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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1950
FACULTY
SPOTLIGHT
By EVELYN JORDAN
February, the month in which
we recognize many revered Ame
ricans, is a good time to recognize
someone on our campus, a person
who is known by her cheery smile,
her sincere and helpful ways, and
her charming and admirable per
sonality. The person of whom I
speak probably works with the
students at W. G. C. over a longer
period of time than any of the
faculty, since her work begins be
fore the student enters the school
and continues long after gradua
tion day. It is her duty a ssecre
tary to Dean Roberts and assistant
to Miss Downs to contact prospec
tice students with catalogs and let
ters, to help make room assign
ments, to keep scholastic records
consisting of grades, class cuts,
etc., to help with plans for gra
duation, to take care of veterans’
papers and problems, and to
transfer transcripts when students
leave the school.
A bit of personal information
aobut our subject of discussion:
Sre was bom in Carrollton and
graduated from Carrollton High
School and Draughton Business
School. She worked as secretary
and bookkeeper for Hitchcock Me
dicine Company until 1943, at
which time she came back to Car
rollton to take her job at W. G. C.
She has some excellent philoso
phy about her work: “A job worth
doing is worth doing right,” and
we have evidence that she applies
this philosophy in the form of
the neat and accurate records
which she keeps. She has .another
slogan which also is typical of
her: “Help somebody today.” Her
interest in the students is shown
in this statement: “I’m just as
thrilled over a student A’s as any
body, and I do hate to post those
D’s and F’s.”
Her hobby is growing flowers,
especially African Violets and
roses. She also likes to travel (she
has been to Canada and Niagara
twice and to Cuba one), books,
people, and television. Her pet
peeve is excessive class 1 cutters.
Aside from her duties at West
Georgia, she is Superintendent of
the Young’s People School Depart
ment at the First Baptist Church;
she also has domestic duties in the
form of husband, Willard R. Cope
land (better known as “Bill” with
whom she is “very much in love,”
and who was a childhood sweet
heart). He is now assistant cashier
of the West Georgia National
Bank.
A real friend to both faculty
and students is Mrs. Mary Cope
land. As they might have said of
Washington or Lincoln in their
day; we say to her, “Mrs. Cope
land, we couldn’t do without you.”
Dr. Roberts to Attend
Chicago Conference
Dr. L. E. Roberts, Dean at West
Georgia College, is planning to
attend the fifth National Annual
Conference on Higher Education
at the Congress Hotel in Chicago
April 17-19.
This conference will be com
posed of faculty, admininstration
leaders, representing all depart
ments and types of accredating
institutions from all parts of the
country. The participants will
study cooperatively in small work
groups and large gatherings. The
critical problems faced in higher
education will be studied. This
is the fourth time that Dr. Roberts
has represented West Georgia Col
lege at the conference.
Dramatics Class to Present
"Late Christopher Bean"
The dramatics class will pre
sent Sidney Howard’s “The Late
Christopher Bean” on March 10.
Lewis Waldrop plays the male
lead in the part of Dr. Haggett
and Mrs. Haggett is Margaret
Nixon. The romantic team is Mar
gie McPherson as the Haggett’s
daughter Susan and Jimmy Mat
hews in the part of the local paint
er and paper hanger who wants
to be an artist. Betty Wright por
trays the part of Susan’s older
sister, Ada, who is afraid that
Susan will get married before
she does. The whole play centers
in Abby, the Haggetts maid, who
is having to leave them after
many happy years of service. This
part is played by Becky Price.
Davenport is an art critic from
the New York Tribune and is en
acted by Gene Strickland. Bruce
Williams as Rosen and Cecil Pet
tit as Talent are art dealers from
New York and they try to pull the
wool over the eyes of the Haggett
family.
The setting of the play is in
the home of Dr. Haggett in a
small village outside of Boston.
The home serves as his office too.
The entire play takes place in
one day of the Haggett family’s
life.
