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WEST GEORGIAN
West Georgia College, Carrollton, Ga. 30117
Fifth Language
Festival Slated
BY JIMMY PRESMANES
About 300 high school students
are expected to attend West
Georgia’s fifth annual language
festival which will be held
Friday, April 25, in and around
the humanities building.
The festivities, sponsored by
the foreign language depart
ment, will begin at 9 a.m. with
an opening addfess by Dr.
Gerard Roubichou from New
Orleans, a French cultural
attache to the United States.
Following the opening ad
dress, the day’s activities will
include films, slides, arid
exhibits, all pertaining to this
year’s festival theme,
“Language for fun and profit,”
according to Jean-Jacques
Courtemanche, festival coor
dinator.
“ Some notable guests,” he
said,“are Dr. Jose Fernandez,
head of the language depart
ment at Valdosta State College,
who will speak about the 10,000
Club, and Emique Chia who will
perform popular Spanish music
on the piano.”
At 1 p m., there will be an
European style picnic outdoors,
weather permitting, during
which a live blue grass band
will play. This year’s festival
will be highlighted by the
Florida State University Dance
Touring Company. The dancers
will perform a ballet in which
the theme will be “non-verbal
communication,” according to
Courtemanche.
Soring Fling Starts Monday
See Page 2 For Details
Friday, April 18, 1975
A New Man In Sanford Hall
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DR. MAURICE TOWNSEND
Volume 41 No. 3 0
Finance Hearings Begin Monday
BY JANICE STILL
The question of how the student activites fund
will be distributed to campus organizations will
be determined during the next four weeks.
The finance committee, under the direction of
Ray McConnell, minister of finance and
chairman of the finance committee, will begin
hearings on Monday at 4:30 p.m. in conference
room 2 of the student center. At these hearings
(he committee will hear the organizations'
requests and question the individuals
representing the various campus organizations.
McConnell said,“The hearings are open and we
want to encourage all interested to come and
voice their opinions.”
Tuesday the first action was taken on the
budget requests as the four new members to the
committee met and were briefed on their
responsibilities and were handed budget
requests for their examination." The question of
who will receive the money they have asked for
is not easily decided. The committee has three
criteria it bases its decision upon,” said
McConnell.
They are: the desirability of the planned ac
tivities being sponsored by the organization,
how effective the organization has performed in
the past ; and whether or not the organization
really needs additional funds to accomplish its
goals.
Double Fault
Tennis Lights Will Stay Off
BY JULIE HOGAN
The tennis court lights will
remain turned off.
According to Kenneth Bat
chelor, director of fiscal affairs,
the “tremendous amount of
power” used by the lights
consumes too much electricity,
and contributes to the high cost
of utilities.
Batchelor said many of the
utility uses that were “not
necessary” were cut out, or at
least cut back, in an attempt to
conserve energy. Although he
There'll be anew man in Sanford Hall when
July 1 rolls around. Dr. Maurice Karlan
Townsend (pictured at left) will occupy the
president’s chair at West Georgia when Dr.
Ward Pafford returns to teaching at Valdosta
State College.
Appointed last week by the Board of Regents
after a seven month search by an advisory
committee here, Townsend will become the fifth
president of the college.
The 49 year old native of Yakima,Washington,
received his A. B. degree from Boston University
and his M.A. and PhD.from the University of
Chicago. All of the degrees were in political
science.
Dr. Townsend has been at Indiana State
University for the past six years with his mi st
recent position being that of vice president for
academic affairs.
Prior to his job at ISU, he was dean of the
college at Stanislaus State College in California
for two years and before that he held various
positions at Moorhead State College in Min
nesota.
Townsend has also held various ad
ministrative jobs including a position on the field
staff of the Public Service Administration in
Chicago.
Townsend is married to the former Lucille
Schoolcraft of Norfolk, Virginia. The couple has
four children, Leslie, 16, Leah, 13, Steven, 12, and
Bradley, 10.
Following the hearings, which will continue
through Friday, there will be a period of
deliberation. This will be followed by at least
two additional weeks of examination and planr
ning before the budget requests will be sub
mitted for final approval.
said he realizes that some
students would like to play
tennis at night, he said that he
feels that daylight savings time
gives students ample time to
play.
Robert Townley, director of
plant operations, said that the
students “abused” the use of
the lights. According to the
director, students would turn on
all the lights when only playing
on one or two courts.
Some students said, however,
that the college is wasting
NEW SPACES Effects of
the Student Government
Association (SGA) parking
proposal j which was presented
to the ad hoc committee of the
money by allowing the tennis
court lights to remain
unused. Greg Carter, a
sophomore accounting major,
said, “The money spent in
stalling the lights was more
than the money that would be
wasted by excess burning.”
The hall council of Roberts
Hall is also in favor of turning
the lights back on, and is con
sidering a proposal made by one
of the students to pay half of the
cost of the electricity used by
the lights.
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IML WARD PAFFORD
Dr. Ward Pafford will be
leaving the president’s office
this June, marking the end of
three years of service at West
Georgia College. Pafford was
named president of the college
in 1971 and will hold the position
through June 30, when he will
return to teaching at Valdosta
State College. Pafford an
nounced his intentions to leave
West Georgia in September,
1974.
general college matters com
mittee over two months ago,
were seen early this week when
87 faculty parking spaces were
turned over to students.
Parker Tired
Of Complaints
“I’m tired of hearing com
plaints about registration day,”
said Registrar Elizabeth
Parker. “Each student has the
opportunity to pre-register and
avoid the entire mess,” she
added.
In order to provide students
with more time to pre-register,
Miss Parker has implemented a
special pre-registration
program for those students who
will leave during the summer
and return next fall; “Between
Monday and Friday,
students will contact their
advisors in order to register for
summer or fall quarters,” said
Miss Parker. “The students will
then leave their completed
schedule request form with the
dean of the respective school or
in the registrar’s office,” added
Miss Parker.
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