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VOLUME 38 - NUMBER 1 MIDDLE GEORGIA COLLEGE COCHRAN, GEORGIA
OLDEST JUNIOR COLLEGE
MIDDLE GEORGIA
PROVED
OLDEST 1M THE NATION
President Louis C. Aider-
man recer j announced the
Middle Georgia College dates
back to 1883. This qualifies
MGC as beingthe oldest junior
college in the United States
The idea of Middle Georgia
first originated in 1883 when
a group of Baptist Churches
of the New Ebenezer Associa
tion decided that better
education was needed in
the middle Georgia area, The
New Ebenezer Associational
meeting was held at Parkerson
Church in Dodge County. The
following resolution was
passed: Resolved, that Bre-
thern J. G. Wright, E, H.
Bacon, C, B. Parker, J. T.
Rogers, and J. W, Noles, be,
and are hereby appointed to
a committee known as the
Educational Committee,
whose duty it shall be to
arouse the educational spirit,
and to encourage young minis
ters to educate themselves,
and to endeavor to raise funds
to assist those who are not
able to do so.
On October 20, 1884, a com
mittee headed by Dr. P. A,
Jessup was appointed to es
tablish a college. By the
time the committee met the
following year, the city of
Cochran has been chosen as
the site, the contractor had
been hired and the corner
stone had been placed.
Actually classes were begun
January 10, 1887, with some
300 students attending. The
new college was named New
Ebenezer College and the
original building which burned
in 1926 stood where Walker
Hall presently stands.
Finding proof of the ori
ginal date has not been an
easy task. President Aider-
man first beganthis five years
ago and only recently has the
statement been proved. The
charter date was 1892, but
it was stated that the New
Ebenezer College had al
ready been functioning for
several years. President
Alderman could not find the
original founding date because
several records were mis
placed or lost but the
American Baptist Historical
Society of Rochester, New
York, provided President
Alderman with the needed
information.
Middle Georgia College will
replace Illinois Institute of
Technology of Juliette, Illi
nois, as the oldest junior
college of the United States.
Actually, MGC was a junior
college even before the term
"junior college’’ was coined.
COUNCILMEN
ELECTED
Students at Middle Georgia
College have elected their
Student Council represen
tatives for the 1969-70 school
year. The Student Council
is the student government
body for the college.
The Student Council is
headed by the following
officers who were elected last
spring: Randy Fagler of
Swainsboro, President; Ed
Redmond of Warner Robins,
Vice President; Sharon Davis
of Swainsboro, Secretary; and
Wyatt A. (Bubba) Laney of
Jonesboro, Treasurer.
The following representa
tives were elected this fall;
Patrick M. Ashley of Ocilla;
Dianne Bass of Dublin; Kathy
Beckett of Warner Robins;
Meredith Berry of Swains
boro; Hugh Bond of Jackson;
Jerry Lee Bryant of Cochran;
Michelle Caldwell of McRae;
Larry Clark of Perry; Gary
Cunningham of Warner Ro
bins; George M. Elam of
Macon; Amy English of Haw-
kinsville; Debbie Fredrich of
Warner Robins; Jimmy Grant
of Warner Robins; Beth Hall
of Sandersville; Theresa L
Hamby of Warner Robins.
Brenda Herring of Coving
ton; Andy Hodges, Jr., of
Wa-ner Robins; Elissa Hus
sey of East Point; Judy Jett
of Pitts; G. W. Johnson, Jr.
of Twin City; Neal Lashley
of Fitzgerald; Billy Locklear
of Thomson; Tommy Maples
of Pinehurst; Larry McCam-
mon of Cochran; Warren
McKinney of Pineview; Gail
Mullis of Hawkinsville; Garry
E. Peavy of Warner Robins;
J. Larry (Bunny) Raines of
Wad ley; William J. Ratliff of
Warner Robins; Jill Self of
Macor-
Dianne Smith of Macon;
Vicki Sparks of Thomson;
Beverly Taylor of Macon; Nan
Turner of McDonough; Ray
Villegas of Atlanta; Mary
Wallace (M.W.) Walke of
Dublin; Jim Warnock of
Swainsboro; Tot Weatherly of
McRae; Debbie Westmoreland
of Warner Robins; Larry W.
Wiggins of Millen; Stevie Wil
liams of Warner Robins;
Gerry Womack of Millen; and
Robert Yeager of Ellenwood.
Council Meets
The Student Council of
Middle Georgia College for
the year 1969-1970 has begun
meeting. These are the
students who were chosen by
their fellow students to
Dr. Louis C. Alderman, Jr.,
President of Middle Georgia,
and Randy Fagler of Swains
boro, President of the MGC
Student Council were among
some 700 delegates who at
tended the first annual
"Presidents to Presidents
Conference” in Washington,
D. C., September I9-2L
President Richard M. Nix
on invited the group to the
White House on Saturday
afternoon of the conference,
when he addressed the dele
gates and greeted each one
personally. PresidentNixon’s
daughter, Tricia, also at
tended the session in the East
Room of the White House.
Middle Georgia College was
one of 300 colleges re
presented at the conference,
DANCE
which was sponsored by the
Association of Student
Governments.
Among those who addressed
the conference were Robert
Finch, Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare; Dr.
James Allen, Jr., U. S. Com
missioner of Education; and
General Lewis B. Hershey,
Director of the Selective
Service.
The conference was started
this year in an effort to elim
inate much of the confusion
and misunderstanding which
have plagued campuses in the
past. The conference is
designed to create a forum
for the mutual exchange of
information and ideas re
levant to the needs of higher
education.
ENROLLMENT
UP
Fall quarter enrollment at
Middle Georgia College is
up exactly 300 students above
last year. The enrollment
last fall was 1,824; the corres
ponding figure for this fall
is 2,124, reports Dr. James
L Keeney, Registrar and
Director of Admissions.
The rate of increase in
enrollment from one year to
the next has doubled. Last
falls’ student body was 8,2
per cent larger than the one
for the previous fall. This
fall’s student body is 16.4
per cent larger than the one
last fall.
Enrollment of regular
students — those who attend
classes during the day
is ijp 16.5 per cent over last
year. There were L548
regular students last fall, and
there are 1,804 this quarter.
Paul McCartney
Is Moldering
In The Co-Op