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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 11, 1960
Number 6
Viliams Begins Annual
Series of Lamar Lectures
The 1960 Umar lecture series will be initiated by Dr. T. Harry
illiams in chapel Tuesday. He will speak on "The Distinctive South.”
lectures will continue through Thursday.
Williams, a professor of history at Lousiana State University, was
■ccntly announced by the I-amar lecture committee as this year’s
crirer. He has written several
1 s. among them Lincoln and
Generals, a book of the month
ilion. His special field of in-
t is the Civil War.
Hr. Williams is scheduled to
liver four lectures during this
-it. The Tuesday lecture will
introduce the series. On Tues-
l»' at 8 p.m. in room 314 of the
Indent renter he will lecture on
I he Politic* of Reconstruction.”
l> i Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 4 p.m.,
illiams speaks on “The Politics
Populism and Progressivism”
II of the student center. The
•■a is concluded on Thursday
t p.m. with a lecture entitled
fli Politics of the Longs of
iana.”
• Eugenia Dorothy Blount La-
l.ecture series is an annual
at Mercer and is supported
legacy left by the late Mrs.
r “to provide lectures of the
highest type of scholarship
iili will aid in the permanent
rvation of the values of
uthern culture, history and lit-
tnro.” Previous lecturers under
-ponsorship of this fund include
Broadus Hubbell, Bernard
■ and Donald Davidson.
Die Lamar lecture Committee
.inposed of the following: Dr.
W. Griffith, chairman; Dr.
M. Cousins, Dr. Spencer B.
Dean Richard C. Burts, Prof,
n B. Plymale, Prof. Henry Y.
■mock, all of Mercer; Dr. John
Edison and Ralph Stephens,
ns; William C. Turpin, Macon
t'r. John Donald Wade, Mar
ie i I le.
Military Men
Here Next Friday
An Armed Forces Visitation Day
will be observed Friday, Nov. 18,
on the Mercer campus. Representa
tives from the various armed ser
vices will be present to inform stu
dents of their programs.
Present plans call for a featured
speaker in chapel. During this time
the representatives from the service
branches will sit on the platform
and be introduced.
Following the chapel program
each team will be assigned room
space in the student center for
interviews and displays from
8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Previously representatives from
the various branches visited the
campus at random times during
the year. This year the university
is trying to co-ordinate their visits
so that the students will have the
opportunity to make comparisons
and to talk with various officers
the same day.
“We hope thp students take ad
vantage of this armed service
Staff photo by Ward Lowrance
Standing in front of a reproduction of the George stamp are (left to right) Heard George,
son of the late Georgia senator; Postmaster Arthur Summerfield; Sen. Herman Talmadge
and Mayor J. T. deLiesseline of Vienna where George made his home
Post Office Honors Mercer
Alumnus with SpeciolStump
visitation program,” said Dean
Richard C. Burts. The program
falls under his auspices as dean
of students.
Cardinal Key Inducts
First Lady; Five Others
Cardinal Key, national honor society, conferred honorary member
ship upon the wife of Mercer President Rufus C. Harris and tapped
five students for membership during Tuesday's chapel program.
Glenda Tanner, president, pre-
atz Concludes Visit
Lecture Today
I>r. Wilber 0 Katz is scheduled to conclude his series of lectures
with his appearance in chapel today. His schedule called for his
ing on Thursday at the chapel hour and for his lecturing last
in the student center.
His visit here was sponsored
by the Faculty Christian Fel
lowship, which has also brought
other outstanding Christian
scholars to the campus for lec
ture visits.
In preparation for the three Katz
lectures, students and faculty par
ticipated in a series of discussion
groups in which they studied vari
ous writings of the lecturer.
ith
schedule topic for this mom-
lecture is “Capital Punish-
Previously he was slated to
tulked on “Freedom and Re-
sibility” and either "Euthana-
or “Post-election Reflections
be Separation of Church and
1 p -”
Katz is a professor at the
rsity of Chicago Law School.
j ( nerly, he was dean of that
pd. He has written several
works.
Students Support
Kennedy’s Plan
A group of Mercer students have
endorsed the proposal made by
President-elect John F. Kennedy
calling for the establishment of
a “peace corps” of young men to
serve in underdeveloped countries
rather than serve in the United
States armed forces.
According to Jerry Hendrix,
president of the Young Democrats
Club of Mercer, a number of stu
dents have expressed an interest
in the proposal made by the Demo
cratic president-elect
(Continued on page 4
sided over the tapping ceremonies.
The students inducted were Lynn
Bradley, Joanne Croy, Gail Kelley,
Vonciel Smith and Velma Jean
Young.
