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GREETINGS FROM OUR
PRESIDENT
West Georgia College opened its thirteenth ses
sion with a record student body. The large num
ber stimulated the whole school and gave us much
satisfaction.
We think that the new students have chosen a
good school. An inspector from the Veterans
Bureau, here this week looking over the facilities
of the school, said it was one of the best equipped
in the southeast and quite superior to a great
many junior colleges. This comment was made to
Dean Gunn who accompanied the inspector.
It is a matter of record and pride that the grad
uates of West Georgia College take their place
among the large universities with confidence and
achievement.
The fall term will be spent largely in getting ad
justed. The student organizations will offer all op
portunities for growth and advancement.
As I go over the state as Governor of Rotary I
meet many of your parents. Won’t you bring them
in to see me when they visit the campus? In your
own problems won’t you come in and talk to me
about them?
Cordially,
I. S. INGRAM
GLORY IS WHERE YOU
FIND IT
(By Virginia Brooks)
You, the new students of West Georgia, have
begun anew period of your lives. You have new
responsibilities. Many of you are away from your
homes and friends for the first time. You will
have many trials and triumphs. The triumps will
be worth the trials.
Set your goals high, and work until you reach
the highest rung of the ladder. The climbing
will be hard; however, the burden will be lighter,
if you will carry God with you. Don’t be dis
couraged if you do not reach the top quickly.
You must realize that there is no reaching the
top of a ladder without starting at the bottom.
I once heard the late Chancellor S. V. Sanford
say, "Be very careful what you set your heart
upon, for you shall surely have it.”
Always remember glory and success can be
yours, but not "for the asking.” In the words of
our own President Truman, "You must work!
Work ! Work!”
Three months ago I viewed three men at a
Bond Rally in a small town. One bought a #SOO
Bond. The other two bought #IOO Bonds each.
Sixty days later I saw these three men cash their
Bonds at a bank in a large city. They were paid
the full value in good currency. Uncle Sam
plays the game that way. Afterwards they spent
it on a rowdy celebration. Yes, they were martyrs
at the Bond Rally, and nothing was said when
they demanded the cash; no one knew; no one
saw — no one except me. I see things like that.
A certain company takes on a number of young
men during the summer. On their salary receipts
is printed a legend something like this: "Your
salary is your personal business a confidential
matter —and should not be disclosed to anybody
else.”
Anew boy signing the receipt added: "I won’t
mention it to anybody. I’m just as much asham
ed of it as you are.”
The West Georgian
WEST GEORGIAN STAFF MEMBERS:
Acting Editor* Martha Wilson, Oliver Lindsey
Associate Editor Margaret Martin
Feature Editors Bobbie Step, Ed Johnson
Circulation Manager Christine Eidson
Business Manager ...Jane Cole
Sports Editors Clarence Salmon, Billie Cheney
Faculty Advisor Miss Marie Campbell
REPORTERS: Parrie Rogers, Mab!e Smith, Virginia Brooks, Char
lotte Pearson, Betty Jean Johnson, Barbara Bishop, Matilda West,
Ray Miller, Ottye Lee Mundy, Jo Garner, Louise Pennington, Martha
Brown, and Marion Moon.
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Chancellor Steadman V. Sanford
The death of Dr. Steadman V. Sanford, Chancellor of the University
System of Georgia, marked the passing from Georgia’s life of the outstand
ing personality of recent times. Dr. Sanford’s decade of service as Chancel
lor was one of expansion and progress. He emphasized improvement of
plant facilities, and agricultural and industrial research. As an educational
statesman he has had no peer since Abraham Baldwin who first had the
idea of an integrated state University System in 1785.
The late Chancellor, however, was primarily a teacher. He was at his
best in the classroom and on the campus as a guide and companion of
young men and women. He loved people and life activity. He saw drama
and human interest in every social situation.
Dr. Sanford was a scholar who inspired qualities of scholarship in every
one he touched. He was equally at home in expounding a Gothic and
Anglo-Saxon sentence structure or in analyzing the details of the latest foot
ball formation. He believed, with the Renaissance scholars, in the perfecti
bility of man. Therefore, he was not a pedantic scholar who led a cloistered
life but a scholar who lived adventurously in an interesting world. Though
he loved the classics and the traditional educational disciplines, he was an
outstanding champion of progressive education and vocational training.
He was equally at home on the Oxford University campus in England and
in the classroom of John Dewey at Chicago or Columbia.
Chancellor Sanford was a great American. He served his country in the
Spanish-American War, trained soldiers on the University of Georgia Cam
pus in Word War I, and turned over the facilities of the University system
for military use when Pearl Harbor plunged the country into World War 11.
In fact, the necessities of war were placed in paramount priority for four
years of his Chancellorship. Too he was greatest as a Georgian. He liter
ally carried on a one man educational institution for twenty years in the
halls and corridors leading to the legislative chambers in Atlanta. He fought
for better common schools, high schools and colleges. He sponsored better
agricultural and industrial methods as a basis for an improved living stan
dard for every Georgian. He, as no other Georgia leader, envisioned the
new world of abundance which must be planned and implemented if the
fruits of victory were not to be allowed to turn to bitter dissapointment.
