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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 26, 1962
Number 6
. iCIutUr Photo by Charles CrantI
Freshman Class Officers—Bobby Sikes, Elizabeth i'otter and
| Jack Lamb.
Lowrance And Sikes
Win In Class Run-offs
Ward Lowrance defeated Charlie Etheridge by six votes last Friday
I to become the new president of the senior class. Bobby Sikes, Macon,
I was elected president of the freshman class
Jack Lamb, Macon, is the new
Ifrcshman vice-president arid Eliza-
Ibrlh Potter, Smyrna, the new
Ifrcshman secretary-treasurer.
Ixrwraneer from Macon, is a jus
|tice on the Honor Court, pledge
rush Chairman of Sigma Nu fra-
[terrafy, member of the golf team,
photographer for the Mercer CIus-
and Cauldron, photographer for
(the Mercer Newsletter and alumni
{publications and a Dean’s List
[student
Eight candidates were compel
ling in Friday's run-off election.
Six of the candidates were vying
[lor the three freshman class offices,
with Ward Lowrance and Charlie
|Etheridge running for senior class
resident in a special election. The
ipccial election was made neces-
ry by the resignation of the sen-
r class president elected at the
rnd of last year.
The following are the results of
run-off election: senior class
sident—Ward Lowrance 49,
isrlie Etheridge 43; freshman
class president—Bobby Sikes 204,
f .be Varner 131; vice-president —
ack Lamb 207, Mary Ixm Wike
123; secretary-treasurer—Elizabeth
Potter 177. Sandra Watts 156
Trustees To Study
Mercer Integration
Trustees Ask
$1,250,000
Federal Loan
University trustees have given
final approval to a plan to seek a
$1,250,000 loan from the federal
government for the construction of
two new dormitories, one for men
and one for women.
The action was taken at last
Thursday's regular meeting of the
trustees
The Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees had already giv
en their approval of the plan,
which will be financed through the
Federal Housing and Home Fi
nance Agency.
Dr. Rufus C. Harris, president
of Mercer University, reported to
(Continued on page 4)
Parliament Authority Set
For Mercer October 30-31
Another distinguished speaker is scheduled at Mercer in the person
of Dr. Horace M. King, M.P., on October 30-31 according to an announce
ment from Robert H. Spiro,-Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
The announcement said that King will speak at the Tuesday
chapel period und will be available to meet with appropriate classes
during the day. King is also slated to speak at a meeting of the Macon
Council on World Affairs.
lEA Names Heads
Officers for the present school
’ear have been named by the Re
igious Education Association it
as announced this week. The new
fieers are I-orene Taylor, Presi-
Carol Ann Holcomb. Vice-
n sident; Deanna Dudley, Secre-
rv; and Sarah Distelhurst. So
la I Chairman.
King, a member of the British
Parliament and deputy speaker, ir
an authority on the operation of
Parliament and is making his fourth
tour of the southern United States
under the auspices of the British
Information Service. King has
served in Parliament, since 1950
representing Southampton, the city
of which his wife once served as
mayor. Other official duties of KinR
include serving as a British repre
sentative in the Parliament of Eu
rope.
\ Aside from his governmental
cahqer King is known as a "lay
preacher, a musician, a scholar, and
a fascinating speaker for both the
young and old.”
He was educated at Norton Coun
cil School, Stockton Secondary,
Kings College, and the University
of London, B.A., first class honors
1922, and Ph.D., 1940. Subsequent-
ly he served as head of the English
department, Tauten’s School, South
ampton, and headmaster of Re
gent’s Park Secondary School. His
published works include Selections
from Macaulay. 1930; Selections
from Homer, 1936; and Parliament
and Freedom, 1953.
The meeting of the Macon Coun
cil on World Affairs at which King
will speak is a dinner meeting open
to the public. Tickets are available
at $1.75 per person and reserve
tions may be made by calling Mrs.
Albert P. Riechert at SH.2-3089 or
Mrs. William P. Simmons at SH 6-
3036. The meeting is scheduled for
7:00 according to the announcement
Eighth Dixie Debate Opens
With 200 From <26 Schools
By Karen Gay '
The eighth annual Dixie De
bate Tournament will be held
Friday and Saturday Oct. 26,
27 at Mercer. Approximately
200 debaters and coaches will
arrive on campus by 12:00 Fri
day. After registration the de
baters, representing 26 colleges
in the Southeast, will be wel
comed to Mercer by Dean Spiro.
There will be four rounds of
debate Friday and two Satur
day morning.
Mercer’s varsity debaters par
ticipating in this opening tour
nament of the year are John
Rue, Nathan Deal, affirmative;
Karen Kennedy and Karen
Gay, negative. In the novice di-
viaion Mercer will be repre-
Bill Exum, Henry
Jim Whitlow, Roland
Knight\Mike Neialer, Luman
Pinfc>\Gill. Nancy Chap-
Edward
r rwl'
Bolton. Rose Smith. Anna Mc
Clain and Ole Figinhaum
Universities attending this
tournament arp Agnes Scott
College. Alabama College, Au
burn University. Birmingham-
Southern. Carson Newman,
Cumberland College. Davidson
College, Emory. Florida State
University, Howard College,
Memphis State University, Mill-
saps College. Mississippi Col
lege. St. John River Junior
College, University of Alabama,
University of F'lorida, Univer
sity of Georgia, University of
Kentucky. University of South
Carolina. University of South
Florida. Vanderbilt University
and West Georgia College.
The Dixie Debate Tourna
ment, sponsored by the Mercer
Speech Department, will be
concluded with an awards pres
entation luncheon at the Davis
Saturday. Last year the
University of Kentucky retired
the rotating Sweepstakes Tro
phy. A new Sweepstakes trophy
will be awarded to the top team
in the tournament this year.
