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THE WEST GEORGIAN
"A NEWSPAPER OF DISTINCTION"
Janette Witcher Editor
Jean Jackson, James Cook . Associate Editors
Mary Ruth —— - Feature Editor
Donna Wcndorf —-—Columnist
Elizabeth Hayes ~, Circulation Manager
Rose Crnton, Blanche Rutland Circulation Assistants
Peggy Clarke ,„i—_- ~J-i__-_i-1.1l Business Manager
Henry Bailey - -1 _ r _i_, 'y Advertising Manager
Carolyn Milner JLi J. Asst. Advertising Manager
Nancy Armstrong _... ... -.Fashion Editor
Elliott Hill - Photographer
Thomas Sewell - Asst. Photographer
Leigh Bryant -W-4—i— pr-Art
.Juy 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,
Barbara Hall, Jo Hudism, Zelda
Duke, Mary Ann King, Billy Copeland.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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Thanksgiving
REBECCA LEE
November 27 we will be going home to celebrate Thanksgiving
Holidays. To most of us Thanksgiving means a family celebration
with big dinners and joyous reunions. It means traveling hundreds of
miles to spend the day with relatives and to have pantries crowded
with good things to eat. But Thanksgiving really means more than
this. Have you forgotten the real meaning behind it? Thanksgiving is
also a time for serious religious thinking, church services, and personal
prayer.
The first American Thanksgiving Day was celebrated during the
second winter the Plymouth colonists spent in the New World. The
first dreadful winter in Massachusetts had killed nearly half the
members of the colony. Despite their hardships, the colonists were
grateful for the blessings God had sent them. They set aside the last
Thursday in November for praising God and for gratitude to Him.
In 1941 Congress ruled that the traditional Thanksgiving Holi
day be the fourth Thursday in November and that it be a legal holiday.
The early colonists were thankful for their blessings, protection,
and new freedom, at the first Thanksgiving. Today we have much
more to be thankful for; such as a free country, where we have a
voice in our government, opportunities for higher education, and
freedom from want.
Our forefathers at Plymouth were the founders of Thanksgiving.
They came to the New World that their children might have freedom
of speech, religion, press and from fear. When you are enjoying
your dinner of turkey, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie; remember
the real meaning of the day and give thanks to God.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
EL Cditor Say£:
I often wonder if shuffling through the dry
crackling leaves and kicking them along on a
warm autumn day affects other people. With
the wind blowing through the vivid leaves and
the blue, blue sky above, I wonder if other peo
ple get a nice feeling inside that really means
“It’s wonderful to be alive.” There’s just some
thing about this time of the year that makes you
glad for once to be just you.
Nothing is ever quite as beautiful and bril
liant as the harvest time; nothing quite so smy
bolic of God’s inestimable goodness to man; and
no nicer time to be at West Georgia College.
Don’t you feel that past autumns have made
an indelible memory? Can’t you remember one
certain tree or one autumn day when you were
a child and isn’t it a wonderful memory?
Somehow it’s days like those that autumn
brings that causes dreams to be born. Vague
but wonderfully exciting ideas pass through
your mind. Ambitions you never realized you
had waft through on the cool breezes and usual
ly fade away with the day as darkness falls.
Ideas and images of a future that will surely
be great are bom on days like these. And it’s
nice to be young, irresponsible, and very, very
happy. It’s nice to be so naive, or perhaps so full
of faith and conviction as to believe that all to
morrows will be successful, wonderful, and ex
citing.
Does all this sound a little “off?” Well, that’s
characteristic of my writing. Does it sound a
little “preachy?” Blame it on autumn. Does it
sound a little far-fetched? But isn’t it nice to get
away from realism and practicabilities and go
up in the clouds? They’re very pretty these days,
so soft and blue. Won’t you come up and join
me?
Student Government
Student government began on the West
Georgia campus last year with the idea that
students could act towards assisting with the
affairs of administration. The council is to
promote the general welfare of the students in
all matters of: physical comfort; physical intel
lectual, and moral growth; cultivating patterns
of good living; good citizenship; frendship; good
will; and carrying out these purposes. The coun
cil is an organization of students, to be run by
students. It is made up of the house officers of
each dormitory, the proctors, and representatives
from the day students and the veterans. The of
ficers are elected at the close of spring quarter
for the following year.
