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VOLUME 13
Veteran’s Club Sponsors earn Dance
Visitors Highly
Praise Carroll
County Project
Visitors wno attended National
Educational Clinic in Atlanta, No
vember 3-8, and who also visited
the Carroll County project were
very much impressed with the work
Carroll County and West Georgia
College are doing.
Miss Amanda Hebeler of Ellens
burg, Washington was quoted as
saying, “I am impressed with the
way you are serving a great com
munity and have made them a part
of the College experiences. It is a
challenge. I wish I could carry
back the real feeling of this place
to my faculty.”
“The idea that you help the local
community take what they now
have and built it better is a won
derful idea. I do have a suggestion
to make in Field Services —Better
Health Program. Put in a clinic in
the school. Students are brought
for diagnosis. Service should come
from the college. Hearing, vision,
and speech should be checked care
fully. Ten per cent of students us
ually have defective hearing. Get
latest equipment for checking the
hearing, vision, etc., and train
teachers to use them. This work
is very important,” stated Mr. Fred
strong of Nebraska.
Mr. Van Anthwerp of Moreland,
Kentucky, was very enthusiastic
when he said, “I came to see if the
good things I had heard about the
work here were true. They are
true in a great measure. It is inter
esting to see the development
among the parents this work can
and is causing. It has had a very
good effect outside of the school on
the community.”
Mr. Allmon of Indiana replied, “I
am impressed with the courtesy
and warm hospitality here. This
growing educational program is so
artistic and natural here. The
greatest needs I see are for special
aid in health, speech, etc. You
should know how many children
have defective hearing and speech
defects.”
Mr. L. E. Bixler from New Con
cord, Ohio, stated, “We have seen
something that is spiritual here.
We like it very much.”
“You are facing the problems,
thinking them through, and doing
something about them. You have
the same problem here that we
have in South Carolina, the rela
tionships with the negro race and
the improvement of their schools.
There are ways and means of at
tacking this problem. Have com
mittees working together on the
common problem. The negro staff
and white staff can work problems
out together,” replied Dr. Olivia
Futch of Greenville, South Carolina.
We should all be very proud of
these comments on West Georgia
College and Carroll County.
Due to continued Increase In prices, and the desire of the Diniwf
Hall Administration to. furnish wholesome meals, the board for
the next quarter will be raised eight dollars.
HORACE ACKLEN, Business Manager.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1946
WEST GEORGIA
COLLEGE OBSERVES
THANKSGIVING
The dining hall contingent of
West Georgia College will observe
Thanksgiving Monday night, No
vember 25.
A tea dance sponsored by Mrs.
Abbott and her council will be giv
en in the gymnasium from 6:00
o’clock to 7:00 o’clock and dinner in
the dining hall will be served at
7:00 o’clock.
The entertainer for the occasion
will be Graham Jackson, the dis
tinguished negro artist, well known
to the south as an entertainer. He
is best remembered as the person
who played the accordion on the
funeral march of the late President
from the cottage to the train at
Warm Springs.
Miss Harrington announces that
due to lack of space, there will be
no room for visitors.
V. R. A. Council
Adds New Members
An impressive candlelight service
on Wednesday evening, November
13, in the gymnasium inducted 21
new members into the Voluntary
Religious Association Council. From
the 54 applications received by the
council nine sophomores and twelve
freshmen were chosen to serve.
The installation service was op
ened with a prelude of worshipful
music played by Iris Swanson. The
hymn “I Would Be True,” a favo
rite of many young people, preced
ed an inspirational devotional by
Marguerite Harper. Mrs. Guy Shan
non played special music on the
piano, followed by a prayer by Miss
Marion Crider, V.R.A. faculty ad
visor. Another song, “Follow the
Gleam,” led up to talks by V.R.A.
officers which terminated in the
candlelight ceremony. Evelyn Mal
com thanked those who had applied
and were not accepted, for their
their interest and expressed the de
sire that, though the council was
limited to thirty and everyone
couldn’t be accepted, they would
still support the work in every way
possible. Lee Munday explained
what the V.R.A. had meant to her
personally. Barbara Bishop wel
comed the new members and read
a letter written by last year’s presi
dent, Margaret Martin, explaining
the work of the council.
