION for
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