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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 2, 1960
Number 8
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staff photo by Ward Lowrance
Col. Robert Pitts, professor of military science and, tactics
at Mercer, congratulates Roy Tucker who recently received
an appointment to the United States Military Academy at
West Point.
Mercer Student Realizes
Goal To Make West Point
By Bill English
Roy Tucker’s childhood dreams will come true in July of this year
when he goes to West Point to begin training for his commission in
the U. S. Army. Tucker received his nomination from Senator Russell
of Georgia, chairman of the Senate arms service committee.
I.ast November Tucker scored
ond highest on the civil service
test which are given to all West
Point applicants. This score placed
him in the position of second al
ternate on Senator Russell’s nomi
nations.
When the principle nominee fail
ed to qualify for medical reasons.
Tucker received his appointment to
West Point. The only other quali
fication which he must meet is a
medical examination, which he has
passed for the past two years.
Tucker received his first nomina
tion to West Point in his senior
year in high school. However, he
was not able to accept this appoint
ment because of an injury sustain
ed on the night of graduation. The
following year he also received an
alternate nomination. But that
ear the principle nominee was ac-
epted.
It has been the dream of
fucker since he was five to
have a military career. As an
Kagle Scout at the 1956 W'orld
Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge,
he and other Eagle Scouts were
brought together to hear an
army officer talk of careers in
the army. This talk was the
thing that convinced him that
he should apply to West Point.
In his Junior year in high school
he took the practice admissions
test.
Tucker is now a sophomore at
Mercer and a member of the Sig
ma Nu fraternity. He is a cadet
•quad leader in ROTC and a mem
ber of the Pershing Rifles, a pre
cision drill team. During his fresh
man year he was an honor military
student- To continue in his Scout
work, he is a scout master of troup
8-1 at Tattnall Square Baptist
Church.
While at West Point Tucker
hopes to letter in a sport and to
be graduated with honors. Upon
finishing he hopes to be stationed
in Germany. To help fulfill this
ambition he is now studying Ger
man and plans to continue this
study at West Point While in the
Army he plans to serve in the ad
jutant corps as a lawyer or go in
to the army infantry. If he decides
to study law he will return to Mer
cer after completing his schooling
at the Point
Rabbi Speaks
During Vespers
The Mercer Interfaith Council
brings a variety of visitors to the
campus next week for vespers.
The evening service will be under
the direction of the council.
According to Dwight Honeycutt,
council member who arranged the
programs, a Jewish rabbi will
speak on Jewish holidays on Mon
day night, a Catholic priest will
discuss Pope John's call for an ecu
menical council on Tuesday night.
A Lutheran minister will reveal
his church's program of evangelism
for the Wednesday night service
and a minister from the Christian
church (Disciples of Christ) will
talk on the Protestant ecumenical
movement on Thursday night.
Dan Boone is president of the
council; Sara Isaf, vice-president
and Carol Avery, secretary.
The Messiah' To Be Sung
At 2 Merter Performances
Harris Interviews
Applicants In
Washington, D.C.
After having spent the week at
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools meet
ing in Memphis, Dr. Rufus C.
Harris travels to Washington for
a meeting of the Marshall Scholar
ship committee.
Following the scholarship com
mittee meeting, Dr. Harris returns
to Georgia on December 6 for a
meeting of the executive committee
of the Georgia Baptist Convention.
Dr. Harris, along with Deana
Robert H. Spiro and Richard
C. Burts and Dr. Hayden Bryant
of the education department, haa
been in Memphia for the Southern
Asaociation’s meeting. Dr. Harris
is a past president of the as
sociation.
He is also serving as a member
of the study committee which has
recently recommended a revamping
of the association’s program.
While in Washington, he will
assist in interviewing applicants
for the Marshall scholarships,
sponsored by the British govem-
The Mercer choir under the direction of Dr. Arthur L. Rich will
render Handel’s Messiah on December 4 and 5 in Willingham Chapel
for the 17th time.
This year the soloists include
Maxine Yeater, soprano; Jean
Sanders, mezzo-soprano; James
Wainner, tenor and Clyde Hiss,
baritone. Mrs. Rich will he organ
ist and Dr. Rich will direct the 126-
voice choir.
The program will consist of
parts one and two in their entire
ty. These treat the prophecies of
Jesus’ birth, the meaning of Hia
coming, man’s relation to Christ,
His death and resurrection.
A native of Wheeling, West Vir
ginia, Miss Yeater gave an unus
ually successful Town Hall recital
in New York last season, according
to New Yo'k critics. She has also
sung frequently with major sym
phony orchestras in the East and
on radio and television programs.
James Wainner
returns as Messiah tenor.
ment as a token of appreciation for
American aid and named for Gen.
George Marshall.
