Many of you are already aware of the fact that my twelve year old daughter Alexis Griffin is considered a bonafide genius. She has a 4.0 average at Baldwin Arts and Academics Magnet School. She is enrolled in the Academic Magnet. On April 17, 2006 we were notified that she will be inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. We are very proud of Alexis. 

Alexis aspires to become an anesthesiologist. An anesthesiologist is the physician that puts you to sleep before surgery. She is strongly considering attending Spelman College. We have visited Spelman’s campus many times. We have also visited my alma mater Morehouse’s campus many times. My two sons will attend Morehouse. 

Alexis is also considering attending one of the Seven Sister Schools. What are the seven sister schools? It is a group of seven distinguished women’s colleges; however two of the seven have become coed, leaving only five all-female “sisters” in the group. They are: Barnard College (New York, NY) it is adjacent to Columbia University. In 1983 Columbia began to accept women applicants, which ended Barnard’s exclusive right to enroll female undergraduates; Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA) Katherine Hepburn is among its notable alumnae; Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA); Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) the first of the Seven Sister schools it is now a coed school; Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley,MA) this was the first of the Seven Sister schools, and the very first college of higher learning for women in America; Smith College (Northampton, MA) “If there are better men to be found then Smith women made them” Among its notable Alumnae are Nancy Reagan, Yolanda King, and former first lady Barbara Bush who dropped out to marry George Prescott Bush; and Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA it emerged in 1893 as an institution adjacent to yet separate from Harvard. The two schools merged in the 70s and women were officially granted Harvard degrees. (http://ask.yahoo.com/20020108.html) 

I personally know alumnae from most of those schools. They are a very impressive group of women, Alexis is taking two Smith alumnae to the Capital City Club for lunch this summer to talk about their alma mater. I also have plans for her to talk to one of my best friend’s sister, Dr. Natalyn Hawk who graduated top of her class at Spelman College. She is finishing her residency in Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, America’s first research university. 

My only concern about Alexis attending Spelman College is the Moehouse Man! I would love for her to find a nice Morehouse Man, but it’s that trifling Moehouse Man that concerns me. Exactly what is a Moehouse Man? A Moehouse Man is a young man from a successful family who is sent to Morehouse in hopes that he will wake up and see the light! He is usually very good looking and not worth two dead flies! Unfortunately many of these spoiled young men end up pulling Spelman women down. This has been going on for decades and parents need to be aware. Talk to your daughters and let them know that every man at Morehouse is not a Morehouse man. Some are Moehouse men! Feed them with a long handled spoon! 

Well many of you will be celebrating Confederate Memorial Day on Monday. I won’t!

In the words of my dad, “If you don’t have money at least have class!”

Greg Griffin is a free lance writer. You can read his previous articles by visiting his web page at www.greggriffin.com