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VOLUME XV.
Entire Student Body Will Sponsor Sweetheart Dance
The above picture was taken at a meeting of the student-officer group
From left to right: Scott Smith, student body president; Lovelle Roberts
president of the Presidents’ Club; Mr. I. S. Ingram, President of the Col
lege; Dean L. E. Roberts Miss Ora Lee Howard, and Mr. Paul Petersen.
Officer Group Marks Progress on
College Improvement Proposals
A student-faculty officer group, presently studying student proposals
for the improvement and betterment of West Georgia College has, step
by step, effected a marked degree of progress on that plan, which was
drawn up the week of December 6. The plan itself is a part of an old
organization of faculty and students known as “West Georgia College
Looks Ahead.”
Scott Smith, student body presi
dent, at the request of President
I. S. Ingram, secured a number of
suggestions from the students in
order to determine ways in which
the college could further improve
its services and facilities. When
the list of suggestions had been
completed, a joint group of stu
dent officers and faculty members
set out to study the proposals, ap
pointing small committees from
among the group to act upon cer
tain points of the program. A list
of the suggestions offered appeared
on the editorial page of THE
WEST GEORGIAN, Tuesday, De
cember 14.
According to Mr. Ingram, the
recently launched plan will work
toward the following three object
ives: (1) To raise the efficiency of
the institution on the campus; (2)
To extend influence outside the col
lege; (3) To further good public
relations.
Action has already been taken
upon a number of suggested im
provements. First of all, a definite
Roberts, Bowles to
Head Presidents’Club
At a special election of the Pres
idents’ Club, held Monday evening,
Janauary 17, Lovell Roberts was
elected to succeed himself as presi
dent of the organization, Beverly
Bowles was made vice-president,
succeeding Luther Smith.
Other officers, all of whom were
Re-elected, are Hill Pope, Treas
urer, and Doranne Hunt, Secretary.
Club projects and student-faculty
relations were discussed at a reg
ular weekly meeting of the organ
nzation on Monday, January 24.
Assignments for Saturday night
recreation were also explained dur
ing the meeting.
President Roberts has announced
that individual keys, denoting Pres
idents’ Club membership, will be
awarded to the club’s members.
The key will be designed by the
Balfour Company, of Atlanta.
WES T GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1949
recreation program has been set
up, and each club assigned the re
sponsibility of being in charge of
be properly notified beforehand
when his group is to plan the rec
reation.
The club in charge will also be
responsible for clean-up work aft
erwards.
Headway has been made on more
effective repairing of buildings, and
wiring is on order for the barracks
the recreation provided for a cer
tain date. The club’s advisors will
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GENE STRICKLAND
Strickland, Weeks, Cole, Victors in Freshman
Class Elections by Comfortable Margins
In the recent Freshman Class
elections, Gene Strickland, Marvin
Weeks, and Donald Cole, a trio of
vetrans, swept over their oppo
nents by large margins to win the
offices of president, vice-president,
and secretary and treasurer, re
spectively.
The two-day campaign, high
lighted by speeches, numerous
posters and other advertising and
a little handshaking was held Dec.
11 and 12. Balloting lasted nearly
all day Thursday, Dec. 12, the votes
being tabulated that afternoon.
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OP WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
Campus Beautification
Program Now Under Way
Under the direction of Mrs. I. S.
Ingram, the beautification program
of West Georgia’s campus has made
rapid progress in the past few
weeks. Designing the landscape
and planting the shrubs and flow
ers about the campus has placed
Mrs. Ingram as one of the busiest
prsons of the college.
The addition of new plants to the
campus begins at the library and
continues throughout the campus,
with many kinds of shrubs and
flowers being obtained from sev
eral sources. Asa ground cover, ivy
is being used on the buildings, in
front of which are placed box
woods.
Plans for beautifying the back
campus were begun in the summer
of last year. Help on landscaping
was received from Mr. Hubert
Owens, head of the Landscape Ar
chitecture Department at the Uni
versity of Georgia. The main rea
son this beautification program has
not been completed before now is
the result of a delay in complet
ing the paved walkways and under
ground drainage areas.
All shrubs on the back campus
were moved so as to emphasize the
importance of the circle. The circle
will be filled with pink azaleas
with dwarf Eng’ish boxwood bor
dering the paths leading off the
circle.
Entrances to the Library and the
Gunn House have been planted in
boxwoods. Since the Gunn House
is an ante-bellum farm house it has
been planted according to the style
prevalent at that time. Between
the President’s house and Melson
Hall Mrs. Ingram has planted Flor
inian Bundle roses (Glorious).
Buds of other types of flowers have
also been planted here. The fence
bordring the maintenance office
has been surrounded by several
types of flowers and red climbing
roses.
Tnere is still much work to be
completed, but already the ad
vancement of beauty is showing
about the campus.
MARVIN WEEKS
Strickland, a Business Adminis
tration major from Rome, Georgia,
replaces Charles Brooks, also of
Rome, as the top-ranking freshman
class officer. He served eighteen
months in the army. Paul Caden
head and Helen Beuis were Gene’s
opponents in the race.
