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Volume XLV
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 9, 1964
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NEW R.O.T.C. COLONEL AND STAFF—Left to right: Cadet Lt
Col. and Battalion Executive Officer, William Exum; Cadet Col. Colin
Harris; and Cadet Major and Battalion Adjutant, Richard Hearn.
R.O.T.C. Officers Named
By BOB HURT
J. Colin Harris, senior from Decatur, is the new cadet
commander of the Mercer University ROTC battalion.
Lt. Col. Robert L. Pitts, PMS,
announced Harris' appointment as
Cadet Colonel and commander of
the ROTC battalion for 1964-66. He
is the highest ranking cadet in the
unit.
Pitts also announced the ap
pointment of William Exum of
lakeland, Ga., as battalion execu
tive officer and Richard lleam of
Columbus as S-l, battalion adju
tant. Kxuin is Cadet Lt. Colonel
and Hearn is Cadet Major.
Harris is a native of Decatur and
lives in Macon with his wife, the
former Faye Gardner of August*.
He has served as chaplain and vice-
president of Sigma Nu fraternity
and is a member of Phi Eta Sigma,
freshman scholastic honor frater
nity.
Harris is Chief Justice of the
Honor Council, president of Blue
Key honor fraternity and a mem
ber of the Cluster staff. He is a
former president of Alpha Phi
Omega service fraternity and is 1st
Ueutenant in Scabbard and Blade,
national military honor fraternity.
Exum is a native of Lakeland,
Ga. He was a member of Mercer’s
varsity basketball team for two
years and is vice-president of Phi
Hemingway Discussed
At Ciceronian Meet
The Ciceronian Literary Society,
oldest organization on the Mercer
campus, held its first m
1964-65 last night.
At the meeting. Don H
cussed Hemingway's The
And The Sea. Other literl
to be discussed by the soc
mg the year are Jacksoi
lottery", Faulkner's Inti
The Duet. Whyte's The C,
tion Man. Packard'! The
Tertuadert. Hochcuth s “T
uty", Orwell's 1984, and S
cartton strip, "Peanuts”.
President of the Ciceronii
ety this year is Steve Dona!
Wilson Snipes again will
faculty advisor for the gre
Requirements for member
U>e Ciceronian Society are i
■ace at a majority of meetin.
interest in literature.
Delta Theta fraternity and Blue
Key. Exum is a member of Scab
bard and Blade and the Circle K
club.
Hearn was vice-president of his
freshman class at Mercer, and a
former president of Alpha Phi
Omega. He is currently vice-presi
dent of Sigma Nu fraternity and
has held several other offices in
that .organization.
Cad^t Col. Harris said 138 fresh
men have enrolled in the ROTC
program this quarter. Total battal
ion strength this year is about 240.
The cadet commander said the
battalion will operate under a re
vised system of rank assignments
this year. Senior cadets will not
be given their permanent ranks or
leadership positions until after Fall
Quarter, and juniors and sopho
mores will not be permanently as
signed until after Winter Quarter.
Harris said the new system will
give students an opportunity for a
greater range of leadership posi
tions and aid the cadre in making
effective unit assignments.
A special counter-insurgency
training group, the Mercer Marau-
i rs. has resumed training and will
present several demonstrations for
the cadet corps and the public this
year.
The Marauders is an elite unit of
specially selected cadets trained in
physical conditioning, hand-to-hand
combat, small unit tactics and
other infantry fighting skills.
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Convocation Speaker Strickland
Cites "Educational Imperatives"
Dr. W. Earl Strickland, president of Wesleyan College, told the Mercer students as
sembled for convocation last Tuesday that Americans must face the three “educational im
peratives" of advancement in the study of natural sciences, lessening human privation and
want, and undergirding peace and understanding among nations.
Delivering the central address
for Mercer’s formal convocation be
ginning the university’s 132nd
year, I)r. Strickland shared the
platform with President Rufus C.
Harris and Dean of Chapel Dr.
Robert Otto who delivered the in
vocation and led the student Lit
any.
Speaking of the "educational im
peratives”, President Strickland
said that they “must be accomp
lished, or the failure to accomplish
them may be history’s most expen
sive failure."
As for the natural sciences, Dr.
Strickland said the challenge at
this point is far greater than that
of merely maintaining a superior
ity of America over some other
nation, even though that is a part
of the challenge.
"We Americans are so prone to
identify with our way of life what
ever is good or effective that we
are apt mistakenly to underesti
mate grossly the effectiveness of
the teaching of the natural sciences
in, for example, Russia,” he said.
Dr. Strickland said that Ameri
ca should continue to surpass Rus
sia in scientific training and knowl
edge, but this requires the involve
ment of national government in
education.
