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VOLUME XVI—NUMBER 7
Parents' Day Climaxes West Georgia College Week
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DR. L. E. ROBERTS
WILLIAM H. ROW
Prof. William H. Row Promoted
To Dean of V/est Georgia College
Announcement was made last week of the appointiyient
of William H. Row as Dean of Administration of West Geor
gia College by the Board of Regents to fill the vacancy of Dr.
L. E. Roberts, who has been selected to serve as President of
Middle Georgia at Cochran.
Mr. Row teaches Dramatics and
Speech at West Georgia. He at
tended college at the Kansas City
; hool of Law; Kansas State
I nchers College; University of
Kansas; University of Colorado;
Northwestern University; Uni
versity of Tulsa; Teachers College,
Columbia University; New York
University. He received his B. S.
degree from the University of
Kansas, his Masters degree from
Columbia University. Mr. Row is
working on his Doctor of Educa
tion Degree at the New York Uni
versity ,and has completed it ex
cept for his dissertation, which he
is working on now.
Mr. Row has had a great deal
of teaching experience before he
came to West Georgia. He taught
grade school at Weir, Kansas;
Junior-Senior High School at
Fratt, Kansas; Senior High School
at Pittsburgh, Kansas; was the Di
rector of Speech Arts at Daniel
Webster High School in Tulsa, Ok
lahoma. He came from Tulsa to
Carrollton in 1946, and has served
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
Dr. L. E. Roberts Named Head
Of Middle Georgia College
A mixed feeling of gladness and sorrow accompanied the
news that our Dr. L. E. Roberts had been appointed to the
office of the presidency of Middle Georgia Sollege in Cochran.
Dr. Roberts, who was one of the original faculty members
when West Georgia College was created as a junior college in
1933, has served as its administrative dean since 1946, before
which time he was Head of the Social Science Division.
Dr. Roberts was born in New
Castle, Alabama, and reared in
Paulding County, Georgia, where
he began his teaching career in a
one-teacher school in 1920. He re
ceived his A. B. and M. A. degree
from the University of Georgia
and his Ph. D. from Duke Uni
versity. He also studied at the
University of Wisconsin, the
George Peabody College for
Teachers, and New York Uni
versity. In the summer of 1932 he
did research in the British Pub
lic Record Office and the British
Museum in London, England.
During the same summer he trav
eled in Russia, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, and France studying
social conditions of these coun
tries. He h&s done extensive writ
ing for periodicals such as The
Georgia Historical Quarterly, the
Social Science Magazine, Journal
of Modern History, Journal of
Southern History, Southern Agri
culturist, the Peabody Reflector,
World Digest, and The Atlanta
Journal Magazine. He is joint edi
tor with Dr. J, C. Bonner of
Studies in Georgia History and
Government, published by the
University of Georgia press in
1940.
Prior to coming to West Geor
r.s consultant in Teacher’s Work
shops at Mercer University, Rome,
Griftin, and LaGrange. Mr. Row
has been teaching extension
classes for the University of Geor
gia during the past three years.
Mr. Row belongs to several pro
fessional organizations: Phi Delta
Kappa, which is a national hon
orary educational fraternity; The
Speech Association of America;
the National Association of Teach
ers of English; Southern Speech
Association; Georgia Speech As
sociation; NEA; GEA; is a mem
ber of the Teacher Education
Council which is sponsored by the
State Department of Education. He
is a member of the Kiwanians;
and an Elder in the Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. Row says in regard to his
Deanship, “Nothing could have
pleased me more than to have
been selected for this position.
West Georgia College is a school
that is nationally recognized and
has the finest student body of any
college to my knowledge.”
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, FRIDAY. APRIL 28, 1950
gia College, Dr. Roberts was
principal of Fayette County High
School 1924-1926, Superintendent
of Conyers City Schools 1926-27,
principal of Stapleton School
1927-28, and classroom teacher in
Social Science, Atlanta Public
Schools 1928-1933. Dr. Roberts
taught Political Science at Emory
University in the summer of 1939
and History in the University of
Georgia in the summer of 1946.
During the summer of 1945 he
was a historian in the Historical
Division of the Material Command
at Wright Field in Chicago, where
he supervised and participated in
the writing of vital phases of the
history of the Atmy Air Force. He
has also written a history of
Paulding Counter covering the cen
tury ending in 1932.
Dr. Roberts is a Baptist and has
served as teacher for the past fif
teen years of the Business Men’s
Bible Class of the First Baptist
Church, Carrollton. He is current
ly chairman of the Religious
Panel of the Carroll Service
Council. He is a member of and
past president of the Carrollton
Lions Club.
Dr. Roberts served as president
of the Georgia Council of Social
Studies, 1941-1942 and was chair
man of the Social Science Com
mittee of the University System
of Georgia Council for the year
1947-48.
