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devoted to the
hest interest
OF W. G. C.
VOLUME VIII.
West Georgia Adds 3d Year
As Enrollment Swells to 443
Increase In Enrollment Shown
As College Begins Eighth Year
Inaugurating a third year plan, West Georgia Col
lege entered its eighth year of activity, total enrollment
swelling to 454 students. College records showed the
number of freshmen registered to be 172 and the number
of sophomores, 132.
Third year work, brought 40
juniors to the campus. These stu
dents will continue their work
by studying further the methods
of teaching most suitable for the
rural schools of Georgia. Prac
tice in methods of teaching will
be offered this group in the Maple
Street school and the College
laboratory schools, Sand Hill, Talla
poosa and McGiboney.
Residential N. Y. A. enrollment
reached a total of 110. Barracks
are to be constructed for these
students who will spend the en
tire year on the campus.
Robert Lewis Ramseur, Carroll;
Speer Ramsey, Carroll; Louise
Ray, Gordon; Alice J. Redding,
Clay; Madalynne Rigister, Floyd;
Ralph Richardson, Haralson; Fran
ces Ridgeway, Carroll; Thad Riv
ers, Fayette; Ruth Roberts, Haral
son; Tom Robertson, Carroll; Vir
ginia Robinson, Meriwether; Cor
nett Rogers, Heard.
Sara Rollins, Bartow; Albert
Ross, Irwin; Connie Rowe, Car
roll; Gordon Rowe, Carroll; Jewell
Rowe, Carroll; .Elizabeth Rusk,
Lamar; Jesse Russell, Meriwether;
Fannie Kate Rutledge, Stewart;
Hilda Seagraves, Fayette; Mrs. H.
B. Scarborough, Carroll; James
Scjhell, Haralson; Allen Shouse,
Morgan Louise Shelton, Floyd.
Anna Sheffield, Polk; Buddye
Sladgle, Gordon; Miriam Stallings,
Carroll; Bryice Stewart, Haralson;
Leon Storms, Westchester, N. Y.;
Frances Storey, Floyd; Charles
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Vice Chancellor Curtis Dixon
Urges Students To Begin Right
In Address at First Formal Chapel
“You and I are faced with problems and your re
action in solving them will determine the measure ot
your success,” stated Dr. J. Curtis Dixon, vice-chancellor
of the University System of Georgia and prominent edu
cator of the South, as he addressed the West Georgia
College student body in the auditorium at the formal
opening exercises of the 1940-41 semester Wednesday,
September 25.
Mr. Dixon urged the students to 5
realize that now is the time to
begin success. “It is the beginning
that makes you, not the end. It
is important for the individual
that wants to be successful to
start with the right ideals,” he
stated. The Rev. Zach C. Hayes
conducted the devotional exercises.
Representing the churches and
pastors of Carrollton, he invited
the students to attend all church
exercises possible.
Mayor Stewart Martin, graduate
of W. G. C., extended to all stu
dents a welcome to the town. Mr.
Martin described the atmosphere
existing in Carrollton and invited
everyone to become a- 'ember of
the comunity.
In greeting all newc ners to the
campus, Freeman Bt-.tley, presi
dent of the student body, stressed
the importance of cooperation
among rtudents. He gurged all
students co take part in campus
activities. *
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., TUESDAY, OCT. 8, 1940
Work On College
NY A Project Will
Start In Few Days
Construction work on the na
tional defense unit of the Residen
tial National Youth Administra
tion project will begin within a
few days, W. P. Bedingfield, dircc
tor of the program said last Mon
day.
The West Georgia project is one
of three in the state. Other train
ing centers are being constructed
in Augusta and Savannah.
First buildings to be erected at
the West Georgia site will be
three barracks to house the resi
dential students. Three shops for
training purposes will also be
erected. Eventually, Mr. Beding
field said, the project will be a
separate training center, having its
own dormitories, work shops, mess
hall, recreation hall and field. At
present it will depend on the col
lege for some of these facilities.
Within 90 days, he said, 125 men
and 75 women will be enrolled on
the project.
Purpose of this new project is
to develop trained workers for na
tional defense. Metal working,
wood working, photography, and
radio will be taught. Articles made
in the shop will not compete with
private industry, but will be for
college or governmental consump
tion.
Little Theater Formed
As Dramatic Club Merges
With Ciceronian Society
Dramatic Club and Ciceronian
Literary Society plan to merge
into one organization forming a
Little Theater.
Besides combining the two clubs,
the plans for this year include us
ing the English 221 class, otherwise
known as the Public Speaking
Class, as well as the talented mem
bers of the West Georgia faculty,
in the plays which will be pro
duced.
Miss Mary Eliason will act as
adviser to the new club which
will meet at the time formerly
scheduled for Ciceronian meet
ings.
The plays for the year have not
been chosen as yet, but the club
is busy making selections for the
coming productions.
Flash—Students
To Eat Sunday Nights
Plans are now being made for
a Sunday night buffet supper in
stead of the usual sack supper. It
has been suggested by several stu
dents that each club take the re
sponsibility of serving the students
every Sunday night. Soft drinks
will be sold and the profits will
go to the club sponsoring the im
mediate supper. More facts con
cerning this plan will be printed
in a later issue of The West Geor
gian.
Ten New Faculty
Members Added To Staff;
Now Largest In History
West Georgia opened its eighth
year with the largest administra
tive staff in the history of the col
lege. Additions include eleven
new faculty members and one who
has returned from a two years’
leave of absence.
Joining the English department
as assistant professor is Miss Marie
Campbell, a graduate of Peabody
College, Nashville, Tennessee. Miss
Campbell is faculty adviser for
West Georgian. Instructor in voca
tional studies is William C. Dawn,
also of Peabody.
