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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA , MAY 8, 1964
NUMBER
Pmm Corps Examinations
will ba given Saturday, May B la
loom MO, Macon Post Office
Building. Any student dariring
further Information should no
Mr. Carroll In the Adminfctra-
Prscidcnt Rnfas C. Harris
Harris Speaks
“Quality Educatjon"
eaident Rufus C. Harris pie-
the McKibben Lane Memo-
Teacher Award of the Bibb
unty Educational Association to
Bartarot Edenfield, a Bibb
unty teacher for thirty-five years,
presentation took place at
ting of the Association at
Hughes Vocational School
Monday.
resident Harris nddraand the
up on the subject of “Quality
ation", and what it involves,
favors it but few may
what it means." He re-
that there is no “magic
nula”, but that there are several
its . . . emphasised differ-
r by persons of different experi-
glum infnl
, which conpnw uw row cm?*
product”
Harris continued, “Students have
I much to do with the iseoe n any
factor. They are implicated
their attitudes, their moti
ons, and through the total char-
er of their participation.”
e Mercer University President
nt on to take issue with those
i see the students of today aa far
I over those of the previous
eration. While readily conced-
that “in most schools the per
of exceptionally able stu-
is indeed greater than it was
a decade ago.” he contended,
may well be doubted, however
schools today are ministering
ny radically different and su
or kind of being.”
Harris then died the respond
of students and teachers
student is the hope of tin
INSIDE THIS WEEK
The Social Set and a blat from
the B8U are found Xm page two.
A column by Willard Chrtduny-
er, a Mercer tradition, is reprint-
ad an page three. Dean dean
explains the Division of Student
personal on the same page. Max-
ear Sports and news of the 8GA
are on page four.
The date IB7B in last wash’s
“Inside this weak” wee a mis
print; should have read 18BB.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
RECEIVE CHARTER
Mercer Young Democrats re
ceived their charter from the State
Executive Committee of the Young
Democratic Club* of Georgia on
April 26 at the quarterly meeting
of the committee.
The charter was the first granted
to a campus dub this year. The or
ganization still awaits approval by
the administration as a university
function.
The present officers are; Presi
dent—Wynn Pelham, Vice Presi
dent—Nathan Deal. Secretary—
Willie Hubbard, and Treasurer-
Harry Does.
A number of projects are planned
including activities in the presiden
tial campaign next fall. Fred Has
ty, president of the Young Demo
cratic Club of Bibb County, has
served as an informal adviser to
the group. The next meeting of the
chib will be on Tuesday, May 12.
S.G.A. Sponsors
Panel Discussion
R.0.T.C Day to be Held
Here on Monday, May It
By BOB CARTER
Col. Robert M. Booth, ahief of R.O.T.C. Affairs in the XII Vorps, will receive the battalion review at
R.O.T.C. Day on Monday, May II.
The annual affair affords Mercer
students an opportunity to see the
progress made by the Corps
Dr. Robert Otto will deliver the
invocation. Welcoming students
and guests will be Dr. Robert H.
Spiro, dean of the college of lib
eral arts.
The high point of Monday’s ac
tivities comes during the recogni
tion of outstanding military stu
dents. These awards wil be pre
sented by Mercer faculty and by
the representatives of local civil
and patriotic groups. Also this
year’s honor company wil be se
lected and announced. Competi
tion is said to be especially close
this year.
The Fourth Missile Battalion,
stationed at Robins Air Force Base,
and a Macon National Guard Unit
are furnishing several displays.
Company E, Fourth Regiment of
the Society of Pershing Rifles will
demonstrate their drill precision.
This unit under the command of
Cadet P.R. Captain Glenn Strange
ends its year's activities with the
Monday drill.
Another fast moving demonstra
tion will feature the Mercer Ma
rauders. Cadets composing the se
lect platoon meet weekly for extra
combat training. Hand to band
combat, bayonet attacks, and rap
pelling from the 35 foot towers, are
all part of this event Cadet Lti
Bill Osteen is this year’s Marauder
Commander
Refreshments are to be served
after the program which begins at
3:15 p.m.
The finer points of an array light tank are explained to a Mercer
Marauder, one of SO Mercer Cadets who with Major Curtfc Smith and
Dean Thomaa Trimble, attended aa R.O.T.C. octantstton at Ft Banning.
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Ralph McGill Speaks
In Mercer Chapel
Ralph McGill, publisher of The Atlanta Constitution, spoke here in
chapel Tuesday
Dr. McGill was introduced by
Dr. Spencer King of the history de
partment who commented upon
Ralph McGill’s record and his
having “honored Mercer by
The Hometown Citizenship Ac
tion meeting designed by the
United States Chamber of Com
merce will be brought to Mercer
students Thursday evening, May
14, sponsored by the Student Gov
ernment Association and the Great
er Macon Chamber of Commerce.
