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Tuesday, January 25, 1949
Chapel Speaker Lectures
On Atomic Power
Mr. Harold Sutton, Jr., was the
very interesting chapel speaker on
Tuesday, January 18. Mr. Sutton
is a local Carroll County man, and
runs a drug store in Villa Rica.
He has his degree from Auburn,
and has taught. He served time in
the last world war, and is now in
the reserves.
In beginning, Mr. Sutton discuss
ed the physical properties of the
atom. Asa matter of definition he
gave this: “An atom is the smallest
quantity of an element which will
retain its physical and chemical
properties.” It is a very old thing,
and for many years it was thought
that it could not be broken down,
but Dr. Einstein put forth his the
ory that they can be split and start
a chain reaction.
This was definitely proven by the
first atom bomb in New Mexico.
The two b: mbs dropped on Japan
showed w it great damage could
be done with them.
“Actual x ’ stated Mr. Sutton,
“the small amount of knowledge
that we have is just a scratch on
the glass of the future.” There is
much to be learned about this new
conception of the atom.
The bombs used in the past war
killed everyone within 3,000 feet
of it by its gamma rays. Many oth
ers were killed from radio activity,
and the many other effects which
the bomb caused. Mr. Sutton be
lieves that the atomic bomb will
Reader Survey Seeks to Determine
Paper’s Good and Bad Qualities
By JIM HAMILTON
The WEST GEORGIAN has tried to give students of the college
an accurate insight on the news as any newspaper should. Whether the
WEST GEORGIAN has met with the approval of the students has not
been known until this time, and perhaps the staff is still unaware of the
paper’s faults.
In speaking conversationally with
several of the students and faculty
members recently, a number of sug
gestions were brought out for im
provements on the paper. Some
suggestions were brought out plac
inc greater emphasis on student ac
tivities, with giving publicity to the
recreation held, when the occasion
permits, on Friday and Saturday
nights, in an effort to promote the
interest of *he students who rarely
participate in such events. The
point was also brought out that
the students should know how
their fees, paid at the beginning of
each quarter, are used. Most of the
students and even the faculty
members, believe that there should
be freedom of the press with the
right to expose through this news
paper those clubs, organizations
and individuals who sway from the
standards and traditions held thus
far by the college.
Officer Group—
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on the hill, to increase the power
supply.
More cleaning materials and sup
plies have been made available to
the maids, stoppers provided for
lavatories, drains cleaned, and
duckboards repaired. And in the
Academic Building, classrooms are
cleaned, chalk, erasers and enough
chairs provided. Rest rooms, too,
have been cleaned and kept sup
plied with towels.
Currently, there is a fund to
award S2O to any club or organ
ization which secures the services
of a reliable and interesting speak
er and has faculty approval of its
selection.
Another important proposal, that
of parking space, was solved —at
least theoretically. Students have
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GOOD FOOD
WELL PREPARED
Dine in a
Friendly Atmosphere
WGC Host to
Education Group
A group of four people from
Landers College, Greenwood, South
Carolina, visited West Georgia
College on Monday and Tuesday,
January 10 and 11, in the interest
of the Community College idea.
Members of the group were Dr.
Smith, from the State Department
of Education, Columbia, S. C.; Mr.
Wendell Patton, business manager
of Landers; Mr. McElvey, principal
of the high school, and Mr. Breland,
manager of the Greenwood public
schools.
The group visited various de
partments on the campus, Carroll
Service Council, and West Georgia
laboratory schools
end the used of masses of soldiers.
They will no longer be needed. It
will be a war of atomic bombs.
Now that we have peace, this
strange splitting of the atom which
releases so much power can be put
to peaceful uses. There is enough
of this energy in two and a half
pounds of coal to run all the indus
tries in the United States for two
months. England, which is rapidly
running out of coal and other
power resources, is doing consider
able research on this phase of the
atom. We are again scratching the
surface of the glass of the future
when we apply the atom to peace
ful problems, added the druggist.
It was used for a good cause in
the war, and now we will have a
chance to see it at work in peace.
One might correctly surmise that
this suggestion was brought about
as a result of the turmoil created
by the “W” Club. Far from insig
nificant was the suggestion for
more individual names to be men
tioned in the paper. People have
always liked to see the “underdog”
be put on top, and it is probably for
this reason that so many people
wish to see the names of the stu
dents who never receive credit for
work they have done, appear in
the paper. Even the gossip column
is criticized because it dwells con
stantly on those people who are
best known on the campus.
