Artistic Vision for a New Age

Cosby Endowed Professor in the i i v) Fine Arts Giving Voice to History

LEADS Co-Directors, Kimberly B. Davis, C81, and Pamela G. Carlton

THE ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OF SPELMAN COLLEGE VOLUME 117 NUMBER 1 WINTER/SPRING 2004

Andrea D. Barnwell Director ofthe Spelman College Museum ofFineArt

See page 25. Women of Color - Leadership in the 21st Century: It’s Our Turn

Center for Leadership & Civic Engagement LEAD

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Concurrent Workshops and Seminars - Leadership Symposium and Session II Summit*

Wednesday - May 12 Entrepreneurship Panel “Where is My Leading Man: Men, Love and Self 8:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Love” Spelman College - Cosby Center Auditorium Leadership Development Workshop - Part II, Registration / Continental Breakfast Springboard, Inc. Personal Finance Seminar Welcome - Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum - President, Spelman College Personal Philanthropy Workshop Spelman LEADS Overview - Kimberly Art and Social Commentary Seminar Browne Davis, C’81, and Senior Women’s Panel II: “Strategies for Success” Pamela G. Carlton, Co-Executive Directors, (repeat) Spelman LEADS Undiscovered Opportunities for Women of Color in Plenary Session - “The State of Women of the Real Estate Industry Color” Women of Color Leadership “Connections” Panel Discussion - “Gender Schisms and Reception other Isms’: The Deadly Intersections for “A Year in the Life of Spelman LEADS” Women of Color” (Introduction and Video Presentation) Networking Luncheon Kimberly Browne Davis, C’81, and Pamela G. Carlton Career and Networking Expo - Co-Executive Directors, Panel Discussion - Spelman LEADS Intergroup Dialogue: Friday - May 14 “The Next Frontier of Leadership” Keynote Address - “Having Our Voices Heard: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion - “Mentoring and Women of Color in the 21st Century” Spelman College - Manley College Center Sponsoring Women of Color” Plenary Session - “ The State of Women of A full-day career and networking exposition that Color” Leadership Summit - “The Call to Lead: provides access to 25 Fortune 1000 companies Strategies for Collaborative Leadership Models Women of Color Leadership from across the country and Initiatives” Awards Luncheon Women of Color Leadership Reception Unique Seminars for Youth Concurrent Workshops and Seminars - Ages 8-18 Session I Leadership Conference Thursday, May 13 Thursday - May 13 Leadership Development Workshop - Part I, Springboard, Inc. 7: 30 a.m - 6:30 p.m. 7:30 a.m - 6:30 p.m. “Rx for Stress Relief: Health, Wellness and Fitness” Georgia World Congress Center Georgia World Congress Center Faith and Spirituality Workshop “Spelbound” Youth Seminar - Financial Registration/Continental Breakfast ESSENCE WOW Report - Detailed Findings Literacy Welcome and Opening Remarks Intergenerational Dialogue Dr. “Spelbound” Youth Seminar - Leadership Beverly Daniel Tatum - Micro-Inequities Seminar President, Spelman College Development Senior Women’s Panel I: “Strategies for Success” Admission isfree, but registration is required. Employment Issues and Challenges for Women of Color in Corporate America

* Space is limitedfor Leadership Symposium & Summit For more information, visit uww.spelmamvomenofcolorconf.com- Reunion 2004

MAY 13-16, 2004 Atlanta, Georgia

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NAASC RECEPTION & MEETING

SPELMAN-MOREHOUSE AFFAIR

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COMMENCEMENT Messenger

EDITOR Jo Moore Stewart

COPYEDITOR Janet M. Barstow

GRAPHIC DESIGN Garon Hart

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Eloise Abernathy Alexis, C’86 Tomika DePriest, C’89

WRITERS Patricia Graham Johnson, C’73 Denise McFall Taronda Spencer, C’80 TaRessa Stovall Angela Brown Terrell

PHOTOGRAPHERS Alliance Theatre Company J.D. Scott Bud Smith Spelman Archives Julie Yarborough

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The Spelman Messenger, founded in 1885, is dedicated to participating in the ongoing education ofour readers through enlightening articles designed topromote lifelong learning. Jhe Spelman Messenger is the alum?tae magazine of Spelman College and is committed to educating, serving and empowering Black women. VOLUME 117 NUMBER 1 WINTER/SPRING 2004

2 Voices Josephine HarreldLove (1914-2003)

4 COVERS Spelman LEADS the Way to the Next Frontier of Spelman LEADS the Way Leadership LEADS Co-Directors, Kimberly B. Dam, C’81, Denise McFall andPamela G. Carlton Seepage 6. 16 Books & Papers

20 BerniceJohnson Reagon Cosby Endowed Professor in the Fine Arts Giving Voice to History TaRessa Stovall

BerniceJohnson Andrea D. Barnwell Reagon Seepage 25. 25 Andrea D. Barnwell Seepage 20. Artistic Vision for a New Age Seepage 40. TaRessa Stovall

28 Alumnae Notes

40 Reunion 2003 Signatures of a Noble Calling Books & Papers Seepage 16.

Take Notes “Crowns” actress Karen Kendrick Seepage 39. Photo:CompanyTheatreAlliance Josephine Harreld Love (1914-2003) The Legacy ofa Leader

“AS I STAND HERE, MEMORIES OF SISTERS CHAPEL arts and letters of the cloth - Howard Thurman, Reinhold flood my thoughts from the earliest years into the present Niebuhr, Vernon Johns, the Johnsons (Mordecai, Charles, - vespers, eight o’clock chapel services, two graduations, James Weldon), scientists, Arthur Compton and Robert

Christmas Carol and other concerts, my wedding - even Milliken, educators, Robert Hutchins and William Trufant the all-day taping of a Bill Cosby show in which I served as Foster. On more recent occasions, I’ve heard a stirring an extra! speech by Alice Walker, beautifully responded to by Beverly

“I have walked, sauntered, marched, skipped - ille¬ Guy-Sheftall. “A month short of 64 gally of course - up and down these aisles and across this years ago, I bounded up those platform. I have fiddled with the campus orchestra, sung steps to our right and stood in line waiting to shake the with choruses, given recitals, soloed with a visiting sym¬ hand ofJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr. He was here to dedicate this

phony orchestra - danced on a platform temporarily built building as a memorial to his mother and aunt. What on the treble level of the organ loft before the more recent impelled me to join those waiting people? I was 12 years

installation of the visible pipes - and, most importantly, old, understandably shy and awkward, totally unable to gathered within these walls the fundamental principles speak! As I recall, he smiled pleasantly, giving no impres¬ and basic philosophy of a way of living. More than a tem¬ sion of haste about the next in line. ple of worship, it was in every way my temple of learning “It was a gracious prelude to all that has followed within whose high priests were resident or visiting philosophers, these walls. Few of those occasions, however, have meant to politicians, educators, scientists, men and women of the me what this one does.

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“Proudly and humbly I join the prior recipients of the Founders Spirit Award. These women were all on campus at some point during my seven years. They were strong in pres¬ ence and have remained so after graduation - a reassuring link between past and present that helps to reinforce the ability of an institution to take on future responsibilities.

“Spelman - substantially, metaphorically - you have the capacity for all that lies ahead. My five days on campus this week have furnished me with all the reassurance pos¬ sible - hope and confidence—that young women attend¬ ing college at Spelman today will make this world a happier, better, safer, more stable place in which all people can live!”

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WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 3 Spelman LEADS the Vfc to the Next Frontier ofLeadership

By Denise McFall

A s we move further into the 21st century, opportunities for “women of color” are expected to multiply exponentially. / % National census figures estimate there are now more than 37 million “women of color,” the fastest-growing seg- f \ ment of the workforce, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. Given the instability of the world, economic JL JL conditions and the country’s changing demographic profile, there is no better time than now to implement a leadership agenda that will help redefine leadership in the 21st century. And, there is no better place than Spelman Col¬ lege to establish a leadership development initiative that will significantly impact current and future generations of African American and other women of color. On October 9, 2003, the College launched its Centerfor Leadership and Civic Engagement, affectionately knows as LEADS. Arising from the leadership development component of Spelman ALIVE, the second of the five-point institutional initiative inspired by President Beverly Daniel Tatum, the Center is designed to be a research institute, a place where the dis¬ cussion of contemporary public policy issues is fostered and an environment in which students can leam from an excep¬ tional cadre of women who have stood on the front lines of social change in both the private and public sectors. It is also a place where the financial empowerment and economic development of women of color are promoted, where the transfor¬ mational power of the artist as a community leader is embraced, where opportunities for dialogue across difference abound and where Spelman’s commitment to community service and civic involvement is inspired, encouraged and enhanced.

John J. Farrell, Executive Vice President, Director ofHuman Resources, JPMorganChase; Pamela G. Carlton, Co-Executive Director, Spelman LEADS; Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President, Spelman College; and Kimberly Browne Davis, C’81, Co-Executive Director, Spelman LEADS, congratulate Deborah C. Wright, President and CEO, Carver Federal Savings Bank, on her oustanding message as the inaugural guest speaker of the “Leaders on Leadership Speakers Series!’

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SPELMAN MESSENGER Building on Tradition the newly launched Center for Leadership and Civic ^ pelman’s reputation for nurturing leadership within Engagement, and to support our talented students in the its community of thinkers is built on a solid founda- visual and performing arts,” says President Tatum. L/tion of providing our students with the skills they need not only to be productive members of society, but also A National Repository to be agents of change - leaders, thinkers, individuals who ^ | i he voices of Black women are needed now more truly make a difference. Traditionally, this has occurred 1 than ever. In addressing this critical need, the Cen- through the critical thinking skills they develop as they JL ter will focus on developing the qualities of leader¬ explore new ideas in the classroom, the mentoring they ship and responsibility that are essential to the personal receive from their professors and the leadership experi¬ and professional success of women of color and to the bet¬ ences that abound within student organizations and com¬ terment of the communities in which they live and work.

munity service opportunities. The Center for Leadership Through strategic programming, the Center’s co-directors : and Civic Engagement will serve to broaden the intellec¬ are crafting a more effective expression of the core dimen¬ tual life of the College, bringing together, in a synergistic sions of Spelman’s mission; they are providing a struc¬ and highly visible way, the means by which we foster the tured opportunity for alumnae, corporate partners, leadership potential of our students. community members and others As a strategic initiative, the Center promises to be a to talk with Spelman students dynamic, multidimensional, leadership laboratory that about issues of leadership. The “Spelman has a long-standing history of will develop and nurture important linkages between the activities of the Center are College’s curricular, co-curricular, and interdisciplinary designed to significantly affect communicating a holistic understanding initiatives in five key areas of emphasis: Leadership Devel¬ the civic behaviors of our stu¬ opment, Economic Empowerment, Advocacy through dents and to improve the quality ofleadership development that includes the the Arts, Dialogue Across Difference, and Service Learn¬ of education we provide, the ing and Civic Engagement. The leadership and service quality of our partnerships and mind, body andspirit - an understanding \ emphases of the Center will include new and existing the overall quality of life, locally, course content in a wide variety of academic disciplines nationally and internationally. of leadership that includes academic excel- that link issues of global, national and local relevance to Ultimately, the Center will students’ academic learning experiences. become a resource for all who lence, the cultivation of wisdom and an To cite just one example of the impact of having a rich are concerned about leadership history of academic excellence and a long legacy of produc¬ development for women of color, understanding ofsocialjustice. We want ing world-renowned leaders in the visual and performing Each of the key emphases will arts, Spelman and Morehouse College recently became the contribute to the development of our students to begin to think about the cnt- recipients of a $1 million gift from DreamWorks co-founder powerful pedagogy and fruitful and entertainment executive David Geffen. DreamWorks is research, positioning Spelman ioal issues of the day — about the world m one of the nation’s leading producers of live-action motion as a national repository of lead¬ pictures, animated feature films and network and cable ership information that specifi- which they live and its complexities. television programming. Among the distinguished Spel¬ cally focuses on Black and other ; man alumnae who have made outstanding contributions women of color. Program docu- ^R. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President to the industry are author, poet and playwright Pearl Cleage, mentation and ongoing evalua¬ C’71, cultural historian Bernice Johnson Reagon, C’70, and tion are expected to yield actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson, C’74. valuable data for use at the College and create opportuni¬ The joint gift will be divided equally between the two ties for the “lessons learned” to be disseminated to other colleges. Spelman will use $250,000 toward endowed colleges and universities throughout the nation as well as scholarships for students in the arts, $225,000 to support a throughout the corporate sector. David Geffen Artist-In-Residence Program associated with

The Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement and To Whom Much Is Given . .. $25,000 to purchase equipment for a digital moving T ndividually and collectively, faculty, staff, students, image salon. “We are very excited to use the proceeds to I alumnae, administrators and friends of the College further enhance the work that we are doing here at Spel¬ JL acknowledge Spelman as a rare and precious gift. This man through our Advocacy through the Arts initiative at gift, however, bears with it the weight of history, heritage,

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 5 New York-based ‘leaders are women and men who take legacy and responsibility. As a leadership empowerment initiative. A major force in American higher retired managing director of U.S. Equity Research at risks to redefine our realities and move us education, Spelman provides a JPMorgan Securities, Ms. Carlton’s background includes 14 unique opportunity for each of years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and the into a new world ofpossibility and mean¬ us to apply knowledge and wis¬ practice of law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New dom, to pursue innovation and York. She has played an important role at both JPMorgan¬ ing. Above all, they embrace challenges to live with integrity within the Chase and Morgan Stanley in defining their respective cor¬ context of a distinctive college porate diversity policies and was also the founder of a and turn them into energyfor transforma¬ community. By marshalling our scholarship and mentoring/coaching program for talented resources in a systematic and students of color that was created in conjunction with the tion andperformance. ” coordinated way, we can more United Negro College Fund Campaign. fully embrace the notion of “Our 21st century society calls for a greater sense of — Kimberly B. Davis, C’81, LEADS Co-Director active leadership and the pursuit urgency around the issues of ethics and morality. We need of civic initiatives that are of per¬ to be conscious, deliberate, organized and poignant about sonal worth and public value. It the need and desire to promote compassionate leadership,” is in this spirit, that Spelman LEADS will serve to guide emphasizes Ms. Carlton. our actions and shape our destiny. Ms. Davis and Ms. Carlton will co-direct The Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement on an interim basis until Innovating for Excellence a full-time, permanent director is appointed within the year.

ton and Kimberly Browne Davis, C’81, share Dr. Leaders on Leadership TheTatum’sCenter’svisionfoundingand passionco-directors,for the PamelaCenter. ThroughG. Carl¬ the generosity of JPMorganChase and its collaborative man LEADS: Building on Tradition, Innovating partnership with the College, Ms. Davis now serves as exec¬ TheforinauguralExcellence,eventfeaturedof theguestlaunchspeakerfestivities,DeborahSpel¬C. utive on special assignment with Spelman LEADS. Ms. Wright, president and CEO of Carver Federal Savings Bank Davis’s leadership acumen is the result of a rich and wide based in Harlem, New York. Ms. Wright was the first of an array of corporate assignments that include human impressive complement of notable speakers to participate resources development, strategic planning, product man¬ as part of the Leaders on Leadership Speakers Series, a agement, marketing and sales. Ms. Davis, who most premier forum in which distinguished women leaders recently served as the human resources executive for from industry, academia, government and the nonprofit JPMorgan’s Latin America region, is a managing director sector will share their experiences, challenges and insights ofJPMorganChase. about what it takes to lead in an increasingly complex and “True leadership is the notion of being passionate competitive global marketplace. about something and pursuing it in a focused and inten¬ Ms. Wright’s visit to Spelman was a homecoming of tional way,” says Ms. Davis. “The Center will provide not sorts, in that her father and brother are Morehouse men, only opportunities for the life of the College, but also her mother is a graduate of Clark College, and her two sis¬ opportunities for thefuture of the College.” Historically, ters, Harryeta Wright Hillman, C’76, and Schawannah Spelman’s approach to leadership has been significant Wright, C’81, are Spelman College alumnae. Ms. Wright is and substantive. “While there were many leadership activ¬ also the niece of Marian Wright Edelman, C’60, founder ities already in place, we saw the need to introduce the crit¬ and president of the Children’s Defense Fund and a life trustee of the ically important concept of ‘knowledge transfer’ - to College. prepare Spelman students for the new millennium by Raised in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and Dallas, developing their leadership abilities in ways that will allow Texas, Ms. Wright’s original “game plan” was to become a them to transfer knowledge across the breadth of disci¬ lawyer, defending the rights of the poor. But, fate had a plines. In many ways, we see ourselves as building a bridge hand in shaping a future she could have never imagined. to the next frontier of leadership,” Ms. Davis adds. Hindsight and insight have convinced Ms. Wright that hers Ms. Carlton, a graduate of Williams College who holds was a customized journey toward the pinnacle of success. a juris doctorate and an M.B.A. from Yale University, is pres¬ In a meteoric career that spanned investment banking ident and co-founder of Springboard, a highly successful and key appointments in urban planning, development

