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Volame XLI
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 28, 196
Number 1
Michael Tronzo, baritone, has
been teaching public school music
for three years and has had ex
perience conducting and directing
usical productions. This is his
first season with the National
Opera Company.
Naomi Blake, coloratura so
prano, starred in her own televis
ion show in her home town of St
Louis and in Kaleigh. She has made
regular appearances with leading
orchestras in Washington, I). C.
Opera 'Carmen'
Set For Tonight
Bizet’s “Carmen” will be performed in Willingham Chapel to
night at 8 p. m. by the National Opera Company.
The opera, which has been performed more than 100 times by this
touring troupe in all sections in the country, will be presented in
K'glish following the adaptation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.
Mercer students will be admitted
pixie Debaters
Here For Meet
Fifteen colleges and universities
11 participate in the annual Dixie
lebate Tournament held Oct. 28-
at Mercer University,
fompeting for awards will be
<■ University of Georgia. Auburn,
vid Lipscomb, Emory, Georgia
h, Howard College, University
if Florida, University of Kentucky,
niversity of South Carolina, Van-
rbilt and West Georgia College,
lb ner debaters will also partici-
iu'.e, but as host team will not be
ligible for honors.
Adoption of a program of com-
ilsory health insurance in the
nited States is the subject for
-ate.
Fast year the Mercer team took
>■ coveted Governor’s Trophy a-
irded at the Southern Regional
ornament at Baton Rouge,
luisiana. Dr. Helen Thornton,
ad of the speech and drama
partment, directs the Mercer de
le team.
The Dixie Debate Tournament
ill culminate at a luncheon at the
vis House at 12:30 p.m., Satur-
V. Oct. 29. The presentation of
phies and awards will be made
the assembly of debaters and
icir coaches from the various
ges and universities.
.aw Students
llect Officers
l aw students elected the follow-
i' to honor court offices, Thurs-
i v:
Freshmen Billy H. Beckworth
"1 Jerry W. Brimberry and sen-
i Larry Bryant and Winston
■nard, the last two unopposed.
Itoy Cowart and Frank Monday
<■ subject to a runoff election
'day for the post of Chief Jus-
r. Also rematched are juniors
nil Edenfield, Robert Swearin-
‘ii and Bill Wheeler.
Tom McWhorter was elected jus-
e at large, court of corrections.
iyc Green will represent the jun-
r class. Other rematches include
niors Bob Chaite and Duncan M.
?w Ill, and freshmen Tim Adams,
urn Bennet and George Colaon,
urt of corrections.
by their student activities card
Students representing other schools
here at Dixie Debating Tournament
will be the guests of Mercer for
the performance.
Starring in the opera will he
I’atricia Fraher, Geraldine Con-
well. Anne Rothgeb, Naomi
Blake, John Turner, Irving Ennis,
Dean Bennett, Michael Tronzo,
Karl Kreiner and John Miler.
THE STORY
The opera presents an intimate
view of the fiery gypsy who causes
a soldier to desert his regiment for
her favors. Her inconstant atten
tions soon shift to a dashing torea
dor. a development that leads to
her death.
In the first act, located inside a
guard house in Spain at th begin
ning of the 19th century, Carmen
a tempestous gypsy tries to cap
ture the attention of the young
soldier, Don Jose. When he shows
interest she takes a rose from her
hair and flings it at his feet
Though he then hardly realizes it,
her fatal charm has made its im
pression. Then his village sweet
heart, the shy Micaela, brings a
message from his mother and there
is a tender exchange of sentiment
between the two.
Carmen, after provoking a
fight among her companions, is
ordered to prison by Captain
Zuniga, w ho places Jose in charge
of the prisoner. Carmen induces
the infatuated soldier to loose
her wrist bonds and she escapes
laughing.
In the second act, set inside an
inn, a favorite gathering spot of
smugglers. Carmen awaits a pre
arranged meeting with Jose. Es-
camillo, the dashing hero who sings
of the glories of the bull ring, is
much impressed with the flirtatious
gypsy. She returns his interest.
Jose finally arrives after having
served a two-month sentence in
prison for allowing Carmen to es
cape. An ardent love scene is
broken by the sound of a bugle
from the army camp. Jose’s duty
as a soldier finally overcomes his
desire to be with her and he pours
out hia heart in the “Flower Song.”
Carmen furiously repudiates him.
Zuniga, the captain, arrives and
orders Jose back to the camp. When
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LSU Professor Picked
As '60 Lamar Lecturer
APO To Show
Sat. Movies
Tne Delta lota Chapter of Al
pha I’hi Omega, National Servire
Fraternity, has taken steps to an
swer the problem of the Mercer
student of what to do on week
ends. The fraternity will sponsor
Suturday night movies for ttudent
entertainment.
These movies will be of an enter
taining rather than an informative
nature. They will feature cinema
scope and color releases. All mov
ies will be as recent as possible,
many of which appeared on the
movie screen just last year. The
types of movies will be varied from
drama to comedy. Short subjects
and comedies will be added
funds permit.
Because of the expense involved
in obtaining these movies it will be
necessary to charge a small admis
sion fee. A charge of 25c per mov
ie will be made to everyone who
buys a season ticket for 10 movies
This ticket will cost $2.50. If the
person wishes not to purchase a
season ticket he can pay 35c at the
door providing he or she is ac
companied by a season ticket hold
er. These tickets will be transfer
able so that they can be passed on
in case the owner is unable to at
tend.