To these suggestions made by
the students and faculty the WEST
GEORGIAN would like to make the
suggestion to the students that
they make use of the “suggestion
box” placed in the hall of the Ad
ministration Building for the pur
pose of suggestions and news.
been asked to park at a 45-degree
angle, facing west. Adequate re
served space was made available
to faculty members. There is also
a parking lot behind Sanford Li
brary which students are encour
aged to make use of.
Mrs. Irene Dunne, college dieti
cian, agreed to cooperate in every
way possible to improve conditions
in the dining hall, and the quality
of the food, within the food budget,
of course.
Other proposals under consider
ation at present are those of open
ing the college store on Friday and
Saturday nights, and Sunday after
noons, and obtaining an all-night
watchman for the reduction of fire
hazard in the girls’ dormitories. A
committee composed of Mrs. Wil
liams, Miss Ora Lee Howard, Dr.
L. E. Roberts, and Lovelle Roberts,
is working on the plan for addi
tional store hours.
The next major item—a costly
one—to which the other group
will devote its efforts, is improve
ment of the tennis courts. Since
sufficient funds for the work are
not on hand at this time, a reserve
is being built up for that purpose.
The college hopes to obtain mate
rials to construct permanent courts.
The average man speaks 10,000,-
000 words in a year, and 5,000,0**0
of them are “I,” “me” and “mine.”
THE WEST GEORGIAN
*‘W” Club Holds
Its First Social
On Friday night, January 7, the
“W” Club sponsored its first dance
since the club has been organized,
and also the first dance of 1949.
The dance was held in the college
gymnasium.
The gym was decorated in the
form of a football field, with corn
meal being used as line markers.
Eventually the cornmeal made the
floor so slick that dancing was a
major task. A large “W” covered
with balloons was placed on the
stage. The lights, covered with
blue paper, added a soft touch to
the setting.
A five-man committee, headed by
William Traylor, planned the en
tertainment features of the affair.
Other members serving on the com
mittee were Harold Pitts, Harold
Lane, Grover Adams, and Guy
Henderson.
Dance music was provided by
records. New stage manager, Joel
Philips, was in charge of the music.
During a short intermission, held
midway during the dance, Carl
Haywood and Jim Hamilton ren
dered several piano selections.
Coach Henry Welch, “W” Club
advisor, served as chaperon for the
occasion.
Faculty Meeting Hears
NYU Education Head
Dr. Alfonzo F. Myers, head of
the Division of Higher Education
at New York University, lectured
before a monthly faculty meet
ing held in Mandeville Hall, Wed
nesday night, January 12. Dr. My
ers, accompanied by his wife, is
touring the United States to make
a study of colleges. He is on leave
from NYU at present, coming here
to evaluate the college and its lab
oratory schools.
In his talk, Dr. Myers discussed
present day education, its problems
and future outlook. He praised the
Educational Clause of the GI Bill
of Rights as one of the best things
any country had even done for its
veterans.
Dr. Myers pointed out that fed
eral aid to education would benefit
to the greatest extent if provided
to elementary and secondary
schools, because it is there that
the youth is often handicapped
when seeking to profit by higher
education. He believes the Truman
administration will be in favor of
federal aid.
The New York orchestra stress
ed the need for more cooperation
between students and faculty in
working out their problems. He
thought that most colleges did not
allow the students enough freedom.
“Students are right, even if they
are wrong, if they are shown how
they are wrong,” Dr. Myers com
mented.
Dr. and Mrs. Myers will continue
their tour, and they will be in Cal
ifornia by late spring. California
has, in many respects, the best sys
tem of colleges in the United
States, and Dr. Myers plans to make
a study of them.
Bass-Baritone Next in
Carroll Concert Series
Dr. Elyn Carter, bass-baritone,
will be presented as the next artist
in the Carroll Entertainment Se
ries, Thursday evening, January 27,
at 8:00 p.m. The concert will be
held in the West Georgia College
auditorium.
Head of the Music Department at
West Michigan College, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, Dr. Carter has appeared
in concerts throughout the United
States, and has played the leads in
many operas.
The program for Thursday night
will include a variety of light
classical music, opera arias, and
hits from recent musicals.
Student tickets may be purchased
from Miss Charlcie Holmes in the
business office.
Angry Motorist: “Say, this car
you sold me can’t climb a hill!! You
swore up and down it was a good
car.”
Salesman: “I didn’t swear up and
down. I said on the level it was a
good car.”
A laboratory school of West Georgia College, the Sand Hill School is
located on the Atlanta Highway, seven miles from Carrollton.
