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T. King Is ROTC Cadet Colonel
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William T. Kip$, of Macon, was
mimed an new cadet colonel of the
Mercer University ROTC Cadet
Dorp# in Htudent chapel Tuesday. |
('olnnel William l). Smith Jr . Pro-'
feRHor of Military Science and
Tactics announced ull the top cadet
officers for thla acfiool year.
in being: named cadet clone!, King I VOLUME XXXVII
receives the highcHt position otfen |
to a Mercer military student.
Cadet Colonel (’liarles A Per
kins, of Savannah, is to be the Kegl-
mrntal Executive Officer. Other
legimental staff officers are: Cadet
Major Ronald C. l)ubs, lirunawick.
Adjutant; Cadet Major Emory C.
Smith Jr.. Macon, 83; and Cadet
Major John C. lUnns. Atlanta, S4
Arthur L. Rich Jr., of Macon, was
named Cadet Lieutenant Colonel
and is in command of the First
Battalion Mis st.ift will < (insist of:
Cadet Major William L Wiefeen-
'h ch. Hempstead. N. V Executive
Officer; Cauet Calitain Eugene Bis
hop. Veto Beach Fla.. Adjutant;
Cadet Captain James M Fills Jr .
Macon. S3; and Cadet Captain Ro
bert P Lufhurrow. Macon. St
The Cadet S<vond Battalion will
he under the command of Cadet
Lieutenant Colonel Thanier K. Tcou
ple Jr. Macon, assisted by Cadet |
Majo» Richard P Andrews. Macon,
executive Officer; Cadet Captain
Kenneth C Crane Mapeville, Adju
tant; Cadet Sidtiev F. Wood. Macon.
S3, and Cadet Captain David W
Fillingim. Savatmah. St
Cadet Commander of the ROTC
Band is Cadet Captain Roger W
Kearbrougii Jr.. Savannah. The Ex*
• * utive Officer is Cadet Captain
lii'iijamin L Johnson. .Macon, and
the Supply Officer l- Cadet Semmlj
Lieutenant Jerry F. Lee. Mmcoii 1
Four Company Commanders w* re
announced They an- Cutlet (,’ap-
t.iin Robert V Julies It Moultrie, i
Coinpan> "A". Cadet Captain Fl-
t.ott F Brack. Macon. Company I
Mnttt Cl us: ter
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA„ NOV. 2, 195(i
No. 5
Cowan Ends MU Career
Will Leave In December
by Marty Lay-field
Mcrcei *s basketball mentoi, Jim Cowan aiinocunced his resign
tion aa head basketball and track coach Monday He will leave Men
after this present quarter to take a position as public relations
of the Chernket Cn-dit Life Insurance Company.
The resignation (f Coach Cowan
came as a compu te surprise to the
officials ol Mercer. In announc
ing his resignation. Cowan made it
char that the Administration’s de
cision to (list-outiuu* the physical
education major was in no way
connected H* made *ne following
statement
Pictured here is head basketball coach Jim Cowan. Coach
Cowan, who was beginning his ninth year-as Bear mentor, resigned
last Monday.
Cowan has taken a position with Cherokee Credit and Life
Insurance (b.
"CORN IS GREEN"
MU Drama Department
Will Present Comedy
"it”. Cadet Captain Walter D
Smith. Macon. Company "F"; and
Cadet Captain Phillip B Ham.
Small s. ('omputiy F
Other Company officers are.
to ill pan) **A M . Cadet 1st Lt James
(Continued on page a)
KRUSCHEV GETS 3 VOTES
MU Students 'like Ike"
By A Two to One Margin
lit KiiiIiIj Hurt
Preaidi-nt Klai-nhuwi-r defeated A dial Stevenson by a voir of 280
tn lid 111 Mercer's straw ballot Wednesday, but that s hardly all the story
The ballot was sponsored by the local chapter of Students for
Stevenson, which was seeinirigb dismayed at the results. Cliff Hendrix,
freshman and chairman of the chapter, was last seen writing Atlanta
headquarters a letter of explanation and resignation.
llendrlx hail prerlmi»l) made seieral tries to drop HH* pounds
of prosSterenson leaflets on the Hererr campus ironi a rented ulr-
plane. Oirrai't- prcrentesl his plan until the ila> of the ballot. And
thru, only ten were pruted to hate fallen on target.
Commeted Hendrix. "No comment The less people know 1 had
inytliing r» do with matter, the better
Write-ballots- w en the order of tin- din That and ballot stufftng
highlighted the voting
One lone Democrat was sc-,, fervently taking blank ballot after
blank ballot, marking It for Stevenson, and putting it in the ballot box
Voter-counters said many Elsenhower hullot marked
with (he same red-ink. hall-point pen suggested Republicans were
not ahore such practice.
Individualists ran rampant and w
dates
A ticket of Herman Talmadgc and
fessor. polled 2-1 votes.
T Coleman Andrews and Talmadgc got 12 vote*
A Communist ticket, headed by Khruschov and Itwlganln. turned
in three votes. Somebody voted for ''Tier *’"«<> 141,(1 ( -’*‘ orK ‘'
Ambrose " Even Peanuts got a vote. .... .
( oL Smith's campaign speech 111 rliapel Tuesday netted him the
grand total of one tote. IJly St t jr. strip-tease dancer, got one
tote. A. L. Kleh got two »otes.