6 SPELMAN MESSENGER and preservation, she rose to serve as commissioner of the "What Will You Do “We need to impress upon Spelman stu¬ Department of Housing Preservation and Development When the Baton Gets under New York’s Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and, later, as Passed to You?" dents and other women ofcolor that they president and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation where she oversaw a total and M.B.A. degrees at must not only believe in the right things, capital budget of $250 million. DespiteHarvardearningUniversity,A.B.,J.D.Ms. Savvy, confident and exceedingly comfortable in her Wright is quick to point out that but that they must stand up for what they own skin, Ms. Wright’s keen intellect is bolstered by her being smart is not enough. “Pas¬ calling to duty and responsibility in equal measure. Capti¬ sion is a must, and courage is believe—that the role ofleadership should vating a full house of students, faculty, alumnae, and absolutely required,” she adds. friends of the College gathered in the auditorium of the Character is needed, as well as not be left to others. ” Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center, she chronicled the “soft skills,” such as how you path that marked her rise to lead the nation’s largest pub¬ relate to others, your ability to —Pamela G. Carlton, LEADS Co-Director licly traded African- and Caribbean-American operated garner respect and admiration bank. Her role at Carver has been an interesting mix of and your ability to make sound business and community service, sparked by her willing¬ judgments and rational decisions. Leaders must inspire, ness to bear the ‘pain quotient’ that accompanied moving encourage, model and mentor. “Leadership is a calling - an institution beyond survival to becoming a high-per¬ we need to answer the call to lead,” says Ms. Wright, before forming, prosperous business. In her four-and-a-half-year posing the essential, seminal question: “What will you do tenure at the bank, Ms. Wright has focused on “building when the baton gets passed toyouT wealth, block by block,” moving Carver stock from $8.27 With unbridled enthusiasm, she shares what she per share to its current value of $25.40 per share and from believes to be the best preparation for stepping into a lead¬ $4.5 million in “red ink” to assets in excess of $3 million. ership role. “You’ve got to know that mediocrity is not an Speaking to the challenges confronting Black financial option. You’ve got to have some fire in your belly, some institutions, urban renewal and regentrification, commu¬ grit in your teeth, and the right values in your heart. Lead nities in transition, and the development and transfer of by example. Be selfless. Recognize that the entity is bigger Black wealth, Ms. Wright contends, “economic equity and than you. Instill pride in your race. Make the hard calls economic justice is the unfinished agenda of the civil rights and decisions for the good of the team. Focus on flawless legacy.” In recounting the financial state of Black Amer¬ execution. Exude grace and exhibit humility. And put your ica, she zeroes in on the glaring disparities between the business and your community before yourself.” Then, Recommended Reading “haves” and the “have nots.” “Black American wealth is with a sheepish grin and a playful sparkle in her eyes, she Bossidy, Larry, et al. Execution: estimated at $85 million, equal to the gross national prod¬ adds a final, gleeful note of “sistah-speak”: “You’ve just The Discipline ofGetting Things uct (GNP) of Mexico, yet our average income is one-third got to realize, she who pays the piper calls the tune!” Done (Crown Publishing Group, less than the national average; Black home ownership is 2002). only 50%, as compared to 75% for all Americans; and Denise McFall is an Atlanta-based freelance writer with nearly 60% of African Americans have no financial assets.” an extensive background in higher education administra¬ Collins, Jim. Good to be Great: Her advice to new graduates as the first step toward tion, program management and curriculum development. Why Some Companies Make wealth-building and financial independence rings with a Having served in senior-level administrative positions at the Leap... and Others Don’t simple clarity: “Get a 40IK and buy a house. But, under¬ four Atlanta-area colleges and universities, Ms. McFall is a (HarperCollins, 2001). stand, it won’t be easy, as [we] are two to three times more frequent contributor of articles and publications that focus likely not to get mortgages. While we have more million¬ on notable initiatives in higher education. Covey, Stephen R. Seven Habits aires and CEOs, and more of us are gaining entry into the ofHighly Effective People: middle class, there are also more of us struggling and Powerful Lessons in Personal being left behind. Although it’s not perfect, as a people, we Change (Free Press, 1989). need to make peace with capitalism. We simply can’t con¬ tinue to spend our time waitin’ on the porch for the deed to Jones, Laurie Mh.Jesus CEO: 40 acres and a mule! Money gives you the power to make Using Ancient Wisdomfor choices and the power of where to spend it. One thing I Visionary Leadership (Hyperion, know, if/ever get rich, my check is cornin’ right here!” 1996).

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 7 Spelman LEADS

At a Glance

Leadership Development - Credit-bearing courses in the interdisciplinary field of leadership studies and non¬

credit- bearing programs, such as the “Women of Excellence in Leadership” series and “Spelman Women Empowered Through Professional Training” (SWEPT), will combine to provide more effective leadership training. The Center will

also serve as a clearinghouse for the “Leaders on Leadership Lecture Series” that focuses on the intellectual, ethical and spiritual dimensions of leadership.

Economic Empowerment - Learning to make wise decisions about the use of one’s resources is an important dimension of leadership development. The economic development of the adjacent West End community will serve as

one venue in which students will develop a better understanding of and appreciation for financial literacy as well as

the financial preparation required to engage in small business development.

Advocacy Through the Arts - The Center will encompass an arts initiative that creates a structure to incorpo¬

rate the artists and activities of the endowed Cosby Scholars Program. Events such as a lecture series, media presenta¬

tions, and short-term artist residencies will expose the campus and surrounding community to a broad spectrum of artistic visions of socio-political significance.

Dialogue across Difference - The ability to engage in meaningful conversation about difficult social issues,

within a context of mutual respect, is an essential leadership skill. Based on the model developed at the University of Michigan, the Spelman “Art of Dialogue” project will provide students with an opportunity to discuss today’s most

pressing and controversial issues across the boundaries of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and socioeco¬

nomic status.

Service Learning and Civic Engagement - Through the Office of Community Service and the Bonner

Scholars Program, many students have participated in volunteer work and other community service activities. The

Center’s focus on service learning will support and supplement faculty efforts to develop additional community-based learning opportunities by improving the coordination and increasing the impact of civic-minded activities.

Center for Leadership & Civic Engagement LEADS

8 SPELMAN MESSENGER I ■iEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Venetta I. Coleman, Ph. D., C’88 Saadia Cave Baker, C’98 Senior Manager, Organization and Management Development, Pepsi-Cola Company Educator, Mt. Vernon, New York Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta, Georgia “Being a leader is not a position. Leadership is a process ofcontinuous improvement. As a “Never give up! Keep Godfirst in your lives leader, it is your responsibility to invest in and allow Him to directyour paths. The yourpersonal growth and development.” dreams you have on the inside may take some time to reach, but are they attainable. Education: B.A., cum laude, Psychology; M.A., Ph.D., Allow your work to speakforyou and true Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of South recognition will come in due season. ' Florida Mentor: Dr. Myra N. Burnett, Department of Psychology Education: B.A., Child Development; National Board Campus Life & Leadership: Phi Gamma Nu, National Certification (in progress) Professional Fraternity in Business (Gamma Omicron Mentor(s): Dr. Gwendolyn Middlebrooks, Professor Chapter) Christine King Farris, Department of Education; Mrs. Eloise Professional Career: Provides thought leadership, Alexis, Director of Alumnae Affairs change management expertise, insight, advice, counsel Campus Life & Leadership: New Generation Campus and coaching to senior management and human resources Ministries, Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc., Home Eco¬ Alpha teams on issues related to diversity, staffing and career nomics Club, Education Club, YWCA, Swim Club development best practices; formerly director of leadership Professional Career: Elementary school teacher for development, Darden Restaurants (Orlando); change children primarily from impoverished backgrounds of management and communication and measurement prac¬ Atlanta’s Vine City community tice consultant, Towers Perrin (Atlanta) Accomplishments: Teacher of the Year (2003-2004), Accomplishments: Minority Access to Research Careers Perseverance Award (2003), Alonzo F. Herndon Elemen¬ Fellowship, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Mental Health Adminis¬ tary School; recipient of Atlanta Public Schools National tration (1986-1988); Psi Chi National Honor Society (psy¬ Board for Professional Teaching Standards scholarship chology); Mortar Board National Honor Society; Honors Special Interests: Mentors novice teachers and is a Program, Department of Psychology, Spelman College; model teacher for education reforms; reading, writing, lit¬ American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship eracy and math development in children (1988-91); YMCA Adult Black Achiever (2000); Darden Restaurants Brilliance Award (2001) “The education I acquired at Spelman has allowed me to extract the hiddenpotential that lies within every stu¬ dent with whom / come into contact. It has also allowed me to see the hidden gifts that lie within each child and to center my teaching around these indi¬ vidual needs. ” VENETTA 1. COLEMAN South Orange, New Jersey Psychology

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WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 Publication: Coleman, V. I. & Borman, W.C. “Investigat¬ Scout Leader, East Point Service Unit; Harambe Campus ing the Underlying Structure of the Citizenship Perfor¬ Ministry; Africa Crossroads Representative (1996); Georgia mance Domain,” Human Resource Management Legislative Black Caucus Dupont Scholar (1997-98); Review, 10,25-44 (2000). Spelman Connecticut Life Insurance Scholar (1995) Special Interests: Motivational speaker and consultant Professional Career: A stay-at-home mom, who ini¬ to community and faith-based organizations on issues tially began entrepreneurial pursuits to generate a modest related to personal and career/leadership development income, is now on track to earn a million dollars after and strategic planning; poet/spoken word artist only two years in business. Establishes consumer product accounts for an international wellness company; formerly “My Spelman experience ofsisterhood and the uncom¬ a pharmaceutical sales representative and a sales and promising expectation ofacademic excellence and ser¬ business consultant for Mobil Oil Corporation vice helped me to reach my highestpotential and to build Accomplishments: 2003 International Marketing the self-confidence, perseverance, ethics and optimism Executive of the Year (Melaleuca, Inc.) requiredfor me to be the leader Iam today as I continue Special Interests: Being a wife and mother to daughter to strive toward reaching myfullpotential. At Spelman, Blake and son Bryce; working toward fulfilling plans to I experienced a supportive environment where I was sur¬ establish a scholarship at Spelman College rounded by the best and constantly challenged to do bet¬ ter by bothfaculty and my Spelman sisters. ” “Attending Spelman instilled in me the confidence to know that as an African American woman I could achieve anything to which I set my mind. For many years, I assumed that climbing the corporate ladder FI JCONOMTC EMPOWERMENT was the way to providefor myfamily. I worked long and hard andfound myselffrustrated with the results. Kirstin Stinson Newby, C’90 Ifinally realized that workingfor someone else would not provide me with the income that I wanted, nor Independent Marketing Executive, Melaleuca, Inc. would it allow me thefreedom to devote as much time Southfield, Michigan as I wanted to myfamily. Becoming an independent marketing executive has enabled me to live the life of “I would encourage my Spelman sisters to my dreams. ” think ‘outside the box.’ So many times, we get stuck in thinking that traditionaljobs are our only options.” Carolyn Arnold Mitchell, C’69

Education: B.A., cum laude, Economics/Marketing Co-owner and President ofCustomer Relations, Mentor: Mrs. Eileen Maupin, Department of Economics Dyersburg Ford Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. Campus Life & Leadership: Alpha Kappa Alpha Dyersburg, Tennessee Sorority, Inc.; Spelman Women’s Action Coalition; Girl “Take time to develop your social, economical and spiritual selfas well as your intellect. Set priorities and career goals. Be a good listener and alert to positive career opportunities. Be preparedfor career advancement. Have unwa¬ veringfaith. Believe in yourself!”

Education: B.S., Education (Home Economics/Elemen¬ tary Education); M.Ed., Georgia State University; Ford Motor Company Dealer Training Programs Mentor: Mrs. B. F. Williams, Department of Education Campus Life & Leadership: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Home Economics Club, Education Club, Swimming Club, YWCA

10 SPELMAN MESSENGER Professional Career: Represents the dealership in Work smart and hard and never give up. Find community projects and local civic activities, including mentors you respect and admire to keep you the Dyer County Adopt-A-School Program, Literacy Pro¬ inspired. ” gram, Foster Care Review Board, YMCA, Truancy Board, Disciplinary Board, NAACP, Voter Registration Program, Education: B.A., Political Science/History & Sociology; American Heart Association, American Red Cross, and Juris Doctorate, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic Organ Donor Awareness. Retired after 20 years as a school University (Washington, D.C.) teacher in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Jefferson County (Ala.) and Mentors: Dr. Albert Manley, President, and Dr. Shirley Dyersburg public schools McBay, Department of Mathematics Accomplishments: Home Economics Honors Award, Campus Life & Leadership: Four-year member, Stu¬ Education Honors Award, Spelman College; Ford Lincoln- dent Government Association (SGA); SGA freshman repre¬ Mercury Minority Dealers’ Top QCP/Customer Satisfaction sentative, parliamentarian (sophomore year); vice Award; Black Enterprise List of Top 100 Successful Minor¬ president (junioryear); parliamentarian (senioryear) ity Dealers; Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. “A Taste of Tennessee” Professional Career: First female to own a film distri¬ Community Service and Sisterly Relations Award, Ten¬ bution company; developing New Millennia Films as a nessee State University; Outstanding Troop Leader, Dyer production and distribution company for independent County Chapter Girl Scouts of America; #1 Fan Award, films and strengthening the film exhibition aspect of the Dyersburg Middle School Rebounders Club business for independent filmmakers; producer of the film Special Interests: Athletics Booster, Honor Students Follow Me Home, described as a “defiant, humorous and Award and Special Olympics Sponsor, Dyersburg High poetic tale exploring race and identity” School; Eastern Star Sunbeam Youth Group Sponsor; Silver Accomplishments: Represented women and men Soror, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (Xi Lambda Omega injured by the use of the Daikon Shield intrauterine device Chapter); Eastern Star; Young Life adult support group; var¬ in the multimillion dollar bankruptcy of the manufac¬ ious church activities, Badgett Chapel CP Church; spending turer as a founding partner of Daikon Shield Joint Venture quality time with husband, George, and daughters Cicely Litigation Group; appointed by Mayor Willie Brown to the and Cyndi; traveling, reading and spectator sports San Francisco Commission (1997-2000), vice-chair (1998-2000); initiated historic campaign finance reform “My education at Spelman was a priceless experience. for the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Itprovided the positive development of not only my Francisco intellect, but thepositive development ofmy social, eco¬ Special Interests: The image of Black women in the nomical and spiritual self It helped me develop into a media, reflecting the experience of coming of age as an ‘total individual. African American woman in white America; developing conscionable. businesses that make a difference in the business world; playing chess A fiDVOCACYTHROUGH THE ARTS

Henri E. Norris, J.D., C’71 Entrepreneur andAttorney Founder, New Millennia Films, Speakeasy Theaters Founding Licensed Partner, Mission Control Productivity, Inc. Vice President ofLeader Development, Thought Leaders International San Francisco, California

“Followyour hearts andpassions. Be respon¬ siblefor your actions by being conscious of Henri Norris Durham, North Carolina the possible consequences ofyour choices.

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“My entire education at Spelman promoted indepen¬ School of the Arts (Netherlands); Fuji Studios (Florence, Italy) dent thinking, initiative, creative leadership and bold Mentor: Dr. Arturo Lindsay, Department of Art actions. Many inspiringprofessors encouraged me to Campus Life & Leadership: President, Spelman Col¬ follow my own mind and to never hold backfrom the lege Art Club; Spelman College Alumnae Achievement fear ofbeing seen as different. The context ofmy educa¬ Award (2003); Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Spelman tional experience was the later years ofthe Civil Rights Women’s Action Coalition; Girl Scout Leader, East Point Movement during which I was challenged to take stands Service Unit; Harambe Campus Ministry; Africa Crossroads concerning issues that were pressing in the larger soci¬ Representative (1996); Georgia Legislative Black Caucus ety. I will be eternally grateful to have been at Spelman Dupont Scholar (1997-98); Spelman Connecticut Life during this historicalperiod. I was encouraged to exam¬ Insurance Scholar (1995) ine who I was and where Ifit in the world at a much Professional Career: Serves the under-represented earlier age than most ofmy contemporaries. ” population of Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant community by providing the opportunity for them to gain exposure to world-class works of art; previously affiliated with Brook¬ Laurie Cumbo, C’97 lyn Museum of Art, WNET, THIRTEENMetroArts and The Grey Gallery (N.Y.); Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; Founder and Executive Director, Museum of The Brooklyn Children’s Museum ContemporaryAfrican Diasporian Arts (MoCADA) Accomplishments: One of the youngest museum Adjunct Graduate Professor, School ofArt & Design, directors in the country; Dynamic Women’s Award (Assem¬ Pratt Institute blymen Roger Green and Nick Perry); Assemblyman Brooklyn, New York William Boyland Community Development Award; Han¬ son Place Central United Methodist Church Community “Just Do It!” Once you realize your true Leadership Award; 4W Circle of Art & Enterprise Arts and potential by shedding yourfear offailure Business Spirit Award; Women’s History Month Award, Mir¬ and rejection, you have already set yourself acle Makers, Inc.; Protestant Board of Guardians 21st Cen¬ apartfrom the masses that have the same tury Leadership Award; participation on the New York unheard idea, ambition orgoal as you. There Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Panel; Advi¬ is an incredible amount ofpower in taking sory Council, Brooklyn Academy of Music Local Develop¬ thefirst step toward realizingyour dream.” ment Corporation; Steering Committee, Brooklyn Community Access Television; Bedford Stuyvesant Fulton Education: B.A., Art History; M.A., Visual Arts Administra¬ First Initiative Task Force; Medgar Evers College Center for tion, New York University; post-graduate studies, Utrecht Professional Education Committee

