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Thelma Turner.
“I’m very happy because
1906 really is the beginning of
this institution,” she stated. “My
mother, father, and grandmother
attended the groundbreaking cer
emony for the A&M School, and
everyone was just so thrilled to
have the opportunity for more
education.”
At that time, according to
Turner, the Tallapoosa
Community School went through
the seventh grade, and then
county children had to pay
tuition to attend either Carrollton
or Bowdon schools.
“The A&M School provided
high school for all us county
folks,” Turner explained. “I
walked to the A&M School for
four years and I don’t regret a
minute of it!”
Sethna pointed out a second
benefit of the change.
“This will enable us to cele
brate the centennial year of our
founding within the professional
lifetimes of our current faculty,
staff, and leaders of our alumni
and community constituencies,”
he noted.
Doyle Akins, president of
the West Georgia Alumni
Association, anticipates that
celebration.
“I am quite pleased that
UWG's true founding date is
now established and we can
look forward to celebrating our
centennial in 2006. I am sure all
alumni appreciate Dr. Sethna's
work to get this change
approved,” Akins said.
Jackson Hill, chair of the
UWG Foundation, agrees.
“The historical accuracy and
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importance of this change is
quite obvious as it gives our uni
versity an opportunity to begin
thinking and planning for our
100th birthday”, he said. “As
chairman of the Foundation, we
will soon begin studying the fea
sibility of a capital campaign to
coincide with our now correctly
recorded founding date.”
A third implication of the
change is in regard to seniority
and “reverence,’’according to
Sethna.
“National lists of universi
ties and colleges give seniority to
those institutions with earlier
founding dates, the implication
being that the more senior ones
in official listings have more rev
erence attached to them,” Sethna
explained. “While the relative
change in seniority within the
USG will be modest, we would
move up in national lists by 27
years.”
This is important to Shannon
Clark, president of the Student
Government Association.
“1 am looking forward to
the celebrations in 2006 due to
the change in our founding date.
1 believe that these celebrations
will be beneficial to the universi
ty because it will enhance the
historical acknowledgement of
West Georgia,” she said.
Sethna ipvites the university
and local communities to cele
brate this exciting change.
“Please join me in celebrat
ing this affirmation,” he said.
“Rarely does one celebrate grow
ing older by 27 years in one fell
swoop, but this is an exception!
UWG is 94 years old and count
ing, and looks rather spry for 94
- in fact, the best is yet to come!”
Colombian Poet Speaks to Spanish Classes
by Amanda Farr White
Guest Writer
The State University of
West Georgia was visited
by Colombian
poet Carlos
Vasquez-Zawadzki on
Monday, November 6,
2000. The visit came
as a result of Vasquez-
Zawadzki's attendance
and participation in the
U n i versi ty-spon sored
15th Annual
Conference in
Literature, Visual Arts,
and Cinema held in
Atlanta the previous
weekend. The session
Vasquez-Zawadzki
participated in was
coordinated by Dr.
Cecilia Castro Lee,
professor with
the University's foreign
language department.
The topic of the
conference was “Madness and
Bliss”, and Vasquez-Zawadzki
presented an informative paper
on Arturo Alape, a Colombian
author, during a session of the
conference titled “Madness and
Bliss in the Writer's Soul.” 'He
also presented some of his own
poetry later in the day.
Dr. Lee invited Vasquez-
Zawadzki, who is a personal
friend, to visit the University on
the last day of his visit to
America and also to assist her in
teaching a lesson on famed
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Argentine poet Jorge Luis
Borges to her Spanish 2001 stu
dents. The students of Spanish
2001 were given an introduction
to poetry by Vasquez-Zawadzki
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Colombian poet Carlos Vasquez-Zawadzki (center) donated
copies of his works: Tercer Laberinto, La oreja erotica de
Van Gogh, and Diario para Beatriz to the UWG Library.
Pictured (l-r) are Amanda White, Spanish student:
Charles Beard. Director of Library; Zawadski; Dr. Cecilia
Lee. professor at UWG; and Maria Krach. Spanish student.
(Photo Courtesy of the Ingram Library)
and participated in a discussion
on Borges and his particular
style of poetry.
Vasquez-Zawadzki's open
and friendly discourse put stu
dents at ease and encouraged
discussion of the text. He adept
ly managed to speak his native
language at a comfortable level
for the 2001 students, encourag
ing them to join the conversation
and also to contribute ideas of
their own over the course’s sub
ject matter. At the request of the
students, Vasquez-Zawadzki pre-
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sented some of his own poetry to
the class.
Vasquez-Zawadzki is a
native of Tumaco, Colombia and
now lives in Cali. He has writ-
Diario para Beatriz.
Vasquez-Zawadzki's work is
mainly comprised of love poems
and reveals a depth of emotion
compressed into deceptively
short poems. These three vol
umes are now available to be
checked out by students and fac
ulty in the library.
Vasquez-Zawadzki's visit to
the State University of West
Georgia marks an important
event for the foreign language
department, and for the
University as a whole, because it
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ten several volumes
of poetry. Dr. Lee
composed the intro
duction to one of his
works, Tercer
Laberinto. During
his visit to the
University, Vasquez-
Zawadzki toured the
library and presented
three volumes of his
poetry to Charles E.
Beard, director of
the University
library, for inclusion
into the University’s
selection of
Colombian authors.
The volumes includ
ed Tercer Laberinto,
La oreja erotica de
Van Gogh, and
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