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Greetings to Parents
1o Parents:
In behalf of the students, faculty, and
friends of West Georgia College, we welcome
you to our campus. Your presence climaxes the
year’s activities.
We hope that you find the college with its
various interests and activities attractive and satis
fying.
The future is full of challenges for quali
fied youth with vision and energy. The college
seeks to help furnish that inspiration and
growth necessary for the needs of today and to
morrow.
Most cordially,
IRVINE S. INGRAM, President.
Dear Parents,
It is indeed a pleasure to welcome you to the
campus. We like for you to come very much
because we want to know the parents of these
fine young people who make up the life and
activity of the College. We too want you to know
us better as persons and to learn more of what
the campus is like. May your stay with us be
comfortable and enjoyable. With every good
wish, I am,
Sincerely,
L. E. ROBERTS
Dean of Administration
We are glad to have you on our campus
today. Your presence pleases us, encourages us,
challenges us to strive harder to provide the best
opportunities possible for your young people.
As we watch their development we rejoice with
you in the results of your sacrifices to make ed
ucational opportunities available to them.
This is your day to enjoy our campus and
to meet the friends of your sons and daughters.
Your enjoyment of it will make it a success for
us.
KATIE DOWNS,
Registrar
It Seems to Me—
By ROY E. FOSSETT
Like a school boy with combed hair and
scrubbed ears, West Georgia stands inspection to
day. The idea of the college acting as host to the
parents and friends of its students is a wholesome
practice dating back to the beginning of the in
stitution.
A practice such as this not only allows par
ents to inspect and learn the environment in
which their sons and daughters live and study,
but it likewise gives the college and students an
opportunity to become acquainted with the peo
ple who in a large measure are responsible for
its being.
For in a larger sense, the presence of these
visitors today manifests an interest not only in
West Georgia College but an interest in educa
tion in general. It is an interest which the college
and students must appreciate and it must be al
lowed to grow and expand if its full influence
is to be felt on education in Georgia.
All too often once an event has become
traditional, the motivating influence behind its
founding is forgotten. Such a fate must not hap
pen to the tradition of Parents’ Day. It must con
tinue to be a day of getting acquainted with each
other and a day of good fellowship.
West Georgian Staff, 1946-1947
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Een Hutcheson
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Billie Cheney
SPORTS EDITOR.. Frank Rushton
FEATURE ERITOR Polly G fiffin
CIRCULATION MANAGER Helen Brown
BUSINESS MANAGER Joyce Jones
REPORTERS: Roy Fossett, Mildred Garner, George Daniel. Wil
liam Anthony, Bonnie Hutcheson, James Turner, Rebecca Burrus,
Frank Rushton, Betty Whiteside, Sue Quinton, Marion Moon, Edith
Harrod, Barbara Bishop, Betty Jean Johnson, Helen Dobbs, Van
Simmons.
FACULTY ADVISERS: Marvina Wallingford, Marie Campbell.
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Are We Following the Ruts?
Helen Dobbs
You may have asked yourself the above question just in
those words or in different words.
Why does the world progress? Is it because a great many
people are content to follow blindly, without analytical thinking,
the rules and habits set up by the people who walked the same
road before them?
I believe everyone will agree that the world’s progess can
be attributed largely to the persons who think critically, who ana
lyze situations and ideas, and who apply the conclusions worked
out to the problems of the day. Another characteristic of these
people is that they do not accept one idea or group of ideas as
final, establishing a tradition that seemingly eliminates the need
for continued thinking and application.
As no two days, no two people, no two communities, or
schools, or situations are exactly the same, so arises the need for
analyisis of each separately, so tht we will not make the error of
inadequate rules and inadequate dealing with people and situa
tions at the present, just because our predecessors established trad
itions.
If after analytical thinking and discussion we find the trad
itional ideas and methods still adequate, very well. Use them until
the need arises for change. But if, on the other hand, we find a
question as to the adequacy of traditional ideas and methods, it
is well to work out a current program in keeping with the present
needs.
To apply these arguments to West Georgia College, I would
like to ask these questions and present my views of them. I be
lieve the progressive thing to do is to consider these questions
and similar ones. Perhaps we will find need for change of tradi
tion and perhaps we will not.