The Student Council might be described as
a “go between” for the administration, faculty,
and the student body. The council performs
various “odd jobs” on the campus. The members
of the Council meet visitors to the campus dur
ing planning comgerences held here. The presi
dent of the council acts as master of ceremonies
at chapel services.
We feel that an organization of this type
is needed at West Georgia. We believe that stu
dents know their own problems best and that
a student council can best interpret the desires
of the administration to the student body. We
like to know that we have a medium for ex
pressing our wishes and needs to the administra
tion! We would like to have this body run itself
without more than occasional advice from the
faculty. However, we would warn the students
that this is a responsibility and not a lark. Stu
dent government calls for cooperation from
every person on the campus. The entire student
body, the faculty, the administration, and the
offices forces must do their part.
We would request that all students respect
the duties and privileges of the council. When
a person desires a change in the present plan,
let him ask himself, “Is is needed? Would this
add to or detract from campus life?” If every
person connected with West Georgia College
will cooperate, we shall all profit from our Stu
dent Council.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1952
Religious Emphasis Week
Sunday, November the twenty-third, will
begin West Georgia’s annual Religious Emphasis
Week. It will continue through Tuesday night
and will include five special services, one Sunday
and two on both Monday and Tuesday. During
this time the Reverend J. Wal
ker Chidsey, from Winder, Ga.,
will be the speaker. These ser
vices will interest every stu
dent. The chosen subject
“Growth in Campus Living”
was selected by a group of stu
dents themselves because they
felt it concerned every boy and
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girl on the campus. It wil linclude such things
as understanding ourselves, making decisions,
popularity, and Christian living on a college
campus. Everyone of us at one time or another
wonder about these things, and Mr. Chidsey
will give us some of his ideas on these problems.
Tuesday evening will be a very special oc
casion that will include the evening service with
a Thanksgiving banquet in the dining hall. Dr.
Ingram has become so enthusiastic about having
a really “nice” supper together that he has spent
several hundred dollars on new dishes to use
that evening instead of the regular trays. Mr.
Sayre and the choir will offer several numbers
and Mr. Chidsey will climax the thoughts of the
week by discussing “You . . . and Christianity.”
Much time, hard work, and thought, have
been put into this week—we only hope you will
get,, something worth while out of it. The ser
vices, with the exception of Chapel and the ban
quet, are not required attendance; it is for you
to decide whether you come or not.
Faculty Has a Problem
The faculty have a problem and this time
they’ve come up with a humdinger. This is a
very special problem and it concerns everyone
of us here at West Georgia from Dr. Ingram to
the lowest, most inconspicious freshman. How
can there be a closer relationship between the
faculty and the students? The faculty really
wants to know. Most schools don’t really care,
or if they do, they don’t do much about it. But
West Georgia is comparatively small and feels
that faculty and students could have some pretty
swell times together and learn a lot from one
another at the same time.
But let a faculty member poke his nose in
side a dormitory and he is regarded as a secret
agent in enemy territory. Doors are closed and
students huddle in the halls making wild guesses
as to “What he’s here for?” or “Who got caught
doing what?”
It is partly the students’ fault—we have set
up our own little Iron Curtain. On the other hand
the only time we DO see some members of the
faculty outside of class is when somebody has
“been caught.”
So both sides are partly the blame. There is
no magic farmula to solve this problem, but we
students can do our part by welcoming the fac
ulty into our dormitories. Pause for a moment
to speak with them about some particular pro
blem. Know our advisers better; and, in general,
treat them like regular good fellows.
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Council Expresses Thanks
Your student council says “Thank you”
for your cooperation in planning our Homecom
ing. Thanks—to each club which sponsored a
float; thanks—to each faculty member for assist
ance. Without these there would be no parade,
no dance, no Homecoming. Thanks!
Special thanks to Mr. McKibben and his art
class for dance decorations.