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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. * * * 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. * * * 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 (Continued on page 4) Student-Faculty Evaluation