Is our present method of electing club officers in the spring
for the entire three quarters of the next school year the correct
method? Is it democratic? Is it the best way to make the freshmen
feel they belong to West Georgia as much as the Sophomores be
long? I think not.
Why need the VRA Council be limited to so small a mem
bership? Why, indeed, should the membership be limited at all?
Would an increased number of voluntary workers decrease the
efficiency of the Council’s work? The limitation of membership
seems to me to contradict the name of the organization and even
the aim of "voluntary religious work’’. Technically, it does not
contradict, but is it the right thing for persons who are willing and
want to do religious work to be limited in their accomplishments
because they are not allowed to identify themselves with the col
lege VRA Council? I do not think that it is.
There is a difference between the VRA Council and the
VRA. Every student on the campus is considered a member of
the VRA. That fact is all that I, in almost two years at West
Georgia, have heard of the VRA. Is there really a tangible or
ganization that can be called the VRA, excluding the Council?
I cannot see that the fact of being a member of a seemingly non
existent (except for the name) organization can or does make
much difference.
These are not my arguments alone. I have heard both pre
sented by others. Probably there are other questions which should
be brought up for analysis. I am sure there will be disagreement
on these two. But where there is a question it should be consider
ed and discussed by the people concerned on both the affirmative
and negative sides. That is the progressive way.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Campus Spotlight
Lois Virginia Cooper
Choir; Vice-President, Spanish Club;
Vice-President of Sophomore class
(now acting President).
The days preceding Christmas are always
filled with excitement. On December 11, 1928
excitement reached its peak in the Cooper home
in Palmetto, Georgia, as Lois Virginia became
an integral and most important part of the fam-
Uy.
The most singificant thing that ever hap
pened to Lois was her contraction of polio in
July, 1941, and her convalesence at the Scottish
Rite Hospital. She walked again in January of
1942.
Lois is 5’ weights 125 pounds has blue
eyes and brown hair. Stamp collecting is her
only hobby and since high school days she has
almost lost interest in it. Reading and talking
comprise a greater part of her interest.
Personal likes are listening to "Inter Sanc
tum’’, her roommate, "Peggy’ sleeping, 122 Ad
amson and the "Pair-O-Dice" pet likes. Visiting
the zoo and reading the funnies are fun too.
Lois’ ideal man must be either a blond,
brunnett, or redhead and be between 13 and 45
—and then she says ...” but he’s really a
blue-eyed, black-haired boy whom Uncle Sam
has sent to Japan. His name is Ray and I just
love to get letters from him ...”
Lois doesn’t know what path her future
will take but she isn’t worried as she plans to
live a long life and so, she figures, she”l have
plenty of time to decide.
Good luck, Lois!
William Eugene Cook
Choir; "W” Club; Secretary, Keys and
Cues Club; President of Gunn House;
Captain of West Georgia Braves.
As luck would have it William Eugene
Cook was to open his eyes to the wonders of the
world in general and to the wonders of Waco,
Georgia, speciafically on May 31, 1928.
Sort of a "nomad” in his younger days,
Gene moved from Waco to Douglasville, to
Coiona, Alabama, Parrish, Alabama and finally
to Bremen all in the course to ten years.
The major part of his school days he spent
in Bremen where he graduated in May, 1945.
He attended the University of Chattanooga and
played football there for three quarters. He came
to West Georgia the spring quarter of 1945-46.
He played as right guard with the West
Georgia Braves and was captain of the team.
Gene’s pet hobby is amateur photography.
He has a "bunch of things” at home that he
"piddles” around with in experimenting in tak
ing and developing snapshots.
Gene’s ideal girl is "short n’ sweet”. Other
than that he isn’t particular but it doesn t hurt
if she has big blue eyes, blond hair and is ' post
mistress”.
Gene’s first love is football. Other favorites
are, sleeping, coconut cake, full moons, and his
dog.
Gene is 5’ 9 ”, weights 190 pounds and has
green eyes, brown hair, and a friendly grin.
His plans run to completing a four year
education, most likely at the University of Geor
gia, in preperation for a business career.
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1947