The panel session will open St 7:80
pm. in 314 Connell Student Cen-
Learning can only begin ter
students generate in them
a continuing and lifelong
for it”
is not my intention, by men-
the students first, to imply
the faculty have no equal re
ity for quality education,
must be convincing exemplars
ming, making thsassslves the
of the real and the ideal,
ir knowledge must be their
alive, fresh, and growing—and
a textbook’s information.”
! The special official leapaanihility
e faculty is to provide a suit-
curriculum." Continuing on
topic. President Harris con
hie speech with a call for a
it and challenging curricu-
that would inspire “students to
The Citizenship Action meeting
introduced to Macon in March
by the chamber's Pubilc Affairs
Committee. Some 100 Macon citi
zens attended the first community
wide meeting March 23 at the Dis
trict Bankers Building on the Gray
Highway.
Citiaemhip Action meetings are
designed to study key issue# to go
before the next session of Congress.
Thursday’s session will deal closely
with such election year issues as
the 1966 budget, area redevelop^
ment, social security, minimum
wage extension, double time for
overtime, unemployment, poverty,
medicare, and public works.
Panelists will cover each point
from the voter's standpoint at the
ilwnwainn The masting hopes to
frUp voters become more effective
In mmdig their informed opia
te their legislators, according
to John Stewart, Public Affairs
Cemasittas Chairman .
The Hometown Gtuenahip Ac
gp pugg la a follow-up to the
U. S. Chamber’s Airoade for CHl-
of Qeargia
the key issues to area delegates.
Thirty-seven Maconites attended.
Panelists for Thursday night’s
meeting will be John Stewart, of
Stewart-McElrath Oak Flooring
Co., chairman; Ben Porter, WBML,
moderator; W. B. Shearer, J. C.
Penney Oo.; J. W. Adams III.
American Oil Co.; and Mrs. G.
Scott Rankin Jr.
"America’s colleges are produc
ing some of this country’s most ac
tive citizens," Stewart said. “We
hope this citizenship program at
Mercer will help many young peo
ple take a more active and inform
ed part in their precious heritage of
self-government”
S.G.A. President Tommy Day
Wilcox, anticipating a predominant
ly convervative trend in the discus
sions, has remarked that the views
expressed by the panel are not nec
essarily those of the S.GA. He
hopes that similar organizationa
will present their views in similar
discussions which the S.G.A. will
support as it has this one.
cepting an honorary doctorate from
the university.’'
In his address, McGill dealt
mainly with the problems poaed by
poverty in the Appalachian area
and tiie need for aid in these places
“Our country is in danger when a
large segment of its population
feels isolated from the concern of
our government”
He said that people in the pov
erty-stricken Appalachian area,
where he was bom, tend to feel ig
nored by the rest of the country and
by the government.
Dr. McGill remarked that Pres
ident Johnson’s visit to the deep
south will probably win some votes,
adding “But I wouldn't be so cyni
cal as to say that his trip is politi
cal. He is greatly interested in help
ing these people.”
McGill also spoke concerning the
United States, attacking the be
lief that its actions are helping the
Communists. He noted that if the
United Nations had not intervened
in the Congo, the Communists
would probably have taken over in
that area.
“You and I don't know how the
problems of the world will be
solved, but these events touch the
lives of all of us.”
After the convocation in Willing
ham Chapel, Dr. McGill had coffee
with President Harris and the fac
ulty.
Senator Strom Thurmond
Discusses “Rule of Law”
Senator Strom Thurmond qnkc
n the “rule of law” to the students,
I guests asassnhfod in
State Lieutenant Governor, Peter
Zack Geer.
A former state senator, circuit
the Connell Student Cantor for Law Ijudge, and Governor of South Car-
Day. Friday, May I.
The South Carotins
introduced, after a rite
gturidmt Harris, faqr
State’s Rights party’s candidate for
> by f the pturidency in 1948.
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“Education Holds the
The Key” Says Amall
Ellis Amah. Mercer alumnus and
former governor of Georgia, ad
dressed students, faculty, and alum
ni here last Saturday, as part of
Mercer’s annual Alumni Day pro
ceedings.
Speaking on the value of educa
tion, Governor A mall’s address
followed an introduction by State
Attorney General Eugene Cook,
also a Mercer alumnus.
Dr. Rufus Harris, president of
Mercer, also delivered a abort
speech, in which he denied “rumors
prevalent in certain quarters” that
he is trying to lead Mercer away
from the Southern Baptist Con
vention.
Amall remarked upon the im
portance of the denominational
college in modem education, and
in his speech, said that education
holds the key to the remedies for
poverty, prejudice, disease, and in
justice. “If man is to survive, it
must be through a realization that
he is many things; an individual
possessed of Free Will, account
able both to God and to himself,
who was made in the image of God;
a neighbor who must live at peace
with his neighbors; a citizen who
must assume his civic obligations;
a human being who must have a
capacity for participating in the
paminna of his time as well as a
capacity for enjoying those things
that are stomal: the sunlight and
ths stotm. the fragrance of the ear
ly morning and the solitude at the