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VOLUME XVI—NUMBER 4
West Georgia to Receive
Reinhardt Deputation
The Methodist students of West Georgia College will
again sponsor deputations. Reinhardt College, the first on
these, will be here on January 28 and 29. The deputation will
be composed of five people from Reinhardt campus. They will
arrive here on Saturday evening and be in charge of recrea
tion that night. Every student is urged to come and enjoy
the fun and fellowship with this group as they lead recrea
tion and participate in various programs on Sunday.
On Sunday morning the group
will have the opening service on
the senior department in the Me
thodist Sunday School and will
teach the Co-Ed Class. All Me
thodist students are urged to at
tend this program and the entire
student body is cordially invited.
The main purpose of deputations
is to provide fellowship between
colleges. The movement is new
but the idea is old. Boys and girls
have been visiting other colleges
and sharing past experiences and
gaining new ones for many years.
They are made possible by the
common belief in God and the fel
lowship of Christ.
West Georgia College has been
receiving these deputations for
several years but this will be the
first time they will attempt to
send deputations. We have an in
vitation to visit LaGrange College
on February 25 and are making
plans to do this. We are also re
ceiving a deputation from the Uni
versity of Georgia on April 22 and
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Rev. Durden Delivers
Series of Messages to VRA
The past three Sunday evening
Vesper services have been reward
ing experiences for the numbers
of students who have attended
them. Not one who has heard the
guest speaker, who has been de
livering a series of messages em
bracing the subject, “Belief in
God,” has failed to receive more
than a full measure of spiritual
satisfaction. The person who is
bringing these messages to our
campus vesper service is Mr. D.
William Duden, Lay Reader at St.
Margaret’s Church in Carrollton.
Mr. Durden was born twenty
six years ago in Macon, Georgia,
and a few years later his family
moved to Atlanta where he has
resided ever since. He completed
his elementary schooling in At
lanta, his high school training at
Riverside Academy at Gaines
ville, his college work at the Uni
versity of Georgia at Athens and
graduate work at Columbia Uni
versity in New York. He has a
wonderful tenor voice and while
at Georgia he made several con
cert tours over this and neighbor
ing states. After graduating from
the University he joined the San
Carlos Opera Company and was
with them one season.
Mr. Durden than taught foreign
languages in the Atlanta school
system, Riverside, and the Uni
versity of Georgia before going to
work for the Southern Bell Tele
phone and Telegraph Company
where he now holds a high posi
tion in the general traffic depart
ment over the nine southeastern
states in which Southern Bell op
erates.
Mr.- Durdeix's wue, Marjorie,
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DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
Barter Theatre
Will Present
Modern Drama
March 2, 1950, will be the date
for the annual appearance on the
West Georgia College Campus of
the Barter Theatre. They have
scheduled for their WGC perform
ance a modern play, Thunder
Rock, by Robert Ardrey. The play
has met with outstanding success
both in New York and in Lon
don. It requires a cast of eight
men and three women.
The action takes place in an old
light-house to which the principal
character has fled to escape the
Cares of a confused world* No
vance publicity has been received
to indicate the casting, but those
who saw last year’s Barter per
formance of William Shakespear’s
Hamlet, will have no doubt as to
its merits. The group travels with
its own stage and lighting equip
ment and crew.
The play will begin at 8:00 p.
m. on March 2, and the admission
will be small so as to be within the
reach of all students.
President's Club
Elects New Officers
The president’s club has elected
new officers for the winter quart
er. The officers elected are Presi
dent, Preston Herndon; Vice-Presi
dent, Bill Prescott; and Secretary-
Treasurer, Helen Bettis.
The club voted to have formal
meetings and to use parlimentary
procedure. The activity calendar
has been completed for the winter
quarter.
The President’s club has chosen
the organizations that will sponsor
Saturday night recreation for the
four coming weeks.
Several new members have been
added to the club due to changes
of officers in some of the organi
zations.
President Ingram
Speaks At Lay Meeting
Mr. Ingram spoke at the meet
ing of the Board of Lay Activities
of the North Georgia Conference
of the Methodist Church. This
group met in Athens, Georgia, on
January 14 and 15.
Mr. Ingram also recently attend
ed the meeting of the Board of the
Atlanta Area Council of Boy
Scouts of America. Mr. Ingram is
Chairman of the West Georgia
District Council and represented
this group at the meeting in At
lanta.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1950
CHEMISTRY LECTURER
CHAPEL SPEAKER
Marlin H. Bruner, a widely
known speaker on the advance of
chemistry spoke on “Progress in
Better Living” at chapel today.
Mr. Bruner is the southern mana
ger of E. I. Du Point De Nemours
and Company and has been trav
eling around the country for the
the last year, demonstrating re
cent developments in modern in
dustrial chemistry and showing
how industry in the United States
has been able to give the people
in America the highest standard
of living in the world.
Mr. Bruner who is sponsored by
the Science Club and Chemistry
Department, graduated from the
forestry school at Pennsylvania
State College and has his master’s
Degree from the Yale School of
Forestry. He has had experience
with the W. S. Forest Service and
is a member of the Society of
American Foresters. He is also
part chairman of the Forestry Sec
tion of the Association of Southern
Agricultural Workers and is quite
active in other scientific organiza
tions.
Copy of Dr. Adam's Thesis
Sent Library In Paris
According to the Raleigh News
and Observer, Dr. George C. S.
Adams, Professor of Romance
Languages at West Georgia Col
publications sent to the American
lege, is represented in a group of
Library in Paris to serve as the
beginning of a North Carolina cor
ner in the Library there. Dr. Ad
ams, who is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina, re
cently took his doctorate there. His
thesis is published by the Univer
city of North Carolina Press.