Everything seems to revolve a
round Cris Bean who has been
dead for ten years. He lived in
the Haggett’s barn and painted
“old, no-good” pictures. Cris died
owing the Haggetts and suddenly
two of his old friends come to
pay this long over-due debt. Each
friend would like to have an old
picture of Cris’s to remember him
by. The Haggett family begins
to look for some of the old paint
ings and this starts a series of
actions that neither the doctor
nor his family can understand
and from this point on the play
produces a wild and hilarious
scramble for these old pictures
painted by Christopher Bean.
The NEW YORK TIMES says
of the play “A funny comedy with
an hilarious conclusion. It is a
creditable piece of comic work.”
Sweethearts Reign,
Sweetheart Dance
Highlighting the Entertainment
Calendar of the year was the an
nual Sweetheart Dance which
took place in the College gymna
sium February 11, from 8 to 12,
with the Georgia Bulldogs Orches
tra furnishing the music. Students,
Alumni, faculty and friends en
joyed the fun and sentimentality
of the occasion.
In the receiving line were Wales
Goebels, President of the Student
Body, Miss Jean Duff, Bill Pres
cott, President of the Sophomore
Class, Miss Bobbie Jackson, and
President and Mrs. Ingram.
The traditional red and white of
the Valentine season was followed
in the decorations. Classic white
columns extended from the ceil
ing lights to the floor, illuminat
ing at the top by a warm red
glaw. Highlight in the decorations
was the throne for the King and
Queen of Hearts. It was formed
by a huge red heart with white
ruffles.
During the intermission Presi
dent Ingram crowned Wales Goe
bels, Tallapoosa and Jean Duff,
Summerville, King and Queen of
Hearts. The court consisted of
Jeanette Holmes and Bill Alli
son, Gloria Hamilton and Earnest
Gray, Verlyn Shugart and Jack
Morris, Betty Ann Washburn and
Jack Powell. Following the crown
ing there was a lead off dance by
the King and Queen and their
court.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
FASHION
FIRSTS
By LUCRETE MARSHALL
Although spring is just around
the corner (it’s hard to tell which
one just now), winter clothes still
feel good on a cold campus. The
happy solution must be, we sup
post, warm spring suits.
Betty Cook has a bright blue
suit with interesting pockets. The
flaps are split in three sections,
each fastened down with a cover
ed button.
IN THE LIMELIGHT: Yellow
seems to be one of the favorite
colors around here. On one of
those dark, rainy days it’s nice
to have a bit of sunshine like La
LaVonne Jones’ bright corduroy
vest, or James Howell’s pale yel
low shirt, or Bill Perryman’s pale
yellow jacket.
In the line of jewelry there have
been some fasacinating pieces dis
played lately. Jerry Warren has a
silver bracelet which combines
pleasure with looks. It has an op
en disc with the words “I love
you” inside. Each letter has a little
hole, and there are some very
small pearls which are supposed
to fit into each hole. Sara Ann
Stribling has a Coctow Indian
bracelet of circles made of beads.
Each circle has a jewel in the cen
ter. Sue Boyd has a gold necklace
consisting of ashin and a square
with her name on it. Catherine
Colquitt has something that’s dif
ferent in the way of a necklace. It
is a gold cord which she wears
tied in a bow in the front.
BRIGHT BITS: Nanette Gald
in’s white blouse with the quilted
yoke and collar has a scattering of
rhinestones that adds a lot to her
wardrobe. Betty Jones has an at
tractive round, boxy bag made
of gray wool with red trimming.
One day not long aago Jo Jane
Floyd looked like a picture of
spring in her green and white en
semble: green skirt, green scarf,
and green and white blouse. The
boys are still wearing their bold
sweaters. See Billy MeMiken’s tan
sweater with yellow, green, and
brown zigzagged stripes.
Gathered skirts, which were so
popular several years ago, are en
joying a renewal of that popular
ity. They have come back in the
form of light-weight wool skirts,
usually with huge square pockets.
Anne Bussey has a blue, red, and
black plaid skirt gathered onto a
wide band. Jeanne Higgins has a
gathered skirt of very unusual ma
terial. It has large blocks of green,
yellow, aqua, and rose under a
network of small, dark checks.
