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CAMPUS SPOTLIGHT
It’s really unnecessary to introduce Leonard
because he has been in the “limelight” since
the first of this quarter. That’s what being Pre
sident of the Student Body gets you into, Leo
nard.
Leonard Fredrick White, better known as
“Slim” especially to his Shannon friends, was
bom on June 28, 1933. He graduated from the
Model High School in Shannon, of which Rome
is a suburb, in 1951.
Leonard was a leader in high school, He was
a member of the Hi-Y, The National Honor
Society and President of the Future Teachers
of America, quite a guy! His senior year he was
named “the boy most likely to succeed.”
Leonard came to W. G. C. because he pre
ferred to attend a junior college. Ho is our Pre
sident of the Student Boyd and an excellent
guard for our Braves.
Leonard’s favorite past-time is sports or
reading good books. “My favorite food is
UMmmm!!—strawberry short cake," he says. By
the way, his favorite color is red—not white.
Brown eyes, blonde hair, and a height of
five feet ten inches tall don’t make a man but
they sure do help. We like that President White!
Mg,
SARAH
BAXTER
You know that girl, who goes around the
campus talking about “Ralphie” and the VRA
all the time; the brunette who has green eyes
but never flutters them at anyone but that
“Mercer boy?”—Well that’s Sarah Baxter.
Sarah, one of West Georgia’s most outstand
ing student, was born in Avondale on October
28, 1932. During her senior year Sarah was voted
the fnost friendly girl,” and this characteristic is
still admired by her classmates at West Geor
gia.
Sarah worked for a while after graduation
and attended the Atlanta Division of the Uni
versity of Georgia for a short time. Her interest
in West Georgia began at one of our Homecom
ing Dances.
Last year after a year on the VRA Council,
Sarah was elected President. She sings in the
college choir and represents Mandeville Hall
in the Student Government.
Sarah is majoring in Home Economics and
plans to enter this field—preferably a housewife.
She has hopes of attending G. S. C. W. next year
although everyone keeps suggesting Bessie Tift
Sarah’s hobbies are music and reading—
letters from Mercer.
Sarah says, “I’m not intelligent. I’m terribly
forgetful. Why spotlight me?” Well, Sarah—we
just want to salute a fine students and won
derful girl.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
THE WEST GEORGIAN
"A NEWSPAPER OF DISTINCTION"
Janette Witcher Editor
Jean Jackson, James Cook Associate Editors
Mary Ruth Pulliman Feature Editor
Donna Wendorf Columnist
Elizabeth Hayes Circulation Manager
Rose Craton, Blanche Rutland Circulation Assistants
Peggy Clarke Business Manager
Henry Bailey Advertising Manager
Carolyn Milner Asst. Advertising Manager
Nancy Armstrong Fashion Editor
Elliott Hill l Photographer
Thomas Sewell Asst. Photographer
Leigh Bryant Art
Joy Putnam Secretary
Typists: Charlotte Niblack, Mary Lou Cagle, Gloria
Ogletree, Peggy Sosobee.
Sports Staff: Mary Bishop, Beverly Bryant, Nelva
Garrett, J. C. Johnston, Buddy Jones, Dan Childers.
Reporters: Rebecca Lee, Tommy Lewis, Jerry Reeves,
Herbert Adams, Barbara Hall, Jo Hudism, Zelda
Duke, Mary Ann King, Billy Copeland.
Miss Marie Campbell Faculty Advisor
Member
Associated Cblle6iate Press
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Here Is Bill Stern's Favorite Story
Bill Stern, the radio sports commentator, tells this story:
One year when Lou Little was coaching Georgetown, there was
young boy on the squad who was no great shakes as a football player,
but whose personality served as a morale booster for the whole team.
Little was fond of the boy and liked the proud way he walked arm in
arm with his father over the campus. One day the boy’s mother called
Lou and asked him to tell the bov his father had died that morning
of a heart attack. Little broke the sad news and
the boy went home sorrowing. But he was back
three days later begging to start in the game against
Fordham. Little hesitated and then agreed, but re
minded him he was only good enough to stay in for
a few plays, he boy started, but for sixty full minutes
he played inspired football—sparking the team to
victory. Back in the clubhouse Lou aksed him, “You
never played that kind of ball before. What got into
you?”
