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FALL 2008 a Choice to Change the World THE ALUMNAE MAGAZINE OF SPELMAN COLLEGE VOLUME 119 NUMBER 2 FALL 2008 A Choice to Change the World SPELMAN Messenger EDITOR Jo Moore Stewart COPY EDITOR Janet M. Barstow GRAPHIC DESIGN Garon Hart EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Eloise A. Alexis, C’86 Cindy Brooks Baumgardner, C’90 Dineo A. Brinson, C’94 Joyce Davis Tomika DePriest, C’89 Kassandra Kimbriel Jolley Renita Mathis Kenique Penn, C’2000 WRITERS Mae Gentry, C’73 Denise McFall Lorraine Robertson Angela Brown Terrell PHOTOGRAPHERS Cindy Brooks Baumgardner, C'90 Wilford Harewood Curtis McDowell Furery Reid J.D. Scott Bud Smith Spelman Archives Jo Moore Stewart Julie Yarbrough, C’91 The Spelman Messenger is published twice a year (Summer/Fall and Winter/Spring) by Spelman Col- lege, 350 Spelman Lane, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30314-4399, free of charge for alumnae, donors, trustees and friends of the College. Recipients wish- ing to change the address to which the Spelman Messenger is sent should notify the editor, giving both old and new addresses. Third-class postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia. Publication No. 510240 CREDO The Spelman Messenger, founded in 1885, is dedicated to participating in the ongoing education of our readers through enlightening articles designed to promote lifelong learning. The Spelman Messenger is the alumnae magazine of Spelman College and is committed to educating, serving and empowering Black women. SPELMAN VOLUME 119, NUMBER 2 Messenger FALL 2008 2 Voices Spelman Blends Old and New Voices to Change the World COVER 8 J. Veronica Biggins, C’68: A Profile of Power With Grace BY DENISE MCFALL COVER PHOTO BY J.D. SCOTT Contents 11 Black Women in Politics: Red, White & Spelman Blue BY MAE GENTRY 14 Alumnae Notes 4 Books & Papers Book Reviews & Book Notes 14 Sister-to-Sister Letter 15 Alumnae Achievement Awards 16 Alumnae Notes 17 Take Note! 30 Reunion 2008 38 In Memoriam Spelman Blends Old and THE SPELMAN HYMN (1934) W ORDS AND M USIC BY E DDYE M ONEY S HIVERY, C’34 Spelman, thy name we praise Standards and honor raise. We’ll ever faithful be Throughout eternity. May peace with thee abide And God forever guide PHOTO: JO MOORE STEWART Thy heights supreme and true. Eddye Money Shivery, C’34 Blessings to you. Voices Through years of toil and pain May thy dear walls remain. Beacons of heavenly light, Undaunted by the fight. And when life’s race is won, Thy noble work is done, Oh God, forever bind Our hearts to Thine. 2 SPELMAN MESSENGER New Voices to Change the World A CHOICE TO CHANGE THE WORLD (2008) W ORDS BY S ARAH S TEPHENS, C’2007 M USIC BY D R . KEVIN J OHNSON AND S ARAH S TEPHENS, C2007 C HORUS B RIDGE It’s my choice The change begins today And I choose to change the world With every choice that I make It’s my voice Spelman look around and see And I’ll speak with pride and courage Where the changes need to be I’ll be the change I wanna see End poverty I’ll scream out loud and say Fighting overseas It’s my choice Another dies from a disease And I choose to change the world End hypocrisy Starving on the streets V ERSE O NE And no one does a single thing Why put off for tomorrow What I can do today C HORUS Why wait for another It’s my choice When I can pave the way Make a choice No matter how young or old What’s your choice? I hold the power of change It’s my choice Rather large or small, few or all And I choose to change the world My choice remains the same C HORUS V ERSE T WO Within this institution We are women of change The shoulders that we stand upon Never received applause or fame but in their honor I will live Each day better than before And show just how it takes a choice To change yourself and so much more C HORUS PHOTO: JULIE YARBROUGH, C’91 FALL 2008 3 Sarah Stephens, C’2007 “Every MC raps, but not BOOK REVIEWS every rapper is an MC…. To A NGELA B ROWN T ERRELL avoid confusion, I use the term rapper as a general reference to hip hop vocalists – and MC To the Break of Dawn: when I mean to connote that A Freestyle on the Hip specific brand of verbal marksmen who were forged Hop Aesthetic in the crucible of the street by William Jelani Cobb jam, the battle, and the off- (New York University Press) the-top-of-the-dome freestyle,” Cobb writes. He What is hip-hop? Ask a hundred peo- notes that some MCs are ple and you’ll get that many answers. also rappers, “meaning But while we’re wondering, the beat they have managed to exist goes