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VOLUME XV.
Honor Award to Students and
Modern Dance to Be Presented May 19
West Georgia College will hold its Honor Day exercises on Thursday, May 19, at 2:00 p. m. in the college
auditorium. Dr. Pierce Harris, of Atlanta will be the speaker. At. this time the various faculty chairmen will
present students who have distinguished themselves over the year in scholarship, citizenship, athletics,
student activities, and general service to the community and the college. The most outstanding presentation
will be the five students selected by the faculty to receive the Gordon Watson Award. This award is given to
a student who “has achieved a high degree of excellence in study and has exhibited those qualities of char-
acter, of conscientious devotion to duty, of intelligent leadership, and of
unfailing courtesy exemplified by the life of Gordon Watson, esteemed
Professor of English in this Institution.”
The May Day exercises will be held on the lawn between Melson
Hall and the President’s home at 5:30 p. m. These exercises will be under
the direction of Miss Ruby Jenkins and Miss Ruth Sturgis.
The May Queen is Miss Nancy
Ward of Ringgold, Georgia, and her
attendants are Misses Geraldine
Kittle, Ringgold, Georgia; Betty K.
Harris, Dallas, Georgia; Betty
Joyce (Mickey) Simms, Pine Lake,
Georgia; Janie Pleasants Warren,
Tiger, Georgia; Lorene Garner,
Cedartown, Georgia; Charlotte Wil
liams, Calhoun, Georgia; Pat Rad
cliff, Carrollton, Georgia; Louise
Robertson, Hampton, Georgia; An
nette Tyson, Rome, Georgia. Miss
Jackie Hay, Carrollton, Georgia,
will be crown bearer.
Miss Ruth Sturgis’ modern dance
group will present four dances:
“Row, Row, Row Your Boat”,
which was originally planned for
the enjoyment of elementary school
children but has proved popular
with various age groups. The dance
is planned for four groups and is
danced to three different rhythms,
regular time, syncopated time, and
waltz time. The second, “Sandalize’
My Name”, is based on a Negro
Spiritual—one of the gay, playful
type. The light and happy feeling
which prevails throughout the
dance is augmented by interplay
between the dancers of the two
groups. One group dances the
“question”, of the first half of the
phrase. The “Answer”, or second
half of the phrase, is then danced
by the other group. The movement
of the two groups at times provides
contrast and at other times is in
unison. Through this interplay of
movement the dance composition
CHIEFTAIN STAFF
PREVIEW ANNUAL
Recently the ’49 Chieftain staff
officers along with their advisor,
Mr. George Adams, went to Atlanta
to proof-read this year’s annual.
Those who went were Conrad Lar
son (editor), Helen Sue Bettis (bus
iness manager), and Janie Pleas
ants Warren (associate editor).
They found several mistakes in
the pictures and names; however,
none of them were serious enough
to handicap production. The editor
said that the publishers promised
to finish it before the end of the
quarter.
From information gathered from
the Chieftain staff members, we
will not only have our annual in
due time but it will be greater and
more beautiful than in preceding
years.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1949
becomes an extension in the form
of the music itself. Another fun
dance is “Shortnin* Bread”. With
underlying jazz quality, it allows
much individual style in perform
ance. Although much of the move
ment in this dance is initiated in
the feet and legs, the action of the
body is most important. Through
out most of the dance, the body re
mains relaxed, increasing in ten
sion as the tempo of the d;;nce in
creases. The fourth dance, “The
Cowboy Dance”, has a quality of
gaiety with expansive good humor.
The swing and rustic aura sur
rounding cowboy music is inherent
in the movement. After the dance
was completed, themusic was com
posed to follow the form and the
spirit of the dance.
This year the dance group con
sists of fourteen students: Mary
Lou Cadenhead, DeEtte Calhoun,
Betty Holladay, Betty Chastain
June Colwell, Dolores Davis, Jane
Greer, Conrad Larson, Ashley Mor
gan, Martha Sue O’Kelly, Verlyn
Shugart, Helen Sullins, June White
and Myra White. It is interesting to
know that this is the first time
boys have participated in the mod
ern dance group.
Miss Sturgis and these students
have worked diligently for two
quarters preparing these dances.
This group rehearsed two and
three times weekly for periods of
an hour or longer.
fflThe entire exercise will conclude
at G:3O.
i Quill Goes to Press,
Winners to Be Announced
The entries in the Press Forum
Writing Contest have been judged
and the winners shall be announc
ed and awards given during the
honors program on May Day, May
19.
First, second, and third prizes
shall be awarded in the short story
and poetry fields. Due to lack of
competition in the essay field, only
first prize shall be awarded.
This year’s entries are believed
to be superior in literary value to
the entries in the contests of the
past few years. With the judging
of the contest now completed, the
Press Forum Club immediately
shall begin the work of publishing
and editing The Quill, the maga
zine published of the winning en
tries.
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
West Georgia College
Choir Presents Program
In Greensboro, Georgia
The West Georgia College Choir
began its Spring Concert Series
with a trip to Greensboro, Georgia
on Easter Sunday. Three selections
were sung at the Greensboro Bap
tist Church at the eleven o’clock
service and a full concert at four
in the city gymnasium.
The choir was entertained at a
barbecue given by Christine Cope
land and her family. The barbecue
also celebrated the birthday of
Christine.
The second trip of the season was
to Bremen Methodist Church for
morning worship on April twenty
fourth. In the afternoon, the choir
traveled to Atlanta to give two con
certs, one at the Peachtree Road
Presbyterian Church at four, and
one in the evening at the Grant
Park Methodist Church, of which
Jimmy Cash’s father is the pastor.
Before the concert, the choir was
served a delicious buffet supper by
the Ladies’ Missionary Society.
