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VOL. XXIV, NO. 5
SPELMAN COLLI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
MAY, 1968
Marion Wright
Marion
Wright
Speaks
Spelman celebrated her
87 th birthday, Thursday, April
eleventh. Thrilled seniors
marched into Sisters Chapel
for the first time in their caps
and gowns as underclassmen
and Glee Club members fol
lowed in a long procession of
impressive white. Platform
guests and faculty members
marched in the stately colors
of their varied degrees.
Marion Wright, attorney
and Spelman graduate of the
Class of 1960, delivered one
of the most outstanding
speeches ever heard in Sisters
Chapel. She said, “It is a time
for tending our agonizing
seams.” Having been on a lot
of college campuses recently
she said she had observed mass
confusion in the minds of col
lege students. The question
they all ask she said is, “what
do we do now?” She noted
sadly that she herself did not
know but that the “cop-out”
was certainly not the answer.
Her speech seemed to aim
at clearing up some possibly
confused minds in the audience
for her speech centered around
the various “cop-outs” stu
dents are now using.
She noted apathy as a main
“cop-out”. She said that we
at Spelman cannot give all our
attention to the Morehouse
men and none to Vine City.
“Everybody has got to stand
up . . . We must be concerned
with what’s in our heads
rather than what’s on our
heads.”
Black consciousness, she
said, “is a good thing” but it
can also be a “cop-out.” “Dis
cussion is no excuse for in
action.”
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New Officers
Are Elected
After voting three times,
SSGA officers for 1968-69
have finally been elected. The
campaign, which lacked the
fervor of past elections, got
off to a late start with a scar
city of available candidates.
The confusion which caused
the first two elections to be
declared void centered around
poor organization of the elec
tion as a whole, disputes of in
terpretation of the word “ma
jority” in the constitution, and
suspected unfairness in voting
procedures.
The election committee final
ly decided that the winners
would be those candidates
having a simple majority of the
votes cast. Bettieanne Chil
ders was elected President;
Henri Norris, Vice-President;
Daneese Wilcox, Recording
Secretary; Evanda McDowell,
Corresponding Secretary; Mar
ilyn Bryant, Treasurer; Mary
Susan Parker, Parliamentarian;
Pecola Pearson, Social Chair
man; Miriam Blalock, Publi
city Chairman; Gloria Man-
son, Associate Editor of Re
flections, and Ellin Osorio, As-
social Editor of the Spotlight;
Marilyn Hunt, Editor of the
Spotlight, and Lonna Cleve
land, editor of the Reflections.
Bettianne
Childers
Mary
Parker
Lonna
Cleveland
Henri
Norris
Marilyn
Bryant
Daneese
Wilcox
Gloria
Manson
Miriam
Blalock
Pecola
Pearson
SPELMAN COLLEGE
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM - 1968
FRIDAY, MAY 31
8:00 A.M.
Chapel Service. Program conducted
.... Sisters Chnp«l
6:00 P.M.
Alumnae Dinner
Morgan Hall
SATURDAY, JUNE 1
3:00 P.M.
Class Day Exercises
. Rockefeller Steps
Ivy Oration
Class History
Class Poem
Bench Ceremony
Cap and Emblem
Presentation of Senior Gift
4:00 P.M.
Alumnae Procession with classes led
by Spelman Granddaughters and with
the college students as escorts of
Honor, followed by Planting of the Ivy.
SUNDAY, JUNE 2
3:00 P.M.
..... Sisters Chapel
(Joint Service with Atlanta
University and Morehouse
College)
4:30 P.M.
President Manley at home to
Spelman Seniors, their guests,
>. Rockefeller Fine
MONDAY, JUNE 3
Arts Building
10:30 A.M.
Commencement Exercises:
Address: Donald M. Fraser, Congressman
5th District, Minnesota
Conferring of Degrees
..... Sisters Chapel