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Welcome Freshmen!
B EST GEORGIAN
Volume XXXVIV No. 7
Orientation Begins
For 1400 Freshman
Over 1.400 new freshmen and transfer students arrive on campus
today to begin a three-day orientation period prior to registering for
classes and embarking on their West Georgia college careers. They
come from all parts of Georgia, several other parts of this country,
and some foreign countries.
Orientation
Recreation
Set Tonight
The gym will be open from 6 to
9 p.m. tonight (Sunday) and a
variety of activities will be
available. All new students are
invited to take advantage of this
opportunity to sample the
recreational side of college life
and become better acquainted
with their classmates
A lifeguard will be on duty at
the indoor swimming pool and
facilities will be provided for
volleyball, badminton, archery,
and basketball. The weight room
will be open also.
A demonstration of skills and
techniques will be presented by
the Judo Club of West Georgia.
Ann Arnis, who coordinated the
planning of the recreational
activities for the orientation
sessions, urges “one and all” to
come and participate. “Even if
you do not swim or desire to
become involved in one of the
other activities,” she adds, “you
can watch your fellow freshmen
play around.”
Denny Brooks To Perform Tuesday In Outdoor Concert
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
cm September 19. His concert is
scheduled to be held in “Love
Valley” beside the student
center. He will be preceded by
“Peach”, a local rock group
formerly know as “The Sewer
System”.
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
To greet the incoming students.
Dean Georgia Martin, associate
dean of student affairs, has
assembled over 130 student
leaders who have volunteered to
serve as orientation leaders.
They will seek to answer
questions, talk about their ex
periences, and generally make
the new students feel at home as
they come to college.
During the orientation period,
which extends from this af
ternoon until Tuesday morning,
the new students will be sub
jected to speeches, tests,
discussion-groups, movies,
recreation, and most of the other
regular facets of campus life
with the possible exception of
parties. When they complete
their three-day marathon, they
should be readily adaptable to the
life around here.
This particular freshman class
will be the most orientated class
in the history of this college.
Besides the three-day period
which they are now beginning,
some of the students who are now
arriving also participated in the
new student day which was held
last spring quarter and coor
dinated by the student govern
ment association, and also ac
companied their parents to the
freshman parents day held this
summer.
Georgia. He believes that music
cannot be the whole show. He
concentrates on a good rapport
with his audiences. He ad-libs
and decides the songs to sing by
DENNY BROOKS
West Georgia College, Carrollton, Ga. 30117
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Project S-19, the largest and newest dormitory
on campus, opens this week to house over four
hundred new and returning students. It is ac
tually three buildings connected by covered
walkways. Bob Townley, director of plant
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Beginning this quarter, the
break between classes has been
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
audience reaction. His act also
includes comedy sketches,
especially those of Lord Buckley.
Denny Brooks was born in Long
Beach, California. His schooling
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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:
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9:45 Daily; 10:00 —10:50 Daily;
11:05- 11:55 Daily; 12:10—1:00
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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 school assem
blies and turned semi-pro in high
school by entertaining at a local
coffee house. While in college, he
worked for a summer at
Disneyland’s 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 Philippines, Japan,
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
SEPTEMBER 18, 1972
operations, calls it “a beautiful building.” The
only problem is that there are no parking lots
anywhere near the building and there is no direct
route from it to the main part of campus. Oh.
well, that’s the way the new building was built.
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From 4:20 6:15 (M,W orT,
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Of course, the mooming
freshmen won’t notice the dif
ference. But, the new schedule
does give a person five extra
minutes to waste before making
their last-minute, mad-dog rush
to class.
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.