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THE WEST GEORGIAN
"A NEWSPAPER OF DISTINCTION"
Janette Witcher... Editor
Jean Jackson, James Cook Associate Editors
Mary Bishop - —. Women’s Sports Editor
J. C. Johnston Men’s Sports Editor
Mary Ruth Pulliam Columnist
Donna Wendorf Columnist
Shirley Mintz Circulation Manager
Elizabeth Hayes, Blanche Rutland Circulation Assistants
Peggy Clarke _ - Business Manager
Carolyn Milner - .... Advertising Manager
Nancy Armstrong Fashion Editor
Elliott Hill Photographer
Leigh Bryant Art
Joy Putnam .Secretary
Typists: Charlotte Niblack, Peggy Sosebee, Betty
Ann Jackson.
Sports Staff: Mary Bishop, Beverly Bryant, J. C.
Johnston, Buddy Jones, Dan Childers.
Reporters: Rebecca Lee, Tommy Lewis, Barbara Hall,
Joe Hardison, Zelda Duke, Mary Ann King, Billy
Copeland, George Duncan and Eddie Potts.
Miss Marie Campbell _ - Faculty Advisor
Member
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Participate In Sports
By BECKY BATES
This year the WAA intramural sports have not been as successful
as they could have been. I admit we have had a few drawbacks that
couldn’t be helped. Yet, you can do something about it by coming out
and enjoying the fun.
I have heard many people say—“Oh, I don’t know how.” Well,
that is no excuse. The WAA wants participation and sportsmanship
not necessarily skill.
Sophomores and Juniors this quarter is your last time to parti
ticpate and get those few extra points for your block “W”. As for
you Freshmen it means loads of fun and your chance to learn so you
can be better next year.
How about it girls? Let’s make this quarter the best in the his
tory of the WAA. By the way, it’s an excellent way to get a tan!
Miss Dora Peete
Returns Alter Illness
The faculty and atudenls wel
come back Miss Dora Peete, com
mercial teacher, who has return
ed to West Georgia after being
lIL We sincerely hope she will
continue on the road to reoor
ery.
A Fragment
Spring steadily tripping in.
With laughing eyes and sunburnt
skin,
And I poor fool fell easy prey
To her dancing smile and her
winsome way.
— W. E. Ward.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
=Cditor Say,*:
The patience, endurance, stamina and tol
erance of our beloved faculty never ceases to
astonish me. Their self-control is phenomenal;
it is amazing how the Biology teacher refrains
from throwing his pickled bugs at the stronger
sex as they snore peacefully through the lec
tures on the function of the basilor membrane.
It is marvelous how the dietitian keeps from
screaming when moans fill the dining hall as
liver appears on the scene. And have you notic
ed how well the coach keeps from braining the
brainy ball players as he walks into a smoke
screen created by (you guessed it) the same in
tellectual athletes. And the cashier, well, she
is unusually well endowed with the blessing of
a patient and understanding nature. Have you
noticed what good timing the students have?
They reach the window just thirty seconds be
fore time to close, and then four or five seem
to appear from nowhere with the dire need of
two dollars to go see Marilyn Monroe in her
latest intellectual movie that simply cannot be
missed for any old Chemistry test. And the
housemothers are sometimes amazing people
when it comes to self-restraint. I’m not too sure
but I feel that it would be rather difficult to
sleep with giggles and banging coke bottles over
head. I do not forget the librarian, she really
has the patience of Job. We will have to ad
mit that trying to keep 10 love stricken couples
quiet as “murmurs of those sweet nothings” waltz
through the air and echo from the bookshelves
can be a trying task. Another matter that takes
a great deal of tolerance is the matter of discip
lining those members of the fairer sex who can
never remember to sign out to go home and
have to get permission.
There is nothing like the life of a Dean of Wo
men and probably we should add, “Thank good
ness for the rest of us blessed individuals who
are free of the responsibility of over a hundred
eccentric young ladies.”
West Georgia Week
By DONNA WENDORF
West Georgia will soon be holding one of the
most important and outstanding events of its
school year—West Georgia Week. The object
of this week of activities, held April 20 through
April 25 is the concentration by the faculty and
students on the purpose of West Georgia Week.
