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Law Review
The “What Is It” on page I is the Flash-Suppressor of the Tank on display at ROTC Day. Upper Right—I>i«nitari,-s who presented awards
military students. Lower I-eft—Rine Team co-captains Joseph Snow and Douglas Davy, and team instructor Master Sgt. Robert Ross, re-
crive Hearst Marksmanship Trophy from Lt. Col. Robert L. Pitts. Lower right—Cadet Andrew McPherson receives leadership Award.
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Military Department Observes Annual ROTC Day
Mercer ROTC marked the end
this year's military program
Wednesday with special awards
yi recognition at the annual
OTC Day Ceremonies.
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kend from beginning to end.
c festivities began with a steak
net at the Legion Post 3.
ards were presented to Out-
nding Senior. Hugh Lawson;
wt Deserving Brother, Davis
H'lchel; Highest Pledge Scholar-
l>, Ronnie Rossee; Outstanding
ther’s Scholarship. Ward Low-
n-e; and Most Outstanding Ath-
. Jack Fowler. The Model
Ige award went to Allen Potter.
A group of about 150 students
and guests watched outstanding
cadets receive special medals and
awards for su|»erior ixrformanco
this year.
Company “A” was-named to the
coveted “Honor Company'' |>osition
signifying the most outstanding
general |ierformanoe during the
yea r
Also at the ceremony Weilnes
day. Mercer Rifle Team Instruc
tor Master Sgt. Robert Ross and
team co-captains Douglas C. Davy
and Joseph M. Snow were formal
ly presented with the William
Randolph Hearst Marksmanship
Trophy for placing second in the
south (3rd Army) in the nation
wide competition This is the high
est award the Mercer team has
ever received.
Several armored vehicles and a
simulated Nike Missile Firing
Battery ami Lat'rosse Missile were
on display in the ROTC area.
The ROTC Day program got un
derway with a bariieoue Leginning
at I2;00 noon held in thi military
tiet>urtnient area. After the cadet
battle group was formed. Chaplain
Barry Thomas, Captain USAF de
livered the invocation followed by
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brief addresses by Dean Robert H.
Spiro, Dean of the College of Lib
eral Arts, and Lt. Col. Robert L.
Pitts. PMS of tlie Mercer ROTC.
The Pershing Rifles Drill Pla
toon presented a precision drill
exhibition.
Superior Cadet Ribbons: Out
standing MS IV Student, Hunt F.
Sanders; Outstanding MS III Stu
dent, Douglas C. Davy; Outstand
ing MS If Student, John Nathan
Deal, Outstanding MS I Student.
Grover L. Dozier.
Third United States Army Cer
tificate of Meritorious Leadership
Achtevi meat, William O. Notes;
Distinguished Military Student
Badge, James T. Webb; Sons of
the American Revolution Citizen
ship Award. Gerald R. Knoll; Ar
mor Association Award, William
C. Etheridge; Award of Associa
tion of lTni*ed Suite- Army Medal
James M. Pah rt-. Achievement
Medal MS II Student, Charles N.
Fowler; Achievement Medal MS I
Student, Joseph M Snow; Scab
bard Hi Blade MS II i cadetship
Award, Charles N. Fowler; .Scab-
hard & Blade MS I leadership
Award. Andrew M. McPherson;
Rifle Team Co-Captains Medal.
Douglas C. Davy and Joseph M.
Snow.
John S. Sims. Jr., is fhe new ed
itor-in-chief of the Mercer Law Re
view, it was announced this Tues
day at the Walter F. George School
of Ijiw honors day. Editor in-chief
of the Law Review is considered the
highest honor that can come to a
law student.
James C. Quarles, dean of the
Ij»w School, introduced the honors
day program by commending all
law students for their achievements
and especially the outstanding stu
dents who would receive awards for
their excellence in specific fields.
Robert L. Swearingen, Jr., re
ceived the outstanding senior award
from the Phi Alpha Delta law fra
ternity. Swearingen was also given
the Ijiw Week award for outstand
ing achievement.
The Delta Theta Phi outstanding
freshman award was made to Mal
lory C. Atkinson. Jr Robert J. Ne-
Smith was given the Barwick Plead
ing and Practice award
Ijiw Review certificates were
presented to Jerry Benefield, Stac
ey Cotton. John Wyatt, and Rob
ert Swearingen.
The Ijiw School honors day pro
gram. held in the Moot Court
Room, began with the swearing in
of the new officers of the Student
Bar Association. Dean Quarles ad
ministered the oath of office to the
new Chief Justice of the Honor
Court, Noel Osteen Osteen himself
then swore in the associate justices
of the Court after which he admin
istered the oath to the executive of
ficers of the Student Bar Associa
tion
After the individual awards were
made Alex Davis, the new presi
dent of the Student Bar Associa
tion. namisl his executive committee
for the next school year. Those
named were Edgar Campbell, David
Shipleft. Jerry Rrimherry and Nan
cy Merrill
YWA Holds
Ceremonies
The White Bible Ceremony, a
special service for those girls who
are members of the Young Wo
men’s Auxiliary here at Mercer,
and who are engaged to be mar
ried in the near future, is to be
held Monday night. May 21, at
vespers.
In this ceremony the girls re
ceive white Bibles as symbols of
the Christian homes they promise
to have. Girls to receive Bibles at
this service are: Marjorie Jack-
son, Carol Williams, Barbara El-
lerbee, Charlotte Woolf, Barbara
Byrd, Betty Goble, Glenda Allen,
I.ibby Bolton, Vonceil Smith, Phyl
lis Lane, and Amy Garrison.
Four Mercer Faculty
Appear In Who’s Who
Four Mercer Faculty members
have been selected to appear in fhe
new edition of Who's Who in
America. ,
Dr. Silencer B. King. Jr., chair
man of the history dpeartment. Dr.
College of Liberal Arts. Charles
H. Stone, university librarian, and
Dr. Edgar H. Wilson, professor of
law. will a pea r in the new issue of
Who's Who in America.
Who's Who in America is a com
pilation of approximately 50,000
brief presonal sketches of those
Americans whose |iosition.s or achi
evements bring them under certain
admission standards set up by the
compilers.
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In addition to writing introduc
tory essays on the playwright, the
play, and the staging, Dr. Griffith
modernized the stage directions ami
added footnotes to explain difficult
passages
The new edition Of Gay’a pereni-
ally popular play is a part of Bar
ton’s Theatre Classics for the Mod
em Reader Series. Dr. Griffith pub
lished Dryden’s All For Love in
the series last year.
Included in the edition of The
Beggar'* Opera are illustrations by
Thomas Keough. an American art
ist now living in Paris. Also includ
ed are the musical scores of the 69
songs Gay uses in the play.
Dr. Griffith ia a long-time resi
dent of Macon, having graduated
from Lanier High School and Mer
cer before going to Northwestern
University for his Ph D. degree. He
has served on the English staff at
Mercer since 1955.
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