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Volume XXXVIV No. 7
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Dean of Students Tracy Stallings addresses the
overflow crowd at Freshmen Parents Orien
tation Day last Sunday. Well-known for his
humor, he entertained the crowd with a story
Free At Last!
Long Sought Goal Is Near For 450
As 'Sheepskins' Await The Studious
Summer quarter commen
cement exercises will be held this
Sunday, August 13, with more
than 450 students receiving
degrees. Ceremonies are
scheduled to begin at 9 a.m in the
HPE building. Immediately
follwoing the commencement,
Dr. and Mrs. Ward Pafford will
host a reception in the student
center honoring the graduates
and their families.
Students Warned
Of Closing Dates
Various campus departments have announced their scheduled dates
for termination of summer quarter service and the resumption of
normal schedules for fall quarter.
The library will terminate its
summer quarter schedule on
Thursday, August 17, closing at 5
p.m. Beginning August 18 the
library schedule between sum
mer and fall quarter will be:
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.;
Saturday and Sunday, closed;
Labor Day, September 4, closed.
Beginning Thursday, September
21, the first day of classes, the
library will resume the regular
hours 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
All dorms will be closed by 2
p.m. on Thursday, August 17,
then will reopen next quarter for
freshmen between 9:30 a.m. and
2 p.m.. and for all other students
after 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sep
tember 17. One new dormitory, S
-19, will be opening fall quarter,
while Aycock, Mandeville,
Adamson, and Melson will not be
opened as dorms. The other new
dorm under construction, T-5, is
not scheduled until fall of 1973.
Strozier annex will not be opened
for occupancy until winter
quarter.
West Georgia College, Carrollton, Ga. 30117
‘•AS I TOLD MY SON ”
about hi* little boy who approached him with the
request to talk about “the birds and the bees.”
“What on earth for?” asked the Dean. His son
replied, “To see how much you know.”
Dr. Henry King Stanford,
President of the University of
Miami in Coral Gables, Florida,
will be the principal graduation
speaker.
Stanford, a native of Atlanta,
attended Emory University
where he was awarded the
bachelor of arts degree. After
studying at the University of
Heidelberg, Germany, for a year,
he received the master of arts
The last meal to be served by
the cafeteria will be lunch on
Thursday, August 17. The
cafeteria will reopen for fall
quarter on Sunday, September 17
for lunch.
The campus post office will
remain open from 8-4 week days,
but student’s mail will be for
warded home during the quarter
break.
The student center will close on
Thursday, August 17, and will re
open at 10 a.m. on Sunday,
September 17, for fall quarter.
Finally, the police department
will follow its customary policy of
not ticketing non-registered
vehicles on campus during the
last week of classes through the
week of finals, although cars will
be ticketed for zone and meter
violations. This period of grace
will be extended through the first
week of classes fall quarter to
allow students time to buy their
parking stickers and to adjust to
the parking situation on the
campus.
degree from Emory, the master
of science degree from the
University of Denver, Colo, and
the Ph.D. from New York
University.
He has held the position of
instructor at Emory Junior
College and at Emory University,
assistant professor at Georgia
Institute of Technology, and
instructor at New York
University.
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DR. HENRY KING STANFORD
In 1946, he served as Director of
the School of Public
Administration at the University
of Denver. He was also professor
of public administration.
Stanford was president of
Southwestern College in
Americus before becoming
Assistant Chancellor of the
University System of Georgia. He
then served as president of
Georgia State College for Women
in Milledgeville and president of
Birmingham Southern College,
before he accepted the
presidency of the University of
Miami.
He is a member of the Southern
Association of Colleges and
Schools, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi
Sigma lota, Pi Gamma Mu,
Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa
Phi Kappa, and Delta Phi Alpha.
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Future Freshman
Parents Greeted
More than 450 parents of freshmen and transfer students entering
West Georgia this fall participated in the first annual Parents Day
Orientation held on campus last Sunday, August 6. The total was over
a hundred more than had been expected.
“I was very pleased with the
number of parents who came and
the distances some of them
travelled,” said Dr. Georgia
Martin, Associate Dean of
Student Affairs who coordinated
the event. “It’s nice to realize
that so many are interested in
their children and what they do.”
