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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952
W. G. C. Alumni Have Dispersed Into
Many Varied Fields, Report Indicates
Another day, another week,
another quarter and very soon
another school year will end, fade
into the past and become history.
As we sophomores look back
ward into the past, we remember
not only our present freshman
classmates and friends, but also
our beloved sophomore acquain
tances of the year 1950-51.
Upon inquiring as to their
whereabouts we find that a num
ber of them are continuing their
education at institutions of higher
learning, many have taken posi
itons in the business world and
still others have taken the road
in our journey of life called ma
trimony.
Let’s look first at our campus
leaders of ’sl:
Bill Allison, former president of
the student body is one of the
males who has taken this fatal step
we call marriage. He became the
husband of Miss Joyce Abernathy,
of Atlanta, on December 8, 1951.
Ruben Tuck, of Covington, is
now attending the University of
Georgia, where he is majoring in
Law.
Several of Miss Peete’s commer
cial students have taken outstand
ing positions at Lockheed. Fran
kie Shugart, of Marietta, Georgia,
is on of these persons, and I might
also mention that she is engaged
to Jimmy Matthews, also former
student, who is now serving in the
medical corps in Panama. Peggy
Jones, who was editor of the 1950-
51 Chieftain is also working at
Lockheed.
Joann Buford, who was out
standing in various campus acti
vities and was president of the
sophomore class is now teaching
school near her home at Dallas,
Georgia. The other two sophomore
class officers, Fay Peacock and
Joan Hutchins are also still in the
field of education. Fay is teaching
school at Antioch, Georgia, and
Joan is majoring in Physical Edu
cation at the University of Geor
gia.
Others who are attending the
university this year are: Doris
Alexander, former editor of the
West Georgian, majoring in Home
Economics, along with Nanette
Gladin, Margaret Ann Brooks,
Joyce Lawhorn, Yvonne McCul
lough, Jane Malone, Jeannine
Malcolm, Carmen Field and Bar
bara Brown. Working in the field
of education we would find Edwin
Garner, Max Prince, Sue Boyd,
Martha Boling, Sara Jordan, Her
shal Parmer and Joyce Riden.
Carole Smith, whom we all re
member with admiration is still
interested in the field of art in
which she is majoring at the uni
versity. Richard Norton and How
ard Norris are both studying for
the business world and are major
ing in business administration. Joe
McKelvey is also attending the
university and is majoring in Phy
sical Education. One of our fine
Journalism majors, Lucrete Mar
shall has made the "Red and
Black" staff at the university and
has been initiated into a journa
lism fraternity.
Not only is West Georgia well
represented at the university in
Athens, but also at the Atlanta Di
vision. Billy Cummings, Pat Flor
ence and Vernon Moore are at
tending school and working in At
lanta.
West Georgia’s pride and joys
are the teachers who are trained
in our two and three-year teach
er education program. The follow
ing 1951 graduates have chosen
this fine field as a profession:
Jean Lacey and Joyce Lloyd are
teaching at Newton Estates near
Atlanta; Bobby Padgett is teach
ing at Lyerly, Georgia; Joy Pryor
is teaching at Meanville; Lucy Bob
Steel is teaching at Girffin; Joan
Skinner is teaching the Ist grade
near her home in Tallapoosa; June
Thomas is at Cave Springs Gram
mar School; Cis Thompson and
Carolyn Emerson are at Jones
boro; and Betty Cook is teaching
in her hometown, Cedartown. Jean
Plant, Bobby Joe Gore and Fay
Peacock are all teaching at An
tioch, Georgia.
As we think back we are re
minded of the campus sweethearts
and I might add that Betty Ann
Washburn and Jack Powell, 1952
King and Queen of Hearts are now
married and are both attending the
university. Catherine Colquitt and
Ross Shackleford are also married
and reside in Cedartown. Sue Boyd
and Webster Carter are still un
attached, but are studying together
at the university. Jerre Field and
Dorothy Jacobs are now married
and I understand that Jerre is at
tending Shorter. I also might men
tion that Minnie Lee Burch, La-
Verne Joyner and Sara Ellen Gib
son are all making fine house
wives.
A number of our former boys
are now serving their country—
Jack Morris is in the Air Force,
Harold Smith is in the Navy, with
Eddie Row, Wendell Springfield
and Bill Hall. V. W. Whitfield is
serving in the Air Force and Billy
Wood is in the army stationed in
Korea.
Continuing school at other insti
tutions in Georgia we would find
Joann Traylor, Betty Terry and
Ann Moore, of Georgia State Col
lege For Women; Charles Craig,
Bobby Hill and Bobby Ashworth,
at Mercer; Dan Astin at Middle
Georgia and Harmon Smith at La-
Grange College.
