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/ Page 2 HE KERNEL An Editorial WELCOME Welcome students! You are our Ebenezer. An Ebenezer is a stone of help. Samuel set up a stone between Mizpah and Shen to commemorate the Lord’s deliverance of the Israe lites from the Philistines. In the first faculty meeting our new president, Dz\ Louis C. Alderman, Jr., reminded the faculty of its direct responsi bility for your success. This institution exists for you. Fortunately, the relationship is a mutual one. The admin istration and faculty form a ‘‘stone of help” for you. Used properly, these sources can be your deliverance from indeci sive, inactive, lax, immature, and uninformed youthfulness into discerning, healthy, re sponsible, moral, and mature adulthood. Appropriately, Middle Geor gia College was first called the New Ebenezer College. Its growth from that time has been x’apid and sure. Its fu ture appears exciting and chal lenging. For you exist a new school, a new administration, and a new start. The past pro mise of this institution can become a present and future reality. You can make Middle Georgia College a truly "new” Ebenezer, TheKernel Staff Published Monthly by the Students of Middle Georgia College Cochran, Georgia A UNIT OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS J. T. MORRIS, Dean THE EDITORIAL POLICY OF THE KERNEL ... To publish the school news accurately and completely To support worthwhile activities To encourage good scholarship and high personal standards To serve as a medium of student expression To inform and entertain the reader while broadening reading scope To report news which will form a chronological history of the College Temporary Chairman — Johnny Lister SPORTS Robert Stephens* William Harrell Barbara Terry* Kay Truitt REPORTERS Barbara Terry Sylvia Turner Bill Merritt Steve Kinard Don Miller Kenny Griffin Harry Ray Steve Head Barry Hoffman Charlotte Brown BUSINESS and LAY-OUT Kenny Griffin .Martha Lee Robert Stephens (asst.) Johnny Lister Barbara Moring PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Colson* Mary Ann Crenshaw ART and POETRY Charles Lewis Alicia Johnson Sylvia Turner Linda MsEacheon TYPING Pam McCanlis Johnny Lister Kenny Griffin William Harrell HUMOR Alicia Johnson Ann Archer FEATURES Jim Wooten Linda McEacheon EXCHANGE Shelia Beardon SPONSOR Miss Teed Special to the Kernel . COCHRAN _ Middle Geor gia College began its 37th an nual session on September 22 with an opening assembly at t>:30 a.m. in the college audi torium, when an official wel come was brought by Dr. Louis C. Alderman, Jr., President. Dr. Alderman, who succeed ed the late Dr. L. E .Roberts as President on August 1, states that the student body is the largest in the history of Middle Georgia College. A total of 944 students are reg istered for the fall quarter. Of these 381 are former students and 563 are new students. This represents a 22% increase in the enrollment over the fall of 1963. The President indicated that these classes will not only be the school’s largest but the oest-prepared academically. In the up-grading of facili ties at Middle Georgia College, projects started during the late spring and completed during tiie summer months, total $195,- 00°. In preparation for the largest enrollment in the his tory of the institution, exten sive renovation of Walker Hall, the main academic building! has been completed. Extensive redecorating of the Science Buridmg, the college Dining Hall and the Student Center has also been completed. Tal- madge and Ebenezer Halls, boys dormitories, have been completely redecorated. Brown- mg, Peacock and Wiggs Men's Residence Halls have been painted. A new lighting sys tem has been installed on the campus at a cost of $20,000 New roadways, sewers, and gutters have been installed at a cost of $35,000. The Guidance Program Middle Georgia College is initiating a guidance program tins year designed to be of assistance to all students at the College. Special attention is being given to developing a comprehensive program oi guidance services and to mak ing these services available to students on a personal basis. Included in the services of a comprehensive guidance pro gram are the following types of services: (1) The orientation service. The orientation service is a special type of assistance made available to new students or any student approaching new experiences in the college pro gram. The central purpose of the college orientation program is to help each person feel at ease, understand, and adapt to his new surroundings, its tra ditions, rules, offerings and ac tivities. (2) The information service. The information service has been described as a service which embraces the various types of information that may be needed by a person in eval uating his opportunities. There is considerable evidence that the information service should j include three main areas of information — occupational, educational, and personal- social. (3) The individual inventory service. This service, often re ferred to as individual analy sis, is designed to assist the student in maxing a realistic self-appraisal. The service, which includes administration and interpretation of standard ized tests, is designed to pro vide assistance to the student by collecting, synthesizing, and interpreting student data. (4) The placement service. Placement, as understood in tlie guidance field, usually in dicates assistance offered the individual in taking “the next step,” whether toward further