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AUGUST 11, 1972
Collegiate Guidepost
Prepared For Fall
The Collegiate Guidepost: Carrollton Edition, a consumer guide
type of publication for incoming students to West Georgia College will
be distributed on campus during Freshman Orientation.
Locally written and edited by
members of the WEST
GEORGIAN staff, the soft-cover
book is published by Charles
French company in Nashville,
Tennessee. It will be ap-
Rowe To
Back The
President
Mark Rowe, a senior from Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida has been
appointed campus coordinator
for the Students Committee to
Re-elect the President.
A transfer student from
Broward Junior College in Ft.
Lauderdale, he is attending
school here on a debate
scholarship. He was awarded the
title of “Best Male Forensic
Student in the Nation” while
attending Broward. Having won
eight individual awards last year,
he is starting his fourth year of
college debate fall quarter.
A registered Republican all of
his life, he voted for Nixon in 1968
and backed Goldwater in 1964. “I
consider myself a moderate
Republican,” Rowe said, “I
backed Goldwater as the only
viable alternative to Lyndon
Johnson.”
Anyone interested in helping to
re-elect the President should
contact Mark Rowe at extension
454 in the debate office.
Waites
Attends
Conference
The summer meeting of the
deans and vice-presidents of the
University System of Georgia
was held last week at the Sea
Palms Inn on St. Simon’s Island.
Hosting the affair was Dr.
Kenneth England, Dean of
Students at Georgia State.
The entourage of college ad
ministrators attended a banquet
Sunday evening which concluded
with an address by Judge Robert
Walling concerning “Educators
and Public Issues.” Sessions
concerning such issues as the
feasibility of a common calendar
for the University System,
academic due process, and the
value of student inputs were held.
Several members of the
Student Advisory Council to the
Board of Regents were present to
offer suggestions on the issues.
Hie students delegation was led
by Rick Waites, Student Body
President from West Georgia.
Hie primary concern of the
students on the calendar question
was an anticipated division of
winter quarter with Christinas
recess as well as a move toward
the semester system.
According to some sources, this
conference marked a striking
departure from past conferences
in that consideration of student
opinions was more evidenced.
Delegates from West Georgia
were Dr. John Martin, Dean of
Academic Affairs, Dr. Doyle
Mathis, Chairman of the Division
of Graduate Studies; Dr. Georgia
Martin, Associate Dean of
Student Affiars; and Dean Tracy
Stallings, Dean of Student
Affairs.
proximately 80 pages long and
will be designed to aid the new
student as he prepares to begin
his college life in Carrollton.
TOPICS
Among the topics to be covered
in the various articles are:
Money Matters; Leisure Time;
Dates Without Wheels; Domiciles
of Distinction; Food; Fashions;
etc. There will also be several
national articles on politics and
sports.
This publication was in
troduced to this campus last year
when the Student Government
Association was the sponsoring
organization.
CONCEPT
“The concept behind this book
is a good one, said Lee Howell,
the editor-in-chief of the WEST
GEORGIAN. “I think it serves a
worthwhile purpose for the in
coming student as he approaches
his new life in Carrollton.”
The book will be availble
during Freshman Orientation,
September 17-20 and later upon
request from the WEST
GEORGIAN office.
Basketball
Schedule
Released
Roger Kaiser, Coach of the
West Georgia Braves, has
released the 1972-73 basketball
schedule. The team will play 23
regular season games, plus two
holiday tournaments, beginning
with the annual Thanksgiving
Tourney at Tennessee Temple in
Chattanooga. The first home
game will follow on December 2,
with the Braves, last year’s
District 25 Champions, defending
against anew addition to the
Georgia Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference, Georgia College.
The year’s schedule has been
set up as follows;
Nov. 23-25, Thanksgiving
Tourney, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
(Tennessee Temple U.); Dec. 2,
Georgia College, Here; Dec. 4,
Western Kentucky U., There
(Bowling Green, Ky.); Dec. 15-
16, Hubbard Classic, Bremen,
Ga.
Jan. 4, Georgia Southwest,
There (Americus, Ga.); Jan. 6,
Tennesses Temple U., Here; Jan.
8, Piedmont College, There
(Demorest, Ga.); Jan. 10,
Augusta College, There
(Augusta, Ga.); Jan. 13, Valdosta
State, There (Valdosta, Ga.);
Jan. 18, Carson- Newman
College, There (Jefferson City,
Tenn.); Jan. 22, Shorter College,
There (Rome, Ga.); Jan. 25,
Piedmont College, Here; Jan. 27,
LaGrange Colleges, Three
(LaGrange, Ga.); Jan. 30, Berry
College, Here.
Feb. 2, Augusta College, Here;
Feb. 3, Tennessee Temple U.,
There (Chattanooga, Tenn.);
Feb. 6, Shorter College, Here,
Feb. 7, Georgia College, There
(Milledigeville, Ga.), Feb. 10,
Georgia Southwestern, Here
(Homecoming) 3:00 p.m., Feb.
12, Valdosta State, Here, Feb. 13,
North Georgia College, There
(Dahlonega,Ga.); Feb. 17, Berry
College, There (Rome, Ga.);
Feb. 21, LaGrange College, Here;
Feb. 24, North Georgia College,
Here.