A registration period with
refreshments was followed by
several welcoming speeches.
Among the speech-makers were
President Ward Pafford, Vice-
President John Martin, Dean of
Students Tracy Stallings,
Director of Housing Charles
Smith, and Student Government
Association President Rick
Waites.
A CRITICAL POINT
“West Georgia College is at a
point in its history and
development that is critical,”
Pafford told the prospective
students and their parents. “In
the past decade, it has exploded,
but now it is leveling off. In the
future, we will be more interested
in quality than in quantity.”
Martin added to the picture of
West Georgia’s tremendous
growth in recent years by
comparing the existence of one
B.S. in education program in 1960
to the existence today of 355
undergraduate and 20 graduate
programs. He reiterated Paf
ford’s desire for “quality, not
quantity.”
Following the speeches, a color
slide presentation featuring
various aspects of college life
and the expanding campus was
shown to the guests. The slide
show was prepared by Marsha
Mock and Tommy Greer of the
Public Affairs office on campus.
The technical coordination was
Bells To Ring
At New Time
Fall Quarter
Begining fall quarter the break
between classes will be extended
from 10 to 15 minutes. The new
schedule was proposed by the
academic Routines Committee
early in June and was approved
at the July 11 meeting of the
President’s Advisory Council.
The new schedule calls for the
opening of the school day at 7:50
a.m. and permits completion of
scheduled classes by 9 p.m.,
providing for the same number of
classes per day.
Under this plan, the schedule
has been set up as follows:
From 7:50-8:40 Daily; 8:55-9:45
Daily; 10:00-10:50 Daily; 11:05-
11:55 Daily; 12:10 - 1:00 Daily;
1:15-2:05 Daily; 2:20-3:10 Daily;
3:25-4:15 Daily.
From 4:20-6:15 (M, W. or TANARUS,
Th); 5:10-6:35 (M, TANARUS, Th); 6:45-
9:00 <M, W or TANARUS, Th).
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done by George Pope.
DISCUSSION GROUPS
The parents were then formed
into small groups led by faculty
members and administrators for
"open” question and answer type
discussion.
Charles Wilson, Director of
Developmental Education at
West Georgia and leader of one of
the groups, said parents were
curious about all phases of
campus life.
“They were delighted to learn
of the wide range of ex
tracurricular activities offered to
students of West Georgia in
addition to their academic
work,” he said. “Some were
surprised at the very impressive
records the sports and debate
teams have set.”
The faculty members and
administrators who led the small
discussion groups were: Dr. John
A. Beall, assistant professor of
business administration; Mr.
Wayne Seabolt, counselor; Dr.
Donald Crawford, associate
professor of business education;
Mr. Bob England, associate
professor of biology; Dr. Newt
Gingrich, assistant professor of
history ; Mr. Bob Stone, assistant
professor of business ad
ministration; Mrs. Mildred
Lipham, assistant professor of
languages; Mr. Charles Wilson,
counselor; Dr. Tom Lightsey,
associate professor of education;
Dr. Virginia Meehan, associate
professor of English; Dr. John
Upchurch, associate professor of
geography; Mrs. Mary Lou
Munn, assistant professor of
music; Dr. Don Adams, Dean of
Academic Affairs; Dr. Glen
Moore, professor of economics;
Dr. Wilton Key, assistant
professor of education; Dr. Lem
Norrell, professor of English; Dr.
Parke Renshaw, associate
professor of Sociology; Mr.
Burdett Wantland, associate
professor of Philosophy; and Mr.
Charles Smith, director of
housing.
GREAT DISTANCES
The majority of the parents
who came were from the Atlanta
area, but some travelled much
farther. Among the Georgia
cities represented were:
Roopville, Perry, Swainsboro,
Tifton, Macon, Waycross, Blue
Ridge, Ellenwood, and Hampton.
Some out of state areas
represented were Chattanooga,
Tennessee, Birmingham,
Alabama, and Pinewood, South
Carolina.
“The afternoon was a fantastic
success as the parents were alt so
receptive and anxious to learn ot
what their student would en
counter at college,” Dean Martin
said. “We hope to make it an
annual affair.”