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CAMPUS SPOTLIGHT
ELIZABETH BOSS
A winning smile, a charming personality,
a high degree of scholastic achievement -all
admirable traits that go to make up our stu
dent hotly “veep”—Liz Ross.
Horn on July 25, 1031, Liz graduated from
Brookhaven High School, where she was a
varsity debater, editor of the newspaper, class
poet, and a member of the Beta Club and the
Glee Club. She came to West Georgia College
in September, 1048, because, as she says, “1
heard the choir sing, and 1 decided that any
place where the men could sing “Dry Bones”
as well as they did was the place for me!”
During her freshman year Liz was a chain
pionship debater, Feature Editor of the West
Georgian, a member of the VRA Council,
FBLA, Beta Sigma Pi, and an alto in the
choir. Last spring the student body elected
her vice-president.
This year Liz is a proctor at Melson and i
member of the Chieftain and West Georgian
staffs.
“The veep” is taking a commercial course,
and hopes she will never have to use it.
KEYHOLE SKETCH:
Favorite food: Cherry Pie, Fried Chicken.
Favorite sport: Campusology.
Hobby: Collecting “pigs” and pennants
with which she has decorated her room.
Favorite Movie Star: Turhan Bey, Olivia
de Havilland.
Favorite Quotation; “Laugh and the world
laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.”
WALES ART GOEBEL
“I thoroughly believe my office would
have been a failure if 1 had not hud the con
sideration of the faculty, and the one hundred
percent support of the study body. With this
same consideration and support we should
continue having a West Georgia College that
we can be proud of!”
By this time everyone knows, of course,
that the quotation is liy Wales Art Goebel,
president of the study body. A person who
has such a vital interest in his constituents
is certainly rare enough to be recognized in
stantly.
Wales is a veteran, having entered the
service in January, 1946, and received his
discharge in April, 1948. He came to WGO in
order to receive the benefits offered by a
small school, where he would have a crack at
personality development. Hailing from Talla
poosa, Georgia, Mr. Goebel is working toward
an AB degree in journalism.
Following graduaation from West Geor
gia, he will enter the Henry W. Grady School
of Journalism at the University of Georgia,
where he will specialize in radio and adver
tising.
Among the subjects Wales really likes
are all the social sciences, the English courses,
and that Summerville Girl! He particularly
dislikes biology.
Besides being president of the student
body, Wales is a member of the President’s
Club, the Veterans’ Club, the Spanish Club,
and the “W” Club; he is a letterman in bos
ketball. As for the future, Wales will graduate
from West Georgia in March, and will pro
bably enter the University immediately.
KEYHOLE SKETCH:
Favorite food: Banana pudding, and but
termilk and cornbread.
Favorite Radio Program: Walter Paschal,
Horace Heidt, Sunday Westerns.
Favorite Movie Star: Ava Gardner, Rich
ard Widmark.
Favorite Sport: Basketball.
ON THE STEPS OF A NEW RUIN
But this romantic edifice is misplaced
Among the living it creates a scene of inert
apathy
Attired alone in its ancient vestige of bram
ble and weed
Fire-blackened brick and senseless wall . . .
Yet here is peace—here on grass—choked steps
One may dream a dream or two.
Anew breeze flows freely through wide, gap
ing windows.
And the open sky falls through the ceiling.
WEST GEORGIAN STAFF
EDITOR. Bobbie Goen
ASSOCIATE EDITOR : Mxa Prince
NEWS EDITOR Holland Jackson
FEATURE EDITOR Pat Florence
SPOTLIGHT EDITOR Carl Haywood
FASHION EDITOR Lucrete Marshall
WOMEN’S EPORTS Judy Crowder
MEN’S SPORTS .....Harmon Smith
BUSINESS MANAGER Evelyn Jordon
CIRCULATION MANAGER Doris Alexander
TYPISTS ... Doris Cobb,
Faculty Advisors: Meredith Wright, Miss Marie Campbell
REPORTERS:
Elizabeth Ross, Pitta Crews, Margaret Ann Brooks,
Joe Ann Buford, Willa Jtan Teel, Guenter Swarty,
Peggy Jones, Ross Shackleford, Julian
Amos, Tom Payne.
Member
Plssociated GoUe6ate Press
IS THIS THE DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE?
Max Prince
College is one of the very last places a person has to learn
to live the democratic way of life. Mr. John C. Meadows in his
textbook “Modern Georgia” in discussing “What is an Educa
tion?,” says along with other things, “If a pupil learns to be a
good citizen of a school community and keeps on being a good
citizen in a larger community he has that thing we call an
education. This being true, one of our purposes at this institution
is to learn to live the democratic way of life.
We question whether some people at West Georgia realize
how undemocratic some of their actions are. Those people who
break chow lines do not seem to have much regard for the rights
of the other people that do this realize exactly how bad it looks.
Most of the students at West Georgia have probably broken this
line at one time or another. There are times when a student may
do things ofUhis nature as a joke. We do not believe that the
student hotly as a whole takes it as a joke. Their actions do not
seem to indicate that they do. For the past two weeks the dining
hall has been kept in a continual uproar because the majority
of the students show their disapprovel of line breaking by booing
and shouting whenever anyone takes an occasion to break line.
