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Granddaughters Club: Celebrating Our
Legacy
History
Founded in 1910 by Lucy Houghton Upton (Dean and Acting President, 1891-1910) the
Granddaughters Club was originally comprised of students whose mothers and aunts attended
Spelman. Membership in the club is now extended to students whose mothers, grandmothers, aunts,
sisters, and cousins who attended Spelman.
Purpose
The purpose of the Club is to study and preserve Spelman’s history and traditions. One of the officers
of the Club is the custodian who serves as the archivist of the College. The Granddaughters are the
keepers of all information connected with memorial names of buildings, rooms, trees, plants,
furniture or permanent possessions. They are to pass on to new students the traditions of the school,
and especially to keep solemn the promise made that no Spelman woman would ever bring reproach
upon her name.
In the 1970’s Spelman removed the founder’s plaques from Howe Hall and installed them in Sister’s
Chapel and the symbolic recognition of our founders became a part of the Founders Day convocation.
The class of 1969 is proud to have some 20 known members as granddaughters.