Jeannine Rymer has entered the
business world in Atlanta along
with Emily Sue Moore, Tom Pay
ne, Helen Cox and Jim Hope.
Frances Russell is working in her
hometown, Cedartown. Margaret
Williams is working in a local
bank in Carrollton. Mitzi Self, I
understand, is selling Cadillacs, in
Macon, Georgia. Jeannette Holmes
is working at WLBB in Carrollton
and is married to Dick Hill.
Guess that’s about all I can re
member about our alumni at this
time, so guess I will sign off until
a later date.
Faculty, Students
Attend GEA Convention
West Georgia College was well
represented at the 85th Annual
Convention of the Georgia Educa
tion Association. There were as
usual many of the faculty attend
ing the meetings. Some served as
members of discussion groups,
panel members, etc.
Then this year along with fac
ulty delegates West Georgia was
represented by one of its students.
At the general session on Friday
evening the program was begun
with a most effective musical pro
gram by the Georgia All-State
Chorus under the direction of Lora
Hoggard, Choral Director of Fred
Waring’s Pennsylvanians. Follow
ing this the G. E. A. President, Mr.
Jim Cherry, made an important
address. Then came the tribute to
Future Teachers of America. The
Tietj e-Downs Chapter was repre
sented by its president, Mariellen
Strickland. Dr. Ralph Newton paid
special tribute to this group of
future teachers who were platform
guests for the evening. His message
was very inspiring and full of en
couragement.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Book Review—
" Search for a
Hero"
This is a story of love as it
came to birth, grew and finally
died in a nineteen-year-old boy’s
heart: It is a story which might
have occurred in precisely this
way during our own time.
Search for a Hero is the story
of a Southern family during the
early days of World War 11. More
particularly, it is the story of one
of the young son’s struggles to sup
ersede his fleshy, football-playing
brothers in his father’s esteem and
a young girl’s eyes.
The boy is intelligent, intros
pective, retiring, and his struggle
for a place in his family (and
hence the world) leads him to join
the U. S. Navy, see battle in the
Pacific, and finally, wounded, come
back to the real battleground, his
home. It is here that he finally
learn the true facts about hero
sim.
Search for a Hero is a study of
love between father and sons, be
tween boy and girl, between self
and ideals. It is something more,
too. It is a disturbing commen
tary on a world we have made and
a world which, in turn, has made
us.
This is the third novel of Tho
mas Hal Phillips’ and is classed
by most critics as his best. In this
novel we find the same depth of
knowledge and experience that
distinguished his first two novels,
but in addition it evidences the
i qualities of serenity and gentle
humor that accompany true ma
turity, and it benefits from a per
spective gained in a settling and
way of life new to the author.
Thefe is no young writer today
with Thomas Hal Phillips’ com
bination of talents, nor is there one
who is working more surely to
bring these talents to their peak
of fruition.
Miss Weaver Likes
Books and People
Each year Founder’s Day Aw
ards are given to people who have
made outstanding contributions to
West Georgia College. Miss Annie
Bell Weaver, the college librarian,
has been given one of the awards.
Miss Weaver attended Tupelo
city public school, she received her
Bachelor of Arts from Mississippi
State College for Women. She ob
tained her library degree from Em
ory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Miss Weaver has been librarian
since 1933. This was the first year
that this school was not A. & M.
but West Georgia College. “There
were only four buildings when I
came,” relates Miss Weaver. “The
Academic, Melson, Adamson, and
old Aycock Hall. The faculty was
much smaller at that time. The
library was in the room which is
now Used for Math, Room 2 in the
Academic Building.”
When asked what she liked best
about West Georgia, Miss Weaver
replied, “I like the friendliness. It
is different every year, for new
ideas are tried out every year.
There is an unexplainable feeling
which grows on you and makes you
like it. And then, most import
ant, is the people who go to school
here. I like them.”
Miss Weaver became interested
in library work while in college.
She says she liked books and peo
ple. What better combination could
make a librarian? She thought the
college librarian in her school was
the most wonderful person she
knew. This statement about librar-
Sanford Library Is Featuring Many
New Interesting, Enjoyable Books
BOOK NEWS
By Jeanette Witcher
You can now find in Sanford Li
brary many new books to help to
employ your leisure time.
For you light fiction lovers there
is a charming, entertaining book
about a minister and his family in.
every day life. Brighten the Cor
ner by Hollis Summers is a book
guaranteed to hold your interest
until the last page. You will laugh
at the antics of Jo and Albert and
rejoice in this family’s accom
plishments and work. This book is
heartwarming, amusing and very
true to life. Don’t miss it!
