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Volume XLV
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 28, 1965
Number 29
Cauldron Dedicated to
Snipes at Awards Day
The 1965 Cauldron was dedicated to Dr. Wilson C. Snipes,
professor of English, Tuesday at the annual Recognition Day
cues. Julia Murphy, editor of The Cauldron, prese
dedication to Dr. Snipes for his scholarship, teaching,
exercises,
the dedication 1
contributions in all aspects of student life.
V
resented
and
Awards ware presented to in
dividual students and social (roups
in recognition of their outstanding
performance during the academic
year.
Fifteen students elected to Who’s
Who Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities w
recognised: Don Baxter, Atlanta;
Sara Distlehurst, ThomasviQe; Bill
Exum, Lakeland; Elsa Ann Gaines,
Elberton; Colin Harris, Decatur;
Nancy Hendrix, Columbus; Anne
Johnson, Atlanta; Frank Lanneau.
Macon; Julia Murphy, Louisville;
Carroll Rudder, Woodbury; Rob
ert Shirley, Atlanta; Linda Tabor,
Hapeville; and Thomas Wilcox,
Abbeville.
William Dean Wehunt of Sum
ter, S. C., recipient of the Phi Eta
Sigma Recognition Cup for fresh
men male with the highest aca
demic average, was also named
outstanding freshman student in
chemistry.
Jackie Knox of Waycroas
ceived the Mother Montague
Award presented by Cardinal Key
honor society to the most outstand
ing freshman girl, while the Spright
Dowell Award to the male fresh
man who best exemplifies the
ideals of Blue Key leadership
fraternity was preeented to Dickie
Childs of Glenville. This award is
named in honor of Mercer's late
president.
Karen Kennedy, a senior from
Collins, received three awards in
addition to being named to Who’s
Who Among Students: an award
for the highest average in social
studies. Outstanding Debater, and
Outstanding Independent Girl.
Acting awards, presented by
Alpha Psi Omega honorary dra
matic fraternity: Bill Osteen, Ar
lington. Va., best actor, Peggy Ma-
tott, Plant City, Fla., best actress;
Raemon Beaty, Macon, best sup
porting actor; Nellie Dyaks, Clear
water, Fla., beet supporting octrees;
Michael Elay, Macon, acting and
technical work.
Choir keys for outstanding
participation in the Mercer Choir
Raemon Beaty, Macon; Sonyia
Roberts, Perkins; Martha Sue
Dixon, Camilla; Dale Freeney, Ma
con; Carol Proctor, Macon; and
Quinette Douglas. Macon.
KDE Award for the outstanding
student majoring in elementary
education, Shirley Oxford, CuHo-
den; outstanding student majoring
in secondary education, Caroll
Rudder, Woodbury.
Haines- Stansfeld General Know
ledge Award, Jacob Beil, Colum
bus; Byron Gilbert, Augusta, sec
ond place.
Academic achievement in bio
logical science, James Lowe, Ma
con. .
Chi Omega Alumnae Award,
Peggy O’Halloran, Macon.
Outstanding contributions to the
Clutter: Daniel Sheffield. Macon
Lee O’Brien, GraniteviHe, S. C.
Diana Denton, Oglethorpe.
Outstanding Independent Man
Ernest Ferrell, Jacksonville. Fla
Outstanding Scholarship for
Social Organisations: Mercer In
dependent Coed Association.
Outstanding Scholarship for In
dependents: Mercer Independent
Coed Association.
Fraternity Scholarship trophy
Kappa Alpha Order.
Panhellenic Scholarship Award
Chi Omega.
Pledge Class Scholarship trophy
Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Intramural trophies': football
basketball, volleyball, and baseball
—Sigma Nu; tennis—Kappa A1
pha; over-all trophy—Sigma Nu
Basketball attendance awards,
presented by Cirde K: Alpha Tau
Omega and Phi Mu.
WAA awards: volleyball and
basketball. Phi Mu; Tennis, Chi
Omega; softball, MICA: best all
around woman athlete, Deanna
Shiver; senior awards, Elsa Ann
Gaines, Julie Murphy, Carol Proc
tor, Kaye Wells; all-star awards,
Louise Fitxpatrick, Kay Moody
Carol Ann Holcomb Mary Ann
Maasengill, Mary Middlebrooks,
Anita Powell, Deanna Shiver,
Maria Stripling, Martha Ware, and
Barbara Wehunt.
Tommy Mixon Best Athlete
Award: Bob Reeves, Americus.
Varsity basketball leters: Sandy
Harris, Bob Reeves, Don Baxter,
Steve Moody, Jack Man ton. and
Tommy Wilcox.
