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VOLUME XXXIX—-NUMBER 2
Another Record Enrollment
Union Bldg. About Set to Open
BY ED TANT
West Georgia’s long-awaited
College Union Building will al
most certainly be ready for stu
dent use by fall quarter accord
ing to David Parkman, who is in
charge of much of the Union’s
planning and development. Final
inspection on the circular struc
ture will commence August 15 and
moving in should begin shortly
thereafter. .
COMMUNITY CENTER
The College Union will operate
as a community center for West
Georgia and it will have a three
pronged purpose -service of stu
dents, faculty, and alumni. In
short, the Union will unite the en
tire campus community, not just
the student body.
A college union cannot be com
pared to the present student cen
ter which is nothing more than a
large game room. The new Union
will serve as a home away from
home for all the diverse human
elements at West Georgia and
it will function not only as a rec
reational center, but as a cul
tural center as well.
RECREATION
To fulfill recreational needs,
the Union boasts 3 Brunswick pool
tables, four table tennis sets, at
least 15 varieties of table games
for everything from poker to
chess, and an area for checking
out phonograph records, which
can be heard over stereo equip
ment in the lobby. In addition,
dances will be held in the large
dining hall area on the top floor.
For the cultural edification of
the college’s populance, the Union
will house movies, exhibits, lec
tures, musical events, discussion
groups, forums, and debates.
Overlooking the campus, the
dining hall is capable of seating
800 for regular meals and it also
contains two small private dining
rooms for special groups. Food
will be cooked in the ground floor
kitchen and trundled up to the top
floor by elevator and dumb wait
er. For students who wish to eat
a late breakfast, the dining hall
will be open until 10 a.m., after
which the snack bar will be in
business until 10:30 each night.
MEETING ROOMS
The ground floor of the struc
ture will contain meeting rooms,
study rooms, offices for publica
tions, SGA, the Union Program
Council, and the Director of Stu
dent Activities. Commuting stu
dents will be able to place their
burdens in the 254 lockers on hand
in the ground floor corridor.
The building also houses three
large multi-purpose rooms which
will be used as classrooms until
the Academic Complex is com
pleted in the near future. The
rooms will be fully carpeted, as
will the lobby and the three con
ference rooms on the ground
floor.
The College Union will be open
from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on week
days, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on
Saturdays, and from noon until 11
p.m. on Sundays.
Deal (korofem
Dr. Bonner to Address
100 Summer Graduates
Approximately 100 persons will receive degrees during summer
commencement exercises at West Georgia College on Sunday after
noon, August 13, at 4 p.m. in the Health and Physical Education Build
ing, according to Dr. James E. Boyd, president.
The speaker for the occasion
will be Dr. J. C. Bonner, profes
sor of history, chairman of the
Department of Social Studies, and
chairman of faculty research and
graduate study at Georgia Col
lege at Miiledgeville.
UNC DOCTORATE
Dr. Bonner holds his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from the
University of Georgia, and re
ceived his doctor’s degree in his
tory from the University of North
Carolina in 1943.
He is a recognized authority on
Georgia history and on the his
tory of agriculture in the United
States. He is the author or co
author of nine books and has writ
ten more than 25 articles for var
ious professional journals, in
C' 9
I T m.
THE MOVERS WILL ENTERTAIN at the
tmal dance of summer quarter in the auditorium
tomorrow night at 8 p.m. The group has played
in the Surf Club, the Beachcomber and other
popular clubs. They have recently made a movie
Representing Georgia's Fastest Growing College
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA 30117
eluding the American Historical
Review. He is also the author of
eleven additional articles for En
cyclopaedia Britannica, including
the section on Georgia.
CARROLL HISTORIAN
He is currently in the process
of preparing for publication a
history of Carroll County.
Dr. Bonner is chairman of the
University System of Georgia
Committee on Faculty Research
and Graduate Study, is a mem
ber of the Georgia Historical
Commission, secretary-treas
urer of the Lockery Aboretum
Foundation of Elizabeth, N. J.,
and governor of the Georgia
Province of Pi Gamma Mu.
Expected for Fall
Another record-setting enrollment is anticipated when school opens
in September, according to college officials.
Approximately 3,250 students
are expected to register for fall
quarter classes on September 20
and in the days to follow. This
will include the largest freshman,
sophomore, junior and senior
classes in the history of the in
stitution as well as a number of
graduate students.
930 FROSH APPLY
Indicative of the big enrollment
expected is the fact that as of
July 15 of this year, there were
930 current applications for the
freshman class for the fall quar
ter as compared wtih 720 at the
same time last year.
Even more significant is the fact
that as of the same date this year
there were 239 transfer appli
cants as compared with only 90
the year before.
New students are still being ac
cepted, according to college of
ficials, but campus housing for
both men and women is filled.
RAPID GROWTH
Figures on fall quarter enroll
ment for the past several years
illustrate the dramatic growth of
the college. In 1960 the total was
847. It jumped to 1089 in 1961,
to 1159 in 1962, to 1268 in 1963,
called “Mondo Daytona," scheduled to be re
leased August 1. Members include Roger Hale,
the band leader, Steve Uzzel, Don Reynolds and
Darryl Calkins. No admission will be charged;
however, student ID cards will be checked.
AUGUST 4, 1987
to 1856 in 1964, to 2259 in 1965
and to 2764 in 1966.
The fall quarter officially gets
underway on September 17 with
the arrival of freshman residence
hall students. Freshman orienta
tion will be Sept. 17-19, and
registration will be Sept. 20, with
night class registration on the
21st. Classes will begin on the
21st, and September 26 is the last
day for registration and for class
changes.
JEAN CARMICHAEL
Spanish Major
Honored With
Jackson Award
Anita Jean Carmichael, a Span
ish major from McDonough, has
been selected as the first recip
ient of the annual Wilda Sea
graves Jackson Award.
The award will involve a plaque
and a small cash award.
Miss Carmichael, who is min
oring in secondary education,
was chosen by the executive
committee of the Alumni Asso
ciation from candidates recom
mended by the Education Di
vision faculty.
During her undergraduate years
at West Georgia College, Miss
Carmichael maintained a grade
point average of 3.56.
She served as vice-president of
the Student Education Associa
tion and publicity chairman of
the Westminister Fellowship,
was a member of the Spanish
Club, and was a contestant in the
1966 Miss Chieftain Beauty Re
view.
Also, she was named to the
Dean’s List five times and nom
inated for a Woodrow Wilson Fel
lowship.
The Jackson Award is to be pre
sented annually to recognize
scholastic achievement and the
qualities which produce an excel
led classroom teacher. The
award was established in memory
of Wilda Seagraves Jackson, a
WGC alumna and former faculty
member.
Final Bridge Tues.
The West Georgia College
Duplicate Bridge Club will hold
its final match on Tuesday, Au
gust 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Pritch
ard Hall Recreation Room.