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VOLUME VIII.
2 New Faculty Members Join
College Staff To Supplement
Existing Teaching Facilities
West Georgia College has three
new faculty members on its staff
this summer. Miss Katherine Sims
is the N. Y. A. work foreman for
the Home Economics Department;
Miss Mary Lovvorn is instructing
in the English Department, while
Dr Chas. B. Clark is a professor
in the Social Science Department.
Miss Sims received her B. S.
H. E. degree at the University of
Georgia and has since taught at the
Clarksville High School. She re
places Miss Dorothy Doster who
has accepted a position as District
Supervisor of N. Y. A. work pro
jects. When asked what her im
pression was of West Georgia, Miss
Sims stated: “What impresses me
most is the air of friendliness
which seems to exist among the
students and faculty.”
Miss Lovvorn received her A. B.
degree from Bessie Tift College
and later her M. A. degree from
Duke University. Besides being a
teacher of English she is an ac
complished musician. She has
taught for several years in Georgia,
and Florida. During the regular
session she holds a postion in the
schools at Delray Beach, Fla.
Dr. Chas. B. Clark is from Elli
cott City, Maryland. He received
his A. B. degree from Washington
College in 1934 and his M. A. de
gree from Duke University in 1936.
He attended the University of
North Carolina from 1938 to 1940
where he received his Ph. D. degree
in American history and Political
Science in June, 1941. He has
taught four years in Maryland
and he is author of “Politics in
Maryland During the Civil War
Period,” which is being published
by the Maryland Historical Maga
zine. Dr. Clark replaces Professor
J. C. Bonner who will go to the
University of North Carolina in
September as research assistant in
the Institute for Research in Social
Science.
Dr. Raper -Speaks
Dr. Arthur Raper, formerly of
Agnes Scott College, and author
of several works on Southern socio
logical topics, was guest speaker
at the College Workshop Monday
afternoon.
100-Year Old House Is On
West Georgia College Drive
Carpenters and painters this
week are renovating the old resi
dence on he campus occupied by
Dean and Mrs. Fred Gunn. This
house, built in 1840, links the Col
lege with the pioneer period of
West Georgia’s history.
More than one hundred years
have passed since that ante-bellum
mechanic, Y. Hendrix, laid the
foundation for this house. All
structural timbers are hand hewn
from heart pine, mortised together
and pegged. In 1913 it was moved
about two hundred yards from its
original location and set upon new
foundations. The sturdiness of its
architecture and the efficiency of
construction is disclosed by the
fact that its lines are as true today
as when the ante-bellum builder
se t his primitive plumb-line to it.
The house is characteristic of
planter architecture of western
Georgia. The house of the early
settler of this region was first a
crude log cabin with a chimney at
une end and a large doorway in the
other, with windows on the side*.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1941
Faculty Notes
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Howell are
on a western tour, visiting such
points of interest as Yellowstone
Park and the west coast.
Mr. and Mrs. George Adams are
spending the summer in Mexico
City where Mr. Adams is studying
at the University of Mexico.
Miss Sara Ward is visiting at the
home of her parents in Milledge
ville. She will return to her duties
at West Georgia in the near future.
Mr. L. E. Roberts of the Social
Science Department is studying
at Duke University during the
summer but he will return to West
Georgia in September.
Mr. J. C. Bonner will leave July
18 for Chapel Hill, N. C., where he
will study and do research for
the next twelve months. Mrs.
Bonner and their daughter, Page,
are visiting Judge and Mrs. G. P.
Munro in Columbus.
Mr. Rhea Taylor is studying at
the University of Chicago where he
and Mrs. Taylor are planning to
remain until June, 1942.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hart will
return to the University of Chicago
after summer school where Mr.
Hart will continue his research in
Biology.
Miss Ruby Jenkins is studying
in Home Economics at the Univer
sity of Ohio this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Claxton and
their three children left recently
for Gallup, New Mexico, where Mr.
Claxton will tach for six weeks.
Miss Kennon Henderson is tak
ing a special course at the Uni
versity of Chicago this summer
on personnel guidance and place
ment.