education, a job situation, or a different course of study. (5) The counseling service. The counseling service is often referred to as “the heart of the guidance program." For some students, the counseling service may provide an oppor tunity to discuss freely and in formally topics of particular concern. The counseling rela tionship may provide an op portunity for the individual to evaluate himself and his op portunities, to choose a feasible course . of action, to accept re sponsibility for his choice, and to initiate a course of action in line with his choice. (6) The follow-up service. Descriptions of the follow-up service have indicated that two very important aspects of the service involve securing infor mation about students who have taken “the next step' 1 and pioviding additional assistance to these persons when such as sistance is requested. FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN Enrollment - Fall Quarier-1964 r ine college opened the fall quarter of 1904 with 946 stu- uuius which is 19 percent in crease over the fall quarter of 1963. Students are classified as xollows: Fresnmen - — 564 uopnoinores - 382 Total 946 Campus students 596 rL-ys renting rooms in town 110 Commuting students 240 Total 946 The office of admissions pro cessed approximately 1200 ap plications for admission of which 972 were accepted. Twenty-six failed to report on September 21 for registration of classes- The students registered for classes as follows: Engineering ... —* 245 Business administration 235 B. S. pre-medical, etc. 168 Education — _ 108 A.B. pre-law. etc. 78 Commercial art, Home Economics, Music 46 General Education and undecided 66 Lhe Guidance Office, located in the Academic Building, is open Monday through Friday Lorn 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 am and 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. un Saturday mornings, the 0 f- ^ al ' e 8:30 t0 *2:00 Students are invited to visit office during these hours Dr. Edwin D. Davidson" My New Mother The gracious “Ma” Lingo, as of today, is the most interest ing person I have met on cam pus. “Ma” Lingo was the very first person I met, upon my ar rival at Middle Georgia Col lege, As 1 was receiving her cordial welcome, I was won dering whether all of the fac ulty here was as nice and sincere as she. Her warm, out going, and matchless person ality give a person a sense of security. Friendliness On Campus When I first arrived at Mid* die Georgia College, and d U: . ing my first day here, it Wa , as if 1 had been plucked fro m earth and deposited in . strange new universe. I k nev , loneliness, and perhaps a little fear and resentment. It Was comparable to being a tiny satellite among many other in. significant satellites all re volving around the huge mother planet. However, these feelings were not long-lasting. Everyone on campus, and especially in niy dormitory, was very friendly and eager to help me become adjusted. It surprised me act ually, the atmosphere of good will and friendliness that was present everywhere. I was dubious as to what would be my reception in Ebenezer Hall, but each per son there was quick to intro duce themselves, help me un pack, and make me feel at home. I suppose when I first ven tured out on campus, the same cl o u tots and wonderment coursed through my veins as did those through the veins of Captain John Smith when he first stepped ashore at Jamestown. In other words, 1 was an invader and had broken apart a complete king dom. How wrong feelings could be! It was not long be fore the reality c-f the situation came through to me. There were some six hundred other lreshmen feeling exactly as 1 did. When this fact parted the foggy mists of my brain, I almost laughed aloud; the lone liness and apprehension had vanished. Still, without the support of the friendliness on campus I would have been right back where the first day found me, alone. I have visited other colleges and looked them over. In my honest opinion, none has such an aura of friendship and good will as does Middle Georgia College. It is very easy to. settle down and feel at home because of the fine spirit of geniality and cordiality pre sent amon-g all the people at Middle Georgia College. It is really amazing to see an elderly little lady, like Mrs. Lingo, keep a considerable amount of order during the day, among approximately two hundred rambunctious and lo- quaticus young men. These young m en referred to are the students that occupy Wiggs Hall, Wiggs Annex, and Ebe nezer But when eight o'clock m the evening rolls around the clamoring 0 f the day is silenced by a Jew word, o1 philosophy by “Ma” One reason the students of -is. Lingo's dormitories have b0 much aspect for her is b- to U kno he t3keS ** UP ° n her ^if to know each resident by his name an * to know something uuuut eacn ones personal life, ojje doesn't pry or anyming to i-iiac enect, put Dy aany con- v ciaa. non wan eacn siuaent, me reams muen aoout tneir rives ana many proorems. It rs noi uriusuar t-a enter tne luoDy ox vvigg^ nan ana find rvra suirounaea uy oc-ys eagerly searemng to rind me answers ip tnen varied ques- uuns. if sne is unaDie io solve mese proorems, sue can tell wnere me answer may be iuunu, it mignt p e sam, that a ftuaent wun a problem will nna rvra' to be his best friend. i m sure that next year Mid dle Georgia College will be irKe a cnain with a missing firuc. Every boy’s “second mother,’ Mrs. Lingo, is going to retire, leaving a big gap that will never be filled. Campus V 1 P