12 SPELMAN MESSENGER Special Interests: To create the first multi-million dol¬ ber of American journalists of color; offers journalism train¬ lar, state-of-the-art museum in the Borough of Brooklyn ing to people of color who come from college programs or dedicated towards providing contemporary artists of careers outside of journalism and are now interested in a African descent with opportunities to exhibit their work in mid-career shift; former managing editor of The Greenville an academic setting; public speaking, mentoring, travel¬ (S.C.); senior editor/days and administration, deputy man¬ ing and calligraphy aging editor/cover stories, managing editor/administration, USA TODAY; additional assignments at The Washington “The Spelman educational experience has been an Post, Providence Evening Bulletin, MiamiHerald and The incrediblefoundationfor my life’s work. Myfreshman AtlantaJournal. year at Spelman marked the first year the course Accomplishments: Ida B. Wells Award for Media Diver¬ “African Diaspora and the World” was introduced. It is sity; Outstanding Business and Professional Award, Dol¬ no coincidence that I would later open a museum lars and Sense magazine; Distinguished Alumna, devoted to the art, culture and history of the African National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Diaspora. The creation ofthe Spelman College Museum Education (Washington, D.C.); Spelman Alumna of the ofFine Art, during my junior year, had a profound Year; a graduate of Leadership Greenville (S.C.); served for impression in my mind about the importance ofinsti¬ two years as a Pulitzer Prize juror; speaker and trainer on tution building. ” careers and media diversity and a mentor to aspiring jour¬ nalists Special Interests: Being a wife to husband, Willie, and a mother to their daughter, Shelby; a frequent contributor "Dialogue across difference of articles and commentaries to magazines and trade pub¬ lications on the issues of leadership, newsroom diversity Wanda Smalls Lloyd, C’71 and careers in journalism; member, Board of Trustees, Spelman College; gardening, collecting Black dolls, Executive Director, Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, African American literature, sewing and home decorating Vanderbilt University Journalist/Editor “I believe my Spelman experience was invaluable to Co-host, “Behind the Headlines, ” WFSK-FM, Fisk me as a woman because at Spelman College, women University lead in everyfacet oflife. I came awayfrom this experi¬ Nashville, Tennessee encefullypreparedand confident in my ability to lead meetings, projects and organizations. Spelman College “Spelman College has a rich network of is aplace where they don’t ask ifyou can lead, youjust alumnae who are excelling in their chosen do it. For me, that has carried over in my life. ” fields and in their communities. I have never met a Spelman woman who wasn’t willing to reach out to help other alumnae. All you have to do is ask. Don’t overlook this rich Joyce J. Dorsey, C’70 resource.” President and CEO, Fulton Atlanta CommunityAction Authority, Inc. Education: B.A., English; L.L.D. (honorary), Briarwood Decatur, Georgia College (Conn.); Fellow, Management Training Center, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Kellogg “The greatest thingyou can do is give back to Graduate School of Business Management, Northwestern the community. I would, therefore, advise University students to involve themselves in social Mentor: Dr. June M. Aldridge, Department of English affairs, regardless of their intended occupa¬ Campus Life & Leadership: Editor-in-chief, Spelman tions. We characterize Spelman College in all Spotlight; Reflections yearbook staff; Spelman College that we do in continuing to lift up its repu¬ Glee Club; Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Chorus; Delta tation when our community and profes¬ Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. sional work is recognized. ” Professional Career: Dedicated to increasing the num¬

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Education: B.A., Sociology/History; M.S.W., Atlanta Uni¬ “Having a certain type ofpride instilled in me during versity School of Social Work; Certification in Public Man¬ my tenure at Spelman helped me adopt an attitude of agement, Georgia Department of Education; Atlanta proficiency in everything I undertook. This camefrom Regional Leadership Training the modeling ofmy professors and as well asfrom the Mentor: Dr. Vivien Shivers Stocks, Alumna, C’62; alumnae with whom I associated. Because ofthe Col¬ Senorita Howard, Spanish Instructor, Department of For¬ lege’s reputation, just to attend Spelman gavepotential eign Languages employers the confidence to assume that I would be Campus Life & Leadership: Student Government successful. ” Association (SGA); student-based civic clubs Professional Career: Provides managerial oversight of Atlanta’s leading poverty-serving agency; as a social worker and community leader, rallies for emergency ser¬ LsSERVICE LEARNING AND CIVIC vices, employment and educational programs, affordable ENGAGEMENT health care, fair energy, heating costs and housing for the homeless in corporate boardrooms, city and county gov¬ Rose Johnson Harris, C’57 ernment meetings and the nation’s capital. In addition to Retired Educator launching a retail business shortly after graduation, previ¬ Evanston, Illinois ously served as executive director of several nonprofit organizations, including Saint Anne’s Perry Homes Sup¬ “Community serviceprovides as muchfor the port to Employment Project, Council on Battered Women, giver as for the recipients. Volunteer activi¬ and Gladys A. Dorsey Home for Children ties offer so many connections to people who Accomplishments: Academic scholarship (Spelman are willing to give their time and support to College); Kappa Alpha Delta International Sociological others who are less fortunate. I have found Honor Society (1986); Maybelline “Shades of You” Com¬ through theyears that in giving, Ido receive. ” munity Service Award ((1991); Black Family Project Com¬ munity Service Award (1991); JC Penney Community Education: B.A., English; M. Ed., National College of Service Award (1993); War on Poverty Champions Award Education (2003); numerous other church and civic awards Mentor: Dr. Norman Rates, Department of Religion Special Interests: Influencing public policy that affects Campus Life & Leadership: Co-author, Reflections the lives of the oppressed and underserved, entrepreneurship, campus newspaper column; Secretary, Student Govern¬ vacationing with family and friends, playing the organ ment Association (SGA)

14 SPELMAN MESSENGER Professional Career: A dedicated life’s work as a Education: B.A., Sociology/English; Juris Doctorate, teacher and reading specialist Tblane University Law School Achievements: Elected to two terms on the Evanston Mentor: Dr. Harry Lefever, Department of Sociology (Ill.) School Board (1989-97), School Board President Campus Life & Leadership: Alpha Kappa Alpha (1995-97), during which time 14 schools achieved the Sorority, Inc.; Spelman Women’s Action Coalition; Girl rating of “Good Repair;” Community Service Award, The Scout Leader, East Point Service Unit; Harambe Campus Chessmen Club (1997); Spelman Alumnae Fundraising Ministry Chair (1997-99); Board of Directors, Fundraising Chair Professional Career; Mayor, Greenville, Mississippi; (2000,2001), McGawYMCA (raising in excess of $400,000 civil litigator on issues of racial discrimination and per¬ per campaign) sonal injury; executive director, The McTeer Foundation, a Special Interests: Reading, photography, fundraising, $250,000+ scholarship fund for college students from the volunteering at local elementary school, and international Mississippi Delta founded by Ms. McTeer’s parents travel, including visits to six continents Accomplishments: The first African American, first female and youngest mayor of a major city in Mississippi; “ While at Spelman, I wasprovided with so manyposi¬ Africa Crossroads Representative (1996); Georgia Legisla¬ tive role models amongfaculty, staffand visitors to Sis¬ tive Black Caucus Dupont Scholar (1997-98); Spelman ters Chapel. I think the real key to helping me reach my Connecticut Life Insurance Scholar (1995) highestpotential was caringfaculty. ” Special Interests: Co-founder, Project Give Back, a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting high school seniors in the Greenville (Miss.) public school system in applying to colleges, obtaining financial aid and complet¬ Heather McTeer-HudsonJ.D., C’98 ing financial aid applications; biblical history, travel, writ¬ ing and cooking Attorney, McTeer & Associates Mayor “Spelman was key in my development as a leader. Both Greenville, Mississippi professors and my classmates were instrumental in teaching me leadership skills and in helping me “No is just another word in the dictionary. develop the self-esteem that would be essentialfor a Let no one tell you that you cannot do or career in government. “I can 7” was never an option, have what you desire. There is always a way and the atmosphere ofthe campus, as well as that ofthe and, with faith, anything is possible. You entire AUC, was one ofachievement. Iam convinced have only to dream. ” that such a concentration ofpositive energy and deter¬ minationfor success exists only here. While at Spelman, I traveled abroad twice, first to the Dominican Repub¬ lic, then to Africa. On both occasions, my sense ofcom¬ munity increased and my desire to serveflourished as I learned about differentpeople and cultures and the ways to better serve them. ” •

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WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 15 Ms. Cleage puts her characters in wright, essayist and novelist, has a Book Reviews deep holes of troubles. That’s where wonderful ability to create for us Regina Hunt, a well-educated, suc¬ believable characters, the kind of Angela Brown Terrell cessful promoter finds herself. She people we know or would like to, and discovers: “In one awful instant, my places them in situations that would Some Things I Never love life and my dream job were both be improbable in a less talented wiped out. Alone and unemployed writer’s hands. Thought I’d Do was not where I had planned to be at Without giving away the story, it’s by Pearl Cleage, C71 thirty-two, so I packed up my car, safe to say this book is filled with (One World/Ballantine Books) drove back home to D.C. and discov¬ romance, social consciousness, drama, ered cocaine.” surprise, laughter and community love. Pearl Cleage’s newest novel, Some The hole deepens as Regina wal¬ Don’t miss it. Things I Never Thought I’d Do (One lows in the throes of addiction and its World/Ballantine Books), is a tribute abusive lifestyle, which cause her to to the strength of Black women’s abil¬ degrade herself and nearly lose her home. Then came the ity to combat setbacks with dedication, tragedy of the love, good friends and spiritual vision. September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Penta¬ In life, trouble finds us sometimes through no fault of our own. Other gon. It provided the wake-up call that times, in fact, most times, it’s by our got Regina to a rehab center and on the road to recovery. choice: We dig our own trench of trouble, shoveling ourselves in so Strangely, Regina gets a job offer from her old boss in Atlanta. This deep that we don’t know which way is woman, who had broken up Regina’s up. And it’s only through some shock¬ love affair with her son and fired ing revelation, repentance and divine intervention that we come to our Regina, now wants Regina to help her design a memorial to her son’s senses and find a way to climb out. community project that had been Love started before he died in the T\vin by Toni Morrison Towers. Despite misgivings and (Knopf) haunted by bittersweet memo¬ ries, Regina takes the job to save In Love, Toni Morrison weaves a tale her family home and her self¬ of forbidden passion and lust that esteem. shows the nature of love, this special Coincidence? Don’t believe human emotion, in its best and worst it! The Bible says there’s a plan conditions. for our lives, but we know we’re There’s love that transforms and too short-sighted to see the uplifts and there’s love that possesses whole picture. Regina’s pre¬ and corrupts. And sometimes it hap¬ scient Aunt Abby, however, sees pens all at the same time. The para¬ visions and predicts an almost dox: Under a veneer of joy, darkness magical adventure that awaits of spirit can hide. Regina in Atlanta. In the late 1930s and 1940s, Armed with the help of between the Depression and World friends of all ages, an War II, Bill Cosey owned a thriving intriguing encounter with a seaside hotel and resort that catered mysterious man and Aunt to black people anxious to escape an Abby’s puzzling visions, otherwise segregated society. He Regina finds answers to became wealthy as he gave his guests SOME THINGS! NEVER her survival and a new life. what he knew they wanted: plenty of THOUGHT 1 D DQ Pearl Cleage, play¬ good food and liquor, coupled with

16 S P E L M A N MESSENGER top entertainment and luxurious sur¬ Is love a good thing or evil? Can other by performing daring flying roundings, all served up in high style. good and evil co-exist in one person? tricks as they dove for their food in People seemed to respect and Which side wins in this battle for the sea. They had fun as they tried to admire Cosey because he was also a power? When darkness is exposed to outdo one another with their stunts. benefactor, helping many poor fami¬ light, it ceases to exist - right? It was just a friendly game of show¬ lies, using his charming ways to please Morrison doesn’t make it easy for manship. his guests and gain favor with many. us to understand; she just lays it out Soon, however, their stunts attracted Women, especially, loved him, often to there for us to examine, using her a crowd of birdwatchers and the the point of obsession. They were loyal mesmerizing poetic prose to entice us media, who applauded and cheered to him even when they discovered his to think about it. the more adventurous tricks. They secretive lustful, controlling nature especially showed favor for a very that eventually corrupted them all. “Friends of a Feather: colorful, good-looking bird named Among those vying for his atten¬ Feathers. One of Life’s Little tion and love and keeping his shame¬ His friend Hog, a very plain bird, ful secrets were the women in his Fables” did a lot of good tricks too, but didn’t family, including his granddaughter get the same adoration and applause. by Bill Cosby and her childhood friend. He turned So Hog kept doing more and more Illustrated by Erika Cosby them against one another as he satis¬ dangerous stunts until tragedy struck. (HarperCollinsj fied his selfish desires. Will Feathers prove to be a real Even after his death, his spirit friend, or will he be angry with his In a fable about the power of true continued to control their lives and buddy? Will Hog hurt himself just to friendship, comedian, author, educa¬ the lives of others who came under get the attention of strangers? tor and father Bill Cosby has written his ghostly spell. The fable, told as only Bill Cosby another delightful children’s book. It’s Toni Morrison, whose works have can tell a story, is a poignant tribute to illustrated by his daughter, Erika, an netted her a National Book Award, Cosby’s late son, Ennis, who called accomplished painter who holds an Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in everyone “Friend.” The book will hold M.F.A from the University of California Literature, again uses her extensive the attention of youngsters of all ages, - Berkeley, whose imaginative draw¬ knowledge of folklore and the spirit and the pictures will keep everyone ings in bright, bold colors swoop across realm to explore the many sides of enchanted for many, many readings. the relationships. And again, she turns pages in a whirlwind of energy. The over the rocks of human nature to story goes that a group of sea¬ side birds liked to explore its underside. compete with each

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 17 I Am What I Ate... eat like this every day. You can have Ohio, to “experience a broader ice cream once in a while.’.. .But let world,” as her mother had advised. and I’m Frightened!!! me tell you the problem with once in From that liberal base, she entered awhile.. .is amnesia. When did I last the conservative halls of Yale Uni¬ by Bill Cosby eat it? I don’t remember. Has it been (HarperCollinsj versity Law School, but wherever she long enough to have it again?.. .Why went, Rep. Norton stood out as a can’t a doctor leader America’s beloved comedian, educa¬ simply look at us and fighting to make the laws work for all tor, scholar and philanthropist, Bill say: Let me tell you how long ‘awhile’ people. is?” From her in Cosby, delights us again with his leadership the Civil That’s classic Movement, to service as a musings and diatribe on the plea¬ Cosby. This book is Rights her filled with such New York sures and dangers of overeating and Cosby witticisms. He City Commissioner and as makes us head of the aging in, I Am What I Ate... and laugh at our fallibilities Equal Employment but I’m Frightened!!! (HarperCollins). gives us fair warning, too: Stay¬ Opportunity Commission, to her With amusing chapter headings ing healthy is no laughing matter, but such as, “If I Don’t Go to the Doctor, I you’ve got to keep your spirits Don’t Have It,” “Once in a While,” up as you tackle healthy lifestyles. Bad health can be painful and expensive. Take heed, but keep smiling.

Fire In My Soul by Dr. Joan Steinau Lester (Atria Books)

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the U.S. Congresswoman for the District of Columbia, is rightly known as the “Warrior on the

Hill.” There’s no battle too

small for her to take on if she believes the rights of the community election to Congress, the congress- woman has or any individual are being deprived. compiled an impressive Her numerous achievements and resume too long to cover in this review. But the struggles are now documented in book, written by a her authorized biography, Fire In former Antioch classmate, also has delved into little-known “Old Parts,” “Why Is There Hair?” My Soul, by Dr. Joan Steinau Lester aspects of this “Smoking,” “Drinking,” “Modera¬ (Atria Books). highly profiled but extremely tion,” and “The Bitter End,” Cosby A fiery opponent to anything per- private woman. ceived as an Interviews with many of the peo¬ ruminates on his lifelong romance injustice, Eleanor accom¬ with pizza (“.. .with the sausage and Holmes Norton, a fourth-generation ple who have admired her the pepperoni and the double Washingtonian, is noted as an out¬ plishments and the few who have been privy to the inner person, as cheese... the way I love it - [it] is just spoken proponent for full voting well as conversations with wonderful”), hoagies, hot dogs, cakes representation for residents of the Rep. Nor¬ nation’s ton round out Dr. Lester’s portrait and pies, and his comeuppance with capital city. of a his high cholesterol count, his health Throughout her childhood, profound and dynamic woman who has concerns and the joys of growing old. Eleanor Holmes Norton was encour¬ shaped many of the privi¬ we now It’s scary. It’s funny. aged to excel, to be a leader in every¬ leges enjoy in this nation. From the chapter, “Once in a thing, to take advantage of all While:” opportunities. Educated at elite Angela Brown Terrell is a free¬ lance writer in “And now I am remembering it black schools in D.C.’s segregated Columbia, Maryland. very clearly. The doctor said ‘once in a system, she stepped out to attend while... Nobody’s saying you have to nearly all-white Antioch College in

18 S P E L M A N MESSENGER Book Notes E loise Abernathy Alexis, C’86 and Patricia Graham Johnson, C’73

With one flip of a television remote control, we step into a world of violence, either through the nightly news report or the visual images associated with a number of popular television dramas. Sadly, we have come to accept, and in some cases expect, hearing about and experiencing vio¬ lence as a part of our daily lives. Murder is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, C’75 and Howard R. Spivak, two Boston area public health officials, (Jossey Bass ISBN 0-7879-6980-X) is a compelling examina¬ tion of youth violence. The book tells of how Boston broke a cycle of juvenile violence and crim¬ inal activity through a multifaceted preventive program. The city’s success is attributed to an interdisciplinary citywide movement, bringing together educators, community leaders, emer¬ gency room workers, teen activists, family members of victims of violence, police officers and others, over a period of 10 years. The result was a thorough analysis of what lies at the root of youth violence, including poverty, social behaviors and domestic violence, and confirmation of the healing affects of positive role models in creating healthy and safe communities.

In her debut novel, From Faythe to Ever-Increasing Faith (Abrah-Cove Publishing ISBN 0- 9741902-0-9), Donna L. Patton C’79, weaves Bible words and wisdom into an engaging story of romantic love, self-love and God’s love. As the main characters, Faythe Alexander and David Karlson, who were college sweethearts, make their way back to one another, the reader witnesses how they use their faith in God and obedience to the commandments to triumph over their mistakes and shortcomings. Also, in the midst of their evolving romance, the characters provide positive guidance and encouragement to their friends and family members facing daily challenges in their lives. In these dialogues, Ms. Patton, with the tact of a skillful writer, addresses a number of the controversial issues of our day without compromising the power of the message. Whether you are in the mood for a righteous romance or an uplifting message, this book fits the bill.

