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WHAT GENOLA TECH
MEANS TO ME
When Bobble Cobb asked what West Georgia
has meant to me, 1 grinned and said, “Oh, a lot.”
"What, for instance?” she said. “Give me
something definite.”
I was stumped. 1 had thought it would be
something big and marvelous that would make
people gasp in admiration. But it’s nothing big
about Genola that has made me love it. It’s a
lot of little, unimportant things, things you aren’t
even conscious of, usually.
But when you’re about to leave they sudden
ly become precious.
It’s things like cokes and Martha’s milk
shakes in the store, and a sandwich, too, if you
can afford it . . .
It’s Mr. Gunn’s deep, pleasant laugh, and
Dr. Robert’s cigarettes, and Mr. Huey’s tinkering
with the lawn mower . . .
It’s waiting for the mail, even when you
aren’t expecting any. It’s going to the gym and
RA 1 when you know there won’t be enough
boys to go around ... It’s hours spent in the
Music Room listening to some of the best music
the world has ever known. It’s choir practice and
choir trips you wouldn’t miss for anything . . .
It’s midnight feasts, and getting campused
for being in the wrong room at the wrong time . .
It’s the dances, with soft lights and the girls
looking like flowers in gay evening dresses, and
it’s May Day, and a lovely Queen in white with a
crown of flowers . . .
It’s the old students coming back, and the
happy reunion with some of the best friends you
ever made . . .
It’s the horse-opry on Saturday afternoons,
and it’s going home on week-ends, bringing back
a big box of good food, and inviting the gang in
to help you eat it . . .
It’s couples pairing off in the library . . .
It’s socials and parties with your advisory
group, and shooting bull with faculty and stu
dents in the back porch of the Ac building . . .
It’s the movies in chapel, and checking up
on your cuts to see if you can afford to cut that
class this afternoon ...
It’s clean-up day, and that crick in your neck
from washing windows . . •
It’s soccer and baseball, tennis and softball,
where nobody cares much who wins, just so it’s
a good game . . .
It’s loud-colored shoestrings and pigtails and
sunbaths and blistered faces'. . .
It’s Vespers on Sunday afternoon . . .
It’s house meetings and arguments over the
telephone bill . . .
It’s going to breakfast with a coat on over
your pajamas, griping about the food, and fight
ing over the salt . . .
It’s “Cloud Walking,” and the catalogue, and
Mr. Howell’s jokes in chemistry lab . . .
It isn’t anything outstanding about West
Georgia that “grows on you.” It’s a spirit of
friendliness all over the campus, it’s the people,
and a way of living and working together that
makes Genola a grand place. You come to love it
just because it’s “West Genola Tech.”
—Sophomore President.
WHAT DO YOU
THINK, FRESHMEN?
Well, Freshmen, what do you think of this
place, now? I say now because I believe our
opinion has changed since we first came.
It must have been after the first hour here
at West Georgia that we changed our opinion.
Before we came most of us knew very little
about the college; but when we arrived every
one was so nice and friendly that we just couldn t
help liking it here.
The first week would have been pretty dull
and lonely for most of us, had not the old stu
dents and the faculty had such a wonderful pro
gram worked out to get us acquainted with the
college, its faculty, and students.
All through this year there have been activi
ties in which we Freshmen have had majoi
parts. Next year it is going to be our turn to
stand in the background. Remember how swell
the “Sophs” were to us this year! Let us show
the Freshmen of next year how much West
Georgia means to us by giving them an even
heartier welcome than we had.
The West Georgian
WEST GEORGIAN STAFF MEMBERS:
BOBBIE COBB Editor-in-Chief
NELL RUTH DAVIS Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE CANTRELL Business Manager
ARCHIE GALLMAN Circulation Manager
MARIE CAMPBELL Faculty Adviser
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Recruiting Offices.
TO THE CLASS OF 1944
The class of 1944 will be known as the war class. It is the
smallest in number. The quality of the class is superb. You were
not allured by the many jobs which would have paid you so well.
You realized that this country needed prepared people—that those
in the vanguard of constructive service would be the well train
ed people.
May we express a hope that all of you will finish your college
careers—that you dedicate yourself to the service of your state.
This state needs you. It is said that the South has spent $17,500,-
000,000 on 3,500,000 young people who went North and East for
work.