Special emphasis will be placed on an ad
dress by the Chancellor of the University, Har
mon W. Caldwell. The adult Education Pro
gram of the College will also be stressed. On
Tuesday night, April 21, over 110 graduates will
receive certificates from the four communities
of Oak Mountain, Sand Hill, Smithfield, and
Center Point. Graduation ceremonies will be
preceded by a barbecue given by the college to
the graduates and their families.
The May Day festival will be held Thurs
day afternoon on the lawn between Melson Hall
and the President’s home. Here the Queen
will be crowned admist her maid of honor and
sixteen other lovely attendants.
Parents’ Day on Friday will complete the
week’s activities. The idea is “the more the mer
rier,” and students are especially urged to in
vite their parents and friends. All the dormitor
ies and buildings will be open for inspection.
Dr. Harvey Cutts, Pres, of the Georgia Educa
tion Association, will be the Parents’ Day speak
er at eleven o’clock and the college choir will
present several numbers.
This idea of Parents’ Day at West Georgia
College is forty years old. It provides opportunity
to acquaint your parents with your favorite tea
chers. They will want to know with Dr. In
gram, who is anxious to meet everyone, with
Mrs. Ingram who has made our campus so beau
tiful. The faculty and administration are look
ing forward to meeting your folks, but it is your
turn to take the initiative. So turn on your best
smile and show everyone how proud you are of
West Georgia and its fine people.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1953
In Your Own Backyard
By WILLIAM WROTEN
Everywhere you turn today you will hear
of the great economic, social and political pro
gress being made by the State of Georgia, An in
telligent and active movement is underway to
ward making Georgia once again the “Empire
State of the South”—to regain its “rightful”
place which is now temporarly occupied by
North Carolina. Just about every known means
of communication is being utilized to propagan
dize this growth—radio, TV, newspapers, letters,
articles, speeches, all are playing their roles. All
of this is not just a wild pipe dream, but reality.
One does not need to read and study so-called
dull statistical analysis to understand and rea
lize this advancement. The eyes and ears of
Georgians daily sense this growth by the num
ber of industrial plants, highways, schools, and
houses which are rising above the red clay. Al
though certain sections of the State are making
greater strides than others, this movement in
one form or another is being felt over the entire
state.
Back in the period before the “Great War”
when Georgia was living in her so-called Golden
Age, her prosperity brought to her many from
the North, who helped to continue good times.
They came to help set up factories and build
railroads, to teach in the schools, and to be
come editors of the newspapers. For the most
part, during this period Georgia was also able to
hold on to her own citizens and train them for
positions of importance in the continual ad
vancement of the State.
Georgia sank to a low level when she could
no longer entice and hold on to her most capable
citizens. For some time the “cream of the crop”
has been leaving the State for greener pastures
as the drought in Georgia was quite obvious.
Gerogia and Georgians yearly were spending
enormous sums of wealth training and rearing
these individuals to the point where they would
be productive and give returns for what had
been invested in them. But once they reached
this productive stage they left the state and turn
ed over their abilities for use in other regious.
And why should they not do just that? Geor
gian could not or did not offer them the oppor
tunities in line with their abilities.
But now times have changed—sort of re
versed themselves. Georgia offers the oppor
tunities in just about every field of endeavor.
NOW the Georgians with the necessary train
ing are not available. Once again positions are
being filled by individuals from outside the
state.
Several weeks ago a very prominent Geor
gian remarked it was a shame we do not have
trained men for the positions that are now op
ening up in Georgia. He went on to say that these
jobs rightly belong to Georgians—yet qualified
men from out of state are being hired—we just
are not turning out men here in' Georgia for
the positions made necessary in this advance
ment.
You as college students on the freshman
sophomore level are standing at the door. The
question is, “Are you preparing yourselves for
entering this threshhold and assuming positions
of leadership?”
Spring is officially here but is that any rea
son to gather wool instead of knowledge? You
are also in the springtime of life—a period when
the planting of good strong roots means much if
the harvest is to be great in the future. It is a
time for fertilizing one’s abilities, channeling
one’s talents and expanding one’s assets. On the
other hand it is also a time for some cultivat
ing, weeding, selecting, and grading—dropping
the liabilities to the wayside.
When in the near future opportunities arise
in Georgia in the fields of education, industry,
business, commerce, politics, agriculture—will
the door be open to you? Will you have earned
for yourself the right to say, “That position be
longs to me!”