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CAMPUS SPOTLIGHT
JOE ANN BUFORD
Joe Ann, the small black-haired bundle of
vitality you see around Sand Hill School and the
West Georgia campus, was born in Atlanta, Ga.
on April 3, 1932. She lived in Atlanta until she
was in the third grade, when she moved to Dal
las, Ga.
She was recognized as
student
through grammar school;
and proved her qualities
of leadership in high
school, where she was jKaHnjy
president of the Beta ||kP|l
Club, a cheerleader, and K '
an Honor Graduate. In 1111 l
her senior year she reprc
sented Paulding County
in the state spelling match. She also worked on
the paper staff for two years.
After graduating from high school, she was
enrolled in West Georgia College. Joe Ann’s
reasons for choosing W. G. C. are those which
have endeared so many people to our school —
the small, beautiful campus and the friendly
people. She was also interested in West Georgia
because of its teacher-education program.
In her freshman year at West Georgia Joe
Ann was a member of the choir, F. T. A., the
Chieftain staff, and the West Georgian staff.
Last spring she was elected president of F. T. A.
and president of the Sophomore Class. This year
a great deal of her time is spent in performing
the duties imposed by these offices. Another
great deal of time is spent in practice teaching
at Sand Hill.
Joe Ann plans to return to West Georgia
next year to continue her training in elementary
education, for she intends to be one of the best
elementary teachers in the state. Good luck, Joe
Ann! We know you will be one of the very best.
BILLY HALL
This boy who was one day to become a very
familiar figure on the West Georgia campus was
born on October 26, 1930 in Warrenton, Ga.
In grammar school Bil- MnHwaMHH
ly was one of those boys IgE
who always dipped girls
pigtails in ink, played -W
baseball after school, and
ruined his new shoes
kicking cans on the way •
home in the afternoon.
In high school Billy
showed himself to be an
outstanding athlete in ■flHkfsHHHi
baseball, football and basketball. He also lifted
his fine bass voice to assist the Warrenton High
School choir.
It was while he was still in high school that
he discovered and liked West Georgia College.
He had always wanted to go to a junior college
because of the many advantages that a college
could offer in the way of friendliness, and a
good chance to pursue his hobby: sports. West
Georgia had all he could ask for in a school just
the right size, football, basketball, choir, and
many, many friends.
Last year at West Georgia Billy was a mem
ber of the choir and the football and basketball
teams. Everyone knew Billy and was always
amazed at his remarkable memory for names—
if he has once been introduced to you, you may
be sure that he’ll know your first, middle, and
last names next time he sees you.
In his sophomore year here Billy has been
made captain of the football team, and is still
singing in the choir. He hopes someday to be a
pharmacist and prescribe for all the broken arms
and scratched noses he has caused in football
games, not to mention the broken feminine hearts
he will need to cure.
WEST GEORGIAN STAFF
EDITOR Doris Alexander
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Tracy Stallings
NEWS EDITOR Joe Ann Buford
FEATURE EDITOR Pat Florence
SPOTLIGHT EDITOR Cis Thompson
FASHION EDITOR Lucrete Marshall
WOMEN’S SPORTS EDITOR Pat Flurry
PHIL SHARPE Sports Editor
BUSINESS MANAGER Betty Jaynes
CIRCULATION MANAGER Julia Carwile
TYPISTS Genevieve Knight, Deßita Frost, Vernon Moore
Jake Jarrell.
Bobby Ashworth, Julian Amos, Herbert Cook,
Dot Caughlin, Adeline Elliott, Chris Lipscombe, Max
Prince, Peggy Jones, Mariellen Strickland, Ross Shack
leford, Reuben Tuck, Dot Williamson, Jake Jarrell,
Eddie Rowe.
Member
Associated Colle6iate Press
The boy’s dormitories on the
campus of West Georgia College
have elected house councils. These
councils, a form of student govern
ment, will serve to punish the boys
instead of the boys having to go
directly to the Dean. The boys, as
a whole, feel that this will be the
best way to keep down some of
the foolish high school tricks that
they brought to college with them.
A vote was taken to see if this
plan would be used, and all the
dormitories agreed, with the ex
ception of one. The house officers
plus the proctor make up the
Mid-Term Grades
By Tracy Stallings
Mid-term grades were recently
issued (along with a certain num
ber of probation slips), and now
everybody is either rejoicing or
recuperating from the shock.
Grades, of course, are the gau
ges of a student’s progress in the
various subjects, and good grades,
or the best one can achieve, are
an essential to good standing.
Not many students here can af
ford to be extravagant with their
money. Yet it amounts to just that
unless a person strives to extract
everything posible from the col
lege in the way of knowledge and
training and development.
And naturally one ought to give
in return the best he has by par
ticipating in the organized activi
ties, co-operating with the faculty
and officials, and acting as good
Weisenheimers Detract
“Beware! ‘Weisenheimers’ on
the loose!”
A “Weisenheimer” is a distant
relation of the gremlin, but in
stead of being an odd little crea
ture, he looks like any other hu
man. He is more to be pitied than
to be admired, because he never
realizes that his deeds of distrac
tion reflect on his character.
In co-educational institutions,
due to the misunderstanding of the
rules of the games in which wo
men participate, male spectators
are prone to be very distracting.
