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VOLUME XXXV - NUMBER 16
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ONE OF THESE 33 LOVELY YOUNG LADIES will be crowned Homecoming
Queen for 1969 Saturday night at the Homecoming dance. Left to right; Front row
Jenny Rainwater, Lynn McLung, Kaye Baker, Terry Ellis, Sherry Slate, Peggy
Lewis, Jan Dußois, Gay Davis, Shelia Sally, and Linda Gift.
Second row: Owen McLeod, Sandy McLeod, Jan Johnson, Margie Adams, Susan
HOMECOMING TO BEGIN WITH PARADE
English Dept. Receives
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A federal government grant of approximately $120,000 has been
awarded West Georgia College for an institute on the new Georgia
English Curriculum to be conducted jointly with the University of
Georgia.
Dr. Paul H. Bowdre, professor
of English and head of the De
partment of English at West
Georgia College, who is general
the project, said
the institute is entitled “The New
Georgia English Curriculum: Its
Philosophy, Content and Appli
cation.”
It is designed to introduce 72
English department chairman,
classroom English teachers, and
administrators and supervisors
to the new English Curriculum,
recently developed under the
guidance of Mrs. Juanita Aber
nathy, Reading and English Con
sultant of the Georgia State De
partment of Education. Partici
pants will be drawn from all grade
levels (Ist through 12 th grades.)
SIX-WEEK SESSION
The plan calls for a six-week
session for the selected partic
ipants in the summer of 1969 on
the campus of West Georgia Col
lege, followed by an academic
year follow-up session consist
ing of five weekends at the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Dr. Bowdre will direct the sum
mer session, while Dr. Ramon
Veal, associate professor of Eng
lish Education at the University
of Georgia, will direct the aca
demic-year session.
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The academic-year session
will enroll 72 classroom teach
ers and 72 school administrators
or supervisors in addition to the
72 English department heads who
attended the summer session.
SERVE AS CONSULTANTS
Dr. Bowdre pointed out that all
participants will be committed
to serving as in-service teach
ers and consultants in their own
schools, and to implementing the
new curriculum in those schools.
The new curriculum has been
developed to guide and improve
the teaching of English at all
levels in the public schools of
Georgia. Dr. Bowdre said that it
“should be of considerable help
to classroom teachers of English
by providing ihem with a care
fully worked out plan dealing with
the teaching of language, litera
ture and composition.”
DETAILS ON REQUEST
The project has been approved
by the Bureau of Educational
Personnel Development of the
U. S. Office of Education. Dr.
Bowdre said details about apply
ing for participation in the in
stitute will be available soon
from his office at West Georgia
College. Stipends will be avail
able to applicants who are ac
cepted as participants in the in
stitute.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA. 30117
Frosh Allowed
Cars Fri.-Sun.
R. L. Johnston, campus
Chief of Police, has declared a
moratorium over
Homecoming weekend which
will allow fresmen to operate
their cars on campus and allow
student parking in green
parking areas except those
spaces marked reserved. This
will begin 5 p.m. Friday, Jan.
24, and end 12 midnight,
Sunday, Jan. 26.
Chief Johnston said, “This
will let freshmen participate in
the Homecoming activities
who might not do so because
of no way to travel.”
Annual Debate Tournament
Starting on Campus Today
Thirteen regional colleges and universities are represented on
campus today and tomorrow as West Georgia hosts the eighteenth an
nual debate tournament.
Institutions participating are
Auburn University, St. John’s
River Junior College, Georgia
State College, Valdosta State Col
lege, Emory University, Florida
State University, David Lipscomb
College, University of Tennes
see, East Tennessee State Uni
versity, Georgia Southern Col
lege, Augusta College, Santa Fe
Junior College, and the Univer
sity of Georgia.
Colby, Debbie Cason, Barbara Brock, Mary Jane Head, Jane Ingram, Kay Bass, and
Linda Flurry.
Last row: Donna Pucket, Marilyn Kirk, Janis Gamel, Lagail Cosper, Frances
Massey, Cheryl Buffington, Kay Weaver, Connie Mueller, Judy Ristow, Holly Holtz,
Vicki Payne, and Daneise Hubert.
Frats, Clubs, and Dorms
To Have Field Day Sat.
Decorative displays and festive floats will give the WGC campus a
Mardi Gras air for the annual homecoming.
Homecoming Day will begin with a parade sponsored by the Senior
class. The parade will start at 1 p.m. from downtown Carrollton and
proceed out Maple Street to the Student Center on the campus.
Various campus organizations
will enter floats in the parade
which will be led by the Third
Army Band from Fort
McPherson. Residence halls on
campus will also be decorated and
awards will be presented for the
best float and display.
The traditional banquet will
begiir at 6:30 p.m. in the dining
hall of the Student Center, and
will be in the form of a
smorgasbord.
Debating will get under way this
afternoon at one o’clock. To
night at 6:30 individual events will
take place.
Trophies will be presented to
first -and second - place debate
winners, the best debater in both
novice and varsity divisions, and
the best in each individual event.
A championship trophy will be
given to the college or univer
sity that accumulates the highest
number of points in all events.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1969
At the annual business
meeting following dinner, alumni
officers for the coming year will
be elected and several
amendments to the Constitution
will be voted on. The business
meeting will then be followed by
a brief program.
BASKETBALL GAME
A basketball game between
the West Georgia College Braves
and the Panthers of Georgia State
College will be played in the
Health-Physical Education
Building at 8:00.
Music for the Homecoming
dance, immediately following the
game, will be provided by the
Jostins, a fourteen piece band.
The Homecoming Queen and her
court will be announced at
intermission.
DORM DISPLAYS
Adamson’s front porch will
resemble a huge cave with the
doorway as the entrance. Out of
this doorway Panthers will be
seen just about ready to be hit by
a large Brave. This display is
entitled “He Has the Spirit, Do
You?”
Ay cock’s ingenious residents
have come through with a display
called “We’re Going To Fix The
Panthers” showing a Brave
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