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VOLUME 11
GEORGIA SUPERVISORS
CONFERENCE HELD HERE
West Georgia College is acting
as host to the Georgia Depart
ment of Supervision and Curric
ulum Development at the an
nual meeting.
The theme of this meeting is
“Cooperative Planning in Com
munity Education for Child
Growth.” Many individual school
faculties, county supervisors and
their co-workers, school and
community groups, and teacher
children groups are growing
through cooperative planning and
increased consciousness of their
problems and a united attack in
the solution of these. By so do
ing, they are finding better ways
of working together, using all
members of the group and at
tacking more vital problems.
The first session of this meet
ing will be held January 28, 2:30
CWT, in the College Library.
The program will be centered
around “Cooperative Planning
in Carroll County.” The follow
ing people will give discussions:
DR. FOLGER POINTS OUT
WEST GEORGIA NEEDS
Dr. D. F. Fulger explained to
the chapel assembly on January
18 some of the most important
ideas brought out at the confer
ence of the American Associa
tion of Junior Colleges which he
recently attended in Cincinnati.
The first speaker Dr. Folger
quoted was Carl A. Gray, Presi
dent of the Greenley Manufactur
ing Company of Connecticut. Mr.
Gray pointed out that Americans
need to get their attention away
from the advertisements of to
day. He says streamlined cars,
modern homes, and other such
conveniences are not what will
fulfill America’s needs nor make
it great.
His main purpose, Dr. Folger
said, was to emphasize the im
portance of post-war employ
ment and to outline a plan for
the coming war against starva
tion and suffering. He believes
that to carry out the program
successfully, the same amount of
intelligence and money that was
used to transfer the nation from
peace to war must be used to
rebuild it after the war.
The speaker, Mr. Gray, who
has the unusual distinction of
being endorsed by both capital
and labor, outlined a plan for
post-war employment which
would offer specialized training
and good jobs to returning ser
vice men.
Two other speakers whom Dr.
Folger quoted were Lord Hali
fax from Great Britain and the
president of the League of Na
tions Assembly.
The president of the Assem
bly, a Norwegian, told how the
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DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
H. H. Giles, Grace Tietje, Edward
Yeomans, Lamar Barfoot, Edith
Caudill, and Jane Clonts.
A Banquet session will be held
in the Dining Room of the col
lege, 7:00 CWT, January 28. Dr.
Harold Alberty, Ohio State Uni
versity, Columbus, Ohio, will
speak on “Utilizing Needs of
Children and Building Curricu
lum.”
.A General Session will be held
in the Library, January 30, 9:00
CWT. Dr. Charles Prall, Coor
dinator, will speak on “Evalua
tion of Cooperative Planning.”
Mr. John Cook, of the Georgia
State Department of Education,
will discuss “Recruiting Teach
ers.”
Many of the supervisors, su
perintendents, principals, and
teachers will be entertained in
the three dormitories of the
campus. Several members of
West Georgia’s faculty are serv
ing on committees for arrange
ments during this conference.
Ruth Sturgis Now
President-Elect
State Association
Miss Ruth Sturgis, who has
been physical education director
at West Georgia College for the
last three years, was chosen to
succeed Dr. Tom McDonough of
Emory University as president
of the Georgia Association of
Health, Physical Education, and
Recreation. Miss Sturgis, as
president-elect, will take over her
post sometime in the spring of
the 1945-1946 term.
This election took place Sat
urday, January 15, at the execu
tive meeting of the Association
in Macon. She was previously
chairman of the District physi
cal fitness program.
Receives Degree at h. S. U.
She was born in Rock Hill,
South Carolina, and later attend
ed Winthrop College there. Af
ter attending Winthrop, she went
to L. S. U. where she received
her Masters Degree. She ad
mits that even as a child she was
very athletic and always wanted
to be a physical educaion teach
er. “I guess it has just always
been in my blood. To be frank, I
much preferred a good softball
game to practicing the piano.”
Speaks At Dallas P.-T. A.
Miss Sturgis spoke on “The
Importance of Recreation”
Thursday, January 20, at the
P.-T. A. meeting in Dallas.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1944
Pres. Ingram Speaks
On Post-War Planning
Considering what is currently
the most important question in
everyone’s mind. President In
gram spoke in chapel on “War
and Post-War Planning” on Jan
uary 11.
Many are confused as to what
is Education, according to Mr.
Ingram. He explained some
thought of Education as voca
tional education, as a disciplined
mind, as self-adjustment, and as
self-expression.
He pointed out that at West
Georgia much consideration has
been given to post-war planning
in Education. The faculty and
some student groups have al
ready given attention to the prob
lem and made suggestions as to
how it should be met. These
groups invite suggestions from
any individual or other group.
Mr. Ingram divided the great
problems which face everyone in
the future into national and in
dividual problems. He quoted
David Lilienthal’s observation
of the three essentials in work
ing out any program concern
ing people.
(1) The people must be in on
the planning.