The new vice-president, Marvin
Weeks, of Thomastotn, triumphed
over Oma Vaughn for that post A
former paratrooper with two years
service Weeks is majoring in Busi
ness Administration. June Starling
is the retiring vice-president.
Kranyck’s Orchestra Engaged for
Outstanding Winter Quarter Social
The entire student body will be sponsors of the annual Sweetheart
Dance, which is to be held in the West Georgia College gymnasium Sat
urday, February 12, from 8 to 12 p.m. Jack Kranyck’s popular orches
tra, which has made two previous appearances here this season, has
been secured to provide the music for the occasion, considered the
WGC Delegation Attends
Education Meet at Capitol
A delegation of top-ranking fac
ulty and students represented West
Georgia College at a meeting of the
State Legislature’s Committee on
Education, at which the Minimum
Foundation Program was up for
consideration.
The purpose of the delegation,
which included President I. S. In
gram, Dean L. E. Roberts, S. H.
Acklin, comptroller, Scott Smith,
president of the student body, and
J. C. Lovett, editor of THE WEST
GEORGIAN, was to inform the
committee of the needs of West
Georgia College.
This college is very much con
cerned with the Minimum Founda
tion Program. There is not a per
manent building for men at the col
lege. Men students must live in
wooden barricks, or in town. One
building in which students live was
formerly a shop building.
In addition to this outstanding
need, West Georgia College does
not have enough classrooms. The
college is eager to have Aycock
Hall restored. The building was
destroyed by fire several years ago.
Journal Writer Praises
Our Pap er*s Sport Page
The Sports page of the WEST
GEORGIAN was recently commend
ed by sportswriter Billie Cheney,
of the Atlanta Journal.
Miss Cheney, an alumna of West
Georgia College, stated that “Run
ning the sports column, ‘The Sport
ing Thing’ has done a great deal
for the paper.”
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DONALD COLE
Donald Cole who occupies the
position formerly held by John
Brock, secretary-treasurer, is a law
student whose home is Dallas, Ga.
He was opposed by Ruth Earle.
Cole, an “old salt,” spent approx
imately five years in the navy.
Speaking on behalf of his asso
ciates, President Strickland prom
ised that every effort will be ex
pended to make the coming year a
more successful one. He also voiced
plans for building up strong school
spirit, and more cooperation for the
Freshman Class in the future.
outstanding winter quarter social.
According to advance informa
tion, Jack and his band have
planned quite a bit of new, pop
ular music especially for your
dancing pleasure, with several
special features added just for good
measure.
Manay of the alumni have writ
ten or otherwise signified that they
will be on hand for the affair, and
a large student turnout is expected.
The faculty have been extended an
invitation to the dance. They will
serve as chaperons.
Probably the smooth music and
lavish ness of the gym, to be cos
tumed entirely in white with red
hearts to emphasize the valentine
theme, will tend to create a roman
tic setting for the heartbeats of
many fellows and their best girls.
It will give them a chance, at least
for the time being, to forget the
troubles and strife of a war-torn
world.
Decorations for the dance are in
the capable hands of Beverly
Bowles, Sophomore class president,
and Conrad Larson, editor of the
“Chieftain,” who were named co
chairmen of the decorations com
mittee. The committee is made up
of the following students: Eloise
Duke, Barbara Goen* Bobbie Do
zier, Doranne Hunt, Delores Davis,
Lynelle Hudgins, Helen Bettis, Bar
bara Sue Underwood, Betty Lou
Stalworth, Mary Lou Cadenhead,
Betty Jo Davis, Jeanne Higgins,
Jim Hamilton, Jimmy Tucker, J. C.
Lovett, Joe Leach, Joe Medcalf,
Ashley Morgan, Lovelle Roberts,
Jack Dempsey, Ross Miller, George
Peacock, W. B. Hansard, and Scott
Smith.
To welcome the former greats
and other guests, as well as the
students a receiving line composed
of Mr. and Mrs. Ingram and the
presidents of the student body,
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News Ed!f:r From WSB
Addresses Assembly
Walter Paschall, news editor of
radio station WSB, Atlanta, spoke
at the West Georgia College assem
bly this morning concerning Geor
gians’ confused state of mind in re
gard to politics.
“We elect a glo vernor on a
white-supremacy, anti-civil rights
program, and then vote overwhelm
ingly for Harry Truman, who pro
posed the whole civil rights pro
gram and continually repeats his
intention to see it through,” Mr.
Paschall said in effect.
Because of the present trend of
legislation in Georgia, which is out
of step with the rest of the nation,
the veteran newsman predicted the
likelihood of a tug-of-war between
Georgia and the Federal courts,
with the courts winning.
Mr. Paschall, who is president of
the Georgia Academy of Social Sci
ence, emphasized that people in
this state must be educated in or
der to separate basic emotion from
intellectual process—a separation
that cannot be made unless Indi
viduals know how to think. This
can be done, he thought, only
through improvement in schools
and teaching, and arousing the
public interest in favor of better
education.
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