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Veteran's Club Not To Act
As Pressure Group
By Roy E. Eossett
The Veteran s Club, in arriving at tht decision
not to act as a pressue group to secure special ad
vantages for its members, is to be applauded.
Since the inception of the Veteran’s Club at
West Georgia, the administration and faculty have
gone to great lengths to give the Veterans every
good break they could reasonably expect. Nat
urally with the Veterans now composing a good
percentage of the total enrollment, it is fallacious
reasoning to ask for special privilege or benefits.
However, the suggestion of establishing a
Public Relation council to take Veteran griev
ances to the proper officials was a very wise one.
By the establishment of such a committee and by
staffing it with persons interested in its welfare,
friction between so large a special interest group
and the college administration, and also the gen
eral student body can be held to a minimum.
Here f ofore the Veterans at this institution have
occupied a warm place in the student body. To
jeopardize the Veteran’s standing here would be
nothing but folly.
Suggest a Name For
College Store
By Helen Brown
Just a few minutes ago I finished writing a
news story about the college store. After re
peating "college store’’ several times, I wished I
could call it something else. The only solution
to that problem seemed to be to name it.
School is a subject of common interest. When
you are talking with someone about his school,
he brings out the name of the college store, be
cause almost every school has one. Do we want
to be thought of as too backward or lazy to give
our store a name? I don’t and besides having a
name for the store would be a help to us. When
someone asks, "Want to go to the store with
me?” we want to know which store he is talking
about.
Come on, somebody, sponsor a store naming
program. To start it off I suggest "Pride ari Joy!”
School Spirit! Where Is It?
What Is It?
School spirit constitutes many things, the
greatest of these being enthusiasm. Where is it?
Right here at West Georgia. Yes our school is
here, but it needs someone to find it. How can
we find it? Its simple, just yell, and yell loud
for our team —Saturday.
Saturday night West Georgia’s first football
team will take the field to start anew era of ac
tivities at W. G. C. Will the student body let
our first fighting eleven down? Of course they
won’t. They will yell and cheer loud in victory
or defeat.
A good sport will come through when the
chips are down, and we will yell encouragement
and fight even harder when the odds are against
us.
So lets yell, holler, fight, and cheer Saturday
and at every other game. We won’t let our
team down, will we? They need us.
West Georgian Staff, 1946-1947
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ten Hutcheson
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Billie Cheney
SPORTS EDITOR Clarence Salmon
FEATURE ERITOR Poll y Griffin
CIRCULATION HANAGER Helen Brown
BUSINESS MANAGER J°y ce J ones
REPORTERS: Roy Fossett, Mildred Garner, George Daniel,
William Anthony, Bonnie Bruce, James Turner, Rebecca Burrus,
Frank Rushton, Betty Whiteside, Sue Quntion, Marion Moon, Edith
Harrod, Barbara Bishop, Betty Jean Johnson, and Sherman Lindsay.
FACULTY ADVISERS: Marvina Wallingford, Marie Campbell.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.25
The Fourteenth Convocation
By President /. S. Ingram
The formal opening Tuesday, October 1, marked the four
teenth annual occasion in the history of the college. The student
body was good fo: Lie eyes and the record number thrilled the
old members of the faculty. Males were in the ascendency.
West Georgia likes that record.
Dr. John Inzer, the speaker, knew what to say to people
beginning the great task of enriched education. He reminded
the young people that they lived in a critical and confused day.
He recalled to each present that he or she was a debtor who must
live a life of consecrated service in acknowledgement of this great
debt. This age, he continued, is the most challenging.
As one listened, he could not help but reflect. The student
body out-numbered the enrollment of any single institution in the
state prior to World War I. Could this mean anything? It does,
but space demands the answers in another issue. It is enough to
note the potential influence of more than five hundred students is
unlimited and unpredictable. Yet leaders in all phases of life
are now on the campus of West Georgia College. If the writer
had a comment, it could be summarized:
1. Keep the campus a friendly place by being friendly and
helpful.
2. Utilize to the fullest the opportunities here.
3. Set worthy goals for yourself.
The poet cautioned well:
"So here hath been dawning
Another new day
Think! Will thou let it
Slip useless away—”
National Clinic On
Teacher Education
Assembles in Atlanta
On November 3rd, some two hun
dred leaders in teacher education
from all over the United States will
assemble in Atlanta for the Nation
al Clinic on Teacher Education.
Willing guineapig for clinical diag
nosis will be Georgia’s program for
the pre-service and in-service edu
cation of teachers.
