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students streaming onto the campus continues to
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WESTGEORGIAX
Second Front
WGC Singers
Choir Finds Poland Exciting
BY IMVII) WILLINGHAM
What comes to mind when you
think of Poland? Vodka? Poor
jokes? The West Georgia College
Singers who recently made a
concert tour of that European
country see it differently from
the average American. Tour
members saw it was an ancient
land, home of Copernicus and
the place where Chopin left his
preserved heart. They see it as a
country where their singing was
warmly received and ap
preciated.
Some 30 West Georgia students
and faculty left Hartsfield In
ternational Airport in Altanta
last Aug. 8 bound for the com
munist bloc country of Poland.
After making connections with a
Czechoslovakian charter airline
in New York, they flew directly to
Warsaw to begin a 22-day singing
and good will tour of thecountry.
After changing their American
money for Polish zlotys and
grozys in Warsaw, the singers,
under the direction of fine arts
instructor Bruce Borton, boarded
a bus and began their travels in
Poland. The West Georgia
students traveled with two other
American musical groups, a high
school choir from New York, and
a West Virginia jazz ensemble. In
all. the West Georgia singers
Summer Enrollment Up
Summer quarter enrollment figures at West Georgia College
reflected an eight percent increase over the summer 1973 quarter
w ith 3,318 students enrolled compared to 3.079 last year.
For the first time, graduate students were in the majority at West
Georgia with 1,749 pursuing advanced degrees. This increased
from 1.408 last summer.
A breakdown of enrollment in other categories shows there were
231 freshmen, 281 sophomores, 339 juniors, 5% seniors, 36 tran
sients. and 86 auditors and unclassified students.
There were 715 single men, 1,031 single women, 998 married
women and 574 married men enrolled.
Counties with more than 100 students at West Georgia included:
Carroll 591, Cobb 269, Fulton, 268, Coweta 201, DeKalb 173, Floyd
170, Douglas 126, Haralson 125. Polk 122, Walker 113.
STUDENTGALLERY
roofs on school structures, seems a little awed by
the number of students at West Georgia. Photo
taken by staff photographer Fred Ledbetter.
gave more than 15 formal, in
formal, and impromptu per
formances.
Staying in international student
hotels along the way, the group
visited many of Poland’s major
cities. They spent eight days in
Krakow where they gave a
number of performances and
took several excursions into the
surrounding country. One singer
remembers that the group was
almost mobbed by an ap
preciative audience at a concert
they gave near Zakopane, 50
miles from Krakow.
After a short stay in Katowice,
the singers moved on to Gdansk,
located where the Vistula river
meets the Baltic Sea. Squeezing
sight-seeing tours in between
concert engagements, group
members were able to see a great
deal of this city. They say it still
bears the scars of World War II
bombings.
In Torun, the singers gave their
last concert of the tour. Traveling
to Warsaw, they spent two final
days of the trip in the Polish
capitol. According to a group
member, one of the highlights of
Warsaw was seeing the em
balmed heart of composer Chopin
at a cathedral there. After a final
luncheon, the West Georgia
group boarded an airplane for
New York and arrived in Atlanta
Aug. 30 after completing what
was termed a “very successful”
tour.
Marvin Joins WGC Library Staff
NANCY BADERTSCHER
The library has obtained anew
machine which employees hope
will help eliminate the theft of
many of the college’s books,
according to Mr. William Foley,
assistant librarian.
The device, purchased at an
undisclosed amount, can tell if a
student has had his books
checked out at the front desk,
where they go through a process
called desensitizing.
According to Foley, a
relatively simple formula is
involved in the function of this
machine manufactured by the 3M
FLAG POLES
These West Georgia College Singers take time out from a busy
schedule to do a little sight-seeing while on a recent good-will tour to
Poland. The group visited many major cities in that country- and gave
over 15 performances while there.
Pres. Emeritu ° Ingram
Featured In ETU Film
From a tangle of camera
equipment and a myriad of in
terviews, a film about the life of
Dr. Irvine S. Ingram, president
emeritus of West Georgia
College, will emerge sometime in
October.
