THE VSC SPECTATOR"VALDOSTA STATE COLLEGE'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER" Volume XXXVIII ISSUE 20 THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1972 VALDOSTA, GEORGIA Accident Following In Her Father’s Steps Fatal To Dodd Named Acting Art Deportment Head VSC Student years in Athens and in Atlanta A Valdosta State College When you hear Irene Dodd under Fletcher Wolfe. sophomore who was injured in a has been named acting head of Undecided at 18 about what fall from a horse March 5 died the art department at Valdosta she wanted to do with her life Tuesday night March 14 in an State College you’re tempted to (All I knew was that I wanted to Albany hospital. ask her how it feels to follow in work with people from various William Hayne (Bill) Walker the footsteps of her famous economic and cultural levels" ), 19. of Griffin, who lived in S-21 father Lamar Dodd hear of the she considered diplomatic residence hall, died about 10:10 art department at the University service, finally settled on a p.m. in Palmyra Park Hospital. of Georgia and a nationally- psychology major at Duke He had been in critical condition known painter But you don’t University, with minors in since the day of the accident. ask. Instead you congratulate history and voice. Since the Valdosta police said the her on her appointment by the number of electives when she accident occurred on the VSC University System Board of was ready for graduate school, campus as Walker rode a horse Regents at their March meeting there were five areas in which near the main entrance on North in Atlanta she could have taken a master's Patterson Street Patrolman You ask about her growing up degree—music. English, history, Charlie Spray said the horse years. And you listen, you learn psychology and religion. apparently stumbled on a curb, what it’s like to be the daughter “I entered graduate school in the youth fell off and struck his of a famous artist and educator history at the University of head on the curbing. “When was I first interested in Georgia,” she said. “But that art?” she echoed thoughtfully. summer, my family took a “I drew from the age of 2 1/2. vacation in Maine, snd for the When other kids were out first time in eight or ten years. I playing with toys, I drew. The drew. Again, it was a natural crayons and paper were always expression, not as an excercise in there if I wanted to draw, and it art, and I realized at the end of was fun two weeks and a great deal of “Of course, I was not told to thought, ‘This is what I want to do it but I was provided the go into.” opportunity to draw if I wanted Having had no art classes in to So it came as a natural college, she began as a freshman outgrowth of the environment” m art ar the University of She drew until she was 13 and Georgia turned into a Master of stopped. Miss Dodd displays work Fine Arts degree, with major “I was involved in piano emphasis in drawing and And though she had no way lessons and athletic activities,” architecture, sculpture and painting and minor emphasis in she laughed. “I was swimming of knowing its value at the time, painting art history and art education.. competitively (in AAU events) a year abroad with her family “Though I didn’t realize it The handwriting was on the till I was 11. Late liked softball when she was 11 and 12 then, this was to provide me wall: another art educator and basketball, and now it’s influenced the teacher she was with a firsthand experience that named Dodd was shaping up. Several other students saw the golf! to become. cen be related when I show a Practice teaching at North accident and called an ambu­ I like to get out and enjoy the “That trip to Eurpoe with my slide on the screen in an art Springs High School under Mrs. lance for him, Spray said and quietness and changing moods of perceptive father and nuturing history class now. It lives for me, Harold Ingle was another turning police were notified only after nature. Perhaps this is why some mother was a turning point, for so I have the possibility of point. the victim was reluctant to get of the subject matter in my it exposed me to people and making it more vital to the “I discovered in practice into the emergency vehicle. painting today comes from the cultures very different from my student.” something I had thought in Walker is believed to have stimulus of nature. Being out in, own,” she said. “Artistically, it At 15, the well-traveled- theory for a long time—that received a skull fracture and a or involved with nature sets gave me an opportunity to see so turned athlete started voice often .students are not broken