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Eighty Six Years Celebrated
Woodrow Wilson Fellows Announced
by Patricia Roberts
Two Spelman seniors who were Merrill Scholars last year
have received the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship which finances
their graduate work at any institution they wish to attend.
These two young women are Bernice Dowdy and Elizabeth
Jordan.
Bernice Dowdy, a native of Atlanta and a graduate of
Booker T. Washington High School, studied at the University
of Besancon in France last year. Bernice plans to attend In
diana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where she will study
French literature.
“I feel very blessed and just a bit overwhelmed because I
wasn’t expecting such an honor, but I’m happy to have it since
it enables me to go to graduate school without putting if off
for a while,” Bernice says. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam B.
Dowdy, and her sister, Hope, were surprised, happy and proud
of Bernice’s achievement.
Bernice thinks that after graduate school she will teach
French on the college level and she hopes to instill in her
students the same love and appreciation for French that she
has developed.
Elizabeth Jordan is a native of Houston, Texas. She spent
her year abroad studying in Freiburg, West Germany. She in
tends to continue her education here in Atlanta by attending
Emory University where she will study mathematics.
She says in reference to the award, “I was very surprised
and very honored,” to obtain the fellowship. Her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil O. Jordan, and her sister, Marcelite (a 1964
graduate of Spelman) were proud of Elizabeth for winning
the fellowship.
Elizabeth thinks that after graduate school she will either
become a college teacher or work in the field of research or
industry.
The Spelman student body is proud of Bernice and Eliza
beth who have done much to inspire their sisters at Spelman.
We hope they will have continued success in all their en
deavors.
WOODROW WILSON FELLOWS
Above: Bernice Dowdy. Below: Elizabeth Jordan
Founders
Day
by Yvette Savoir
The climax of the Founders
Day activities was the April
11th Anniversary Service with
the long procession of plat
form guests, faculty, and sen
iors in academic regalia, and
juniors, sophomores, and
freshmen in white dresses.
The main speaker, Rev. Dr.
G. Wayne Glick, has served
in ministerial and educational
capacities in Virginia, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, and now serves
as president of Keuka College
for women in Keuka Park,
New York. He left us with
some thoughts about living
with ourselves:
1) We have a choice be
tween freedom and the kind
of security that comes from
action without commitment.
2) There is no way to
avoid life’s complexity.
3) Don’t be “seduced” by
knowledge or success.
4) Believe in what you say.
5) Remember you are only
human, subject to ignorance
and error.
6) Don’t despair — excel
lence is not attained easily.
The Rev. Harry S. Wright,
pastor of Shiloh Baptist
Church in Bennetsville, South
Carolina, and a Morehouse
College graduate, was the an
niversary Vesper speaker. His
topic was “No Parking,”
which he used to illustrate the
fate of those who stop along
life’s highway through their
hopelessness, apathy, lack of
faith, or idleness.
In conjunction with the
eighty-sixth anniversary of
Spelman’s founding were the
Know - your - Spelman contest
won by the freshmen of More
house South Hall, the Dance
Recital presented by the phy
sical education department
and the Original Song contest
won by the senior class.