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Congratulations
to Newly-Elected
Freshman Class
Officers!
Bukola Oguntala - President
Manoushka Emerand - Vice President
Stacey Abrams - Recording Secretary
Kendra Manuel - Corresponding Secretary
Sharon Miller - Treasurer
Ericka Goodwin - Judiciary Representative
Mave Houston - Co-Social Chair
Nicole Duncan - Co-Social Chair
Mendi Lewis - S.S.G.A. Representative
Alia Jones - S S.G.A. Representative
Ardythe Williams - Co-Publicity Chair
Loren Compton - Co-Publicity Chair
Melvina Chase - Parliamentarian
Trendsetters
Upperclassmen Week was held
September 9 - 14, 1991.
This year’s theme was
"Trendsetters."
The results of the daily activities
are as follows:
Monday: Volleyball Competition in
Read Hall
1st Place: Seniors (50 points)
2nd Place: Juniors (25 points)
3rd Place: Sophomores (10
points)
Tuesday: Swimming Competition -
. cancelled ,,... . ,
Wednesday: Pageantry Reception
Thursday: Spades Tournament in Lower
Manley
1st Place: Juniors (50 points)
2nd Place: Juniors (25 points)
3rd Place: Seniors (10 points)
Friday: "TRENDSETTERS"
Fashion/Talent Extravaganza
Saturday Free Rap Concert featuring
the U.M.C.’s, The Jaz and
Main Source
Point Totals: 1st Place - Juniors (100
points)
2nd Place - Seniors (60
points)
3rd Place - Sophomores
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- Compiled by S.S.G.A. Co-Social Chairs
Adrienne C. Smith and Kimberly Yates
Spelman’s Service
Shines Nationwide
By Riche Jeneen Daniel and
Ericka Lynn Goodwin
Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of
Health and Human Services, arrived on
Spelman’s campus September 16 to
honor the Spelman College Community
Service Department as President
George Bush’s 563rd Point of Light.
This national honor was bestowed
upon Dean Tamara-Nash Ammons,
director of Community Service, for the
service Spelmanites have given to the
community.
The Point of Light program was
enacted under the Bush administration
for organizations active in serving the
community.
Spelman has been named the 563rd
Point of Light from a total of 1000.
Dr. Sullivan returned to the Atlanta
University Center with a feeling of
home.
He is a native Atlantan, a graduate
of Morehouse College, and previously
affiliated with the Morehouse School of
Medicine.
Dr. Sullivan spoke of our
responsibilities to the community, the
benefits we give by giving of
ourselves.
He challenged Spelman students
when he said, "If yob don’t use it
(your knowledge) for other people’s
growth and betterment, then who will?"
The award was received by Student
Government Association president
Katrina Myers.
Also present were nine other
students involved in community service.
Dean Tamara Nash-Ammons joined
President Johnnetta B. Cole and her
husband Arthur Robinson, as well as
other distinguished guests, faculty
members and members of the press in
saluting Spelmanites for their
community service.
This prestigious award formally
recognizes Spelman for being the Point
of Light that it has been since 1881
and will continue to be.
Former First Lady
Grasps the Spirit
of Spelman
By Rich£ Jeneen Daniel
As I walked into Sisters Chapel on
that windy, rainy Thursday morning, I
was not excited.
I knew who Rosalynn Carter was,
but it was not a thrilling experience for
me to hear her speak.
I guess you could accuse me of
having a negative attitude, but it soon
lifted, much to my astonishment.
She began by congratulating us on
our recent award as President Bush’s
563rd Point of Light.
She made us all aware of the fact
that she was not just there to speak,
that she actually knew something about
us, our school, our accomplishments.
I was impressed.
Mrs. Carter introduced us to the
Carter Presidential Center.
She asked us who had been to the
Carter Center, and I, an Atlanta
resident of 15 years could not answer
affirmatively.
The things that she, along with the
other members of the Carter Center
have done and continue to do have not
been given the proper recognition.
They have attacked health issues,
famine, water and food shortages in the
United States, in Third World
countries, in the Middle East and ,i.q
parts of the Pacific region.
Mrs. Carter is involved with a
campaign in the United States to get
children ages two and under
immunized.
She has worked in Pakistan to
make the people aware of unclean,
guinea worm-infested water.
She has become involved with
improving agriculture in Ghana and she
is working with our government to do
something about the depleting
woodlands in Africa.
I was enlightened by her speech.
I felt so close to what she was
saying.
She was very graphic and
extremely frank. She talked to us as
if she was truly talking to us.
When Mrs. Carter completed her
speech, we gave her a standing
ovation. Not for being a former First
Lady or President Carter’s wife, but
because she is Rosalynn Carter and
each one of us had grasped some
element of her speech which will
always stay with us.
And as Katrina Myers presented
Mrs. Carter with a bouquet of roses,
she said her grandmother told her
"There’s a good woman beside every
good man because if the woman was
in.front, the man couldn’t keep up."
I* ttiougtit’ ’this *quofe’-’suifeif-’Mrs.
Rosalynn Carter and bound her to the
Spelman College Sisterhood.