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Miss Dorothy McNabb, instructor of
Physical Education, is shown teaching
the basic stroke in swimming to the
members of her P E class. From left
to right are: Phyllis Lewis, Dennis Con
First Summer Session Completed
Two hundred and twenty-three
were enrolled in West Georgia
College for the first session of
summer school.
They qp-e from! tw;cnty-two
counties over Geoigia.
There were 195 day students
end 35 dormitory students.
They are:
Allgood', Janet, Dallas, Ga.;
Allgood, Minnie, Dallas, Ga.;
Ashmore, Mrs. Geitude TANARUS.; La-
Grange, Ga.; Askew', Mary Ann,
Hogansville, Ga.; A\ers, Dennis,
Villa Rica, Ga.; Bailey, Mozelle,
Roopville, Ga.; Baker Olen, Bow
don, Ga.; Barrett, Sarah, Cedar
town, Ga.; Bartley, Mary Kate,
LaGrange, Ga.; Barton, Evelyn,
Buchanan, Ga.; Bates, Dorothy
Palmetto, Ga.; Beasley, Myrtle,
Cedartown, Ga.; Beers, Mrs.
Lynwoodl Newman, Ga.; Bell,
Mattie Ruth, Dallas, Ga.; Ben
nett, Ruth, Daiias, Ga.
Benson, Jack, Balton, Ga.;
Eenson, Virginia Ciaire Dalton;
Binion, Jack, Newnen; Blanks,
Eulalia, Franklin, Boatright,
Inez, Winston; Bodenhamer,
Mrs. Elizabeth, LaGrange; Bo
hannon, Katheryn, Moreland;
Boroughs, Melta Rae, Bowdon;
Eowen, Lucy Kinney, Villa Rica;
Erannon, Warner, Columbus;
Brewer, Carolyn, Cedartown;
Brown, Sylvia Elua, Lit hi a
Springs; Brown Wilma, Daniell,
Lithia Springs; XJtyant, Lucy,
Cave Springs: Buggs, Sara,
Newnan; Burns, Whitesburg;
Camp, Sophia, Moreland; Can
non, Lucille, Rome; Carnes,
Elaine, Douglasville, Carpenter,
Cpal, Rockmari; Cat ruth, Chris
tine, Dallas; Carter Mike, Car
rollton; Casey, Pauline, La-
Grange; Chandler Talmadge,
Carrollton; Chewn'ng. Mrs. La-
Grange; Clerke, Mrs. John La-
Grange; Clirner, Eula, Rome.
Cole, Jane, Tallapoosa; Cole,
Gladys, Villa Rica; Cole, Janice.
Grantville; Combs. Mary, Villa
Rica;.
Connally, Dennis, Douglasville;
Copeland, Lerlic, Carrollton;
Covin, Ruth, Moreland; Crain,
Joe, Newnan; Cranford, Vivan,
Douglasville; Cameron, Bernar
dine, Austell; Daniel, Irene, Win
ston; Darden, Mary Boone, Ho
gansville; Davenport, Genem,
Whitesburg; Davis. Virginia,
Austell; Davis, WiL'am, Carroll*
ton; Downey, Robert, Talla
tton; Downey, Mrs. Mary Talla
poosa; Downey .Robert, Talla
poosa; Duke, Eldon, LaGrange;
Duncan Ann, Trion; Duncan,
Mae, Carrollton; Duvall, Jimmy,
Dalton; Dyer, Winnie, Carroll
ton; Eady, Evelyn, Carrollton;
Eichhammer, Mri. L. K. Carroll
ton; Evans, Mai&nali, LaGrange;
Evans, Mrs. Ruth, Moreland,;
Fargarson, Mrs. Helen, Newnan;
Fincher, Ual, Tallapoosa; Foun
tain, Doris, Villa Rica, Free, Sud-
inally, Claire Benson, Jack Benson, and
Glenda Wirt. On-lookers are Elaine
Carnes, Sally Spangler, and Louise Kel
ler.
rey, Rockmart; Fu IT er, Dorthie,
Carrollton; Gentry, Gertude, Car
ollton; Gentry, Mattie, Buchan
an; Glover, Inez, Newnan.
