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devoted to the
best interest
OF W. G. C.
VOLUME VIII.
West Georgia Faculty
Members Attend
Important Meetings
TEACHERS GATHER
NEW INFORMATION
HELPFUL TO W. G. C.
Dr. D. F. Folger, Mr. J. C. Bon
ner, Mr. L. E. Roberts, Mr. Gordon
Watson, Mr. H. B. Scarborough
and Mr. T. A. Hart who attended
different meetings during the last
week have returned with new in
formation and added enthusiasm
about West Georgia’s advancement.
Folger At Chicago
Dr. Folger, one of the fifteen
members, attended the Board of
Trustee meeting of the Rosenwald
Fund, which was held in Chicago
last week. He and the other mem
bers gave reports and discussed
advancement of Rosenwald work
throughout the United States. On
his return he visited the School of
Education at the state university
in Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. Bonner attended the annual
meeting of the History Association
in Charleston, South Carolina, No
vember 7-9.
Met With Committee
Mr. Roberts met with the Social
Science Committee in Macon, No
vember 9-10 to draw up permanent
plans for the Social Science final
tests which will be given at the
end of the term over the entire
University System of Georgia.
Hnmanities Committee
Mr. Watson attended a similar
committee meeting in Marshalville
in order to plan the state Humani
ties test. While there he was en
tertained in true southern style in
Dr. John Wade’s ancestoral home.
The Audio-visual conference
which was held in Atlanta to ac
quaint teachers with the use of re
cording machines, charts and films
in the classroom, was attended by
Mr. Scarborough and Mr. Hart.
ESMARALDA WRITES:
everybody is running cept me and Maggie Pearl
-•they is realy araising cane and cussing each other
genola, ga,
dere Maw,
I guess yew thot I wuzn’t agoin
ter rite yew any more, but yew wuz
rong. I’m agoing to rite yew ofen
and let yew know how everthin
is agitting along wit me. I’m jist
up here and that is about all. Hit
has been kinda quiet up here til
now. But now everthing is in a
up-roar, hit is time for the fresh
man alection and they is a heap
uv menfolks arunnin fer the pre
sidant uv the freshman class. They
is apassing out little ole fool cyards
and aputting up sines all over the
place. They is realy arising cane
and acussing each and another.
Maw, hit look lak everbody up
here is arunning fer sompin axcept
I and Maggie Pearl Botts, and we
is aplanning on arunning fer the
beauty contes when they has hit.
I don’t no if I can beat Maggie
Pearl or not but hit will be a clos
contes ’twixt me and her.
I have had a date with near all
THANKSGIVING EDITION
Candidates For Three Freshman Posts Face Runover
Election Tuesday; Closest Balloting In College History
'Gen Pen Selected
Name For Magazine
West Georgia Press Forum at its
last regular meeting voted “The
Gen Pen” to be the name of the
literary magazine which is to be
published by the club. Selection of
a staff was also effected. Leroy
Strain, president, was named editor
in-chief. Elected to staff positions
were Melba Morgan, production
manager; Till Huston, circulation
manager; Raymond Farr, Leslie
Cauthen, Mary Bess Jackson, typ
ists; Naomi Appel, Hubert Adair,
Arnold Loftin, artists; Virginia
Jackson and Raymond Muggridge,
operators.
Firr-t Edition
First number of “The Gen Pen”
will be issued about December 15.
A contest for the best article sub
mitted to the club will close on
November 30. All students are
urged to enter this contest. De
tails have been announced in a
previous edition of The West Geor
gian.
Store To Be Moved
Under Aycock Hall
West Georgia’s book store
will be moved to its new loca
tion under Aycock Hall as soon
as construction is completed.
The new store will be equip
ped with tables, chairs and
benches as well as new coun
ters. These are now being
built and painted.
The student body is asked to
submit suitable names for the
new store and the most appro
priate name will be selected.
uv the menfolks arrunning fer the
presidant uv the fresman class,
but I lik one uv them special-lak.
Hes name Bob Hil Anerson. He
is kind uv a plump feller which
talks about riding on a stoker alia
the time... At firs I never knowed
whut a stoker wuz, but I kept a-ax
ing arroun and finaly a fella name
uv Ramon Muggarage tol me. He
say hit wuz som kin uv train which
Bob Hil was ride when he went
home. Haw, I hain’t never rid
in nary train, which yew know.
But I am agoing home with Mr.
Annerson and hes agoing ter pay
fer me ter ride on hit. I shore
am anxious to meet with Bobs
Maw and Paw. I’m kinda ahoping
to marry up with him when this
here skule is close up fer the
sumer.
They is some more in ther race
to Tuner, Mackgrawh and Grifern
and a fella name uv Sutton. I
don’t know which is agoin to wen
but I shor hopes the bes one takes
hit. They is agoing to make some
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., TUES., NOV. 19, 1940
New Director To
Enhance Prospects
For Orchestra
By ELIZABETH FANNIN
“Our aim and great de
sire is to give students of
W. G. C. music as they like
it. We intend to develop an
orchestra that will do our
music loving boys and girls
justice,” stated Arnold Lof
tin, president of Orchestra’s
Club.
New Director
The club is getting under way
with bright prospects for the year
under the leadership of anew
director, Zeb Morris, a teacher in
Bowdon High School. Mr. Morris
formerly played with the “Bull
Dogs” at University of Georgia.
Out of his efficient directing and
the fine material is expected to
evolve a worthwhile organization.
Meetings are held every Tuesdays
and Thursdays at 3:30 p. m.