It is gratifying to the faculty that you choose this institution.
You join a group numbering more than a thousand who have gra
duated from this institution. The faculty hopes that you will be
constructively critical of this young institution —that together
we may build at West Georgia a school that meets the needs of
the young people of this area.
In these critical days, it is well to remember the cheering
words of DroClaxton in an address hert: “There are people today
there will be people tomorrow. They must be fed—they must be
clothed—they must be housed—they must be educated.” Certainly
there is work to do. But there is more. You will have a part in
building a greater, more democratic America. Builders are im
mortal.
—President Ingram.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Campus Spotlight
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GLADYS WEAVER
President of the Social Science Club; Vice-
President of V. R. A., member of the Mu Zeta
Alpha and W. A. A. Also made Varsity Soccer
Team.
Room 102 at Mandeville is always humming
with excitement. Girls are in and out Gladys
room all day—planning Social Science or V. R. A.
programs, or things that I never understand.
Gladys is a “fer piece” from home. She hails
from Fort Gaines, a small town in South Geor
gia on the red banks of Chattahoochee river.
Hobbies: subscribing to joke books, writing
poetry, collecting 1944 pennies.
Her ambition is to learn Spanish and go to
South America. Maybe that accounts for the
reason that she calls all her friends “Pedro.”
Gladys likes people, celery, to get mail, the
Navy, to work, to laugh, Olin Miller, and Walter
Lippman. She dislikes biology, carrots, and snobs.
Pastime: Skating, arguing about political
problems, bowling. •
Funny thing, but Gladys always reads a
magazine from back to front in order not to
miss the cartoons.
When asked about West Georgia, she said:
“I love W. G. C. and what it stands for.” After
graduation in June she plans to remain at the
college and be a secretary. Gladys has definitely
been a helpful asset about the campus.
BETTY WATSON
A bicycle cruised up and stopped in front
of the “Ac building,” and Betty parked the
vehicle and walked cooly to her humanities class.
She has been taking advantage of keeping that
slim “figger” by bicycling home for lunch.
Betty, called by her friends “Tillie,” is a
tall, handsome, smooth girl who has all the quali
fications of a model. She is most fortunate
beauty and brains combined.
Betty likes cold showers, the sleepy sound of
rain on the roof, Presbyterian Ministers (a sartin’
one!), coffee, people who aren’t run-o’-the mill,
people who have a “heap of smart,” and horse
back riding. See, boys she is quite versatile
one!
She dislikes —snooty people, exams on Fri
day, getting up in the morning, and oysters.
Her ideal man (a touchy subject) would be
super tall, strictly on the ball, smooth, savoir
faire, and a good dancer.
What spare time is hers is spent loafing.
Ambition: Secret ambition is to fly. She
wants to get a suntan and graduate from Chapel
Hill, N. C. (will leave here for C. H. in June)—
to /get married (ultimately).
PERRY ROWE
Introducing Perry as “sweat shirt boy” of
the campus is the beginning of a bit of news on
his inside life. Rowe, as he is preferrably called
by the co-eds, is a tall, slim guy usually seen
leaning against the radiator in the hall of the
“Ac building” enjoying his pipe, or drinking a
cup of coffee in the store before algebra class.
Rowe chuckled a bit when asked about his
pre-college days, and your reporter came to the
conclusion that this smooth guy was once a
problem child ... Asa lad, he had fun going bare
footed and said he always had stumped-toes. It
seems he had a few fights hither and yon, and
he remembers most the year (age 6) when Santa
Claus brought him an automatic rifle. The out
of-doors is a good part of Rowe’s adventurous
life. Hunting and fishing along the Chattahoo
chee brought back the good ol’ days.
Dislikes: Women drivers, gas rationing (“or
should I have said, sugar rationing?”)
Likes: Dancin(g, traveling, horseback rid
ing, spring, repairing radios.
Favorite songs: “You and I,” “Little David,
and “Rosalita.”
Favorite Dishes: Strawberry shortcake, fried
chicken, sour wine.
Pastime: hunting.
He plans to join the Marine Air Corps soo
He likes girls— preferably blondes —three
years old (ah, Rowe, you’re holding out on u?
Who’s the lucky girl?)
Friday, June 2, 194 !