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VOLUME SEVEN
STORMS, BABB WIN BY LANDSLIDE AS
TIGHT ELECTION CAUSES RUNOVER
First W.G.C. Field Day
To Culminate May 16
The Place: West Georgia
Baseball Field. v
The Time: 2:30 p. m.
May 16.
The event: West Geor
gia’s first Field Day.
Pompus Sophomores and Lowly
jFrefchmen, having jbeen matched
mentally before, will be matched
physically for West Georgia’s first
Field Day contests on May 16.
Not only will the boys be run
ning, jumping, and exercising the
prowess, but spectators will see
queer monsters, which look like
women running and jumping
around in sacks. Yes r fme of the
main'events folr thte s6meh wifi be
a Sack Race,
The presidents of both the Soph
omore and Freshman classes are
in charge of the tryouts and they
will appoint committees to help
them select their best contestants
for each event. Contestants must
be entered before noon, May 15.
Events for boys will be the 50
and 100 yard dashes, high jump,
broad jump, shot put, and tug-of
war. The girls will compete in 50
and 100 yard dashes, high jump,
broad jump, sack race, three-leg
ged race, and several relays. Each
contestant is limited to three
events.
Coach Burch Wilcox, famous
broad-jumper, stated that a sche
dule of events would be made and
posted later on and all contestants
are requested to be ready when
their event is scheduled.
Prizes are to be awarded to the
winners of first, second, and third
places.
edukation overtakes bella - genola—
“she writes her pa she’s a soffemore
meaning she’s pow’ful book larned”
dear ma and pa:
haint had much time to write
you since you heered from me last
September, but I’ve been pow’ful
busy with my studies.
i mean i really been edukated.
recon you’ve noticed how purty
talkin i done got. i larn’t that
there from mr. watson. yep he’s
one more feller, and he shore can
dance too. he does a step sorta
like our old bam dances only he
puts in some frills. •
i been a taking a course what
they cann home ec down here, but
that there just means laming to
wash up the dishes without you
get grease from yer chin to yer
ankles, i don lamt how to do
everything like that scientific, we
had a hobby show; that’s what you
hankers after most, and i seen one
yirl a-mixing nail polish so i went
to town an i bought all the very
best snuff i could find and fixed it
all up together but it didn’t win no
prize, they did set it off all to
Yankee Elected
As Head Of Mu
Zeta Alpha
By LEROY STRAIN
In the annual election of the
society’s officials Leon Storms, of
White Plains, New York, was
chosen president for the ensuing
year. Serving with Storms will be
Speer Ramsey, Carrollton, vice
,'preMden4<. Harriet La
grange, secretary; and Dannie
Gillie. Soperton, trasure.
Mu Zeta Alpha, honorary scienck
club presented a series of health
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Debating Club Votes
Eula Mae Morgan
As Next Leader
Members of the Debating Club
and their dates were entertained
at a buffet supper Friday, May 3,
at the home of Prof. L. E. Rob
erts, faculty adviser of the club.
Following the supper the club
adjourned to the Rural Arts audi
torium where Forrest Champion,
club president, presided over a
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itself tho.
lardy, ma, you tell zeke i’m
right thankful he didn’t come up
here cause zeke he jest aint the
interlectuall kind, sometimes even
me with all my knowledge gets to
squirming and a-wishing i’se
back thar with y’all so i could slop
the hawgs. i can’t get my mind
off’en ’em in this purty spring
weather, a man was here jest the
other day a-talking about in the
spring a young man’s fancy that
there’s the same as hobby, it
means hankering, too. then i
went to sleep and didn’t hear him
finish what he commenced but i
done liked him ever since cause i
knowed he couldn’t meant nothin
else ’cepting hawgs when he went
and got that gleam in his eye.
makes it pow’ful bad in the spring
to set in this here class called
social science, i took it cause some
of the fellers said the socials down
here were really sumpin. but lardy
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940
Parents, Guests Visit
Students; Attending
Annual Parent's Day
Approximately 500 parents and
high school seniors from schools
in this section of the state attend
ed the annual Parnts’ Day exer
cises, Friday, April 26.
Visitors and the student body
heard Dr. Willis S. Howard, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church, of
LaGrange, deliver the final ad
dress of the Religious Emphasis
Week series at the 11 o’clock ser
vice. Both men’s and women’s
glee clubs gave musical selections
on the program. Rhea Taylor ex
tended greetings from the college
to the visiting parents. Johnnie
Brownlee welcomes the high
school seniors. Dan Brewster led
the invocation.
The guests toured the campus,
went through the dormitories and
other buildings on the grounds.
They visited the flower garden and
hobby show, sponsored by Alpha
Psi.
Doris Grossman, dietitian, made
arrangements for the barbecue
dinner which was served on the
back campus, picnic style.
“The campus is really beautiful”
was the frequent remark of the
parents.
The question was asked, “What
was the most impressive thing
you saw today?” One middle-aged
gentleman, defying the glaring
light in the eyes of his wife re
plied, <‘The first thing I saw was
a good looking blond.”
