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devoted to the
best interest
of W. G. C.
volume eight
religious week
OFFERS PROGRAM
TO STUDENT BODY
Dr. Pierce Harris
Speaks On Parents’
Day April 25
Religious Emphasis Week, a
period set aside in college life
for spiritual inspiration, will be
observed on West Georgia’s cam
pus April 21-25.
Dr. Pierce Harris, distinguished
minister from the First Methodist
Church in Atlanta, will be the plat
form speaker for the 10 o’clock
service Friday morning. Dr. Pierce
is widely known, a popular civic
as well as religious speaker.
Many visitors are expected to
be on the campus Parents’ Day.
Special invitations have been sent
to parents of all students enrolled
at the college, also to high school
seniors throughout this section of
the state.
Visitors are requested to arrive
prior to 10 o’clock. They will be
shown over the grounds, through
the buildings, library, and dormi
tories. Following the program din
ner will be served on the campus
by the college to all guests.
A candle-light program conduct
ed Monday night by Herbert Babb
will be the first worship service of
the week.
Carrying out the theme of the
week, the Rev. R. O. Flinn, Jr.,
will speak to the student body
Tuesday morning on “Authority of
the Bible.” He will again address
the group Wednesday morning and
Thursday morning.
The Rev. Olin G. Beall, Episcopal
minister 1 , will give an address Tues
day night in the college auditorium
on “Faith in the World Today.” Mr.
Beall will also speak Wednesday
and Thursday nights using the
topics, “The Church and The Man”
and “Twentieth Century Christian
Living.”
Discussion groups will be held
afternoons in the Rural Arts build
ing. Thursday afternoon will be
devoted to private conferences with
the two ministers. Afterwards a
social hour will be held in Mande
ville Hall.
Sunrise worship will be observed
on the front campus at 6:45 o’clock
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Junior Class Debaters Win
Finals Over Press Forum
Junior Class’ representatives, Ed
gar Padgett and Hazel Jolley, argu
ed their way to victory with a un
animous decision over Press Fo
rum’s representatives, Leroy Strain
and Sara Nell Popham, in the finals
of the annual intra-mural debate
tournament Friday morning at the
regular chapel hour.
The debate climaxed the annual
tournament staged by Debating
Club to choose the champion de
baters of West Georgia College.
The Affirmative side of the ques
tion, “Resolved, that the nations
of the Western Hemisphere should
form a permanent union,” was up
held by Leroy Strain and Sara
Nell Popham, while the negative
was upheld by Edgar Padgett and
Hazel Jolley.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., TUES., APRIL 15, 1941
Jeanie With Light Brown Hair Queen of May
Queen of the May! And with this secret election, The
West Georgian gets a scoop!
One by one the little white slips of paper, punched
down in the ballot box, summed up their toll to give
Jeanne) Sims the coveted title, May Queen!
Jeanne with the light brown hair and blue eyes is a
sophomore from Hogansville. President of Alpha Psi,
she is also active in other campus organizations.
Attending the Queen at her coronation will be brunette
Katherine Hooks, maid of honor.
From Swainsboro, Katherine is an outstanding basket
ball player and a member of several clubs on the campus.
Queen Sims’ chosen court will be made up of Frances
Ann Mitcham, Hampton; Mary Ella Martin, Carrollton;
Rozelle Hyatt, Centralhatchee; Charlotte Weil, Atlanta;
Margaret Burdette, Calhoun; Louise Ray, Calhoun; Posi
nell Cole, Bowdon; Hilda Seagraves, Fayetteville; Buddye
Slagle, Calhoun; Jo Cooper, Logansville; Winifred Divine,
Summerville; and Alice Swint, Chipley.
Melba Morgan, Roopville, will bear the crown to Presi
dent I. S. Ingram, who will officially proclaim Jeanne,
Queen of the May.
Attendants will be Winifred Divine and Dannie Gillis.
