University of West Georgia - Chieftain Yearbook (Carrollton, GA)

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History is just a subject you study in school, something you endure because it is a required five hours credit. Just a bunch of dates and people that you memorize for a test and then forget. A class you force yourself to attend because the professor has an unbreakable cut limit. History is more than just that — it is an indicator of who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. History is an undeniable part of each of us. We are made of the history of our nation, our people, our family. It is something that we can never escape. Something that intelligent men and women do not want to escape, for it holds the clue to our future and without that clue we will just blunder along In life without purpose or plan. Our national history holds high the tradition of freedom and the promise of equality— it is up to each of us to carry on that tradition and to fight for that promise. For unless we do, the work of all of those who have gone before us will be in vain and without purpose. Our individual history shapes both soul and body from the day we are conceived. Our parents and the others who direct our development instill in us attitudes and opinions that will follow us to our graves. It is by their ' example that we become what we are, whether we follow in their footsteps or turn away and go the other direction. History will lead us in whatever direction we choose and without its help we will wander aimlessly as children lost in the night.

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,yBbi9J39y , Bbot . . .wonomot COPYRIGHT 1978 BY THE STUDENT PUBLICATION BOARD OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF LORI LeVAN OR THE DEAN OF STUDENT SERVICES PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY WALSWORTH PUBLISHING COMPANY MARCELINE, MISSOURI

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Lot no. 99, Land District no. 10, were the numbers drawn by Lawrence Richardson of Columbia County in the land lottery of 1825. Later this land was purchased by Thomas Bonner of Clarke County. He immediately engaged Mr. Y. Hendrix to construct a permanent dwelling on the site. In 1861, during the Civil War, several thousand cavalry under General Stone, marched over the road that now fronts the campus. The Bonner family held the land until after the Civil War. The land then became the property of the Sharp family and in 1906 was deeded to the Board of Trustees of the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School. The School, opened, as a boarding school, in 1908. Professor J. H. Melson became the first principal and served for the first thirteen years of the school ' s life. In 1920, I. S. Ingram became principal and headed the WEST GEORGIA COLLEGI: In- ' January, 1908 The t- cufth District Agric ulturai and ■ Mechanicai Schodi!. ope ted he re with 96 St uiients under Principal iohn- Hc- iJan ' 1933 the Stat e wit (drew strpport from its agricliiturni 5 and . this also Bo school wdon - ' iIegc. cleve was rcorQanJaed as EiRTHfRM nnRR H e sjiifiirir ,.u lit of the L ' n (vcrsit y SysieiTt of Georgia. It became a seinJdr cotiec e in 19 57 umier Presit en! Irvine Siill van Jngrar. who hra ' ! .! the in5«!l«f!c n from 1920 tc 19«0 ihis was tiK fonqest admlrtistrair- ■envm in the hisi ory of ihe I ni%ersity of ■eorgia if its ' syjtr v schools ere incluo ed- Crigfnaiiy there we re two )rick ' •iiiildinqs. bein o MeJson HaH an ' t thf •dfflfnfstratio n hui! ' ing. A5 ufiison Kali was. added in !9i7. All . tand est of this p )inf. Thp frame s tru ttjre oh this site •!•■! bum c (S 13 as t!i. ' iJfyru afiort house o f Thomo-s Bonnor Jn the hr. ise o-as raided t y fp fcrai na vafry jr :ief Hriaa.Jier- . 7 Cro ■C5011 nin jse :i mpjlte was at a roii i- fork$ :; rtc nulp .house becatr e tiic ffrst ' ■ iITTp ' JS. Until 5 917 Uf ncatio n vas 500 va Ms WCS1 of this POSRi . • - Re osevelt deiiyerct) the cdmmCM.cemen! address here in !9 ' ' ,,3P - '