Lori S. Robinson, C’90, was raped a few days before she was scheduled to return to Spelman College for her five-year reunion. During the frightening moments of the attack, Lori’s life was i w I L L forever changed. She has since written I Will Survive, The African American Guide to Heal¬ ingfrom Sexual Assault (Seal Press Paperback, ISBN: 1-58005-080-8). In this valuable resource, Lori uses her own story, the personal stories of others and civil rights history to guide the reader toward emotional, sexual and spiritual healing. She also examines the reasons why black women experience rape more often than white women, but are less likely to report it, and Survive does so within the context of slavery in America and modern-day racism. An award-winning Lori S. Robinson journalist whose work has appeared in The Crisis, Essence and the Washington Post, Lori’s Foreword by Julia A. Boyd compassionate content and well-researched information provide a solid foundation for a jour¬ ney to recovery from sexual assault.

Geronda Vertasha Carter, C'93, using her middle name as her pen name, has published a book of poems entitled Released (Vearijania Publishing, ISBN 0-9745816-0-7), in which the “poetic discovery of spirit, love, freedom and humanity” is expressed. This unique collection of poetry conveys an inspirational “spoken word” to capture the imagination. Vertasha has been a poet and songwriter for over 15 years, performing for groups ranging in size from intimate to large cruise ship audiences. An attorney practicing in the metropolitan Atlanta area, she is currently working on her next book of poetry and inspirational writings.

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 19 Bernice Johnson Reagon

Cosby EndowedProfessor in the FineArts Giving Voice to History

by TaRessa Stovall

history and quest for social justice were planted early in ing news, whether she is named the first Spelman her life. She was born Bernice Johnson and reared in alumna to become one of the Cosby Endowed Pro¬ Albany, Georgia, daughter of a Baptist minister, finding Bernicefessors,JohnsonwinningReagon,the prestigiousC70, hasHeinza wayAwardof mak¬for her musical voice and influence in the 18th and 19th cen¬ her unique contributions to the arts and humanities, or tury congregational songs of her home church. She composing an opera libretto that is taking Europe by storm. entered Albany State College in 1959 as music major, but This Spelman woman is as renowned for her ground¬ says her real education and strongest influence came from breaking work as a scholar, educator and historian as she her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Beginning is for her harmonious contributions to African American in the fall of 1961, her activities as an organizer and song- spirit and culture through song. Her name is synonymous leader included her role as student leader in the local both with the Smithsonian Institution - where she spent Albany Movement, then joining the Student Nonviolent

two decades as a folklorist, program director and curator - Coordinating Committee as field secretary and founding and with Sweet Honey in the Rock, the internationally member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, founded by Cordell acclaimed a cappella quintet that she founded and where Reagon in 1962. The historic mass arrests of demonstra¬ she has been the leading composer and guiding voice. tors in Albany, Ga during December, 1961 (over 700 in

YarbroughJuliePhotos: From 1974 to 1993, Dr. Reagon brought history to life as three days) landed Johnson and other activists in jail. It a folklorist, curator and the founding director of the Pro¬ was during this experience that the power of their collec¬ gram in Black American Culture at the Smithsonian Institu¬ tive singing inspired her to become one of the leading tion National Museum of American History in Washington, voices using song to fight injustice and inspire people in D.C. In 1973, she founded Sweet Honey in the Rock, the the struggle. award-winning group of women singers renowned for weav¬ After Albany State kickedJohnson and 10 other arrested ing traditional and contemporary African and African Amer¬ activists out of school for “conduct unbecoming...,” she ican music into poignant and empowering praise songs, that found acceptance and inspiration at Spelman, initially resonate deep within the soul. studying with Dr. Willis Laurence James, chairman of The seeds of purpose that drive Dr. Reagon’s passion for music and later as a student of historian Vincent Harding

20 SPELMAN MESSENGER where she took the long route to a history degree. In 1975, Johnnetta Cole’s administration, to perform she earned a Ph.D. in history from Howard University, a yearly concert with Sweet Honey. During while turning her dual passions for history and music into that administration, I received an honorary equally successful careers. In 2002, she returned to Spel- doctorate, and that was a very special recon¬ man as the first alumna to be named a William and Camille necting for me. During Audrey Manley’s Olivia Hanks Cosby Endowed Professor. During this period administration, Sweet Honey continued our Reagon collaborated on a musical that successfully pre¬ annual concerts. I was delighted when I got miered in Germany, and received the celebrated Heinz the call about the Cosby professorship. Due to Award for Arts and Humanities for all that she has done to other commitments, it took two years before I advance and preserve the African American experience of was able to arrange my schedule to enable me to the 20th century. have what has been a rich and at times In a candid conversation, the Spelman woman who deeply moving experience. has become a multi-faceted and much-loved American I had not worked closely with this institution in her own right, reflects on her intertwining particular generation and I didn’t sPelman Collet careers, ponders the future and makes it clear how she know how these students would wants to be seen and heard. receive what I had to offer. The young wm at,on Johnson Reag0n women who come to CosJ>y Choir of g Spelman often Fine Arts Q: What is the one thing you would like have studied African American his¬ everyone to know about you? tory; they come to us having heard A: I am not a singer who knows history, but a scholar, a stories about the Civil Rights Move¬ historian, who uses music to explore and pass on the his¬ ment from their parents and elders. tory and culture of my people and our struggles. What many of them do not have are the sounds of the period of Q: What is it like being back at Spelman as slavery, the sounds of the freedom the first alumna to hold a Cosby movement, the sounds of the blues. What I was able to do was professorship? v“lt'cr2(U003 to share and A: It was an extraordinary experience for me to come back deepen and expand what as a Cosby Chair. I started coming back to Spelman during they could understand and take from those same peri¬ ods that they might be studying in their classes. It was a wonderful formula, because the provost sent out a special message informing faculty members of a number of categories in which I had conducted research over the past 35 years and asked to consider extending an invitation to me if there was an area of my expertise that would fit into their curriculum. It was absolutely the best way to be introduced to this campus. Last fall, my first semester, I went from one class to another. I shared different aspects of my research in six departments. It gave me a chance to work with faculty members. By the time I got to the second semester where I was teaching a course and developing a culminating pro¬ ject, I was part of the campus. That culminating project, “Lord! I Got a Right to the Tree of Life! A Tribute to Early African American Sacred Song,” allowed me to work with the Fine Arts Department, the Drama Department, and the Dance and Music Departments in a major way. It was a seamless production; there was no emcee; there were nar¬ rators from the Theater Department who formed the nar¬ rative thread of the production from 19th and 20th century classic statements about the spirituals or the meaning of the song and the singing.

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 21 because of “conduct unbecoming an Albany State stu¬ dent.” By the next semester, all 11 of us were in schools in Atlanta. I came to Spelman as a music major and joined the Glee Club. I completed that semester, but left Spelman in the mid¬ dle of fall semester ’62 to travel with a new group inspired by the singing we’d done in Albany. We called ourselves the SNCC Freedom Singers and for a year we traveled all over the country and sang stories of the Civil Rights Movement. At that time, I was more in the movement than ready to be in school. I married Cordell Reagon; we settled in Atlanta. I came back to Spelman in the fall of ’68 and graduated in 1970 with a degree in history. By that time, I was the mother of two children and divorced. Sometimes, when I tell this story, I can speak to stu¬ In addition, we produced a dents who find themselves following sort of a straight path printed program that took on from high school to college and are not doing well the look of a newspaper, and because they actually need to be someplace else. I tell inside that program were them that my life is an example; that you can put a pause excerpts of oral histories that in your education and find your way back when you are

had been done by my class - more ready to receive as your own what a good education they interviewed someone who has to offer.. knew music that existed before the 20th century. With education Q: What were the strongest influences on media, we have been able to pro¬ your studies and your careers? duce a CD and video from the docu¬ A: While the Civil Rights Movement had a lot to do with the mentation of that program. breaks in my formal education, I’ve always considered my This year I am doing a research project with the Spel- involvement, in itself, to be part of my education. It was man Archives to organize the William Lawrence James col¬ transformative for me; it put me on a different path than I lection, and I am hoping to develop a Web site where we would have been on if I had not participated. When I came can have a statement of the work of this incredible 20th to Spelman, out of the Albany movement and the jailings, I century renaissance scholar and folklorist. Dr James was was struck by being at schools (in the Atlanta University chairman of the Music Department when I came to Spel- Center) that took us when we’d been suspended from man after being suspended for my organizing activities in another school, giving us support and understanding for the Albany movement. It was my very first experience with the activism that we and other students were engaged in. a western-trained musician who also held the virtuoso per¬ One of the things that astounded me about Spelman formances of what we would call folk or community-based was that if something major happened in the world, they music as being among the finest in the world. I think that canceled classes and we all went to Sisters Chapel to dis¬ kind of vision should be documented and available to those cuss it. I remember when President Kennedy was con¬ who come after us who will have similar challenges to face fronting Russia, which then had ships in the water headed as they move forward in their various fields. for Cuba. Well, we suspended classes and went to the Chapel and discussed it pro and con, including whether Q: What brought you to Spelman College as this kind of challenge would lead to war. I was very a student? impressed by a school that felt it was training leaders, and A: In high school, I won a solo [singing] competition and that there was nothing going on in the world that these was offered a scholarship to Spelman. But it was only a 50 women should not be able to process with each other and percent scholarship, which meant that I could not afford with their faculty. Spelman. I had a two-year scholarship to Albany State Col¬ The interesting thing is that today some students don’t lege. In 1961, my junior year there, I became active in the feel that same kind of energy, but it may have been very Albany movement. That December, I was arrested, with 39 pronounced back then because the AUC was so active in others, for participating in an anti-segregation rally, and breaking up segregation practices in the city of Atlanta. 11 of us were informed that we couldn’t come back Then, you had a campus where the student body had taken

22 SPELMAN MESSENGER on the responsibility of challenging systemic racism in Jones and Mattie Casey in 1965; we expanded to six BERNICE JOHNSON the city that was the home of the Center. It is very clear to women singing a cappella. “Harambee” means unity REAGON , historian, scholar, me as an oral historian, as I talk to women from Spel- or let’s pull together. It was a wonderful period to be composer and songleader, is Distin¬ man, that there were people who were not supportive singing for the Black power conferences and the new guished Professor of History at and there were times when students had to battle the Black Studies Department. the American University and Cura¬ administration to more even After get support, but with this finishing my degree at Spelman, I received a tor Emeritus at the Smithsonian unevenness, there was a great empathy among many Ford to my Fellowship do graduate work through to a Institution, National Museum of members of the faculty and it really was very, very help¬ doctorate in history at Howard University. At the same American History. Her numerous ful to me. There were faculty members who were very time, I became vocal director of the [Washington] D.C. publications include We’ll Under¬ understanding when I felt that I had to leave Spelman to Repertory Company - set up to train young people for stand It Better By and By: African work full time in the Movement and could not complete careers in theater, television and film. In the fall of American Pioneering Gospel Com¬ my studies at that time. 1973, Sweet Honey was formed out of that workshop. In posers (Smithsonian Press, 1992) the 1974, year before I got my doctorate, I joined the and We Who Believe in Freedom: Q: How were you shaped by your staff of the Smithsonian and stayed there until 1993, Sweet Honey in the Rock... Still on Spelman studies? doing the bulk of my primary research in African Amer¬ the Journey (Anchor Books, 1993), A: I returned to ican cultural Spelman in 1968, divorced and mother history. for which she served as editor. of two small children. At Spelman, I worked under Dr. In addition to writing many of Vincent Harding, who was head of history; he was the Q: How did Bernice Johnson Reagon the songs for and producing Sweet first professor who allowed me to use songs as impact the Smithsonian Institution? historical Honey in the Rock’s 17 albums/CDs, documents in a research paper, a rare and boundary¬ A: I was a staff scholar at the Smithsonian on the first Dr. Reagon has served as consul¬ changing experience for me. I was allowed to follow African Diaspora project at an established institution in tant, composer and performer for something I had experienced directly in jail, that songs the nation’s capital. This project examined African several film and video projects, came out of life experiences and could articulate collec¬ American folk music and material culture, crafts, including two award-winning pro¬ tive positions. To this end, they could be examined for foods, hair, dress, as a part of a world family of culture grams for PBS, Eye on the Prize what us based in Africa. We they taught about the history of a certain brought the carriers of these tradi¬ and We Shall Overcome. She con¬ period. tions and expressions from the United States African ceptualized the National Public Professor of music and composer William Lawrence American communities into a festival structure with Radio and Smithsonian Peabody James, who directed the Spelman Glee Club from 1954 cultural carriers from the Caribbean, South American Award-winning radio series Wade tol966, was trained as a classical violinist. He had a love and Africa. in the Water: African American for western classical music. He was also a Then for 15 folklorist; his years I organized and conducted music Sacred Music Traditions. field research was African American traditional vocal research with a team of scholars in African American Her many awards and honors and dance traditions. It is challenging to convey how sacred music, primarily 19th and 20th century. Out of include the prestigious MacArthur important it was for me to meet and work with the head that we did a major exhibition, Wade in the Water, Fellowship in 1989 - a substantial of a music department who celebrated folk traditions as which became a 26-hour series with National Public cash award which she used to pro¬ much as he did western classical music. This gave me Radio and the Smithsonian. Both of these projects duce Wade in the Water as a radio permission to keep both of those loves in my life and resulted in a database that is in the archives of the series, book and recording. She has know that I never had to choose. As a singer, I moved African History Museum at the Smithsonian. I also also won the Presidential Medal; the much more toward the folk tradition, but Dr. James was released several American music recordings of African 1995 Charles Frankel Prize for out¬ a major presence in the formation of a notion that I did carried by the Smithsonian Folkways Recording Pro¬ standing contribution to public not have to pick between cultures, that I really could gram. In addition to the work on sacred music history, I understanding of the humanities by cross cultures and not let was also able to work in Civil go of anything that I cared Rights Movement culture the National Endowment for the about. It has been formative in the way I’ve done my and history, creating a collection based on historical Humanities. In 1996, she received work as a scholar and as a composer as as and singer. recordings and artifacts well oral histories that an Isadora Duncan Award for the document the stories recorded by activists during a score to Rock, a ballet for LINES Q: What led you to the Smithsonian and national conference I organized for that purpose. Contemporary Ballet Company. In Sweet Honey? 1997, she received an honorary doc¬ A: The Q: How did your two careers impact each years [in the early 1960s] between when I first torate from Spelman College. And came to Spelman and the time I returned included the other? in 2003, she was one of six distin¬ whole Black consciousness/Black power movement. A: Sweet Honey has been a balancing force in my life. I guished Americans selected to The first was a group I sang with was the SNCC Freedom young scholar working at the Smithsonian in receive the noted Heinz Award for African American Singers. There is a group in Atlanta today called the history and sometimes that was very, Arts and Humanities. Harambee Singers that I organized with with Jamilla very intense and not always welcoming. But no matter

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 23 what happened between Monday and Friday, on the week¬ some would come, stay awhile, and then move on. But it end I would be with this group of African American has become important to the lives and the professions of women and we would be singing out of our core experi¬ these women that Sweet Honey is where they would do ence as Black women and our love for music, creating some of their work as musicians. something in our own image, grounded in our people’s Actually, I have to stop this work because of natural legacy and history in the world. I did not see then nor do I changes. I am 6l and vocally, I don’t sustain the music see now that I could have done one job without the other. program, though I can still sing somewhat. I don’t see I started to write songs in 1966, with the Harambee that my life as a musician will end, although I have not performed solo concerts in more than 15 years. The mem¬ bers of Sweet Honey said they wanted to continue, so this has been an unusual time for me - a year celebrating 30 years with them and, at the same time, finding a way to transfer all of my responsibilities into somebody else’s hands. I will remain an advisor to the group. I will also work with my passion for African American culture and history. I don’t need to know specifically what I’ll be work¬ ing on, I first need time to step out of this rhythm and shift to another and see what is there for me if I still have life and health..

The music is hot. It is a thrilling show Q: Where will your passions be taking you IQS AKSTlfS TIMES next?

A: One of the projects just completed is a collaborative work with American producer/director Robert Wilson. He Robert Wilson / Reagon Bernice Johnson Singers. By the time I came to Sweet Honey in works mostly in Europe. He had a work by Gustave The Temptation 1973,1 was a young songwriter and com¬ Flaubert, from 1859, that he’d had for 20 years, called poser. I have really appreciated the opportu¬ “The Temptation of Saint Anthony.” Flaubert was French, nity to create new music. It’s interesting to be and this is a dialogue he had fashioned about tension a historian documenting, understanding, between the church the rise of humanism along with the analyzing music created before your time, rise of scientific study, which was a big theme in the 19th and also being an artist and creating new century. yi -15 September 2003 Sadler's Wells music. When Robert Wilson asked me to do the music, I Also important is my work as a pro¬ hadn’t heard of him or seen any of his work. During a ducer. I love going into the studio and pro¬ work he staged about 15 minutes of the piece and instinc¬ ducing recordings. I’ve loved producing my own material, tively placed samples of my music under his work and not and I’ve had the chance to work with other artists and to only was I fascinated, but I knew that I wanted to work put together historical anthologies. The other thing that I with him on this project. The project premiered in Ger¬ have liked in my life is my passion for African American many June 9, 2003, and it has played in Spain, Italy and culture and history, and the process of moving from one London. It’s my first credit as a librettist. What amazes me project to another. I am fascinated by the way African is that between November 2002 and May 2003,1 had writ¬ American history evolves as we move through our legacy ten 28 new pieces, 20 of them original pieces, and eight in this land. I am very, very passionate about my work in arrangements of older traditional pieces for this produc¬ this field. tion. When we went into rehearsal (with an African Amer¬ ican cast based in New York City), I was awed by what Q: Where are you now with regards to happened as I became engaged in the story and began to Sweet Honey in the Rock? think musically about it. I had to find a way to codify a A: The longest unbroken work I’ve done is building Sweet huge, 90-minute piece into a performance structure that Honey, and this will be my last year performing with the would fit the contemporary experience. Sweet Honey was group. I am most proud of the process I had to go through on hiatus and I had a chance to focus on one project - to learn to be a leader and learn to build a small organiza¬ mind- and spirit-expanding for me. • tion where the women would increasingly choose to stay. There have been 22 women in Sweet Honey over the years; TaRessa Stovall is an author living in New Jersey.