on. While it’s been praised, within the commercial examined, ridiculed, condemned, arena while maintaining copied, globalized, commercialized, their integrity as artists.” funeralized and resurrected, the In Break of Dawn, Cobb com- Taking After genre’s still evolving some 30-plus pares the roots of hip-hop with the years later. William Jelani Cobb, a blues, jazz, R&B, and other music Mudear Papers noted cultural writer and history pro- that evolved from the trials and tribu- By Tina McElroy Ansa ,C’71 fessor at Spelman College who hails lations of the African Diaspora. He (DownSouth Press) from the New York borough of examines the spiritual, literary and Queens, an early epicenter of the hip- street culture influences evidenced in She’s back. The super-controlling- hop quake, is offering understanding the lyrics by the artists. But most of matriarch-gone-mad Mudear, who of the musical art form as an aes- all, he gives credit to the genius of so graced Tina McElroy Ansa’s second thetic, “not necessarily a social move- many musicians/poets of the genre. novel, Ugly Ways (published in 1993), & ment,” Cobb writes. The names are there: Grand Mas- reappears – after death, mind you – Cobb’s approach in this 200-page ter Flash, Queen Latifah, Public in this sequel, Ansa’s fifth novel. Not volume focuses on the MC, or Master of Enemy, MC Lyte, Notorious B.I.G., surprising, as followers of her South- Ceremonies, who “moves the crowds.” Tupac, LL Cool J, Lauryn Hill, Mos ern-based novels are aware, crossing Def, Common and Nas, to the lines into the spirit world is noth- name just a few. I found ing new for this best-selling author, myself remembering the whose Baby of the Family, The Hand music that my children I Fan With, and You Know Better, are helped me to understand, all filled with haunting spirits reluc- and I nodded my head to an tant to give up their earthly ways. No imaginary beat as I read writer today does better in bringing up Cobb’s lyrical prose. While old African American folklore and Cobb’s research is scholarly, making it sound real in our contem- his knowledge of hip-hop porary lives. will help the reader to bet- In Ugly Ways, readers were intro- ter understand why hip- duced to the three Lovejoy sisters – hop is here to stay. Betty, Emily and Annie Ruth, who grew up in the shadow of their over- powering mother, Esther Mudear Books Lovejoy. In one day, Mudear had 4 SPELMAN MESSENGER turned from being a wife and caring Seen It All and mother to a self-centered eccentric who slept all day and wandered about her Done the Rest garden all night, not feeding, clothing By Pearl Cleage, C’71 or cleaning her family, but leaving all (One World/Ballantine Books) the housekeeping duties and growing up details in the hands of the young Just when you think you’re going to family homestead she inherited, daughters caught under her weird help somebody, you discover it’s you which is now in a state of disrepair, spell. If that wasn’t bad enough, when- who needs rescuing. That’s the theme Josephine finds instead a new role to ever Mudear spoke to her daughters, it of Pearl Cleage’s latest book in which play in saving a neighborhood from was always to deprecate their accom- expatriate actress Josephine Evans the clutches of real estate speculators plishments, never to praise. rushes from her beloved Paris home hell-bent on “urban removal” at the Following her death, the three had to Atlanta to help save her grand- expense of the homeowners. been trying hard to release themselves daughter in distress, whose life is The ensuing battle helps old from her supernatural influence, with going awry. friends, new ones, granddaughter little success. Even at Mudear’s funeral, But, is she running away from Zora and Josephine find out who they she seemed to pull the girls in with her her own troubles – she fears being really are and what values are most as they leaned over her coffin, nearly replaced by a younger rival – to an important. toppling it. America she left behind long ago to As always, playwright, poet, and Would they ever escape? find fame and fortune? novelist, Cleage sets the stage for an Now, six months after the funeral, Living and working in Europe for intriguing and fun adventure laced the sisters are reunited in their home- an adoring audience was a total con- with social issues, personal growth town of Mulberry, Ga., where only the trast to what Josephine had found and, most of all, love. oldest, Betty, has settled successfully.
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