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Volume XLIII
MERCER UNIVERSITY. MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 2, 1962
Number 7
O'Neal To Speak
To Pre-Law Club
Mr. H. T. O’Neal, Jr., prominent
aeon attorney, and a member of
tlie law firm of Adams, O’Neal.
Sirele, Thornton. Hemingway and
Hemingway, addressed the J.
Eugene Cook Pre-Law Club of
Mercer University on Thursday
cning, Novemlx-r 1, at 7:00 p.m.
Mr. O'Neal, an alumnus of the
\\ alter F. George School of I-aw
is served as Solicitor of the City
mrt of Macon, and has repre
sented the State of Georgia in the
insecution of widely publicized
riminal cases. O’Neal is active in
ivil and social affairs of the com
munity While a student at Mercer
served on the Kditorial Hoard
the Mercer Law Review, and
participated in the fraternity and
social life of the university. He has
spoken many times to Mercer
groups.
The J. Eugene Cook Pre-I.aw
Club is composed of students of
the College of Liberal Arts who
have evidenced a common interest
in the (xissihle study wf law. How
ever, the future study rtf law is not
a prerequisite for membership in
the cluh The Pre-Law Club is o|x-n
to men and women students of the
Lils-ral Arts College.
The Pre law Cluh is named for
the Honorable -I Eugene Cook, an
alumnus of the college and the law
school, and presently the Attorney
General of the State of Georgia
John T (Ted I - Musinl. Jr., is
Chief Justice of the Pre-Law Club
and -I Howell Hennecy of the law
school faculty is Advisor
Vanderbilt Wins Dixie Debate
University Of Alabama Second
Vanderbilt University captured top honors in the sixth annual
Dixie Debate Tournament at Mercer October 26-27
The Vanderbilt varsity debaters won first place among affirmative
teams and tied for second place among ngative teams, compiling enough
points to win first place in the tournament
Some 160 debaters, comprising
40 teafns from 22 colleges and uni-
ersihes in the Southeast, compet
ed in the two-day tournament.
Each team participated in six
rounds
I he University of Alabama took
second place in overall competition
with the University of Georgia cap
turing third.
The winning University of Ala
bama team took first place nega
tive honors and was adjudged the
third place affirmative team.
The University of Kentucky,
which was the overall winner last
year, tied with Vanderbilt for sec-
ind place negative honor*.
A team from David-Lipscomh
’ollege won second place affirma
ive honors.
Topic for the debate was. “He
solved That the non Communist
nations of the world should estab
lish an economic community.”
Mercer's debate team, coached
by Michael Minchew, participated
in the debates but as host school
declared itself ineligible for any of
the awards. Mercer varsity debat
ers are John Rue, . Nathan Deal,
Karen Gay and Karen Kennedy.
Novice debaters for Mercer were
Bill Exum, Henry Brown, Jim
Whitlow, Roland Knight, Mike
Neisler. Luman Earl, Pinky Gill,
Nancy Chapman, James Alligood,
Edward Bolton, Rose Smith, Anna
McClain and Ole Figinbaum.
Five varsity division debaters
(Continued on page 6)
U. S. Judge Griffin Bell
Speaker for Law Bay
The Honorable Griffin B. Bell
will sjieak today to some .'WO law
•Indents, faculty and alumni for
the fifteenth annual 1-aw Day of
the Walter F George School of
Law. He will address the group at
a luncheon in the Connell Student
('enter.
Bell is a judge for the United
States Court of Appeals lor the
J-’ifth Judicial Circuit, and. as a
member of that court has taken
part in some ol the recent decis
ions involving the desegregation of
the University of Mississippi
Law Day this year will also fea
ture several legal scholars in a fo
rum on the Criminal Law Study
Committee. The forum will be led
by Moderator Richard B. Thorn
ton, Macon attorney and secretary
of the Committee which was enact
ed pursuant to a recent act of the
Georgia legislature. Panelists will
be T. T. Molnar. Henry G. Neal
and Alfred A. Quillian. all mem
bers of the Committee, and Mercer
law professor James C. Rehberg.
who is serving on the research
hoard of the Committee.
Rufus Carrollton Harris, Presi
dent of Mercer University, will
welcome the guests of the I-aw
School to the I-aw Day ceremonies.
Following Harris' welcome, Thom
as J. Holmes. Director of Develop
ment and Alumni Relations, will
offer the invocation. Presiding over
the program will be Tully Bond,
Jr., chyrman of the Law Day pro
gram '
Holcombe H. Perry, president of
the Georgia Bar Association will in
troduce Bell to the assembly. The
s|x-ech will follow the luncheon and
will conclude 1-aw Day activities
until 9:00 p.m. tonight whbn the
law alumni association will spon
Architect’s drawing; of proposed addition to Ryals Law Building.
Law School Plans $150,000Addition
L _ t llOn f,, r rs Oflitvneftltr *of 1 1 )^ ol
A $150,000 wing will be added to
te Ryals I-aw Building next year
was announced this week by
University officials.