The choir will appear on televis
ion on Station WSB on Wednesday,
May 11, for a fifteen-minute pro
gram.
The next trip will be to Brook
haven Methodist Church, Chamblee
Baptist Church and Lawson Gen
eral Hospital.
Definite plans for the Spring
Concert on the campus have not
yet been announced.
1949-50 Entertainment
Series Announced
Prof. George C. S. Adams, acting
for the Carroll Entertainment Se
ries, has announced the program of
entertainments scheduled for the
1949-50 season. All the attractions
will be presented at 8 p. m. at the
West Georgia College Auditorium.
The series will be opened in No
vember, exact date to be announced
later, by the Chicago Opera Ballet
Cos. This will be followed in Jan
uary by a “distinguished comedi
anne and monologuist”, Miss Mary
Hutchmson and her “Thumbnail
Theater” dramatic sketches.
The third attraction in the sea
son will be a joint recital by Jean
t we? land, lyric soprano, and Joseph
Soandur, bass baritone, appearing
in February, and the final concert
will be in March, featuring the
WAHL QUARTET.
“I believe you missed my class
yesterday.”
“Why, no, I didn’t; not in the
least.”—“Hilltop,” Mars Hill, N. C.
Southeastern Conference of
APO to Be Held on May 14-15
The Epsilon Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega is host for the South
eastern Sectional Conference to be held on the West Georgia Campus
May 14 and 15. This conference is held biennially at chapters in various
colleges in the Southeastern states.
The Southeastern section in
cludes eight states, but delegates
from chapters in West Virginia
have been invited to attend. There
are approximately forty chapters
in these nine states. It is anticipat
ed that between one hundred and
one hundred and fifty delegates
will attend this conference.
Below is a tentative program out
lined by Mr. F.| M. Peterson, faculty
advisor, and Joseph Leach, presi
dent of Epsilon Eta Chapter of
Alpha Phi Omega.
Tentative program for the 1949
Southeastern Conference of Alpha
Phi Omega to be held on the West
Georgia College Campus, May 14-15:
May 14:
10-11:30 A. M Registration
2:00 Noon Lunch
12:45 P. M Opening Session —
College Auditorium. Musical
Numbers: West Georgia College
A Capella Choir directed by Miss
Jane Woodruff.
Word of Welcome; President I. S.
Ingram, West Georgia College;
Frank D. Wood, National Treas
urer, Alpha Phi Omega; Paul M.
Petersen, National Executive
Board, Alpha Phi Omega.
1:15 P. M...lnitial meeting of dis
cussion groups.
3:00 P. M Fellowship: Choice of
recreational activity (softball,
golf, tennis, swimming).
6:00 P. M Roop’s Lake Outing:
Weiner roast, Games, Dancing
(dates will be provided).
Plans Are Made for
Publications Dance
Conrad Larson, editor of the
Chieftain, announced today that the
West Georgian-Chieftain dance will
be held Saturday night, May 21
from 8-12:00, in the college gym.
This is an annual event and is the
only function which these two or
ganizations sponsor jointly.
The dance will be a juke box
dance and will be semi-formal.
Plans for decorations are already
being made, Conrad announces.
Everyone is urged to come out and
help make this one of the best
dances that West Georgia has ever
known.
Miss Annie Weaver
Receives Honor
Miss Annie Bell Weaver, librar
ian, represented West Georgia Col
lege at the meeting of the Georgia
Library Association. The meeting
was held in Atlanta April 21 and 22.
Miss Weaver added another laur
el to West Georgia’s already large
collection by being elected to serve
as chairman of the College and Ref
erence Section of the Library As
sociation for the next year. This is
the first time in the history of the
association that a Junior College
Librarian has been elected to this
post.
11:00 P. M Adjournment
May 15:
8:00 A. M Breakfast
9:00 A. M Clarification of duties
of chapter officers and advisors.
11:00 A. M Church
12:00 A. M Banquet:
Excellent food. Reports of discus
sion groups. Toast song. Adjourn
ment.
—Ashley Morgan.
Ecuadorean Educator to
Visit West Georgia College
A group of four distinguished
educational leaders from the Min
istry of Education of the Republic
of Ecuador will visit West Georgia
College on May 12-13.
The Ecuadorian educators, under
the leadership of Dr. David Heft of
the Institute of Inter-American Af
fairs, have chosen West Georgia
College and Carroll County as one
of their localities in which to ob
serve significant trends in rural
education and community centered
schools.
Following their tour of rural
education centers in the United
States the Ecuadorian visitors will
return home to apply their findings
to the improvement of educational
policies.
Those in the visiting party will
be Dr. David Heft, leader and in
terpreter for the group; Senor
Hugo Albornez, Secretary of the
Inter-American Cooperative Educa
tion Service; Senor Edmundo Car
bo of the Ecuadorian Politechnic
Institute; Senor Equiles Perez, As
sistant Supervisor of Rural Educa
tion, and Senor Francisco Teran,
Technical Advisor to the Inter-
American Cooperative Education
Service.
Col. Harry Breed
Speaks at Chapel
Colonel Harry Breed, lawyer and
soldier, who served in both World
War I and 11, spoke in Chapel on
April 26. Colonel Breed spoke not
only of alcoholics but as an alco
holic himself. By putting the never
ending subject on a personal basis
he brought forth to the students a
new slant on the effects of alcohol
ism. He ended the talk by effective
ly showing the hand in which all
burdens should be placed, and then
he said, “My time is up. God bless
you”.
At present Colonel Breed is Di
rector of “Lighthouse 2”, which is
a home where alcoholics may find
consolation in one another.
When I was a boy of 14 my father
was so ignorant that I could hardly
stand to have him around. When 1
got to be 21, I was astonished by
how much the old man had learned
in seven years.— Mark Twain.
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