Miss Marie Campbell of the Eng
lish Department is doing research
on folklore in Alabama and Ken
tucky.
Dr. Chas. Clark who is instruct
ing in Social Science this summer
will return to his home in Mary
land and will prepare a manu
script for publication during the
latter part of the summer.
Misses Katherine Hooks and
Louise Land were the week end
guests of Miss Cornell Rogers, near
Roopville.
As he cleared more land, increased
his family and prospered, he erect
ed another room on the opposite
side from the doorway and made
it an exact replica of the first. He
then added a platform joining the
two doorways and sometimes plac
ed a roof overhead. Thus the fa
mous breeze way or ‘dog-run’ came
into existence. In many instances
lean-to rooms were added on the
back and sometimes an upper
story was laid uporl the top of the
original rooms. As the prosperity
of the 1850’s approached, the plant
er frequently felt inclined to imi
tate the classic architecture of
planters of middle Georgia. Pseu
do-Greek columns appeared. Wea
therboard, paint, and plaster com
pleted the job.
Seldom in western Georgia does
one find the two-storied, painted
house of the planter without the
traditional lean-to and the breeze
way. Extravagantly ornate col
umns, the box-like structure, and
the flat roof found in the older
settled regions are noticeably ab
sent.
Summer Session
Dance July 11th
Plans are being made for a sum
mer school dance to be held in the
gymnasium on Friday evening,
July 11, from eight to eleven. Mr.
Bonner has asked the newly-formed
recreation committe of the N. Y. A.
organization to take charge of
the decorations and music and to
serve as official host to the regular
first term summer school students
who will leave for their homes
the following week. This dance
will climax the very delightful
program of folk and group dancing
enjoyed by the summer students
during the term.
48 Students
On Scholastic
Honor List
Forty-eight students at West
Georgia College last week were
placed on the Dean’s List for the
Spring quarter by Dean W. Fred
Gunn as he announced a list of
students who made an average
of 87 or above for the quarter’s
work, requirement for receiving
the honor.
Students on the list include:
Ruth Akin, Copperhill, Tenn.;
Jean Aycock, Carrollton; Lawrence
Barton, Calhoun; Mary Baxter, Car
rollton; Albert Browning, Douglas
ville; George Chambers, Bowdon;
Inez Cooper, Carrollton.
Winifred Divine, Summerville;
Irwin Dyer, Hiwassee; Harriett
Ffhcher, Athens. Martha Gibson,
Buchanan; Dannie Gillis, Calhoun;
Inez Gordon, Bowdon; Russell
Green, Dallas; Sarah Harper, La-
Fayette; Joe Harris, Cedartown.
Eloise Helton, Buchanan; William
Henderson, Dalton; Gordon Hill,
Chickamauga; Ralph Holland, Ced
artown; Doris Hollingsworth, Car
rollton; Till Huston, Calhoun; Ha
zel Jolly, Kingston; Ruby Jones
Young Cave; Virginia Lewis, Cal
houn.
Henry Lindenbaum, New York
City; Roy McGraw, Warm Springs;
Mrs. Walter Matthews, Carrollton;
Glynn Nations, Resaca; Harold Nix,
Dallas; Edgar Padgett, Ringgold;
Virginia Robison, Atlanta; Cornell
Rogers, Roopville; Hilda Seagraves,
Fayetteville.
Anna Sheffield, Cedartown; Mar
garet Shelton, Rome; Laura Smith,
Carrollton; William Smith, Lexing
ton; Kathleen Steed, Carrollton;
Sara Joyce Stephens, Carrollton;
Leon Storms, Dalton; Charles Stowe,
Atlanta; Leroy Strain, Rome; Jack
son Tingle, Locust Grove; Margaret
Turner, Atlanta; Ned Turner, At
lanta; Hubert Vaughn, Decatur;
Margaret Weesner, Summerville.
NYA Project Has
Huge Expansion
The Residential N. Y. A. has a
project under way. The Barracks
are going up fast and the shops
are to be erected immediately aft
er the barracks are finished. Be
sides the boys who will live in tne
barracks there are to be enrolled
one hundred local boys. The cost
of the project is about $135,000.