Little Known to WGC Students,
Sand Hill School Achievements
Receive National Recognition
By MARGERY GREENE
There is one part of West Georgia College—a very vital part—that a
large number of students never see. In fact, some of the students do
not even realize that it is a division of their school. This institution is
the Sand Hill Elementary School,
West Georgia campus.
Sand Hill is the laboratory school
for teacher education students. Just
as chemistry students cannot un
derstand and become acquainted
with chemical experiments by sim
ply reading them, similarly educa
tion students need some outlet for
their work and experimentation.
The preparation of young people
for teaching must provide actual
observation in the studies of child
growth and ways to develop this
growth along useful lines.
The understanding cannot come
from college classes alone. It is
necessary that student teachers
have opportunities for working
with children, parents and teachers
in real schools where everyday
problems arise: The children’s
school at Sand Hill provides sudh
an opportunity for the student
problems arise. The children’s
planned by college teachers, stu
dents and laboratory students.
Three months of a student teach
er’s training is spent in actual prac
tice teaching at the Sand Hill
school. After several days of ob
servation and study at the begin
ning of the quarter, she is assigned
to a definite grade in which to do
her teaching. At all times she is
under the observation of the reg
ular grade teacher, and the college
teacher, who accompanies the stu
dents to school each day.
The complete burden of her as
signed grade is not put on the
practice teacher at once. At first
she is given only one responsibil
ity at a time. For example, she
may be asked to help a retarded
child with his reading. Her job is
not only to help the child with
words that he finds difficult but to
find out why the child cannot read,
if his attitude towards other chil
dren or theirs toward him is re
tarding him<, or if his home condi
tions are unpleasant. The student
teacher does not merely accept the
fact that a child is slow; she works
until she finds why the child is
that way.
After several months the student
teacher may be given several other
clas3es to conduct. After planning
these, she discusses them with the
college teacher, who offers any sug
gestions that she might see neces
sary. Then when she has conducted
these, the two discuss the chil
dren’s reactions and evaluate the
worth of these lessons.
The student teacher is at all times
constantly striving to get the com
plete confidence and assurance of
children. One of her main jobs is
to create a feeling in the children
that she is ready to help them and
to give them security at all times.
Everything that is done or said by
the teachers is performed on the
basis of the effect it will have on
the children.
An interesting feature of Sand
Hill’s program is the fact that the
children help to plan their day’s
work, deciding which lessons they
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located about eight miles from the
will consider first. Citizenship and
creative imagination are especially
stressed and developed in the chil
dren of this community.
The classroom is not tne only
place in which the student teacher
works. It is a requisite part of her
training that she attend P.-T.A.
meetings and visit in the homes to
learn of the background and needs
of the individual child.
Even though an effort is made
to have each student, during the
student teaching quarter, get ex
periences in as many of the duties
of a regular teacher as possible,,
the planning for each student is
based on his or her particular need.
To provide for extended experi
ence in the school, each student
serves a full quarter as interne to a
teacher in the laboratory school.
After a student teacher has spent
three months in actual experiences,
is is believed that she is capable
of taking the full responsibilities of
a teacher.
Teaching is a most Important
profession. The way it is done may
well determine the future of our
democratic society. Teachers tend
to teach as they have been taught.
Sand Hill has been highly recom
mended for its methods of teach
ing. “Look” magazine recently
placed it on the honor roll of
America’s one hundred best
schools. Recently, the NET Year
book published a detailed descrip
tion of West Georgia’s pre-service
program.
Visitors from other states and
from Georgia are frequently at
Sand Hill, further increasing its
wide popularity and approval.
Kranyck Orchestra—
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freshman and sophomore classes,
will be formed.
During the second intermission,
all eyes will be fixed upon the cen
ter of the dance floor when Mr. I.
S. Ingram, president of West Geor
gia College, presents the King and
Queen of Hearts to the audience.
After their presentation the king
and queen will be featured in a
special dance. As customary, they
will be chosen by a special student
body election during one of the reg
ularly scheduled assemblies.
Since the student body is spon
soring the dance, each student is
being called upon to help bear the
expense of the occasion. The fee.
which has been set at SI.OO, is to
be collected through the various
dormitory and house councils.
Freedom is an indivisible word.
If we want to enjoy it and fight for
it, we must be prepared to extend
it to everyone, whether they are
rich or poor, whether they agree
with us or not, no matter what
their race or the color of their skin.
—Wendell Wilkie.