New and old members held light
ed candles together during the
benediction.
Those inducted into the council
were: Hazel Adcock, Dorcas Barker,
Sara Berryman, Betty Bettis, Wen
dell Campbell, Betty Zane Caswell,
Virginia Christian, Margaret Ann
Church, Nan Cliett, George Daniel,
Evelyn Entrekin, Mildred Garner,
Margaret Goodson, Polly Griffin,
Mac Griffith, Ann Holcombe, Hil
dred Hubbard, Jacqueline Isbell,
Ross Miller, Sue Quinton, and Ruby
Shelton,
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
Dramatics Class
Will Present
Comedy-Drama
Are you a lover of mystery?
Comedy? Drama? You will find
each of these awaiting you on De
cember 6 if you attend the comedy
drama, “The Night of January Six
teenth,” being presented by the
Dramatics Class.
Karen Andre is being tried for
the murder of Bjorn Faulkner, and
the entire action of the play takes
place in the jury room. A jury will
be chosen from the audience when
the curtain opens. The jury will be
asked to sit in a jury box on the
stage and, after hearing the evi
dence presented, will render a ver
dict of guilty or not guilty. The
play is supplied with two endings
so that the cast may carry on re
gardless of the vex diet.
The cast of characters include:
Prison Matron Harriett Wallace
Baliff Bailey Murphy
Judge Heath Wayne Hall
Dist. Atty. Flint James Dunaway
His Secretary Frances Gillespie
Clerk of the Court Bill Hogg
Karen Andre Helen Tucker
Dr. Kirkland Willis Huff
Mrs. John Hutchins....lris Swanson
Homer Van Fleet Hosman Prince
Elmer Sweeney George Daniel
Nancy Lee Faulkner, Evelyn Malcom
Madge Snenson Kathryn Todd
John G. Whitfield Edwin Brock
Jane Chandler Sarah Berryman
Siqund Jungquest Lewis Adams
Larry Regan Lewis Woods
Roberta Van Rensseller, Floella Key
Stenographer Helen Dobbs
Policeman Raymond Melear
Other members of the Dramatics
Class not chosen for the play are
helping out by serving on the vari
ous committees.
Admission for the play will be:
Adults, 60c, including tax, children,
30c, including tax, and West Geor
gia students will not be charged ad
mission.
Vets Club Sponsors
Chapel Program
Friday, October 18, Merlin Simon
ton presided over one of the most
amusing and interesting chapel
programs of the year. This pro
gram, a series of travel talks and
experiences of several veterans, re
ceived much favorable comment.
Lead-off man was Charlie Turner,
telling of a flight over Peking and
a visit to the old center of China’s
culture. He vividly described the
contrast of the very old and the
new and the horrors that years of
war left to the Chinese people. He
took us on a tour of the sights of
the city.
Second speaker, Frank Camp, told
of his time as visitor of the Rus
sians in occupied Poland after his
plane had been forced down while
over Poland following a bombing
mission. He paid high tribute to the
valiant Poles for their courtesies to
the Americans. He was not in the
least enthusiastic, and even critized
the policy of treatment handed
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Exciting times in the gymnasium last Saturday night, November 16,
when the Veterans Club sponsored a gala old fashioned barn dance!
The entire student body and faculty were invited and not a soul wished
he hadn’t gone. With high spirits from fun and laughter, boys and girls
swinging to the tunes played by the Blue Bonnet Boys, forgot about
books and classes for four hilarious hours.
Prominent Manufacturer
Addresses Assembly
In keeping with the policy of pre
senting one prominent speaker each
week, West Georgia College was
honored to have How’ard See, prom
inent Atlanta manufacturer, address
the student body Tuesday, Novem
ber 19.
Mr. See was engaged in private
manufacturing until the war and at
that time started production of war
goods. Speaking of post-war re
conversion difficulties, Mr. See said,
“We have to reconvert ourselves to
this new era. It is more simple to
re-equip our factories than to con
vert ourselves.”