Seventy thousand of this is to be
spent for machines for the shops.
There will also be a non-defense
project. The defense project will
include machine shop, electric and
gas welding, sheet metal, forging,
electricity, construction, plumbing,
and wood shop. The non-defense
project will include wood work
and agriculture. Both resident and
non-resident boys are to be given
the advantage of defense and non
defense projects.
61 Georgia Counties Send
Students To Make-Up W.G.C.
Summer School This Year
Carroll County Leads In Number
Of Students Enrolled
For Term
Approximately 225 students rep
resenting 6* Georgia counties are
enrolled in the present summer
school at West Georgia College. A
wider geographic representation is
evident this summer than at any
former session. Carroll County
leads the list with 56 students. A
list of the Carroll sudents follows:
Thelma Adams, Eris Arrington,
Mary Florence Arthur, Angelene
Barker, Joyce Barker, Ruby Bax
ter, Rudene Burnham, Josephine
Burson, Eldred Chambers, Mrs.
Clay Chappell, Eugene Cobb, Mrs.
Mary Combs, Eva Cosper, Mary
Downs, Audie Duncan, Elizabeth
Edmondson, Opal Farmer, Mrs.
Chas. Gable, Frances Garrett, Nelle
Garrett, Katie Lou Gordon, Lucile
Huckeba, Arnold Loftin, Mrs. Ruth
Lovvorn, Mrs. Chas. McGuire,
Mary Ella Martin, Sara Frances
Otwell, Curtis Paris, Margie Pow
ers, Clovis Pope, Lewis Reese
Frances Ridgeway, George Rogers,
Gay Rowe Alice Rowland, Hildreth
Striplin, O. R. Styles, Mrs. Pearl
Teal, John W. Teal, Merrill Tray*
lor, Mrs. J. H. Tumlin, Eunice
Wessinger, Mrs. Cecil Wilson, Will
iam Ansley, George Chambers,
Hazel Denney, M. T. Fuller, Clar
ence Heath, Marilyn Muse, Charles
New Margaret Roberson and Ralph
Skinner.
Bartow County! Roy Henderson,
Mrs. Kittie McGuire, Annie Ruth
Popham, Lucile Popham and An
nie Mae Watson; Ben Hill County:
Frances Burnham and Donald
Gaines; Catoosa: Katherine Hall;
Chatooga: Margaret Hall, Claude
Dawson and Frances McWilliams;
Cherokee: Reathel Smith, Louise
Land and Harold Nix; Cobb: Arth
ur Owens, Alice Blackwell, Alene
Ray, H. S. Pinyan, Luther Smith
and Mrs. Z. T. Swanson; Coweta:
Maimie Edwards, Curtis Martin,
Louise Grenga; Dade: Martin Neth
ery, Harry McNair, Harold Mc-
Nair, Shadie Lee Case; Douglas:
James Browning; Emanuel: Kath
erine Hooks; Floyd: Mrs. Anna
Dell Braselton, Jack Collum, Nellie
Ruth Hunt, Ada Thomas and
Ruchia White.
Fulton County: Marjorie Gates
and Georgia Samples; Gordon
County: Perillah Atkinson, Grace
Erwin, Alice Haney, Mrs. Hugh
Holcombe, Betty Moss, Willalou
Nelson, Richard and Chas. Long,
Buddye Slagle, and Bernice Tal
ley; Greene County: Elizabeth
Newsome; Haralson: L. M. Agan,
Adamson Hall Is Tribute lo
Famous Carroll Statesman
Hon. W. C. Adamson, who for
two full decades was Georgia’s
congressman from the Fourth Dis
trict, was a native of Carroll Coun
ty and he was instrumental in the
location of the agricultural school
on the present site of West Georgia
College. The agricultural school
began operation in 1907 and con
tinued until its status was changed
to a junior college by the Board
of Regents in 1933. One of the
dormitories on the campus is nam
ed in honor of Congressman Adam
son.