Glover, Mildred, LaGrange;
Glover, Thomas J., Newnan;
Gosdin, Elisa Janice, Newnan;
Goldin, Lillie, Temple; Gordon,
Susie, Dallas; Green, Agnes,
Lithia Springs; Hale, Doris, La-
Grange;; Handley. June, Griffin;
Harris, Charlie, Bowdon; Hay,
Virginia, Dallas; Hicks, Enoch,
Marietta; Highnote, Emmalee,
Cave Springs; Hollingsworth,
Rudene, Carrollton; Hubbard,
Sam, Bremen; Huggins, James,
Kogansville; Ingram, Grace New
nan; Jackson, Ruth, Roopville;
Jackson, Paul Franklin; Jackson,
Vera Carrollton; Johnson, Bonnie,
ohnson, Florie, Carrollton; John
nald ,Moreland; Jones, Betty,
Carrollton; Jones, Ilcrshel, Dal
las, Keller, Louise, Carrollton.
Kerns, Opal, Cedartown; Kerr,
Pearl, Cave Springs; Kline, Cleo,
Carrollton; Lamb, Mrs. Anne,
Moreland; Lawson, Mary, Rock
mart; Leavel, Irene, Lithia
Springs; Lee, Eilly, Roswell; Lee,
Mrs. Ruth, Dougiasville; Lewis,
Phyllis, Monticfello, Liner, Eve
lyn, Buchanan; Liner, William,
Euchanan; Lipham, Fronie, Tal
lapoosa; Littlefield, Carleen,
Tallapoosa; Logan, Mrs. Kate,
Leslie; McClung, Cpal, Bremen;
McCentyre, Bernice, Carroll
ton; McKeen, Althea. LaGrange;
McKebben, Floiine, Cedartown;
McMahan. Annie Mae, Temple;
McMahan, William, Bowdon: Mc-
Waters, Mrs. Elizabeth, Cedar
towm; McWhorter, Lois, Carroll
ton; McWhorter, Mildred, Frank
lin.
Martin .Elizabeth, Raymond;
Matthews, Mrs. Bernice, Dallas;
Miller. Mrs. Helen .Hiram; Mil
ler,, Ruth, Rockmart; Millians,
Emily, Newnan, Mmtz, Leon
aora„ Rockmart; Moncus, Larry,
LaGrange; Moouy, Margaret,
Newnan Moody Henrietta, New
nan; Moon, Nelle, Austell;
Moore, Alma, Powder Spring;
Moore, Ann. Carrollton; Moore,
Ray, Dallas; Morgan, Mrs, Betty
Carrollton; Mcrgan Margaret,
LaGrange; Morgan, Velma, Car
rollton; Norman, Biuce, Gab
bettville; Murphy, Evelyn, Car
rollton; Murrah, Clara Mae, Car
xollton; Newman, Luella, Villa
Rica; Norris, Harold, Powder
Spring: Owens, Floella, La-
Grange; Peeiples, Chrystine.
Woolsey; Perry, Jane, Rockmart;
Pettit, Mrs. Byron, Cedartown;
Phillips, Phyllis, Villa Rica;
Pope, Lena, Tallapoosa; porter.
Eeulah, Bremen; Forter, E. G.,
Bremen; Prince, Mary, Carroll
ton; Rampley, \irginia, Dallas.
Randall, Madge, Cedartown;
Randall, Thelma, Rockmart; Ray,
Eunice, Plainville; Reed, Ruby,
LaFayette; Reeves, Lucy, Mon
roe;; Reeves, ?Jrs. Lucy Kate,
Monroe; Roan, mma Belle, New
nan; Robinson, Jerry, Carrollton;
Rodgers, Carrie Au&tell; Rodgers,
Gary .Tallapoosa; Rcdgers, Rob
bie, Atlanta; Rowe, Virginia,
Carrollton; Sanders, Mary, New
nan; Shaw, Janie, Carrollton;
Shepherd, Mrs. Murbes, La-
Grange; Shoffiett, Helen, Bow
don; Sims, Mrs. Irene, Carroll
ton; Slaughter, Mrs. Fannie Mae,
Woodland; Smith, Faith, Hogans
ville; Sorrells, Inez, Rockmart;
Spangler, Sally, Carrollton; Spra
dlin, Lula, Newnan; Stanford),
Helen, Carrollton; Taff Dortha,
Rockmart; Taliaferro, Ruby Tal
lapoosa; Taylor, Lois, Rome;
Teel, Mary, Hogansville; Tolbert,
Lucy, Villa Rica: Vaughan, Mrs.
Walter, Carrollton.