Georgia is being more than host
for these visitors. During the week
they are in the state they will be
offered for critical appraisal many
samples of Georgia’s efforts to im
prove education by improving
teaching. For its part, Georgia ex
pects to get much help and stimu
lation for the further development
of such good ideas as it has; for the
visitors, it hopes to serve as a sort
of indicator of ideas which can be
used elsewhere.
In the approaching National
Teachers Education Clinic, which
will convene in Georgia November
3-9, the following delegates have
registered to spend November 6
and November 7 studying West
Georgia’s and Carroll County’s pro
gram for pre-service and in-service
teacher education:
Amanda Hebeler, Director of
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Training, Central Washington Col
lege of Education, Ellenburg, Wash
ington.
Dr. Olivia Futch, Furman Univer
sity, Greenville, S. C.
Mr. James T. Anderson, State
Supt. of Schools (Elect) Florence,
S. C.
Miss Mary Eva Hite, State De
partment of Education, Columbia,
S. C.
Dr. W. Morrison McCall, State
Department of Education, Mont
gomery, Ala.
Mr. Frank Thomas, President
Fresno State College, Fresno, Calif.
R. S. Mitchell, President State
Teachers College, La Crosse, Wis.
Dr. Herbert D. Welte, President
Teachers College of Connecticut,
New Britain, Conn.
Dr. J. W. Jones, President, North
west State Teachers College, Mary
ville, Missouri.
D. G. McGarey, Supervisor of
Student Training, Morris Harvey
College, Charleston, W. Va.
Dean Waldo E. Lessenger, Col
lege of Education, Wayne Univer
sity, Detroit, Michigan.
Mr. L. E. Bixler, Director of Ele
mentary Teacher Education, Musk
ingum College, New Concord, Ohio.
Dr. and Mrs. Karl Adams, Presi
dent Northern Illinois State Teach
ers College, DeKalb, Illinois.
Campus Spotlight
LAMAR KNIGHT
President of Sophomore class. February 7 was
a big day for Heard County, for on that day in
1921 A. D., Lamar Knight made his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Knight, very happy with his
arrival.
Unity Grammar and Junior High claimed
Lamar’s earlier days. When asked what he did
there he said: "Playing basketball and flirting
with the girls is positively all I can remember.”
Next —Centralhatchee High, where he kept up
his athletic standing and made many friends.
Lamar called W.G.C. "home" for three quart
ers in 1939. In September 1942, Lamar donned
the Navy "blues." Through boot camp at Nor
folk, Aviation Machinist Mate School in Jackson
ville, Engineering School at LaGuardia Field,
Lamar emerged a full-fledged aviator and took
up flying over Honolulu and a million other
South Pacific spots.
In 1945 Knight’s roamin’ days came to an
abrupt end and he was back at dear Old Alma
Mater.
Lamar expects to some day be a first class
lawyer "That is, if I can ever pass this
Spanish," he says. But that shouldn’t be so hard,
Lamar, what with being coached by a centain
little brown-haired schoolmarm.
"What do I like? Oh, everything, mostly, ex
cept cabbage. Especially, huntin’ and fishin’. All
sorts of athletics, going places, lemon pie, school
teachers and ah, yes,—redheads.”
Big, smiling, blue-eyed, dark haired, 5 foot 9’
er —That’s our own Lamar Knight.
LEWIS ADAMS
PRESIDENT OF STUDENT BODY
’Twas on September 21, 1922 that Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Athur Adams, Sr., of Bowdon, Geor
gia, U. S. A., were made very happy with two
blessed events, namely Lewis and Louise (or per
haps you didn’t know our big, blonde, day stu
dent had a "better half.”)
Through Bowdon Grammar and High School,
Lewis kept up his record of bein an A-l scholar
and he was known as a star player in the foot
ball world. He filled the places of left end and
right guard.
In September 1940, Adams heard Uncle Sam
call and he was off with the Navy to some 42
different countries, engaging in 10 naval battles
in 41 months overseas.
With Lewis, football, horse-racing, converti
bles, sparkling diamonds, dancing, blue ties, and
brunettes rate —and we do mean RATE.
Asked about his ambition Lewis said, "Maybe
I’ll take Mr. Talmadge’s place someday—any
way, a State Department job of some sort.”
This, friends, is a summary of the inside facts
of our very efficient Student Body President.
A nervous passenger on the first day of her
Atlantic trip asked the Captain what would be
the result if the ship should strike an iceberg
while the boat was plunging through the fog.
"The iceberg would move right along, madam,
he replied, courteuosly, "just as if nothing haa
happened.”
And the old lady was greatly relieved.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1946