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VOLUME SEVEN
Noted Educator To Be
Graduation Speaker
Approximately eighty students
are to receive diplomas and certi
ficates at the graduation exercises
Thursday, June 6 at 10 o’clock in
the college auditorium.
The speaker for this occasion
will be Dr. P. P. Claxton, former
United States Commisioner of Ed
ucation under President Taft, and
now president of Peay Normal at
Clarkesville, Tennessee.
Dean W. Fred Gunn will present
the sophomores; President Ingram
will present the diplomas.
Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs
will give musical selections.
Preceding the graduating exer
cise, the annual reception given for
the members of the graduation
class will be held at the home of
President and Mrs. Ingram on
Tuesday evening, June 5. Wed
nesday afternoon June 3, Annual
Alumni Day will be celebrated by
a tea dance in the college audi
torium. Wednesday night from
8:30 until 12:00, the annual com
mencement dance will be given by
the faculty and the freshman class
in honor of the sophomore class
and alumni.
Editor Miller Sings
Swan Song As Year
Comes To An End
TO THE STUDENT BODY:
Another school year draws to a
close, a successful year for West
Georgia and its many activities. I
feel that The West Georgian has
been one of the most successful of
these activities. I do not hold this
attitude because I have been
connected with the paper, but be
cause it has been the activity with
the most continued success.
I wish to express my sincere
thanks to the staff, student body
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perate demon from
calling his Chief’s attention to a mm-rim iuvuci
purely intentional.
Frosh Overcome
By Sophomores In
First Field Meet
Striking with the force
of a German Blitzkrieg, the
WGC Sophomores swept
everything before them to
carry off top honors in Ge
nola’s first Field Day wihich
was held last Thursday.
The upperclassmen amass
ed 76 points while the
Frosh made only 46. Both
the boys and girls partici
pated in the events which
were arranged and directed
by Coach Burch Wilcox,
former University of Geor
gia track star.
The first of the ten scheduled
events was the 50-yard dash for
girls. Mary Hughie, Soph finished
with a burst of speed to win by a
step in the time of 7.7. Melba
Morgan, Frosh, finished second
and L. Floyd came in third. Earl
Griffin set the pace all the way to
finish ahead of Brooks and Mason
in the boys diviion. He was clock
ed at 6.4.
The high jump came next on
the program. G. Floyd scaled the
cross-bar at the height of 3.9 to
win this event for the Freshmen.
Sherma nEley out-jumped the field
and won the boys high jump
handily by clearing the bar at 5.5.
In the 100-yard dash the Sopho
mires scored a win in both the boys
and girls division. Mary Hughie
who was the star of the day, took
her second straight event by again
outrunning Morgan and Floyd.
Time: 13.9. Earl Griffin also re
pealed to cross the tape ahead of
Brooks and Mason in 11.3.
In event No. 4, the running
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WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940
"Green Hand" To Be
Shown At The Carroll
Theatre May 31
“Green Hand,’’ full length
film from the book of the
same name, is to be shown
at the Carroll theatre at 11
and 1 o’clock, Friday, May
31, sponsored by the West
Georgia Chapter P. F. A.
“Green Hand,’’ which has
won high praise from the crit
ics and the press, reveals the
story of a high spirited farm
boy and how, under teacher
guidance, he attained a vision
—a sense of social conscious
ness and of group responsibil- ’
ity and how he adjusted him
self to the Agricultural pro
gram of improved farming.
The book was written by Dr.
Paul Chapman, Dean of the
College of Agriculture of the
University of Georgia.
Characters are portrayed by
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“May I Break?” Students
Prepare For Final Dance
West Georgian Staff
To Be Honored At
Annual Banquet
On May 31, the West Georgian
will have its annual banquet at
the Crepe Myrtle Hotel in Car
rolltOL.
The members of the starf and
their dates will be guests. Other
guests are:
Pres, and Mrs. Irvjng S. Ingram,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strozier,
Miss Kennon Henderson, Mr. and
Mrs. Bob O'Kelly, Mr. Jack Barn
well, Mr. Ed Stout and Miss Doris
Grossman.
Students Recognized At
First Honor Day Program
College Singers To
Make Annual Warm
Springs Trip May 25
The Men’s and Women’s Glee
Clubs will make their annual trip
to Warm Springs on Saturday,
May 25.