Walker, Frances, Winston;
Walker, Mildred, Carrollton;
Walters, Wallace, Carrollton;
Warren, Duane, Powdr Spring;
White, Gladys, Franklin; White
bead, Virginia, Cedartown; Wil
liams, Mrs. J. E., Buchanan;
Williams, James, Villa Rica; Wil
liams, Wilma Cedartown; Wilson,
Mary, Bowdon ;Wingo, Louise,
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Mr. Carson Pritchard, Director of Adult Education
West Georgia College, congratulates Miss Lucia Massee
on her recent trip to Israel where she acted as “Am
bassador” for the local “College In The, Town” Adult
Education Group.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
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Pictured are three physical education students learn
ing the basic steps in diving. They are, Glenda Wirt in
the sitting position, Claire Benson in the kneeling po
sition, and Dermis Connally in the standing position.
Miss Dorothy McNabb is their instructor.
Tales Out Of School
State Department of Education By BERNICE McCULLAR
iTHE FIVE DECISIONS: What
would you say are the five most
important decisions that your
just-graduated youngster must
make? Dr. Claude Purcell, as
sistant state superintendent of
schools, told 1957 graduates that
he believed they are these: 1.
whether you will live in Geor
gia or go elsewhere, 2. what
career you will choose, 3. what
kind of citizen you will be, 4.
whom you will choose for a
mate, and 5. what philosophy
of life you will choose to live
tyy. (Dr. Purcell, recently elect
jcf'to.supceecf Dr. M. D. Collins
as Georgia’s NEA director, will
go into that new honor-and-off
ice in uly at the 100th anni
versary convention of the NEA
in Philadelphia.)
NEW WORDS: “My son is in
the thirteenth grade” or “My
daughter is finishing her four
teenth year at high school” may
sound funny to you now. But
such words are being considered
for education’s future diction
ary. It is possible that some
such plan may be the solution
to the impossibly crowded col
leges looming ahead of us. More
use of the present schoolhouses
and good planning by school of
ficials may make it possible for
your children to go right on
through what would be two col-
Palmetto; Wirt, Glenda, Ken
nesaw; Wortham, Frances Lee,
Newnan; Wright, Doris, Mt.
Zion; Yates, Norma Delores, Car
rollton; Yates, Ruthie, Carroll
ton; Young, Lois Strain, Bowdon.
lege years there in your own
community.
THEY CAN GET CREDIT
FOR TRAVEL: Did you know
that your teachers can get cred
it professionally for travel as
well as for study at a summer
school or workshop? They have
to decide where they will go
and why, and have the plan ap
proved by our certification of
fice. Remember old Thomas
Hardy’s comment on the won
der of travel “When I set out
for Lyonesse, Starlight lit my
lonesomeness; But I came back
from Lyonesse with magic in
my eyes.”
BOOK FOR YOUR SUMMER
READING —Don’t let your child
get through high school without
having read Stephen Vincent
Benet’s beautiful and powerful
novel-in-poetry about a Georgia
boy and a Yankee lad in the
1865 war. He (and you) will
enjoy the dramatic story, and
wonder at the beauty of such
words as these:
“We find such things And
lose them, and must live in spite
of it. Only a fool goes looking
for the wind That blew across
his heartstrings yesterday, Or
breaks his hands in the obscure
attempt To dig the knotted
roots of Time apart.”
VACATION CURIOSITY: Per
haps your child would like to
find out, during vacation, why
your town or county was named
what it was named, and who
lived in it days-before-yester
day. Look in your local library
and see what’s available. It
will also give your youngsters
anew appreciation of the wit
and wisdom of grandpa and the
other senior citizens who live
in Your Town. They can tell
him how it was.
MONEY IDEA: Here’s how
we can finance progress in edu
cation in the next few years.
Trend in Washington is to more
liberalized matching. They are
beginning to take into consider
ation the ability of the states to
put up matching money. Up to
now we have had to put up dol
lar for dollar to get federal
money for things like road
building and vocational educa
tion. New road plan is to put
up a dime of state money and
ninety cents of federal money.
After 1960, we will get 70c re
hab money for our 30c. That
means that if we get more fed
eral money for the same outlay
of ours, we can use our other
money to expand education, and
give your children better and
better schools and teachers in
the future. Sound good?
SCHOOLMAN: They spoke
many bright words here about
George Sparks, retiring school
man who built with his own
heart and head and hands the
Georgia State College of Busi
ness Administration. But I re
member best three things: once
he mortgaged his home to pay
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Another of the summer physical edu
cation courses, instructed by Miss Mc-
Nabb is Physical Education for Teach-
the salaries of his faculty, he
told Georgia boys and girls that
he would guarantee a job to
any one of them who wanted to
come to Atlanta and go to
school, and he made a habit of
giving them any advice they
asked for except about romance.
