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SPELMA N rn\ THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD SPO TLIGHT VOL XLIII, NO. 2 ATLANTA, GEORGIA October, 1975 Spotlight on Miss Maroon and White By Sherrie Marshall For the past six weeks, students at Spelman and Morehouse have been avidly preparing for the 1975-76 Morehouse College Homecoming. One student who has been particularly busy is the homecoming queen, Miss Maroon and White, 1975-76, Toya Evans. Toya is a 20-year-old senior at Spelman College, , majoring in Spanish. She is from the Bronx, New York. Toya, who says her role as queen is “almost like a job”, took time off from her busy schedule to express her feelings about Homecoming in general and her role as queen specifically. The theme for this year’s Homecoming is “Adventures in Paradise”. Asked about the relevance of the theme to students of Spelman and Morehouse, Toya stated that this year’s Homecoming is meant to entertain-and entertainment is relevant. “Adventures in Paradise” is about all those things, earthly and otherwise, which make people feel good Toya said. Toya feels the black theme has been “worn into the ground”. This assessment may be just the transition needed in redefining Homecoming. If the purpose of an event is to entertain, it should not be covered up with irrelevant titles simply to show our “Black Awareness”. Toya feels that an event can have a black theme and at the same time be entertaining, but it does not have to employ a black theme to be relevant. In talking about her role as Miss Maroon and White, Toya gives numerous reasons for running for queen. Toya, who describes herself as “sociable, but not socially aggressive”, felt that running for queen would be a “different” type of experience- one which would heighten her social perception. She felt she had something to offer Morehouse College and wanted to be affiliated with the institution at more than a superficial level. Toya’s duties as Miss Maroon and White are as numerous as her reasons for running for queen. Included among these duties is representing Morehouse at banquets and alumni affairs as the type of woman with whom the men at Morehouse identify. Thus far, Toya’s expectations as queen have been realized. She has met some very fine people, has taken on more responsibility and, at the same time, she is having fun. Toya Evans is a queen the men at Morehouse should be proud to have-and they are!