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Volume XLV
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 21, 1965
Number 2#
Next Week
At Mercer
May 21—Sigma Nu White Star
Weekend
ATO Weekend
AD Pi Weekend
Film: “The Male Animal"
7:30 p m —314 9. C. ,
Georgia Collegiate Folksong
Festival—
8:00 p m—Chapel
May 22—RADIO—"The Mer
cer University Kaleido
scope”—10:00 a.m.
WCRY
Folksong Festival—
10:00 a m —314 S. C.
Folksong Festival—
2:00 p.m.—Chapel
Sigma Nu White Star
AD Pi Weekend
ATO Weekend
May 23—RADIO—“The Mer
<*r Univeraity Hour of
Great Music”—
9:40 p.m.—WMAZ
Sigma Nu White Star
May 25—Awards Day
May 27—Flannery O’Connor
Lectures—316 S. C.
Awards Day Tuesday
Mercer University will hold its annual Awards Day cere
mony Tuesday, May 25, in Willingham Chapel, honoring out
standing members of the Mercer community. Among the
presentations will be athletic, scholarship, and service awards.
Dean of Men Joe Hendricks will be master of ceremonies.
The traditional awards are: The
Social Science Award, The Kappa
Delta Epsilon Awards, The Scho
larship Trophy, The Mother Mon
tague Award to an outstanding
Freshman girl, The Most Outstand
ing Independent Man Award, The
Alpha Psi Omega dramatic frater
nity awards, Debate Club awards,
The Chi Omega Alumni chapter
Award for Scholarship, The Wo
men’s Athletic Association Awards,
Circle K awards, Basketball attend
ance trophies. Award to the best
freshman student in Chemistry, The
Spright Dowell Award, Mercer Uni
versity Choir Keys for outstanding
service, Athletic Awards, IFC
awards for sports and scholarship,
Baseball certificates, Outstanding
Independent Girl, The Tommy Mix
on Award, and The Cauldron dedi
cation.
Also featured will be the presen
tation of a charter to Sigma Tau
Gamma Honor Society
Sigma Tau Gemma Formed
Sigma Tau Gamma, honor society for freshman women,
will initiate 60 charter members on Monday afternoon, Prof.
Graydon Ware, chairman of the Committee on Student Or
ganizations announced.
The new society, similar to Phi
Eta Sigma, will name new members
each quarter on the basis of super
ior scholastic achievement during
Dee Brown of Miller High and Allen Frank, of Lanier, try out Tor
the Folk Festival with “Careless Love”.
Folk Festival Tonight
More than thirty individuals and groups are scheduled
to perform on campus today and tomorrow in the Fifth
Annual Collegiate Folksong Festival, under the direction of
Dr. Ben Griffith.
The opening public performance
will be held tonight at 8:00 p.m. in
Willingham Chapel with Donnie
Carl of WMAZ radio as master ol
ceremonies. The program will be
broadcast over WMAZ from 9:06 to
9:30 p.m
A second public performance, al
so in the Chapel, will be held to
morrow afternoon at 2:30. Bill
Powell will serve as M.C. for this
occasion, to be broadcast over
WMAZ from 2:35 to 3:30.
No admission will be charged at
either program and everyone is in
vited to attend.
Indicative of the great interest
in folk music locally is the list of
Macon singers who will perform,
including Mrs. Walter Brown,
Irish harpist; the Don-Jets (Judy,
Carlton, and Robert Dixon); Bruce
Bishop and a group of the students
of Mrs. George Brown; A1 Willing
ham, Lynn Burnett and Mary
Jane Kesserling of Wesleyan Col
lege; the Rev. Pearly Brown; and
a group of Mercer singers includ
ing Dr. Ben W. Griffith, Betty
Baker, John Rue, Ted Borck, Hen
ry Futch, and Larry Taylor and
the Keynoters.
An Atlanta contingent will in
elude Jeaneane Haines B riles
(formerly of Macon), Evelyn
Baron, Professor Bud Foote of
Georgia Tech, Jeff Eapina, the
Nancy Creek Ramblers, Eleanor
Walden, Tim Willis and the Mad
rigals, Grant King and his group,
the Emory University Bluegrass
Band, and a Georgia State College
group.
Other performers include Bill
and Jean Koon, University of Geor
gia; the Balladiers Two, Valdosta
State College; Pam Durban, Aiken,
S. C.; Tut Taylor and the Blue-
grass Five, Milledgeville; the War-
ner-Porter-Wamer Trio, Charles
ton, S. C.; Jasper Aque, Kathy
Cullinan, and Linda Creed, Aiken,
S. C.
the student’s freshman year.
The 60 charter members will be
initiated by the Committee on Stu
dent Organizations at 4 o’clock
Monday afternoon in the Faculty-
Trustee Room and an organization
al meeting will follow.
The purpose of the new group is
to recognize and promote the deve
lopment of sound scholarship, the
dissemination of truth and the pro
motion of high standards and ideals
among freshman women in Mercer
University.
Charter members will be: f
Class of ’65: Karen Kennedy.
