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When the Misses Packard and Giles arrived in Atlanta that cold and windy night in April, 1861 tactually it was April Fool's Dayl, they had certain financial commitments made by New England Baptists to assist them in their efforts to set up a school for Negro women. But they had little in the way of physical facilities and equipment to work with. Help came to them, however, in the person of the Reverend Frank Quarles, affectionately known by all as Father Quarles who volunteered the facilities of his church, the present Freindship Baptist Church, as a place to hold classes. 50, on April 11, 1831, in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church, Spelman College, known then as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, was begun. lfIt Was A Wonder. On April 11, 1881, the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary twhich in this brief account will hereafter be referred to as Spelman CollegeJ opened with a grand total of eleven students. News of the opening of the school certainly must have spread quickly, for three months later, there were eighty students enrolled. By 1882, over 200 were enrolled and attendance had to be restricted to young women over fifteen years of age. By contrast, the enrollment for the 1980-81 term was 1,367!
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0 h! It Was a Wonder! recalled the late Mrs. Annie Alexander; an early alumna of Spelman, in a taped statement of love and appreciation played as a part of Spel- man's Contennial observance. It was something, con tinued Mrs. Alexander, hhthat the Negro women will remember as long as there's one living. They?! always remember the sacri- fice and the dedication and the love for our dear Jesus that helped them tMisses Packard and Cilest to establish Spelman Seminary and oh if they could see it now and see what they have done - if they could only see it now they would be so gfad. Mrs. Alexander, over her life of 105 years was able to see this wonder. She saw Spelman then and she saw Spelman now. And what she saw now that she didn't see then was cause for unrestrained joy and happiness. The wonder is what has happened to Spelman during these first one hundred years of her existence.
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Wh en The Misses Packard And Giles Arrived w l 'r . Ff. w, A t r! v I- xIu'ulmn - fu- th W a
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