24 S P E L M A N MESSENGER Andrea D. Barnwell

Artistic Visionfor a New Age

by TaRessa Stovall

brings to the directorship of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is fueled by her expertise in TheAfricanguidingAmerican,vision thatBlackAndreaBritishD. andBarnwell,contempo¬C’93, rary African art, grounded in commitment to her alma mater, and seasoned with the enthusiasm of a Spelman Woman on a mission. “It is the only museum in the country to focus on art by and about women of the African Diaspora. These unique gifts, combined with their incredible genius, are compelling, and we are poised to do great things,” she says with the enthusiastic confidence that is her trademark. Dr. Barnwell’s passion for the visual arts was sparked during her sophomore year. She was a double major in English and art history, fascinated by “the relationship between written and visual artistic expression.” In her junior year, she studied abroad at the University of Essex in Colchester, England, which inspired her to add Victorian art to her study of the Harlem Renaissance. She selected Duke University for her graduate studies, largely because art historian Richard J. Powell fed her interest in art of the African Diaspora, and she earned both a master’s and a Ph.D. in art history. Along the way, she has built a reputation as a renowned author, art historian and curator. When Dr. Barnwell was named Director of the ScottJ.D.Photo: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in 2001, it seemed that she had come full circle. training in art conservation which is, she says, “a very She and her staff are busy implementing the Museum’s lucrative career.” mission to emphasize works by and about women in its Noting that the Museum, which opened in 1996, is collections, exhibitions and programs while promoting making great progress in “finding our stride,” Dr. Barnwell interdisciplinary approaches to the study and interpreta¬ is also working to ‘form partnerships with the surrounding tion of art. community and to be a resource to local schools, especially One key focus is partnerships. “There is such a ground- those in our neighborhood.’ She is working with Spelman’s swell in terms of the arts at Spelman,” she says, noting Office of Community Service to reach out to the nearby that the Museum is working with the dance and drama, University Academy Charter School. music and art departments “to make the arts accessible Upcoming exhibitions will involve other artistic disci¬ and prepare the students to consider and work in careers plines at Spelman, as well as the history and women’s stud¬ in the arts.” Planning for future “meaningful partner¬ ies departments. The first exhibition of 2004, “iona rozeal ships with the sciences” includes developing a conserva¬ brown: a3.. .black on both sides,” curated by Dr. Barnwell, tion laboratory and program, and Dr. Barnwell is working features brown, one of the nation’s most exciting emerging closely with the departments of chemistry and art to offer artists. In this, brown’s first major solo project, the artist

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 25 Creative Loafing newspaper recently declared the Spelman Museum’s

presentation of “One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, the city’s top art exhibition of2003■

Future exhibitions include explores a3 (a reference to an afro- “Dreaming in Cuba” and asiatic allegory) and addresses the “The Louisiana Project”—a thought-provoking exhibi¬ tion global influence of hip hop, com¬ featuring two installations by Carrie Mae Weems mercialism and African American about gender and race relations in the South. The Museum staff is culture as fetish. Through images of actively working to create an original traditional male and female Japanese exhibition, “Engaging the Camera: African Women, Por¬ characters in blackface, with hairstyles traits and the Photographs of Hector Acebes.” This project focuses on the works of a Colombian that are typically associated with African photographer and Americans, dazzling “bling bling” jew¬ cinematographer and will open in October 2004. In March els and attitudes of today’s hip hop icons, 2005, “African American Masters: Highlights from the brown examines such provocative issues Smithsonian American Art Museum” will be on view, as blackface performance, Japanese youth marking the first time that the nation’s treasures will be culture and its current fascination with hip shown at a historically Black college or university. In true hop, and the various ways hip hop has Spelman fashion, Dr. Barnwell exemplifies the become an international commodity, “iona highest levels of excellence and achievement in her field. Her rozeal brown: a3... black on both sides” writings have been featured in major publications, opened January 22, and runs until Com¬ including To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from His¬ mencement weekend 2004. Dr. Barnwell has torically Black Colleges and Universities; Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem made it a campus-wide project, with students Renaissance; and African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of in advanced Japanese classes contributing translations based on the paintings. The Japan Chicago. She is the principle author of the catalogue The studies and the African Diaspora and the World Walter 0. Evans Collection of African American Art, and her critical programs are involved as well. writings have appeared in such journals as the International Review of African American Art, African Art and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Her book, Charles White: The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, Volume I, was published in 2002. Her many academic and scholarly awards include a MacArthur Curatorial Fellowship in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago (1998-2000). Dr. Barnwell is already making her mark in Atlanta: Creative Loafing newspaper recently declared the Spelman Museum’s presentation of “One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art,” the city’s top art exhibition of 2003. From her office in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center where the Museum is housed, Andrea D. Barnwell is giv¬ ing the college that nurtured her a brilliant collage of passion, possibility and purpose, and the vision to share it with the world. •

TaRessa Stovall is an author living in New Jersey.

26 SPELMAN MESSENGER The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

THE SPELMAN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF FINE ART Carrie Mae Weems: The Louisiana Project is the only museum in the nation that empha¬ & Dreaming in Cuba sizes works by and about women of the African July 10 - September 25,2004 Diaspora in its collections, exhibitions and pro¬ This exhibition features two recently completed grams. Founded in 1999, the museum provides a series by internationally renowned artist Carrie learning environment for students, faculty, staff Mae Weems. The Louisiana Project incorporates and alumnae, while enhancing the cultural and still photography, narrative and video projection intellectual development of the College commu¬ to investigate how perceptions of history, black THE MUSEUM’S EXHIBITIONS nity through the collection, preservation, exhibi¬ women, race relations and sexual identity have tion and interpretation of important works of art. been shaped. Dreaming in Cuba is a series of sil¬ AND PROGRAMS SUPPORT Housed in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby ver prints reflecting the landscape, home and Academic Center, the Museum houses and pre¬ workplace of the Cuban people while raising serves the extensive art collection that the College questions about the essence and spirituality of THE COLLEGE’S BELIEF THAT has amassed over several decades. Permanent social revolution. holdings include works by Amalia Amaki, Her¬ VISUAL ART IS AN ESSENTIAL man Kofi Bailey, Elizabeth Catlett, D.E. Johnson, Engaging the Camera: African Women, Jacob Lawrence, Valerie Maynard, Faith Ringgold, Portraits and the Photographs ofHector Hale Woodruff and many others. The permanent Acebes COMPONENT OF A LIBERAL collection also comprises an extensive collection October 28,2004 - February 21,2005 of art from central Africa. The first exhibition of Colombian photographer ARTS EDUCATION. The Museum’s exhibitions and programs and cinematographer Hector Acebes who traveled support the College’s belief that visual art is an to Africa in 1947,1948 and 1953 to photograph essential component of a liberal arts education. the people and places he encountered. Engaging Museum activities complement the College’s cur¬ the Camera examines themes including the ricular goals by holding educational sessions divide between art and ethnography, gender and and fostering academic collaborations with stu¬ the African female body as spectacle, further dents, faculty and staff. enhancing the rich and complex tradition of As a resource for Atlanta and beyond, the photographing African subjects. Museum forges innovative partnerships with neighboring cultural institutions and hosts a African American Masters: Highlightsfrom variety of formal and informal learning opportu¬ the Smithsonian American Art Museum nities that appeal to families, general audiences March 24 - May 13,2005 and art enthusiasts. For the first time, a selection of 6l paintings, sculptures and photographs inspired by historical Upcoming Exhibitions events, political issues, spirituality, music and folklore, will be presented at a historically Black iona rozeal brown: a3... black on both skies college. Featured artists include Richmond

January 22 - May 14,2004 Barthe, Romare Bearden, William H. Johnson, This original exhibition explores the theme of a3, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ring- better known as the afro-asiatic allegory, and gold, Betye Saar and Augusta Savage. examines the current fascination with hip hop culture among some Japanese youth and the trend of ganguro, the popular practice among For more information about the Spelman College high school girls of darkening their skin and Museum of Fine Art, including how to become a emulating the entertainers whom they admire. member, volunteer and donate works of art, please visit us at www.museum.spelman.edu.

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 27 Sister to Sister: contributions, totaled $141,953! It is the largest class gift ever presented in the history of the College, and was appro¬ Signatures of a Noble Calling priately presented during the Alumnae Banquet and Blue Note Theatre, an exciting musical and dance show¬ case which featured Spelman students and alumnae, and There are those who are summoned, and others who was performed and directed by stage actress, Karen just goforth. Kendrick, C’98 Butyou can always tell the called by the signatures - The 10-year reunion Class of 1993 took home the the characteristic marks — oftheir calling. attendance award with an impressive 142 classmates who registered for the 2003 Reunion activities. A s Spelman women, we have each been summoned - The National Alumnae Association of Spelman College l\ called - to advance the principles on which Spel- (NAASC) presented its highest honors, the Hall of Fame jL jL man College was founded. Intrinsic to our promo¬ Award and the Merit Award, to Yvonne Jackson, C’70 tion of academic excellence is the development of our and Marguerite Simon, C’35, respectively, for their intellectual, ethical and leadership potential as women. leadership and involvement on behalf of the Alumnae As the alumnae of Spelman College, we are the chosen Association and Spelman College. ones. Those called to operate in excellence, respect, under¬ Spelman women remembered the life and works of standing and integrity. Those called Josephine Harreld Love, C’33, a to leadership and service. Those child prodigy in music and academics called to live out the signatures of a who became a nationally renowned noble calling. There are examples concert pianist, as well as a wife and upon examples of Spelman women, mother, who turned her passion for past and present, whose life and introducing children to art and music, work signify their decisions to live into a calling. out the precepts of a divine calling. While in Augusta, Georgia for a Consider, for instance, Jenelsie gathering of Spelman alumnae, I was Walden Holloway, C’4l, a honored to be in the presence of nationally renowned visual artist, Hertha Latimer Blount, H.S.’25, arts educator and leader who was andJustine Wilkinson Washing¬ honored by the Atlanta arts com¬ ton, Ed.D., C’30. The day following munity for her outstanding contri¬ Eloise Alexis, C’86, Director ofAlumnae the gathering, my colleague, Dineo butions to the genre. During her Affairs andAnnual Giving and Cynthia Brinson, C’94, and I went to the 50-year career, Mrs. Holloway Neal Spence, C’78, embrace in matching campus of Augusta State University to served as chairperson of the Spel¬ goldsuits at the Reunion Banquet and see Washington Hall, the building man Art Department from 1952 Blue Note 'Theatre. named for Dr. Justine Washington and through 1963 and again from 1982 her husband, the late Isaiah Edward Washington. When it through 1990. was dedicated in 1997, it became the first building on the The Spelman campus community honored two of our campus to bear the names of living persons. The building own during the 2003 Founders Day Convocation when the pays tribute to the Washingtons, both born in 1908, for True Blue Award was presented to LaConyea Butler, their dedication and perseverance in pursuing their edu¬ Ph.D., C’56, a professor in the Spelman College Psychol¬ cation in an era of racial segregation and, subsequently, ogy Department and director of Assessment and of Student ensuring the education of thousands of students. Learning and Development, for her ongoing, unconditional My Spelman sisters, within these notes, the Alumnae support of the College, as an alumna, a professor and a vol¬ Notes, and every note prior and to come, are the signa¬ unteer, among other roles. And Cynthia Neal Spence, tures ofour noble calling. Ph.D., C’78, received the Fannie Lou Hamer Award for her significant contribution to the community outside Spelman In the spirit of the called and the committed, through community service and raising public awareness of important issues that impact the lives of women. Reunion 2003 was a record breaking event for alum¬ nae philanthropy due to the incredibly noble spirit and efforts of the Golden Girl Class of 1953, whose Reunion year class gift, comprised of individual member Director ofAlumnaeAffairs andAnnual Giving

28 SPELMAN MESSENGER Sister to Sister: Signatures ofa Noble Calling

Dr. LaConyea Butler, C56, responds after receiving the True Blue Award.

President Tatum shares a President Tatum congratulatory moment with presents the Fannie Jenelsie Walden Holloway, C’41. Lou Hamer Award to Dr. Cynthia Neal Spence, C’78.

The MeritAward is presented to Miss Marguerite Simon, C’35, by Rosa King Kilpatrick, C’70, NAASC President.

YvonneJackson, C70. recipient ofthe NAASC Hall ofFame Award.

Golden Girl Class of 1953

L.E. andJustine W. Washington Hall on the campus ofAugusta State University.

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 29 1938 1952 ence with the civil rights movement as a stu¬ dent at Spelman. She retired from the Newjer¬ Dovey Johnson Roundtree Joy San Brown sey state government after 20 years of service. See Take Note! Personal Achievement: Represented The She was the first woman and first African Inquirer’s Club, the Utopian Literary Club, the American to serve as the Director of Purchas¬ Chautauqua Circle and the Mo-So-Lit Circle, 1941 ing and Contracts. Jenelsie Walden Holloway four of Atlanta’s oldest African American Personal Achievement: The Atlanta Arts Com¬ women’s book clubs when they were honored by the Woodruff Library in March 2003. 1965 munity joined together on February 10, 2003 Ruth A. Davis to honor Jenelsie in recognition and apprecia¬ Professional Achievement: Serving as Distin¬ tion of her exemplary contributions to the arts. 1953 guished Advisor for International Affairs at Jenelsie taught art at Spelman for 38 years. Mary McKinney Edmonds Howard on Professional Achievement: Commencement University, detail from the U.S. Department of State. 1942 speaker and recipient of an honorary degree, Doctor of Human Letters, at the SUNY Down- Georgia Smith Dickens Dorothy Fuqua Grayson state Medical Center’s 36th annual com¬ See Take Note! Professional Achievement: Executive director mencement for the College of Health-Related of Interfaith Outreach Home, Inc., a 10-apart¬ Professions and the College of Nursing. 1943 ment transitional housing program for home¬ Personal Achievement: Featured in the Spel¬ Ann Moore less married couples with children. She served man College gift planning brochure for Personal Achievement: Received the Mar¬ on the Board of Directors for 10 years prior to 2003-2004. guerite F. Simon Youth Inspirational Award becoming director. She worked for more than given by the Benefactors of Education, Inc. 33 years at IBM in personnel management. Virginia Ruth McKinney Henderson The award is offered to encourage students in Personal Achievement: Featured in the fashion and the arts. Spel¬ man College gift planning brochure for 1966 2003-2004. Beverly Guy-Sheftall 1944 Professional Achievement: Participated in an Cleo Ingram Hale 1955 issues forum and discussion of the book Gen¬ Married: Celebrated 60th wedding anniversary der Talk at the First Congregational Church Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley with husband Rev. Phale D. Hale, Morehouse on October 19, 2003 with co-author Dr. John- See Take Note! College Class of 1940, on August 16, 2003- netta B. Cole, former president of Spelman Daughters Janice E. Hale, Ph.D., C’70, College. and Marna Hale Leaks, C’73, attended 1956 the family celebration that was held in Colum¬ Gwendolyn Gilley-Conley 1968 Personal Achievement: The recipient of the bus, Ohio. Melody M. McDowell WXIA-TV, 11 Alive Community Service Award Personal Achievement: Received the 2003 on April 3, 2002 and the Unsung Hero Award Del Eagan Jupiter Media Cornerstone Award at the state and Personal Achievement: Was from the Georgia Black United Fund on August recognized by the regional levels from the U.S. Department of Florida State 24, 2002. She was recognized due to her 15 Genealogical Society for contri¬ Commerce - Minority Business Development bution to the field of Florida years of service to children with special needs genealogy and/or Agency and the Minority Enterprise Council. as the founder of the Metro Atlanta Respite history for three or more years. The honor is presented in recognition of and Developmental Services, Inc. See Take Note! Melody’s accomplishments with her minority- owned communications firm. 1949 Elise Dunn Cain 1958 1969 See Take Note! Pauline E. Drake Laura English-Robinson Personal Achievement: The Spelman College The Spelman College faculty member was pre¬ Continuing Education Students Association Virginia Davis Hawkins-Stephens sented in recital on September 21,2003 at the was E. in Personal Achievement: Named as the renamed Pauline Drake Scholars Ebenezer a honor of Association founder Dr. Pauline E. Baptist Church at benefit concert 2003-2004 Woman of the Year at Radcliffe in Drake. support of the Ebenezer Mortgage Reduc¬ Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Atlanta. An tion Fund. ordained deacon and a retired educator, Vir¬ ginia volunteers at the Spelman College 1959 Museum of Fine Art. Lucille Fultz 1970 Gail Davenport Professional Achievement: Wrote study, “Toni Personal Achievement: Honored with the 2003 Maxine Atkins Smith Morrison: Playing With Difference,” which Pinnacle Leadership Award by the Fortitude See Take Note! builds an understanding of how Morrison’s Educational and Cultural Development Cen¬ characters play themselves out through differ¬ ter. The award recognizes local African Ameri¬ Ella Gaines Yates ences in race, gender, age, class and economic can women who have made contributions to Personal Achievement: Featured in the Spel¬ status. society and impacted the lives of others. The man College gift planning brochure for Foundation is supported by the East Point/Col¬ 2003-2004. 1963 lege Park Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Lana Taylor Sims Theta Sorority, Inc. Gail Davenport is also a Professional Achievement: Featured in an arti¬ 1951 recipient of the 2002 Spelman College Board cle Mignon Lewis “Standing Up - and Sitting In - for Her of Trustees Local Community Service Award. Personal Achievement: Featured in the Spel¬ Rights” in the Courier News in Bridgewater, man College gift planning brochure for Newjersey. The article describes Lana’s experi¬ Miriam Blalock Frank 2003-2004. See Take Note!

