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A Welcome from the Dean
Dear Parents of West Georgians:
We are happy to have you as our guests on
the West Georgia Campus. It is a great pleasure
to see you again, and if we have not yet met, to
get acquainted.
Make yourselves at home and call on us for
any service that will add to your information or
comfort while with us.
Sincerely yours,
. L. E. ROBERTS, Dean
West Georgia College.
Registrar Issues Welcome
Dear Parents:
This day is designated as your day on our
campus to show you how glad we are to have
you come. We want you to feel at home and en
joy the day. We recognize the fact that any
success we may have with your sons and daugh
ters here is dependent upon the background you
have built in them and the cooperation you give
while they are here. Ours is a joint responsibil
ity. We welcome this opportunity to get
acquainted.
Cordially yours,
KATIE DOWNS, Registrar.
Students Welcome Parents
Dear Parents and Friends:
On behalf of the student body of West
Georgia College, I welcome you and sincerely
hope that your visit will be a pleasant one.
It is a pleasure and privilege to have you
visit us and see the results of our work here.
ELIZABETH ROSS,
President of Student Body.
Time for Some Thinking
By MAX PRINCE
“It is spring and all mankind is exercising
its special prerogative—having spring fever.” Yes
it is spring and we are all trying to do the small
est amount of work that we can and get by. It is
wonderful weather and everyone is feeling fine
but we are all shying away from serious thinking
at a time when we should be doing some
serious thinking and making definite plans. We
are nearing the turning point of spring quarter
and soon we will be electing student officers for
next year. These do require our serious con
sideration and the success of the student body
next year depends on our decisions.
What offices are to be filled and who is
eligible? There are the Student Body officers
who have a tremendous responsibility and they
are opened to any faculty approved student who
plans to return next year. For the first time in
the history of the school a girl is serving as pres
ident of the student body for spring quarter.
Who knows, we may have a female president
next year and it might not be a bad move. The
other officers in this group are vice-president,
and secretary-treasurer.
The editors of the Chieftain and the West
Georgian are elected by popular vote and they
are opened to anyone on the campus that is
approved by the faculty. These two key positions
require definite requirements such as previous
training.
Other key positions are held by the presi
dent of the sophomore class, the vice-president,
and secretary-treasurer. These are limited to
Sophomores and they are faculty approved
people, too, as are all student candidates. This
means that they are passing their work in school
and that their character is good and that their
conduct record is clear.
These are some of the offices we will be hav
ing to fill in a few weeks and it is well that we
begin to consider who we will want for what
offices. If you know someone that you think will
make a good man for some office begin to en
courage him and tell others why he will be
good. Many who would often make good officers
make the mistake of not trying because they
think they don’t have a chance. It will not hurt
anyone to try and see!
A wise choice of campus leaders by the
present student body will help to make an alert
student body next year.
WEST GEORGIAN STAFF
EDITOR - - JJ Barbara Goen
ASSOCIATE EDITOR __! Max Prince
NEWS EDITOR Holland Jackson
FEATURE EDITOR L Pat Florence
SPOTLIGHT EDITOR 1 H. Carl Haywood
FASHION EDITOR _i Lucrete Marshall
WOMEN’S SPORTS __4 Judy Crowder
MEN’S SPORTS - ; Bobby Ashworth
BUSINESS MANAGER Evelyn Jordan
CIRCULATION MANAGER Doris Alexander
TYPIST Doris Cobb
FACULTY ADVISOR Miss Marie Campbell
REPORTERS
Elizabeth Ross, Fleta Crews, Guenter Swartz, Joe
Ann Buford, Willa Jean Teel, Peggy Jones, Julian
Amos, Dorothy Williamson, Julia Carwile, Cissie
Thompson, Kenneth Turner, Kenneth Cadenhead,
Louise Boswell, Jake Jarrell.
Member
Ptssociqted Collegiate Press
President Ingram Welcomes Visitors
To the Patrons and Friends of West Georgia College:
We are delighted to have you as our guests today. West Georgia
College is a friendly place.
To have Chancellor Caldwell is an added pleasure for all of us.
His genial and pleasant personality coupled with his distinction as a
leader of higher education in our state makes his visit important to us.
The faculty, the student body, and I greet and welcome you.
Most sincerely,
IRVINE S. INGRAM, President.
Smilhfield College in the Community
By JOE ANN BUFORD
Friday night, April 7, was graduation night for the Smithfield
College-In-The-Community class and I along with several other stu
dents and faculty members from West Georgia attended these exer
cises. In this simple but impressive program, I gainfed some new ideas
and feeling about people in general and even more, people in com
munities.