A film crew from the Georgia
Educational Television Network,
in cooperation with the Continu
ing Education Center at the
University of Georgia, was on the
campus at West Georgia on and
off for two months during the
summer filming and gathering
information for the 30-minute
16mm film.
Dr Ingram, chosen to be one of
eight in a series of films
scheduled to be shown during the
Georgia bicentennial, was
selected because of his con
tributions to the educational
development of the state, ac-
Juniors To Take
Regents Test
The Regents Test for Rising
Juniors, which was previously
offered during registration week,
will be given again on Oct. 3 and
4. Notices will be mailed during
the last two weeks of September
to those who should prepare to
take the test.
Testing times will be 2:30 p.m.
on Thursday, Oct. 3, and 10:30
p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4. The test
will be given in the Social Science
Lecture Hall on both days.
Students who failed to take the
test last quarter and have had
their registration flagged for fall
quarter will be permitted to
complete registration and begin
fall quarter classes and then take
the test in October.
Students who have taken the
test and failed will also be
allowed to take the exam in
October.
Student I.D. cards will be
required.
Company. Every book and
magazine in the library has now
been sensitized. If a student has
his books properly checked out
nothing will happen as he passes
through Marvin's gates,
nicknamed this by staff mem
bers. However, if a student has
not had his articles desensitized,
an alarm will sound and he will
find himself locked within
Marvin’s gates.
Foley stated that the proposal
to buy Marvin, who was pur
chased in mid-August, was made
jointly by him and Mr. Robert
Simmons, librarian.
cording to Dr. Steve McCutcheon.
West Georgia’s director of public
services.
Chuck Bowen, director
producer of the film, visited the
West Georgia Campus four times
filming interviews with Dr.
Ingram as he takes walks around
campus, and reminisces about
the times when he was president
of the Fourth District A&M
School.
The Ingram story will .go
through the 1 ife of the man who
served as president of three state
institutions, the Fourth District
A&M School, West Georgia
College as a junior college, and
then West Georgia as a senior
college branch of the University
System of Georgia, according to
Dr. McCutcheon.
Bowen, with the aid of Rick
Dunn and Mike Marantz, his
assistants, have also filmed
friends of Dr. Ingram's. They
have traveled to Milledgeville to
interview Dr. J. C Bonner, friend
and faculty member of Dr.
Ingram’s when Dr. Ingram was
president of the A&M School.
Also included in the film are
Dr. Steve Worthy, Carrollton
physician, Miss Annie Belle
Weaver, who was librarian for
the A&M School during Dr.
Ingram’s presidency, and
Norman Cousins, recipient of the
Delbert Clark award for out
standing leadership in the field of
adult education, and editor of
Saturday Review World
Magazine.
According to Bowen, the film
will include scenes of Carrollton,
the Ingram residency, still shots
of photographs of the college in
its early years, and scenes
depicting the growth of the
modern facility, which now
enrolls over 5,000 students and is
noted for its School of Educaton
which Dr. Ingram pioneered.
The reason for purchasing the
apparatus, according to staff
members, is to “protect the
students against the rare cad who
would slink out of the library with
that book or magazine someone
so urgently needs for a term
paper.”
Machines like Marvin are now
being used in colleges around the
state. Georgia Tech, the
University of Georgia, Floyd and
Kennesaw junior colleges are
also empoying these to combat
book theft.
Kolisch Coming
Here Tuesday
John Kolisch, the nationally
known hypnotist, will try to
captivate the students Tuesday in
the social science lecture hall.
The performance will last from 9
p.m. until 11 p.m.
Kolisch s show will consist of
such feats as mind reading. ESP.
and hypnotism.
Kolisch has appeared
throughout the nation in several
night clubs. He has also appeared
on several nationally televised
programs such as the Merv
Griffin Show, and The Tonight
Show.
According to his press release,
Kolisch will not only “amaze and
fascinate the audience but will
even show them fantastic powers
of their own that they never
before imagined in their wildest
dreams! ”
Kolisch also promises that he
can show individuals how to
hypnotize themselves so that they
can have greater control over
their mind, body, and destiny.”