“If I advised them not to mar
ry the girl, toey’d marry her
anyhow, and men think I was
trying to break them up,” he
said with a twinkle in his
friendly eyes.
A TALE TO TOUCH THE
HEART— You probably read, as
I did, in a current magazine
this heartwarming story about
a child’s loving look at his tea
cher. A grown man went back
to see a teacher he had had in
the first grade, whom he re
membered as a person warm,
loving, and kind. When he got
home, he said to his mother, “I
was so sorry to see her face so
badly scarred. I remember her
as being so beautiful.” Then his
mother said, “Her face was al
ways like that.” (Remember
that wonderful play, “The En
chanted Cottage” about the
beauty of a loving, ugly face?)
WILL .YOUR .CHILDREN
DROWN THIS SUMMER? Be
fore the end of vacation, many
happy, laughing youngsters will
not be happy or laughing or
even here any more. They are
the ones scheduled to drown this
summer. Don’t make your
child’s life miserable about it,
but be sure he knows the safe
ty rules before he goes swim
ming. (Watch your own toes,
too. More than a hundred peo
ple get badly mangled every
season with electric or other
power lawn mowers.)
WHERE TEACHERS ARE
THE HIGHEST PAID Mi
chael Hack, consular agent for
Switzerland in Atlanta, told me
the other day that teachers are
the highest paid and most re
spected professionals in his
country. One of the astonish
ments he encountered in Amer
ica was parents going to school
to fuss. “No parent would
dream of going to a school to
complain to a teacher. If some
thing was wrong in the child’s
work or behavior or report, the
parent would apologize.”
INCREDIBLE? There were
ninety-six high school graduates
in Georgia in 1904.
PROBLEM: “You can keep
talking about industrialization if
you want to, and gear our
school pattern to it.” said a
schoolman to me. “But I am
telling you that if we keep talk
ing our land out of production
and more and more people keep
getting born, this country will
be hungry by the end of this
century. Mark my words.”
THE GODS WE BOW TO:
We worship strange gods —a
bosomy girl who has had half
a dozen husbands, a young truck
driver with sideburns who has
learned to mutter to nervous
music, or a little man in the
community who has nothing but
money. And all the while the
village Socrates, whose learn
ing and wisdom might help us
solve our troubling problems,
closes his textbook after a day
of teaching, and wearily walks
down to the filling station or
sells insurance to make a little
extra money so he can afford to
feed and clothe and educate his
children.
TV PLANS: We still have
channels for educational TV un
taken in Georgia. There is a bill
before Congress that would pro
vide a million dollars to each
state to develop an educational
ers. Students are shown here taking
exercises.
TV network. Texas recruited
750 more teachers when it de
veloped a TV education course
through which teachers whose
certificates had lapsed could re
new them without having to
leave home.
HOW MANY OF YOUR TEA
CHERS ARE MEN? In the U.S.
now, about 25% of our teachers
are men: But in the school year
of 1879-80, 43% were. Lowest
ebb for men teachers was in the
school year 1919-1920.
MILLION DOLLARS A DAY:
A million dollars a day is a
lot of money, but that is just
what you’ll be putting into your
schools next year: a million dol
lars a day for the 180 days of
the school year. You have a
right to demand quality educa
tion in return for it. Do you
know what kind your youngster
is getting over there at YOUR
school?
WE NEED TEACHERS: Mrs.
Bess Patterson, who keeps up
with the teacher shortage situ
ation for us, sent out a query
recently asking superintendents
how many teachers they are
short—and what kind. She found
out that there is a greater
shortage of English teachers
than of math and science teach
ers. Most acute shortage of ele
mentary teachers is in the sixth
grade.
DO YOU KNOW ANY BLIND
CHILDREN ? We are trying to
find out where the blind child
ren in Georgia are. We can get
thirty dollars per child for
Braille and talking books for
them to use—under a recently
amended act—if we can find out
where they are. Write Dr. Ma
mie Jo Jones, State Department
of Education, Atlanta.
HERE AT THE WORK
SHOPS: Here’s where work
shops for teachers will be held
during the coming summer: (the
list was compiled by John J.