It seems to be an equal amount of teaching done out there. True,
the college faculty taught the people valuable educational information,
but in turn these people taught our faculty something. College pro
fessors and people in a community working together on the same level
was practically unheard of only several years ago. These people have
learned how to grow and mature together in knowledge, to live and
work together, and to enjoy doing it. The faculty members seem to be
more aware of the fact that West Georgia campus is not so small but
it extends on out into the surrounding places and affects all the people.
The people of Smithfield, working with them have found that West
Georgia is theirs, that it is a friendly place and that it is theirs for
the wanting.
To me the Smithfield College-In-The-Community is a true
example of a democracy. Many long and high-sounding words have
been given to the definition of democracy but to me it is working and
living together, and being willing and wanting to express or give your
own views or opinion and have others received in turn. I think some
of our leading statesmen might take this as an example and do some
thinking about it. In our world of today, stricken by strife and turmoil,
surely this does prove that by living and working together as a group,
some harmony can be achieved.
LIVE TODAY
By LIZ ROSS
In the Sanscrit there are two
lines that stick in the mind ....
They are: “Look to this day—for
it is life; the very life of life.”
This is so true—for the tomor
row that we are always thinking
about turns out to be today and
tomorrow’s yesterday will be to
day.
Human nature, or at least that
is the common name given lazi
ness, tends to make up put things
off until tomorrow —to wait for a
better time. When conditions are
more favorable, but did you ever
stop to think that tomorrow may
never come. We have no way of
knowing when the sun will set for
the last time—we have only the
present, this is our time. Right
now. Not tomorrow or the next
day, but now!
Putting off that kind word or
thoughtful gesture will probably
not prove to be fatal, but would
THE WEST GEORGIAN
it not be better to do it today?
Would it not be more sound to
use every minute of this day to
the fullest and best possible ad
vantage?
The twenty-four hours that we
are allotted are more precious and
valuable than priceless jewels, for
jewels can be replaced and for
gotten, but a lost hour can never
be replaced or re-lived.
One thoughtlessly spoken word
can cause grief and heart-ache,
and all the apologies in the world
cannot blot out that word. No
eraser is strong enough to rub out
a hateful deed or unkind act.
Think, Know, Feel, that today is
life. The very life of life. Live to
day to its very fullest and best.
Don’t waste your most valuable
possessioon on smallness and de
ceit. Use your twenty-four prec
ious hours to do good and in a
profitable maner. For every to
day well lived is a happy yester
day and a hopeful tomorrow. Look
therefore to this day!
CAMPUS SPOTLIGHT
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BOBBY GOEN
“Dynamite comes in small packages!” And
if you want proof of that statement, just take a
look at Bobby Daniel Goen—she’s mighty small
in stature, but she’s loaded inch for inch and
ounce for ounce with energy, wit, and vitality.
Bobby came into the world just three days
late for Christmas, 1930, and she’s been busy
ever since making up for those three days. In
May, 1948, she graduated with honors from
Milner High School, where she was a member
of the National Beta Club, the Tri-Hi-Y, the
annual staff, the glee club, associate editor of the
school newspaper, and was awarded a trophy
for being the most outstanding senior. After
that brilliant high school career, she decided to
favor West Georgia College, entering ‘in Septem
ber, 1948. Since she has been here, Bobby has at
tained the position of an outstanding student
leader. Her radiant personality has found its way
into the Choir, the V. R. A. council, and per
mentes the very walls around Melson. Last
spring she was elected by the student body to
the editorship of the West Georgian.
Bobby is an education student, and with her
unbeatable combination of leadership, intelli
gence and vitality, she is certain to be a credit
to the teaching profession.
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CARL HAYWOOD
The spotlight falls upon the one who has so
well directed its beam on others—Carl Haywood.
Carl, a familiar figure on the campus, can
always be identified by a frightened-looking
crew cut an da little gal called “Cis”.
A ’4B graduate of Robert E. Lee Institute in
Thomaston, his home. In high school Carl took
active part in debate, declamation, district essay
contests, was a band commander and very
active in Hi-Y work.
Up until a few weeks ago Carl was a pre
law student but the teaching bug bit him and he
has decided to return to W. G. C. for ms third
year and to teach.
Being president of Zeta Sigma, Assistant to
the choir director, in V. R. A., Spotlight Editor
of the West Georgian and accompanist for the
modern dance groups keeps Carl quite busy. Be
ing on the tennis team is also a time-consuming
activity.
His outstanding musical ability has aided
him in making friends, and money and has given
other people immeasurable pleasure.
His ambition: To be a good teacher and to
continue his study of music and to help the youth
of Georgia become music-minded.
FRIDAY. APRIL 28. 1950