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Dr. and Mrs. I. S. Ingram shown, at dinner given in their
honor by faculty.
WELCOME GIVEN TO
RETURNING INGRAMS
On Monday evening, March 30,
the West Georgia College faculty
sponsored a buffet dinner in the
music room of the Home Ec. de
partment, to welcome the Ingrams
back from Puerto Rico.
About fifty-eight guests con
sisting of present and former fa
culty members, attended. Honor
guests other than the Ingrams
were Miss Jane Woodruff and Dr.
and Mrs. George Adams, former
members of the faculty.
Dean Row welcomed the In
grams back to West Georgia. Mr.
and Mrs. Ingram gave short
speeches about their delightful
stay in Puerto Rico.
Carolyn Milner Wins
Trip to Washington
Another honor has come to a
West Georgia 4-H’er. Carolyn Mil
ner has been selected as a dele
gate to the National 4-H Club
Camp held each June in Wash
ington, D. C. This is the highest
honor that may be won by a 4-H
Club member.
Carolyn and three other Geor
gians will fly to Washington where
they will meet the delegates from
al forty-eight states, Canada, Alas
ka, Hawaii, Pureto Rico and a
number of foreign countries.
Carolyn has been active in 4-H
Club for six years. During that
time she has carired a large num
ber of projects —mainly food pre
partion. She was secretary of the
State 4-H Club Council in 1951.
She is attending West Georgia this
year on a 4-H General Execllence
Scholarship.
* Carolyn certainly deserves the
honor she has won, and the West
Georgia 4-H Club is very proud
of their all-round 4-H’ers.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Caldwell Named
Feature Speaker
For WGC Week
The annual West Georgia Col
lege Week begins April 20th and
will continue through Friday,
April 24th. This week highlights
programs of interest of the college.
A particular feature will be the
dinner on Tuesday night, the 21st,
for the student body at which time
the Chanecllor of the University,
Doctor Harmon W. Caldwell, will
speak.
The College in the Country pro
gram, an educational feature of
West Georgia College for adult
education, will be emphasized and
members of that department hav
ing completed their work for the
year will receive certificates and
diplomas. Other programs include
May Day Exercises, Parents Day,
and some other programs in line
with the emphasis of the week.
It is going to be a real pleas
ure to have the Chancellor of the
University meet the faculty and
students on Tuesday evening. This
is always a “dress up” occasion and
all are asked to get ready for it.
Subsequent announcements will
be made in detail.
Science Building
Contract Soon
At an early date contracts
will be prepared and let for
building the new Student Acti
vity and Science Building. The
plan calls for a $220,000 struc
ture.
Stevens and Wilkinson are the
architects. President Ingram
comments that he has waited
for years for this needed addi
tion.
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, TUESDAY. APRIL 14. 1953
Miss Weaver Goes
To Puerto Rico
On Sunday, March 15, Miss Ann
Weaver, our librarian, left Atlanta
by plane for San Juan, Puerto
Rico, arriving there around 12
o’clock that night. Miss Weaver
was invited tp act as a library con
sultant at the Puerto Rico Junior
College.
Miss Weaver, a guest at the
home of Ana G. Mendiz, who is
the president of the Junior Col
lege, was entertained with “Sun
day Treatment.” She attended two
concerts and was a honored guest
at other socials given by members
of the faculty. The highlight of
the week was her visit to tjie Poly
technic Institute at San Geiman,
Puerto Rico. Other than visiting
the school, the group also became
acquainted with the country, see
ing the coastline and mountains.
The rest of the time, Mr. Ingram
acted as a guide to old and new
San Juan.
Miss Weaver was able to talk
to students in broken conversation,
as most of the students spoke Eng
lish.
Miss Weaver said, “The mem
bers of the faculty were a nice
group of people and I enjoyed
working with them. I was very
much impressed with the Univer
sity of Puerto Rico, although it is
not connected with the Junior
College and its beautiful campus.”
She left Puerto Rico on March
22 but because of weather condi
tions spent an extra day in Tam
pa before returning to Atlanta.
Discussion Panel On
Pan American Union
The Spanish Club met Mon
day, April 13 at 3:30 p. m.
The purpose of the meeting is to
discuss the history of the Pan
American Union, which was orga
nized April 14, 1908. Members of
the discussion panel were Bev
erly Bryant, Jimmy Cook, Eliott
Hill and Jean Jackson. There was
also be several famous quotes
from illutsrious statesmen of the
period, when a Pan-American Un
ion was still a dream shared by
men on both sides of the equator.
All members of the club will take
part in the program.
After all business is complet
ed, the club went to the R. A.
building for singing and refresh
ments.
Dr. Adams Speaker
At French Club Meeting
At the French Club meeting,
April 1, Dr. George C. S. Adams,
former language teacher at West
Georgia College showed some col
ored slides of his trip to France.
Dr. Adams is now teaching at
Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.
C. He was here in Carrollton for
his spring holidays.
Faye Ayers, program chairman
of the French Club, introduced Dr.
Adams to the group. After the
slides were shown, the group met
in the living room of the R. A.
for refreshments.
