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STUDENTS! Buy Your Copy Of The 1937 Chieftain
VOLUME IV
G. C. P. A. Meeting
Set For Savannah
Friday, Saturday
ROBERT KNOX, O. N. TODD, ANN
AND ROBERT JACKSON
TO ATTEND
Robert Knox, editor-in-chief; O.
N. Todd, business manager; and
Robert Jackson, assistant editor,
are scheduled to leave this week
end for Savannah and the Arm
strong Junior College where they
will attend the annual May con
vention of the Georgia Collegiate
Press Association of which the
West Georgian became a member
last fall.
As officials representatives of
the West Georgian, these editors
and business manager will attend
addresses and roundtable discus
sions pertaining to college journal
ism all of which will take place at
the Armstrong Junior College and
the DeSoto Hotel.
Among those to speak at this
meeting include Pres. E. A. Lowe;
Pres. Georgia Press Association,
Kirk Sutlive; H. V. Jenkins, J. P.
Miller, and W. G. Stulive of the
Savannah newspapers; and D. B.
Turner, editor of the Bullock Times
of Statesboro, Georgia.
The program for the two-day
session is as follows:
Friday afternoon at 2:30: Regis
tration, convention call to order by
Pres. Robert E. Ashmore of Mercer
Cluster. Address of Welcome;
Pres. E. A. Loew, Armstrong
Junior College. Greetings from
the Savannah papers: W. G. Sut
live, editor, Savannah Press. An
nouncements; Pres. Ashmore.
Friday afternoon at four o’clock:
Automobile tour of Savannah, with
stops at places of historical and
other interest. To be led by Hoyt
Ware, editor of the Inkwell.
Friday afternoon at 6:30: Dinner,
to be given by Savannah Morning
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Mu Zeta Alpha
Publishes First
Club Yearbook
TWELVE PAGE BOOK IS EDITED
BY CARMICHAEL, GAINES
AND HAYES
President Horton Greene of Mu
Zeta Alpha distributed to the mem
bers of the scientific organization
last Friday night the First Annual
Yearbook of the Club.
The project, first of its kind on
the West Georgia College Campus,
was undertaken in secrecy by the
new officers of the Club as their
first official project of the year, as
the foreword by Greene states.
The paper, edited by Pledger
Carmichael with the assistance of
Kathryn Gaines and Rosalind
Hayes, is mimeographed and con
tains twelve pages. The front
piece lists the officers of the Club
and Faculty advisers and the paper
staff. It contains a foreword by
Horton Greene, and letters to the
Clun Members from President
Glenn Hogan and Mr. Hart.
Following these articles, Rosa
lind Hayes, secretary of the Club,
gave the history of the organization
and its activities for the year.
Kathryn Gaines waxes poetical to
describe the graduating members
of the club.
The West Georgian
The 1937 Chieftain, “Qone With The
Wind” As Theme, Is A Bigger And
A More Expensive Yearbook
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Frank Kelly
Phi Sigma Alpha Becomes
National Lambda Chapter
Of Zeta Sigma Pi
KEY MEMBERSHIP REQUIRE
MENTS ALMOST AS HIGH
AS PHI BETA KAPPA
President Howard Handley an
nounced last Tuesday that the
Georgia Alpha Chapter of Phi
Sigma Alpha, national Junior col
lege social science fraternity, had
become the National Lambda
Chapter of Zeta Sigma Pi, a simi
lar, but larger junior college frater
nity. ‘The real advantage of the
affiliation,” Handley stated, ‘‘lies in
the fact that Zeta Sigma Pi has
a senior branch and when our
members qualify to become active
members (the requirements for
active membership are the same in
both junior and senior college divi
sion they automatically become
members of the Fraternity in the
senior college to which they trans
fer.
The requirements for entrance
into the Fraternity to become an
active junior member are the same
as those for Phi Sigma Alpha,
however, the requirements for ac
tive membership are ten hours of
social science work with an aver
age of 85 or above and a B (85) or
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Oratorical Contest To
Be Held Here May 18
Sponsored by the Debating Club
On May 18, West Georgia Col
lege is to be the scene of a contest
in which a number of West Geor
gia College students are to partici
pate. The contest which is open
to anyone desiring to orate or de
claim, is anew movement started
by the honorary debating society to
encourage speaking tourneys on
the part of the students.
Among those expected to enter
are: Dan Brewster, Ppresident-elect
of the Debating Club, Horton
Greene, Arlene Phillips, Howard
Handley, Doris Owings, Nell Clegg
and several others.
THE WEST GEORGIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1937
MARGARET MITCHELL HIGHLY
PRAISES MORGAN’S
SKETCHES
The Annual is out!
A bigger, a better, a more beauti
ful, and a more expensive year
book, edited by Frank Kelly, Blake
ly, and the financies managed by
J. G. Robertson, Jr., Carrollton
with ‘‘Gone. With the Wind” as a
theme and sketches done by War
ner Morgan, LaGrange, the new
1937 Chieftain was distributed last
SOMETHING MUST
HAPPEN!
J G. Robertson, Jr., business
manager of the annual, said this
morning that if twentyfive more
annuals are sold within the next
ten days the price will be re
duced for those who have not
bought one; and for those' who
have already purchased their
annual, a refund will be made.
The amount of the reduction
to be made will be the same
amount as will be the refund,
and visa Versa. However, don’t
be disappointed if nothing hap
pens, because if the necessary
number are not sold, nothing
WILL happen.
week end to West Georgia stu
dents and was received undoubted
ly as the best annual ever publish
ed by West Georgia students.
