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^ Mnttt ® (fluster 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- (Continued on page 4) 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 (Continued on page 4) 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.