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VOL. 46 - NUMBER 4
A&M Reunion
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It was time for lots of catching up at the Annual A&M reunion
hosted on campus Sunday. Alba Kelley Cotton (left) class of 1912,
and Iva Spence Hendrix who was a student from 1909-11 were
among the 100 A&Mers attending. The Class of ’29 celebrated their
50th reunion Saturday night also.
Classes Resume
Sept. 19 for Fall
Classes in West Georgia
College’s fall quarter term will
begin. Sept. 19. Registration
will be on Sept. 18. for those who
didn’t pre-register during the
last two quarters.
More than 625 new freshmen
and transfer students went
through orientation programs
during one of three sessions this
summer and approximately 400
others are expected to attend
fall orientation beginning with a
general session at 6:30 p.m. on
Sunday, Sept. 16, in the
Education Center. Some will
take placement tests beginning
at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
New students will attend
meetings and be tested in
several areas on Sept. 16-17 and
will register for their fall
classes between 10 a.m. and 7
p.m. on Sept. 18 in the
Education Center.
Late registration will be
conducted from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
on Sept. 19-21. according to Dr.
Gordon Finnie, registrar.
According to Dr. Ed Blue,
director of evening studies, 180
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GA 30118
courses for undergraduate and
graduate students will be of
fered fall quarter at hours
beginning at 4:20 p.m. Most of
these meet twice weekly for
approximately 2Vfe hours.
Persons can earn associate
(two-year), baccalaureate, and
graduate degrees by attending
classes during evening hours,
Blue said. “We can expect that
nearly half our student body
this fall will enroll in evening
classes.”
Blue added, “The evening
studies office is striving to
make available the same
quality programs and services
to all students regardless of
when or where they take West
Georgia classes.”
The college leaching faculty
will number approximately 235
with 24-30 of those at West
Georgia for the first time.
“Approximately 68 per cent of
the faculty hold the doctoral
degree in their fieid,” ac
cording to Dr. John T. Lewis,
vice president and dean of
faculties
New Library Wing Named
For President Emeritus
Following Faculty Senate
action last week, the Board of
Regents will consider waiving a
University System policy
requiring that buildings be
named for deceased persons
only.
In a move to honor Dr. Irvine
S. Ingram, president of West
Georgia College and its
predecessor, the Fifth District
A and M school for 41 years, the
faculty body voted 15-1 in favor
of a proposal to name the
college library after him at a
dedication next March.
The proposal read as follows:
“The new library building
should be named for Dr. Irvine
S. Ingram, President Emeritus
of West Georgia College. An
appropriate ceremony should
be held when the building is
finished to name and dedicate
the building. The committee
also recommends emeritus
status should be sought for Miss
Ann Weaver, that that status be
announced at the library
dedication, and that a portrait
of Miss Weaver hang in the new
library, an appropriate book
collection be named for her, and
a special fund be set aside to
maintain that collection.”
Ingram Has Seen 41 Years of Change
Dr. Irvine S. Ingram,
President Emeritus of West
Georgia College, led West
Georgia and its predecessor
institution, the Fourth District
A&M School, through 41 years
of major growth and change.
Bom November 11, 1892, in
Tunnell Hill, Georgia, Dr.
Ingram began his four decades
of service in Carrollton as
principal of the Fourth District
Agricultural and Mechanical
School. He served in this
capacity from 1920 until 1933,
when the school became West
Georgia College, a junior
college unit in the University
System of Georgia.
He then presided over the
GSU Head
to Address Grads
Dr. Noab Langdale, Jr., president of Georgia State University,
will be speaker at West Georgia College’s summer commencement
exercises on Sunday, Aug. 19, at 9 a.m. in the HPE building.
Langdale was reared in Valdosta. He received the A.B. and L.L.D.
degrees from the University of Alabama where he was a star
football player and was named the outstanding student of the class
of 1941. He later received the L.L.D. and M.B.A. degrees from
Harvard. He has been president of Georgia State since 1957 and has
seen it grow to a student body of approximately 21,000 with 44
degree programs. Dr. Maurice Townsend, West Georgia president,
will award diplomas to approximately 375 for completion of
graduate, baccalaureate, or associate (two-year) degree
programs.
The dissenting vote was cast
by Susan Smith, a campus
librarian. Smith read a
statement to the faculty senate
saying, “...While we have equal
admiration for Dr. Ingram and
for Miss Weaver, we believe
that the library is the only
building which could ap
propriately be named for her,
whereas several significant
structures could be designated
to honor Dr. Ingram.”
Ms. Weaver served as the
college’s librarian for 37 years
and retired in 1970.
President Townsend coun
tered Smith’s statement
saying:
“In all the time I’ve been
conscious of how colleges and
universities develop, I’ve never
run into an institution which has
had its chief executive as
closely identified with it as Dr.
Ingram has been to this in
stitution.
“Few people, from what I’ve
read of or met have a record of
accomplishment commensu
rate with that of Dr. Ingram’s.
He added that he felt that
since Dr. Ingram had played
such a central role in the
college’s history, then it was
development of West Georgia
College into a senior college in
1957.
An alumnus of Emory
University and the University
of Georgia, Dr. Ingram retired
from the presidency June 30,
1960. At that time, by action of
the University System Board of
Regents, he became President
Emeritus.
Dr. Ingram returned to serve
as president in March, 1961,
when his successor, Dr. William
H. Row, died. He served in that
capacity until Dr. James E.
Boyd became president six
months later.
Between his retirement and
his return to office in 1961, Dr.
FRIDAY. AUGUST 10, 1979
appropriate that the most
central and imposing building
on campus should be named
after him.”
Nobody knows how the Board
of Regents will respond to the
waive request for Dr. Ingram.
Last year, the board broke
years of precedence by naming
the new pharmacy school at the
University of Georgia after its
91-year-old former dean. No
similar action has been taken
since.
While most of the board
members questioned recently
had not heard about the waiver
request, local regent Lamar
Plunkett, expressed his support
for the rpove
“I am in favor of it and will
ask my colleagues to carefully
and positively consider it,” he
said.
President Townsend said at
presstime that he had “no
idea” how the Board of Regents
will respond to the proposal, but
added that the board probably
will consider it at either of its
September or October business
meetings.
Ingram was awarded a grant by
the Fund for the Advancement
of Education for an around-the
world trip. He traveled to 22
countries in the 30,000 mile trip
which lasted 119 days.
Dr. Ingram attained national
and international prominence
as an educational pioneer and
consultant. He was in
strumental in obtaining a
Rosenwald fund grant for
$250,000 which facilitated the
early development of West
Georgia.
After studying the needs of
the western area of the state, he
initiated the teacher education
program at West Georgia
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