Augusta College - White Columns Yearbook (Augusta, GA)

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DANNY DANFORTH Sitting in the cafeteria with Danny Danforth. you wonder if the two of you ever will get a chance to converse uninterrupted. One by one friends drift over to our table, or Danny calls to someone across the room. Occasionally he glances at the clock on the wall. Apologizing profusely, he explains, I was the oldest of fourteen children. From the time the third and fourth were born, I was looking after kids. After the seventh and eighth got here, I was having to shout to get my viewpoint across. By the time the thirteenth arrived, I was the leader. Now, he continues, I just seem to make a lot of friends and, considering my childhood, 1 just naturally assume a leadership position. So, when you ' re trying to do a lot of things, time becomes very important. If time for Danny Is as limited as it is important, it is only because he is twice as active as the average student. I ' ve been an SGA Senator for two years, he relates, and during that time I served on various committees and worked on different projects. For me, being a small part of the decision-making process at A.C. is a learning experience — an extension of the classroom. Besides his SGA work, Danny, a youthful looking thirty-three, also is an active member of the Political Science Club, The Black Student Union, and The Interclub Council. When asked why someone would become involved with an SGA, which often seems internally weak and powerless, Danny bristles. Unfortunately, he replied, most A.C. students do not realize exactly what the Student Government Association is all about. SGA simply is a body of students who act in behalf of the silent majority. Over the years SGA has done innumberable things for the students: free telephones, better lighting on campus, improvement of faculty evaluation forms, incoming student orientation, and the list goes on. We serve an often-times apathetic and thankless group of people who would rather berate us than support us. I am here, he says, not only to learn, but to grow. SGA has become a part of that. After graduation, Danny hopes to work in some facet of the foreign service. He said, I like to travel; I like to learn; and I want to serve. The foreign service appears to be the right career choice for me. CAROLYN SMALLEY Carolyn Smalley is a quiet unassuming young woman whose objective is to better her situation In life. She feels college is the only way to meet her goal. You know, she says, I was at Augusta College in 1972, and at that time all I did was goof around. Eventually I left. After being on the outside of the academic environment, she continues, I realized that advancement and improvement come from dedication and hard work. These days, she says wryly. I ' m doing a lot of that. Between her first collegiate experience in 1972 and today, Carolyn took a one-year course at Augusta Tech in emergency room technology. She holds a job in that field at St. Joseph ' s Hospital. In many ways her job has been the deciding factor in her returning to school. After a while, my job at St. Joe ' s became less fulfilling, less satisfying to me. It was then I realized that being a Registered Nurse was what I wanted to do with my life. And that is what I ' m working on now. The decision to return to A.C. to study nursing was a big step for Carolyn Smalley and entails a lot of work. I ' m concentrating on bringing up my 1972 GPA. she says. It ' s not easy; but I ' m sticking to it, because today, unlike 1972, I am determined to succeed.

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CAROL FUCHS As one looks at this sightly aged photograph, one wonders where have I seen that face before? The girl in the picture, with her long brown frosted hair, thickly coated eyelashes, pale lipstick, small gold hoops and cashmere sweater is so familiar and oh so early sixties. Carol Fuchs with her mass of tree brown curls, her clear make-up free face, and her eclectic style of clothing laughs spasmodically when you shake your head in exasperation non-recognition. That was me, she says. Can you believe if? Yes is the answer. Yes, because Carol is the product of a middle class Long Island family; yes, because Carol ' s mom is a handsome woman of impeccable taste; yes, because Carol ' s younger sister is, up-to-the-minute in her stylish clothes and way of life; yes. because you yourself know it ' s so. Were not all of us who are products of the sixties caught up in looking good, dressing well, and doing well back then? Aren ' t we back there now, here in the late seventies? But Carol no longer identifies with the Long Island set of principles with which she grew up. Mascara and the theater on Monday, the opera on Tuesday, etc., no longer are me, she says. Now I live my life as I feel I should and I let others live theirs as they wish. And it ' s great! Carol ' s energy level is so high, her list of goals so long, that she feels almost unquestionably that she will never settle down, never marry. I have made so many commitments to myself that I will need a full life, perhaps more, to fulfill them. And the kind of life style I lead would be unfair to a husband and children. Although, she adds, I really would like to have children. Carol ' s view is that to truly learn, one must sample a little of everything. That is precisely what she has done and what she most likely will continue to do. At seventeen Carol enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but dropped out. I wasn ' t ready for a serious commitment to college then, she explains. It was during the anti-Viet Nam-Abbie Hoffman-hippies-and let ' s go cross country era. With the country going through such a tremendous transition, and myself going through a personal transition, college at that time was not the right place for me. So Carol did other things. She spent four months in the Virgin Islands, taught scuba diving in Florida, and managed a restaurant in Maryland. With her savings she embarked on a trip that in many ways is responsible for the unique and individualistic person she has become today. With $2,000 she purchased passage on a ship and headed for Europe. For two years Carol hitchhiked and Eurail-passed through the European countries. And in Europe she was decidedly more original than most other traveling young Americans. She worked on a farm in Norway, picked grapes in France, worked in a macrobiotics restaurant in Paris, and drove across the Sahara with an Englishman, a Frenchman, and an American. When Carol returned to the U.S. she found readjustment difficult, but not unconquerable. In New York, she said, I found things unchanged, but different; so I followed my family to Augusta. After a while I began to get used to It here and came to like it. Now, she continued, I live alone out in the country, without a telephone, and devote myself almost full time to my studies. An English major and an extremely fine student, Carol decided, one quarter before graduation, to change her major to Pre-med. She said, Recently, through a personal experience, I realized how important good doctors are to the well-being of this country, and I believe I could be a fine doctor. So this is Carol ' s new goal. Eventually, she says, I hope to join the Peace Corps and of course, whatever I do, I will continue to travel. It is apparent that Carol plans to be something more than the girl next door, or the wife or mother of so and so. She expects to give her already full life quality and meaning. It is not difficult to believe a woman with the abilities and determination of Carol Fuchs will accomplish just that.

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