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College Celebrates First Founders’ Day Today On 9th Anniversary; Gordon
Watson Memorial Awards Presented Five Outstanding Students
Religious Emphasis Week To Open 5-Day
Program With Newton Parent’s Day Speaker
Rev. L. E. Mattingly To Conduct Services
Religious Emphasis Week, annual function sponsor
ed by V. R. A. will officially open April 27, with “Inner
Resources for World Reconstruction,” as its theme, presi
dent Charles Stowe has announced.
Big Name Orchestra
Places Bid For Final
Dance Of The Year
FRESHMEN ASKED
TO COOPERATE
Harry Hearn and his nationally
known orchestra, formerly with N.
B. C., have placed a bid to play for
the final dance, it was revealed at a
meeting of the freshmen Tuesday.
This ten piece orchestra has at
tained a reputation of high rank in
the past five years, having been
chosen by Tommy Dorsey as the
leading Atlanta orchestra.
Harry Hearn and his band con
stituted the only Southern orchestra
to be picked by the N. B. C. Net
work on the President’s Birthday
Ball in 1937. They have played long
and successful engagements at the
Ansley, Henry Grady, and Atlanta
Biltmore Hotels, and won nineteen
out of twenty-three fraternity dance
contracts on the Georgia Tech cam
pus last year.
According to a report from the
meeting, this popular orchestra can
be secured only by the cooperation of
every freshman.
In This Issue:
Founders’s Day . . . .Page 1
Dr. Caldwell Page 1
Editorials Page 2
Features .. . Page 1,3, 4, 6
Sports Day Page 5
“Lot Number 99, Land District Number 10" Now
One Of The South’s Most Beautiful Colleges
West Georgia College A Pioneer In New Type
Education Dedicated To Improving Rural Georgia
“Lot number 99, land District
number 10, Carroll County.” These
numbers representing title to ap
proximately 200 acres of land were
received by Lawrence Richardson of
Columbia County, in the land lottery
of 1827. This citizen of eastern Geor
gia looked on the maps of his state
and saw a newly charted wilderness
lying between the Flint River and
the Alabama line. He knew that he
bad drawn a title to some Indian land
which lay “somewhere west of the
Chattahoochee River,” afterwards
Carroll County. More than one-half
century later, on this same lot of land
Was established West Georgia College.
Georgia today! One of the
most beautiful colleges in the South,
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
Dr. Louie D. Newton, pastor of
Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta,
will deliver the main address on
Parents’ Day, Friday, May 6, at 11:30
A. M. Parents’ Day will climax the
week’s activities. Parents, high school
students, and other visitors will be
welcomed to the campus by Mr. Carl
Bennett, V. R. A. sponsor and Hubert
Vaughn, student body president.
After the main address, students,
parents, faculty, wives and visitors
will be invited to tour the campus
followed by a luncheon in their honor.
Rev. L. E. Mattingly, of Emory
University, will conduct morning ser
vices at 10:50 A. M. and evening ser
vices at 7:30 P. M. from Tuesday
through Thursday in the gym. Frances
Donehoo will conduct a candle light
service Monday night.
Other activities of the week in
clude forums on Tuesday and Thurs
day afternoons led by Miles Wiley,
and a sunrise service Friday morning
at 7:30 o’clock under the leadership
of Eula Mae Morgan.
Invitations have been sent to all
parents of regular students and mem
bers of senior classes in northern and
western parts of the state, Mary Jen
kins, invitation chairman, states.
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Have you ever thought just what
the West Georgia Campus looked
like 30 years ago? Read the interest
ing features on this page and find
out.
George Chambers, Former Mu Zeta President, Wins Scholarship
it is thought of with pride by all
Georgia “Crackers.” The beautiful,
spacious buildings and dormitories
and the various courses that are of
fered attract hundreds to its doors
each year. The college has attracted
and held the eyes of the nation.
“West Georgia (the former A & M
school) survived the boll weevil de
pression of the early twenties, at
which time I. S. Ingram became its
principal. When farm prices collapsed
in the late twenties and consolidated
high schools began to spring up
throughout the section, many of
which infringed upon the vocational
field of the A & M school, there was
Continued on page 6
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., APRIL 17, 1942
STUDENTS FACING
MORE PROBLEMS THAN
EVER, SAYS CALDWELL
By BETTY McWILLIAMS
Dr. Harmon Caldwell, President
of the University of Georgia, told the
students Tuesday morning at the
chapel hour that there are more un
certainties, more problems, and more
difficulties confronting students to
day than at any other period in his
tory.
“Combating these issues proves the
fact that students are more serious
and more determined,” he said.
Acording to Dr. Caldwell, students
today have a finer spirit and are
higher-minded than those of any
other generation. “They are striving
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toward definite aims and objectives
and have a clear vision of the fu
ture.”