Members of Band
Members are: Arnold Loftin. pre
sident, Carrollton—trunipet; Peggy
Farrar, secretary and librarian,
Smyrna—violin; Eris Hutchinson,
Tallapoosa—piano; Kendrick Hud
son, Hamilton —saxaphone; James
Miller, Carrollton —trumpet; John
Justice, Trion—trumpet; O. R. Sty
les, Bowdon —trumpet; James Hud
son, Rome —drums; Griffin Harris,
Carrollton; Ed Aycock, Carrollton
—trombone; Louise Floyd, Rome —
trombone; Lila Proudfoot, Rome —
trombone; Charlotte Ward, Rome—
trombone; and Margaret Shelton,
Rome —violin.
grate big changs in the way this
here skule is runned. Some sez
thet they is agoing to see ef they
cain’t git us somethin to eat which
is good, all of which same I veri
much doute.
Weuns had hit fixted fer a
whild where we could git us some
wittles sint up to orur romes when
we sent a lettrer to the eating
hall, atellin them we wuz puny,
but now they is got a nourse come
here from noth uv the Masen Dick
sons line and they has to git her
to-"see if yew is sick er not. So
we has to go ter 4 the hash-house
if we-uns wants anythin to eat.
So fer I has fail to git any lettrer
frum yew, at all, Maw. How in
thedivil do yew xpect I to know
whut is agoing on up ther in the
hils? Hit is a misery to me.
I am a purty much uv a faver
ate wit the gals up here, Maw,
I am the onlist gal in the hole
skule which can drink a hole pynt
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Edward Turner, Roy McGraw in Run-Over
For President; Other Races Also Close; Broom
Polls Largest Number of Votes.
(By James Pinson)
Freshmen will trudge back to the polls again Tues
day, November 26 to vote for candidate in all three races.
One of the closest elections in West Georgia’s history saw
Edward Turner, Waukegon, Michigan, lead Roy McGraw,
Greenville, by the slim margin of 6 votes in the contest
for President. Turner polled 66 votes to McGraw’s 60.
Margaret Turner, Atlanta, led in the Vice-President’s
race with 95 votes while Madalyne Register, Rome, was
second with 75. Betty Broome, Summerville, had 116
votes, the greatest number compiled by any single can
didate but her nearest opponent, Marion George, received
90 votes, to cause a run-over in this race.
West Georgia Does
Bit In Carroll County
Red Cross Drive
Prof. Hart Heads
Volunteer Workers
On College Campus
£§elms tU.e need that
they too must participate in
the great drive to secure
funds for the care of un
fortunate people in the face
of disaster, students of West
Georgia College contributed
their bit to carry on the
work of the American Red
Cross.
Pres. Ingram Chairman
President I. S. Ingram, general
chairman of the Carroll County Red
Cross Chapter, is head of the local
Red Cross work. Professor Thomas
A. Hart, volunteer worker for W.
G. C., has been assisted by the fol
lowing volunteer workers from the
student body: Frances McKee, Erne
stine Tankersley, Madalynne Regi
ster, Margaret Burnette, Edna
Owens, Virginia Lewis, Louise Ray,
Helen Glauson, and Ed Padgett.
These students attended the Red
Cross breakfast Tuesday, Novem
ber 12, at a local hotel. At this
meeting, Miss Goodman, of the At
lanta Red Cross, gave a brief his
tory of the organization and out
lined the work for the year.
Zeta Sigma Pi Only Campus
Club Affiliated With
A National Organization
Lambda chapter of Zeta Sigma
Pi is the only club on the West
Georgia campus affiliated with a
national organization and it is also
the only one of it’s kind in the
deep South. This fact was brought
out at the regular meeting of the
Lambda Chapter Thursday, Novem
ber 14.
The program which was present
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DEVOTED TO THE
BEST INTEREST
OP W. G. C.
NUMBER FIVE
Gordon Watson, chairman of the
Student’s Activity Committee, an
nounced after the counting of the
ballots in Monday’s election that
the run-overs would be necessary
before a choice of the President,
vice-president and secretary and
treasurer can be made.
236 ballots were cast in the elec
tion, first of the college year. Rules
of the election stipulate that a can
didate failing to win a majority of
the votes be placed in a run-oyer
with the candidate receiving the
next largest number of votees.
Final tabulations in the presiden
tial race stacked up like this: Eld
ward Turner highest 66; Roy Mc-
Graw, runner-up 60; Richard Grif
fin, third with 52; G. L. Sutton
was fourth, tailing 37; and Bob
Hill Anderson trailed far behind
with 19 votes.
For vice-president, Margaret Turn
er topped the ticket, amassing 95
votes; Madalynne Register was a
very close second, polling 75; La-
Verne Bed good came in third with
66 votes.
Betty Broome led in number of
votes and headed the aspirants for
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Deputation Group
Of V. R. A. Members
To Be Organized
V. R. A. Council is making plans
for the formation of a deputation
group which will prepare programs
to send to other colleges and to
churches near Carrollton.
Preparations are being made for
the formation of a deputation com
mittee within V. R. A. Council.
This committee will prepare pro
grams using in them members of
the council and of the student
body. People who are talented in
music or speaking are invited to
participate.
Edgar Padgett has been placed
in charge of the project.
Programs for Churches
Before attempting to prepare
programs for presentation at other
colleges, members of deputation
committee plan to go to near-by
churches, present programs and
conduct recreation periods. With
this experience, they expect to be
able to visit other schools before
the end of the year.
