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SPELMAN
"THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD'
SPOTLIGHT
vol. xxvi, no. 3
SPELMAN COLLEGE. ATLANTA, GEORGIA
february, 1970
black conductor, everett lee talks with glee club members, during
visit here as guest conductor of atlanta symphony.
Lee conducts symphony,
visits spelman
Black symphonic conductor,
operatic conductor and
accomplished violinist Everett
Lee, recently visited Spelman.
While here, Lee sat in on
several Glee Club rehearsals.
Lee’s visit here resulted from
the fact that he was guest
conductor of the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra.
Like other black conductors of
his generation, Lee spent a
number of years in Europe in
order to become recognized as “a
major conductor.”
In 1956, he received a one-year
German government study grant
in Munich. He remained there for
six years, before he moved to
Sweden, his present home.
Lee studied under such people
as Dimitri Mitroupoulos, Max
Rudolf, and the great Bruno
Walter.
In addition to his highly
successful career as a symphonic
conductor, Lee also excells as a
violinist with a diploma from the
Cleveland Institute of Music.
While playing violin in Leonard
Bernstein’s .'On The Town, Lee
was asked to pinch hit for the
conductor.
Maestro Lee is now chief
conductor of the municipal
orchestra of Norrkoping,
Sweden’s fourth largest city.
Lee has been a candidate for
the directorship of a major
American symphony orchestra
since the first of last year under
the sponsorship of American
Symphony conductor Leopold
Stokowski. Lee feels that he is
ready to take over this position.
According to the January 29,
1970 issue of Jet , “There is no
black major music director of a
major symphony (one with a
budget of more than $250,000
annually) and Lee aspires to be
the first.”
During his visit to Spelman,
Lee, wife Sylvia, daughter Eve,
son Everett III and a friend,
dined with the student body in
the school cafeteria.
Three receive journalism
scholarships
Three Spelman students are
winners of a $500 Newspaper
Fund intern scholarship for 1970.
Gwendolyn Solomon, junior,
will work on a leading newspaper
staff this summer as a reporter.
Barbara Buckley, sophomore, and
Wanda Smalls, junior, will work
as copy editors.
Preceding work on a newspaper
assignment, Barbara will
participate in a three-week
intensive editing course at the
University of Ohio, Columbus,
Ohio. Wanda will attend a similar
session at Temple University in
Philadelphia.
The Newspaper Fund has
provided scholarships since 1960
to college students who work
during the summer months as
newspaper reporters or copy
editors. The recipients are called
“interns” by newspapers, and
they are paid by the newspapers
for their services.
This is the first time the awards
have gone to students in
predominantly black schools. A
student at Tuskeegee Institute
also won an intern scholarship in
the 1970 program.
Each of the Spelman students
are in the English-Journalism
Studies Program at Clark College.
Abortions
prevail despite legislation
By wanda smalls
Scared and alone, Honey
Carson walked down the long
narrow hallway until she stopped
before the door labeled, “H. F.
Jones- Adjusting Services.” After
a brief pause she entered a room
and scanned the gothic-looking
place with frightened eyes. “May
I help you ? ” a voice echoed from
within; seconds later Honey was
seated behind a closed door
pouring out her troubles to a
strange, but sympathetic man.
She wanted an abortion.
This situation is very real to
millions of young women who
are faced with unwanted
pregnancies and seek abortion as
the “way out.” A recent gallup
poll estimates that about one
million illegal abortions are
performed in the United States
every year. Only 8-10 thousand
abortions are legal hospital
performed operations.
Georgia legislators are trying
desperately to repeal the present
abortion law which was adopted
in 1968. This law provides that
an abortion may be performed:
1. When the pregancy resulted
from forcible or statutory rape
(age 13 and under).
2. When the fetus would very
likely be born with a grave,
permanent and irremediable
mental or physical defect, and
3. Where continuance of the
pregnancy would endanger the
life...or would seriously and
permanently injure the health of
the mother.
A recent meeting of the House
Health and Sanitation committee
tabled a repeal bill with a 6-2
Face-lifting in tapley
The much needed renovation
of the science and math building,
Tapley Hall began this month.
