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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 11, 1962
Number 27
Ricks Named
Top Senior
Granger Rieka ia the recipient
of Alpha Phi Omega’a Outstand
ing Senior Award, it was an
nounced this morning in Chapel.
Ricks was recently admitted
to Sigma Mu, Mercer’s highest
scholastic honor fraternity. He
is scheduled to enter Yale
University this fall under a
Danforth Fellowship.
Harris Dedicates
Lee Alumni House
tention to Article IX. Professor L.
Ray Patterson will conduct this
panel discussion.
Professor Patterson receives! his
undergraduate eelueation at Mer
e'er. He was graduates! from the
Walter F. George Sche>e>l eif Law
cum laude in 1949 He has elone
graduate' stuely at Harvarel Law
School. Patterson has elone etxen-
(Continued on page 4)
Law Student Bar
Installs Officers
Ne'W officers of the' Walter F.
George Student Bar Association
will tie installed Tue'selay, May 15,
in the Moot Court Room of the
Iaiw Building. Alex Davis heads
the list as the new President of
the Stuelent Bar,
Other officers who will serve
with him are: Vie-e-president, A1
Powers; Secretary. Jim Balsiger;
Treasurer. Jerry Hendrix; Solici
tor. John Taylor; and Sergeant-
at arms. Jeihn Hayes.
Chief Justice of The Court will
be Noel Osteen Associate Justices
are Emmett Johnson. Leroy Beck
ham, Jerome Stricklanel, and Tom
Bowden.
Saturday, May 5, the annual
meeting of Mercer Alumni was
held in Willingham Chapel. At the
eleven thirty a m. program Dr. Ru
fus C. Harris, President of Mer
cer University, formally dedicated
the Alumni House in honor of Dr.
W. G. Lee.
Dr. Lee formerly has been
awarder! the Algernon Sydney
Sullivan Award for selfless service
to the community of Macon and
Mercer University. In 1960 Dr.
Lee merited the honorary degree
of doctor of laws.
Dr. Lee has recently presented
Mercer with a fund of nearly a
hundred thousand dollars to im
prove library facilities and faculty
salaries. Dr. Lee is especially in
terested in strengthening the de
triment of physics.
At the dedication ceremony Dr.
Harris commented:
"There is no place for the sec
ond rate or for mediocrity in a
church owned college like Mercer.
Indeed there is leas place for such
operations there than anywhere. It
the education offered does not meet
the standards of excellence it had
better not be offered i.i the name
of either the church or in the name
of its Holy Founder. Inadequately
supported colleges are necessarily
inadequate. Standards in teach
ing, in equipment and >n meeting
living conditions in community life
cannot be maintained at adequate
levels without a good measure of
financial strength. It ’vould be
presumptuous to assert that we
are meeting adequately the obliga
tions of our time. All of this means
that the college* as well as the
owning churches must take their
responsibility increasingly serious
ly. Nothing less than the first class
in scholarship, in teaching, in li
braries, in equipment, will meet the
mission of the churches to the
world in higher education. If, as
we believe, learning ia a necessary
part of man’s service to God, U will
honor Him no more here than in
anything else to offer Him that
which is mediocre or feeble.
(Continued on page 4)
Hark Attends
IUSGA Meet
SGA vice-president Tommy Clark
^presented Mercer at a three day
onference of the Southern IJni-
ersitios Student Government As-
ociation held at Clemson College
i»t week
The conference was attended by
nine 300 delegates from over 50
alleges throughout the Southeast,
the program consisted of various
eminars and planning sessions
bvering problems faced by the
kudent Government Association*
i, < this area.
Mercer students Jerry F. Stone, Andrew M. McPherson
and John J. Bryant learn about the Army’s M-21 Rocket
launcher from Stf. Bvzisilar P. Rowland at Ft. Beaning, Ga.
(ace story on page 4)
Mobley - Law Professors
Feature Law Day Program
The Four Preps as they looked in Willingham Chapel
May 3. (staff photo by Bobby Hurt)
Plans have been completed for the Fourteenth Annual Law Day
d tv., ■rvances to he held on the Mercer campus May IS. 1962.
a Highlighting the day will lie an address hv Justice Carlton Moh-
I 1 iy of the Georgia Supreme Court, who wdl be introduced hv Justice
turning Grice, former Macon attorney who is now an associate Jus-
“ cc of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
^ Several hundred Law School Alumni are expected to attend the
bservance.
Two forums of particular impor-
ince to the lawyers will be held
uring the day. These forums will
e conducted by members of the
K unity of the Law School.
)( Professor Charles E. Nadler will
ad a forum discussion on Chap-
ff XIII of the Federal Bankrupt-
aJ y Act In conjunction with this
ix ussion a lilm dealing with this
j| articular subject will be shown in
( ir student film room.
„ Professor Nadler is considered)
„ m leading authority on the Wage
M Earner's Plan is known as The
ipistle of Chapter XIII of the
a ederal Bankruptcy Law by other
tj uthorities in the field,
n Nadler, Professor Emeritus of
u lir Law School, has been a mem-
er of the Mercer faculty for six
- pen years. He is ( haimian of the
- rgia Bankruptcy Committee.
I ad a member of several national
ai.kruptcy committees.
Professor Nadler is a me ml ST
f the Georgia and Ohio Bar As-
Miations. He has authored sov-
ral hooks dealing with the subject
i f bankruptcy, debtor creditor re
■tions, and corporation law.
