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Spelman College Pays Tribute
To 20-Year Employees
Recent studies have proven
that American college students
are becoming increasingly con
cemed with the educational
process in which they are par
ticipants. Heretofore, however,
except to share in the tension
and anxiety of taking an ex
amination, writing a scholarly
term paper, and working for
better grades, we, as students
seldom, if ever, manifest any
of this concern in a mature
and serious manner. With
these things in mind, and in
an effort to unify those who
teach and learn, and to im
prove the reciprocal educa
tional experience, the Student
Council proposes a Student-
Faculty Evaluation which will
be conducted in early May of
this school year.
The basic plan of this eval
uation is being carefully stud
ied and worked out by a com
mittee of the Student Council,
and is still in a very rudimen
tary form. Nevertheless, we
are reasonably certain that
one aspect of the “positive
program of action” will be in
the form of a questionnaire
which will reflect student re
actions to all phases of the
academic community here at
Spelman, i.e., teaching meth
ods, courses of study, testing
methods, final evaluations, etc.
Juanita Price and Geraldine
Davis have been appointed
co-chairmen of the Student-
Faculty Evaluation Committee.
Though I have mentioned only
the questionnaire, there are
many other phases of the pro
gram, and committees thereof,
that must be organized and
implemented. We need diligent
and active student participa
tion!
A word of advice. Before
we get started on this new ad
venture it is important that
we dispel any misconceptions
about its objects and purposes.
The questionnaire, for ex
ample, is not intended to pro
vide an opportunity to ex
press any personal discontent
because of a course that we
rightfully failed. In the second
place, in order for the eval
uation to be of any signifi
cance, the conclusions on
which we act must be our
own. We may find fellow stu
dents who will disagree with
our evaluations. Our task is
to make up our own minds
with such light and assistance
as we can obtain. There is
comparable value in accepting
this responsibility with a high
level of maturity, and we of
the Student Government be
lieve that if this responsibility
is accepted, and acted upon
with maturity, we can enhance
the current academic program
and growth of this institution.
You will be hearing from
us soon.
Jane Sampson
Bits of News
Andi Williams
New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
On Wednesday, February 9, the Atlanta University Center
Cultural Committee presented the New Orleans Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra in concert at Sisters Chapel. Approxi
mately eighty-five musicians appeared, presenting music of
high caliber.
Four selections were presented: Overture to “Fidelio” by
Beethoven, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Ravel’s
Piano Concerto in G Major, and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry
Pranks by Strauss. The orchestra attracted such a large audi
ence that there was standing room only. The orchestra re
sponded to enthusiastic applause at the end of the concert with
several encores including a march for going home.
Conductor of the group was Werner Torkanowsky. Soloist
pianist was David bar-Illan. This concert was another in the
series presented by five of the institutions of higher education
in the Atlanta University Center.
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The Krakow Choir and Orchestra
On Wednesday, March 2, Spelman College presented the
Krakow Choir and Orchestra. Numbers on the program in
cluded orchestra numbers, choir a capella numbers, and
selections by both orchestra and choir. The music ranged
from psalms through dances and folk songs to opera. Soloists
were Wladyslaw Wochniak and Andrezej Bachelda. The
group, from Poland, was conducted by Andrzej Markowski.
Choir and orchestra were comprised from approximately fifty
members.
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Swim Show Scheduled
On April first and second there will be a Water Show
presented in Read Hall. Students from Spelman and Morehouse
will participate in such numbers as “One-Eyed Jacks,” “Some
where over the Rainbow,” and “People.” This is an annual
event which is an opportunity for the presentation of the
swimming skills of the participants, to the advantage of
themselves and their audience.
On Sunday, March 13, 1966 in Sisters Chapel, Spelman
College held its annual Recognition Service. Dr. Manley’s
statements on this occasion tell fully the nature and impor
tance of such a service.
“The members of the Spel
man College Family who are
being honored today for twen
ty or more years of service de
serve this recognition because
they have helped to make an
academic community where
there is a common search for
truth through the interplay of
minds. They have assisted in
making possible the sharing
of comfortable shelter in resi
dences, of food in breaking
bread together, of social life in
the close contact of a resi
dential college. They have
made possible the encounter
of intellect through dialogue
between students and faculty
and from one student to an
other.
“We regard them with
honor because they have help
ed to make this college a place
where students, indeed, can
“pursue the truth that shall
make them free.” Thus the
college provides the time and
space for them to know the
truth and like the spectrum of
color in art, each discipline of
knowledge is only a part of the
whole picture. Although math
ematics and music may not be
speaking the same language,
nor the drama department
communicating with the de
partments of music or psycho
logy, Spelman College is like
a tree, long an ancient symbol
of knowledge, whose branches
reach into the world, with an
aim to analyze and understand
it, to use it, and be of use to it.
“But the idea of a college,
where the separate searchers
of specialists are thrust into
conversation with one another,
depends upon the individuals
being aware of the total pro
cess, and not myopic and iso
lated in their own pursuits.
“The Apostle Paul worried
about this problem of reliable
personal idenity and com
munity with other people in
the early congregation of the
church. He used a very physi
cal figure of speech to make
the particular members aware
of the general situation. He
likened the members of the
church to the human body and
in substance said that some
are the head, some are the
eyes and ears, some are the
feet, and some are the hands.
All together, they were the
community of Christians; each
with a necessary function to
the living operation of the
body. The implication of this
metaphor is that the pursuit
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Student-Faculty Evaluation