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Symphony Concert Set Tomorrow Night
By Nancy Tata*
Ona of tba country's finest symphony orchestra* will b* presented
in concert tomorrow evening at 8:15 p.m. in Willingham Chapel. The
85-piece Atlanta Symphony is rated by critics as one of the top
orchestras performing in the United States today.
Conductor Henry Sopkin, a dyna
mic and understanding musician,
is well known for his interpreta
tions of the great masters as well
as the moderns. The popular con
ductor is largely responsible for
the phenomenal growth of the sym
phony group during its ten years
of existence.
Included on tomorrow’s program
are such well known classics as
Mozart’s "Titus Overture," Tchai
kovsky's Symphony No. 6 (better
known as the “Pathetique"), and
the ever-popular Richard Strauss
musical tale, “Till Eulensplegel's
Merry Prank*."
Others oa Program
Two lesser known works on the
program are Charles Griffes’
“White Peacock" and George
Bizet’s “Adagietto.”
The apearance of the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra is being spon
sored by the Mercer student gov
ernment association as part of the
student concert series. Mercer stu
dents will be admitted free on re
ceipt of their student activities
card.
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The Atlanta Symphony
VOL. XXXV
®fjoe Mnttt Cluster
~ MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1955
No. 16
Jane Carol Adams
NOW SOCIAL VEEP
Jane Adams
Is Nominated
As BSU Proxy
Jane Carol Adams, junior from
Waynesboro, has been nominated
to be the president of the Mercer
BSU for the coming year. Jane
Carol is now social vice-president
of the BSU.
Vice-presidential nominations in
clude Buddy Moore, enlistment;
Nancy Bruner, social; and Nancy
Attaway, devotional. Vashti Max
well has been nominated as record
ing secretary; Faye Watson, corre
sponding secretary; and Sam Wil
burn. treasurer.
Other nominations include Ernest
Mason, music chairman; Spencer
Ludlow, extension chairman; Jo*
Gatlin, publicity director; Marcus
Lager, promotion chairman, and
Beverly Irvin, editor of the
Gauntlet.
Election for the new Council is
slated for Monday, April 4, during
Vespers—6:46 P. M. in Willingham
Chapel. The new officers will be
installed in a special Vesper service
on April 19.
These nominations were announc
ed today by the nominating com
mittee headed by Joe Hendricks.
Members of the committee include
Jo Wommack, B. C. Carr, John
Rabun, Jo Kidd, Diana Owen, and
Sam Wilburn. Bill Middlebrooka,
present BSU president, served as
an ex-officio member of the com
mittee.
S. Johnson, B. Green Vie
For Student Presidency
By Jim Meloney
In a surprise move, the supposedly defunct Cooperative Party
qualified a slate of officers for the upcoming Student Government
elections late yesterday afternoon. Heading the Cooperative ticket is
Bob Green. Sid Johnson tops the Progressive slate.
Johnson’s running mates on the
Gorman Club Sots Film
The German Club will show a
thirty-aix minute film entitled
“Melodiua Austria” Monday, April
4. The film will be shown at seven
o'clock In the Christianity building.
Progressive ticket will include Ron
nie Cumbie, vice-president, and
Nancy Attaway, secretary-treasur
er. Running for the same offices
on the Cooperative ticket will be
Bill Young, vice-president, and
Diane Owen, secretary-treasurer.
Buddy Moore, Progressive, is
unopposed for freshman adviser.
Also unopposed are Jim Meloney
and Elliot Brack for Cluster editor
and business manager respectively,
both Progressive.
The election is scheduled for
Tuesday, April 12. Each party is
supposed to receive a chapel period
in which to preeent their candidates
to the student body. SG President
Joe Hendricks told the Cluster
yesterday afternoon that he will
try to arrange for an additional
student chapel period before the
election, eo that each party may
have a chapel presentation.
This past Monday had originally
been set as qualification day with
one party scheduled to have had
yesterday to present their candi
dates. However, a necessitated
change moved the qualification day
to yesterday. If the SG is unable
to secure an additional chapel, the
election date will be changed, ac
cording to President Hendricks.
Nancy Yates qualified for editor
of the Cauldron on the Progressive
ticket -with Gene Bishop as run
ning mate for business manager.
Cooperative candidates are Liz
Does and Carswell Hughes for
Cauldron editor and business man
ager respectively.
Those qualifying for class offic-
erships were as follows:
Senior Class: Progressive: Jerry
Wtlkir, president; Dcjlh Johnson,
vice-president; and Connie Adams,
secretary-treasurer. Cooperative:
Hugh Hodges, president; Neil
Evans, vice-president; and Freda
Cagle, secretary-treasurer.