The Women’s Club will go on
the bus and the Men’s Club will
go In cars. Swimming and dancing
will be the main features of en
tertainment. A picnic lunch will
be served during the day.
The officers of the clubs are as
follows:
June Culver, Bremen, president
of the Women’s Club, Carolyn Ar
nall, Rome, vice-president; and
Jessie Woodward, Cedartown, sec
retary and treasurer. Lewis Hig
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Feet will shuffle to the
rhythm of Bill Manley’s or
chestra when the Frosh and
the Sophs mingle in the fin
ale of the 1939-40 school
year. Yes, chillun its the
freshman Dance which will
begin at 8:00 p. m. on the
evening of June sth and
will continue perhaps till
the top o’ the morning.
The new gymnasium will be the
place and at this writing, mem
bers of the freshman class and the
various committees were working
feverishly to make this final hop
one of the greatest occasions ever.
BUI Manley’s ten piece orchestra
from Atlanta will be on hand to
provide the music. Manley has
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Antics Ot Editor Explained
Staff Writer “Sets Em” Straight
On How Paper Is Printed
Forthwith I shall attempt to tell
all the faithful readers of The
West Georgian but a few of the
SIMPLE steps in publishing said
West Georgian. Everyone is prob
ably convinced that getting out a
four-page paper must be as simple
as ABC’s. Not to disillusion any
prospective newspapermen or wo
men of the coming years but mere
ly to set ’em straight, I begin my
narration.
Usually on Tuesday, a week be
fore the day of publication, and
distribution, a loud pounding is
heard at irregular intervals coming
from the famous and notorious
2x4x6 newspaper office of The
West Georgian. If one is filled
with curiosity, as well as courage
(for it must take courage to ven
ture very close to the afore-men
tioned office, as twenty or thirty
couples have been known to go In
there and not to be seen again un
til hours later—and it is rumored
that some have NEVER been seen
NUMBER SIXTEEN
Students Will Be
Honored Because
Of Grades
Honor Day, anew plan for re
cognizing student merit on West
Georgia’s campus, will be observ
ed Tuesday, May 28, at the regu
lar assembly period.
Only those students who have
made Dean’s List for at least two
quarters since they have attended
this college will be included In the
honor rating. In addition to hon
orable mention for this scholar
ship, those in this group of Dean’s
List students who have excelled
in extra-curricular activities will
be recognized before the student
body.
Dr. Dagnall Folger will make the
address of the day and President
I. S. Ingram will be In charge of
the individual presentation of stu
dents.
Professor Robert M. Strozier is
arranging the details of the pro
gram. Further plans in regard to
the exact method to be used in
commending the students will be
determined later.
Following Is a list of the stu
dents included in the exercises:
Carolyn A mall, James Borders,
Forrest Champion, Edna Dally,
Helen Drummond, Connie Eley,
Virgia Friddell, Mildred Gaston,
Peggy Gates, Henry Hardman,
Mary Hughie, Mather Hyatt, Hazel
Jolly, Franklyn Lambert, Mildred
Morris, Edgar Padgett, Lunnle
Parker, Mary Poor, Emily Shell,
Nina Wiley, Wayne Williams,
Warren Yates, Paul Hurt, Wilma
Kidd, Leona Michael, Owen Moore,
Kathleen Pope, Mildred Pope,
Wallace Prescott, Bernice Talley,
Jane Thompson, Clara Mae West,
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again) one might look in. There
with hair torn out by the roots,
shirt collar unbuttoned, coat off
(as well as shoes), sits the famous
biologist and editor, “Kill” M.
Waits, beating savagely at the
typewriter, while his trusty helper,
Starr Miller fans his chief and
pours one glass of ice water (?)
after another.
Everyone knows that at this
time, M. Waits has had some in
spiration and is making out the as
signments for the comng issue.
No one knows how long this goes
on but when the entire list of as
signments is made, the editor slips
quietly over, in the still of the
nights, and carefully and deliber
ately tacks the little yellow sheet
of assignments up on the bulletin
board. 'Hie following morning
around the bulletin board is the
scene of mad confusion as all the
staff mills around, pushing,
screaming, and fainting after hav
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