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Volume XLV
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 20, 1964
Number 9
Mercer Players' liliom'
On Stage Here Tonight
The Mercer Players' last performance of the Fall Quart
er play, “Liliom,” by Ferenc Molnar, will appear on the Will
ingham Chapel stage tonight at 8:14. The production is the
first Mercer play to be directed by Miss Linda Shuler. The
music was composed by Mercer organist, Jack Jones.
Subtitled “A Legend in Seven
Act* end a Prologue,” "Liliom” it
the play on which the popular
Broadway musical, "Carousel” \^as
based, and has been successfully
produced in England, Continental
Europe, and on Broadway. ' ^
Set in Hungary, the play is the
story of a young carousel barker,
nicknamed Liliom (Rob Jones),
who is quite popular with women,
especially the carousel’s owher,
Mme. Muskat (Nellie Diaks) and a
young servant girl named Julie
(Satu Lundstedt).
Fired when Mme. Muskat be
came angry with Liliom for his in
terest in Julie, the barker married
the servant girl. Unable to support
his wife (whom he treats roughly),
and learning that she expects a
child, Liliom and his criminal
friend Fiacur (Mike Day) attempt
to rob a factory paymaster (Bill
Brown). Caught in the act, when
their plot fails, Liliom stabs him
self to avoid arrest.
After death, Liliom is brought
before the court of the Heavenly
Magistrate, where he is sentenced
to 16 years in the fires of purifica
tion. Liliom is then permitted to
return to earth for one day to do
something good and beautiful,
which, if successful, will allow him
to enter paradise.
Liliom steals a star to take to his
daughter, (Fay Thomsby) she does
not take it and he strikes her, but
she is not hurt, since the blow
came from one who loves her.
Julie’s friend, Marie, is played by
Beverly Williams; while Marie’s
sweetheart is played by Steve Be
lew. Peggy Mallot plays Mother
Hollunder, the landlady; while Sara
Smith and Judy Ross play the ser
vant girls.
John Johnson plays the Doctor
and the Police captain, while
Johnny Adams plays Young Hol
lunder. Vic Kovacs is the Heavenly
Policeman and Bill Cetti plays the
Carpenter and the Poor Man
Adams also has the role of the old
guard, while Belew also plays the
Heavenly Magistrate.
Mme. Muscat (Nellie Diaks) tries to lure Liliom (Rob Jones
away from his wife, in the Mercer Players’ performance of Ferenc
Molnar’s "Liliom” on the Mercer stage for the last time tonight.
Photo by Broadnax
Fall Lecturer, Dr. W.D. White, Speaks
On Christianity And Literature
Dr W. D. White opened his se
ries of lectures on “The Christian
Faith and Literature” with a com
parison of differing concepts of
Hell, in chapel Wednesday morn
ing.
Chairman of the undergraduate
department of religion at Duke
University, Dr. White holds doc
torates in theology and literature.
By BILL DAYTON
Named Fall Lecturer for 1964,
White spoke in chapel on Wednes
day, Thursday, and Friday, at
10:00 a.m., ami in 314 Student
Center on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
and Thursday at 8:00 p.m. Atten
dance at the lectures was required
for upperclassmen.
In his opening lecture on “Con
temporary Literature and Art on
Candidates for sponsor of Mercers ROTC battalion They are (left to right):
Middlebrooks, Carole Tapley, Sarah Distelhurat, and Kay Moody.
Lyn Wheeler, Mary
(Photo by Bob Hurt)
BATTALION SPONSOR
CANDIDATES ARE
NAMED
Mercer ROTC students nominated five upperclassmen
oeds this week as contenders for the coveted title of Battabon
Sponsor. , „ . .
The ROTC cadets will vote in a secret ballot election te
hoose the reigning beauty of the 231-man unit. The winner
fill be announced at the annual Military Ball to be held early
‘ the Winter Quarter. .
- - - - mally presented to the battalion
The five girls nominated are
•rah Distelhurat, Mary Middle-
rooks, Kay Moody, Carole Tapley
J>d Lyn Wheeler.
The nominees were selected by
*oior and senior cadets Monday
ftemoon. They will be presented
0 the cadet battalion during a
Pecial ceremony followed by an
lection. The winner's name will be
*pt secret until the Military Ball.
The military students elected the
be company and band sponaora on
lev- 9. These sponaora will be for-
this Monday at a ceremony and
review in their honor. The public
is invited to the ceremony, begin
ning at 2:40 p.m. on the drill field.
The new sponsors are Linda Mc-
Elreath, Linda Pitta, Mary Eaton,
Glynn Coulding and Ann Harris.
Also on Monday, Distinguished
Military Students will be presented
with certificates certifying their
selection. The DMS cadets, all sen
ior*, are J. Colin Harris, William
T. Exum, Charles R. Hearn, James
INSIDE THIS WEEK
Page 2: Editorials and columns
an Vineon and J.F.K.
Page 3: The Lee Battle Story,
Review of “Liliom”, and the
Social Set-
Page 4: Willard Clutchmyer and
Sports Scope.
