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THE MERCER CLUSTER October 19, 1966
INTRODUCING SGA
Senior Class President
Studies Law at Mercer
by Tom Johnson
John Carlton Binns is the 21 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton
W. Binns of Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta has been the home of John
since his birth in 1935. He graduated from North Fulton High School
in 1953 and entered Mercer in the fall of the same year.
Since his entry into Mercer
John has acquired and maintained
a better than average record. He
is currently a freshman in I-aw
School and president of the senior
class. He is a member of SAE Fra
ternity where he has held the of
fice of chaplain.
In 1955 he was on the BSU ex
ecutive council, Chief Justice of
the pre law dub and tapped for
Blue Key.
John played varsity basketball
for two years and varsity golf for
one year. He is a military honor
student and a member of Scabbard
and Blade. He has been on the Stu
dent Activities Committee for two
years and was in Phi Eta Sigma in
his freshman year.
Like the average American boy,
John likes all sports, history—
John Itlniis
especially military, female com
panionship, and travel.
While being an active partici
pant in outside activities, John has
let none of them interfere with his
studies. He has maintained better
than a 1! average while at Mer-
■ lohn hopes to receive his AB
degree with a major in I.aw in the
Spring of '57. Upon grduation he
will probably serve his two years
obligated duty in the armed ser
vo es and then return to Mercer
and study for his LI,B at the Wal
ter F. George school of law.
After receiving his LLB, John
intends to practice haw in Atlanta.
Phi Delt Pledges
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Today Is the last day for stu
dents to hare their Indlildual
pictures made tor The Cauldron.
Anyone who has not had a ple-
ture made may do so between
9:00 a.ni. and 5:00 p.m. today.
Today Is also the day for fac
ulty members to haie their pie-
lures made during the same
hours.
No pictures will be made after
today.
Cauldron Editors
Crime Wave
At Alabama
(ACPI — Tin* CriniHon-White re
ports that authorities at tin* I ni-
vrrsity of Alabama are still investi-
gating a wave of theft which were
reported at sorority houses ami re*
UgiouH centers in the late summer
The thieves struck at several spots
within the space of a few days and
st'vmed to he interested in only the
most expensive loot
They took a $400 air conditioner
from the Alpha Delta Pi hous. , a
silver and tea set valued at $1,100
pom the Phi Mu house, a high-
fidelity set from the Baptist Student
center and a television set from the
Westminister house.
Tom Does Summer Stock
by Jackie Wallers
"Bound by the spell of Taos Mountain—the sacred mountain,” states
an old Indian legend. And all the inhabitants and visitors of the little
town of Taos, New Mexico, which nestles at the foot of the mountain,
are caught in this web of enchantment.
Tom Campbell, a Mercer senior,
proved thiB legend to be true as he
found himself caught up in the en
chantment while doing summer
stock work there at the Taos En
core Theatre last summer.
As a student actor, Tom perform
ed in the two-year-old summer
theatre company of 21 profession
als, teachers, university professors,
and college students.
Among the university professors
was Miss Audrey Needles, head of
Mercer’s Drsma Department, who
directed five of the ten plays and
who helped organize this particular
company two summers ago.
I’roducing a new play each
week with seven long hours of
rehearsal and an evening presen
tation each day was hard work,
but it gave Tom a chance to grow
as a person as well as an actor
and to make many new friends
from all over the United States.
“It was worth twe or three
drama courses!” Tom enthus
iastically relates.
Playing the part of “Biff" in
“Death of a Salesman” gave the
Mercer actor his first leading role
of the summer. In "Shakespeare
New Mexico" he had a major role
as a Western cowboy, “Billy the
Kid,” and was a minor character
in "Sabrina Fair.” His greatest
challenge came when Tom was ask
ed to take the lead in “The Apollo
of Bellac” with only a day’s notice.
In the art colony of Taos al
most 300 artists from all over
the world seek seclusion. Here
painters, musicians, writers, and
actors find a quiet place and the
inspiration for their work.
Drawn by the Indian Reservation
and the thousand-year-old pue
blo, touriats flock to this little
town in the northeastern corner
of New Mexico, and in the sum
mer the population swells from
the normal 7,000 to 10,000 in
habitants.
To Tom, the most amazing thing
about the West was the sunsets.
“The whole western sky glows and
the atmosphere makes it seem more
mellow and more colorful,” he de
scribes it, “But unless you’ve seen
it, it's hard to understand the vast
beauty which stretches over the
entire sky.”
The opinion of most people
that summer stork theatre is just
a bunch of eccentric
drunkards and unaureveafuta,
was definitely not true of this
group, reports Tom. “Those
people work creatively, with the
theatre being almost like • relig
ion to them," he explains. “And
most of them consider their tal
ent a direct gift from God.”
“And,” Tom concludes, “that’s
the way 1 feel. A person is able to
create—on the stage or elsewhere
—because God gave him that abil
ity. I guess that’s what you’d call
my 'philosophy of acting’.”
Thus, the legend of the Indians
becomes real as this mountain lends
a sacred note to these actors upon
whom its shadow falls.
Mexico Students
Defend Number
iAGPi Students at the Univer
sity of Mexico took tilings Info their
own hands after one of their nuni-
l,i-r suffered a broken leg when be
was struck hy a bus. They seised
several busses and refused to re
tain them until the bus company
had paid damage* to the unlucky
indent
Sticklers!
"ITS
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DON'T JUST STAND TNOS . . .
STICKLE I MAKE ’25
Sticklers are simple riddles with two-word rhyming an
swers. Both words must have the same number of sylla
ble*. (No drawings, plaaae!) Well shell out $26 fqr all
we uae—and for hundreds that never see print. So send
stacks of ’em with your name, sddress, collage and dam
to Happy-Joe-Lucky, Box 67A, Mount Vernon, N. Y.
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