Increased enrollment and the
red for additional library facili
ies are two of the factor* which led
» the decision to increase the phy-
cal plant of the Walter F. George
rhool of Law. t
The new addition to the law
uilding will be (if the same archi-
•tural style a* the present build-
l* and will include three floors
txl a basement.
The addition will provide one
rw daas room, three faculty of-
«*. a seminar toom and addition
al library space
A student lounge will Is- provided
for law students in the basement,
which will also have a mechanical
room and restroom facilities for
both men and women.
A seminar rimm i»\.planned for
the first floor, which will also
house the three new faculty offices.
On the second floor the addition
al space will allow for a textbook
room se|>arate from the law libra
rian’s office, but most of the area
will bo devoted to the library
stack s The third floor addition
will be devoted exclusively to pro
viding new stack space.
The present building was built
in 1930 for a capacity»of 125 stu
dents It now has an enrollment of
133 with ten faculty and two staff
members.
When the huildiiig was complet
ed in 1930, the law school had an
enrollment of 51 students, with
four faculty memliervc The library
th< n had about 11 .(>00 volumes. At
the latest count the library has
o.er 40.000 volumes, according to
law librarian J. Howell Hennecy.
Funds for the addition are
being raised from members of the
law alumni The Walter F. George
Foundation funds which now pro
vides funds for salaries and main
tenance will not lie user! for the
addition.
Griffin B. Bell — Law Day Speaker
sor a dance for all members and
guests.
Bell, an alumnus of the Waiter
F. George School of Law. has prac
ticed law for several years and also
been the Chief of Staff under Gov
ernor Ernest Vandiver.
James C. Quarles. Dean of the
Law School, will make welcoming
remarks to the 1-aw Day guests
prior to the forum Alex Davis,
president of the Student Bar Asso
elation will preside over the (ere-
mony.
Registration for Law Day will
Ix-gin at 10.00 a m. in the law
I school. The forum will lx- held
| from 11.00 a m. until 12 30 p.m.
when the law alumni will hold a
business meeting Peter Zaek Geer,
president of the law alumni, will
conduct the meeting
Law Day at Mercer is planned
and organized hv the students of
the Walter F George School of
Law in cooperation with the facul
t\ Members of the Iaiw Wives
Cluh will serve :i“ hostesses for the
affair. They are Miss Mary Brad
berry. Mrs Marvin Morrow, Mrs.
Thomas Bennett, Mrs. James
Humphrey. Mrs Curtis Shaw anil
Mrs Paul Brown
Fraternity Alumni Senate
Opposed To Integration
A resolution opposing integral
institution was adopted by the Man
Phi I-aw Fraternity at its regular
statement given to the MERCER
Tribune of the group.
The resolution as passed by the
alumni stattsl. "That the Macon
Alumni Senate of the Delta Theta
Phi Law Fraternity go on record as
opposing the integration of Mercer
University or any other Baptist
institution in Georgia "
A report from an informed
source said that only five voting
members of the group were pres
ent. They further said that the vote
to adopt the resolution was tied at
two and two with the deciding vote
coming from Robert E. Barfield,
local attorney who is Dean of the
Senate.
When contacted by the Mercer
News Bureau about the voting.
Barfield said that he did not recall
the details.
This action conn s in the wake of
the rceht action by the Mercer
Board of Trustees in setting up a
committee to study the matter of
admitting Negnx-s/lto Mercer
J. Milton Heanc chairman of the
Board of Trustees appointed a
committee following the adoption
of a motion by Mercer president
Dr. Rufus C. Harris, to “study the
matter of admissions to the Uni
versity without regard to nice or
color, anil re|Xirt its recommenda
tions at a later meeting of this
Board."
’ Heard told the MERCER CLUS
ion of Mercer or any other Baptist
in Alumni Senate of the Delta Theta
meeting October 25. according to a
CLUSTER by .1 Howell Hennecy.
TER that he did not know when
the committee would re|s>rl. but
did not think Hint it would lx
the next meeting in January.
The-Law Frati iiuly Senate
Macon is i-(imposed prnci|ially/ ol
alumni of the Walter F Gtyirgc
School of Law
Harris Ouster Sought
A letter demanding the resigna
lion of Mercer president Rufus C
Harris has been received by J.
Milton Heard, chairman of the
Boiiril of Trustees according to
Heard. Y
The letter was signed by Robert
FT Barfield, local attorney and
Dean of the Macon Alumni Senate
of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fra
ternity.
Contacted at his home. Heard
said that he had talked to Barfield
about the matter previously. He
further stated that he had replied
to Barfield, but would not reveal
the contents of hrs reply
Barfield in addition to having
written the letter h> Heard, cast the
deciding vote that passed the rso
lution opposing the integration of
Mercer, at the recent meeting of
the Alumni Senate of the Delta
Theta Phi law fraternity.