Miss Martha Stone, a graduate of
Emory University, fills the newly
created capacity of assistant librar
ian. Materials bureau is under the
supervision of Miss Grace Tietje.
George S. C. Adams, University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
N. C., comes in the capacity of
professor of French and head 'of
the department of Romance Lan
guages. Miss Tudor Trotter is the
new instructor in Physical Educa
tion for women. Miss Trotter is a
graduate of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Va.
J. Oliver Carson, Peabody, has
accepted the position of Supervis
ing principal of Tallapoosa school.
Edward Yeomans, Jr., is supervisor
of rural schools.
Returning from a two years’
leave of absence during which time
he studied at University of Chicago,
Thomas A. Hart resumed his duties
as professor of biology and head
of the department of science.
Miss Floy Eugenia Whitehead,
a graduate of University of Geor
gia, is instructor in home econo
mics department. Talmadge B.
Young is shop foreman and was
sent to the West Georgia campus
by the N. Y. A. Supervisor of the
N. Y. A. project is Parker Beding
field, a graduate of Emory Uni
versity.
Journalism Training
Both the business and editor
ial departments of The West
Georgian offer practical train
ing in the field of journalism.
Newcomers who are interest
ed in any phare of the news
paper field will be afforded an
opportunity to work on the
publication staff and will be
admitted to the Press Forum,
the journalism club, which will
cooperate with the paper in
giving aid to ambitious jour
nalists.
An announcement of interest
to applicants will be made in
chapel soon by the editor.
In This Issue ...
Editorials Page 4
Campus Spotlight 4
Feature ®
Sports ®
Undressed Rumors _ 4
Club Items 2—6
“Uncle Nath” Thompson Tells
“Uncle Remus” Tales to Students
At Chapel Assembly Here Friday
Negro Folk Lore and Spirituals
Subject of Talk By Popular Pastor
“The Negro has made a great contribution to the
world in his spirituals and simple folk stories,’’ the Rev.
Nath Thompson, pastor of the Cedartown First Method
ist Church, told the student body of West Georgia College
at the regular assembly hour Friday morning.
Chapel Speaker
Vice - Chancellor J. Curtis
Dixon, of the University Sys
tem of Georgia who addressed
the West Georgia student body
in the first formal chapel pro
gram of the year.—Courtesy of
the Atlanta Journal.
Richard Flynn
Speaker On Sept. 27
“Have a principle for under
standing the world in which we
live” —the Reverend Mr. Richard
O. Flynn, Jr., of the First Presby
terian church, of Carrollton, told
the student body at the chapel
exercises last Friday.
Mr. Flynn urged the students to
grasp some eternal truth upon
which to hold in this day of chang
ing ideas. The speaker has spoken
here on' several previous occasions
and has established himself as a
friend of the school.
Promotion of Student and
Faculty Relationships Is
Discussed at Conference
Even though it doesn’t run true
to form, perfect harmony existed
between the faculty members and
a representative group of the stu
dent body for an entire week
during the student-faculty confer
ence held at Helen, Georgia, Sep
tember 8-15.
Discussion throughout the week
centered on promotion of student
faculty relationships and ways to
better the curriculum and living
condition on the campus.
Those chosen by the Officers’
Club who represented the student
body at this meeting were Hilda
Seagraves, Fayetteville; Jack Col
lum, Rome; and Johnnie Brown
lee, Calhoun. Third year students
elected Hazel Jolly, Kingston; Jean
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“The negro,’’ the speaker de
clared, “has a wonderful imagina
tion and it is no accident that his
stories are perennial favorites with
both young and old.” He gave as
an illustration in his inimitable
way the story of “How Bre’er
Rabbit made a saddle horse out
of Bre’er Fox,” one of Joel Chand
ler Harris’ famous Uncle Remus
tales.
“Uncle Nath” as the speaker is
better known, is a veteran mini
ster having served in various
churches in Texas and north
Georgia. During the World’s War
he was Y. M. C. A. Religious
secretary at Camp Gordon and lat
er in the same capacity overseas.
“Bea creator,” said the Rev.
Nath Thompson, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of Cedar
town, as he addressed the student
body at chapel exercises Tuesday,
October 1, in the college auditor
ium. “Adjust that which needs
adjusting. Have the ability to
help other people.” Mr. Thompson,
better known as “Uncle Nath,” urg
ed the students to pledge alliegence
to the freedom offered by the demo
cracy existing in our country to
day.
Dawn Resigns Post;
Accepts Florida Position
President I. S. Ingram has an
nounced the resignation of William
C. Dawn, effective yesterday. Mr.
Dawn leaves West Georgia to
accept the position of Plant Produc
tion Manager of Cherry Lake Crafts
in Cherry Lake, Florida. The
Farms are a resettlement project
of the Farm Security Administra
tion of the Federal Government.
Mr. Dawn joined the staff at
West Georgia this year in connec
tion with the expansion program of
the college and was instructor of
vocational studies.
Deep regret was expressed by Mr.
Dawn as he announced his resigna
tion. No one has been selected to
replace him at present.
Wyatt, Menlo; and Edgar Padgett,
Ringgold; to represent their in
terests.
This group sat in on all meet
ings, listened to proposed plans,
and offered suggestions to bring
about legislation to make this cam
pus, its government, and courses
offered more enjoyable and worth
while to the students.
“The mere fact that we were
chosen by a committee from the
administration as third year stu
dents should stand in favor of our
having more privileges than we
did the last two years,” was the
argument Jean Wyatt advanced in
a petition for junior privileges. At
a meeting of the three third year
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