hip from the fall Spray things in motion interiorly many of the great masters in lessons. She studied for five said He was admitted to South Continued on Page 2 Georgia Medical Center here and transferred that evening to the Albany hospital Mitchell Awarded Danforth Fellowship He underwent surgery the day The Danforth Fellowships are accomplishments. after he arrived to mend the hip, Jimmy Leslie Mitchell of “He has clearly been one of said hospital officials but one designed to encourage out Cairo, a senior physics major at the sparkplugs in our public doctor said the skull fracture standing college graduates who Valdosta State College, has won planetarium program, where he could not be corrected through show promise for distinguished a Danforth Fellowship for is one of the favorites with the an operation. careers in college teaching in advanced study for the PhD school children.” A pre-med student, Walker order to help meet the critical degree, according to Alex Mitchel’s graduate study is to was a sophomore majoring in need for such people, McFadden McFadden, assistant dean of be done in the field of astro­ biology, said VSC officials. He said. faculties at VSC. physics. was a member of the College Mitchel’s cumulative grade The fellowship provides The son of Mr. and Mrs. Union Board a member of the point average through winter tuition and living expenses for quarter, 1972, is an impressive James Leroy Mitchell of Cairo, VSC band and on the staff of up to four years of study in he is a member of Sigma Alpha WVVS, our FM station. 3,820 out of a possible 4.0, preparation for a career of Chi and Alpha Chi honorary Funeral services were held according to McFadden. college teaching More than societies. He has served as Thursday; March 15, in St. “Jimmy Mitchell would be an 1,500 seniors from colleges and exceptional student in any treasurer of the Cosmos Society George’s Episcopal Church in universities throughout the (a VSC science club) and Griffin, Georgia. Walker is university in the United States,” United States competed in the governor of Brown Residence survived by his parents, Mr. & said Dr. Raymond Hunter head 97 Danforth Fellowships Hall for men. Mrs. Paul H. Walker Jr., and of the VSC physics department. awarded this year. three sisters “We are extremely proud of his Continued on Page 7 Library Use EDITOR'S DESK Proposed By SGA The following bill has recently been introduced in the Student Senate. The authors arc Senators Ed Yates and Charles Joyner. Due to its relevance to the VSC student body, the SPECTATOR presents the proposed legislation in its entirety: WHEREAS, the Rebel Room Three-fifty admission. They paid the same price for 3 1/2 hours of Valdosta State College is o f Fiddler on the R oof for this fiddler on their roofs. inadequate for the recreational They wait for Dr. Cure-All; their future in the palm of his demands of our campus; hands; their past in his pockets; their present in his know-all WHEREAS, the Rebel Room mind; their presence in his presents to them-a little bit of will be torn down to make room prediction, a slice o f truth, $3.50 skeptics on a Friday night for an addition to the College waiting to be proven wronged. Bill Walker: The Worker Union that will not include any Friday night eight-twenty o ’clock. Somebody's young blond room for recreational facilities; boy walks out to announce to the crowd that Dr. Richard Huntington—star o f hotel ballrooms private consultations and There is not enough room in this entire publication to WHEREAS, the space for black and white advertisements in the movie sections o f both of elaborate on the achievement of William Hane (Bill) Walker. publications in the College the Dailies—is-‘'gasp" -late/dead/ill. The m ind’s multiple choice Although only a sophomore Bill intently sought to combat Union is grossly inadequate; game is open for fate. apathy on the VSC campus by getting involved in projects that WHEREAS, there are no Instead: “Hello.” benefitted his peers. Tragedy struck this young man as he was related facilities for VSC’s 1,500 So this is Dr. H with his black-buttoned suit and Dick Cavett enjoying one of his most favorite diversions-horeseback riding. day students; face, sparkly eyes on a small man with a small head. How could it Such student oriented groups as the College Union Board, the WHEREAS, the lack of intel­ ever hold all that information? How could he ever tell us VSC Band, WVVS radio station and Student Government lectual exchange with fellow everything we always wanted to know about everything? And no Committees interested and motivated this talented sophomore.