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TUESDAY, MARCH 28. 1950
Ben Posner, World Famous Typist,
Will Appear At West Georgia April 11
Ben Posner, renowned speed
typist and a former holder of the
World’s Amateur Typing Cham
pionship, will demonstrate his ex
traordinary typing ability for the
instruction and entertainment of
local students when he appears at
West Georgia College, on Tuesday,
April 11, 1950.
Widely respected in educational
and tying circles as a top instruc
tor and performer, Posner has hit
speeds exceeding 130 words per
minute for one hour, and on sev
eral occasions has been clocked at
the amazing rate of 160 words per
minute.
A native of Arizona, Posner
swept the Arizona Open Typing
Championship in 1935, and then
went on to national fame by tak
ing the coveted World’s Amateur
Typing title at Chicago in 1938.
At the International Contest in
Chicago, Posner scored a contest
record of. 128 net five strokes
words words per minute for one
continuous hour of typing.
The ace typist, presently em
ployed by the U. S. Government,
holds degrees in Business Admini
stration and Accounting from the
University of Arizona and George
Washington University and has
completed advance work at the
American University. During his
NEW QUARTER
By CIS THOMPSON
Spring is the time of year when
young and old feel like turning
over anew leaf, being harder
workers, better people.
For students at West Georgia
the season of dewey morns, sing
ing birds, tennis racquets, and
sunny afternoons ushers in anew
quarter. We in particular feel in
clined to turn over anew leaf.
Each quarter we all resolve to
make better grades, study harder,
etc., and spring quarter is es
pecially good for such resolutions,
since the fresh air and soft breez
es make us feel so good. All too
often, however, at least such has
been the case of ye olde author,
we lose interest in our good in
tentions and slip into our old
familiar ways of just “getting by.”
Just because some mythical ma
lady known as “Spring Fever” is
said to make everyone feel sleepy
and lazy in about April or May is
no excuse for forgetting or ignor
our resolutions for this quarter.
The truth about this disease is
that it rarely strikes those who
are not already sleepy and lazy,
so if for about three weeks we
can keep up our efforts to be “A”
students, we will probably find
ourselves immune to “Spring Fev
er”.
There, then, goes the main ex
cuse offered for laziness in studies
Spring quarter.
Another familiar excuse for
“letting things go” at about the
middle of the quarter is, “I’m
sorta behind already, but next
quarter I’ll make good grades.”
Not meaning to sound melodra
matic, but for lots of people there
won’t be a “next quarter” at W.
G. C., and for those of us who
“shall return,” that “next quarter”
is a long way off.
The moral is: Don’t give up the
ship! Full speed ahead! Work, for
finals are coming! Anything worth
doing is worth doing well! Most
important of all, don’t let those
resolutions be so rash you’ll never
accomplish your aims. Instead,
make them within your abilities
and by all means, slick to them.
See you on the Dean’s List. (If
I get there).
BEN POSNER
colorful career, he has instructed
high school students at Tuscon,
Arizona, and in 1937 was awarded
a teaching fellowship by the Uni
versity of Arizona. His ability as
an instructor is matched only by
his prowess as a speed typist. An
exhibiiton of these skills proves
a highly worthwhile treat for his
audiences.
Posner, who appears here
thorough the courtesy of the Ro
yal Typewriter Company, render
ed distinguished service during
the war as a Lieutenant in the U.
S. Army. Although he was never
assigned as a typist during his
service in the armed forces, he
gave many demonstrations for the
troops at various posts at which he
was stationed.
COST OF AN
EDUCATION
As we come back to college
and face registering and paying of
fees, many of us are shocked
when we are forced to realize
how much money it cost our par
ents to send us here. Even as we
realize this cost and think it is
high, all we have to do is com
pare our cost with other colleges
and we find that our parents are
fortunate.
