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‘Disaster’
Tekes Are ‘Victims'ln Drill
Members of Tau Kappa
Epsilon fraternity (TKE)
participated with personnel
from Tanner Memorial Hospital
and the city police department
in a practice disaster drill last
week for the Metro Ambulance
Service.
According to Bob Foley, TKK
spokesman, the fraternity
members were asked to par
ticipate in the drill as “victims”
by officials of Tanner’s Hospital
Disaster Committee.
The drill, which was the first
Rogers To Speak
At Humanistic Confab
BY JULIE IIOGAN
Dr. Carl Rogers, award
winning psychologist and
educator, will be the featured
speaker at the Second National
Conference on Humanistic
Kducation to be held at West
Georgia College on April 25-26.
It’s theme will be “Humanizing
Education: Today and
Tomorrow.”
About 1,000 educators are
expected to attend the con
ference.
Dr. Rogers was named
“Humanist of the Year" by the
American Humanist
Association in 1964, and is
currently a resident fellow at
the Western Behavioral of
Humanistic Psychology.
The sessions will feature
experiential workshops
designed to aid educators in
forming their own approaches
to education, according to Dr.
Verl Short, chairman of early
childhood education, and one of
the coordinators of the con
ference
Eight workshops are slated,
they are: “Humanizing the
Classroom Social Environ
ment,” “The Power of
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Peer Baekaard, president of the Inter-
Fraternity Council (IFC) hands Gerald Johnson,
1975 Red Cross fund chairman, a check for S2OO.
The IFC recently raised the money at a party
in a series to be conducted twice
a year, was initiated as a
preparation drill following the
recent tornado disasters in the
area, according to Bill Brown,
manager of the Carroll County
Metro.
Within five minutes of
receiving the call during the
drill, four ambulances arrived
at the fraternity house located
on Bowen Street. A team of 13
paramedics went to work giving
emergency treatment to the
Feelings,” “The Child and His
Environment,” “Assessment in
Education,” "Creating Open
Style Curriculam” “Education
As Personal Growth,’’ “Per
sonal Relationships in
Kducation,” and “Parapro
fessionals Are People Too.”
Heading those sessions will be
Paul Phillips, assistant
professor of psychology; Dr.
David Ryback, assistant
professor of psychology; Dr.
Ronald Roland, assistant
professor of instructional
development; Mildred Moore,
associate professor of foreign
languages; Dr. Homer Coker,
director of competency based
teacher certification project;
Dr. Ellen Gruber, assistant
professor of teacher education;
Dr. Harry Dennis, associate
professor of early childhood
education; Paula Smith, in
structor of early childhood
education; Nancy Boxill, in
structor of psychology; and
Michelle Stewart, instructor of
early childhood education.
The pre-registration fee is $5
for West Georgia students and
faculty and sl2 for others. Those
registering at the conference
will pay sls. Make all checks
payable to Humanistic
Education Conference.
IFC Raises Funds
held last Thursday night. Shown with Baekaard,
who is a junior marketing major from Chicago,
is Mark Dye, vice president of the IFC and a
junior marketing major from Atlanta.
“victims”, treating their in
juries. “After only 28 minutes,
all the victims were under
hospital care at an outside
emergency area at Tanner
Memorial,” said Foley.
“The drill was the first public
service project of the quarter
for the TKEs,” according to
Foley, who said, the fraternity
is “concerned with the Carroll
community as well as campus
activities.” He added, “The
fraternity members felt that the
whole project was a success and
they all enjoyed participating in
the drill.”
VVKSTGEORGIAN
Second Front
Wonderful WGC‘Super Weekend ’
Scheduled To Begin Today
A “super weekend" will be
held this weekend (April 4-6)
providing activities for campus
residents. Activities will include
athletic competition, a talent
show, dance, and movie.
The weekend activities will
begin with an intramural
volleyball game beginning at 8
p.m. in the HPE building. The
competition will include both
men and women players and
prizes will be awarded to the
best team. The competition will
last until 12 a.m.
The scheduling of activities
planned for Saturday is as
follows: 12 p.m.—races in Love
Valley; 12:15 p.m.—an egg
throwing contest with cash
awards given; 12:45 - 1 p.m
sack and three-legged races;
1:15 p.m —a bicycle race down
Brum below Drive; 1:45 p.m
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Dr. T.M. Martin checks a patient in the hall before sending him to
the appropriate part of the hospital. Tags such as the one this
patient is wearing described the "injuries!’
tug of war games across the
duck pond; 2:30 p.m.— a
greased pole contest. (First
contestant to climb the pole
successfully will receive the S2O
cash award placed on the top of
the pole.)
Competition will be
rescheduled by the individual
dormitory presidents.
Residents interested in par
ticipating in the games should
sign up in the lobby of their
dormitory.
Saturday evening at 8 p.m. a
talent show will be held in the
cozy corner. Participants in the
show will be residents from the
dormitories. Prizes will be
Freshman Debaters Get
National Tourney Bid
The West Georgia College
debate team has qualified a
second team to compete for the
national championship which
will be held at the University of
the Pacific, Stockton. Calif.,
April 18-21.
David Tatum, a freshman
from Warner Robins, and
Lamar Garren, a junior from
Calhoun, qualified by winning
the District VI tournament
which was held at Emory
University on March 21-23.
West Georgia’s top team,
Jean-Pierre Sakey and George
Knapp, received an automatic
bid to the nationals two weeks
ago when they were selected as
one of the nation’s top 16 teams.
District tournaments were
held throughout the nation to
select the final slate of teams to
compete for the national title.
The West Georgia duo was
competing against teams from
11 southern states, and their
final record of seven wins and
one loss was the best in the
awarded to the top three acts.
First prize will be 30 silver
dollars, second place award 25
silver dollars, and third place
award 15 silver dollars.
Following the talent show,
there will be a dance in the cozy
corner at 10:30 p.m. with a band
provided.
For the final event of the
“super weekend,” a movie,
“Butch Cassidy and the Sun
dance Kid” will be shown at
2:30 p.m. in the social science
lecture hall.
Any questions pertaining to
the weekend activities should be
directed to the resident advisor
or hall director of the dor
mitories.
tournament.
In addition to the team award,
Garren was named the out
standing individual debater in
the tournament. Debate coach
Chester Gibson said, “Lamar
deserves this recognition
because he is a very dedicated
and responsible debater and
student."
Interviews Set
For Next week
According to Paul Smith,
director of financial aid and
placement, there will be several
businesses on campus next
week interviewing students for
job openings.
The Commercial Union
Insurance Company of Atlanta
will be on campus April 8.
Representatives from the
Calhoun High School are
scheduled to be on campus April
9, looking for persons with T-4
or T-5 certification.
For further information call
the Placement Office, ext. 265.