The Mercer Cluster. (Macon, Ga.) 1920-current, November 18, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textfl " Mnttt ‘'""“'WWWTrainr *aoon. ga Cluster Volume XLI MERCER UNIVERSITY* MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 18. 19K0 Number 7 Mercerian Pleads For Baptist Schools A Baptist educator and minister today appealed to Mercer mini rial alumni at a luncheon meeting Wednesday during the Georgia Baptist Convention in Savanah to help move Baptist schools forward. Intelligent interpreters to help diate our educational life and poses to our people” is the need, I Thomas J. Holmes, director university development and mni affairs at Mercer Univer sity. The pastor in the "key man in i denominational life . . . and the laity of our churches will rise up to pport Christian education only n the ministers lead them . . -aid. The Christian scholar does not •rve the name if he is not wili ng to live dangerously in the ehal- nging world of ideas,”, Holmes hired. "One role of the Christian liege is to train leaders of our ii iety who can worthily ‘contend the faith’ at any place and at time.” lie hailed the coming of a new i in Christian education in orgia marked earlier when Dr. Itiifuh C. Harris accepted the idency of Mercer. Along with new strength there, he noted addition of Dr. Robert II. piro, dean of the college of arts and sciences, and William T. \ wood, business manager. Earlier he retraced the faltering minings of Baptist educational ilities in Georgia and concluded t accomplishment came only af- r Luther Rice produced the spark at united "purpose und means.” m this union came the Georgia aptist Convention and Mercer rsity, among other results. And, although the preacher was in the organization and the lamtenance of the university, is a continuing need of his Ip at Mercer today, stated is in his address. SU Recognizes rosh Council Mercer’s BSU formally recogniz- s new freshman council at the BSU General Meeting last lay during vespers. The purpose of the freshman nicil is to generate an interest HSU work among new students Mercer. There is one member on freshman council to correspond each member of the regular 1 ' executive council. The meeting wus the only one to Id this quarter. The BSU nor- aily functions not through gene- neetings but through unit or- inizations and special projects I ac tivities directed by the ex it ive council, which meets week- A similar general meeting will be I'l during spring and winter larters for the purpose of trans- ; overall BSU business. Members of the freshman eoun- hich was introduced included ike Waller, Ellen Dillard, Carrie hnson, Charles Brownlee, Faye mier, Sharon Kickliter, Nathan lal, John Laney, Jerry Brand, nnnie Davenport, Otis Andrews, nger Faulkner, Karen Kennedy 'I Ruleigh Mann. Hr. Robert Otto, philosophy pro- «xor, spoke to the meeting. BSU ident Del Presley presided. The (eting also included reports from rsons in charge of various BSU tivities on campus. Atlanta School Changes Rule For Entrance The Southern College of Pharm acy in Atlanta, a school of Mercer University since July 1959, has in augurated a five-year curriculum to conform with new requirements established by the American Coun cil on Pharmaceutical Education. The council, which accredits members of the American Associa tion of Colleges of Pharmacy, ap proved the program last year and made it effective in Septtember I960. Under the revised curriculum, students seeking admittance to any school of pharmacy that is accrd- ited by the association must have completed two years of training in liberal arts. Until aproval of the new requirement a student could enter the Southern College of Pharmacy with one year of liberal arts education. According to Dr. Robert Spiro, dean of the college of liberal arts, the university has abandoned the practice of furnishing pre-profes sional training in Atlanta. With the initiation of the new course of study this has to be accomplished elsewhere. The change is attributed by Dean Spiro to “the steadily rising stan dards" of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education. staff photo by Ward Lowrance John Shand (Jim Nelson) confers with Maggie Wylie (Judy Williams) in “What Every Woman Knows,” which is to be presented again in Willingham Chapel tonight at 8:14. Ba rrie Play Into Second Goes Night On the 9nUcle Francis Kl< vd issues a distress cry from the ad building. Messiah dates set in "Campus Notes.” Willard visits the Elmer Gan tries at