Spelman EDITOR Jo Moore Stewart COPYEDITOR Janet M. Barstow GRAPHIC DESIGN Garon Halt EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Eloise Abernathy, C’86 W. Christopher Cason Trisa Long Paschal WRITERS Fleda Maskjackson, C’73 Patricia GrahamJackson, C’73 Taronda Spencer, C’80 Angela Brown Terrell PHOTOGRAPHERS By Invitation Only J.D. Scott Bud Smith COVER KEY 17. Recording - The Atlanta- 34. Spelman Seminary pennant Morehouse-Spelman Chorus, 35. Clemmie Darden The 1. Spelman Legacy Poster, featuring Mae Belle Finch, 36. Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Spelman Messenger is published design by Jo Moore Stewart, Soprano, C'46 Browning, Volumes 1 & 2, twice a year (Summer/Fall issue and Win¬ 1998 18. 1863 Recording - The Atlanta- ter/Spring issue) by Spelman College, 350 2. A Legacy Continues: The Morehouse-Spelman Chorus, 37. Diary and Expense Book - Manley Years at Spelman featuring Mattiwilda Dobbs, Harriet E. Giles, 1907 Spelman Lane, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia College, 1953-1976. Albert E. Soprano, C'46 38. 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Diary-Harriet E. Giles, 1882 29. Spelman College in the snow educating, serving, and 14. Sheet music from the Willis 30. Spelman College centennial Laurence James Collection of time-line, 1881-1981 empoweringAfrican Negro Folk Songs 31. Virginia Allen 15. Spelman Songbook, 1925 32. Spelman Seminary students American women. 16. Lapel ribbon, Academic in front of Union Hall, 1883 Department, Spelman 33. Bible — Harriet E. Giles Seminary, 1902 2 Voices Founders Day Address by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. 4 Stats & Studies COVER The Spelman Archives Seepage 8. 6 Books & Papers Features 8 The SpelmanArchives Books & Papers by Patricia Graham Johnson, C’73 Seepage 6. by Taronda Spencer, C’80 16 Alumnae Notes 24 Reunion ’99 ArchivesSpelman Founders Day Eleanor Lutia Ison Franklin, C’48 Seepage 2. (1975photo) 32 Talk. Back See In Memoriam page 19. The Spelman Archives Seepage 8. Lyda Ruth Larkins Stivers, C’49 See Alumnae Newsletterpage 16. Now: Miss Marguerite Simon, C’35, hugged by Delores Posey Harris, C’49, Golden Girls, Class at Reunion 99. of1949 Reunion 99 Seepage 24. Then: Miss Marguerite Simon, C35, participating in the 1951 Read Hall dedication. 1 Founders Day 1999 In the TFue Blue Tradition Preserving leaders anda legacy through ordinary people dreaming ‘we’ dreams by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., C’75 o my sister Audrey Manley: your leadership. The first thing is some suturing on anesthetized I have to say thank you. that leaders are ordinary people. patients in the operating room. Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley If you look at the news — the This was the first time I was work¬ is a sister in that true blue tradition. recent scandal of our presidency ing on a patient who was alert, I know her as a colleague. I know her and people in history, what you awake and talking to me. I was ner¬ as someone who gives great advice learn is that leaders that make sig¬ vous and it took me about an hour — she gave it to me when I was here nificant contributions to improving to put in the two stitches that this as a student and she continued to this world are, in fact, ordinary peo¬ young man needed. give it to me throughout my career. I ple. They are imperfect, yet they get I told him I was a student and know her as a Spelman sister. a commission to serve and they get competent at this but it would take Let me personally and profes¬ a passion about that commission. me a little longer and it did. But we sionally thank you. I know we can They dream we dreams not just me had a great conversation. I told him count on her to keep the charge. dreams. Just ordinary people like us about being a medical student. He This is a great time at Spelman can make that kind of contribution. told me what happened. He said, “I because we have alumnae running You don’t have to be perfect. You went to a party. I danced with the College — the president and don’t have to be the smartest. Some another man’s girlfriend. We got the board chair. This is a great time of you are graduating summa, into an argument. The crowd egged with great expectations. I bring you some magna, and some thank you this whole thing on. We got into a greetings from Tanzania where my Now: Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., lardy. I understand that. You don’t fight and that’s how I got cut.” husband is the U.S. ambassador. have to be the smartest, the I finished C’75, Founders Day speaker and pretti¬ putting in the stitches Our son will be having an exchange est, the best, or the and the senior resident came back in Doctor ofScience honorary degree brightest. Ordi¬ student at Morehouse next and said I had done a recipient. year and nary people can provide leadership great job. The our is and as a woman Then: Deborah Prothrow, C75, daughter, who graduating Spelman that is patient was ready to go and was on from his Spelman student. high school has just learned your charge. way out of the door, and he turned she is coming to Spelman and can’t to me and said, “Look, don’t go to wait to get here. In addition, I bring A Lesson On Passion bed — cause the person who did this you greetings from Harvard and the Learned from a Fight to me is going to be here in about an New England area where our roots I tell this story about violence for hour. You are going to get all the are planted through Miss Packard obvious reasons. I was a third year practice you need in putting in and Miss Giles. medical student when I was in the stitches.” It was interesting because I This morning I want to put forth emergency room assigned to work think he was planning on contribut¬ a charge to you. A charge to all of all night long. It was three o’clock ing to my medical education. my Spelman sisters and friends and in the morning when a young man But what struck me immedi¬ families of this came in college. The charge needing some stitches over ately in that situation — having is keeping and extending the legacy his eyebrow. The senior resident learned that homicide is the lead¬ of Spelman with your leadership. sent me down to put in the stitches. ing cause of death for young black We think about leaders and we I was nervous. I had had some prac¬ men —was that my response was think about these extraordinary tice in putting in stitches but I was to laugh with him since he said it as people. I want to tell you a few nervous. I had practiced on oranges a joke. My response was inadequate. things about leadership and about and leather and I had actually done You see if I had treated someone 2 SPELMAN MESSENGER a great story about a boyfriend and ioners and they love you back. It’s girlfriend. They were sitting out on a pretty easy.” swing on a porch on a beautiful So she went off to this first visit night courting. The boyfriend was and got to the house of this parish¬ saying all sorts of romantic and ioner and the mother of the church lovely things and then he said this, was standing in the door waiting on “You know I wish I were an octopus the pastor. She goes in and because I would have eight arms says, “Good morning, Ma’am.” | and with those eight arms I could The mother of the church said, f just hold you so tight.” “I’ve baked a cake and I have some The response,I thought,was tea.