Future Teachers Plan
To Attend Conference
In Atlanta April 17-18
Georgia FTA Clubs and Chap
ters will meet in Atlanta at the
Piedmont Hotel for the Sixth An
nual Conference on April 17 and
18.
This meeting of the Georgia Fut
ure Teachers of America will last
only two days, but there is a lot
to happen in that short length of
time. On Friday afternoon regis
tration and the First Assembly
will be held. The Bapquet on Fri
day night promises to be a “High
light” of the Conference, after
which the Atlanta Divison, Speech
Department will stage one of their
most successful one-act plays of
the season.
For a perfect climax, Mrs. Sarah
Coldwell, President of the National
Education Asociation will speak at
the closing sesison Saturday morn
ing. Mrs. Coldwell is a native of
Covington, Georgia, a graduate of
G. S. C. W., now living and teach
ing in Akron, Ohio.
Each year the Tietje Downs
Chapter has sent members to the
Conference. This year we have
Virginia Ragsdale, Ann Thrash,
Nancy Armstrong, Mary Ruth Pul
liam, Wanda Elgin, Mary Ann
King, Joy Putnam, Bettye Hender
son, Mary Jim Combs, Jeanette
Witcher, Doris McKibben, Bar
bara and Betty Stubbs, Barbara
Hall, Rebecca Lee, Sara Alice Bla
lock, Elizabeth Hayes, and Shir
ley Mintz planning to attend the
Conference. We are all looking
forward to meeting other Future
Teachers of America, and feel that
we shall benefit from the state
Conference.
April Ist Vespers
Anyone who wasn’t at Vespers
Wedensday night missed one of
the most interesting programs of
the year.
It consisted of the devotional
by Mary Jim Combs and a talk by
one of West Georgia’s sophomores,
Betty Henderson, who is a very
active hardworking member of
the First Baptist Church in Car
rollton. Her topic was “The Three
Calls God Gives Every Young
Person.”
The very inspiring worship cen
ter was formed by a small Cross
surrounded with dogwood, which
was arranged by Laßuth Bennett.
Speech Class Assembly
Dr. Row’s speech class last
quarter gave a chapel program,
consisting of poems the students
had read in class. Gene Hudson
read Casey's Daughter at the Bat;
Woodson Bagby gave the Crema
tion of Sam McGee; Jimmy Cook
read The Congo; Mary Ruth Pul
liam gave the child’s poem Seein'
Things; Ted Harris presented The
Creation; Jack Ingram next inter
preted the Highwayman; Peggy
Clarke then gave Edgar Allan
Poe’s, Annabel Lee; The Shooting
of Dam McGraw the last poem on
the program was given by Carl
Haubrick. \
CARROLLTON. GEORGIA
May Day Program
Plans Announced
The annual May Day program,
sponsored jointly by the Physical
Education Department and Alpha
Psi, will be presented on Thurs
day, April 23 at 5:00 p. m. on the
lawn between Melson Hall and
the President’s home. The public
is invited.
The theme will be the Corona
tion and most of the program will
be patterned after the English
Coronation.
The following dances will be
performed: “Oriental Dancers No’s.
3, 4 and 5; Polka Ballet, Waltz
Contra Dance, and the Minuet Col
lette.
The participants will be: Faye
Ayers, Peggy Clarke, Winda Elgin,
Nell Ann Hemminger, Jean Jack
son, Shirley Kittle, Tommye Le
wis, Jean McCulley, Carolyn Mil
ner, Shirley Mintz, Irene Parker,
Owen Parrish, Darlene Vaughan,
Paula Whatley, Hubert Adams,
Shelby Chambers, Dan Childers,
Jimmy Cook, Wyatt Harcrow, El
liott Hill, Claude Landrum, James
Neely, Phares Parsons, Ronald
Payton, Elton Stallings, Bobby
Stovall, Abbie Turner, and Leo
nard White.
West Georgia College
4-H'ers Featured in
The Farm Journal
In the April edition of the Farm
Journal magazine there’s an article
about Carolyn Milner and her first
4-H demonstration.
Carolyn tells me that Furyla
Pifer of Philadelphia, Pennsylva
nia, spent three days in her home
taking pictures and securing in
formation for the article. It fea
tures Carolyn’s first demonstra
tion which she presented in coun
ty, district, and state competition.
The picture shows Carolyn serving
party - sandwiches, which she
makes in the demonstration.
If you get a chance be sure and
look up this article in “Polly’s
Corner” in the April Farm Jour
nal magazine.
PRESIDENT'S
CALENDAR
March 30th—Attended recep
tion by and spoke to faculty.
March 31st—Met faculty com
mittee, my class, and spoke to the
Carrollton Rotary Club.
April 2nd—Visited Chancellor
Caldwell, in Atlanta.
April 4th—College in Country—
Sand'Hill—to meet Dr. Collins.
April 10th—Knoxville, Tennesse
—to meet Mr. Clark of the Ford
Foundation.
April 21-24—West Georgia Col
lege Week—
1. Tuesday night “College in
the Country” graduation
2. Chancellor Caldwell speaks to
students and faculty. A “must” for
students and faculty.
3. Wednesday—Business Com
munion Day
4. Thursday—May Day.
5. Friday—Parents Day.