30 SPELMAN MESSENGER Take Rlote!

■ The first Black mayor of Greenville, Mis¬ GET AHEAD GUIDE sissippi is Heather McTeer-Hudson, ■ Senior media consultant, Andrea POP STAR C’98. And Jet Magazine reports on her Molette Brown, C’92, appeared in Coca-Cola exec makes moves swearing-in ceremony in the January 26, special features in Honey and Ebony 2004 issue. McTeer Hudson, an attorney, is magazines. In a segment entitled the city’s first female mayor as well, and “Head Honey in Charge” in the STEAL "“~' plans to get her city on a “good, sound June/July issue of Honey, Brown is this job! financial footing” and “create new oppor¬ highlighted for her work managing tunities for economic development.” the media strategies for Sprite and Sexual Harrassment 101 other Coca-Cola brand beverages. And Protect yourself from the office letch by knowing the law in Ebony, the law school graduate reveals her philosophy on healthy eat¬ ing and exercise in “Fitness Secrets of Executives, Mothers and Stars,” in the October issue.

■ Phylicia Fant, C’2000, publicist and manager for Pop Publicity for Universal/Motown, is profiled in the February 2004 issue of Sister 2 Sister Magazine. She is responsible for ensuring maximal exposure for the record label’s artist through the devel-

promotional OFFICE WITH A VIEW activities.

■ “Butterflies and Bliss” is how Southern Living Weddings describes, in words Phylicia Fant. and Publicist/Manager Pop pictures, the summer 2003 garden wedding and formal can¬ Publicity, Universal/Motown dlelight reception of Cybil Brown Talley, C’93 The four-page article offers beautiful photographs of the elegant visual ambiance, the bride and groom, and the wedding party, including maid of honor, Andrea Barnwell, C’93, and bridesmaids, Sharon Dobson Green, C’89 and Monya Stubbs, C’93

WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 31 Melanie Carter-Carvalho 1971 Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith 1986 See Book Notes Birth: Daughter, Makenna Morais Carter- Brenda Banks Linda Gail Harper Carvalho, on October 1,2001. Professional Achievement: Received the 2003 Married: Robert Foster, Jr. on October 19, Council Exemplary Service Award from the 1979 2002 in Nashville, Tenn. Veronica Moming-Morrison Margarethia Williams Ellis Society of American Archivists (SAA) on See Take Note! Personal Achievement: Founder of Tri¬ Dr. Kathaleena Edward Monds August 22, 2003 at the SAA’s 67th annual umphant People Community Task Force, Professional Achievement: Honored as the meeting held in Los Angeles. She was hon¬ Traci S. Jackson ored for her efforts in encouraging a diverse Inc, an organization that advocates and 2003 Teacher of the Year at Albany State Uni¬ assists the Professional Achievement: Promoted to membership and for her protection and community in dealing with con¬ versity. A faculty member since 2000, she is an flicts with various director of Bid Management at NTT America, preservation of historical records document¬ city, county, state and fed¬ assistant professor in the College of Business, eral Inc., ajapanese telecommunications com¬ ing the African American experience. agencies as well as local businesses. a co-chair of The Association to Advance Col¬ pany. She is the first female Ameri¬ African legiate Schools of Business Accreditation, a can to hold this Adraine L. Mosely position. Also founder and co-chair of the Faculty Technology Subcom¬ Sherry Davis Young CEO of Education: Earned a doctor of nycmadeforyou.com, an entertain¬ mittee and a senator in the Personal Achievement: Sherry was the chair¬ chiropractic Faculty Senate. ment planning service for those visiting New person for Women’s Month 2003 at the his¬ degree from the Texas Chiropractic College York City. toric Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta. on April 12,2003. Janice Mosley Personal Achievement: Featured in the arti¬ Shaun Robinson Donna L. Patton cle, “Black Residents Flocking to City’s Sub¬ 1972 See Take Note! See Book Notes urbs,” in the, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Janet Lane Martin on Personal Achievement: Received the Distin¬ Thursday, July 24,2003, she tells why she 1985 chose to live in Cobb County. She resides in guished Alumnae Award from the Atlanta 1980 Dr. Valerie Ann Kaalund Miquel Antoine Marietta, Georgia, with her husband, John, Chapter of the National Alumnae Association Professional Achievement: Analytical and their three children. of Professional Achievement: Presented a pro¬ Spelman College. chemist at The gram, “Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Gave the presen¬ Deborah C. McIntosh Healing as a Reflection of Moral Sensibility in Selected Works tation “Analysis of Diagnostic Markers of Married: Nevil Everton Vacciana on by Toni Cade Bambara,” 1988 July 19, Disease on October Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorp¬ 2003- Niece Aquilla McIntosh Thomas, C’85, 28, 2003, sponsored by the Khadija Barkley Women’s Research and Resource Center at tion Mass Spectrometry” at the American was the directress. Education: Received a master’s degree in edu¬ Chemical Society Spelman. She is an assistant professor in the Middle Atlantic Regional cational administration and supervision from African and Afro-American Studies Depart¬ Meeting in Towson, Maryland, in 2001. Bowie State University in December 2002. Gayle Miles-Scott Awarded the 2001 Certificate Merit ment at the of for Professional Achievement: Appointed to the University of North Carolina at recognition as a Rising Star in Technology at State Board of Education Chapel Hill. Adelaide Barringer by Oklahoma Gov¬ the Women of Color Government and ernor Brad Professional Achievement: Executive admin¬ Henry. An accounting professor, Defense Technology Awards Conference. istrative assistant to the she was selected due to her extensive experi¬ 1981 pastor at St. Paul ence and dedication to Dr. Sheron C. Patterson Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina. public education. Dona Professional Achievement: Conducted a Kilpatrick Education: Received J.D. from Georgetown Christian relationship seminar at the Eliza¬ Vikki T. Gaskin-Butler 1973 University Law Center in 1989- beth Baptist Church, in Atlanta on October Personal Achievement: In Who’s Who Among Kathleen Bertrand Married/Births: Resides in Washington, D.C., American Professional Achievement: Performed in 21, 2003. She is a nationally recognized Colleges and Universities. Mar¬ with husband, Keddrick, and their two chil¬ Christian relationship expert. Her latest ried to Dr. Malcolm B. Butler and has son, “Singing Our Praises,” a fundraiser celebrat¬ dren, Madison and Matthew. book, The Love Clinic - How to Heal Rela¬ Malcolm, who is three years old. ing women’s entrepreneurial achievement, Professional Achievement: General Counsel Education: Master’s of at The Rialto Center for tionships in a Christian Spirit, is a best divinity degree from Performing Arts in for the American Institutes for Research, a seller. Emory University, Candler School of Theol¬ Atlanta on November 21,2003. behavioral and social science research firm ogy in May, 2002. Became ordained clergy in Washington, D.C. on Denise Burse Maxine Lawson-Conway September 1,2002. Professional Achievement: Appointed by Mis¬ Professional Achievement: Clinical psycholo¬ See Take Note! Bernice King sissippi governor, Ronnie Musgrove, to fill an gist at the Samaritan Counseling Center of Personal Achievement: Renowned author was term as Northeast Georgia. Dr. Virginia Davis Floyd unexpired Jackson County Youth the featured Court speaker at Spelman on Septem¬ Professional Achievement: Appointed as the judge. Also appointed by the City of ber 18, 2003. The topic was “A Woman’s Valerie SIS Moss Point to serve as a Municipal Court Gholston-Key Visiting Scholar in Traditional Knowledge. Worth ... Hear About It... Learn About It... Professional Achievement: Was designated as Presented a lecture, “Journey of Connected¬ judge. and Walk in It.” a Certified Public Manager (CPM) after ness: Health, Culture and Indigenous Sci¬ completing a training and development pro¬ ence Throughout the Diaspora,” on October 1984 Jasmine Taylor Vida L. gram for governmental managers. The goal 29,2003. Avery Personal: Resides in Jackson, Miss., with hus¬ Education: Received Ph.D in educational of the program is to increase professional band, Herman Taylor, and their three chil¬ standards nationally among public sector 1974 policy studies with a major in higher educa¬ dren. tion from managers. LaTanya Richardson Jackson Georgia State University in Decem¬ Professional Achievement: Associate dean for ber 2003. Dissertation title: A See Take Note! Fateful Hour multicultural affairs at the University of Mis¬ in Black Jada Gardner Hill Higher Education: The Affiliation sissippi a School of Medicine and faculty Birth: Daughter, Gillian Xiomara Hill on ofAtlanta University, Morehouse College member in the 1975 Department of Psychiatry. November andSpelman College. 7,2002, weighing 6 lbs., 9 oz. Kathy Hood Culmer She was featured in a weekly publication of the Personal Achievement: Editor of the book, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Lisa Rosalind Brewer Lake Yes, Jesus Loves Me: 31 Love Stories, pub¬ Personal Achievement: Mother of three Birth: Daughter, Camryn Elizabeth on April lished by Good Word Productions and 18,2003 daughters. released February 1,2003. Professional Achievement: News anchor for KGTV Channel 10 News Morning and 10 News Midday in San Diego,

SPELMAN MESSENGER Take Note!

■ Georgia “GiGi” Smith Dickens, C’42, Del Eagan Jupiter, C’44, and Dovey Johnson Roundtree, C’38 were among those honored by the National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) during the 2003 Visionary Leadership Awards Gala & Summit on the State of Black America, held at The John Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The NVLP, founded by Dr. Camille 0. Cosby and Renee Poussaint, brings together elders and The 3 college students to share and preserve the life stories of the elders as tools of learning ■Coders and inspiration for the youth. Also honored was Dr. Norman Rates, dean emeritus # Summit of °f Sisters Chapel. As one of the NVLP partnering institutions, Spelman also had 'Slack

■ The National Civil Rights Museum bestowed the 2003 Freedom Award ■ The multitude of creative gifts upon Maxine Atkins Smith, C'49 that Miriam Blalock Frank, The freedom award honors individu¬ als who have “made C’70, possesses are evident in the significant con¬ tributions in civil compact disc entitled I’m Ready rights and have laid To Be Used by Miriam Blalock the foundation for present and future Frank and Friends. Along with leaders in the battle for human being a featured vocalist, Ms. rights.” Honored along with William Blalock is the songwriter of half of Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President the musical tracks presented. The of the United States, Mrs. Smith served The 8 Sharp Music Club continues 1!M its decade-old tradition •>«* for CD contains contemporary and 33 years as Executive Secretary for the traditional gospel music, as well as Memphis Branch of the NAACP, where she coordinated a medley of Christmas favorites. major events within the civil rights movement.

■ An amazing photograph of six African American women, circa 1949, can be found in the July 2003 issue oiNew Orleans Maga¬ zine. The accompanying article reveals that native Orleanian Elise Dunn Cain, C’49, is among those in the photograph, along with her mother and four sisters, all of whom were members of the B Sharp Music Club. Founded in 1917 to “cultivate a finer musi¬ cal taste,” the music club, a source of pride among the New Orleans African American community, is still active today.

33 WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 Babette Reid 1990 1992 Professional Achievement: The Spelman Renee Foggo Kwanza Clay College Department of Music and the Married: Neil Paynter on April 4, 2003, in Married: Kenneth Bowe on October 18, 2003 Gamma Pi Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda Bermuda. at Stocking Island, Exuma, Bahamas, where presented Babette in Recital on campus on the couple currently resides. Kwanza was the October 26,2003. Karen Jenkins former executive director of the National Married: H. Alan Newkirk on March 15,2003 Alumnae Association of Spelman College. 1989 at the Gospel Tabernacle in Atlanta. Kupenda Auset Angela Duley-Harrell Qosette Harland Crosby) Patricia Jones Birth: Daughter, Danielle Nicole Harrell, Professional Achievement: Creator of House Personal Achievement: Named the Chester¬ weighing 5 lbs., 6 oz. of Life Dinner Theatre & Supper Club, an field Fire & EMS “Volunteer Firefighter of the Atlanta-based contemporary cultural arts Year 2000.” She provides leadership to an Jennifer L. Geter experience which presents community out¬ all-female volunteer fire company and is cer¬ Education: Received Ph.D. in psychology in reach, educational programs lectures and tified by the State of Virginia as a firefighter 1997. book signings, as well as show performances II and EMT-Cardiac. Mother of son, Bran¬ Professional Achievement: Licensed psychol¬ served with a full course meal. don, age 10. ogist in Memphis, Tennessee. Professional Achievement: Laboratory techni¬ Tomika DePriest cian for the County of Henrico, Richmond, Va. Elizabeth Kendricks Married: Clint Bronfield Horton III on See Take Note! November 22, 2003, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Carlane Pittman She is the Director of Public Relations/Com¬ Education: Received Ph.D. in higher educa¬ Andrea R. Mollete munications at Spelman College. tion from the College of William and Mary in Married: Jonathan N. Brown, Morehouse Williamsburg, Va., on May 11,2003. Class of 1992 and a professional screen¬ Sharon Dobson Green Professional Achievement: Assistant director writer. See Take Note! of graduate studies for the Faculty of Arts and Professional Achievement: See Take Note! Sciences at the College of William and Mary. Tosha Whitten Griggs Rebecca Blasingame White Birth: Second child, and baby sister to Amir, Lori Sasai Robinson Birth: Daughter, Katelyn Rose White, on Nia Griggs was born weighing 7 lbs. on See Book Notes December 5,2002, weighing 7 lbs., 9 oz. August 14,2003- E. Laurie Shiell Hillary Woodson Reeves Kyra Stinson Harvey Professional Achievement: Senior human Birth: Daughter, Savannah Imani Woodson Birth: Son, Nicholas James Harvey, on Sep¬ resources officer with the Bermuda Electric Reeves, on January 7, 2004, weighing 8 lbs., tember 3,2003, weighing 7lbs., 9 oz. Light Company (BELCO) 2 oz, and 21 inches long.

Heather Hawes Colleen J. Taylor Professional Achievement: Producer of the 1993 Professional Achievement: Promoted to Andrea Barnwell radio show, Inside the Hawks, which airs on senior vice president, Treasury Services Rev¬ See Take Note! Thursday nights on WCLK in Atlanta. The enue Management at JP Morgan Chase in show gives updates on the Atlanta Hawks New York. Geronda Vertasha Carter basketball team and interviews celebrity See Book Notes guests. Michelle Davis Watson Birth: Second child, a daughter, Meliah Jessica Faye Carter Joyce Lewis Kelly Danae, on September 20,2003 - 8 lbs., 10 oz. Professional Achievement: Founder of a Web Birth: Daughter, Jordan Elise Lewis Kelly on site, www.thecircuitonline.com, that con¬ June 23,2003. Angela George Wood nects African American students and gradu¬ Professional Achievement: Hired as the web ates through social networking and by Monica McCoy Purdy content manager at Spelman College. providing information on topics such as Birth: Daughter Zoe Elon on May 5,2003. career development, politics, relationships, 1991 health & fitness, travel, community involve¬ Latanya Rates Renee M. Fesson ment and philanthropy. Married: John Grooms on October 11, 2003 Married: Reginald L. Anthony in Atlanta. Birth: Son Reginald Ashen Anthony Sonya Summerour Clemmons Personal Achievement: Featured in the May Monya Stubbs Janee Comelison Camp 2003 issue oi Black Enterprise, p. 92. See Take Note! Birth: Myles Cornelison Camp on July 31, 2003, weighing 7 lbs. 5 oz., and 19 inches Germaine Crow Stacey Walker long. He has an older brother, Kendall. Married: Anthony Graham on July 26, 2003 Professional Achievement: Promoted to in Orlando, Florida. Southeast regional manager of community 1992 Education: Doctorate from Auburn University development lending at Freddie Mac. Based Ericka Bahner Professional Achievement: Works as a psy¬ in Atlanta, she will oversee the affordable Personal Achievement: Guest lecturer for, chotherapist at the University of Central housing and community development activ¬ “Writing Florida. ity in nine states. the Wrongs: A Survey of Women Authors From the Harlem Renaissance,” held in Stuttgart, Germany.

34 SPELMAN MESSENGER ■ Being named senior vice president of corporate human resources for one ■ Audrey Forbes Manley, C’55 of the nation’s leading pharmaceuti¬ is featured in “From Whence We Came: cal FUTURE companies, Pfizer, Inc. led to Pathfinders of the Future 2004,” a cal¬ Yvonne Jackson, C’70, being pro¬ endar of “12 African Americans who filed in the “People” section of the have blazed a brave new trail in mod¬ January 19, 2004 issue ofJet Maga¬ ern science and medicine.” Presented zine. Prior to her appointment, she by Allstate Insurance Company, this was the head of human resources for calendar of history makers profiles Dr. the computer company, Compaq. Manley, a physician and public health professional, for the month of May. Go to www.historymakers.com for more information. AUDREY FORBES MANLEY. M.D.

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■ Child 28-ywar veteran o»the St Paul. MN. polar department Magazine honored Marian was elected the city's first Black female city council mum l*'r- Montgomery, who first made city history in 1975 as the first female police officer, represents the culturally diverse 1st Ward. She plans to focus on economic devet Wright Edelman, C’60, with one of opment by bringing new businesses, more jobs and bet to boasing to her ward. six Children’s Cheryl Mayberry McKissuck, Champion Awards for 2003 founder, chair mid CEO of Chicago-ba* ea LLC, a provider ofpermission-basedl imarket ing data companies seeking to target Black worn in the November 2003 issue. Founder of dies, was named to the board of directo corp Inc., a nearly $2 billion financial s Moybe.rry McKissack lias more than i marketing and management wcperienct the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a iSfv'P'meTh* Bedtime Mac Morning ♦Fast Nutrition Washington, D.C-based nonprofit ♦Great Playroc Yvonne Jackson, focused on former head of human resources for Compaq Computer advocacy for children’s issues, Corporation and Burger King, was named senior vice pres¬ ident of corporate human resources for New York-based Edelman is Pfizer Inc., a leading pharmaceutical developer, Jackson recognized for “working tire¬ also was appointed to the Pfizer Leadership Team, the Vs company's senior executive body, and will oversee global lessly to help a population that needs it human resources efforts that reach 130,000 employees. Prepare to be inspired as ChHd most: salutes six men disadvantaged youth.” and women who— with ttieir passion, The New, ingenuity, arid Researcl commitment are truly making a difference for the ■ Denise next getieration. Burse, C’73, performed in Fences, the debut production of Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company. In her role as Rose, wife of the play’s main character, she contributed to the successful launch of a theatre with a

national vision and exposure.

