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CAMPUS SPOTLIGHT
BILL PHESCOTT
Go crazy# girls, ’cause you are about to
hear the story of the “Griffin Express,” alias
Bill Prescott, alias “Hot-Ups.” But hold off a
while, you autograph hounds—he is a busy
man, a b.m.0.c., and you just plight be able
to get an appointment later.
The subject of our laborious dissertation
entered the world quite young and innocent
on March 29, 1929; he is now somewhat pld
er. After many eventful years he graduated
from Griffin High School, where he played
tennis, basketball, was the pillar o/ the Hi-Y
organization, and vice-president of the Junior
class. Carefree and full of that radiant per
sonality familiar to Griffinites, Bill entered
Wist Georgia College in September, 1948, be
cause it was well recommended, and because
he wanted the advantages offered by a junior
college. During.his freshman year, he was
immediately recogniz: and as a student leader,
and following a red-hot political campaign
in the spring quarter, he was elected pres
ident of the sophomore class.
For some vague and insufficiently ex
plained reason, Bill is taking a course leading
to an engineering degree. He particularly likes
the math and biology courses at WGC, but
likes most of all the co-eds. (An<;l wl*o
doesn’t?).
KEYHOLE SKETCH:
Favorite Food: Just plenty of it!
Favorite Sport: Football—as a spectator..
Favorite Radio Program: Runson’s “Twen
ty Questions;” and comedians.
Favorite Movie Star: Ingrid Bergman.
Hobby: Stamp collecting. (Wouldn’t yoju
know it?)
Favorite Pastime: Reading—Enriching
the mind by means of the funnies.
Bill’s plans for the future include
Ing in Clemson University, where he will
pursue mechanical engineering and women...
LOUISE HEWIN
“Little-bit,” Lowizie, “Hewie,” all adds UP
to the same thing—Louise Hewln,—the dyna
mo from Lavonia! Don’t be surprised if you
see a human locomotive darting across the
campus, it’s just Louis?, going about her
twenty-four hour precision schedule of hard
work and merry-making, whose principal in
teerst in life is having fun and making every
body happy.
“Little-bit” graduated from Lavonia High
School in 1948. While there she was president
of the Four-H Club, reporter for the Beta
Club, editor of the school paper and the an
nual, class reporter, and “the principal’s
worry-wart.” She came all the way across the
state to WGC with some such idealistic notion
lik. furthering her education. During her first
quarter h re she received recognition as the
state’s best Four-H breadmaker Ye ho!
lads!! Not satisfied to see an opportunity pass,
Louise became a member of the council of
Voluntary Religious Association, and later
president of the VRA as a result of an election
by the entire student body. She is also a
member of the FBLA and the Chieftain Staff.
“I started work as a secretary when
spring quarter was out and have be?n able to
keep my boss fooled since then,” Louise says.
Her plans for the future include attending
the University of Georgia and studying (?)
dietetics. She particularly likes dogs, po?try,
and payday; particularly dislikes restrictions
and an empty Post-Office box.
KEYHOLE SKETCH:
Favorite Food: “Just more food with but
termilk!”
Favorite Saying: “The past is gone—to
day is here —the future will come soon
enough.”
Louise is energetic, efficient, and depend
able. Her bright personality has added much
to the college experience for others. She is
the guiding force behind the Voluntary Reli
gious Association, and can always be depend
ed upon to do, and to do well, what it re
quired of her. She falls into the classification
of “indispensable.”
WEST GEORGIAN STAFF
EDITOR Bobbie Goen
ASSOCIATE EDITOR - Max Prince
NEWS EDITOR Holland Jackson
FEATURE EDITOR . - Pat Florence
SPOTLIGHT EDITOR Carl Haywood
FASHION EDITOR. Lucrete Marshall
WOMEN’S SPORTS „ Judy Crowder
MEN’S SPORTS , Harmon Smith
BUSINESS MANAGER Evelyn Jordon
CIRCULATION MANAGER - ... Doris Alexander
TYPISTS Meredith Wright, Doris Cobb
FACULTY ADVISOR - Miss Marie Campbell
REPORTERS:
Elizabeth Ross, Fleta Crews, Guenter Swartz, Margaret
Ann Brooks,. Joe Ann Buford, Willa Jane Teel,
Peggy Jones, Ross Shackleford, Julian
Amos, Tom Payne.
■Member
ftssoetded CoUe6iate Press
THE MAGIC OF THANKSGIVING
by Pat Florence
Stop} Just for a few minutes, leave off everything else you
may be thinking ahout and lend your mind and spirit to the
Thanksgiving season. Yes, we say “magic,” for thereJs magic in
t,he cleansing freshness of the crisp breezes that are playing over
OVir campus, and in ths warm colors of gold and red that dapple
the hills and valea around the country side. There’s magic, too,
in a less material sense in the warm sincere smiles of the friends
we meet as we hurry atoouiti our activities and class s. With
Thanksgiving drawing near there comes also anew acknowledg
ment of these friends who only a few weeks ago were practically
all. t<g,at strangers.