Serving on the panel with Pro-
Bt-or Nadler will be Referees in
| ankruptcy W. R. Phillips of At-
inta, R W McDuffie of Savan
| tali, and E. P. Johnston of Macon.
Another forum discussion will
* devoted to the Uniform Com-
sereial Code, with particular at
Dr. IN. G. Lee Donates
$100,000 Property To
Mercer At Alumni Day
Dr. W. G. Lee. retired Macon businessman and benefactor of Mer
cer University, presenter! Mercer Saturday with property in downtown
Macon valued at approximately $100,000.
The gift will help finance additional library facilities at Mercer.
Under the terms of the gift Mercer will also create The W. G. Lee Dis
tinguished Professors Fund to provide salary increases to outstanding
teachers and scholars.
Dr. Lee announced his gift at the
annual meeting of Mercer alumni
held Saturday on the Mercer cam
pus. At this meeting Dr. Rufus C.
Harris. Mercer's president, formal
ly dedicated the renovated alumni
building as The W. G. Lee Alumni
House.
The Mercer trustees voted in
January to name the house in hon
or of Dr. Lee. Dr. Lee, who was a
trustee of Mercer for 24 years, at
tended the January meeting at the
invitation of Dr. Harris.
Responding to Dr. Harris's dedi
cation address Saturday, Dr. Lee
spoke of his reaction as he saw the
trustee* vote to honor him. “I had
three very rapid impulse*. The first
one was shock , . . The second one
was that I was being most signifi
cantly honored . . . and the third
was one of extreme humility.”
Dr. Lee expressed his abiding
appreciation for Mercer and the
leadership of President Harris. He
concluded by announcing the prop
erty gift, which consists of two lots.
The lots are located at 566 Sec
ond Street and 567 Plum Street in
the Macon business district. The
Second Street property has a
frontage of fifty-two feet and one
and a half inches. The frontage on
the Plum Street property is slight
ly over forty-nine feet.
The annual income from the gift
is between $7,000 and $8,000.
Several hundred Mercer alumni
swarmed to the campus for Alumni
Day festiviteis. The Mercerians
(Continued on page 4)
Ethridge Heads
Phi Delta Theta
The Phi Delta chapter of Phi
Delta Theta fraternity elected new
officers April 25. Charlie Ethridge,
a junior from Macon majoring in
social studies, is the newly elected
president. Charlie was president of
his pledge class, and he has pre
viously served as secretary of the
Phi Delta. He has been sports edi
tor of the Cluster, a member of the
Honor Committee and dormitory
representative to the Student
Government Senate.
Other officers elected include:
vice-president — Janies Mynatt,
secretary; Tommy Kendrick
Holmes, treasurer—Pierce Chap
man, Warden—Tommy Wilcox,
choister — Henry Futch, lodge
manager—Alton Curtis, historian
—Billy Osteen, social chairman—
Smoky Mullis, alumni secretary—
Mike Johnson, librarian — Carl
Reynolds and chaplaiiv—Windy
Harsh.
Outstanding MU Students
Recognized On Honors Day
Mercer University honored its academic leaders among the student
body with membership in Sigma Nu and Phi Eta Sigma honor so
cieties ami special recognition in a chapel program last week.
It was “Honors Day" at Mercer, a formal ceremony at which
the academic leaders of all classes are recognized. Recipients of honors
were from the College of Liberal Arts, the Walter F. George School of
Law, and the School of Pharmacy
Dr. Charles T. Lester, dean of
the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences at Emory University,
was the principal speaker. The
program included a formal aca
demic processional and recessional.
The highlight of the program
was the presentation of five stu
dents and two faculty members
who have been elected to Sigma
Mu, Mercer’s highest honorary
scholastic fraternity. Membership
is awarded to juniors and seniors
who have the highest academic av
erages.
The new members are Kenneth
W. Reeves of Dealing, Mia* Rithia
Anna MrGlaun of Buena Vista,
Mias Leslie Carol William* of Co
lumbus, and Granger Ricks and
Hunt Sanders, both of Macon. All
are seniors except Mr. Reeves, a
junior.
The two faculty members elected
to Sigma Mu are Dr. Franklin
James, professor of chemistry, and
Dr. Doris Raymond, associate pro
feasor of Hassles,
Phi Eta Sigma, honorary fresh
man fraternity for male stu
dents, recognized it* new mem
bers. The new members are Colin
Harris of Decatur. Don Baxter of
Atlanta. Ronny Roaaee of Lake
| (Continued on page 3)
in Atlanta.
Hart s Awards
Scholarships
Mercer University President Ru
fus C. Harris announcer! today that
Hart's Mortuary of Macon will
award three scholarships to stu
dents of Mercer University for the
1962-63 academic year
He said the three scholarship*
will be awarded to Macon students
of the 1962 graduating Hass of
Dudley Hughe*, l^nier, and Wil
lingham High Schools. One schol
arship will be awarded a graduate
of each school.
Students selected to be awarded
the scholarships will be chosen by
a committee composed of Dr. Har
ris. Professor A. J. Swann, Profes
sor Fred Johnson, Dr W. C. Whit
ley, Mr. Billy Henderson, and cer
tain others to be appointed.
Mr. J. Freeman Hart, Jr., presi
dent of Hart's Mortuary and a
1927 graduate of Mercer, requested
that the recipients of the scholar-
•hi|)s be chosen on the basis that
they be “fine, deservnig young men
with high qualifications for poten
tial leadership and all around
ability.