Trophies also will be present
ed to the winning varsity af
firmative and negative teams
and to the best affirmative and
negative teams in the novice di
vision.
Mercer will have several
teams entered in the tournament
competition, but will not be eli
gible for any of the prizes. It has
been customary in this tourna
ment for Mercer to declare it
self ineligible since it is the host
team.
The Mercer debate team this
year is under the leadership of
coach Michael Minchew and Dr.
Helen Thornton, the head of
the Speech department
A special committee of university trustees has been appointed to
study the possibility of admission of Negroes to Mercer.
University president Rufus C. Harris made a motion in last
Thursday s regular met’ ng of the Board of Trustees that board chair
man J. Milton Head appoint a committee to “study the matter of
admissions to the University without regard to race or color."
The motion was adopted unani
mously.
Mr. Head name^ Walter J.<
Moore, pastor of the Vineville
Baptist Church, as chairman of the
committee.
Dr. Harris’s motion read as fol
lows:
"That Mr. Head be requested to
appoint a special committee of 7 to
9 members of the Board to study
the matter of admissions to the
University without regard to race
or color, and report its recommen
dations at a later meeting of this
Board in the course of the School
year, after having considered such
advice and thought from the de
nominational and educational lead
ership in the State aa the commit
tee Believes needed in the exercise
of its sound Judgment.”
Several Negroes have already
applied for admission to Mercer,
but university officials have said
that the applicants did not meet
academic requirements.
Earlier this year Dr. Harris said
that Mercer "may reasonably ex
pect to receive bonafide applica
tions from Negro youths who are
fully qualified to meet her entrance
requirementa.”
The members of the speciaF com
mittee are: Walter J. Moore, W.
Claude Christopher of Griffin, G.
Van Greene of Decatur, Homer C.
Eberhardt of Valdosta, Charles G.
Giddens of Adel, Bela A. Lancas
ter of LaGrange. T. Baldwin Mar
tin of Macon, C. O. Smith of Moul
trie, ami J. Warren Timmerman of
Macon.
The trustees recommended that
the Development Committee study
a proposal of Atlanta Baptist As
sociation leaden that the Atlanta
Baptist College project be incor
porated into an expanded and en
larged capital fund campaign for
Mercer University. The Develop
ment Committee, beaded by Frank
J. Jordan of Talbotton, was re
quested to report the finding* and
recommendations back to the
Board of Trustees at the January
meeting. 4
Leaders in the Atlanta Baptist
Association recently suggested the
capital funds campaign, and say
ing it would insure unity of effort
and purpose and would insure the
success of both Mercer and the
proposed Atlanta Baptist College.
The trustees commended Dr. P.
Harris Anderson for his eleven
years of service as Dean of the De
nominational Extension Services.
Dr. Anderson is leaving Mercer
this month to accept the presiden
cy of Bethel College in Kentucky.
The Board authorized Dr. Harris
to meet with the Advisory Commit
tee of the Georgia Baptist Conven-
(Continued on page 3)
Bell Featured Speaker
At Annual Law Day
The program of events for Mercer’s fifteenth annual law day has
been released this week by Alei Davip, President of the Student Bar
Association of the Walter F. George School of Law.
Law Day this year will feature
ing. Registra-
roxTftttttetv an
■nta will Xje
me. j
at 11:00 a-m.
the Honorable Griffin B. Bell as
speaker at the luncheon. Bell is a
federal judge for the Court of Ap
peals for the Fifth Judicial Cir
cuit He will be introduced by Hol
combe H. Perry, president of the
Georgia Bar Association.
Events for the guests and alumni
of the Walter F. George School of
Law will begin at 10:00 a.m. with
registration in the courtroom of
the Ryals Law building. Registra
tion will last for approxT
hour and refreshments
served during this time
A forum will begin
to discuss the work and objectives
of the Criminal Law Study Com
mittee established pursuant to a
resolution of the 1961 Georgia
General Assembly. Members of the
forum panel will include Richard
B. Thornton, Macon attorney, who
will moderate the discussion. Hen
ry G. Neal and T. T. Molnar both
of whom served on the Committee
will alao be on the panel. Complet
ing the panel will be Alfred A.
Quillian and James C. Rehberg.
Rahberg is a professor of law at
the Walter F. George School of
Law.
Peter Zack Geer will preside
over a meeting of the Law School
alumni at 12:30 p.m. The meeting
will be held in the law library.
Lunch for the alumni, faculty,
■tude'nts and guests of the law
school will be served in the Cafe
teria of the Connell Student Cen
ter at 1:00 p.m. At 1:45 p.m. fol
lowing the luncheon Bell will make
his address to the group.
Thomas J. Holmes, Director of
University Development and Alum
ni Relations, will give the invoca
tion. Then Perry will introduce
Bell, the main speaker.
The final event of the day will
be a dance, sjxmsored by the Law
School Aldmni Association, at the
American lx*gion Riverside Club.
The dance will begin at 9:00 p.m.
and will have live music.
law Day is planned and or
ganized by the Studfnt Bar Asso
ciation in cooperation with the
Walter F. George School of Law.
Chairman of the Law Day program
is Tully M Bond. Jr. a senior in
law school.
Hostesses for the day will be
Miss Mary Bradberry. Mrs. Thom
as Bennett, Mrs. Marvin Morrow,
Mrs. James T. Humphrey. Mrs.
Curtis Shaw and Mrs Paul Brown.
Deadline Today
Today is the last day for stu
dents to file applications for de
grees to be received in June.
Applications must be mode
with Mrs. Agnes Watson in
room 106 of the Administration
Building.