The first movie, to be shown on
Nov. 5, will be “Three Coins in a
Fountain” starring Clifton Webb,
Dorothy McGuire and Jean Peters
A special cartoon will also be
shown.
On every Saturday night after
Nov. 5 a movie will be present
ed.
Season tickets will be on sale
soon. An increase in the number of
tickets will increase the quality
of the movies. Seats will be given
to the holder of season' tickets in
preference to patrons paying at
the door.
Alpha Phi Omega stresses that
this is not a money making ven
ture but rather a service project
for the Mercer student. All money
will go back into the purchase of
movies and expenses involved in
the showing of them.
Chapel Plans Told
A member of the Georgia Board
of Pardons and Paroles will speak
in Friday chapel Nov. 4. Hugh Car
ney will speak of the work of this
board.
Dr. Henry J. Stokes will again
lead the Wednesday devotion. He
is pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Macon, Ga.
Scholarship Date
Announced
The Rhodes scholarships dead
line is Nov. 2, according to Dean
Robert H. Spiro, Jr.
To be eligible a candidate must
be a male citizen of the United
States and unmarried, between the
ages of eighteen and twenty-four,
at least a junior in academic rat
ing and recipient of the official
endorsement of his college.
Dean Spiro urges students in
terested to contact him immediate
ly.
Dr. T. Harry Williams, Civil War
historian, has been selected as the
1960 Lamar lecturer. The lectures
will be given Nov. 15-17.
A foremost Civil War historian, selected as the 1960
Lamar lecturer, will review Southern, politics from recon
struction to modern times in the annual lecture series, Nov.
15-17.
Dr. T. Harry Williams, professor
of history at Louisiana State Uni
versity, has been selected by the
Lamar lecture committee as this
year’s lecturer. Previous lecturers
include Jay Broadus llubbell, Ber
nard Mayo and Donald Davidson.
Dr. Williams has titled the series
“Romance and Realism in Southern
Politics,” although he will deal
with the practical in hard politics
not only in the reconstruction area
but in a more recent period, that of
the Longs of Louisiana.
BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH AUTHOR
The lecturer was one of the first
professors at LSU to be named to
the honorary rank of Boyd Pro
fessor. He is also the authoi of
a number of Civil War period
books, including a book-of-the-
month selection of several years
ago, Lincoln and His Generals. He
also wrote Lincoln and the Radi
cals and 1*. G. T. Beauregard: Na
poleon in Gray. Williams is the
editor of Selected Writings and
Speeches of Abraham Lincoln. He
is now working on a biography of
Huey P. Long.
The editors of the Cambridge
Modern History selected him to
contribute a chapter on the
American Civil War to a new
series of the publication.
Among the many publications
he has contributed to include the
”M ississippi Valley Historical Re
view,” “Journal of Southern His
tory,” “New Y’ork Times," “Ameri
can Military Historical Institute”
and state historical periodicals.
Dr. Williams, a native of Illinois,
came to LSU in 1941. Before then
he taught at the University of
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Harris Made
Chairman
Mercer President Rufus C. Har
ris was re-eiectcd chairman of the
national advisory lioard of the vet
erans’ administration at their
meeting during the first of the
Week in Washington.
Prior to attending the Washing
ton board meeting, Dr. Harris had
been in Princeton for a meeting of
the Institute of Defense Analyses.
He returned to Macon the first
of the week hut left later for a
special celebration at the Univer
sity of Southwestern Louisiana at
Lafayette. He speaks there at a
student assembly on the occasion
of the renaming of the college, for
merly called the Southwestern
Louisiana Institution.
Katz Visit Set
Dr. Wilber G. Katz will be on the Mercer campus, Nov.
10-11 to lecture On the relevance of the Christian faith to the
practice and philosophy of law. Katz will continue a series
of visits initiated by Richard R. Neibuhr and Randall Stewart.
While on campus, Dr. Katz will
deliver three addresses focused
around the theme, “Freedom and
Responsibility.” Dr. Katz became
interested in this problem when he
confronted the contradiction be
tween the determinism in the test
imony of many expert psychiatric
witnesses and the responsibility
of the individual assumed in our
legal tradition. He has explored this
problem in depth, bringing to bear
upon it the profound anthropology
implied in the faith as well as a
wide understanding of philosophy,
psychology and literature.
LECTURES NAMED
His lectures have been entitled
“Freedom and Responsibility,”
“Capital Punishment,” “Euthan
asia” or "Post election Reflections
on the Separation of Church and
State.”
Dr Katz, professor and former
dean at the University of Chicago
Laf School, has been a member of
the faculty there since 1930, serv
ing ak dean from 1939-1950.
After receiving his L.L.B. In
1926 and his SJ.D. in 19S0. both
from Harvard, he practiced law
in New York and Chicago.
He is the author of Caaes on
Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure
with Justice Felix Frankfurter,
co-author of Accounting in Law
Dr. Wilber G. Katz, former dean ol
the University of Chicago law
school, will lecture here Nov. 10-11.
Practice and author of Introduc
tion to Accounting, as well as
numerous articles in legal publica
tions.
Katz, a member of Phi Kappa
and Order of the Coif, is secretary
of the board of trustees of Seabury
Western Theological Seminary and
a member of the American, Illinois
and Chicago bar associations.