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Volume XLIV
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, JANUARY 17, 1964
Numl>er 12
75 Named On
Fall Dean’s List
Seventy live Mercer liberal arts
students aii.l 17. students of the
Walter F George School of Ijiw
liave earned Dean's List standing
lor the falf quarter
The 75 students in the College of
Liberal Arts represent six |ier cent
>1 |bat student body In the fall
juarter ot 111(13 slightly less than
itx |)er cent attained the honor pv
■rage
To be named on the Dean’s last,
i student must earn grades cquiva-
ent to a B plus or• better in all
york attempted during the quar-
er.
Dr Holier! H. Spiro, dean of the
ollege of Liberal Arts, said “each
>! these students deserves com
nondation, for they have attained
•xcellence in the most significant
irea of college life, which is the
ntellectual."
The students, in alphabetical or-
ler. are
I’aula Ann Arnold, Ix'ila Eugenia
\shurst.. lfenry Favor Ball. Nin
alike Dorothy Bean, Evelyn Claire
teasley. Frederick Lee'Black, John
’hillips Bougher, Judith Marie
drewer. John T. Burks. Nelda
tfadge Chapman. Sara Meredith
| Cole, Ljnda Gail Combs, Beulah
Steve Moody, Bear Fonvard from Blackshear, nabs rebound in |S . lU . ta Culpepper, Harry Nathan.
Monday night game with Stetson. (Staff Photo) ... ’ _ ' _
| a 1 Davis, Diane Lee Denton,
Marilyn Ann Donation, Virginia S.
Doughterty, Sylvia Diane Eyre,
Johnny Hay F’crguson
Bohera Anne Fowler,. Betty Jo
Freeman, James Riley Gibson. Jr..
Patricia Anne Giesler, Felice Pam
ela Graham. Dianne Faye Grant,
Lester Shelton Haggard. II. Cyn
thia Ilulh Harper, Tommie Marian
Harris. Nancy Leah Hendrix, Fran
ees Louise Hobbs, M. Willisia Hol-
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Bears Face Jacksonville
Tonight In Porter Gym
By Mike Swords
Cluster Sports Editor
The Mercer Bears take on the |x>wcrfu! Dolphins ul' Jacksonville
tonight at ft pm. in Porter Gymnasium
The Bears will counter the Jack-1 *■*. ~~ —
nville team with their usual start
ing lineup of Sandy Harris and
Tommy Wilcox at Guards, Jim
Hearn and Steve Moody at F'or |
wards and big Don Baxter at Con- j
Snow, a stranger to Mercer for quite a while, fluttered down
Monday morning long enough to allow for a few feather-weight now
balls. But by late afternoon it was all gone but the cold. (Stan Photo)
Theme Chosen As
Toby-Tot Nears
By Davis McAuley
The Student Senate Tuesday chose the theme "Something of Value"
to guide float building ideas for next Saturdays Homecoming Parade.
The Fiestas, popular singing
ter
•iplain Hearn is the leading
or with an 1ft ixunt average,
Wilcox, Baxter and Moody also
average in double figures.
Outstanding on the Dolphin
neup is Guard Ralph Tintr, one
of the leading scorers in this part
I the country Tiner averaged
wore than 20 (xunts a game last
season an 1 is well on his way to
boating this in ’64.
The Mercer team faces the Dol
phins fresh from a 72-62 defeat at
•be hands of Stetson Hatters
Monday evening
The Bears were tied with the
Hatters with 7:14 remaining in the
game, hut could not contain the
ffensive drive led by such players
ar Bill Pickens, a hard playing
•0 center for the Stetson team
Notice To Seniors,
Graduate Students
Graduate Aptitude Examine-
** on » will be given on'Monday,
January 27, 1964 starting at
a.m. All graduate students
•bo are matriculating for the
^■Ed. degree are required to
the Graduate Aptitude
Examination.
Departmental tests for sen-
*" will be given on Monday,
January 27, 1964 from 1:30-6
*"> AH seniors who expect to
eo * n Pl*te their studies In March
)*** are required to take theee
Miss Claire Coci. popular concert organist and founder of the
American Academy ol Music and Art, will appear in Willingham
Chapel January 21.