Continued on page 6
George Chambers, Bowdon, out
standing scholastic major and former
president of Mu Zeta Alpha has been
awarded a scholarship to Emory Uni
versity by competitive examination
in the field of public affairs given in
Atlanta last Saturday.
Chambers, along with six other
selected candidates from Georgia
colleges, was awarded this scholar
ship for the junior year by the White
side Memorial Fund of Knights
Templar Foundation. These seven
students will enroll at Emory this
summer in the division of public af
fairs.
Graduating from Bowdon high
school in 1940 with highest honors,
Chambers was awarded a scholarship
to West Georgia where he has con
tinued to make a brilliant scholastic
record. He has made the Dean’s list
twice out of four quarters.
Qualifications for eligibility for
one of these seven Emory scholar
ships were that student must be a
sophomore in college and have at
least a “B” average.
John Folger, of Genola, was also
an applicant and placed second.
President L S. Ingram, College’s First And
Only President, Delivers Main Address
West Georgia College celebrated its first Founders'
Day today with President I. S. Ingram of the college, who
has been its only president, delivering the keynote address.
Social Calendar
Announced By
Officer’s Club!
MANY VARIED AND
GALA ACTIVITIES
SET THIS QUARTER
Feeling the need of for a complete
social calendar for the spring quarter,
the Officer’s Club has compiled a
report from the social committees of
the various campus organizations as
to the time and nature of their spring
social.
The social calendar for the spring
quarter, drawn up by the Officers’
Club, is as follows:
April 17-18 (High School Sports
Day) Physical Education Depart
ment.
April 24 (Costume Ball) 4-H Club.
April 25 (Picnic) Press Forum.
May 1 (Parents’ Day) Voluntary
Religious Association.
May 6 (May Day) Alpha Psi.
May 8 (Steak Fry) Zeta Sigma Pi
and Debating Club.
May 9 (Picnic) V. R. A. Council.
May 14 (Picnic) Officers’ Club.
May 15 (Student Body Dance)
Women’s Dormitory.
May 16 (Banquet) “W” Club.
Evening, May 22 (Banquet) West
Georgian Staff.
May 22 (Picnic) West Georgia
Choir.
Afternoon, May 23 (Athletic Car
nival) Athletic Association.
May 29 (Banquet) Chieftain Staff.
May 30 (Final Dance) Freshman
Class.
Speaking Of Antiques-Mr. Gunn's
House Constructed 'Way Back In 1844
Did you know that Melson Hall stands on a slave
burial ground?
Did you know that there was once a brandy distillery
next to the library? Read the article below and discover
these amazing facts. (Picture on page 4)
By JIMMY PRESSLEY
The big house, now occupied by
our Dean, W. Fred Gunn, stood then
(1844) on a little knoll about half
way between the highway and the
present site of Adamson Hall. Twenty
yards farther back, where the dormi
tory now stands, was the kitchen
where the house servants cooked food
and brought it into the dining room
on large trays. A commissary room
joined the kitchen and a smokehouse
stood not far away.
Across the road (present highway)
in front of the dwelling were the
barns, the gin house, and a cotton
press.
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President Ingram reviewed the
founding of the institution and paid
tribute to the people of Carrollton
and this area for their foresightedness
in their vision and gifts which made
possible the institution.
" He then hastened to review the
action of the Board of Regents in
making a survey of the West Georgia
area through a reputable foundation
and recalled the beginning of the
College, which came officially into
being April 15, 1933.
Five outstanding students were
given high ranking honor awards this
morning at the chapel hour in con
junction with the celebration of West
Georgia’s first Founders’ Day.
These awards in certificate form
were presented to those students who
“have achieved a high degree of ex
cellence in study and have e. hibited
those qualities of character, of con
scientious devotion to duty, of in
telligent leadership, and of unfailing
courtesy exemplified by the life of
Gordon Watson, esteemed Professor
of English in this institution. Those
receiving Gordon WcUson Memorial
certificates were Jean Aycock, Car
rollton; Roy McGraw, Greenville;
Ross Whatley, Ashbum; Albert
Browning, Douglasville; and Wilda
Seagraves, Fayetteville.
In those doubtful days he recalled
the able leadership of Chancellor
Snelling and Chancellor Weltner. Mr.
Ingram told of the early faculty
how they were selected and the con
tributions which they made. Tribute
was paid Chancellor Sanford and the
present Board of Regents for their
continued interest and support in
making possible in the institution the
early objectives of the College.
Some factual matters were given to
Continued on page 6
The slave quarters were strung
along the ridge from the rear of the
kitchen to the present site of the Aca
demic building. The burying ground
for the slaves was the area now oc
cupied by the men’s dormitory.
One single expanse of woodland
reached from this spot almost to the
stores in Carrollton.
A brandy distillery was operated
on the little branch which ran from
a spring house just off the golf course
near the college library.
Thus was the appearance of the
campus of West Georgia College in
1844.