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JULY 14, 1972
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ment to simply changing its
format. “A key to this evaluation
during the year should be an
assessment of student opinion
regarding the book.” He said this
should apply to the other student
publications as well.
A brief discussion of Stallings’
memorandum led to a request
that Ca r oline New present her
proposals for the coming year’s
Convention
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concerning her feelings on Nixon
and on the convention process.
Miss Byron, who teaches
journalism at the college, as well
as being an associate in the
continuing education program,
attended the convention as a
working reporter She has had
wide journalistic experience and
presently writes a column for the
Carroll County Georgian.
Prior to coming to West
Georgia, Miss Byron taught at
Emory University and was
director of News Services there.
She has written articles for such
publications as The Nation,
Harpers, Ebony, The New York
Times, the Christian Science
Monitor, and the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution. She is the author of
a book. also.
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book. She passed out an outline of
changes she would seek to im
plement to avoid the type of
criticisms that befell the 1972
edition This prospectus also
showed her expected page
allotment to each section.
Among the changes editor New
said she would make were:
limiting the number of pages,
scheduling staff meetings at
regular intervals, organize a
staff of photographers to be
headed by a picture editor, a
traditional cover, and no
editorializing in the copy.
Because the staff of the annual
seemed to be somewhat on the
defensive, Dr. Mathews
suggested that to show a vote of
confidence in them the board
should formally approve and
support their recommendations
for the coming year’s book. A
motion was offered and seconded
and adopted 6-1.
Other business before the
Board included the presentation
of several amendments to the
newly adopted constitution. One
amendment called for putting
the SGA Finance Committee
chairman back on the Board in an
ex-officio role. This was adopted
unanimously. A move to change
the status of the dean of students
and the SGA president from ex
officio to voting members was
defeated.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
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BENSONS
Wade Benson, a recent graduate of West Georgia
College, looks through some of the college
yearbooks his family has appeared in. Wade
Father, then All of Family,
Now Wade Graduates from WGC
Every family has its traditions
and for the L. C. Benson family of
Orlando, Fla., West Georgia
College has become an important
one. Beginning in the late 1940’s
when Mr. and Mrs. Benson at
tended West Georgia, until June,
1972, when Wade, the youngest of
their five children graduated
from the institution, West
Georgia has been an integral part
of their lives.
Wade, a speech and theater art
major, explained that West
Georgia’s history and that of his
family go hand-in-hand.
"Our long relationship with the
college began when my mother
and father attended West
Georgia when it was just a small
junior college,” he said.
In 1959, his older sister Claire
Pelfrey, became the first of the
Benson children to graduate from
West Georgia as she received a
graduated this spring from WGC and is now
working in summer stock.
B.S. degree in elementary
education as a member of the
first four-year graduating class
of the senior college.
A brother, Jack, followed in
1961, having put the Benson
family again in West Georgia’s
history by serving as president
of his junior class before
receiving a B.S. in elementary
education.
In 1963, the Bensons attended
another graduation exercise in
Carrollton as Lanny received an
A.B. degree in English. A
resident advisor while at West
Georgia, he is now an elementary
school principal in Walker
County.
After an eight year lapse, Mike
Benson brought the family back
to West Georgia in 1971 as he
received a degree in elementary
education. Now a graduate
student at West Georgia, he is
hall director of Watson Hall.
"Not only did all my brothers
and my sister graduate from
West Georgia, but all our spouses
except one have attended school
here,” Wade noted. His wife Judy
is a junior English major at West
Georgia.
This summer will find the
Benson and West Georgia College
histories again entwined. Wade
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and Judy will be two of the first
West Georgia students to par
ticipate in a “summer stock”
production. They have been of
fered employment in the
production of The Legend of
Daniel Boone in Kentucky.
“When they heard of our roles
in the ‘summer stock,’ my
mother and father reminisced
that West Georgia did not even
have a minor in theater when
they came here,” Wade said.
“The most astounding thing
about our relationship to West
Georgia is the difference in its
size from the time my parents
started here and when I
finished,” the youngest Benson
said. “From a junior-college with
a limited scope in its fields of
study, it has grown to a senior
college with many degree
programs at the master’s level.”
“Even though they now live in
Orlando, Fla., my mother and
father have witnessed the
school’s growth as they visit the
campus for the different
graduation exercises,” he added.
Wade said he does not feel his
graduation will mean the end of
the Benson and West Georgia
College ties since there are seven
Benson grandchildren now who
will soon be looking toward
college.