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VOL. XXXV MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA„ FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1955 No. 19
Johnson Wins SG Presidency;
Official Installation Set May 3
Dr. Maston to Highlight
Weekend BSU Retreat
Dr. T. B. Maston, professor of ethics at the Southwestern Baptist
Seminary, will be the featured speaker at the annual state BSU spring
retreat which begins tonight. The retreat, to be held at Bessie Tift
College in Forsyth, will last through tomorrow night.
Also headlining the program is
Mr. Bill Cody, associate secretary
of the southwide Department of
Student Work in Nashville. Theme
of the retreat is “We Must Work."
The opening service tonight begins
at 7 PM.
Transportation to and from the
retreat will be provided by "Lucy,”
the BSU bus. She will leave MEP
at 6:80 tonight and return after
the program closes. Departure time
tomorrow morning is set at 8:15
with a return trip about 1:30.
“Lucy” will go back to Forsyth at
6:30 for the evening service, re
turning after the program is com
pleted.
THURSDAY NIGHT
Fete Honors
Two Retiring
Mercerians
By Gilbert Wildes
Professor W. T. Smalley, member
of Mercer faculty for 32 years, and
Mrs. A. I’. Montague, who has serv
ed Mercer 26 years, will be special
guests of Mercer faculty and
Trustees at a banquet in MEP din
ing room April 28 at 7:00 p. m.
Tribute to Professor Smalley is
Reports on Ridgecrest, summer j g j ven f or hj s faithful tutoring of
missions, and prayermates will be i mathematics, Latin, and Greek, as
heard at various points on the pro- , we jj ag ^is beloved subject, Eng-
gram. Saturday morning will be
devoted to an officer work-shop
with the business session scheduled
in mid-afternoon. Dr. Maaton will
speak both Saturday morning and
evening. Mr. Cody will speak Fri
day night
Also to be included on the pro
gram are Dr. Carey Vansant, Rev.
Aubrey Hawkins, Rev. Louis Ken
nedy, and Dr. Paul McC'ommon.
A social, planned for Friday-
night following the service, will be
directed by two Bessie Tift stud
ents.
Housing accomodations for the
girls from all over the state attend
ing the meet will be provided at
Bessie Tift. Boys attending will
commute to Mercer tonight for
lodging. Meals will be served in
the Bessie Tift dining hall for
those desiring them.
Spring Play
Ends Tonight
The final performance of "Night
Must Fall,” a mystery in three
acts, will be presented tonight at
8:14 in Willingham Chapel. The
plays stars Katie Reed, Annette
Robertson, and Mak Flowers, as a
neurotic old woman, her niece, and
her newly-found and trusted friend,
respectively.
Also included in the cast are Tom
Campbell, Chuck Haffemlen, Dirlie
Bailey, Carolyn Ricks, and Clara-
nell Hobby. Members of the tech
nical crews include Gladys Padgett,
Betty Bryant, properties; John Wil
son, stage manager; Wayne Blue,
Ferrell White, lights; Pat Jordan,
prompter; and Claranell Hobby,
Celetta Dykes, publicity.
“Night Must Fall,” directed by
Miss Audrey Needles, is a drama
full of the suspense and excite
ment revolving about a lonely coun
try dwelling, a murder, and two
clashing personalities. All Mercer
students will be admitted free upon
presentation of their student activi
ties cards.
lish. He came to Mercer in 1923 as
a graduate of Mercer, Columbia
University and the UniversHy of
Chicago.
During a leave of absence in
World War 1 he served as YWCA
educational director in France.
After the War he helped raise
funds for Georgia Baptist educa
tional purposes which included
Mercer University.
Dr. Smalley loves to teach and
he is a learned scholar and a mast
er of literature.
Mrs. A. P. Montague better
known as "Mother Montague” is
currently assistant librarian in
charge of periodicals. She came to
Mercer 26 years ago with her hus
band, Dr. A. P. Montague, who ryas
vice president during part of the
Dowell administration and instruc
tor of Latin and public speaking.
Mrs. Montague has served as house
mother of the boys’ dorm and Dean
of Women. She is presently mother
of the Phi Delta Theta and on the
faculty of Cardinal Key.
Other faculty members leaving
at the end of the year will be
recognized. They are Dean Hoy
Taylor, professor of Sociology,
seven years; Professor Peter Ole-
sen, German instructor, five years;
Captain Frank Wilson, Professor
of Military Science and Tactics,
three years; and Miss Dorothy Pit
man, Counselor for women, three
years.
President George B. Connell will
he Master of Ceremonies. Those on
the program are former president
Spright Dowell, Mrs. Otis Knight,
president of the Student Govern
ment und the chairman of Board of
Trustees.
MID-TERM SCHEDULE
The following is the mid-term
examination schedule: Tuesday,
April 26. all third and sixth per
iod classes. Wednesday, April
27, all second and fifth period
classes. Thursday, April 28, all
first and fourth period clasaea.
Sid Johnson
BSU Drive
Breaks Goal
With a present total of $266.81,
the Mercer contribution to the state
BSU summer mission fund has gone
over the top. The local goal was
$250.
