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Snipes To Sppak
Dr. Wilson E. Snipes will speak
at the 6th district meeting of Geor
gia Council of Teachers of Eng
lish on October 29. The meeting
was held at Lanier Jr. High
School. Dr. Snipes spoke on the
Teaching of Composition.
GRIFFITH UNCOVERS
LOST FOLKSONGS
Dr. Benjamin W. Griffith, chair
man of the English department at
Mercer University, is the author of
two articles on folklore that appear
in the current issues of the Journal
of American Folklore and the
Southern Folklore Quarterly.
Both of the artides deal with
folk songs found in a manuscript
song book, dated 1829, kept by
Thomas Hurry Morgan of Macon
County, Georgia.
In the Journal of American Folk
lore, an article, entitled “An Amer
ican Variant of “The Bonny Scotch
Lad,* ’’ Dr. Griffith argues that a
song in the Morgan book entitled
“Bonnet So Blue” is the hitherto
missing link between the Scotch
song “The Bonny Scotch Lad” and
the Americanized “Green Grow the
Laurels.”
In the Southern Folklore Quar
terly artide, “A Fuller Version of
the ‘Guinea Negro Song,* ” Dr.
Griffith presents evidence that a
song in the Morgan book contain
ing a slave’s ironic comments about
his condition of servitude is a
complete version of a folksong that
was previously known to exist in
only one stanza in the Frank C.
Brown collection.
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Mercer University
Mercer Has A
Last Saturday morning the
"Mercer University Program”
made its radio debut on WCRY,
900 kc. This program is produced
by the Office of News Services
here and is devoted to news and
announcements pertaining to the
campus. It also features semi-
classical and popular music, and
interviews with students, faculty,
and visitors.
The show is aired live each Sat
urday from 10:00 to 10:30 by Gary
Broadnax and Careen Hart. At
times, different students will mod
erate or be featured in talks or in
terviews.
Radio Program
Last Saturday, an interview was
held with Charles B. Wood, who
spoke to the students here on be
half of the Peace Corps last week.
Also featured was the naming of
the Humanities Building in honor
of the late Dr. Otis Dewey Knight
This came about as the result of
a resolution circulated by the stu
dent body last spring quarter.
Broadnax and Hart talked about
plans for further building here at
Mercer. A new law building and
science center are in the works, not
to mention the new men’s dorm
and library now under construc
tion.
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October 23,1964 The Mawr Pastor
By Sara June McRae
The past week has really been
a busy and exciting one for Mercer
Grades, especially the sororities,
who started their informal rush on
Oct 12. Both the fraternities and
sororities, as well as the indepen
dent organizations, were well rep
resented in the freshman talent
show. The sororities did well in Die
freshman beauty contest too, tak
ing all five finalists. I would sin
cerely like to thank all the report
ers who took time out from the
busy whirlpool of rush parties, tal
ent practices, contests, pageants,
intramurals, and possibly cl asses to
turn in their group's news. I am
looking forward to hearing from
them again, and I hope to hear
from the others by next week.
ALPHA DELTA PI was lacking
an editor since the ADPi’s old one
transferred, but has selected a new
one who has jumped head first in
to the job and reported all of the
sorority’s news for the past month.
After the new pledges were wel
comed, the sorority held a pledge
banquet at the Sultan’e Table to
honor them. Formal pledging eras
held on Oct 8, and each little sis
ter was given a sponsor to guide
her through her pledgeahip. Pledge
officers were also elected, and are
Pam Smith, president; Janice Gas-
away, vice-president; and Susanna
Thornton, secretary-treasurer.