Dr. Roberts expressed his senti
ment about his new position thus
ly: “After seventeen years I have
become attached to the faculty,
students, and alumni of West
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DR. GEORGE STRAYER DISCUSSES NEEDS
OF ENTIRE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF STATE
On April 4, the students and
faculty of West Georgia College
were fortunate to have as their
chapel speaker, Dr. George Stray
er, who stressed the needs of the
entire educational system of the
state of Georgia which have long
been recognized by our school
leaders.
He said that Junior Colleges
should become the financial re
sponsibility of the counties in
which they are located.
Dr. Strayer pointed out that in
1910 one-half of the boys and
girls quit school before they fin
ished the seventh grade; in 1949,
three out of every four boys and
girls of high school age were in
high schools. Although this is
proof of the fact that education is
making definite progress, he said,
there is a growing need for high
er education on a broader scale.
In 1949, half o fthe higher stand
ing high school graduates did not
go on for further education.
Chancellor Caldwell Is Speaker
On Chapel Program This Morning
Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell. Chan
cellor of the University System of
Georgia, spoke to an audience
composed of parents, students,
faculty, visitors and friends of
West Georgia College, on the 17th
anniversary of Parent’s Day, April
28, 1950.
This address concluded the week
of April 20 to April 18, known as
West Georgia Week. The purpose
of this week was to trace the
growth of a school founded 43
years ago as the Fourth District A.
and M., and trace its growth and
influence to the present day.
Dr. Caldwell graduated from the
University of Georgia and the
Harvard College of Law where
he received his Ph. D. He became
Dean of the Lumpkin College of
Law at the University of Georgia
and later was appointed President
of the University of Georgia. In
1948 he became Chancellor of the
University System.
During this week of exercises
celebrating “a job well don®” by*
Atyeat Georgia" College, Mr. Irvine
S. Ingram, President, and the col
lege were hosts to a distinguished
group of visitors. Among these
were former alumni and faculty
of the college. The guests includ
ed: Dr. Robert Strozier, Dean of
Students, University of Chicago;
Dr. Philip Weltner, President,
Oglethorpe University; Dr. J. C.
Bonner, Head of History Depart
ment, G. S. C. W., Milledgeville;
Dr. W. Fred Gunn, President,
Bessie Tift College; Mr. Ebb Dun
can, Representative, Carroll Coun
ty; Mr. Willis Smith, Senator, 37th
District; Mr. A. W. Alexander,
Representative, Carroll County;
Mr. Charles Smith, Representative,
Haralson County; Mr. J. A. Rogers,
Representative, Heard County;
Mr. Stewart Martin; Mr. Edwin
Harman, President, West Geor
gia College Alumni Association;
and Miss Anne Ingram, daughter
of President Ingram.
Dr. Strayer reasons that this
was because of financial prob
lems, that the fees for college
education are too high, especially
in Georgia. The percentage of the
cost of college education paid by
students in Georgia is approxi
mately 26 per cent higher than in
the twelve southeastern states. In
those state® student fees account
for 25 pel cent of the cost, where
as in Georgia, the students pay 51
per cent.
Several of the urgent needs of
the University System, as pointed
out by Dr. Strayer, are libraries,
laboratories and classroom space.
He said that there are forty-eight
dormitories in the University
System that need to be made safe
and fire-proof, that need fire
proof stairways with inner
closing doors. His total recom
mendation for improved facilities
amounts to $48,000,000, Dr. Stray
er advises that this be invested
over a 10-year period.
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
CHANCELLOR CALDWELL
The week included student as
semblies, a program sponsored by
the Carroll Entertainment Series,
the Alumni and Founders Day
program, the Awards Assembly,
Union Vespers Service, Annual
May Day Program and the Par
ent’s Day Program.
Ingram and Row
Attend Meeting
President I. S. Ingram and Pro
fessor William H. Row were dele
gates to the National Convention
of the American Association of
Junior Colleges. This conference
was held in Roanoke, Virginia, on
March 28 to 29. While at the con
ference, Mr. Ingram served on
the resolutions committee.
Outstanding speakers for the
conference included Mr. Douglas
Southall Freeman, noted historian
and author. Another of the promi
nent speakers was Col. Robert
Burton House, who is Chancellor
of the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill.
DO YOU KNOW THAT:
Carrollton and Carroll County
made possible West Georgia Col
lege by a gift of $40,000 ana 275
acres that secured a state school
known as the A. & M.
President's
Calendar
May 1-3—Study Presbyter
ian College, Maxon, N. C.
May 14—St. Paul’s Metho
dist Church, Hulett, Ga.
May 15—Unity High School.
May 22 Menlow High
School.
May 20—Rotary Conference
Address, Lookout Moun
tain.
June s—Toccoa Falls Insti
tute.