"BLACK LACE:" At the Sweet
heart Dance Bobbie Sue Daniel
looked stunning in her black an
kle-length dress with a yoke of—
you guessed it: black lace. Eleanor
Smith wore a lovely dark red satin
dress. Joann Ruark’s gown was
pale green satin under white lace
with a green net skirt. It was
strapless with a ruffle around the
top. Frances Russell also had ruf
fles. Her dress was bright red
with shirred bands set in the full
skirt. June Thomas’ dark green
dress had a light green net skirt
with bows all the way down to
the floor in the back.
We can’t let this opportunity
pass without mentioning Ann
Green’s haircut!
FORECAST: In spite of the sud
den burst of icy winds spring sty
les are holding their own. When
one sees bits of linen and straw,
he knows it won’t be long now.
Barter Theatre
To Present
Thunder Rock
At eight o’clock on March sec
ond, the Barter Players will pre
sent “Thunder Rock” at the West
Georgia College Auditorium. Hhis
will be the third appearance of
this famous group at West Geor
gia. Their productions have be
come an annual event which is a
high spot on the campus calen
dar.
“Thunder Rock” is a dramatic
fantasy written by Robert Ardery.
The principal character in the
play is Charleston, a 35 year old
journalist, who believes that civi
lization is doomed. With his
friend, Streeter, he takes a job
in a lighthouse on Thunder Rock,
a tiny island in Lake Michigan.
Streeter gives up his job to be
come an active member of society
again when he decides that the
world can be brought out of its
chaos if people do something a
bout it. Charleston is pessimistic
and hopes to design for himself
a way of life by remaining exiled
on the island. He retreats further
into a fantastic world of his own
building; be creates people in his
mind for companions. Believing
that “‘Mankind’s got one future—
in the past,” he breathes life into
these creatures of his imagination.
These people of Charleston’s
make-believe world are half a
dozen of the 60 who were ship
wrecked on the rock 90 years ago.
They live again in the stage and
as he talks to them we see shab
by, shallow beings, but old Jos
hua, their Captain, pleads with
Charleston to see his passenders
as they really were, each seeking
sanctuary from a distrubed Euro
pe, running away from life, yet
needing the same hope and str
ength as Charleston himself.
Charleston’s sincerity convinces
these creatures that he really has
the courage to lead his fellowmen
into a better world, and in this
faith they are content to die a
gain. Inspired by their confidence,
the lighthouse-keeper returns to
useful work, determined to cre
ate anew order out of the chaos
of the old.
There are three hundred tickets
available for college students and
faculty members at fifty cents
each. They will be on sale in the
business office during the week
preceding the production. After
these tickets are gone, admission
will be 90c and $1.20.
Chapel Speaker Explains
Importance Of TB X-Rays
On February 6, Dr. E. V. Pat
rick, one of Carrollton’s outstand
ing young physicians, spoke to the
student body concerning the X-
Rays made in connection with the
State Health Department’s tuber
culosis survey.
Dr. Patrick urged the students
to take advantage of the oppor
tunity to have the free chest ex
amination, as it is the only means
of diagnosing the disease in its
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Wahl Ensemble to
Give Performance
Monday, April 24, 1950, will be
the date for the appearance on
the West Georgia College Cam
pus of the Wahl Ensemble. Com
posed of four outstanding musi
cians, Nina Dunkel, harpist; Ivor
Gothie, pianist; Pricilla Barton,
soprano and Ettore Manieri, te
nor, all of whom have perform
ed and studied in the major cities
of the United States and Europe,
brings to the American Concert
Stage an ensemble of the best in
musical tradition.
Although relatively new on the
musical horizon, The Whal En
semble with its unique combina
tion of soprano, tenor, harp and
piano has already proved to be as
superb in ability as it is unusual
makeup. Formed in 1949 especial
ly at the request of many college
officials and concert association
committees in the South, their first
tour won for them unstinted
praise, not only for the exquisite
harmony of voices and strings, but
also for the fine techniques of
each individual artist.
ALPHA PSI NEWS
The Alpha Psi met Monday
night, February 20, to discuss
plans for the May Day Festival.
Mr. Wallace was speaker for the
meeting and gave an interesting
talk on the subject of “Art in Re
lation to Home Economics.”
The next meeting of The Alpha
Psi will be held on Monday night,
March 6.
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