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THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
September, 1967
Dunham to Appear
At Spelman College
The Non-Western Studies Program of the Atlanta Univer
sity Center, funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation,
brings to the community an internationally famous dancer
arid choreographer, Katherine Dunham. Miss Dunham, who
is presently Guest Professor at Southern Illinois University,
will be engaged in a two day lecture/demonstration program
at Spelman College, September 27 and 28, 1967. She will be
accompanied by two dancers and a percussionist.
Miss Dunham is bringing art items from her collection con
sisting of sample costumes, headdresses, and ethnic jewelry
from France, South America, Africa and other European and
Asian countries to be modeled. Forty color plates of costumes
of the Dunham collection mounted photographs of the Com
pany, Katherine Dunham poster selections from several coun
tries and a collection of musical instruments will be exhibited
in the Rockefeller Fine Arts Building during the time Miss
Dunham will be visiting the campus.
Following is a schedule of the complete program with Miss
Dunham and her associates to which the public is invited:
Wednesday — September 27,1967
8:15 p.m.—Lecture/demonstration—Rockefeller Fine
Arts Building. (This program will include
modeling of select costumes and Katherine
Dunham headdresses from the Dunham Collec
tion.
10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon—Master class for dance teachers
and adults interested in Primitive Dance
movements.
1:45 p.m.-2:35 p.m.—Percussion Class with students
of dance, music and drama and teachers.
3:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.—Master Class for students.
The Atlanta University Center Committee on Non-Western
Studies is composed of Mr. Bob Manley (Director, Spelman
College); Mrs. Lois Moreland (Chairman, Spelman College);
Dr. Richard Barksdale (Atlanta University); Mr. Floyd Cole
man (Clark College); Dr. Robert Brisbane (Morehouse Col
lege); Dr. Margaret Rowley (Morris Brown College); and
Reverend Norman Rates (Spelman College).
All arrangements for Miss Dunham’s presentation have
been executed by Mrs. Mozel J. Spriggs of the Physical Educa
tion Department at Spelman College.
Coming Musical Attractions
The Atlanta University Center makes possible certain out
standing presentations for all of the schools in the Center
annually. Included in the events this year sponsored by Spel
man College and by the University Center are:
1. Nelson and Neal. . . Husband-Wife Duo-piano Team.
Sisters Chapel. . . October 12, 1967 . . . 11:00 a.m.
2. Mattiwilda Dobbs . . . Coloratura Soprano (Spelman
Grad.). January 10, 1968 . . . Sisters Chapel . . . 8:30
p.m.
3. John Miles . . . Tenor
Sisters Chapel. . . March 28,1968 . .. 11:00 a.m.
4. New York Jazz Sextet
Samuel Archer Gymnasium . . . October 25, 1967 . . .
8:00 p.m.
5. Won Kyung Cho in the Arts of Korean Theater and
Dance
Davage Auditorium . . . Clark College . . . November
29,1967 .. . 8:00 p.m.
6. CleBanoff Strings and Orchestra
Sisters Chapel. . . February 12,1968 . . . 8:00 p.m.
7. Jean-Leon Destine and his Haitian Dancers
Archer Gymnasium . . . April 23,1968 . . . 8:00 p.m.
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From the Tiger’s Desk
Spelman Sisters, I speak to
you in the hope that all of us
will be speaking all year —
not only to each other (which
is an electrifying experience)
but to everyone in the AU
Center.
Sisters, we men of More
house take special favor to you
and love you in a very dear
way, but the time has come
for all of us in this University
Center to break the social and
mental barriers and communi
cate with each other. There
has been too much jealousy,
fighting, and non-cooperation
among the four undergraduate
schools in the AU Center. This
must end! This Morehouse
man asks that the foolishness,
jealousies, and petty quarrels
end and that we start a new
day as mature college men and
women. In fact, it’s taking us
a long time to realize that we
need to stop fighting among
ourselves. Indeed we Negroes
should learn less about club
bing each other and more
about cooperating and helping
each other.
