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West Georgia Artist Put ...
Pooh Bear In The Hospital
BY CAREY SMITH
Pooh Bear is in the hospital.
If you know fans of the honey-snitchin’ character tell them not to
get worried though.
Pooh, along with a fat purple hippo, a herd of pink elephants, a
ball-bouncing seal, and a flower-sniffin’ skunk, are permanent
members of the children s ward at Tanner Memorial Hospital in
Carrollton They are painted on the walls, almost as big as life, and
are twice as colorful.
Pooh and his pals were admitted to the children s ward by three
West Georgia art students who say they “really got into the idea of
cheering the place up ”
Chris Shockley, a senior from Griffin, Mary Beth Vansant
Rhodes, a senior from Villa Rica, and Marcia Bonner, a Marietta
senior, volunteered to reform the hospital’s “institution green"
hallway into a psychedelic zoo, full of children-amusing animals.
And according to Mildred Williams, a licensed practical nurse
who cares for the sick children, the efforts of those three
imaginative art students have the ward a different place.
“Those animals really make a difference. The kids don’t mind
being here as much as they used to, and they are not nearly as
frightened." she said
Living proof of Mrs. Williams’ claim is a four-year old with “a
sick tummy."
Robin Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Troy Wood of Carrollton,
bounces up and down the halls in trapdoor pajamas, shrieking
laughter and trying to coax Pooh off the wall.
“I like those funny aminals’ a bunch,’’ said the bright-eyed
blond.
He sits on a service cart in the hall and stares at Chris as she puts
the finishing touches on a two-foot butterfly.
Then, Robin bounces down the hall to watch Marcia fill in the
grass the elephants will munch on forever.
Marcia said she has devoted about five hours of her time each
week to this project because of her “love of children.” Robin seems
to understand.
Mary Beth, standing on a stool with a paintbrush in her mouth,
glances down the hall to check on the work of her two artistic ac
complices.
Put in charge of the project by art instructor Don Cooper, Mary
Beth has been “keeping track of things. ’ ’
The acrylic paint was donated by the hospital. The time and
effort that went into the multi-colored mural zoo was donated by
the three art students with paint under their fingernails and on
their noses.
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Leaning against a purple hippo, Robin Wood
watches as West Georgia College seniors Mary
Beth Vansant Rhodes, Villa Rica; Marcia
Study cade ’75
Trip Offers Credit , Travel
Jack Kerouac’s beat
generation went “on the road.’
Later, followers of Simon and
Garfunkel hopped a bus to “look
for America.” But what’s in a
name? The Department of
Continuing Education at West
Georgia College has been doing
it since Simon and Garfunkel’s
view of America was over the
rail of a baby buggy. Doing
exactly what?
Taking people where the
action is... or, in this beginning
of the Bicentennial program,
where the action began.
Called simply “Studycades,”
the idea of group travel for
education and on-the -spot
experience began back in the
1950’5. The West Georgia adult
education department program
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Bonner, Marietta; and Chris Shockley, Griffin,
paint the grass for the hippo to stand on.
became a model for the rest of
the country with its then unique
idea of education on the go.
Since that time colleges and
universities have corralled
students on wheels, rails, and
even floating classrooms, but
the Continuing Education
concept still remains unique,
because it’s for everybody. It’s
equally open to students either
graduate or undergraduate
level, or the senior citizen. It’s
available for college credit
hours, or “CEU’”s, which while
not adding to transcript hours,
do go on the applicants’s
record.
Whether it’s a way of gaining
five less-painful hours in
college literature, or a great
way to grab an economical
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vacation, in these days group
travel may become the only
way to go.
The West Georgia Continuing
Education Department has
arranged financial assistance
for those who may require it.
Where is “Studycade 75”
going? The ten-day study tour
will depart Carrollton, June 12,
and travel by motor coach
transportation to New England,
climaxed by a five day visit in
the Boston area, including
Lexington and Concord, Salem,
Plymouth, and of course
Cambridge, the locale of
Harvard and Radcliffe.
Hawthorne, Emerson and
Thoreau’s homes, as well as
Walden Pond are on the
itinerary.
A highlight of the tour is the
famous and very beautiful
Sleepy hollow Cemetery where
such notables as the Alcotts,
Emerson, Hawthorne and
Thoreau are buried.
Another “not to be missed”
stop on the ’75 Studycade will be
Washington, D.C. In addition to
a tour of all the famous shrines,
there will be special visits to
Ford’s Theatre and the White
House, as well as extended
trips to area museums and
federal buildings.
To find out how you can
become involved in “Studycade
75”, a joint effort of the West
Georgia College English
Department and the Depart
ment of Continuing Education,
call 834-1360 for further in
formation .
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