After the Washington meeting
on the 5, Dr, Harris meets with
the Georgia Baptist executive com-
mitttee. As president of one of the
five Georgia Baptist sponsored
colleges, Dr. Harris is a member of
this committee.
Military Ball Tonight;
Sponsors Presented
Mercer’s military department’s twelfth annual military ball will
start at 8:30 tonight. Steve Cloe will provide the music for the ball
which will be at the Warner Robins Officer’s Club.
During the evening all the sen
ior military students and their
dates will be presented. Cadets
will also select the battle group
sponsor from the company spon
sors who will also be presented
during the evenings ceremonies.
Tapping for Scabbard and Blade
will be part of the evenings festivi
ties. Scabbard and Blade is a mili
tary fraternity composed of stu
dents who excelled in military as
well as academic studies.
Chaperones for the evening will
be Dean and Mr3. R. H. Spiro,
Dean and Mrs. Richard C. Burts,
Colonel and Mrs. R. L. Pitts and
other members of the military de
partment staff and their wives.
This year the ball will be semi-
formal. Dinner will be served to
those cadets and dates who wish
it at the officers’ club before the
dance.
Baptists Approve
New MU Trustees
The Georgia Baptist Convention approved the new trustees for
Mercer at its recent Savannah meeting
Six new trustees were appointed with terms to expire in 1966.
Three others were appointed to fill unexp’red terras.
Those appointments to end in
1966 are T. Baldwin Martin, former
trustee and member of the presi
dent’s council as well as a Macon
attorney and alumnus of Mercer;
Dr. Walter L. Moore, pastor of the
Vineville Baptist Church who
served during previous years as
a trustee.
Judge Carlton Mobley, associate
justice of the Georgia supreme
court and alumnus of Mercer;
Thorpe Sanders, Monroe business
man and great-grandson of Bill-
ington M. Sanders, first president
of Mercer.
Also included in this group
are the two alumni trustees,
Joe J. Cordell and Dr. A. Bantus
Hawkes. Cordell la superinten
dent of schools in Albany and
Dr. Hawkes, who has been a
trustee before, is pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Wsy-
cross. He is the father of Mer
cer co-ed Gracelyn Hawkes.
Hugh H. Hill, vice-president of
the Home Federal Savings and
Loan Association in Macon, was
appointed to fill the unexpired
term of the late Judge Cecil A.
Baldwin. Claude Christopher, Grif
fin attorney and father of Mercer
faculty member Georgia Christop
her, fills the unexplred term of
Thomas J. Holmes, now serving
at director of university develop
ment and alumni affairs. Chris
topher is an alumnus of Mercer.
Hill's and Christopher’s terms
will end in 1963.
Rev. G. Jackson, pastor of the
Southwest Baptist Church at
LaGrange, was appointed to fill
the unexpired term of Mrs. John
Guerry who resigned from the
board-
In addition to the trustees, the
president's council has also been
appointed. Serving the one-year
terms are Miss Henrietta L.
Hughes of Danville, daughter of
the co-sponsor of the Smith-
Hughes Vocational Act; Mrs. Frank
Jones of Macon; Dr. W. G. Lee,
Mercer alumnus.
Dr. Henry J. Stokes, pastor of
the local First Baptist Church;
J. Warren Timmerman, Macon
alumnus who was former chairman
of the board of trustees; C. 0.
Smith, Moultrie businessman and
Dr. Louie D. Newton, alumnus and
former faculty member who is now
pastor of the Druid Hills Baptist
Church.
ON THE INSIDE
Fred Mohr write* Letter
from Germany
Letter to editor on Willard
Jean Sanders
makes her third appearance
with the Mercer ciioir in the
Messiah.
At present she is soprano soloist
at the West Park Presbyterian
Church and the Temple Emanu-El
in New York.
Among her solos for the per
formances are “Come unto Him,"
“How Beautiful are the Feet of
Them that Preach the Gospel of
Peace,” and "Rejoice Greatly."
Miss Sanders, mezzo-soprano
of the New York City Opera,
will return to Macon this year
for her third engagement of the
Messiah. She was last a aoloiat
in the 1958 production. She flys
to Macon from engagementa with
the San Antonio Symphony Or
chestra. In recent weeks she haa
had performances in New York
and other Fiastern cities.
A Pennsylvanian, Miss Sanders
trained at Oberlin College and
made her debut with the Philadel
phia Summer Orchestra. She has
appeared with the Chicago Sym
phony and has performed in 20
different oratorios. A featured
mezzo-soprano soloist at the Bach
festival at Bethlehem, Pa., during
the past season, she is soloist for
St. Bartholomew’s Church in New
York.
Tenor James Wainner will also
be returning to Mercer for the
Messiah, having been here also in
1968. He is tenor soloist at Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale’s home
church, the Marble Collegiate
Church in New York City.
A native of Kansas, he was
graduated from the University
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