ADPi is very proud of its pledge
class, which has recently acquired
many honefrs. Mary Bslots ws
second runner-up in the Freahmai
Beauty Contest, and Mike San
ford was among the five finalist
Pam Smith has been appointed as
sistant fire marshal, and was ala
recently recognised by Governs
Carl Sanders. Another ptedgi
Mias Careen Hart was Mias Deir
Princess of Georgia, and first rua
ner-up in the nation. She was ala
Miss Georgia Southwestern Col
lege, and has been recently ap
pointed to the President's Cbtinci
which serves as an advisory to th
student government
During the last few months, A]
pha Delta Pi has also been activ
in the romance department Thoa
recently pinned are Lucy Coal
and John Tracy, Pi Kappa Phi
Carolyn Cambell and Tommy Lee
is. Kappa Alpha; Sheila Crane aa
Ray Seagers, Pi Kappa Phi; Pi
Weaver and Bryan Shipman, 1
Kappa Tau; Joan Phillips an
Larry Quattlebaum, Phi Dell
Theta. Carol Johnson is lavalien
to Steve Steiman, Sigma Pi i
Georgia.
(Continued on page S)
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By Diana Denton
No fool 1 (having learned my lesson from last week’s Feedback),
I stood beside my usually empty box in the post-office, dousing the con
tents (an unprecedented matter—not the inundation, but the fact that
that there was anything inside) prior to removal. Gingerly extracting
the now-soggy missive, 1 was somewhat disappointed, albeit relieved,
to find it nothing more dangerous than a notice about Thursday con
vocation. I must be losing my touch.
But 1 was somewhat cheered as
my friend (believe it or not, I still
have a few), and fellow CLUSTER
staffer, Bernard Lindsey came by
to inform me that my heresy trial
before the Panhellenic Council was
being postponed a week to gather
further information from the mad
blatherings of Willard Clutchmyer.
I couldn't help but think back to
the last heresy trial here at Mer
cer, brought against five members
of the Mercer faculty by a group
of 13 ministerial students—among
them, a certain John Morrison
Birch.
Yes, my friends, the John Birch
of whom you hear so much—es
pecially in an election year—was
once a Mercer student like unto
ourselves.
Despite the misconceptions of
Birch which have grown up, thanks
to the work of Robert Welch, he
was by no means the radical right
winger as which he has been pic
tured. Dedicated to what he
thought was right, yes—perhaps al
most to the point of fanaticism—
but dedicated more to the ministry
to which he gave his life than to the
politics with which his name has
become associated.
This man and his part in the
trials of 1939 are another part of
Mercer’s history which should not
be allowed to lie “covered with dust
and stacked with a few old boards
in a corner.” Two articles on the
subject, in the May 6 and May 12
CLUSTERS of 1961 make perfect
ly fascinating reading for anyone
who will take the trouble to look
them up. (They are among the
stacks in the ’’CLUSTER office.)
Who knows, someone may even be
interested enough to revive the
story in a future series of articles.
The editors of this so called neutral newspaper
have begged in the past couple of weeks for loyal
Barry Goldwaterians to rise to the cause of de
fending the issues for which they are fighting.
This is the first of two article# to appear in the
Cluster in the next two weeks.
As I sat down tonight to write this article. I
called upon the services of an old witch and her
crystal ball to give me the ability to see into the
future. We gazed into the ball and to my surprise
there appeared two future Americas. The choice
was left to the voters in the forthcoming election.
I saw the future America as a very prominent fig
ure in the world, a place for individualism, and a
place to raise families in peace and freedom. I also
saw the future America as a socialistic state, and
Heaven forbid, that of a dictatorship in a later
scene.
Yes, there is a future with LBJ, but it’s a future
that scares me and should scare any American
who values individualism and freedom. In the last
few years of Democratic rule, we have lost the
right of free enterprise with the passing of the
Civil Rights Bill. A man is now told how to run
his business, and who he must serve. The central
government has become so strong that it steps on
the rights of the states. Washington, Jefferson,
and others who framed our Constitution would
probably turn over in their graves if they knew the
strength of the government and the power that
is now invested in so many incompatible people.
Our Constitution was set up for the people, by the
people, «nd the people were to have the say so in
the control of the government We have seen
many “egotists" who use the government for their
own personal gain, appear in the past few yean.
We have seen the American name become more
a joke in the foreign countries who used
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