A large assortment of books
about North Carolina written by
Tar Heel authors has just been
shipped to the American Library
in Paris to serve as the beginning
of a North Carolina corner in the
Library there.
Dr. U. T. Holmes of the Uni
versity of North Carolina Roman
ce Language Department, chair
man of a committee in charge of
the collection, made the announce
ment here today.
Credit for the idea for such a
collection goes to Imogene Rid
dick, instructor of French at State
College, Raleigh. In 1945 Miss Red
dick discovered a book entitled
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MARLIN H. BRUNER
Guatemalan Educator
To Visit West Georgia
Sn. Alberto Arreaga of Guate
mala will visit the West Georgia
Campus on January 30 through
February 1. He is visiting this co
untry under the auspices of the
Institute of Inter-American Af
fairs. In making plans for his
visit in America the Institute ask
ed Miss Jane Franseth of the Unit
ed States Office of in
Washington, D. C. what school Sn.
Arreaga should visit to study rural
education in America and she
made the following statement, “I
believe that Sand Hill, Tallapoosa,
and Oak Mountain are still the
best rural schools in the United
States.”
Sn. Arreaga is chairman of the
Committee on Education in the Na
tional Congress of Guatemala. He
is also a professor of mathema
tics in Guatemala City and is in
the United States on a two-month
travel grant of the Institute of In
ter-American Affairs under its
provision of travel for “distin
guished educators.” Although a na
tive Guatemalan, he speaks Eng
lish fluently.
While Sn. Arreaga is in the co
unty, he will study the work of
the 4-H Club and see what it is
doing along the lines of improv
ing rural life in this area.
Ingram's Entertain
Faculty At Dinner
President and Mrs. I. S. Ingram
entertained the members of the
faculty and staff of West Georgia
College and their wives and hus
bands with a dinner party at the
Sunset Hills Country Club on
Wednesday night, January 18.
Covers were laid for approxima
tely forty-five guests.
The menu for the candlelight
dinner included fried chicken,
broccili, baked potatoes in a half
shell, a congealed salad with
cheese straws, hot buttered rolls,
peppermint ice cream, and coffee.
The individual tables were attrac
tively decorated with a single
white candle surrounded by sprigs
of red hawthorne berries.
After dinner the guest retired
to the main room of the Club,
which was decorated with several
vases of red hawthorne and early
blooming flowers. Dr. J. L. All
man, prominent Georgia educator
who i$ now Director of the Divi
sion of School Administration in
State , Department of Education,
gave an interesting and highly in
formative discussion on several
phases of Georgia’s education pro
blems.
Following the speech, the guests
enjoyed a short social hour.
Dr. Roberts, Mr. Row
Attend Cabinet Meeting
Of Fourth District G. E. A.
Mr. W. H. Row and Dr. L. E.
Roberts attended the Cabinet
meet of the Fourth District of
G. E. A. January 10 in Greenville,
Georgia, where future educational
policies to be presented to the
Georgia Legislature were discuss
ed with G. E. A. local presidents
and local officers.
It was hoped by the group that
money might be raised to finance
the Minimum Foundation Program
of Education and that legislation
might be enacted liberalizing tea
cher retirement.
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
Pittman Implies
Future Order
At Zeta Sig
The failure of labor to recognize
the social value of recent inven
tions was the keynote of the ad
dress made by Professor Brooks
O. Pittman at the January fifth
meeting of Zeta Sigma Pi. Mr.
Pittman pointed out that man has
resisted change since the indus
trial revolution, and that. England
even issued a royal decree against
the installation of the modern tele
graph. He added that John L.
Lewis has done virtually the same
thing with equally as little suc
cess, in that his resistance to ar
bitration of labor disputes has
merely promoted conversation of
mechanisms from coal to petrole
um burning and has greatly weak
ened his control over coal miners.
The fact that the Southern cotton
farmers refused to recognize the
abdication of King Cotton has put
them in the position of being the
lowest cotton producers in the
United States, while California,
realizing the value of modern ag
ricultural mechines and methods,
has over-shadowed the former
success of the Southetast in cot
ton producing.
Mr. Pittman spoke to an audi
ence of some thirty-five students
and faculty members, all of whom,
by. their membership in Zeta Sig
ma PI, indicated an interest in
social problems.
DEAN'S LIST
According to the registrar’s of
fice, one hundred six students
were named on the Dean’s List at
West Georgia College for the fall
quarter. This was one-fifth of the
total enrollment, which stands
now at 500. To make the Dean’s
List, a student must have an aver
age of 87 or above, or a B plus
average.
Following is a list of these stu
dents:
CARROLLTON
Akin, Charles; Braswell, Row
land; Carlson, Neal; Earnest, Do
rothy; Gilbert, Mary Ellen; Grif
fin, Bobby; Griffin, Pat; Holmes,
Jeanette; Huckeba, Clara; Jordan,
Evelyn; Keller, Lucille; McLen
don, Jones; Marshall, Lucrete;
Morgan, Jean; Reed, Bill; Robin
son, Louis; Robinson, Martin;
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Assembly Calendar
For Winter Quarter
January 24-—M. H. Bruner.
January 31—Dr. Milton Fleet
wood, President of Georgia His
torical Society.
February 7—Dr. Patrick
T. B. X-Rays.
February 14—Talent pro
gram.
February 21—Open.
February 28—Dr. Jones, Car
son Pritchard, Mr. Hazelgrove.
March 7—Folk dancing by
girls physical education classes.
March 14—National Typing
Champion.