When Mr. See entered Cornell
University as a student he noticed
there was a sign over the gate
which read as follows:
So enter that daily thou mayest become
more learned and thoughtful,
So depart that daily thou mayest become
more useful to thy country and mankind.
This slogan, and his many years
of experience in the industrial
world, led Mr. See to wonder about
the value of man and how that
value is built up.
Mr. See believes that there are
two kinds of value: potential value
and actual or immediate value. As
the foundation for potential value
Mr. See listed six basic parts:
1. Character
2. Personality
3. Intellect
4. Vigor
5. General knowledge
6. Clear thought
Actual value has as its basic parts:
1. special knowledge
2. Technique
3. Field of influence
In conclusion, Mr. See extended
an invitation for all students pre
sent to stay in Georgia by saying,
“I don’t know of any other place in
the world where these values can
be developed more effectively than
right here in the state of Georgia.
I hope many of you will stay with
us.”
Students Attend
Concerts in Atlanta
Forty West Georgia students
were fortunate this year in secur
ing season tickets to the All-Star
Concert series in Atlanta. Two con
certs have already been held and
six more are to follow during the
winter and spring months.
The first performance was a Ver
di opera, “II Trovatore,” meaning
"The Troubadour.” The costuming
and music were beautiful and the
students attending followed the
performance with interest. The sec
ond concert was a program of
Charles Kullman, tenor, and Nadine
Conner, contralto, in joint recital.
Those concerts to follow include:
the famed violinist, Fritz Kreisler
on November 19; Ballet Russe de
Monte Carlo, January 11; Lily Pons,
February 1; Pittsburg Symphony
Orchestra, February 21; Arthur
Rubinstein, March 26; and the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra, April
21.
The Blue Bonnet Boys, exhibiting
a marvelous show of talent, kept
the party going true to tradition by
playing the most popular hill billy
songs. They played "Down Yonder,”
"Cindy,” "Under the Double Eagle,”
and several others which have long
been famous on the Hill Billy Hit
Parade. The sound of cow-bells, tin
cans, hog calls, and the chant of the
caller provided the proper setting
for "Ye Old Barn.” Oscar Davis of
LaGrange, Georgia, did an excellent
job calling sets.
Should Dobbin and Bossy have
been there they would have felt
prefectly at home in the environ
ment of a wagon surrounded by
scattered tufts of hay, piles of
straw and corn stalks. A forge and
an anvil were set up in one corner
of the would-be-barn-yard. Men and
women wearing overalls, straw hats,
and red neckerchiefs, added reality
to the barn dance.
Refreshments consisting of apple
cider and popcorn were served from
the well curb constructed on the
floor.
Merl Golden and Harl Duffey
won prizes for being chosen the
best dressed for the ocassion. Miss
Golden wore a shirt made from
Ballard’s Pig and Sow Ration feed
sacks, and was awarded a big box
of Bruton snuff. Mr. Duffey won a
plug of Brown Mule tobacco with
his unique costume.
This form of entertainment is a
change from the usual ball-room
dances enjoyed at West Georgia Col
lege. Since few students could
square dance, Miss Sturgis devoted
afternoons for two weeks preceding
the dance, teaching interested per
sons. Everyone enjoyed the even
ing and is looking forward to the
next time formality is moved aside
for the rural pastime and frolic of
a good old barn dance!
Educator Speaks
At West Georgia
Members of the faculty and stu
dent body, at assembly on Novem
ber 5, 1946, heard an interesting
account of the crowded conditions
that exist at the Georgia School of
Technology by its president, Dr.
Blake Van Leer.
An extremely acute shortage of
faculty, equipment, and space are
the major problems of most all the
institutions of learning in the coun
try. Dr. Van Leer believes that
crowded conditions will continue
indefinitely because of the influx
of students into colleges.
He reminded students that, "Ed
ucation today is a privilege and is
not easy to secure.” One must
strive ever toward the goal and
must never lose patience.
Dr. Van Leer extended a warm
welcome to prospective students
from West Georgia and assured
them that facilities, if possible,
would be made to accommodate
them.
Not only those students that plan
to enter that institution, but the
college as a whole, profited by this
great educator’s speech.
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