Feb. 28, Mar. 1-2, GIAC
CONFERENCE TOURNEY,
Here; March 5-10, DISTRICT 25
NAIA PLAYOFF, Site to be
determined.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
A popular performer from spring quarter,
Denny Brooks will return to the campus Sep
tember 19 as a part of Freshmen Orientation
Denny Brooks Slated To Wow
Students Again Fall Quarter
Denny Brooks, who last Spring
quarter brought West Georgia
students to their feet in an un
precedented display of en
thusiasm and appreciation, will
once again be appearing at West
Georgia. Brooks is scheduled to
appear fall quarter on September
19.
Brooks began his professional
career in a coffee house when he
was 16, working for a dollar an
hour and washing dishes between
shows. From there he joined a
group, “The Back Porch
Majority,” and he soon went back
to the solo stage.
“I’m a ham. I love to be goofy
and make people laugh,” he said
in his last appearance at West
Georgia. He believes that music
cannot be the whole show. He
concentrates on a good rappor
with his audiences. He ad-libs
and decides the songs to sing by
audience reaction. His act also
includes comedy sketches,
especially those of Lord Buckley.
Denny Brooks was born in Long
Beach, California. His schooling
consisted of a 12-year run at a
Catholic institution in Long
Beach followed by several years
at Long Beach State College. He
sang at his high scool assemblies
and turned semi-pro in high
school by entertaining at a local
coffee house. While in college, he
worked for a summer at
Disneyland’B Coke Corner, where
he donned a straw hat and a
striped blazer and sang folk
songs to the softly guzzling
crowds. “By this time,” he says,
“I was playing and singing so
much that I knew I was a career
man.”
FIRST TOUR
In 1962, he joined a USO tour
which ranged through the Far
East; the Phillipines, Japan,
First Come, First Served
German Block To Be Offered
The Department of Foreign
Languages has announced the
initial offering of a German Mock
for fall quarter. Students electing
this block of courses should
register for GER 101, 102, 103,
and receive 15 hours credit in that
language. For students who
demonstrate exceptional
proficiency, there is the
possibility of credit for 104.
The block is scheduled between
8:00 and 12:00 o’clock with time
allowed for coffee breaks and
DENNY BROOKS
festivities. Brooks received a standing ovation at
the end of his spring performance here.
Okinawa, Formosa, Korea,
Vietnam and Hawaii. He
returned for two more years of
college, where he shared voice
classes with Bobby Burgess
(who rose to become a dancer
with Lawrence Welk) and Bobby
Hatfield (soon to be a Righteous
Brother). “But I’d been working
pretty steadily since I was 16,” he
says, and it seemed inevitable
that the accumulated limelight
would singe his academic career.
It did in 1964, when he joined the
Back Porch Majority.
“It was really a fun act,” he
recalls. “There were seven of us
and it seemed like a three-ring
circus when we were on stage.”
Which was a lot during the next
three years, enough to shape and
polish his performing and
recording talents into shiny
originality. They played a lot of
college concerts, most of the
folkish night clubs, appeared on a
variety of television shows and
recorded four albums for Epic
Records. But it was also
wearying and somewhat stifling
to be a member of a tightly
managed group and as soon as
his contract was fulfilled he split.
ON HIS OWN
“When I came out, in 1967, I
just sat down and listened to
music for two years and played a
lot. I listened to Bach, because he
was there, and a lot of gospel.
Then I met Dan Moore and we
made an album.” Somewhere
along the line, Denny Brooks had
met Van Dyke Parks, who was
quite impressed with the singer
and was instrumental in bringing
his first solo album to the at
tention of Warner Bros. Records,
which signed him and released it
under the appealing title of
“Denny Brooks.”
“I’m a ballad singer. My
greatest tendency is to slow
laboratory work.
Since class size must be
restricted it is advisaMe that
interested students reserve a
registration card by applying at
the office of the Department of
Foreign Languages, Humanities
building room 154. Students will
be accepted there on a first come,
first served basis. Students who
decide to take the block after the
close of the summer quarter may
reserve cards by writing to the
chairman of the department.
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things down (as you can hear on
his magnificent version of Joni
Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now”).
The rock tracks on the album
scared me to death, but it was OK
because the songs were really
important.”
HIS ACT
Denny does not write songs
it least he hasn’t yet written any
for public consumption. He is
fortunate, though, in having a
bunch of friends who are con
summate composers. He repays
them by being a consummate
interpreter, an ability which
grows out of his feeling that he is
at heart an actor. “I haven’t done
any acting except for a little bit
in college —but I will when the
time comes,” he says. In the
meantime, his thespian urges
enliven his stage act. “I’m a
disciple of Lord Buckley,”
says Denny. “I do a lot of his stuff
on stage.” He also does a lot of
Denny Brooks, both in per
formance and on record. And a
lot of Denny Brooks is a good
thing, indeed.
Etowah
Mounds
Uncovered
Eleven West Georgians ac
companied by Dr. Lewis H.
Larson Jr., Assistant Professor
of Anthropology and three
students from out-of-state have
returned from the Etowah Indian
Mounds in Cartersville, where for
six weeks they were taking an
extention course in ar
chaeological field materials
offered by WGC this summer.
This course was designed to
show students how to dig and also
to acquaint them with various
equipment. Larson explained
that “It involves more than just a
shovel, and in fact, the digging is
not the most important aspect.”
The students also learned how
to judge the artifacts discovered
and to catalogue and sift them.
Hie artifacts collected include
pottery, charred food remains,
animal bones, shells and seeds.
All such findings become the
property of the Georgia
Historical Commission, once they
were analyzed and catalogued.
In addition to being an
assistant professor of an
thropology at WGC, Larson is
also a state archaeologist.