Linda Tabor, Shirley Oxford and
Anne Stieglitz;
Clans of ’66: Nelda Madge Chap
man, Sara Meredith Cole, Diane
Eyre, Jackie Granade, Dianne
Grant, Frances Hobbs, Willisia
Holbrook, Julie Murphy, Ruth Anne
Storey, Betty Jo Freeman, Donna
Barrett, Amelia Woodroof, Anne
Bracewell, Joyce Hamrick, Corliss
Elizabeth Martin and Lynda Wim
berly;
Claas of ’67: Nina Bean, Joanie
Bougher, Diana Denton, Marilyn
Donahoo, Patricia Geisler, Lucy
Greene Holloway, Wilma Cather
ine Jarrett, Marilyn Maag, Beatrice
Middleton, Janice Anita Norris,
Sharon Missel, Tina Simmons, Faye
Tyson, Sandra Underwood, Letha
Ann White and Loise Wyatt;
Class of ’68: Dorothy Ann Bailey,
Beverly Beall, Mary Jane Bloom
field, Hazel Zola Bluhm, Bonelle
Bray, Lila Josephine Callaway, Mil
dred Cole, Parnell Discher, Marcia
Edwards, Darolyn Ann Carrels,
Sandra Harrison, Ann Jo Hen
dricks, Linda Kaye Huddleston, Wy-
nelle Joy Ingram, Jackie Knox,
Mila LaSala, Judy McQuagg, Su
san Dean MacLaury, Madelyn Man
ning, Helen Middlebrooks Smith,
Linda Smith, Pamela Smith, Bar
bars Jean Wehunt and Emily
Wort man.
Schedule for Spring Finals
The schedule for spring quarter final exams has been announced
by Registrar Columbus Poaey. Beginning 9 a.m. Tuesday. June 1. ami
running through Thursday afternoon, the schedule is as follows:
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1966
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon > 2nd penod
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m 6th period
7:00 p.m to 9:30 p.m 8 B period
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1965
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon 1st period
2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 3rd period
7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 8 A period
THURSDAY, JUNE 3. 1965
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon 4th period
2:00 pm. to 6:00 p.m. 5th period
Lab finala will be taken earlier, as arranged by respective instruc
tors. There will be no change of schedule unless previous arrangenaenta
are made with the office of the Dean.
Mercer To Give Four
Honorary Degrees At
Commencement
Gholaon Holmes Brackett Swilley
Mercer University will award honorary degrees to three
* rominent Georgia Baptist ministers and a Macon educator
« t commencement exercises Sunday, June 6.
The honorary degree of Doctor
* i Divinity will be conferred upon
[onroe Franklin Swilley, Jr., of
tlanta, and Alvin Herl Brackett,
l« r., and Thomas Joseph Holmes,
tk Dth of Macon. Julius LaFayette
^ Iholson, superintendent of the Bibb
bunty (Macon) Schools, will be
-jwarded the degree of Doctor of
aws.
| The announcement was made by
y. Rufus C. Harris, Mercer prese
nt, who will deliver the com-
ncement address at 5:15, June 6,
en 185 graduates will be award-
I degrees.
| Dr. Swilley, who will deliver the
slaurate sermon Sunday, June
at 11 a.m. in the Mable White
fcptist Church of Macon, is pastor
! the Second Ponce de Leon Bap-
Church of Atlanta and presi-
nt of the Georgia Baptist Con-
ntjon. He is being recognized for
standing work as pastor of
urches in the south, for service
i the denomination, and for relig-
ns and civic leadership.
| Dr. Swilley has served his de-
nination with distinction in city,
ate and national activities as
asident of the Georgia Baptist
nvention, member of the board of
trustees of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, member of
the Atlanta Baptist Convention,
and as chairman of the Atlanta
Baptist School Committee.
His career has included pastor-
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Dr. Harris Will
Return To Tulane
forCommencement
Dr. Rufus C. Harris, Mercer
president, will deliver the com
mencement address for the claas
of 1965 at Tulane University on
May 31 Dr. Harris served as pres
ident of Tulane from 1937 until his
retirement in I960. Later that year
he was appointed president of
Mercer.
Approximately 1,000 Tulane stu
dents will receive degrees which
will be conferred by Dr. Herbert
E. 1-ongenecker, Tulane president
Dr. Longenecker will address the
1965 graduates and will preside at
the exercises.
Dr. Harris and Dr. Michael E
DeBakey, internationally known
surgeon, will also he presented hon
orary degrees at this time.
Student Art Exhibit
Opens Sunday
The Student Art Exhibit, presented by the classes in
iting, sculpture and crafts, will open In the art gallery
iday, May 23.
Twenty-five students, under the instruction of Mr.
gherty. Miss Blanche and Mr. Hutto, will present approxi-
itely ninety pieces of work in the three categories,
:h in a variety of media.
who is doing work here toward an
lils, water colors, pastels, draw-
and polymer paintings will be
iwn, representing styles from re
nd ucton to modern abstraction;
p art, and the newest thing, op
Op (Optical) art confutes the
* with illusions and distorts with
or geometrical figures.
Termed especially good in this
l*gory is a painting by Bill West-
lod, “Man in the Shower,” view-
from above. A etill-life by Karen
iristensen is a very good example
the reproductive style, instruc-
rs said.
Philip Kinbar, a geography ms-
from the University of Georgia
art degree, is showing a large se
lection of excellent paintings, most
done in polymer. They ere sb
•tractions, using bright colors and
bold lines aa a rule.
Of special interest in the sculp
ture division are a 3V4-foot "Prome
theua” by Wayne Hartley and
“The Crouching Boy” by Juan Del
gado. “Prometheus” is an example
of plaster sculpture, and “Crouch
ing Boy’’ is done in clay.
MOsaka, block prints, puppetry
wood carvings and abstract wood
constructionh are all represented in
the crafts division.