This situation has been taking
place on the woman’s athletic field
here at West Georgia, especially
during archery practice.
John, a “weisenheimer” delights
in showing off his unusual skill
with a bow and arrow by trying
to shoot the bow which is far too
light for a man to use. Although
he was probably competing for
Robin Hood, he is still unfamiliar
THE WEST GEORGIAN
House Councils
council. Storms was split into an
upper and lower division, each
with their own council.
Let’s get behind this plan, boys,
and make the people of West Geor
gia proud of us. All it takes is
consideration of the other fellows;
they may want to study while you
are having your fun shooting fire
crackers, or putting water on the
beds as if they were flowers.
Mr. Row hopes that out of this
plan along with the girls’ plan for
student government that there will
be crated a basis for a TRUE stu
dent government at W. G. C.
public relations mediums for the
college.
A person might say he’s going to
college and paying for it just to
have a good time. The only trou
ble there is that it will be long
term payments—he will be “pay
ing for it” all his life.
Of course, the financial angle is
not the only reason by any means
for doing your best. A person
owes it not only to himself but
also to his parents and interest
ed friends who have sacrificed in
order for him to be where he is.
A football team may be trailing
at the half but still win by mak
ing a strong comeback in the sec
ond stanza. So if your mid-term
grades weren’t up to the proper
level, there is still the opportu
nity to better them in the “sec
ond stanza.”
with the proper method of string
ing and handling a bow which was
made for feminine hands!
Joe, who lives in Rogers just
cannot resist speaking cute little
helpful (?) bits of nonsense as the
golf class attempts to improve
their strokes. These unnecessary
bits of advice are not only very
distracting to the girls, but also
show signs of poor knowledge of
golf etiquette. The rules contain
tips for the spectators as well as
the golfer. They state that absolute
quietness should prevail as the
golfer attempts to hit the ball.
These situations could be reme
died very easily with the full co
operation of every spectator of
women’s intramural sports. All
students, both male and female,
should take enough pride in the
athletic program in their school
to realize that this unsportsman
like conduct of “weisenheimers”
detracts greatly from the success
of the intramural sports program.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1950
I SEE RED
By MAX PRINCE
Sure I see red. In fact I see red three
times a day and every day unless I don’t
make it down to the dining hall to meals. It is
wonderful to have the new curtains just in case
you haven’t guessed already. I am speaking about
the new red curtains in the dining hall. They
really make just a plain old room with four walls
and some windows become a nice place in which
we can enjoy our meals. The curtains add color
to the room and give it a homey atmosphere.
There are other times when one sees red in
the dining hall. I am afraid that these are not ex
periences that add to our pleasure and aid our
digestion. When the noise in the dining halls be
comes extremely loud as it has several times
since school started there are a great number of
people that see RED.
One form of noise that you can put your
finger on is the habit of the birthday chorus. It
seems tha someone on the campus has a birth
day celebration at every meal. It really is won
derful to have a birthday party and to have
friends that think enough of you to sing, “Happy
Birthday” to you. All of this is swell, but it surely
would be nicer if they would have a party for
you in the dormitory or perhaps take you up to
the Maple Street Soda Shop and set you up to a
banana split or some other treat. It would be
still nicer if those people who want to honor
a person on his birthday would cooperate with
Miss Hineley and give that person a birthday
supper. I am sure that if they would furnish
enough birthday cake for the party, the entire
student body would be guests, because everyone
on the campus is everybody’s friend and there
fore you could not leave anyone out. Miss Hinely
would furnish the ice cream and the rest of the
supper. I even believe that McGee’s Bakery (on
the square) would give you a special cut on the
cake and turn out one of their masterpieces.
Ever since we have had cafeteria style din
ing at West Georgia College the students have
been on their honor not to break line. If a per
son has a good excuse to eat early, the dining
hall officials have already been cooperative in
letting that person eat early. Some examples are
those people that have to work during lunch
hour or have to leave the campus early on a
choir trip or a field trip. Even the faculty has
always waited in line with the students unless
they had a class during the dinner hour. They too
have been placed on their honor in this matter.
There have been only a few people that break
line this year. Usually they are asked by the die
tition to return to the end of the line, if she sees
them. There are a few that still continue to break
line. They seem to have the habit and cannot stop
it. Perhaps they need shock treatment—the peo
ple in line usually do give these people a shock
when they boo them. A tip to the wise—if you
are doing this for attention, the attention you are
getting is undesirable.
Dormitory Improvements
Arrangements have been made to place in
the boys dormitories some items to make the
dorms more liveable. An automatic washer will
be placed in Storms for the boys on the hill, and
another in the Log Cabin for the boys there and
in Rogers. Pay telephones will be placed in all
the boys dormitories.
“We realize that as far as living conditions
are concerned that the boys do not have all the
comforts and necessities as do the girls. This will
be remedied, of course, when the new boy’s dor
mitory is completed next year. In the mean time,
we hope to do all that is possible to make our
boys comfortable,” says Dean Row.
An Active V. R. A.
West Georgia students should feel deeply
grateful for the current officers and sponsor of
the campus organization, the Voluntary Religious
Association. Is is constantly active in striving to
provide us with a wholesome religious atmos
phere.