This is nerve wracking on those that are trying to eat and
certainly does not present a pleasant picture to visitors and
guests of the college who often eat in the dining hall. When we
do have visitors, they have to stand in line with the students
and they do not seem to mind, probably because they realize
-that it is the only democratic thing to do. The faculty of out
college do not break the dining hall line but take their place in
the line with everyone else.
What is the solution to this problem and what can be done
about it? The dietitian has asked several people to go to the end
of the line because they broke the line but she is not a police
woman and hasn’t time to do this and her many other duties.
It is up to the students to do something about this problem.
THINKING
H. Carl Haywood
At someone time during each year, a general counting of
blessings is always in order. It is fitting that we fix our attention
on some sadly overlooked opportunities which are available to us.
Perhaps the opportunity which represents the greatest outlay
of love-work and personal energy is VRA. Every Wednesday
and every Sunday evening a vesper program is presented by and
for the students of this college. Those who have availed them
selves of the opportunity for spiritual growth have been inspired
by such speakers and devotional leaders as Mr. Ingram, president
of West Georgia College. Mr. Carson Pritchard, Miss Marie Camp
bell. and Miss Jane Woodruff. Each program has been original
and inspiring; yet the attendance has represented only a small
portion of the study body. This situation is particularly pathetic
when we hear people complaining about the lack of anything
to do on Sunday afternoons. Even before vespers, much prepara
tion is necessary which can be both occupying and satisfying
to the individual who is willing to lend himself and his time to
bring spiritual calm to the lives of his fellows.
Toward Wednesday evening students are usually getting just
a little frustrated, either from studying or from simply living
and getting along with people. The logical antidote for the
poison of that frustration is attendance at a devotional service.
It is often much easier to finish the weekly routine after par
taking of the spiritual food served at the vesper service.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1949
MAN WITH $25,000 SALARY
SEEKS ANOTHER JOB
By J. Carson Pritchard
A man now making $25,000.00 a year is
looking for a job. With that income, you
would think he would just let well-enough
along, wouldn’t you? In the job-wanted sec
tion of the New York Times Sunday, October
16, there was a large—and very expensive
ad telling millions of readers that that man
wanted another job. Why would a man
spend hundreds of dollars on an ad seeking
a job when he has one now that pays him
$25,000? Here is the answer in his words:
“Others are happier than I am.” It is possible,
as we all know, to be unhappy on much less
income than that. Unless he finds, and unless
we find, the way to useful, purposeful and
confident happiness, we will come somewhere
toward the top of the ladder—or toward the
bottom of it—and find that the ladder of suc
cess is crowded all the way from the bottom
round to the very top with people who are
failures in the arts and skills of good living.
The resaon for telling you about this poor
twenty-five-thousand-a-year man is to encour
age you to go to church next Sunday and
every Sunday. The connection is this—church
is one institution, lonely' among many in
stitutions, which affirms and teaches that you
are not just a hungry, job-hunting animal.
You are not just an unimportant and neglect
ed whistle-stop on someone else’e main line
You are not a failure, a misfit, an orphan
in an uncaring society. You are not a nobody!
You are a somebody—God’s somebody, meant
by Him for purpose and true usefulness.
Somewhere in the mountain of that purpose
for you, he has buried your happiness. You
will find it there. Of course, you need to find
the mountain before you find the treasure
buried within it.
There are several reasons why many col
lege students don’t go to church regularly
They should be good reasons, because they
have been used for a long time. Some of your
parents used them in their day. I have used
some of these reasons myself. Which ones
are you using now? (1) Never formed the
habit of regular church attendance; (2) Ser
vice seems dull and uninteresting (like music
was when you first heard it then later learn
ed to love, or that book you remember best,
or play, or painting, or—remember the food
you first thought dull and tasteless hut later
learned to love; (3) Enjoying the freedom
from having to go to church; (4) careless lazi
ness (being tired is a state of mind until you
are 40) Which reason is .yours now? Some
people just get caught in the folds of the
funny paper, but we won’t speak of them in
this college paper.
Why not bestir yourself Sunday and go
to church? There we can learn together the
arts and skills of good living. There is pointed
the way toward useful, purposeful and confi
dent happiness.
AW. TEAR IT DOWN
After much consideration of the matter,
we have decided to put the question to you,
“Why must college students persist in tearing
up things that don’t belong to them?” We feel
sure that they all know better, but every day
we see damage to the walls and ceilings, bro
ken locks, broken light fixtures, and bulbs
and torn screen, along with broken bottles.
We are sure that from a psychological
viewpoint, it might be readily explained in
the following manner: Most of us are away
from home and “out of our own” for the first
time and we have the natural urge to make
it known that we are free and are our own
befes—that we are privileged to do as we
please, and therefore we must change our
actions, and it never seems to cross our mind
to change for the better.
By asserting ourselves in one or more
of the foregoing manners, we show r the ut
most lack of self-control and self-discipline
which are so necessary to our happiness and
our well-being in later life. It is necessary
that we exert every effort to discipline our
selves in the right ways and not let ourselves
go wild. So, in the future, let’s try to be con
structive in our actions and not destructive