Sure, you may,, eaR it school, cold weather, and dying trees,
but. we call it “Magic” the magic of God and a season of full
and thankful hearts—a time when each can look thoughfully at
the pamorama. Nature is displaying daily and hones*tly offer an
humble prayer of simple thanks to our creator. We really have so
many, many things tq be thankful for, things we are too often
prone to forget. All Of us fail to recognize the gifts we receive
daily because they appear so comon place, yet without them we
couldn’t hope to be what we are today. We should all be deeply
grateful for the select, opportunity that is ours to acquaint our
selves with all the vast stores of knowledge that are offered to
us here at college. We all realize we can never hope to know
all or even a small portion of all, but we can be thankful that
we are being given at taste from the coveted cup of wisdom and
that having tasted of it ourselves. We will feel the need to drink
deeply and to share our satisfaction with our fellowmen.
You say that you find it hard to be truly thankful because
this year has been just a series of troubles and trials. Don’t feel
that you are unique in your misfortune. We all have our own
particular troubles and problems. Just remember, “A troubled
a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce, or a trouble is what you make it”
and believe me we all have have our share. This would be a
pretty unbalanced world if all the trouble and joy weren’t divided
among us all. So, if your luck seems a little unfair and you feel
like fortune has forgotten you, stop for a moment, count your
blessings.
Remember that “Behind the clouds the sun is always shin
ing,” and say in your heart —“Thank you, God.”
THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT—
by Peggy Jones
Yes, we are speaking of those people that insist on folding
their chapel slips into tiny sizes and then putting them in the
box. There are also, the ones that always come by the door, tak
ing their timet, who are really waiting for an opportunity to
place more slips than “one” in the box. That is a good example
of friendship which we have a lot of on the campus, more especial
ly on Chapel days. There are those people, too, who sit in Chapel,
that insist on making airplanes out if their chapel slips.
The fun only begins when the poor unfortunate ones in the
office proceed with the tedious task of assorting and counting
the various shapes and colors of chapel slips. They find some on
which people have taken the time and trouble (or should we say
“pleasure”) to write poems and notes to those privileged persons
who have the happy task of counting them.
There are still those people that even go back into history to
the primitive days of what we shall call “hen scratching.” It is
probably a joke to those people but is certainly an agony to those
in the office.
We haven’t yet decided whether this is going to give people
“ideas” or whether or not they will take these few pointed hints.
Oh, well! Let’s just hope for the best!
THE WEST GEORGIAN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 194?
LIVE WITH EMPHASIS
by Marion Crider
For the college faculty, I should like to
express our appreciation to the officers and
council of the V. R. A. and the entire student
body for their devoted work and participa
tion in the series of Religious services just
ended. We call this Religious Emphasis Week,
when we lay aside many of our other activi
ties and place particular emphasis on main
taining and increasing the Christian Faith
which you bring to the campus from your
homes and communities. The college feels
this is of great importance.
It is easy to become so intent on the par
ticular courses we take, on athletics we like,
on the small circle of friends, that here on
this beautiful, spacious campus, with vast
opportunities open to us, we may lead very
narrow-self-centered lives. Faculty members
sometimes seem to teach as though history,
French, biology, and algebra were the most
important things in the world.
“I’ve been looking forward to coming to
college all my life.” This sentence taken from
the personnel sheet of one freshman might
have been said by any student. You are here.
Are you getting what you wanted or expect
ed? Sit down and think about it. Maybe you
are placing the emphasis on things of little
worth. Just as in the interpretation of poetry
and music, it is the placing of emphasis which
gives meaning, body, depth, strength, and
fullness to your life.
Place a little more emphasis on your day
by day living. How many of the other four
hundred-nin?ty-nine students do you know?
Make new friends; know your faculty bet
ter. find time to attend vespers on Wednes
days and Sundays. You will find a gruop of
campus leaders singing and carrying on
worthwhile discussions. Attend the church of
your choice when you are on the campus on
Sunday. Place a little more emphasis on
Christian living and you will be a happier,
better student.
Let’s extend Religious Emphasis Week to
Religious Emphasis Year.
LET US GIVE THANKS
by H. Carl Haywood
All at once and in a loud and harmonious
voice nature and the hearts of men declare
that the season for giving thanks is here.
And at what better time? We are today bring
ing to a close a series of services in which we
have learned to enumerate the things with
which we are blessed and for which we are
are thankful —this space could better be filled
with other things.
This year’s Thanksgiving at West Geor
gia College takes us back to the days of the
first Thanksgiving, as we have exercised the
specific privilege for which our fore-fathers
met to give thanks two hundred years ago—
that of free worship, and the opportunity to
make our own blessings. We will- remember
to offer thanks for the very privilege of of
fering thanks; for the marvel accomplished
in the fact that five-hundred people on our
campus can live together and pursue a com
mon goal; for our existence and the beauty of
God's world, particularly at this time of the
year; for a quarter of work almost finished,
and for the opportunity to return next quart
er and continue our work.
The kind of gratitude that we offer must
also be combined with a hope, an optimism
that conditions of life will at least be as good;
we must hold a determination that many of
them will be, by our efforts, improved, and
that those who come after us will not offer
thanks for the things which we are grateful
for, but for a much better society, a world
and a college campus which surpass our pre
sent relaxation. Only by so doing can we be
justified in blindly offering thanks for the
blessings that we now enjoy.
Special recognition is due the members
of the B. B. L. A. for their cooperation and
work on typing the West Georgian.
—The Editor.