Connie, we know you are mighty
young but you do not spell cham
pagne, CHAMP AINE.
w e ain’t had one yit. the teacher
he’s right pert tho. pa, you
wouldn’t like it here either cause
you never did have no use for fer
iners and we don got one of them
a-teaching in that ferren language,
folks ’round here calls him bob
and it kinda puts me in mind of
my uncle bob back tha in porcu
pine center, cause they both taken
such a liking to younguns—i’m a
soffemore this year (now pa that
ain’t nuthin bad that just means
i'm graduating—that means i’m
pow'ful book learned, —gotta quit
now, and m adon’t read this part
to pa, don’t let on a ’tall, but i'm
a-court in might-nigh the most ro
mantic fellow i's done ever seen,
he shore can pick a guitar po-ful
good, it's time fer dinner and lordy
these hear fancy victuals they feed
us will be the death of me yet.
yer lovin’ youngun,
bella-genola.
Student-Body President, Editor To
Be Elected In Thursday Run-
Over States Gordon Watson
By Mark Wait*
After counting 1 ballots of Monday’s campus election
—one of the closest in the history of West Georgia Col
lege—Gordon Watson, chairman of the Student’s Activi
ties Committee, announced run-over campaigns will be
necessary before selection of next year’s student govern
ment president, editorship of The West Georgian, and
the secretary of the sophomore class.
James Hudson, Rome, president of the freshman
class, has a chance to make college history. He will op
pose Freeman Bentley, Cedartown, in a race which may
furnish the first student ever to head his classmates both
his freshman and sophomore year.
Hudson polled 118 ballots against 110 for Bentley,
85 for John Garrett, Hogansville, and 26 for Milton Pitts.
NYA Girls Elated;
Beauty Palor To
Improve Outlook
A completely equipped beauty
parlor designed as a project by
the NYA has been set up in Ay
cock Hall.
Furnishings of the stablish
-ment include such devices as hair
,driers, clippers, curlers, and sham
poo lavatories. Finger nail polish
and bobby pins are also provdied
by the NYA.
Only NYA girls are offered this
service. Fletcher Pitchford is sup
ervisor of all activity in the beauty
parlor and checks out all equip
ment.
Parent’s Day Guests
See Student’s Hobbies
In Annual Show
Forty-seven exhibits were enter
ed in Alpha Psi’s Annual hobby
show, which was one of the cam
pus highlights Parents Day, April
26. Visitors were asked to judge
the entries after they had been
shown through the exhibit.
After a tabulation of visitors’
votes, first place was awarded to
Mrs. I S. Ingram for her collec
tion of fine china; second place, to
Miss Sara Ward, for her china and
silverware; and third place to
Mark Waits for his collection of
headings from Georgia newspa
pers. Dr. Mary Eliason, who en
tered an exhibit showing work at
the Mandeville Mills Library,, and
Mrs. Anne Fordham, who exhibit
ed a collection of crocheting and
tiny glass pitchers, tied for fourth
place.
Other contestants ranking high
in the voting were Peggy Farrar,
who entered drawings; Miss Doris
Grossman, who entered a scrap
book of dining hall activities;
Christine Johnson, who entered
knitting; Mr. Scarborough, who
entered his radio; and Harriet
Fincher, who entered a scrapbook.
Emily Shell, president of the
club, and Miss Ruby Jenkins, fac
ulty advisor, were in charge of
the exhibit.
NUMBER FIFTEEN
Rule's of the election regarding
a race in which a candidate fails
to win a majority of the votes pro
vide that the two highest candi
dates in the field be entered in a
run-over campaign.
Leon Storms, political casanova
from White Plains, New York, was
chosen leader of the sophomore
class against Raymond Muggridge,
Sales City, by 120 votes to 74.
Herbert Babb, Atlanta, literally
“swept the campus" in the elec
tion for the editorship of the
Chieftain, campus yearbook. The
official returns showed that he
polled 272 votes against Jane Mc-
Cain, Bremen, with 37. Babb was
formerly the editor-in-chief of the
annual at Fulton High School in
Atlanta.
For the editorship of The West
Georgian, a runover must be heddl
Of the three Rome boys running
for the position, James Pinson, re
ceiving 143 votes, got a small edge
over Jack Collum, who polled 116.
Leroy Strain received 54 votes. All
three boys are on the staff of The
West Georgian at present.
In the race for sophomore sec
retary, Eula Mae Morgan had 77
votes to 71 for Hilda Seagraves.
They will be the third run-over
team, in Monday's count, Fran
ces McKee got the support of 53
students for sophomore secretary. *
Melba Morgan, unopposed for
the vice-president’s chair in the
student body race, was automati
cally elected. And Ernestine Tan
kersley, with 199 votes, won over
Nancy Smith with 145 votes.
One of the biggest surprises of
the election came when W D.
Whitner defeated William Cleg
horn for the associate editorship
of thje Chieftain by a vote of 192
to 110.'
Kendrick Hudson, a roommate
of Richard Campbell, won for the
position of sophomore vice-presi
dent over Kenneth Mosley. The re
turns of tills election were: Hud
son, 114; and Moseley, 82.
Professor Gordon Watson, com
menting on the election, stated
that it was one of the closest that
he had ever seen since he had
been here. He continued saying
that the student body, as a whole,
cooperated extremely well in this
election.
If Hudson wins the president’s
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