Mr. Ware, biology teacher, got one vole as vice pr -sol. lit
One extreme Individualist turned in a blank ballot Somebody
else voted for "Stevenson
Democratic anpporter* took consolation In noting that returns show
ed only one third of Mercer students bad voted. And ME!’ went three
to one for Stevenson. That was exactly tin- gltls xotr 1,1,11 * l,r
Stevenson and one for Elsenhower.
candt-
Do, '• Anthony, economics pro-
hy Jackie Walters
The Corn Is Green," u fall production of the Mercei Players and
Alpha I’si Omega dramatics fraternity, will be presented Thursday
and Friday, November lf> and 16, in Willingham Chapel. The three act
comedy is directed by Miss Aubrey Needles, head of Mercer's drama
department. Curtain time will be 8:14 p m.
. ' l
The character play by Emlyn Wil
liams Is the story of Miss Moffat,
an English spinster who starts a
school foi boys in a Welsh mining
xilluge. and of her struggles In
helping Morgan Evans, a budding
young and undiscovered genius,
make good Against the prejudice of
local folk, a wealthy squire .and the
rebellion of Morgan himself, she
strives to give him "the push over
the wall of Ignorance." which he
so desires.
Naomi Clevenger. of Springfield,
\a, stars in tile role of Miss Mof
fat and Jtmmy Nelson, of Eaton-
ton, is Morgan Evans. Other mem
bers of the cast Include Annette
Robertson as Miss Konberry; Bol
Johnson as John Goronwy Jones;
Colin Sims as the Squire; Anita
Shuman as Hess I e Watty; Georgia
I’ln-Lts as "Nt rs. Watty; Fmmalyn
niilllpH as Sarah l’ugh; Douglas
Dorough as Idwal Morris; Ray
Horne’ as Old Tom; Doit Oiannat-
tasio as Robbart Kobbatuh; Jimmy
Prescott as (Jlyn Thomas. Varnie
Hannan as Will Hughes, Nan Lovell
t:s Julia Knox. Jam Caudill as
Amelia Romano; and (Jracie Ad
cock as Koslland Carter
The Story takes plate ill the
small Welsh mining village- of
Olansarno in the latter pa it. of the
ninteeth century.
"My decisiun to leaw Mercer
and ucthe coaching was nw-liwl
after much thought ami consld
( ration. A person could not he at
uii) place for ten years ami not
find if hard to make a decision to
leave".
'I am unhappy that this oppor
tunity to (niter business came In the
middle of the basketball season,
however, the time element was
something 1 could not control."
•*1 have not had a player on any
of my *<|nuds since I arrived at
Mercer, that I do not hate the
highest respect and lote for.
There I* no donht that as this
present squad goes through the
season, uiy heart will be oil the
hardwood with them."
Zeb Vance, athletic director,
said that m» replacement has been
secured at the present time, though
Several parties have been restart
ed. Vance also made it clear that
Coach Cowan will remain until af
ter the December 19th game with
Christian Brothers.
President Connell gave the fol
lowing statement on Coach Cowan
resigning "As much as we hated
to lose Coach Cowan and to dis
rupt our basketball season by a
-Change of coac.hefi, we felt that in | The title is "Progress in Dem
fairness to him and to his future cy ”. Clover is professor of hi
with the new company, we should | at Mercer
coach in Mercer’s history.
"His quid, affable, hut none the
h ss firm manner' with whu h he
handled tin- hoys and his devo
tion to the best sportsmanship and
character attracted many high typ*
athlete's to Mercer campus
"When one considers on the one
baud, tiu- fact that Mercer has no
financ ial subsidy to offer athletes,
together with fac t that it is a lib-
( ral art* college giving only tin
A B degrees and on cm* other hand
looks at the large number of ex
ceptional athletes who enrolled at
Mercer Under Mr Cowan's reign,
one must conclude that his own
personal standard of conduct and
his qualities of leadership made
him an excellent recruiter.
M Finall), It goes without sajing
that we hate to lose him. He car
ries with him Into his new work
the respect of his associates and
the best wishes tif all who knew
him.”
Many possible successors hav.
been mentioned for Coach Crtwan
High tin the list is (ahum Wilk. -
i ( ont limed oil Page Three i
Glover Speaks
Today In Chapel
Dr. Willis (Hover will speak in •
chapel tins morning Dr. (llow
recently spoke on behalf of the R*
publicans in a student chapel pro
gram. He assures that his spec o',
will he political hut nan-partisan
comply with his request
“Mr. Cowan’s service to this
institution has been noteworthy.
He has had remarkable* success ay
n recruiter and as a coach of
basketball and track, ills record
Is an enviable one, perhaps un
matched, from the standpoint of
championships won. by any other
On November »». the chapel will
be under the direction of :)ip stud* ni
| government Tlu* plans f.>r that s* -
| sion were not uxafluhlo foi printing
j Dr. Arthur Rich will present the
: program for the i hap**! s v , \ . ui>
j W*‘d:if*sday Xovemht i 7 'I pi c
| gram will featui. a few st . . ji«m-
liv tlo* choir.
REA Meets Thursday
Tin KnliitloiiH Eduoatioual A*«h1-
atlon will meet Thursday. Novetn-
lu r S. at 7:20 in room 12 of the
theology bulldlntt The'meeting will
include a program and • report on
two project,. There will »lno he a
report from Hie constitution com
mitter
Cokw.1 William D. Smith of the Mercer ROTC eorp, e- ratu
late. Tommy King. King waa named Cadet Colonel of the ercer
ROTC in Chapel Tueoday. Alfred l’erkins. new regimental executive
officer, stand, on the right.