Cardinal Key is one of the high
est honors a woman may attain
while attending Mercer.
in commenting on the socie
ty's selection of Mrs. Harris,
Cardinal Key President Tanner
said Mrs. Harris exemplified the
“outstanding women in the com
munity who have proved their
interest in the welfare and ad
vancement of the campus and
the community."
Lynn Bradley: MICA, student
publications committee, Y W A,
secretary of CSF, REA, member
of executive council and enlist
ment vice-president of BSU, honor
council, treasurer of WSGA, Caul
dron and president of the junior
class
Joanne Croy: secretary and
treasurer of MICA, WSGA, sec
retary of BSU, circle chairman of
YWA, Cluster, Ciceronian, Lite
rary Society, CSF, REA and
SNEA.
Gail Kelly: Chi Omega, Cicero
nian Literary Society, Cauldron,
secretary of SNEA, treasurer of
kappa Delta Episolon, social
chairman of WSGA, choir, l’an-
hellenic council and rircle and
devotional chairman of YWA.
Vonceii Smith: MICA, member of
freshman advisory board and sec
retary of BSU, secretary of REA,
secretary of Delta Omieron, sec
retary of choir, music chairman of
YWA and member of BSU greater
council.
(Continued on page 3)
Officer Talks
On Criminals
Hugh Carney, a member of the
Georgia Board of Pardons and Pa
roles. spoke in chapel, Friday, Nov.
4. He was accompanied by Pro
fessor Emeritus Welcome Talmadge
Smalley who is also connected with
the board.
Carney, a Mercer alumnus,
spoke on the work on the board
in dealing with Criminals, mention
ing the development of the parole
department. He pointed out the ad
vances in dealings with criminals
as is marked by such rules as the
indeterminate sentence laws and
the first offender pardons.
The one-time assistant attorney
general of Georgia also express
ed himself on capital punish
ment. He was opposed to it. lie
observed that Georgia had led
the nation in the number of ex
ecutions per year, the state's
average being about 13. Carney
considers the life term to be a
more effective deterent to crime.
He also brought in the responsi
bility of the state to the prisoner.
He pictured the ideal system of
prisons with prison industries,
schools for the education of the in
mates, psychologists and psychia
trists and trained parole officers.
The first school for probation
officers, he noted, was held at
Mercer.
During the course of his re
marks he condemned the clos
ing of the schools but supported
the pupil placement law. He
said we “do not owe blind al
legiance to the past."
He stated that 30 per cent of the
colored population was responsible
for “0 per cent of the crimes in
the state. In dealing with this
group he said, the state needs to
educate the prisoners, to rehabili
tate them through training and to
be "genuinely human” in dealing
with them.
Postmaster Authur Summerfield in Vienna Saturday, along with
Georgia political leaders, hailed Georgia's late Senator Walter F.
(ieorge “as an unselfish public servant . . . always a gentleman,
honest, gentle, polite and above all industrious and tolerant.”
The Postmaster General spoke at
a ceremony in Sen. George's home
town marking the first day of issue
for a four cent memorial stamp
honoring the Senator who died
August 7 , 1957.
The ceremony took place in
front of the Dooly County Court
house on a warm afternoon. Over
800 persons, many children, came
to take part in the hour-long me
morial service.
Among the Georgia leaders
present were Senator Herman
Talmadge and Third District
Congressman E. I,. (Tic) For
rester. Senator Richard Russell
was unable to attend due to ill
ness.
Vienna Mayor J. T, deLiesse
line read a telegram from Presi
dent Eisenhower which heaped
praise on the late Senator, calling
George “a leader who stood with
courage and ability.”
Other words of praise wet"
given by Forrester, who said:
“thank God for Senator George
and thank God for the Constitu
tion he loved so well." Talmadge,
who succeeded George in the Sen
ate, said "Senator George left be
hind a heritage that will live as
long as there is a United States
and a United States Senate.”
Summerfield said that he and
President Eisenhower felt that
George gave much to our nation
that the late senator deserved
every honor this nation can give
him.
George was born on a farm op
erated by his tenant-farmer par
ents in Webster County, Ga. Lat
he attended Mercer and was
an outstanding student, a member
of Sigma Nu Fraternity, and a
medal winning orator. Here he re
ceived his legal education and
years later his alma mater honor
ed him by naming its law school
the Walter F. George School of
Law.
He practiced law until election,
at the age of 44, to the U S. Senate
in 1922. Retiring from the Senate
after 35 years of service, he was
named by President Eisenhower as
(Continued on page 3)