D. Wendorf
The boy answered, “Remember how my father and I used to
walk about arm in arm? My father was totally blind. This afternoon
was the first time he ever saw me play.”
It is too bad we can’t all have such faith. It is not easy some
times to accept what we like to call fate. At one time or another we
all ask in bewilderment “why?” Why did this have to happen to ME?
Few of us have lived through our teen age lives without feeling that
our world was falling in about us. When we were children it was
perhaps a bicycle we couldn’t have, or later on a date we couldn’t
get. Many things happened that we could not understand and it
was hard to realize that for everything that is done, there is a reason.
Still, there is. Sometimes the reason is not at first easily recognizable,
but usually before a very long time has passed, it becomes evident
There are few who have the faith of the boy who played such a
wonderful game of ball against Kordham, but if we could only realize
when things go wrong, that there is Someone greater than us, then
we would have our reason . . .
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1952
For ihe Record
My congratulations to the staff and Miss
Campbell for this issue which announces the
twentieth year of the West Georgian. This paper
has had, with the present editor, twenty editors.
They have been young men and young women
of potential merit and worth. I want to list them:
1933- Doris West, teacher.
1934- —Lanier Spence, business Man.
1935- Grace Wing, Journalist.
1936- Robert Knox, Minister.
1937- Horton Greene, Lawer.
1938- Ed Stout, Journalist.
1939- —Marcus Waits (Fall and Winter
quarter), Journalist; Starr Miller
(Spring quarter), College Profes
sor.
1940- —James Pinson, Journalist.
1951-42—James Pressley, Eastern Air Lines.
1942- —Frances Ray, Teacher.
1943- —Sara Davenport, Business Woman.
1944- —Bobbie Cobb, Journalist.
1945- —Ratricia McCreddy, Teacher.
1946- —Len Hutcheson, Business Man.
1947- —Polly Griffin, Journalist.
1948- —J. C. Lovett, University Executive.
1949- —Barbara Geen, Teacher.
1950- —Doris Alexander, College Student.
1951- —Patricia Flury, West Georgia.
The paper has been and is a vital organ
for the growth and development of West Geor
gia Colege, as an opportunity for students who
want experience in Journalism.
To the freshman, we express a hope that
you find and accept a responsibility furnished
through the many student activities in order to
give your experience in working with people,
making a contribution to campus life and thus
add to your statue and experience. The paper,
anual, choir, dramatic club, student government,
V. R. A., and other organizations give you this
privilege. I. S. INGRAM.
College Is Wonderful
It’s nice to start anew year. You know
college is a wonderful experience. Four years of
working, playing, dreaming and hoping. It is
four years of the exuberance of youth, at its peak.
I can’t say wnat it means to you, what it will
mean to you in years to come. I’m not sure
exactly what it should mean. But I do know it
should be one of the greatest experiences in your
your life. It should and it will help make you
what you will be years from now. It will give
you anew outlook on life, and make you a hap
pier person.
While you are at West Georgia, make it a
point to take advantage of the opportunities of
fered. The Carroll County Entertainment Series,
the library, the extra-curricular activities of the
Physical Education Department, and so many
other things you will discover on the campus.
Education has long ago ceased being mere
“book learning.” Don’t consider it as such, but
balance your college life.
You can have two years at West Georgia
that you will never forget. Two years that will
be among the most precious of your memories.
Welcome to college, and to anew year at West
Georgia.
School Spirit
It’s nice to be on the “winning team.” It’s
nice to be the hero of the football team. It’s nice
to take the limelight, and get the publicity of
success. That could be the thing that spurs people
on to victory.
But when you really look at the whole pic
ture, it’s not the winning that makes a team, or
a school. It’s the way the students react to their
voctories or defeats. It’s their school spirit. It’s
not the factor of loss or gain; it’s what this loss
or this gain does to a school.
Look at West Georgia’ team as your team,
as_part of your school and part of your cam
pus life. Don’t be disloyal to your own, some
thing that belongs to you.