Ceremonies for this annual event, which is sponsored
by Alpha Psi, home economics club, will be conducted at
twilight on the campus, the second week in May.
Film Schedule Is
Announced For Months
Of April And May
The following films will be
shown in Room A22 at 3:15 p.
m. on the days designated:
Leaves—April 15.
Reproduction Among Mam
mals—April 15.
Body Defenses Against Di
seases—-April 16.
Pond Insects—April 17.
War on Insects—April 22.
Heredity—April 23.
Wild Fowl Conservation —
April 24.
Plant Growth —May 16.
Digging Up the Past—May 20.
Mites and Monosters and
Fingei\s and Thumbs—May 29.
Public Speaking Class
To Offer 4 Plays To
Students This Quarter
This quarter the public speaking
class plans to present four one
act plays, including three comedies
and one tragedy written by Paul
Green. These are to be coached
by Miss Mary Eliason.
Fine Arts Club members in good
standing are to participate in these
plays.
Each speaker contested his
points vigorously, especially in the
rebuttals which proved fiery at
times.
Glynn Nations acted as chairman
with three members of West Geor
gia’s faculty as judges.
One of the champions, Padgett, is
a repeater for the title. He was
chosen also in ’3B when he was a
freshman.
In the semi-finals, staged in room
A2O Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, April 9 and 10, the Affir
mative emerged with a unanimous
decision over their opponents, the
Officers’ Club represented by Leon
Storms and Till Huston. The Ne
gative was given a unanimous de
cision also over The West Georgian
team, Reuben Word and Frances
Donehoo.
Students Will See
Faust In Atlanta
Grand Opera Season
Dr. Faust will be the center of
attraction Tuesday evening, April
29, when a group of about twenty
five students goes to Atlanta to
hear the opera “Faust” at the At
lanta Municipal auditorium.
This group headed by Professor
Gordon Watson decided to make
the trip in the Humanities 202
class several weeks ago when they
were studying “Faust.”
Faust, or Dr. Fastus, is the hero
of a drama by Goethe. As an elder
ly student, weary of seeking knowl
edge, he deserts his studies, and
sells his soul to the devil (Mephi
stophles) who agrees to fulifll aU
his wishes.
Three outstanding personalities
in the opera world will portray the
leading characters: Faust or Dr.
Faustus as sung by Charles Kull
man, tenor; Marguerite by Helen
Jepson, soprano; and Mephistoph
les by Ezio Pinza, basso.
The popularity of “Faust” is
widespread. The first American
representation took place at the
Academy of Music, New York, No
vember 25, 1863. It was sung in
Italian and won immediate popu
larity.
In Europe “Faust” was given
thirty-seven times at the Theatre
Lyrique in Paris. Ten years after
its first performance it was revised
to fit the schemes of Grand Opera.
America Needs Awareness
Of Liberties Roberts Says
“The idea of freedom is so much
a part of our American tradition
that we have come to take it for
granted,” said Professor L. E. Rob
erst when he spoke at the assem
bly period Tuesday, April 8.
Professor Roberts continued his
discussion of American liberties by
saying, “Now, the impact of a world
crisis is shocking us into an aware
ness that we need to take a fresh
look at the tenets of our national
faith to explain it all over to our
selves and to those around us who
seem not to understand what is at
stake.”
Students Will Represent
Organizations On Faculty
Committees Ruling Campus
ADMINISTRATION SEEKS TO MAKE DEMOCRACY
WORK BY GIVING STUDENTS REPRESENTATION
Four Bikes Arrive
To Start Functioning
Of First Campus Co-op
W<*rt. Georgia’s Bicycle Co-op
is functioning The first four
bicycles arrived Friday, April
11, and are now in use. They
are kept in the janitor’s room
of the new library building.
These bicycles may be rent
for ten cents an hour. Members
of the Co-op are to be given
priority over non-members in
obtaining bikes to ride.