Along a different line of thought
you will find The Cruel Sea, by
Nicholas Monsarrat. This is a no
vel about the Battle of the North
Atlantic, and one of the finest
works of fiction to come out of
World War 11. It has constantly
been on the best seller list. It is
a driving, surging novel of men,
War and the sea.
The Holy Sinner by Thomas
Mann is a recent publication now
in Sanford Library. This is per
iaps Mann’s most fascinating story.
It is a retelling of a medieval le
gend “of the exceeding mercy of
God and the birth of the blessed
St. Gregory.” This is told as only
Mann can tell it. It is a moving
There Is "Neither East Nor West"
When Peoples Understand Each Other
Mrs. Helen Hyatt Waller, Forum
Director of the New York Herald
Tribune and a lady who has meant
much to Carroll County, has been
here this week to participate in
unctions connected with the obser
vance of West Georgia Week. Mrs.
Waller, it will be remembered, ori
ginated the exchange idea which
brought Amar Singh from India to
Carroll County for an eight-weeks’
visit last fall and sent Paul Patten,
of Carroll County, and Ralph Mc-
Gill to India for a like visit.
On Saturday a few weeks back,
Mrs. Waller conducted a High
School Forum in New York which
brought together “more than two
core representatives from eighteen
Asian countries,” • young people
who were just -finishing a visit
here in the United States, during
which time they “stayed in Ameri
can families attended American,
schools and steeped themselves
in the life and customs of this
Western land.”
On Monday following the High
School Forum, the New York Her
ald Tribune editorialized on the
Forum under the title of “Neither
East Nor West.” Following are
some excerpts from the editorial
which will be both interesting and
enlightening to us here at West
Georgia College who are interested
in understanding peoples the
world over.
“Americans young and old have
enormously increased their know
ledge of Asia in the postwar years.
It may be true, as one of the dele
gates pointed out, that the school
textbooks have not caught up with
the great expansion of interest; in
some cases even the teachers may
not have caught up; but the peo
ple themselves have absorbed an
awareness of the East’s meaning
and promise . . .
“ . . . the students themselves
ians is upheld by everyone. Col
lege librarians are wonderful peo
ple, just look at our own! Every
one agrees that she certainly de
serves the Founders Day Award.
tale of sin, transfiguration, and
divine mercy.
In the category of auto-biogra
phy it is possible to read A Flier#
World by Wolfgang Langewiesche.
This author has a long record of
writing along this line to his cre
dit. He uses his own experiences
to the point and in factual form.
This book you will find informa
tive and readable.
Along the line of auto-biogra
phies there is a wonderful book
called The Magic Curtain by Law
rence Langner. It tells of the
founder of the theatre and is filled
with information about famous
personalities.
In the list of General Books you
piay read The Koreans and Their
Culture by Cornelius Isgood. It
gives an insight into this country
that is found rarely in books. It
deals with their nature, feelings,
habits, and culture.
Other books you might enjoy
are:
Chicago White Sox by Warren
Brown; Football by Ave and Beu;
The Grooves of Acadame by Mary
McCarthy; and Make the Most of
Your Life by Douglas E. Lurton.
Be sure not to miss A Man Called
Peter by Kathryn Marshall. It is
a moving story of human story of
human life and religion and a
man, the man called Peter!
provided the heart of the program;
and it was their own discovery of
common interests and deep sym
pathies within their group that
lent the afternoon its most moving
note. These young people from
afar had much to say about Ame
rica—its family life, its education,
its cultural habits. The response
from the audience of American
high school students showed how
often they struck the mark. But
it was not only America that the
students from Asia had discover
ed. They had discovered each oth
er. They had learned that human
beings in their personal feelings
can transcend the barriers of na
tionalism and history. Chung-Wha-
Lee, the young girl from Korea,
told very simply of how she had
first looked with dismay on the
idea of associating with her fel
low student from Japan, the re
presentative of a country at whose
hands her people had suffered
heavily. In this account, and in
the touching response of the Jap
anese girl, the meaning of the
Forum was revealed. The hops of
the world, we think, was revealed
no less vividly.
“In another epoch it w r as said
that ‘when two strong men stand
face to face’ there ceases to be
any difference between East and
West. The world has moved along
since then. There is neither East
nor West, nor anything else that
divides and embiters men, when
the young people of separate na
tions stand together wiih know
ledge of each others’ ways. This
kind of meeting represents some
thing creative and permanent
among the peoples of the world,
the most solid of all reasons for
having faith in the future.”
Hark! the Herald speaks the
truth.
Georgia boys and girls will par
ticipate in eight national 4-H
awards programs which are more
than 15 years old in 1952.
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