In a recent study made by one
of America’s leading insurance
companies, we find that the aver
age student spend $1,281 annually
ior nine months in college. This
includes tuition, books, fees,
rooms, meals, clothes, laundry,
amusements and incidentals. Of
this amount $976 is spent for
board and tuition. At West Geor
gia College the amount would be
approximately $450. This approxi
mately one-half of the average in
the nation.
The college used in this study
includes one in California as low
as $625 and one in New York as
high as $2,205. This shows that
we have higher educational facili
ties in the United States for every
income bracket. Neverthe less
most of us place a financial han
dicap on our parents by coming
to college. They are willing to
make this sacrifice to better pre
pare their children for life.
Scholarships are available, but
few of them provide more than a
small part of the full cost of the
college year. One authority on
American colleges and universities
said that in a recent year when
there were 2,300,000 college stu
dents, 75,000 of them held scholar
ships. This is 3.3% of the college
students or it means that only one
out of thirty receives a scholar
ship for college. In any case, it
will pay only a fraction of college
expenses.
With nearly two and a half
million students in American col
leges right now, this serious ques
tion arises; ten or fifteen years
from now, will any man or wo
man have a fair chance of becom
ing a leader or of earning a better
than-average living, without high
er education?
THE WEST GEORGIAN
In 1930, there were less than
two million college graduates in
America. Now there are more
than five million. In fifteen years
there may be fifteen million col
lege graduates in the United
States.
If we are to do as well as, or
better than our parents, a higher
education is essential.
A more complete and interest
ing life usually is in store for the
girl who is a college graduate,
whether she marries or not. Asa
college graduate, she is more like
ly to marry a man who will him
self succeed in life. If she has a
career on her own, a college edu
cation will certainly help her as
much as it would help a boy. Com
petition for success in a career is
much harder for women; only with
a college education can she suc
cessfully compete not only against
other women but against men in
the same type of work.
Some time ago Everett W. Lord,
then dean of Boston University,
studied the earnings of men with
various amounts of education. He
found that college graduates earn
ed $482,000 more in their lives
than high school graduates. Divid
ing the $72,000 by four, this means
that each year of college was
worth SIB,OOO.
A survey by Cornell University
showed that farmers with college
educations earned five times as
much as those who only finished
grade school.
America has become attuned to
the idea that its leaders must have
college educations. Many believe
that going to college will, in the
future, be just as common as go
ing to high school has been in the
past. It seems that a college edu
cation is essential and we must
have a college education no mat
ter what the cost.
There is a way boys and girls
can go to college without giving
the family a real hard blow when
the time comes. The plan is a form
of insurance. Practically all large
insurance companies have plans
and they are all essentially the
same. It is much easier for our
parents to pay small amounts of
insurance each year than it is to
save that same money and to con
tinue to save it for our college
education.
One plan provides $75 per mon
th and a bonus of $325.00 twice a
year when a student is on the
semister system to pay his fees.
This plan is payed up in so many
years or on the death of the fath
er or if he becomes disabled and
cannot pay the insurance, the
company pays it.
This policy can be used as se
curity for a loan in an emergency
and if parents do not have to use
it to send children to school, they
can use it as a retirement fund.
Insurance seems to be a work
able plan that will lighten the
load of parents that plan to send
their children to college.
Floyd R. Singleton Is
Designated Naval Aviator
Midshipman Floyd R. Single
ton, son of Mrs. Thomas H. Roach
of Route No. 5, West Point, Geor-
College. Pre-light and basic-train
gia, was designated a naval avia
tor March 5, 1950. His aviator’s
diploma and “wings of gold” were
presented to him at a ceremony
conducted by Captain J. B. Dunn,
USN, Commanding Officer of the
Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi,
Texas.
A graduate of LaGrange High
School in 1946, Midshipman Sin
gleton enlisted in the Navy short
ly thereafter, and as a part of his
training attended South Georgia
ing were taken at the Naval Air
Station, Pensacola, Fla., with ad
vanced training in multi-engined
aircraft taken aboard the Naval
Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tex
as.