The creed of Dr. S. V. Sanford was not that of a brilliant meteor which
merely flashed across the sky only to dazzle with its brilliance for a few
moments. His was a life of growth step by step from that of High School
Principal at Marietta, Georgia in 1895 to the Chancellorship of the Uni
versity System forty years later. He built as he went and the educational
developments he sponsored became important stones in the structure of the
progressive educational and cultural expansion of the South. He was not
satisfied to leave any institution which he touched unchanged. He carried
Marietta, Georgia, from the era of the Academy to that of integrated pub
lic school system in a few years. Then he began as instructor in English
at the University of Georgia in 1903 and in the course of thirty years rose
to the presidency of that great institution. Meanwhile, he taught regular
classes and engaged in extra-curricular and civic activities which carried
him into every important phase of campus, state, and regional life. He
saw the need of training a higher class personnel in Georgia journalism
and thus was born the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism. He became
Chairman of the Athletics Committee at the University at a time when
chaos rgiened throughout the South in regard to pirating of players, lack
of standards, and hiring of players. Asa result, he was the dominant force
in forming the Southeastern Conference for establishing higher athletic
standards for the region. As Chancellor of the University system he made
his most noticeable contributions in making large expansions in buildings
on every campus in the system, in fostering an integrated system of colleges,
and in securing increased appropriations and allocations of funds for an
expanded program.
This great leader was untiring in his efforts to build a great educational
system for Georgia. He was uterally a human dynamo of energy, and never
rested until his goal had been reached. On September 11, 1945, the day
preceding the Chancellors sudden illness, the writer saw Dr. Sanford in
action for the last time. The occasion was the first Postwar meeting of the
Council of the University System. The place was the Chamber of the
House of Representatives in the State Capitol. The purpose was to organize
the combined faculties of the System for a cooperative assault upon the
THE WEST GEORGIAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 194?
CAMPUS SPOTLIGHT
ED JOHNSON
President of Student Body, Secretary and
Treasurer of Mu Zeta Alpha, Dramatic Club,
Baptist Student Union, 500 Club, Choir, Demo
cratic Youth Society, Varsity Basketball, Varsity
Football, West Georgian Staff and Chieftain.
Into the lives of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Johnson of
Grantville, Ga., fell little Thomas Edward John
son on July 17, 1927. Immediately following his
arrival, young Mr. Johnson set his life goal for
130 years. Now, he’s paging anyone who has time
to lend, because he has a longing to be a city
editor of a newspaper. Not that it will take him
long to become such, with his outstanding leader
ship ability, but he’s wondering if he couldn’t use
a little borrowed time.
Our well chosen campus leader graduated from
Grantville High School with a record in basket
ball which spoke over that of his team mates.
Ed likes creole salad, brunettes, and West Geor
gia. Elaborating on the brunettes, he likes them
5’ 2V2” tall, 117 lbs, with brown eyes and emphat
ic dimples. (Anyone in particular, I wonder.)
Just to let people know that Ed’s ambitions may
be recognized, may I recal to some and acquaiiu
others with the bosom friend Ed made of the
"smelly enemy” of Melson Hall last year, through
a very exciting feature on Mr. Kitty.
Here’s to your long life and-great success on the
newspaper, Ed.
MARGARET MARTIN
President of Sophmore Class, President of V.
R. A., Vice President of Adamson Hall, Baptist
Student Union, Officer’s Club, Choir, Zeta Sigma
Pi, Spanish Club and West Georgian Staff.
Margaret Martin who hit West Georgia for the
first time in '44, hit Comer, Georgia onl June 30,
1927. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Martin
were destined to the rearing of a young female
Tarzan, until Margaret fell out of a tree and the
doctor’s prescription was an abolition of her lar
zan ability.
Margaret graduated from Comer High School
as valedictorian of her class, and to West Georgia,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin contributed their brown
haired daughter.
Dislikes peculiar to Miss Martin are people who
stare, strong language, butter beans, and people
who use her comb. But she isn’t hard to please,
because she loves a variety of other things such
as poetry, basketball, sour kraut, humanity an
music, and especially West Georgia and her roorn
m "My ideal man?” sighed she—"Oh just let him
be tall, brunette, preferably, but I’d take a blon e
if he had broad shoulders, a strong character ant
liked the same things I do.” That means too, that
Christianity should come first in his life*
Margaret is an ideal nursemaid as Adamson
angels can tell you, but we’re positive she and suc
ceed in anything she undertook, because a P
with the staunch character, pleasing personality,
and good looks of Margaret Martin couldn t do
otherwise!
educational problems of all the stare suppor e .
tions of higher learning. The Chancellor rea
the principle that progress in the University by
must come by the democratic P roc ? ss - toward the en
the meeting he read a paper on the Place of t e
Supported Institutions of Higher Education , an
ingly remarked that he had prepared this speec or
Regents who would meet on the following day.
The writer does not know whether the Chancellor g
around to reading the address to the Regents be °J e
fatal illness struck him down. But if he did rea
masterly summary of the functions of the Univet
System in the modern state, it is reasonable to e iev
that he told the Regents that it had been prepare o
the enlightenment of the University Council on t e o
ceding day. Both statements would have been true
and would have been characteristic of Chancellor -
ford, the matchless teacher and unrivaled leader o me^'
The writer had the privilege of taking many cour
under Dr. Sanford. One subject was the English •
The plots and names of characters striding throug ' ~
numerous great works studied two decades ago a '
gradually faded from memory. Yet when one
George Elliot’s book "Silas Marner” there flashy
through the mind the voice and words of Dr. San or
as he summarized the great lesson of the book into t
simple sentence: "And a little child shall lead them a i-
All the turmoil and drama in Dickens’ * Tale or *
Cities” was boiled down by Dr. Sanford into the 0
ing sentence: "Greater love hath no man than this, tn
he lay down his life for a friend.” Thus the Chance,
taught and led youth to catch a glimpse of the e } err e
values that were the warp and woof of a
which he was truly a representative of the highest