Organist To Give
Concert Tuesday
Miss Claire Coci. internationally
known organist ahd founder of the
American Academy of Music and
Art, will present a recital at Mercer
January 21 in Willingham
Chapel.
Miss Coci has iierformed in af
most all major cities in the United
States and Canada and played
widely in Europe. Recognized as
one most outstanding teachers of
organ in the United States, she be
gan her music career as chief or
ganist in a large New Orleans
church at the age of 16.
The |ierformance by Miss Coci
replaces the scheduled appearance
of organist Robert Baker. It will
j be the second program in the 1663
j 64 Fine Art Series.
The concert begins at 8:30 p ro
Student admission is free, with
tickets for Macon residents $1
each from the Dempsey Corner or
the Mercer hook store.
Miss Coci has played in Macon
twice before This is her first
performance at Mercer. After
a New York concert, the New York
Times said, “Miss Coci played with
conviction, temperament and skill."
The Christian Science Monitor
hag said. “Claire Coci combines ex
traordinary manual and pedal tech
nique with the grandeur and power
of a musical architect”
group, have already been engaged
for the dance to be held the 25th.
Tickets are on sale in the book
store. announced Tommy Wilcox.
Lynn Pearson, Student Senate
Secretary, said nominees for the
Toby-Tot contest had to be in by
Thursday. January 16 The candi
dates will be announced at the
university convocation Tuesdav
and presented to the freshmen at
their class meeting Wednesday.
The election, for Toby and Tot
will be on Friday with the winners
announced at the basketball game
January 24. she added.
Toby and Tot are the man and
woman students chosen by the stu
dent body as those best represent
mg the finest qualities of the Mer
cer spirit Candidates for Toby,
the male student, are nominated by
earh sorority, and candidates for
Tot nominated by the fraternities
The student body will vote for
their candidates during the day
Friday at a txiol station set up in
the lobby >f the Connell Student
(’enter.
George Flury re|x>rted his com
mittee was working on collecting
wood for the bonfire on Friday
evening before the basketball
game. The bonfire and |x>p rally is
set for 6:30 and the game is sched
uled for 7 fi.m
Gametime has been moved up to
7 to allow orgamations to finish
work on their floats that night for
tin- Saturday parade, according to j 14
Tommy Faircloth, SGA vice pres j The
idertt.
Faircloth said that the winning
floats would be announced at the
Dance Saturday night.
In previous action the Senate
voted to charge a $10 entry fee for
parade flohts ami a $5 entry fee
for Toby and Tot candidates
In other SGA business Tuesday
SGA president Nathan Deal re
ported that he had met with the
faculty committee on traffic con
cerning fhe (larking situation at
Mercer
He said that at present, although
students are asked to buy parking
stickers for automobiles parked on
the campus tickets are not given
to cars not bearing stickers.
"This is not fair to students
who buy the stickers," he
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said.
LADISLASSEGY
Segy To Lecture
Here Thursday
I-adislas Segy, an authority on
African Art ami director of tho
Segy Gallery in New York, will
present a lecture on "African
Sculpture and Its Background"
Thursday. January 23 in 314 Con
nell Student Center.
Mr. Segy s lecture will coincide
with the 0|x-ning of on exhibit
here of .'10 pieces of African Sculp
turn, on display through February
re, beginning at 8:30
p m . will trace the religio-magical
background of the usage of African
Sculpture
The talk w,ll be illustrated by 30
color slides i f masks, statues and
implements used in the life-cycle of
primitive Africans in various cere
monies such as pro birth, birth,
initiation and marriage rituals,
cult of death, as well as magic.
The Segy Gallery, which Mr
Segy founded and directs, special
i.:es in African art. In addition to
His work collecting apd exhibiting
this art, Segy has published more
than 50 ixapers in scholarly jour
nals and has contributed an article
on African art to the Encyclopedia.
He i< also the author of two books
in his field.