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August 2018
Spelman College celebrates the life and legacy of Paul Keith Jackson, Ph.D., who served as a professor and helped to design the College's signature African Diaspora and the World Program.
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November 2017
Spelman celebrates the life and legacy of Professor Tamara Madden, a talented painter and lecturer in the Department of Art and Visual Culture,
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March 2017
For her commitment to the mission of Spelman and her unwavering example of undaunted leadership and service, the College celebrates the life and legacy of
Evelyn Willis Chisolm, Ph.D., C' 49.
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March 2017
The Spelman College community mourns the passing of award-winning poet and author Mari Evans, a former Spelman Scholar-in-Residence (from 1988-1989), who passed away on March 10. Evans is known most notably for her seminal 1970 book of poetry” I am A Black Woman.”
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March 2017
Spelman College celebrates the life and legacy of Harry Lefever, Ph.D., who passed away on Feb. 3, 2017. Dr. Lefever served the College as a professor of sociology and long-standing chair of the department. Upon his retirement after 37 years, he was awarded the rank of Professor Emeritus and continued to teach part time until 2009.
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December 2015
Mattiwilda Dobbs enamored audiences around the world as a coloratura soprano. A music and Spanish major at Spelman, Dobbs is one of the first Blacks to have an international operatic career.
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November 2015
The Board of Trustees of Spelman College and President Mary Schmidt Campbell mourn the passing of Laura Rockefeller Chasin, a long-time friend and life trustee of the College. Chasin was the great-granddaughter of Spelman’s founding philanthropic partners, John D. and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
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August 2015
Spelman College celebrates the life and legacy of B. LaConyea Butler, Ph.D., C’56, who passed away on August 20, 2015. Dr. Butler served the College as a faculty member and administrator following her appointment to the department of psychology in 1959. After 55 years on the faculty, she retired in 2014.
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April 2015
Spelman College celebrates the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Norman M. Rates, dean emeritus of Sisters Chapel, who passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2015.
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August 2014
Spelman College salutes the life and legacy of Vincent Harding, Ph.D., former chair of Spelman’s history and sociology department and close friend and confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who passed away May 19, 2014.
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