BE SURE TO READ THE
CLUSTER REVIEW!
T. Humphrey and Johnny Ray Fer
guson.
Sarah Distlehurst, one of the
nominees for battalion sponsors, is
a senior from Thomasville. She is
president of M.I.C-A. and was se
lected last year as Tot, the girl who
best exemplifies the Mercer spirit.
She is secretary of Cardinal Key
honor group, secretary-treasurer of
the Student Government Associa
tion, vice-president of SNEA, a
former secretary of Beta Beta Beta
(Continued on page 4)
Man’s Self Understanding.” Dr.
White began with a discussion of
Dante’s Divine Comedy, pointing
out that in Hell, men are shown
doing what they did in life, but
without humanity. He proceeded to
discuss Sartre's ‘‘No Exit,”
which three incom pa table people
are placed in a single room for
ever, to illustrate the author’s
point that “Hell is other people.
Dr. White also spoke of the art
ist Picasso, pointing out that over
the years, his art has become stead
ily dehumanized, moving from
paintings of realistic humanity in
to abstractions. He connected this
with the idea of Hell as distinctly
dehumanized. White also brought
in the contemporary French au
thor, Bernanoe, who has one of his
characters, a priest, tell a countess
in confession: “Hell is not to love
anyone, Madame; Hell is not to
love.”
Speaking on “Treasure in Earth
en Vessels”, in chapel, Thursday,
Dr. White discussed the human na
ture of the Church. Speaking from
the background of St. Paul's letter
to the Corinthians, White referred
to the Church as "treasure held in
earthen vessels,” saying that the
fact that the Church is composed
of humans should not overshadow
the fact of its revelation: because
the treasure is in an earthen pot
does not mean that it is in any way
less a treasure.
“The brokeimess of the Church
can become redemptive because it
keeps thinking men on their knees,”
White said. “For every point my
pagan friends can bring to bear
against the Church, I can bring a
dozen.”
“And what is the treasure?”
White asked; “It is simply that in
the Church, true life is present in
our midst ... It is God's gift of
himself to us through Christ, it is
this treasure which is real."
Dr. White's lecture Wednesday
afternoon, was on “The Christian
Vocation of a Church College."
Thursday evening, he spoke on
“The Vocation to Excellence;” s«H
on Friday, he spoke in chapel on
"Contemporary Culture and Lib
eral Education.” White also spoke
to several Christianity and philos
ophy classes during his stay her*.
TRIMBLE CLASS
DEFECTS
TO BREWSTER
Assistant Dean Thomas M.
Trimble found an empty classroom
where his course in Existentialism
is held, yesterday.
The missing philosophy students
were discovered across the hall in
Professor Brewster’s Christianity
class, where they had moved en
masse to hear a lecture by visiting
speaker Dr. W. D. White. After
making a short speech on the evils
of stealing other people’s students,
Trimble stayed to hear White, who
had addressed Trimble’s philoso
phy class the day before.
Third Army General
William C. Bullock
Visits Mercer ROTC
Maj. Gen. William C. Bullock,
Deputy Commander 3rd U. S.
Army, visited the Mercer campus
Wednesday, inspecting ROTC fa
cilities and meeting university of
ficials.
Gen. Bullock, a West Point
graduate, conferred with Dean
Garland F. Taylor and received a
briefing from Lt Col. Robert L.
Pitts, PMS, and members of the
cadet battalion staff concerning the
operations of Mercer’s ROTC
unit
The deputy commander was the
guest of the ROTC Sponsors at a
coffee, received a briefing by the
cadet staff, toured the facilities
and witnessed a demonstration by
the Mercer Marauders, the univer
sity’s elite counter-insurgency unit.
Gen. Bullock is a native of
Nashville, Tenn., and has received
the Legion of Merit with two Oak
Leaf Clusters, the Crox de Guerre
with Palm and the Bronze Star
Medal.
Mercer and
Wesleyan
To Receive
Sears Grants
Mercer University and Wesleyan
College have received grants total
ing $3,000 from the Sears-Roebuck
Foundation.
This is part of unrestricted
grants totaling $700,000 being dis
tributed this week by the Sears-
Roebuck Foundation under a pro
gram of aid to privately supported
colleges and universities, according
to W. E. Thompson, local repre
sentative of the Foundation.
In announcing distribution of the
1964 grants, Mr. Thompson said
that Mercer and Wesleyan are a-
mong 12 participating colleges and
universities in Georgia which will
share in grants totaling $16,000.
Purpose of the program is sys
tematically to help institutions of
higher learning meet their finan
cial needs.
Altogether, more than 600 col
leges and universities from coast
to coast will receive Foundation
grants. They are restricted to al
low the schools to allocate their
fundi according to their greatest
needs.
In addition to its new grant pro
gram, the Foundation during the
current year will spend approxi
mately $660,000 for a variety of
scholarship and other types of ed
ucation programs, bringing its to
tal expenditures for education pur
poses this year to almost $1,500,000.