Junior Class: Progressive: Tony
Sansone, president; Arthur Rich,
vice-president; and Alice Tate, sec
retary-treasurer. Cooperative: Leh
man Lindsay, president; James
"Pogo” Park, vice-president; and
Louise Bransford, secretary-treas
urer.
Sophomore Class: Progressive:
Bob Steed, president; Nan Wil
liams, vice-president; and Barbara
Bryant, secretary-treasurer. Coop
erative: Bill Causey, president;
Mary Ann Clegg, vice-president;
and Jane Smith, secretary-treasur
er.
The following people i,ualified to
run for the Student Activities Com
mittee on the Progressive ticket
Gerry Troutman, Ken Hudson,
Janet McLaughlin, John Preston,
Sam Wilburn, and Woody Richard
son. The Cooperative Party qualifi
ed Dan Cline, Gilbert Wildes, Hilda
Bell, Betty McTeer, Tolly William
son, and Milton Gardner.
Student Athletic Committee
candidates are (Cooperative) Joe
Lowe, Charlotte Mize, and Charles
Carter. They will be opposed by
(Progressive) John Binns, Charles
Poteat, and Helen Faulkner.
BSU PROGRAM
SMU's Dr. Willis Glover Appointed
To Faculty; Kopp to Head Journalism
Dr. Willis Glover, currently a member of the faculty at Southern
Methodist University, has been appointed aaaociate professor of history
at Mercer University.
The announcement of Dr. Glover’s appointment to the Mercer
faculty was made by President George Connell at the regular March
meeting of the Mercer Board of Trustees, held during Spring holidays.
In a meeting devoted largely to
a discussion of the school’s build
ings and grounds program, the
trustees also agreed to set next
year’s operating budget at a fig
ure in excess of $600,000 and to
carry out extensive repairs on
Sherwood Hall dormitory for men.
A native of Mississippi, Dr. Glov
er received his education st Missis
sippi College, The University of
Virginia, and holds s Ph.D. de
gree from Harvard University.
Dr. Glover is s specialist in the
field of intellectual history and haa
this month published in London a
book on evsngelical nonconform
ists. His article* have appeared hi
Christian Century and the Christ
ian Scholar. At Mercer he will
work primarily in the field of
Western Civilization and intellect
ual history.
The new appointee has long been
active in Baptist affairs and he is
currently faculty adviser to the
Baptist Student Union at Southern
Methodist University. His wife is
the former Miss Miriam Cater, a
native of Forsyth and s graduate
of Shorter College.
It waa also announced that Dr.
Charles Kopp of the Mercer Eng
lish Department will take over the
direction of the department of
journalism next year and will sup
ervise part of the school's public
relations program.
Milton Heard, chairman of the
finance committee, presented to
the group the proposed university
budget of more than $600,000 for
next year, which the trustees una
nimously agreed to accept. It was
pointed out that next year's budget
is slightly larger than the one for
the current year.
The trustees also voted to em
power the executive committee to
proceed with plans for a complete
and thorough renovation of his
toric old Sherwood Hall, the uni
versity’s largest residence hall for
men.
Tentative plans for reconstruct
ing much of the interior of the
building were outlined by Elliot
Dunwody, university architect.
Work Days
Set to Raise
Mission Fund
Final plans for raising Mercer’s
contribution to the summer mis
sion program were announced this
week by Spencer Ludlow, promo
tion director of the BSU. They in
clude two work days in which stu
dents will work at various jobs and
contribute money earned to the
fund.
This coming Saturday, April 2,
and the following Saturday, April
9, have been designated as the work
days. Contacts were made in the
three churches having the largest
student gToups—Vineville, Tatnall
Square, and First—to secure the
jobs this past Sunday.
Placing emphasis on stewardship
of time and talent rather than just
money, the BSU will be asking
students to fill all the requests for
work that are received. Money
earned in these jobs at the rate of
75 cents an hour will be placed in
the fund.
A special Vesper pn gram, in
cluding an appeal to students to
cooperate and work in this pro
gram, is on tap for tomorrow night.
Students wishing to take part may
leave their names in the BSU office
in the co-op.
Mercer has two students nomin
ated t6 take part in the program
this summer. Tolly Williamson has
been selected as one of four Geor
gia students to represent the state
BSU and Naomi Clevenger has
been nominated as first alternate.
Other plans include shoe shines
by a trio of Mercerians during the
week of April 2-9 at 10 cents a
shine. A campus-wide offering will
be taken in Vespers on Thursday,
April 7.
One of the hoped for results of
this program is closer relations be
tween the school and the churches.
Assisting with the planning and
promotion in contracting the chur
ches were Bill Middlebrooks and
Jim Meloney.