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meeting om September IS. Its fund
raising project for September was
selling class stationery. Another
project will be a trip sponsored by
the class during spring break.
Committees have been formed to
help initiate and can-y out activities.
Alicia Benjamin is the chairperson
of the Centennial Class Scrapbook
Committee and Carolita Jones is
the chairperson for the Centennial
Class Fund Raising Committee.
Class support will be needed and
these ladies may be reached in
Howard Harrell #331 and #330,
respectively.
Under the direction of George
Land, the placement office of the
Atlanta University Center has been
sponsoring activities since Septem
ber 21 as an effort to “get students
oriented to the placement office.”
This special program will continue
until October 18.
Below is a list of activities to look
for:
Oct. 6 — Seminar on the
interviewing process; 6:00 p.m.;
Morehouse — James gameroom
Oct. 9 — Seminar on the qualities
employers look for in prospective
candidates; 6:00 p.m.; Morehouse
James gameroom.
Oct. 1# — Seminar on interview
ing techniques; 3-5 p.m.; Wright
Hall Atlanta University.
Oct. IS — Seminar on using the
interview as a manipulative tool; 3
p.m.; Student Union building, 2nd
level; Morris Brown.
Ms. Melba Renfro, a Spelman
freshman from St. Louis, Mo., was
awarded a $500 scholarship from
the Greater St. Louis Association
of Black Journalists.
According to a release, Ms.
Renfro “wrote an unusually
mature and perceptive article on
teenage pregnancies and the use of
contraceptives.” the article ap
peared in The Black Scribe, an
annual 16-page newspaper pro
duced by students in a workshop.
The workshop was sponsored by
the St. Louis Association of Black
Journalists in cooperation with the
University of Missouri.
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Ms. Deniese E. Williams, senior
at Spelman College, has been
awarded a $1,500 State Farm
Companies Foundation Excep
tional Student Fellowship award.
The fellowship is one of 12
awarded in 1978 by the Foundation
to aid outstanding young people in
preparing for leadership roles in
industry and society. Over the past
14 yean, the Foundation has
awarded 10 fellowships each year.
Awards go to college seniors or
first-year graduate students major
ing in business-related fields.
Ms. Williams is majoring in
economics/business and plans to
attend Wharton School of Business,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, to study for her
master’s degree in business admin
istration and marketing/finance.
Her scholarship achievements
include getting the Reader’s Digest
award, and Aluminum Company
of America Scholarship and
inclusion in “Who’s Who in
Outstanding American College
Students.”
Ms. Williams is president of
Spelman College Economics Club,
a member of the YWCA manage
ment committee, a recruiting
representative for Essence Enter
prises Finishing School and a
Koscot Cosmetics sales represen
tative.
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According to Ms. Marva Tanner,
financial aid director, students at
Spelman have been less successful
in receiving Basic Educational
Opportunity Grants (BEOG) than
they were last year.
“People who were formerly
getting grants are not getting
them,” she said. Most of the
students affected, she added, were
those in their second, third or
fourth year of school.
In the cases of those students who
received grants, she said, it was in
amounts much less than they had
formerly received.
She said that this situation has
been occurring across the country
even though the basic grant,
program-wise, has increased from
$1,400 to $1,600. “Evidently more
people have applied and received
grants, which decreases theamount
people get on the local level.”
According to Ms. Tanner, the
procedure for applying and
granting BEOG, which has been
changed from last year’s method, is
part of the reason for the delay in
some grants being received.
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On Oct. 1 Dr. Gloria Scott
became the first woman vice
president of Clark College.
Dr. Scott was national president
of the Girl Scouts of the United
States of America for three years
and she was the first black women
to hold this position. Her term
ended in October soon after taking
her post at Clark.
She was also the assistant to the
president for educational planning
and evaluation at Texas Southern
University in Houston since 1977.
She resigned from that position in
August.
Dr. Scott has been the recipient
of many awards and honors. She
was featured as an “Essence
Woman” in the January '78 issue of
Essence magazine. She wasselected
as Woman of the Year in
Humanitarian and Community
Service by the Ladies Home
Journalin May, 1977. From 1976to
March of this year, she has been
under presidential appointment to
the Committee on the Observance
of International Women’s Year.
The annual Morehouse corona
tion, which is the highlight of the
season, again promises to be a
complete success. Under the
direction of Spike Lee, a very
capable staff is working to ensure a
Morehouse homecoming of pure
enjoyment!
The reigning beauties of the
Maroon and White court are Ms.
Jerri Devard, queen; Ms. Tracey
Willard, as first attendant, and Ms.
Sharalyn McClain, second atten
dant.
The dates of homecoming events
are scheduled as follows:
November 9—Concert - Pebo
Bryson and Pleasure
November 10—Coronation
November 11—Parade, Game
and the Queen’s Disco
Watch for more details and
information.
Dancers Share
Their Experiences
by Nancy K. West
The dance program of Spelman
College will feature artist-in
residence, Dr. Pearl Primus who
will come to Spelman for her
second time, Oct. 22nd to Nov. 4th.
“Dance Is My Language” is the
theme of a lecture being presented
by Dr. Primus in the John D.
Rockefeller Fine Arts building.
Choreography workshops will
be conducted in Read Hall along
with a concluding dance/lecture
demonstration, “Life Crisis of
African Culture.”
Students are invited to attend
lectures as well as choreography
workshops.
Rose Marie Guiraud, current
artist-in-residence: Sept. 18th to
Oct. 14th, is presenting lectures
and dance workshops in the
culture and dance of her home, the
Ivory Coast.
Ms. Guiraud has held lecture-
demonstration seminars in three
Atlanta public schools and a
lecture-demonstration in Sister’s
Chapel of the music, dance and
poetry of the Ivory Coast. She will
terminate her residency with an
African festival.
"Everything Must Change”
by Pamela D. Moore
Amid the usual partying and
testing New Student Orientation
featured something new this year.
Dr. Samella Junior, associate
principal of White Creek Compre
hensive High School in Nashville,
Tenn., spoke to the new students
during the Monday morning pro
gram. Dr. Junior isa 1953 graduate
of Spelman.
Dr. Junior began her speech by
reading the lyrics of the popular
tune, “Everything Must Change.”
“Everything must change.
Nothing stays the same.
Everything must change. No
one stays the same. The
young become the old. Mys
teries do unfold...”
This song formed the basis of her
speech. She talked about the Spel
man College she knew and the
Spelman College of today. Dr.
Junior told the students that she
couldn’t sleep for a week when her
daughter (also a Spelmanite) told
her that upperclassmen could stay
out all night if they wanted to.
But everything must change, she
said. And in spite of the changes,
Spelmanites of today must never
lose faith and must strive to have
discipline and maintain high
standards.
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