(2) The people’s existing in
stitutions, private and public
must be made a part of it.
(3) The self-confidence of the
citizens, which is more impor
tant than specific projects or
physical changes, must be de
veloped.
He considers that the most im
portant national problems to be
faced are the race problem, the
labor problem, the conflict be
tween some economic groups and
the government, and the con
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NEW SOCIAL SCIENCE
TEACHER WELCOMED
West Georgia has been for
tunate in securing the services
of Mr. Thomas Herndon, of Car
rollton, during Dr. L. E. Robert’s
leave of absence.
Mr. Herndon was born in Car
rollton where has has lived most
of his life. He attended Carroll
ton High School and West Geor
gia College, where he served as
president of the student body
during his sophomore year. He
received his A. B. from Emory
in 1941 and has done gradute
work at Georgetown University
and the American University lo
cated in Washington, D. C.
Before coming to West Georgia
as Social Science teacher he
served as Civilian Personnel
Administrator for the War De
partment in Washingotn. Mr
Herndon is very much interest
ed in student and exra-curricu
lar activities. He states his de
sire is to associate with and be
come acquainted with each stu
dent at West Georgia.
Melson Hall Boys Sponsor
First Formal Dance of Year
GYM DECORATED LIKE NIGHT CLUB;
STURGIS AND WILLIAMS FACULTY SPONSORS
Melson Hall boys entertained the faculty and students
of W G. C. at the first formal dance of the year Saturday
night, January 22. . . .
Fire Destroys Aycock
Hall During Holidays
Aycock Hall, one of West
Georgia’s oldest buildings, was
almost completely destroyed by
fire December 28, 1943. This hap
pened while all students were
home for the holidays.
This building housed the col
lege store, the Commercial De
partment, and offices of Miss
Frances Champion, Director of
the State Home Economics
Teachers. In previous years the
second floor was used for a girls’
dormitory, but had been unoccu
pied since the N. Y. A. project
was removed from West Geor
gia.
Origin Still Unknown
The origin of the fire was un
known and only the records in
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Citizenship Committee
Develops Activities
Dr. H. H. Giles, director of
third year work, opened the first
meeting of the Citizenship Com
mittee Monday, January 17, with
the statement, “I believe that
what this committee does will
be of historic importance at
West Georgia!” Miss Jane V/ood
ruff, music teacher here, is di
rector of this permanent commit
tee and Dr. Giles is assisting in
organizing it.
Committee Completes Plans
The membership consists of
representatives chosen last
quarter from each advisory
group. Plans for the rest of the
year were discussed after Dr
Giles made his opening speech
Suggestions approved and ac
cepted were to promote and su
pervise recreation every other
week-end, to aid the faculty
staff in saving money, to spon
sor chapel programs, to stimu
late interest in the college, to
sponsor a clean-up program at
the beginning of each quarter,
and to plan and take part in the
reception for the State Super
visor’s convention to be held
here January 28 and 29.
Bobbie Cobb was elected sec
retary, but the group decided to
postpone the election of a chair
man.
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Gym Takes Form of Night
Club
The gymn was decorated to
look like a night club, complete
with a bar for the “cokes” and
ringside tables. The color motif
of the evening was red and blue,
West Georgia’s own colors.
Plans for the formal were be
gun the second week in January.
The boys decided that they
would like to give the dance be
fore some of them left for the
various branches of the armed
services. The town students
aided the boys in sponsoring
this dance, and guests were in
vited by many of the students.
Miss Ruth Sturgis, physical ed
ucation director, and Mrs. 11a
Williams, house mother of Mel
son Hall, were faculty sponsors.
Hugh Moss Heads Planning
Committee
Hugh Moss acted as head
chairman of the committee
which planned the dance and
those serving on his committee
were as follows: Harry Nix, re
ception chairman, Hayward Boy
ette, refreshments chairman,
Waldo Jones, decorations chair
man, and Bobby Moore, program
chairman.
The dance began at eight o’-
clock and ended at twelve. Songs
by Nell Ruth Davis, Earl Yates,
and Lester Castleberry formed
the program, or “floorshow.”
Paul Appel, Harry Nix and Bob
bie Cobb gave a skit, “Yasmak.”
Twenty-one New Records
Bought
An orchestra was not availa
ble, but the Physical Education
had just purchased twenty-one
new records by the most famous
contemporary orchestras. When
questioned on the subject later,
Bobby Moore, Melson Hall Presi
dent, replied, “I think the even
ing was a complete success!”
FRESHMAN CLASS
LOSES PRESIDENT
Charles Henderson, president
of the freshman class, left school
January 17 to spend a short va
cation with his parents in Rome,
Georgia, before going into train
ing as a Naval Aviation Cadet.
Charles began school at West
Georgia June 7, 1943. He was an
attractive, ambitious, and well
liked student. Every student en
rolled at West Georgia will miss
Charles, because he greeted ev
eryone with a smile and was wil
ling to help in anything he could.
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