Mercer. Charlie Etheridge views Mercer athletic program. Dr. T. Harry Williams Lamar Lecturer Adopts The South As His Home Mercer had this week the prominent Civil War historian, Dr. T. Harry Williams, as the 1960 Lamar lecturer Dr. Williams is a native of Illinois and is at present a professor of history at Louisiana State Uni versity. He has written several books, made contributions to num- orous publications and is at present working on a biography of Huey P. Long. Dr. Williams has been in the South since 1941. He said that when he first came he was very dissatisfied. Now his feeling is quite different for he has grown to like the Southern weather and every thing else Southern. He stated he had rather live here than in any other section of the country. According to Dr. Williams it was quite a matter of chance that he ever got into the field of history. It was quite hard to obtain a job when he finished his four years in college so he decided to continue his education rather than becom ing a high school teacher. He got his M.A. and then went on to get (Continued on page 3) "Behind Wylie helps Woman Kno The play tar: llv Holly Woodruff ■very successful man there is a woman” and Maggie i prove this old saying in James M. Barrie’s What Every s, presented again tonight at 8:14 in Willingham chapel, favorites of the Mercer stage—Judy Williams as Maggie Wylie, Jin Brie re. Nelson as John Shand and Brenda Storey as Comtesse de la Debaters Move OverSoutheast Thu Merci'r debate team partici pated in the University of South Carolina Debate Tournament last weekend. The negative team i(in sisting: of Lynn Holmes and Connie Berry placed fourth in the novice division. Taking top honors in the tour nament were South Carolina, the t’niversity of Miami and Notre Dame. Today and tomorrow Mercer Uni versity competes for the regional Tan Kappa Alpha trophy to he awarded at the University of Ala bama. Tlie Mercer team, under the direction of Dr. Helen Thornton, was awarded fir>t place in the TKA tournament held in Baton Rouge last year. The defending varsity team con sists of Pat Norton and Jimmy Jones, affirmative: Larry Maio- riello and Rithia MeCilaurt, nega tive. Representing Mercer at the Emory tournament this weekend are Preston Batts and Jim Bradley affirmative; negative, Carl Alexan der and Johnny Curry. KDE Represented At National Meet Joyce Rowe, president of the M error chapter of Kappa Delta Epsilon, national professional edu cational sorority, and Miss Leone Bates, KDF, advisor, are attending the national convention in Phila delphia, this weekend. A special honor has come to the Mercer president who has been selected to preside over the na tional council of chapter delegates. Miss Bates is also active in KDE Promising newcomers to the drama department are Jackie Knight whi plays Lady Sybil Laz- enby, Eddie Harris as James Wylie, Seaborn Jones who plays Mr. Ven ables and Sam McKinney as David Wylie. involving a Scotch it at the turn of the scenery and costumes tvle of the late Vic The family, is s< century. The depict the > torian era. Twenty-seven and unmarried, Maggie Wylie (Judy Williams) is the subject of concern to her family. An ideal situation de velops in which her father and her two brothers make a propo sition with John Shand (Jim Nelson) to marry Maggie. Politics interest John and he runs for a position in Parliment. He does not realize how great a help Maggie is to him and is un aware of her aid to him. This is' the source of new problems and finally John realizes "what every woman knows"—that behind every successful man there is a woman. Others in the cast include Clay ton Stevens as Alick Wylie, Carole Rhodenhiser as the maid, Cecil Hudson as Mr. Fiekie, Chris Shear- ouse as Butler, and Juanita Lee, Patricia Smith, Carolie Rhoden hiser, Marjorie Beans, Susan Ot- well, Bob Woodall, Cecil Hudson, Gene Tyre, Jim Wheeler and Jim Price as the crowd. The scenery crew has con structed the four sets and will change them bet w en the acts with speed under the direction of Charles Love. Miss Audrey Needles professor of speech and drama directed the play. on the national level as she is cur rently serving as the national scholarship chairman. Dr. Ernestine Bledsole, advisor of the Alpha Omicfon chapter of KDE at Wesleyan, joined the Mer cer delegates along with the presi dent of the Wesleyan chapter.

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The Mercer Cluster. (Macon, Ga.) 1920-current, November 18, 1960, Image 1