Radiohead Ailantajournal-Consmution in concert ■ The book, World War II- Hometown and Home Front Heroes: Living Life Experience Stories From the Carolinas’ Piedmont, profiles 77 seniors who left the Piedmont area of North and South Carolina to serve in some military World War IJ. capacity during World War II. And one of the Hometown and Home most poignant is the story, “Recruited by Front Heroes

I' "ht Stories Mary McLeod Bethune,” told by Dovey Farohnas’ Piedmont Johnson Roundtree, C’38. Selected by Edited by ‘fences Mrs. Bethune to be one of the first recruits Margaret a a mump of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps for Leon True Co (WAACs), as a result of their reconnect on the Horace Henry campus on Spelman College, Attorney i Troy Maxson (Eugene Lee) and his wife, Rose (Denise Burse), maintain family ties in August Wilson’s ‘‘Fences," the debut production of Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company, Roundtree tells of the racism that threat- I

mmnm ‘Fences’: Leon ened to overshadow her roles as a Black production excels J > Continued from El man of lusty sexuality and Blacque’s Gabriel is consis- pent-up passion, he's the tentty fine, an image of child- officer and recruiter in the 1940s. ' mighty oak tree in a raging brawny anchor of a circle that like innocence and aching storm. includes his faithful wife, Rose poetics. That said, we aren't Maxson is a man haunted (the lovely Denise Burse), his sure what Ryan Cameron by a difficult past, living in a two sons and his brother Gab- brings to the small part of bleak present, who sabotages riel (Taurean Blacque), a pro- Maxson’s older son, Lyons, his future and family by the totypical wise clown bathed in other than a grinning mug and sheer dint of his ego. And Lee celestial light. an aura of predictability. And expertly captures the grimy Beginning with his “Yes, though lohnnell Easter 35 Angela Glover Marla Frederick 1995 children. One half of the book is Mommy’s Professional Achievement: Director of devel¬ Professional Achievement: Assistant love, and when the reader flips over the book, professor Stacey Abrams of African American studies and the the book describes Daddy’s love. Tara’s cre¬ opment of the Western Center for Law and study of Professional Achievement: Deputy city attor¬ Poverty. Was in an religion at Harvard University, where she is ative storytelling technique is fun and keeps featured article in theZas ney for the City of Atlanta. the attention of boys and girls. The book can Angeles Daily Journal - “Garden Party engaged in research on the influence of reli¬ Published third novel Rules ofEngage¬ Fund-raiser Can Smell the Roses.” be ordered from www.amazon.com. gious media, specifically television min¬ ment. Order Rules or the second novel, The istries, on constructions of race and gender Art ofDesire, atwww.amazon.com. Donnica Gordon in the African Diaspora. She is also the Tanisha Nunn Personal Achievement: Founder of the author of Between Married: Sekou on orga¬ Sundays: Black Women Monica Colston Gary August 17, 2002 at nization and the Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. The Support a Child International, Everyday Struggles ofFaith (Berkley Professional Achievement: Promoted to hotel which seeks to “plant seeds University of California Press, 2003). couple resides in Stuart, Florida. of hope” for program director for the Greater Philadel¬ African children Professional Achievement: Associate attorney through clean water pro¬ phia Tourism Marketing Corporation at the law firm of Gary, Williams, Parenti, grams, bridging the digital divide, nutrition Cheniqua Bullock Grant (GPTMC), She joined the GPTMC in 2002 and financial/ resource assistance. Birth: Son, Kenneth Grant II, on August 7, Finney, Lewis, McManus, Watson & Sperando after employment with the Greater Philadel¬ 2003. in Stuart, Florida. phia Hotel Association and the Pennsylvania Jean Harvey Convention Center. Education: Received an See Take Note! Andrea Harris NeSonya Renee Johnson Parker MBA in marketing from Drexel University. Professional Achievement: Account supervi¬ Married: Henri Harrison Parker on June 7, Rochelle sor for Porter Novelli in Atlanta. 2003 in St. Thomas, United States Virgin Herring Shakeesha Jeffries Professional Achievement: Intern for the Islands. Professional Achievement: Was one of the School Melanie Jones Superintendent Dr. Beverly Hall, artists for the exhibit, “Story and Form,” at Atlanta Public Schools. Professional Achievement: Founder and Anne Collins Smith the APEX Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. The Education: Master’s Professional Achievement: Joined staff of the degree in administra¬ president of her own business, Melanie Jones exhibit showed symbolic wood carvings, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art at tion, social policy and planning at New York Management, a full service artists’ manage¬ sculpture and photography. Classmate Gia ment firm serving entertainers in all fields. Spelman College as curator of collections in University in 1995, a master’s degree in Ramos helped to spread the word about the instructional technology from Teachers Col¬ exhibit. September 2003. lege, Columbia University, and a master’s Zeina Omisola Jones Educational: Graduated Aliciadine degree in administration, social policy and magna cum laude Danielle Christene Orr Starks-OIiphant from the University of Pennsylvania School Professional Achievement: Placed second in planning from the Harvard Graduate School Married: Oliver Jason Trimiew at the Main of Education. Is a of Nursing with a bachelor of science degree a regional gospel contest sponsored by Ken¬ currently doctoral student Post Chapel at the Presidio in San Francisco. in the Urban in tucky Fried Chicken in May. Superintendency Program at nursing. The couple, both of whom work in the field the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Personal Achievement: Awarded the Kathleen of international affairs and development Jennings Dozier Award for her commitment Nikki Stewart with an emphasis on African issues, met Sarah James to community health and clinical research, Education: Master’s degree in women’s stud¬ Irby while working in Nairobi, Kenya. Their mar¬ Birth: Son, Derek, on as well as for her leadership in improving the ies from the University of Maryland in May Jr., November 1, 2002 riage is featured in the January 18, 2004 at 11:14 a.m., health care experience women 2003, becoming one of first graduates of the weighing 8.5 lbs. for both and issue ofJet Magazine. people of color by adequately training health program. care AllegraJ. Lawrence providers in cultural competence and Sandra Elaine Waite Personal Achievement: Elected as the 2002 meeting the needs of diverse communities. Professional Achievement: Account director 1997 Professional Achievement: Published the president-elect for the Georgia Association of in public relations with Matlock Advertising Nikki Tinsley Harland Black Women article, Systems in Attorneys, a bar association. “Knowledge Conflict: the & Public Relations, working out of the Married: Joseph B. Harland, Jr., on October Regulation of African-American Midwifery,” Atlanta office. 12,2002. Dekia M. Scott in The InternationalJournal Nursing His¬ Birth: Son, Michael Andrew Scott, on October tory Review, in volume 12, fall 2003. 1996 Carmen Hopkins 11,2002, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. He Education: Received an M.D. in dental Kinberly K. Haynes weighed 8 lbs., 5 oz., and was 20 inches long. Nikki Johnson-Tucker See Take Note! surgery from Meharry Medical College School Education: Received a masters degree in of Dentistry on May 17,2003. Karimu Smith business administration from Mercer Uni¬ Personal Achievement: Served as a student Wandra Hunley Education: Completed a fellowship in ado¬ versity in summer 2003. observer to the Board of Trustees. Elected to a Professional Achievement: Tenure-track lescent medicine in the Department of Pedi¬ two-year Board of Trustees seat at Meharry instructor of English at Kennesaw State Uni¬ atrics at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Djenaba Kendrick Medical College. in New York inJune 2003. Professional Achievement: Economic/Con¬ versity. sular officer for the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Ragin Andrea Lewis Johnson Monteith Elyce C. Strong Rwanda. She began an assignment at the Professional Achievement: Published the See Take Note! Professional Achievement: Elyce is a writer U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya in October article “Racial Differences in the Evaluation for the Spelling Television Company and 2003- She has worked for the U.S. Depart¬ of Pediatric Fractures for Adrienne Matthews Physical Abuse” in worked on the KINGPIN series in 2003. ment of State since 1997. theJournal ofthe American Medical Asso¬ Education: Completed the Doctor of Phar¬ ciation in the October 2002 edition. Monya Stubbs Dawn McCrary macy program at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy. She has See Take Note! Married: Adrian Woolcock Lisa Richards a at Professional Achievement: Response center accepted residency position Prescription Professional Achievement: Selected for the Solutions in Costa Mesa, California. Cybil Brown Talley engineer for the North American Response 2003-04 Kennedy Center Fellowship pro¬ See Take Note! Center at the Hewlett-Packard Company in gram. The program is a part of the Center’s Tara Jaye Morrow Kennesaw, Georgia. Vilar Institute for Arts Professional Achievement: Published the Management and is a 1994 prestigious comprehensive arts management book Mommy Loves Her Baby/Daddy Yolanda Bennett training program. Loves His Baby, a ‘"delightfully sentimental Education: Received M.B.A. from Emory concept” children’s book that uses animal University. comparisons to illustrate a parent’s love of

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■ “Upholding the Spelman Tradition” is exactly what Kim¬ berly K. Haynes, C’96, does in a rolling outAtlanta arti¬ cle of the same title. Interviewed in her role as president of the Decatur Chapter of the National Alumnae Association of Spel¬ man College (NAASC), in the January 8, 2004 edition of the profwsisMi de- newsmagazine, Ms. Haynes eloquently tells how the Spelman experience positively impacted her life, and speaks of her efforts to ensure that young women have the benefit of this empowering experience for generations to come.

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WINTER/SPRING 2 0 0 4 37 Lauren Royston Kimberly Santos 2001 Education: Received a master’s Education: Received a master’s degree in edu¬ degree in Qiana Bradford cational administration and supervision from public administration with a concentration Education: Honor graduate of the Harvard in economic Seton Hall University in May 2003. Obtained development policy and man¬ University John F. Kennedy School of Public principal certification in September 2003. agement from Wayne State University. Policy in June 2003 with master’s degree in Professional Achievement: Associate Married/Births: Resides in Montclair, NewJer¬ planner public policy; represented Harvard University for the & Economic sey with husband, Michael A. Santos, Sr., a Planning Development at a symposium in Cairo, Egypt, in January 1999 Morehouse alumnus, and their two chil¬ Department of Macomb County, Michigan. 2003. One of her dren, Michael, 6, and Devinne Kimberly, 3. job duties is to administer the fed¬ Personal Achievement: Listed in the 2004 Professional Achievement: Teaches language erally funded Community Development Block edition of Who’s Who in Black Atlanta] won Grant arts to grades 6-8. program that assists low and moderate first place in the Japanese America Society income individuals in housing programs and Ann Marie Stephenson Southeastern Region Speech Contest. other community development activities. Education: Received the a doctor of osteo¬ Professional Achievement: Employed as a pathic medicine degree from Philadelphia United States diplomat in Singapore. 1998 College of Osteopathic Medicine on June 1, Ronella Ellis Frierson Monica Arnold 2003. She will be doing an internship at St. Personal Achievement: Winner of the Miss Joseph’s Hospital, North Philadelphia Health Married: Virgil L. Frierson on October 29, Black Georgia USA for 2003. Also named System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2002. runner-up for the Miss Black USA pageant Jennika Gold that was held in Miami, Florida. Hope Williams Professional Achievement: Education: Master’s in mathematical com¬ Professional Achievement: Monica is a con¬ Teaching in the Atlanta Public Schools putation and finance from the Carnegie Mel¬ tractor for Atlantic Southeast Airlines in System. Education: Received a master’s lon Institute. She is the first African American Atlanta. degree in risk and prevention from Harvard Graduate to graduate from Carnegie Mellon with that Saadia Baker School of Education in June 2003. degree. Professional Achievement: Honored as the Personal Achievement: Featured in the 2003-2004 Teacher of the Year by A.F. Hem- 2000 “United Negro College Fund Evening of Stars” television don Elementary School of the Atlanta Public Tai Beauchamp program. Schools. Professional Achievement: Appointed the Stevie Stribling beauty and fitness director A Seventeen mag¬ Chelsea Baskin Professional Achievement: Accepted a posi¬ azine in August 2003. She is one of the Professional Achievement: tion with the Golden State Warriors Basket¬ Working in public youngest beauty directors in the magazine’s affairs for Fox News in Atlanta. ball Organization in Oakland, California. history and the first African American to hold the beauty director position at Seventeen. She Karen Kendrick 2003 See Take Note! formerly worked at O, the Oprah magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and Good Housekeeping. Preye Cobham Education: Maureen Letts Attending the University of Notre Kearstin Dame Law School. Education: Graduated from the Piper Brown University of Professional Achievement: Performed the Cincinnati College of Medicine with a doctor of role of Sarah in the Light Opera Works pro¬ Courtney Renee Jones medicine degree on May 2003- She plans to duction of Ragtime: The Musical in Education: Awarded the prestigious Thomas begin residency training in emergency medi¬ Evanston, Ill. in June 2003. J. Watson Fellowship for 2003-2004. The cine at Emory University Hospital program in title of Courtney’s work was “Growing a New July 2003. Phylicia Fant Generation: The Influence of Grassroots See Take Note! Heather McTeer-Hudson Organizations.” Courtney plans to travel to See Take Note! Paula Harmon Jamaica and Brazil. Personal Achievement: Elected first-year Rashida R. Rawls Nichol T. McKenzie class president at the Morehouse School of Professional Achievement: Rashida is work¬ Married: Timothy Adrian Whiteman on Sep¬ Medicine; Also serves on the executive board ing as a copy editor at the Macon Telegraph tember 14,2002 in Roosevelt, New York. The of several of the school’s organizations. with couple resides in Burbank, California. Spelman alumna Sherrie Marshall, who is the executive editor. Professional Achievement: Group circulation Marta Sanchez sales Professional Achievement: An artist who was manager, Black Enterprise magazine, Ericka Stokes Los a special guest for the community forum Angeles office. Professional Achievement: Employed as a lab and convocation at Spelman, “From Hurt¬ technician in the Chemistry Department at Christy Mountain ing to Healing: Ending Sexual Violence,” on Education: Received an M.D. degree from the October 2,2003- Spelman College. Medical College of Georgia School of Medi¬ Shauna Watkins cine on Jennifer J. Scott May 9, 2003, in Augusta, Georgia. Professional Achievement: Selected to Professional Achievement: par¬ She will begin a pediatrics residency pro¬ Space shuttle flight controller at NASA’s ticipate in the Freedom Forum Diversity gram at Emory/Egleston Children’s Hospital Johnson Space Center. Married: Morehouse alumnus Leon Williams Institute, a 12-week training program at in Atlanta. Vanderbilt at the Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church University designed for people of color who desire to become Keisha Bursey Reddick in East Point, Georgia. journalists, but have not had formal Married: Bonzo K. Reddick, a Morehouse journalism training. Nicole Y. Williams She was sponsored in this training, involving alumnus, on April 26,2003. Professional Achievement: Was all Education: Graduated from Morehouse appointed as aspects of print journalism, byThe the new communications director for Con¬ School of Medicine and is completing her Reporter-Times, Martinsville, Indiana. gresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones at the residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Congresswoman’s Capitol Hill Office. Duke University Medical Center.

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■ When the organization Outstanding Atlanta hon¬ ored 10 civic-minded men and women between the ■ Access Hollywood’s weekend ages of 21 and 36 as Outstanding Young Atlantans for anchor and correspondent, Shaun 2003, Jean K. Harvey, C’93 and Andrea Lewis Robinson, C84, is featured on Johnson, C’96, were among this impressive group, the cover of the spring ’03 issue of heralded for their leadership and community service. Black Voices Quarterly (BVQ). Ms. Harvey mentors Inside the magazine, she offers a Journal-Constitution young women in her thoughts on current events the Sister to Sister Outstanding: along with those of other celebrity Mentorship Pro¬ graduates of historically Black Group pays tribute gram, and Mrs. to 10 young leaders colleges and universities. Accessv 3 amt Noltywoq is a Maun RobiiJ Johnson Girl Scout troop leader Each year, f provide 8,500 hours of service. at Dean Rusk Ele¬ Andrea Lewis Johnson ■ Johnson, a South Atlanta Atwood Hancock Spelman’s Independent Scholars resident, is a Girl Scout troop mentary School. leader at Dean Rusk Elemen- ■tlHMH tary. The 12 girls in her troop sold more than $2,000 wortl (SIS) received a grant from the Ford of cookies during the troop’: Foundation that Johnson, a Spelman gradu- BBL K J gives students an ate. is president of the Atlanta Chapter of the National Alum- nac Association of Spelman \ College. opportunity to learn from and work The AtlantaJournal-Constitution Johnse Jean Harvey with Harvey, an east Atlanta resi- HH| Virginia Davis Floyd, M.D., dent and a senior communica- SHE lions product manager for E|pjp Guide. EarthLink, mentors young women with the Sister to Sis- MPH, C’73, who has been entert ^KgP appointed ter Mentorship Program The SouthNEWS OF ^ «lc.c< Metro teams WlANtA.WSt POINT,^ effort the Georgia Asso- as the SIS ciation of Black Women Attor- Visiting Scholar of Tradi¬ neys and the Fulton County © court system to provide men- Nuckol tional tors for area girls ages 13 to 17 Knowledge (2003-2005). who have gotten into trouble. HB|| She works one-on-one with girls who have been identified Events through the Fulton County Floyd has spent the past five years col¬ Juvenile Court system. « Kimberly Ann Nuckols Hr lecting oral narratives of elders in indigenous communities in gear up Nuckols, a Virginia- Highland resident, is associate — at director of Atlanta Ronald Prince Senegal, Mali, Guatemala, city’s McDonald House Charities. Nigeria, Jamaica, Mexico, Costa She has led committees at new Children's Healthcare of park Atlanta and served on the Rica, Polynesia and Native American nations throughout the Metro Atlanta Boys & Girls Fairbum ‘doing Club board. U.S. Her research focuses on Nathaniel Smith indigenous healing and spiritual its best’ after Smith, a south Atlanta resi¬ county handotl dent. works on affordable housing issues as part of his Noet Edwards rituals, among other topics. Her first lecture in the role of Visit¬ job as public policy manager for the nonprofit Atlanta Samuel Noel Neighborhood Development Noti , DcKalb County rev ing Scholar was entitled “Journey of Connectedness: Health, Partnemhlp. idenl, works with QrvL-liitle Joy Gray Prince home buyers throughout Culture and Indigenous Science Georgia as the marketing Throughout the Diaspora.” dent, is a volunteer summer of Community camp counselor at Camp Hori¬ zon, a camp for abused or

■ The inspirational talent of Karan Kendrick, C’98, illuminates the stage as she performs in the acclaimed theater pro¬ duction of “Crowns.” Complete with gospel music and storytelling, this play based on the experiences of generations of black Cr women and their church hats. An amaz¬ ing singer and performer, her credits include appearances in such produc¬ tions as “Saint Lucy’s Eyes,” with Ruby Dee, “Much Ado About Nothing,” and “For Colored Girls...” around the country. Karan also wrote, directed and performed for the exciting Blue Note Theatre during the 2003 Spelman Reunion.

