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Awards
and Honors
Spelmanites
Sh ower
Placement Information
On Spelman Students
Most of the Spelman students who will not be studying
next year are taking advantage of the expanding job op-
The initiative of Patricia Collins,
freshman, should be an inspiration to
all who are seeking jobs. Patricia will
work this summer as assistant to
Marvin Wall, editorial writer for the
Atlanta Constitution. She will help
him in his research for the Southern
Regional Council.
Maude Brown was offered a job
at the Daval Medical Center in Jack
sonville, Florida as a Medical Tech
nologist.
The Argonne Company offered Janice Mills a position
doing biological research. Miss Mills was olso offered posi
tions with the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, and
with IBM in New York.
Barbara Varner will begin work as a social worker
trainee in Baltimore, Maryland.
Marilyn Holt has been offered jobs with the Bureau of
Census and with the Veterans Administration.
The John Hancock Insurance Company, administering
part B of the Medicare program, has offered employment to
several Spelman students. They are: Judith Fennell, Gloria
Wise, Frieda Williamson, Madeline McClellan, Janet Dixon,
Lela Sweet, and Jane Sampson.
Marilyn Wilson, Lela Sweet, and Jewel Richardson have
been offered positions as reservationists by Eastern Airlines.
Eastern also offered Geraldine Davis a job as stewardess.
Several seniors completed requirements for entering serv
ice with the Peace Corps. These students are Olga Cook,
Clarita Nelson, Jewel Richardson, Barbara Varner, Judith
Fennell, and Anita Quick.
The prospective elementary and secondary school teachers
comprise, by far, the largest list of students in any single
profession. Among these prospective teachers are: Alice
Comer, Olga Cook, Mary Cook, Sandra Austell, Sharon John
son, Martha Kate Sims, Phoebe Bailey, Barbara Greason,
Marjorie Anderson, Charlotte Wilson, Sharon Wright, Kay
Johnson, Arlene Johnson, Barbaralene Hix, Carolyn Reynolds,
Esther Pennamon, Beverly Daniel, Helen Coleman, Audrey
Harrison, Wanda Marshall, Birdie Anderson, Gloria Bailey,
Jacquelyn Brown, Margarette Butler, Paulette Frazier, Gloria
Furlow, Doris Gause, Brenda Greene, Vivian Grimes, Linda
Hayes, Michelle Hood, Barbara J. Lakes, Barbara S. Leggett,
Barbara Madden, Gwendolyn T. Maddox, Cynthia Marzette,
Sheryl Morgan, Clarita Nelson, Annette Norwood, Joe Anne
Owens, Myrtle Putman, Juanita Robinson, Esther Smith,
Helen Stroud, Beverly Sykes, Ralphine Thompson, Patricia
Travis, Smithie Tuggle, Linda Walker, Elynor Williams, Sarah
L. Williams, Rosaland L. Woodard, Charlotte Wyatt, Janet
Dixon, Joe Ann Owens, Berlyn Hargrette, and Mary B. Waters.
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Patricia Collins,
Summer Assistant to
Constitution editorialist
Awardees on Awards Day—1st row, l-r, Mildred Walker, Patricia Roberts, Evelyn A. Carroll, Helen Car-
itliers, Rica Wilborn, Berdie Ricks. 2nd row, Gertrude Dopson, Maria Kountoupes, Dorothy Render,
Anna Belle Porter, Alice Hines, Anita Quick, Cecelia Perrin; 3rd row, Cynthia Smith, Rita Chutz, Fred
dy e Hill, L. Muriel Birchette, Cheryl L. Birchette, Jane Sampson; 4th row, C. Thelma Gardner, Wilma
Curry, Cynthia Lemon, Frieda Williamson, Ruth Davis, Audrey Harrison.
Each year the awards and
fellowships for Spelman stu
dents become bigger and more
numerous. This fact, more than
anything else, indicates the
growth and good reputation of
the college. This year does not
dispute that fact, for more
Spelman students than ever
have received tremendous
grants.
Heading the list is Ruth
Davis, who received a $4,000
grant from the Foreign Schol
ars Program for one year of
graduate study at the university
of her choice. Miss Davis is
presently considering UCLA
and the University of Califor
nia at Berkeley. The purpose
of the Foreign Affairs Scholars
Program is to prepare capable
Negro students to work in
Foreign Affairs. The program
also includes a summer’s in
ternship in which Miss Davis
will participate at the State
Department or another gov
ernmental agency. Miss Davis’
course of study will be either
International Relations or So
cial Welfare. She also received
the Samuels Prize for Excel
lence in Social Science.
Another Foreign Affairs
Scholar is Alice Hines, a
junior. She will take part in
a Foreign Affairs Scholars’
Summer Program which in
cludes both work and study.
From June 7th until Sept. 7th
Miss Hines will study Foreign
Affairs at Howard University,
while working in the State De
partment. The program con
sists of forty juniors from pre
dominantly Negro colleges.
(Due to an oversight, this
award was not mentioned on
Awards Day.) Miss Hines was
awarded the Hannah H. Red
dick Scholarship on Awards
Day.
The most valuable award
announced on Awards Day
was the Dorothy Shepard
Manley Fellowship. This grant
is made by Mrs. Laurence
Rockefeller in memory of the
late wife of President Manley.
This grant covers tuition,
room, board, fees, and books
for one year of the recipient’s
graduate study. It may range
from $3,500 to $5,000. The
recipient was C. Jane Samp
son. Miss Sampson plans to
attend the University of Michi
gan, working toward a Mas
ter’s degree in English. Miss
Sampson was also the recipient
of the Virginia Chase Prize,
which is awarded to a senior,
who, in the opinion of the
members of the English De
partment, has done the most,
beyond achievement in the
classroom, to prepare herself
as a teacher of English.
Another grant made in
memory of our late first lady
is the Dorothy Shepard Man-
ley Scholarship, awarded by
the family and friends of Mrs.
Manley. The award went to
Mildred Walker, a junior.
Mr. Charles Merrill, the
donor of the Merrill travel-
study scholarships, awarded
two $2,500 fellowships to two
seniors for graduate study. The
recipients of these Merrill Fel
lowships are Elizabeth Leigh
and Frieda Williamson. Miss
Leigh will be studying at the
School of Social Work at
Columbia University, and Miss
Williamson, at The Medill
School of Journalism of North
western University. Miss Wil
liamson also received the dis
tinguished service plaque of
Savannah State College Press
Institute.
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