With the classes, the faculty, the
buildings, the clubs and organiza
tions, the student publications, and
the athletic division setups har
moniously and attractively arran
ged, the 1937 Chieftain is bound
in black, old-fashioned home-spun
cloth trimmed with the Confeder
ate grey and with a Confederate
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Those Autograph Hounds;
Why Ink Smeared And Thumb
Blotched Means So Much
By Esther Zill
Aw—wait justa’ minute, please
sign my annual—! Oh, you won’t
be late to class. No, do it now.
There, right there is a place. Oh,
don’t just sign your name—. Well,
write something, just anything—.
I think that is simply a grand pic
ture of you. What? Why of
course I don’t think your nose
looks too flat—just look at my pic
ture, it’s a sight! ‘N’ besides you
have a beautiful profile—honest!
Say, I just must show you what
Mr. Shuttleworth wrote in my
book—oh, .1 think he’s just too,
too divine, and so-o-o original. Lis
sen, here it is—” It is but a few
short years from diapers to dignity
and from dignity to decomposi
tion.”—lsn’t that simply ducky—!
Don’t go yet, the second bell hasn’t
rung, n’ besides I want to show
you what Mr. Watson wrote in my
book; he says, “When a man mar
ries, can openers come into his
life. Marriage is a college for
courage—and other things.” Well,
a man is not much good until he
has gone against can openers of
one kind and another, isn’t that
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BUSINESS MANAGER
J. G. Robertson t
Ruth Steinhiemer And
Martha Gladd Speak
On Student Expression
TANT’S SECOND PROGRAM
HELD WEDNESDAY AT
CHAPEL
Sponsored by Norman Tant, the
second in a series of Student Ex
pression program was held in cha
piel Wednesday morning with
James Dailey, Mary Clyde Lang
ford, Ruth Steimhiemer, Martha
Gladd, Arline Phillips, Pauline
Berry, O. N. Todd, and Prof. Gor
don Watson participating.
This program of student expres
sion - was set- up in an attempt to
have a common meeting place for
thought with the whole student
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Debaters Elect Brewster
President For *37-38
At the last bimonthly meeting
of the West Georgia College Honor
ary Debating Club on May 4, four
officers were elected to conduct the
fall quarter meetings.
Daniel Brewster of Carrollton
was chosen President. Mr. Brew
ster who has been with the Club
since last September has represent
ed the Club in many debates, both
inter-fraternity and inter-collegiate;
Horton Greene of Calhoun was
elected vice-president; Margery
Broach, secretary-treasurer; and
Arlene Phillips was chosen Parlia
mentarian for the Society. All
of the new officers are, as is re
quired by the Debating Club Con
stitution, inter-collegiate debaters.
President Frank Kelly, at pre
sent in charge of the Club and of
the recent junior college debating
tournament, held here, said, “I
think that the choice of officers
has been w r ell done. Under such
leadership the Debating Club
should continue to blaze a path
of student leadership.”
Religious Week
Draws Parents
To West Georgia
PARENTS DAY ON FRIDAY CON
CLUDED THREE DAY
PROGRAM
With the Student Body and
Faculty acting as hosts, the Volun
tary Religious Association threw
open the doors of the College last
Wednesday evening to the first an
nual pilgrimage school of young
people and their parents to the
West Georgia College campus.
The first Religious Emphasis
Week of West Georgia College,
sponsored by the Voluntary Re
ligious Association, opened Wed
nesday evening in the College
Auditorium. The Association had
as its guests visiting students from
all of the high schools of this sec
tion of the state.
Betty Ann Sewell presided over
the Wednesday evening session.
After the invocation by Rev. J. F.
Davis and a selection by the Wo
men’s Glee Club, the new officers
for next year were installed by
Dean W. Fred Gunn.
The main feature of the program
Wednesday evening was an ad
dress by Rev. John Tate of Athens
on ‘‘Practical Values in Christian
Living.”
On Thursday morning at six-thir
ty Mildred Dun woody led a devo
tional on the front campus with
the visitors and College students
participating.
The second session opened
Thursday morning in the College
Auditorium with the new Presi
dent of the Voluntary Religious
Association, Rachael Hunt in the
president's chair.
After a musical selection by
Mary Clyde Langford and the invo
cation by Rev. E. A. Kilgore, Betty
Ann Sewell sung a solo. Rev.
John Tate again addressed the
group on “Having the Mind of
Christ.” ✓
Thursday afternoon at four
thirty the V. R. A. was host to
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Women’s Glee Club
Sings Over W. S. B.
Friday Afternoon
ANNUAL GLEE CLUB PICNICS
TO BE SATURDAY
WEEK
The Women’s Glee Club will
broadcast over the Atlanta Jour
nal station WSB at the Atlanta
Biltmore Friday afternoon at three
o'clock, the audition to list for fif
teen minutes, officials announced
today. Although the members have
not yet decided what selections
they will sing, they report that
they have a variety from which
to pick.
After preparations for the broad
cast are over, their work and prac
tice for the annual spring concert
will begin. It is reported that this
concert will be given June 4th,
and one of color, life, and variety.
Both the Men’s and the Women’s
clubs will go to Warm Springs
next Saturday, May 29th, on their
annual picnic. Cars have been ob
tained, and reports indicate that
they will be room for all members
of both clubs.
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