Judges in College TV Contest
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John Steinbeck, novelist, right; Charles M. Underhill, CBS
TV Program Director, center; and Donald Davis, producer for
World Video, Inc., will select the four winning scripts in the seme
ster-long CBS Awards competition for original television dramas
written by collegians. Entry blanks must be obtained from CBS
Awards, 15 E. 47th St., New York City. Contest ends June 20.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
SPEAKS
Continued from Page One
Ms. Edward Yeomans, Shady Hill
School, Cambridge, Mass.
Miss Nettie Brogden, Superinten
dent of Jacksonville, Florida,
schools.
Mr. W. R. Alexander, Assistant
Director of Extension, Athens,
Georgia.
Dr. H. H. Giles, New York Uni
versity.
Mr. J. Oliver Carson, Supervisor
in Pennsylvania.
Mr. O. C. Mulkey, Supervisor of
Education in Texas.
DO YOU KNOW THAT WEST
GEORGIA COLLEGE IS A
FULLY ACCREDITED MEM
BER OF
1. American Association of Jun
ior Colleges
2. Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools.
3. Georgia Association of Col
leges.
DO YOU KNOW THAT NIGHT
CLASSES ARE BEING OFFER
ED AT WEST GEORGIA COL
LEGE?
DO YOU KNOW THAT WORK
CAN BE BEGUN IN THESE
FIELDS AT WEST GEORGIA
COLLEGE?
Art, Biology, Business Administra
tion, Business Law, Child Care,
Counseling, Current Affairs.
Drawing and Blueprints, Edu
cation, English, Ethics, Family
Relations, Nutrition, Personality
Development, Philosophy, Psy
chology, Writing, Home Econo
mics, Human Relations, Indus
trial Safety, Interior Decora
tion, Languauge, Library Scien
ce, Medicine, Mathematics, Men
tal Hygiene, Music, Nursing,
Religion, Salesmanship, Science,
Shorthand, Social Science,
Speech, Typing.
DO YOU KNOW THAT
Students could save from SSOO to
SBOO a year driving in to West
Georgia College from Cedar
town, Dallas, Douglasville, Bu
chanan, Bremen, Franklin, Ned
nan?
Students could save this amount
for specialization in senior col
lege?
CABROLL THEATRE
—FOR THE BEST IN ENTERTAINMENT—
“THE OUTLAW”
Is Coming Soon!
Students Throughout
U. S. Prepare Scripts
(n CDS Writing Contest
Thousands of students in the
nation’s 1,800 accredited unitvcrsi
ties and colleges are hammering
the midnight typewriter this se
mester, as they explore an un
charted area of literary creation
to produce scrips for the CBS
Awards drama writing contest, an
nounced February 3.
The CBS Awards competition,
administering in association with
World Video, Inc., independent
television producing organization,
will be conducted in four stages.
Entries will be accepted through
June 20, 1950. Entries dated later
than the 20th of March, April or
May, will be automatically enter
ed in the succeeding competition
period.
A prize winner will be announc
ed on the last Friday of each mon
th during March, April, May and.
June. The winners will be inform
ed of their success in telegrams,
and public announcement will al
so be made on the CBS Television
Network’s regular Friday broad
casts of “The Play’s the Thing,”
produced by World Video, Inc.
No scripts may be submitted
without official, numbered entry
blanks, which must be obtained
by writing directly to:
CBS Awards,
Headquarters:
15 East 47th Street,
New York City.
The competition is open only to
students 18 years of age or over
who are residents of the United
States and are attending accredit
ed colleges or universities in the
continential United States.
All entries must be original
television dramas which have
never been produced on the air or
published. Adaptations of existing
novels, short stories, play or other
literary creations will be disquali
fied. Scripts will be judged for
originality, freshness and ingenu
ity in exploring television as a
new visual-auditory medium. The
judge’s decision will be final. Du
plicate prizes will be awarded in
case of ties. Prize-winning scripts
will become the property of CBS.
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