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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!