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Spelman College Begins
Expansion Program
Because of a rapidly increasing enrollment, Spelman Col
lege is undertaking a $1,850,000 building program. A new
dormitory, new dining room, and a renovated classroom build
ing are included in this project.
The new dormitory, planned by the New York firm of
Rogers, Butler, and Burgun, will be built south of Dorothy
Sheppard Manley Hall. It will be of the same architectural
design as Manley Hall and is being financed by endowment
funds of the college. A total of 161 students will live in the
76 double rooms and 9 single rooms of the new dorm. Barring
strikes and inclement weather, the building should be com
pleted by January 1, 1968.
The dining hall will be expanded by the construction of
a room adjacent to the faculty-senior dining room. This
addition will accommodate approximately 100 students and
will have an additional serving line. There is a possibility
that it will be completed by September, 1967.
The four floors of Giles Hall, which have cost $800,000
to renovate, will be completed by this summer. This building
will provide a new home for the Spelman Library, new class
room space, and a new language laboratory.
Dr. Manley breaks ground for new dormitory.
Religious Emphasis Week
A different approach was made toward the observance
of Religious Emphasis Week in the Atlanta University Center
and at Spelman College this year than that used in the recent
past. Stress was placed on activities sponsored by several
campus organizations rather than featuring a week-long visitor
to the campus. The theme was “Religion and Human Re
lations.”
Centerwide, there were two events on Sunday, March 5th
which served as an expression of institutional cooperation.
Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, Professor of Religion and Director
of the Special Programs in Humanities at Stanford University,
California, spoke in the joint worship service in Sisters
Chapel on Sunday afternoon and led a discussion among stu
dents and faculty members in the evening in the Sadie G. Mays
Lounge of Mays Hall, Morehouse College. This was the
totality of centerwide activities.
Spelman College made use of drama, panel discussion,
film, worship and lectures as it observed the week of religious
activities. Dr. Brown and The Reverend Ben H. Richardson
of Chicago, Illinois, Religious Emphasis Week speaker at
Morehouse College, spoke to Spelman students on two dif
ferent occasions during the week in religion classes. An inter
racial and interfaith group of young people, sponsored by the
National Conference of Christians and Jews, presented a
playlet titled, “Some of My Best Friends” in the International
Room, Rockefeller Hall, on Monday evening. The Spelman
College YWCA was in charge of this activity which involved
a discussion based on the drama that was presented. A Re
ligious Emphasis Week Seminar was held on Tuesday morn
ing in cooperation with the Freshman Orientation program at
Spelman College. They followed the theme, “Developing Our
Moral and Spiritual Selves”.
The Social Science Club sponsored a panel discussion on
the subject, “Christianity and the Black American”, in Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Hall on Tuesday afternoon. In the eve
ning, the Non-Western Studies Program of the Atlanta Uni
versity Center presented “An Evening With Pearl S. Buck”
in Sisters Chapel.
The film classic, Quo Vadis, was shown in Howe Hall on
Wednesday evening under the sponsorship of the Sunday
Forum. The Reverend Warren Scott delivered the weekly
lenten meditation in the Prayer Room of Sisters Chapel at
noontime on Wednesday.
The week’s activities came to a close on Thursday
morning when Mrs. Eliza Paschal, chairman of the newly
created Atlanta Community Relations Commission, spoke at
the weekly Spelman College Convocation in Sisters Chapel.
The Atlanta University Center Religious Emphasis Week
Committee is evaluating the present type of center-wide and
campus activities and will make some interesting innovations
for the future.
Pearl Buck Speaks Here
by Catharine Watson
Pearl Buck, who spoke at
Spelman College on March
16, 1967, made these com
ments about the Americans
and the Chinese. “I think that
these are two of the greatest
people on earth, but I’m afraid
of a war that might erupt. . .
However I am confident that
Communism will pass away
from China.” Miss Buck gave
a summary of Chinese history
emphasizing the effects of
Western missionaries and
traders and the Communists.
Although she gave much in
formation about China, a
country she knows well, Miss
Buck centered her talk around
her personal experiences in
the field of adoption. In 1949
she founded Welcome House,
Inc., an adoption agency which
finds permanent homes for
children of Asian-American
parentage. There are many
children in Asia, referred to
by Miss Buck as the “new
people”, who were fathered by
American soldiers stationed in
the various cities of Asia.
These children are victims of
scorn and prejudice. They are
unable to attend school and
are not considered legalized
citizens. Of the Asian-Ameri-
can child, Miss Buck said, “He
is our child, too.”
Miss Buck was the first
American woman to be award
ed the Nobel Prize for Liter
ature. She has written 70
books. Her appearance in the
Atlanta University Center was
sponsored by the Atlanta Uni
versity Western Studies Com
mittee.