He went on to say that those
who contend otherwise “may be
taught by history in the next few
decades that these two aims are
incompatible."
Dr. Strickland said America can
win over human privation and
want only by educating the un
educated, and sharing with others
the know-how of creativity and
production.
“The task of education to teach
those who do not know and to teach
those who know how to share their
knowledge is no easy task,” he said.
“But there is no satisfactory alter
native to success in that enter
prise.”
Johnson Campaign
Starts At Mercer
Jack Lamb and Sandy Owens
have been named co-chairmen of
"Young Citizens for Johnson” here,
it was announced by Philip Taylor,
slate co-chairman. Owens is a jun
ior in the Walter F. George School
of I .aw and Lamb is a Liberal Arts
sophomore.
■ Lamb has ser
ved as class of
ficer, Sports Edi
tor of The Mer
cer Cluster.
member of the
Student Senate
and Student Gov-
emment Associa
lion. He has also served in various
offices of campus organizations as
well as state offices.
Owens is a member of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon social fraternity and
Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He
attended Emory University before
entering the law school.
The Young Citizens for Johnson
is an organization set up by the
President to encompass all young
citizens that support President
Lyndon B. Johnson for election in
November.
Named as committee members
for the YCJ are Carl Rollins,
Nathan Deal, Bill Dayton, and
Gwen Pelham.
The Wesleyan College president
pointed out that “the greatest
danger to the free enterprise sys
tem lies in any situation that is
allowed to rise bringing with it
hurt and harm to any sizable group
of our citizens.”
“The free enterprise system
which every true American cherish-i
es can be kept safe only by intelli
gently harnessing competition for
the general welfare of all,” he said.
He went on to say, “It is one of
the awesome tasks of education to
produce a people capable of deter
mining that political freedom and
freedom from want shall support
and sustain one another.”
Dr. Strickland said the third ed
ucational imperative is that of
under-girding peace and under
standing between peoples.
“Already we are in a period
when any shaky government pre
sided over by an unbalanced lead
er threatens the security of all na
tions.” he said. “Only a true peace
of understanding and goodwill will
suffice for the world of tomorrow.”
The Wesleyan College president
said that “Fear, ignorance, and an
inability to communicate effective
ly make international relationships
hazardous at best.”
“The only possible correction to
the situation,” he said, “is a more
intelligent understanding on the
part of all our people and a great
er devotion to the truth.”
Mercer President Dr. Rufus C. Harris, and Dr. W. Earl Strickland,
president of Wesleyan College on their way to Convocation cere
monies beginning Mercer's 132nd year.
INSIDE THIS WEEK
Page 2: The Cluster declares
Political neutrality, and
other editorials and col
umns.
Page 3: ’HM.S. Pinafore’ com
ing to Mercer: John Wea
therly and Bernard Lind
sey argue about L.B.J.—
Drama News.
Page 4: Porter Patter and the
Social Set.
Page 6: Mercer Sports.
Page 6: Continuation.
Page 7: Humor, Satire, and
Nonsense.
Page 8: New Faculty Members,
and a defense of Dean
Otto.
Reception Honors
New Faculty
New faculty members at Mercer
University were honored last Fri
day evening at a reception given in
their honor by Dean and Mrs.
Thomas M. Trimble. Guests in
cluded members of the faculties
and administrative staff at Mercer
The reception was held in the
W. G. Lee Alumni House next to
Erin Porter Hall
New faculty members who were
in the receiving line included Capt.
J. D. Benson, Mr. and Mis. Du
mont C. Bunn. Mr. and Mrs. I. Joe
Filippo, Dr. and Mrs. Clare T
Furse, Miss Constance Head, Mr
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Religious Playwriting Competition Set
A playwriting competition which
will continue through Nov. 15.
1965, has been announced by the
church recreation department of
the Baptist Sunday School Board.
The purpose of the contest is to
find well-written one-art religious
plays (modem or biblical) that will
meet the needs of Southern Bap
tist churches
“We seek plays with religious
themes which deal with important
human problems in a Christian con
text,” said Bob M. Boyd, depart
ment secretary.
First, second and third place
awards amounting to $900 will be
given. Broadman Press, Nashville,
will have the privilege of first con
sideration of all submitted manu
scripts for publication.
To be considered, a play must:
(1) be appropriate for use in a
church. (2) have a maximum play
ing time of one hour. (3) be original
and unpublished anil (4) Is- practi
cal in staging requirements (within
the reach of the average church
group).
Three judges, selected by the
church iWYeation de;>artment and
Broadman books department, will
make the final decision.
Elected members of the Sunday
School Board. Board employes and
members of their families are not
eligible to enter the competition.
For further information, write:
Playwriting Competition, Church
Recreation Department, Baptist
Sunday Schol Board, 127 Ninth
Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 37203.