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SUMMER 74
Dr. I/Nb Morelli assumed (he role of campus physician last sum
mer. He came here from Youngstown, Ohio. He has recently taken
steps to initiate new health services on campus.
Enrollment Figures
Changing With Times
Significant changes are oc
curring in enrollment patterns of
today’s high school graduates
planning to go to college, ac
cording to W. H. Smith, director
of admission.
"One of these changes,” Smith
said, "is in application habits of
incoming freshmen. More are
waiting until the summer before
entering college to make ap
plication rather than ac
complishing this six months
earlier.”
Smith told administrators in
planning meetings for the fall
quarter, “I believe 1974-75 will be
our last year for enrollment
figures to show a decline from the
previous year.”
Dr. Freeman
Retires; Plans
Life of Travel
Dr. Bernice Freeman,
professor of education, retired
from teaching at the end of this
past summer quarter. A faculty
member for seven years, Dr.
Freeman was serving in a
teaching and administrative
capacity at the time of her
retirement.
Prior to serving at West
Georgia, Dr. Freeman was in
structional supervisor for 16
years in Troup county. She was
also teacher and principal at
what is now Georgia State
College.
Dr. Freeman is a graduate of
Tift College and received her M.
A. from the University of North
Carolina. She received her
doctorate in education from
Columbia University.
According to Dr. Thomas Sill,
dean of the school of education.
Dr. Freeman was a "great asset”
to West Georgia College. "Dr.
Freeman has a tremendous
background in both secondary
and college level education,” he
said. "We hope to greatly benefit
from some of her worldwide
contacts in the field of
education.”
Dr. Freeman was reported to
have retired mainly in order to
travel and is making plans to
visit New York and the New
England states. She is also
hoping to make several foreign
excursions in the near future.
She was recently entertained at
a party given for her by Dr. Pearl
Nix and Mr. and Mrs. Collus
Johnson prior to returning to her
home in LaGrange.
Smith added that applications
from new students for this school
year actually increased slightly
over last year. However, the
college’s largest class graduated
in June and there will be fewer
returning students this fall.
According to Dr. Ben Griffith,
dean of the graduate school,
graduate enrollment is in
creasing greatly on the
Carrollton campus with 358 more
spring quarter graduates and 341
more summer students than in
those quarters the previous year.
Another growing area includes
off-campus course offerings
which are taught throughout
northwest Georgia. Dr. Steve
McCutcheon, director of public
services, reported that 931
students enrolled in off-campus
credit courses this spring com
pared to 550 in spring 1973.
Dr. John Martin, vice president
and dean of faculties, said that
volumes in the library have now
exceeded 180,000 and should
increase to over 200,000 this year.
He added that percentage of
faculty members holding the
highest degree increased from
52.6 percent in 1972-73 to 55
percent in 1973-74, and that
students named to the Dean’s
List for acdemic excellence in
creased 10 percent over the
previous year.
Director of financial aid, Paul
Smith, indicated that more
students are seeking financial aid
and that approximately $1.25
million will be issued in direct
help to students this year through
various programs.
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protest the resignation, or delight
in it.
‘The students, by and large,
were well mannered and decent.
They also respect the office. I
have had friendly relations with
them,” said Dr. Pafford.
In explanation of the decision to
resign, president Pafford com
mented on his future plans He
said he is tired, and he does not
want to let things go too long
without teaching again, and
getting back to his studies
"In some ways you might say I
am making a full circle, from
professor back to professor,”
said the 62-year-old president.
A professor of English who has
taught at Mountrie High School,
Emory Junior College, and
Emory University, Dr. Pafford
said that now he thinks his
greatest contribution to the
education of young people would
be in the academic realm instead
of the administrative.
At the end of the academic year
President Pafford plans to return
to his home in Valdosta, and
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Blazes came from the biology
chemistry building, but the fire
damage from a leaf press
machine on the second floor was
minor compared to the extensive
damage done by the water
sprinkler system which was
activated by the heat. Dr.
Edward Gilbert, chairman of the
biology department estimated
the damage costs at $3,000.
The issue of outdoor concerts
again moved to the front burner
when Mark Veljkov, a senior
psychology major from Roswell
proposed a radio show for
campus station WWGC con
cerning the controversy.
A different type of show was in
the making at that time, for the
summer theatre workshop was
putting “Witness for the
Prosecution’’ together. The
Agatha Christie suspense thriller
ran the first week of August.
And as WGC students were
going to school, another type of
school was going on on campus.
West Georgia students from the
education department tutored' 63
children in grades one through 11
during the summer months in
Downs Hall.
While the college careers of 485
students were coming to an end,
so did the utilization of the old
administration building.
Pafford
teach at Valdosta State
University where he served as
vice president and dean of
faculties prior to his move to
West Georgia
“I don’t want people at West
Georgia to feel that I’ll be
thinking about Valdosta this
year The presidency is still my
job, and I am interested in it and I
hope people will understand
this,” he added quickly.
Dr. Pafford said he considers
his greatest contribution to West
Georgia his decision to
reorganize when he arrived here
in August of 1971.
"The college is in much better
shape, but it was just time for the
college to shape itself up and
assume the structure power for
an institution this size,” said Dr.
Pafford
When asked why he resigned a
full academic year ahead of the
time he is planning to leave, Dr.
Pafford said he wanted this to be
a steady year, and he wanted to
give the students, faculty, and
Board of Regents time to
“proceed deliberately and
systematically under Chancellor
Simpson’s direction in the
selection of anew president.”
Dr. Pafford described the job of
Summer’74
In late July, the 67-year-old
landmark was removed to be
replaced by a small park. The
weathered and timeworn
building was one of the two
original structures of the Fourth
District A&M School, the
beginning of West Georgia
College.
While the old administration
building was falling at the hands
of the demolition crew, the hands
of Bruce Borton, fine arts in
structor and director of the West
Georgia Singers, were directing
30 trained voices to sing. Borton
and the singers were preparing
for their three week concert tour
to Poland.
And so summer quarter 1974
came to an end. Finals over and
elections on student’s minds, they
headed home. Most were plan
ning to return in six weeks to
begin, today, anew year at West
Georgia College, home of the
Braves.
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president as one of “a lonely waif
watching the academic storm,’’
and reviewed some of the
problems faced by a college
president.
“The administration gets
clobbered all the time, on any
issue Take public safety for
example. I hear that the police
are too stiff, and then I hear that
they are not firm enough,” said
Dr Pafford.
But, to the man who has served
as president at West Georgia
College for the last three years,
and who has taught countless
scores of students what he con
siders the most important phase
of education that of morals
teaching again will make him a
very contented man for the next
four years.
Dr. Pafford said he remembers
the deep satisfaction he got from
talking to students as a professor,
and seeing a freshman make his
first breakthrough. “And this.’’
he said, "I want to know again.”
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