The drive to gain funds for the
program officially ended last Sat
urday. However, according to Spen
cer Ludlow, chairman of the cam
paign, there is still some money to
come in which will boost the final
total even higher. He estimates
that the closing figure will be
somewhere in the neighborhood of
$275.
The money will be added to like,
funds from other BSU groups
throughout tha state to be used to
send four Georgia students to the
mission fields for the summer
months. Mercer’s Tolly Williamson
has been selected as one of the four.
Naomi Clevenger, also of Mercer,
is an alternate. These selection by
the state BSU mission committee
must be approved at the BSU
spring retreat this weekend.
Choir Sets Two
Weekend Shows
The Mercer Choir will travel to
south Georgia for two performan
ces this Sunday, April 24. A secular
program will be presented at the
First Baptist Church of Sylvania
at 4 PM. The same program will
lie given at the Statesboro First
Baptist Church at 7:30 PM.
Next Sunday, May 1, the choir
will sing at the Morningside Bap-,
tist Church in Atlanta. Chartered
Greyhound buses will carry the
choir on the trips.
Musical Show
Slated in May
The Mercer Glee Club will pre
sent its musical show, to be called
this year “Musical Comedy Cap
ers", on May 12 in Willingham
Chapel. The program will be made
up of hit songs from “Carousel”,
“Oklahoma”, “Show Boat”, “Desert
Song”, “Naughty Marietta”, and
“The Student Prince”.
The show will be accompanied
by a 25 piece orchestra and will
feature several soloists as well as
the 100-voica glee dub.
Williamson, Attaway Win
Other Top Student Jobs
By Jim Meloney
Leading a victorious Progressive ticket, Sid Johnson was elected
president of the Mercer student Body in the annual elections last Tues
day. Johnson defeated CooperatfWteob Green and C. C. Lynch, Jr.,
a write-in candidate, for the top student job.
Winning nineteen of the twenty-six student government posts, the
Progressives fell short of their impressive victory of last year, when
they won all but one office.
Tolly Williamson, Cooperative,
defeated Spencer Ludlow for the
vice-presidency, while Nancy Atta
way topped Diane Owen for secre
tary-treasurer. Three unopposed
Progressive candidates, Buddy
Moore for freshman adviser, Jim
Meloney for Cluster editor, and
Elliot Brack for Cluster business
manager, were automatically elect
ed.
In n close race, Carswell Hughs,
Cooperative, edged out Gene Bis
hop, Progressive, for Cauldron
business manager while Progres
sive Nancy Yates scored over Liz
Doss, Cooperative, for Cauldron
editor.
Official installation of the new
gressive Art Rich, for vice-presi
dent; Alice Tate, Progressive, over
Cooperative Louise Bransford for
Secretary-treasurer.
(Sophomore Class) Progressive
Hugns Yates
Bob Steed ove. Cooperative Bill
Causey for president; Mary Ann
Clegg, Cooperative, over Nan Wil-
offi-ers is scheduled for Tuesday,! Hams, Progressive, for vice-presi
dent; and Cooperative Jane Smith
over Barbara Bryant, Progressive,
for secretary-treasurer.
: On the Student Activities Com-
I mittee, the Progressives placed
! five—Gerry Troutman, Ken Hud-
j son, Janet McLaughlin, Sam Wil-
! burn, and Woody Richanlsoq—to
j one Cooperative. Milton Gardner.
John Binns, Helen Faulkner, and
1 Charles Poteat, all Progressives,
| were elected to the Student Athie-
| tic Committee.
Attaway Moore
May 3, according to retiring SG
President Joe Hendricks.
Class officer races ended up j
with: (Senior Class) Jerry Walker, GYM
Progressive, over Hugh Hodges,
Cooperative, for president; Dean
Johnson, Progressive, over Neil
Evans, Cooperative, for vice-presi
dent; Cooperative Freda Cagle
Meloney Brack
over Progressive Connie Adams for
secretary-treasurer.
(Junior Class) Tony Sansone,
Progressive, over Lehman Lindsay,
Cooperative, for president; Co
operative James Park over Pro
Blood Drive
Set Monday
The university-wide blood donor
campaign slated for next Monday,
! April 25, in Porter gym, will climax
'current university co-operation
with Red Cross efforts, \1! blood
J donated will boost the inadequate
| supply in veterans and aimed forc
es hospitals.
Students and faculty n.embers
volunteering to participate ;u this
project are requested to return
completed pledge cards to D-an
Louise Brown immediately or ’• e-
phone Extension 5 1 at the univers
ity switchboard. Every, in.r r
I donating blood must present a per-,
! mission signed by his parents.
Student blood .donors \v;: be ex-
! eused from one Class or Kt 'TC
period, if necessary, to participate
j during the 8:30 - 12:3m morning
I period. Afternoon bouts \vdl he
j from 2:00 to 4 00. During both sos-
| sions a canteen will serve donors.
A trophy will be awarded by
] Alpha Pi Omega to the campus
I Kroup with the top percentage of
volunteers, according to Dan Cli”o,
president of the service fraternity.
He adds that not only student
groups but the faculty will bo
elegible to receive this participa
tion award.
Tolly Williamson
There will be no issue of the
Cluster next week due to mid
term examinations.
—Tha Editor
