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Page Two 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 ■■ ,■======== Published Monthly by the Students of West Georgia College, Genola, Ga. Printed by Frank T. Thomason, Printing, Carrollton, Georgia. Subscription Rate: Member s Y T a. Stated Coßeftide Pre WAVES in Action ★ * Link Trainer Instructor | This WAVE—and hundreds like her—helps keep ’em flying. She’s an important cog in the machinery which makes Navy fliers. Asa Link Trainer Instructor, her job is to give directions to fliers, seated in cockpits of stationary training planes. The instrument in front of her, called a “crab,” records how well the pilot carries out those directions. Asa result of this kind of training, hazards are greatly reduced for pilots when they go aloft. The inset shows a rating badge worn by Ling Trainer Instructors, the “T” mean ing teacher. Anew booklet about the WAVES is available at Navy 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 k •* 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 !