Congressman Adamson is well
known everywhere among students
of American history for his spon
sorship during the Wilson admini
stration, of the famous Adamson
Eight-Hour law regulating the
hours of work of railroad em
ployees engaged in interstate com
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NUMBER EIGHTEEN
Myrtis Ballard, Hazel Holcombe,
Katheryn McGinnis, Mrs. Walter
Matthews, Ruth Roberts, Azalee
Stapler, John Verner, Mrs. Dewey
Waddell, Mrs. T. E. Walker, Mrs.
Louie Waldrup, Mrs. Alline Wyn
ens; Heard County: Lonnie Bell,
Clarice Cook, Mrs. A. J. Daniel,
Louise Johnson, Sally Blanks,
Pearce Thompson, Wayne Janney,
Connie Eley, Mrs. Hammond Kir
bey, J. H. Greene, Mrs. Lillian
Lane, Mrs. Norine Lipford, Flor
ence Lutz, Margaret Smith, Robert
Sheets, Mrs. Winnie Stephens.
Morgan County: Allen Shouse;
Murray County: Ethel Ingle; New
ton: Jeanet Barnes; Pickens: Edna
Burton, Myrtle Burton; Polk: Paul
ine Chapman, Elizabeth Fannin,
Alta Finch, A. P. Hemphill, Settle
Hopper, Lillie Payne and Belle
Pickard; Spalding: Mary Collins,
Evelyn Porter, and Mrs. Mattie
Walker; Troup: Helen Butts, Jo
sephine Bass, James Crisp, Lucile
Jacobs, Elizabeth Hurst; Upson;
Louise Traylor; Walker: Ruth Blay
lock, Dorothy Keown, and Avis
Loughridge; Washington: Sherman
Wilson; Whitfield: Bob Hill Ander
son, Jessie Brown and Maude Ford.
Meriwether County: Mrs. R. C.
McCrary, Pearl Mcßae, Emmett
Malone, Joe Rowe, and Jessie Rus
sell; Paulding: Felton Cochran,
Gerald Bowman, Christee Cochran
and Hilda Parker; Bacon: Gussie
Bland, Bette Carden, Sally Doyal,
Claudine Hester, Eva Mae Lynn,
and Sara Hyers; Banks: Savilla
Maney; Bibb: Ruth Colson; Butts:
Margaret Huie; Calhoun: Curran
Daniels; Clay: Gladys Weaver;
Crisp: Cynthia Black and Minnie
Lee Nobles; Crawford: Joe Smith;
Decatur: Robert Rogers and Em
mett Young; Dodge: Hansford Bow
en, Christene Campbell, Irene Ga
ble, Grace Hill and Geneva Rigsby;
DeKalb: Edward Turner; Colquitt:
David King and Hall Nicholson;
Dougherty: Julia Conner and Mar
garet Conner.
Elbert County: Edna Barton;
Early: Joseph Dubose; Lamar:
Elizabeth Rusk; Peach County:
Paul Dent; Macon County: Hudson
Whaley and J. J. Bray; Morgan:
Wilma and Edna Light, Harm Hen
drix; Pulaski: Joe Stephens; Put
nam; Cecil Smith and Henry Biz
zell; Stewart: Cecil Lynch.
Residents of Adamson Hall wel
comed Mrs. Williams as house
mother during Miss Ward's ab
sence. Miss Ward is taking a short
vacation, and is expected to return
soon.
merce. The Adamson law was the
forerunner of the present Federal
wages and hours law and similar
New Deal legislation.
In 1909 Congressman Adamson’s
son, Earnie Adamson, matricated
at this institution. In those days
boys were disciplined by being
required to dig up stumps and
doing similar work around the
campus and farm. Mr. Adamson,
who is now a prominent lawyer
in New York, recently testified
that the beautiful rolling campus
of West Georgia College is the re
sult of his handiwork and that he
should like to be given full credit
for it. No doubt there are hun
dreds of others now living through
out the country who feel that they
have a real stake in the attrac
tive campus of West Georgia’s
junior college.