The building, erected 1925,
will be given a new internal look.
The 45 year-old building had
begun to show the mounting
years of its existence.
Inadequate heating presented
the biggest problem. During those
very cold days in January, some
of Tapley’s occupants found it
much warmer outside than inside.
The new look will include
wall-to-wall carpeting in lecture
rooms, painted walls, ultra
modern seats and desks, and
window-installed air-conditioned
units. All labs are being furnished
with new water and gas fixtures.
As one biology major who
spends a great deal of her time in
Tapley remarked, “It’s about
time they did something about
that place.”
vote. Legislators and interested is war. It s a necessary evil.”
citizens, however, have not Egan defensively noted that the
dropped the matter, but instead, present Georgia law is about the
have aroused the community as most liberal in the United States,
to the need and effects of There are only three or four
repealing the present stoic laws states with abortion laws as
with hopes of stirring up heated liberal as Georgia,
reactions that will thrust the “1 personally feel that the fetus
committee into a reconsideration. a human being,” Egan said,
The last week has brought “and the law is designed to
about extensive news coverage of protect human life. Abortions are
the rejected bill. There have been the termination of human life,
no less than six radio and For this reason I oppose the bill.”
television programs with time Egan said the medical
devoted to discussion of profession has as its charge the
abortion-pro and con. protection and improvement of
A local television station gave human life, and not the
prime-time to the subject on elimination of it.
Friday evening, February 6, at Townsend, however, quoted a
which time Rep. KH Towsend, recent nationwide poll which
co-author with Grace Hamilton, found that sixty percent of
of the recently rejected bill, and American doctors are in favor of
Rep. Mike Egan, the opposition, abortion, not to mention the vast
were allowed to present their majority of American women
views on the bill as representative that want to see the laws
of their respective contention. repealed.
Townsend began his oration by Doctors all over the country
defending the rights of women, have aired their positive views on
“This is no longer just a man’s abortion expressing concern for
world where women can be unhappy pregnant women and
treated like cattle,” Townsend unwanted unborn babies. A
said. “Women should be able to doctor in Seattle says he has
make the basic decisions that will argued with abortion opponents
affect them the rest of their lives, “until its their daughter who’s in
and affect their own families.” trouble.”
Townsend estimated that there Georgia legislators and citizens
are about one million unwanted sa y they will continue the fight
children born per year. “We’re tor repeal of present abortion
really trying to protect those that l aws - But the fight will take time,
are already here,” he said. “We time that will see many women
are not murderers. We are simply retreat to the dirty, inadequate,
trying to control our safety and facilities of butchers and
the world situation by having underground professionals. Some
people killed in Viet Nam. Some wi H l° se only their babies, others
argue that this is murder, but so wi H l° s e their lives. Abortions
will prevail despite legislation.
Our girl in seventeen
By harriett geddes
Kathy Jackson, a member of
the Spotlight Staff and freshman
class and a native of Atlanta was
one of the sixteen girls chosen
from 700 girls around the
country to be spotlighted in
January’s issue of Seventeen
Magazine. Seventeen is a national
girls’ magazine.
Each year the January issue is
reserved to spotlight girls from all
over the country that have made
some outstanding achievement.
Kathy has had two recent
outstanding achievements. One
took place in the summer of
1968 when she won the National
Super Teen Contest, which was
sponsored by thirty key radio
stations across the country.
Nine finalists were chosen from
these stations (Kathy was chosen
from WQXI) and were sent to
Hollywood, California where the
final contest was filmed on “The
Sounds of 68” on a national
television station.
As the winner of the Super
Teen Contest, Kathy received a
recording contract with Capitol
Records, a custom built Firebird,
a color television and many other
gifts.
Her other outstanding
achievement was winning a
National Merit Scholarship.
Therefore, she could have been
chosen for either achievement.
Kathy’s major interest is in
journalism with a specific
reference to mass
communication. Last summer she
worked as a newsroom assistant
at WSB Radio Station.
She is currently employed as a
production assistant with the
Collegiate Broadcasting Group
(CBG). Kathy is undecided as to
her major here at Spelman but,
thinks it will be either English or
psychology.
Our hats are off to Kathy!