Perhaps you’re wondering
what I’m getting at. It is very
plain, sisters. I’m getting at the
root of our trouble as a Uni
versity Center. The trouble is
useless class and social snob
bery, as well as petty jealousies
among the students and alumni
of the four undergrad schools:
Clark, Morris Brown, Spel
man, and Morehouse.
I believe that the above
point is clear, so let’s get on
with my greetings. As Editor
of The Maroon Tiger, it is a
pleasure to welcome you
beautiful belles of Spelman
back into the cradle of civiliza
tion called The AU Center.
You will have the service of
our corner drugstore Yates &
Milton, offering C-sanitary
conditions. You’ll also be
amazed to know that the wild
eyed lost creatures you see
scrambling around are More
house Freshmen. So Sisters,
let us work together and with
each other and with the others
in the AU Center to improve
ourselves. We have a most
promising year so I won’t
spoil it by breaking promises.
T promised to keep the story
short.
—Walter Kentley Dancy, Editor
THE MAROON TIGER
Do We Really Care?
We at Spelman will never
experience war . . . except
through the news, the history
books, and letters we receive
from the brave ones who bear
a task cast upon them, born
before them and of them . . .
but we shall never really know
war. Perhaps this is why we
seem to never really care. We
care when our loved ones say
goodbye and mourn if they do
not return, but until the blood
touches our hearts and rushes
home our care is shameful
negligence.
We did not start the war in
Vietnam, nor is it certain that
our generation shall bear the
glory of ending it, but we do
bear the ugliness of indiffer
ence.
We cannot join in the fight
with our boys, but no matter
what our attitudes about war
are, our men are dying and
we’re laughing, smiling, forget
ting . . . that they are lonely,
alien to the land they give their
lives for, seldom thought of by
the girls they left on peaceful
shores.
A letter is a simple way to
say ‘I want to understand’. It’s
a simple way to bring a smile
to a broken body. It’s a simple
way to boost a G.I.’s ego when
he’s ready to give up, to die
rather than bear the hell war
is a moment longer.
These lonely guys write to
Spelman. They want to hear
from any girl. Won’t you say
hello in a note every now and
then? Start by writing these
two:
PFC KERRY ARNOLD and
L/CPL TOMMY TOWNE,
A Company
1st Bn 7th Marines,
FMF c/o F.P.O.
San Francisco, California
96602.
These guys are somewhere
in the hills of Danang. Our
letters may already be too late
but we’ll pray they aren’t. And
we’ll write ... IF WE REAL
LY CARE.
American wounded GI’s pulling
out of a last battle in South
Vietnam.
SSGA
Newsletter
Laura Burton—President, SSGA
Spelman Sisters,
The 1967-68 school year
stands before us as the vessel
upon which we at Spelman
may sail to the realization of
our dreams, the fulfillment of
our desires and the successful
confrontation of that challenge
which is life. We, the members
of the cabinet of the Student
Government Association, have
set our sights on brighter hori
zons, for the signal indicates
that all are on board . . . pre
pare for take-off.
The nature of the times
through which we journey de
mands a new approach — a
new system of maneuvering.
The nature of the times calls
us all to take an active part in
all phases of the journey lest
the winds dash us upon the
rocks of apathy. All hands on
deck throughout the journey—
happy landing at the end.
Let’s become actively inter
ested in our college family. Let
each sister do her share to
make this a year of which
Spelmanites past, present, and
future can be justly proud.
Laura J. Burton
SSGA President
Morehouse Gets
Phi Beta Kappa
The Spelman Spotlight joins
the Spelman family in con
gratulating Morehouse College
on being granted a chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa on August 29,
1967, at Duke University, dur
ing the twenty-eighth Triennial
Conference on the national
honorary society.
The announcement came
from Dr. Hugh M. Gloster,
president of the college. Dr.
Gloster stated that Morehouse
was the only Southern college
and one of eight American
schools admitted to member
ship in Phi Beta Kappa at this
time.
As a result of the vote of
Phi Beta Kappa Council,
Morehouse will join Agnes
Scott College, Emory Univer
sity and the University of
Georgia as a Georgia institu
tion having a chapter of the
national honor society.