The Co-op, organized in Feb
ruary, is composed of eighteen
students and faculty members
with its paramount purpore to
get actual practice in operating
a co-operative and to supply re
creation on the campus.
More bicycles will be bought
as members and patronage in
crease.
12 STUDENTS WIN
ROSENWALD AID
Twelve Rosenwald scholarships
for training in the third year
teaching program at West Geor
gia have been awarded members of
the present sophomore class.
Receiving these scholarships are
Margaret Burdette, Calhoun; Fran
ces Donehoo, Roswell; Virginia
Lewis, Calhoun; Jean Lovvorn,
Bowdon; Frances Ann Mitcham,
Hampton; Eula Mae Morgan, Wood
bury; Lillian Phillips. Palmetto;
Sara Nell Popham, Taylorsville;
Louise Ray, Calhoun; Cornell Rog
ers, Roopville; Ernestine Tankers
ley, East Point, and W. D. White
ner, Ellijay.
These students were given the
scholarships by a faculty commit
tee which examined the applica
tions and considered the records
made here.
Eight more scholarships are to
be awarded to students here on
the campus and ten wiil be given
by Knights Templar to students
from different sections of the state.
Everything Rosy At WGC
As Spring Fever Attacks
The birds are singing, students
are grinning, faculty members are
smiling, everybody seems to be
looking through rose-colored glass
es. What is the matter?
Each day a great army of stu
dents files out of the dormitories
armed with weapons with which
to defeat the foe. Nope, the foe
isn’t a band of robbers or such
stuff, it is only a small object
known as a tennis ball. Everyone
rushes for a tennis court, he fights,
he scuffles, its a great battle, may
the best man win. Tennis days
are here!
The love bug is working over
DEVOTED TO THE
BEST INTEREST
OF W. G. C.
NUMBER FOURTEEN
The idea of student representa
tion on faculty committees —the
wisdom and follies of such a plan
has been thrashed out at commit
tee meetings for the past two
weeks.
Professor Gordon Watson, faculty
member of the Officers' Club, and
five students from this organiza
tion, Johnnie Brownlee, Leon
Storms, Freeman Bentley, Leroy
Strain, and Till Houston, have out
lined a plan whereby students mot i
interested in certain activities will
serve on the faculty committee
governing these activities.
One system enacting this new
idea has student officers serving
as follows: Athletic Committee,
officers of the “W” Club; Religious
Activities Committee, officers of
the V. R. A. Council; Fine Arts
Committee, officers of the Fine
Arts Club; Student Activities Com
mittee, officers of the Officers’
Club; and Building and Grounds
Committee, President and vice
presidents of the 4-H Club and the
F. F. A.
Representation on the Public
Exercises and Publicity Commit
tee is composed of the editor of
The West Georgian, the president
of the Debating Club, and the presi
dent of the College Chorus.
Editors of the Gen Pen, the
Chieftain, and The West Georgian
will serve on the Publications Com
mittee.
The president of the student
body, the presidents of the three
classes, and the chairman of the
Officers’ Club will automatically
become members of the Admini
strative Committee.
The Committee believes that a
set-up of this kind will foster stu
dent interest in the work of com
mittees and will represent student
attitudes so that rulings will be
more satisfactory to student groups
and faculty members.
Discussion has been brought up
about the advisability of having
students on the Placement and
Guidance Committee but no action
has been taken on this.
Student sentiment on the issue
representation on faculty commit
tees will determine the outcome of
the plan.
time. Students are getting bit
every minute, but do they mind?
That’s right, you’re right, the ans
wer is, “Not at all.” They're happy
and getting happier every minute.
Students fall asleep in classes,
they fall asleep in chapel, they
fall asleep in the show and some
just continue the sleep of the night
before. You fall over them It
the halls, you stumble over them
on the steps, you make a brave
effort to keep going, and then you
catch it too. It's awful. It’s won
derful. It’s terrible. There's noth
ing like it. It's Spring Fever!!
Hooray! Spring is here!