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1918 Josephine married Dr. W. Thomas Services: July 26,2003 1939 Mattie F. Banks-Hightower Love in June, 1941 after they had seen Carl M. Williams Chapel Lillie W. Flenory Mattie worked as a rural teacher. She each other in person only three times. Atlanta, Georgia Sister, aunt and cousin; an educator lived to age 104 and even at that age Though she was known nationally as and principal of several schools in the continued to love Spelman. She a concert pianistJosephine’s legacy in 1937 Atlanta Public Schools. After retiring proudly shared with others that she Detroit is her life’s work exposing chil¬ Helen Bell Brooks from the school system, Lillie initiated was who she was because of Spelman. dren to art and music. In 1969, Sister, mother and grandmother; another career in the state govern¬ She even attended reunion activities in Josephine co-founded Your Heritage Helen was a licensed real estate agent ment system. Active in the national, the 1990s. House Museum (now the Heritage and an English instructor at Miles state and local teaching organiza¬ Died: February 17,2003 Museum and Fine Arts Center for College. Beginning her tenure at Spel¬ tions, Lillie was a member of the Services: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Youth). This cultural center grew out man in the treasurer’s office, Helen national sorority of Phi Delta Kappa of the MADS (Music, Art and Drama later joined the faculty as a professor and the Beulah Baptist Church. 1924 Society) group. It included a lending of English. For 30 years, Helen served Died: November 5,2003 Addie Virginia Davenport library, a puppetry program and her alma mater until she retired in Services: November 8,2003 Flowers acquired works of art. Josephine retired 1985. She enjoyed a full life with mul¬ Beulah Baptist Church Mother, grandmother and great¬ as its director in 1997. tiple interests that included worldwide Atlanta, Georgia grandmother; Virginia celebrated 100 travel and theater. She was a member years of life. With her husband, she Josephine was a cultural icon in of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Helen McKnight Buntin started a catering business which con¬ Detroit. She served on the boards of the Inc., the Inquirers Literary Club, the Mother; retired high school teacher tinued until 1985. She was an out¬ Cranbrook Institute of Science, the Kaffe Klatch Bridge Club and the 12 and administrator who spent her standing cook who was known for her Michigan Council of the Arts, Preser¬ and 1 Bridge Club. Excerpts from the retirement years enjoying Alaskan monkey bread. She was active with her vation Wayne, the University Cultural remarks shared by the Office of Alum¬ cruises and helping students. church as trustee, youth leader, choir Center Association, the National nae of Affairs note,”... Upon gradua¬ Died: August 7,2003 member, conference chair and presi¬ Endowment for the Arts panels and the tion, Helen Bell Brooks became an dent of the Scholarship Guild. She was University of Michigan Bentley exemplary Spelman alumna, giving 1941 also a member of the National Alum¬ Library. She received an award from of her time, talent and resources to Bertha Wallace Eason nae Association of Spelman College - the Wayne State University’s Phylon help forward the mission of her alma Sister and mother; a retired teacher Los Angeles Chapter. Society and the Alain Locke Award mater. She became an active member who taught in Georgia and Alabama. Died: July 9,2003 from the Detroit Institute of Arts. of the National Alumnae Association Married to a Tuskegee Airman Cap¬ Service: July 17,2003 Josephine’s connection to Spelman of Spelman College and a consistent tain Frank C. Eason, Bertha was an Peoples’ Independent Church of continued throughout her life. She contributor to the College. And, per¬ avid church worker and community Christ was affiliated with the National Alum¬ haps most impressive of all, she went volunteer. She was on the Board of Los Angeles, California nae Association of Spelman College on to pursue her education and Christian Education, was a mission¬ (NAASC) - Detroit Chapter and was broaden her experiences and then ary, a Sunday school teacher, choir 1933 the president of the NAASC from 1954 returned to Spelman College as an member and events coordinator at her Josephine Harreld Love through 1959. Spelman honored her assistant professor in the Department church. She was also a neighborhood Mother and grandmother; Josephine with the Founders Spirit Award in of English. Therefore, generations of block captain, a Camp Fire Girls leader Harreld Love lived a legacy based on 1990. Though Josephine Love never young women, under her professional and a volunteer in Coleman Young’s the foundation of an outstanding and stopped putting children as her first guardianship, were educated in the first mayoral campaign. pioneering American family. Her personal and professional concern, English discipline and in the princi¬ Died: February 16,2003 maternal grandfather was the founder her legacy of association with Spel¬ ples of character.” Services: February 21,2003 of Morehouse College. Her father was man and Morehouse will live through Died: December 8,2003 Bethel A.M.E. Church a violinist and headed the music the materials that will be kept in the Services: December 11,2003 Detroit, Michigan departments of Morehouse and Spel¬ Spelman College Archives as the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church man Colleges for 50 years. In 1901, Josephine Harreld Love Collection. Atlanta, Georgia 1944 Josephine’s mother was in Spelman’s Died: September 12,2003 Mary Louise Crowder first college graduating class and Services: September 20,2003 Mary Ann Patterson Houston Sister, mother and grandmother; became the president of the Alumnae First Unitarian Universalist Church of Wife, mother, grandmother, retired Mary’s parents made their transition Association in 1902. Josephine was Detroit junior high school teacher; Mary when Mary was six years old. A loving considered a musical prodigy. She Detroit, Michigan earned her way through college by aunt stepped in and cared for “Lou” as began playing the violin at age three waitressing in the dining hall and she was affectionately called. An edu¬ and performed concerts at the age of 1934 operating the cafeteria of the Atlanta cator for over 27 years, Mary Louise 12. A brilliant student, Josephine Virginia Rose Hannon University Laboratory High School. was a long-standing member of Wheat skipped the first, sixth and eighth Cousin, niece and godmother; as a She managed to participate in the Street Baptist Church and the Courtesy grades. She completed her degree at college professor, social worker, the¬ campus University Players, YWCA and Guild. Spelman in 1933 at the age of 18. ater director and research scientist, the NAACP. She was a loyal alumna, Died: August 22,2003 Josephine continued her studies at the Virginia enjoyed a rich and varied giving consistently through the years. Services: August 28,2003 Juilliard School of Music and the employment history; After retirement, Died: June 6,2003 Wheat Street Baptist Church Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, she provided active volunteer service Service: June 12,2003 Atlanta, Georgia Austria. She received her M.A. in musi¬ for several years at a psychiatric St. James Baptist Church cology from Radcliffe College at Har¬ research institute. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Continued on page 48. vard University in 1936. Died: July 22,2003

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Continuedfrom page 47. Died: February 25,2003 1954 1989 Services: March 3,2003 Mildred Powell Stephens Dr. Tujuana Lyne Davie Badgett Martin Luther King Jr. International Mother; retired teacher Daughter, wife and mother: Tujuana Mable T. Hawkins, Ph.D Chapel Died: December 9,2002 was the valedictorian of her high Mother; Mable had an established Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia Services: December 13,2002 school class and a magna cum laude career in educating social workers. Lutheran Church of the Atonement graduate of the Spelman Honors Pro¬ She dedicated her life to developing 1948 Atlanta, Georgia gram. Even in the pursuit of medicine, innovative programs affecting chil¬ Gwendolyn “Joyce” Fuller Tujuana graduated at the top of her dren and families. In addition to Mother; music mogul who formerly 1961 class at the Boston University School social work, Mable worked in the juve¬ worked at Motown in Detroit, Michi¬ Alliene Home Willis, Ph.D of Medicine, specializing in obstetrics nile court system and in higher educa¬ gan, and positively impacted the lives Wife, mother and daughter; exhibited and gynecology. She was a member of tion administration. Even after and careers of many. a passion for academics and com¬ Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Sorority. retirement, she established an inter- Died: February 10,2003 pleted a Ph.D in American Studies at Died: March 21,2003 generational mime ministry. Emory University. Served as corporate Services: March 26,2003 Died: June 11,2003 Tommie Juanita Butler Lewis secretary alongside her husband in First Baptist Church Service: June 14,2003 Wife, mother and grandmother; after their Atlanta dematological practice; Newnan, Georgia St. James AME Church manying her husband who was in the committed to a number of civic and East Liberty, Pennsylvania Air Force, Tommie had extensive trav¬ social organizations, including char¬ 1990 eling experiences throughout the ter membership in the Links, Inc., and Traci Trammell Turner Marie Laury Jackson United States, the Carribean, Europe active membership in Atlanta CHUMS, Daughter, niece and cousin; a com¬ Mother and grandmother; Marie and Asia. She also pursued her passion Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Jack and mitted educator who gave unselfishly retired after a 30-year career as a for bridge by participating in several Jill, Atlanta Medical Auxiliary and the of her time, talents and friendship. social worker. She was a charter mem¬ bridge clubs. As a 22-year cancer sur¬ Friends of Morehouse School of Medi¬ Devoted to the mission of Spelman ber of the Gamma Omicron Sigma vivor, she inspired courage in and cine. Served as a dedicated Spelman College and the goals and activities of chapter of Sigma Gammo Rho Soror¬ offered spiritual support to other volunteer and consistent donor. the class of 1990, she served as a ity, Inc. She was an active member of women battling cancer. Died: October 14,2003 reunion volunteer and class leader. the NAASC, the Benevolettes Social Died: February 11,2003 Services: October 18,2003 Traci was an active member of the Club and with the Church of the Cru¬ Services: February 14,2003 Friendship Baptist Church Decatur Alumnae Chapter of Delta cifixion where she served as a Friendship Baptist Church Atlanta, Georgia Sigma Theta Sorority. eucharistic minister. Atlanta, Georgia Died: November 22,2003 Services: March 3,2003 1967 Services: November 28,2003 Church of the Crucifixion Ruth Gandy Washington Mildred A. Wise Greenforest Community Baptist Wife, mother of Vicki Washington, C’73 Jacksonville, Florida Sister, mother and niece; provided 30 Church and grandmother; Ruth was the mother years of service with the U.S. Depart¬ Decatur, Georgia Emma Lucretia Salter Smith of four children and a wife for 52 years. ment of Health and Human Services. An She formerly worked for the Housing only child who was a primary Died: November 15,2003 1993 school educator for over 24 Authority and was active in several vol¬ years with Service: November 20,2003 Deirdre Bailey the unteer activities including the National Chicago Board of Education. After Shiloh Baptist Church Daughter; the New Haven, Connecti¬ retirement, she became a long-term Alumnae Association of Spelman Col¬ Jenkinsburg, Georgia cut, native was an attorney who had volunteer at a lege - St. Louis Chapter, Jack and Jill, hospital. She loved to received her J.D. from Villanova Law the Links, the St. Louis Smart Set, the play bridge, model and travel. She was 1970 School. She worked as the associate active in the Girlfriends and the Booklovers Club. Royalites and Win- Ethel Richardson Alston vice-president of external affairs for somettes Social Clubs. Died: March 20,2003 Died: May 3,2003 Keystone Mercy Health Plan. She was Died: Services: March 27,2003 July 10,2003 Services: May 7,2003 committed to educating children and Services: 18,2003 Second Presbyterian Church July Green Castle Baptist Church was a tireless advocate and proponent Sixth-Grace Saint Louis, Missouri Presbyterian Church Prospect, Kentucky of children’s educational issues. Chicago, Illinois Died: July 6,2003 1951 1973 Services: July 17,2003, Battell Chapel, 1945 Ophelia Marie Conley Andresa Davis Marsalis Yale University Doris Smith Shepard Sister, mother and grandmother; a Wife and mother of Pamela McNair Mother and survivor of a devastating coma in the grandmother; though Bell, C’99, and four other children. Doris was the official mother of two, 1960s, Ophelia cared for mentally ill Andresa began her career in physical she was considered a “mother” to patients before pursuing administra¬ therapy before turning to education. hundreds of Morehouse men. As the tive careers in the welfare system and She taught in Mississippi and Georgia. assistant the urban renewal program. Ophelia registrar at Morehouse, she She was active in the Catholic Church bcame close to was active in literacy tutoring, neigh¬ many parents and stu¬ and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. dents over her borhood watch, elderly and youth 40-year career, during Died: January 19,2004 which she worked for four Morehouse programs. She was a lifetime member Services: January 23,2004 of the NAACP. presidents. She loved travel cook¬ Sacred Heart Catholic Church books, Died: June 11,2003 entertaining, playing the Warner Robins, Georgia piano, traveling and most of all, Services: June 14,2003 Morehouse College. Carter Metropolitan CME Church Detroit, Michigan

48 SPELMAN MESSENGER Remarks CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR JOSEPHINE HARRELD LOVE September 20, 2003

Taronda Spencer, C’80 Spelman College Archivist and Historian I X t is my honor to share with you Board of Trustees. Mrs. Love’s w today in the celebration of life for father, Kemper Harreld, served of Ok °f Josephine Harreld Love. I do so repre¬ Spelman as professor of music senting Dr. June Gary Hopps, Chair of and director of the Spelman Glee the Spelman College Board of Club for 29 years. Trustees, President Beverly Daniel Josephine never really had a Tatum and the Spelman College com¬ chance to decide whether or not she munity, the National Alumnae would attend Spelman. Her mother Association of Spelman College and published an article in the Spelman myself. For the past 25 years, Mrs. Messenger entitled “Why Do I Send Love has been for me mentor, advisor My Daughter to Spelman College?”

that announced - to no one’s and supporter, from my junior year at surprise

- Spelman through my appointment as Josephine’s impending matricula¬ the College’s archivist in 1998. I am tion. Josephine, already a child prodi¬ sure that it was her note of endorse¬ gy, was admitted to Spelman’s high ment to then President Audrey Forbes school, graduating in 1928. She Manley that sealed the deal in my moved on to the College Department, favor. She further enhanced my posi¬ graduating as salutatorian of her class S„,ur*v. Vr'""1" tion with the donation of the papers of in 1933 at the age of 18. Mrs. Love a accom¬ her mother, Mrs. Claudia White lived life of First 4605 Cass Avenue Harreld, to the Archives in 2001. plishment. She used her distin¬ Detroil. Michigan Mrs. Love loved Spelman, its his¬ guished career as a concert pianist to enhance the name of tory and traditions. She had an Spelman instinctual passion for the College College across the country and that was nurtured from the time of around the world. As president of the her birth by her family, who them¬ Detroit Chapter and later as president selves were deeply rooted in the histo¬ of the National Alumnae Association truly exemplified the Spelman tradi¬ of Honored andpraised the name of ry of the Institution. Her mother, Spelman College, she dedicated tion of leadership and service. Spelman College; Claudia White Harreld was a student her time and creativity to further the When Spelman women tell the She raised the standard and honor at Spelman through high school and mission and goals of the College and story of the life and legacy of the alumnae she served. ofSpelman and her daughters; college and was one of the first to Josephine Harreld Love, they will She was receive a baccalaureate degree from She used her talents and scholar¬ recall her as an excellent student, a faithful, even until her eternal rest Spelman in 1901. Mrs. Harreld served ship to deepen the musical and his¬ renowned concert pianist, scholar, came; torical a the College as a teacher, alumnae knowledge of Spelman stu¬ musicologist, an alumnae associa¬ She is beacon ofheavenly light that will secretary and the second president of dents about African American musi¬ tion leader, a steadfast college donor forever shine in Spelman history; the National Alumnae Association. cians and artists. In 1991, the College and supporter, and a mentor to Her race is Mrs. Love’s maternal grandfather was acknowledged her love and years of Spelman students and alumnae won; her noble work is done; William Jefferson White who helped selfless dedication to the College with alike. to guide and shape Spelman during its highest alumnae honor, the And they will say, as directed by May her binding Spelman love be Founders the in hearts its first 30 years as a member of the Spirit Award. Mrs. Love Spelman Hymn, that she - reflected the and minds ofSpelman women forevermore. Spelman Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Atlanta, Georgia Permit No. 1569

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Civic Engagement (LEADS) was officially launched on October 9, 2003 during this ribbon-cutting ceremony. Joining in the celebration (left to right) were Bianca Lacey, student trustee; LEADS inaugural speaker Spelm^CffSTT” Deborah C. Wright, president and CEO of Harlem N.Y.-based Carver Bancorp, Inc.; Kim save the B. Davis, LEADS co-director; President Beverly Daniel Tatum; Asha Jennings, Spelman College Student Government association president; and Pamela G. Carlton, LEADS co-director.