Medlin, Jr., who heads the tea
cher certification program.) Em
ory University, Gibson, Cor
dele, Dublin, Statesboro, Hazle
hurst, Macon, Dahlonega, Demo
rest, Rome (Shorter College),
Forsyth (Bessie Tift), Colum
bus, Athens (University of Geor
gia—six workshops), and Val
dosta. There will be workshops
for Negro teachers held at At
lanta, Fort Valley, Savannah,
and Albany, on the campuses of
their colleges.
FIGURE IN THE DUSK:
There she goes, a lone figure
walking home through the quiet
twilight streets of Your Town
, . . She’s tired. She has been
all day stretching little minds
to learning, answering eager
questions, curbing pop-off ener
gies. She has had a dozen rec
ords to fill out, half a bushel
of nickels and dimes to collect
for lunch for fund drives, for
charity, for this, for that . . .
three embattled mammas to pac
ify .. . Billy’s nose to wipe,
Suzy’s tears to dry, and John
ny’s fractions to straighten out
. . . She has told Mary twice to
spit out the chewing gum and
Pat three times not to pull
Janie’s blonde pigtails . , . She
has called about Richard’s
measles, and explained to one
irate papa that Frank cannot
be marked "Present" Tuesday
even if it is a concert he’s going
to in Atlanta . . . She’s just got
out of faculty meeting, and she
may be coming back to PTA.
But now she is on her tired way
home, perhaps to a lonely rent
ed room or to her own kitchen
to cook supper for her family.
Anyhow, wave to her, call to
her, communicate with her in
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human warmth and apprecia
tion. She’s your child’s teacher.
His tomorrows depend largely
on her todays.
GOOD MEETING: says
somebody—is one that gives peo
ple something to listen to, some
thing to look at, something to
laugh at, something to think
about, something to take home,
and something to do.
CROWD COMING: By 1956,
there will be in this country
four and a half million college
students. Only solution I know
is community colleges. Twenty
six states have them already.
It’s almost like adding the 13th
and 14th grades to your own
school.
Studycade—
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ests, the Pacific Ocean, the Gol
den Gate Bridge, Disneyland
and, of course, Hollywood.
In Oregon the one stop will
be at the University of Oregon
at Eugene. Passing through the
state the group can see famous
Mount Hood, one of the highest
t peaks in the country.
While in Washington the
studycaders will spend a night
at the University of Washing
ton, Seattle, before crossing the
Rocky Mountains into Idaho
where they’ll stop for a night
at Coeurd’Alene.
A night at Montana State Col
lege, Bozeman, will precede al
most a full day of sightseeing
in Yellowstone National Park,
where Old Faithful geyser is one
of the chief attractions. The
next point of interest on the
studycade route is Salt Lake
City, Utah, where the group
can see the Great Salt Lake
and the Mormon Temple.
Naturally no tour of the West
would be quite complete with
out a tour of Grand Canyon and
the studycaders will have most
of one day seeing this natural
wonder of the world. One night
will be spent at Denver before
the group turns homeward with
stops at Salina, Kans., St. Louis
Mo., and a final stop at Nash
ville, Tenn.
Collus O. Johnson, Assistant
Director of Adult Education at
West Georgia, will be in charge
of the studycade. Other college
faculty members making the trip
include Miss Katie Downs, Reg
istrar and Miss Jane Woodruff,
Coweta County Music Super
visor, who has taught during
the first summer session.
Carrollton residents going on
the tour are: Mrs. Herman
Brown, Mrs. Jack Aycock, Miss
Connie Cramer, Miss Phyllis
Duncan, Mrs. Louise F. Finch
er, Kirs. J. A. Gladney, Tommy
Green, Mrs. R. E. Harman, Mrs.
Sidney Holderness, Tommy
Johnson, James L. Thompson,
Tom Vassy, Mrs. S. C. Wallis
and Mrs. Camp Wiggins. Bob
Jeter, Carrollton, is the bus
driver.
Others making the studycade
include Miss Emily Causey,
Roopville; iMrs. Florence Duffy.
Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Garrett, Cochran; Mr. O. P.
Copeland, Whitesburg; Mrs. Eva
Stokley and Mrs. Mack Winn,
Lithia Springs; Mrs. W. J.
Woodruff, Spartanburg, S. C.;
Marshall Jackson and Mrs.
Wright King, Rome; Mrs. Alice
Porter, Marietta; Mrs. Luke
Sims, Powder Springs; Miss
Grace Smith, Burwell; and Mrs.
Robert Tisinger and Miss Susan
Watts, Bowdon.