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SPELMA N
THE VOICE
OF BLACK WOMANHOOD
SPOTLIGHT
VOL. XLII, NO. 6
ATLANTA,GEORGIA
APRIL 1975
Founder’s Day, 1975
LET’S CELEBRATE SPELMAN!
Rev. Ronald
W. English
Addresses
AUC
Convocation
The Atlanta University Centerwide Con
vocation was held at 11:00 a.m., on Tuesday,
March 25,1975 in Sisters Chapel on the Spel-
man College campus. Special guest speaker
for the occasion was Reverend Ronald W.
English, pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Charleston, West Virginia.
In his address to the audience, Reverend
English stressed the importance of the Atlanta
University Center in “protecting and pre
serving the quality of life as it exists in
Atlanta.” He stated that the consortia exist
ed for the “development of black leadership
and for educational excellence.” At the same
time, “all the schools in the Center must
maintain a sense of destiny, dignity and
duty.”
Reverend English is a graduate of More
house College and the Interdenominational
Theological Seminary. He is Chairman of the
Seminary. He is Chairman of the Charleston,
West Virginia Opportunities Industrialization
Center, a member of the Board of the
NAACP, a member of the West Virginia
Governor’s Council on Vocational Education
and the Charleston Ministerial Alliance. Rev
erend English directs and produces a weekly
television program entitled “Thinking in the
Black.”
Political Parties
on Spelman’s
Campus
by Marian L. Cobb
With the advent of the second semester of
any scholastic year, foresighted students in
variably turn their attentions to the future of
Spelman’s student government. It is not sur
prising in a country where a two party system
prevails to find that our own campus govern
ment is divided into two semblances of
parties. These parties rule interchangeably
from year to year making for an imbalance
in the effectiveness of the government.
Theoretically, let’s call one party the
Whigs and the other the Tories. Let’s examine
the parties by their aims and accomplishments
with some serious thought about the future
of our student government.
The Whigs are usually “seasonally” popu
lar students who become more popular
around election time. They are often good
academicians but poorly rounded students in
the sense of a full student life.
Sadly, observation and experience has
shown that these people are usually favored
by the ‘gods’ and only seek to reap the per
sonal benefits that a student government post
can bring.
Some of the benefits are publicity, power
and academic advancement for themselves.
The Whigs usually accomplish a minimal
amount of simple, mundane projects that are
of no real value to the students; after at least
two months after taking office they close up
shop and appear only for official occasions.
Continued on page 3, column 3
Untitled (for Sister D. Rucker)
Moments that blend into the present time
Love long gone
You reach out and try to grab it
Ah yes
But, you missed it by that much.
Words that used to turn you on
A touch that used to make you warm.
Yes, this is a love psalm.
I can love, too.
I am a Black Woman
And God knows I can cry.
I have cried.
I’ve cried for orphaned children
And widowed wives
And for peace that will not come
And love.
I’ve cried because he didn’t kiss me.
I cried because he did.
I cried when my mama died
And when my babies were born
And for love.
And I am a Black Woman.
And I’ve cried at Selma
And Birmingham
And Spelman College
Alone at night
And for Love.
And I’ve cried for revolutions unborn
And revolutions unfinished.
And I’ve had to cry for all the times
our men could not understand
That while we would not rule above their
heads
We would not be trampled beneath their
feet.
And I am a Black Woman.
And I have also smiled
For love.
Carole Ford 3/7/75
for 94 years. . .