Varsity basketball letters: Sandy
Harris, Rufus Dowell, Jack Man
ton, Charles Stewart, Philip Jones,
Marvin Hobby, Lester Wright, De
wall Waters, John Collier, Ronnie
Davis, Emmett Goodman, Richard
Jordan, David Maddox, Kenneth
Brown, and Ed Payne.
Varsity tennis letters: Tom
Phillips, Ken Pipkin, Charles Cook,
Bob Sikes, Curtis Driver, Pat Pat
ton, and Steve Nathanson.
The Cluster extends its
sympathy to Dean Helen
Glenn in the loss of her
mother, Mrs. Henry Glsnn,
May 28, 1966.
Sheridan, Tabor, Harris
Receive Sullivan Award
NEXT WEEK AT MERCER
SATURDAY, May 29
10:00 ajn.—RADIO. ”
I. “Mercer University Kaleidoscope.” WCRY.
9:40 pin.—RADIO. “The Mercer University Hour of Great
Music.” WMAZ.
TUESDAY, June 1 ...
9:00 am to 12:00noon—FINALS. 2nd period.
2:00 pm. to 6:00 p.m.—FINALS. 6th period.
7:00 run. to 9:90 pm—FINALS. 8 B period.
THURSDAY, June 3
9:00 a m to 12:00 noon—FINALS 4th period.
2:00pjn.to 6:00 pm—FINALS. 6th period.
FRIDAY. June 4
4:00 pjss.—Dorms Close, except for graduating seniors.
SATURDAY. June 6
10:00 a.m —RADIO. "Mercer University Kaleidoscope.
SUNDAY. June 6
11:00 am—BACCALAUREATE SERMON. Rev Dr.
WCRY.
Monroe
9:40 pM.
. Jr., Mabel White Memorial Bap
given by President and Mrs. Harris
Graduates and Quests. (CSC-cafeteria) _
tTION EXERCISES Address by Dr.
CLOSING EXERCISES
, Tattnall Square Baptist
"The Mercer University Hour of Greet
WMAZ.
Leadership Conference
Dean Garland Taylor announced
this week that June 7, 8, and 9
have been named as the dates for
a Leadership Conference of ad
miniatrative officials and student
leaders.
Brady Creel, SGA president, will
coordinate the students attending
the conference to be held at the
Georgia Episcopal Center in Wav-
erly, Georgia. Approximately 46
Mercer representatives will a tend
the three-day session.
The conference will 8Ue..— a
number of matters of general in
terest to the University, imJuAmg
a wide range of topics suggested
by the student participants: issues
of student life, facilities, programs,
and welfare. Much of the agenda
of the conference will be dealt with
at open discussion group meetings,
with free participation coming
from any interested member of the
conference group. Plans for next
year's campus activities will be
discussed and offered for con
structive criticism.
Harris
Tabor
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan medallions, sponsored by the New
York Southern Society and presented annually to a prominent leader
for distinguished public service and to outstanding students in the
graduating class of participating colleges, go this year to John Val
Sheridan, prominent Macon civic and business leader, Linda Tabor
of Hapeville, and John Colin Harris of Decatur.
The awards, recognizing out
standing leadership ability and
personal character in daily living,
will be presented at Commence
ment exercises. Sunday, June 6,
President Harris recently an
nounced.
Mr. Sheridan is a native of Ma
con and alumnus of Mercer. He be
came associated with Fielding &
Walker, Inc., following his gradua
tion in 1961, and has been active in
civic affairs as 1965 board chair-
209 DEGREES TO BE GIVEN AT
COMMENCEMENT SUNDAY NIGHT
Mercer will confer 209 earned degrees and four honorary
degrees at commencement exercises Sunday, June 6, President
Harris has announced.
Dr Harris will speak at com
mencement exercises on the cam
pus quadrangle at 5:15 p.m. The
baccalaurate sermon will be de
live red by Dr. Monroe F. Swilley
Jr., 11 a.m. at the Mabel White
Memorial Baptist Church of Ma
con. Dr. Swilley is pastor of the
Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist
Church of Atlanta and president
of the Georgia Baptist Convention
The honorary degree of Doctor
of Divinity will be conferred upon
Dr. Swilley; Alvin Herd Brackett,
Jr., pastor of the Ingleeide Baptist
Church of Macon and chairman of
the Executive Committee of the
Georgia Baptist Convention; and
Thomas Joseph Holmes, pastor of
the Tattnall Square Baptist
Church of Macon. Julius LaFay
ette Gholaon, superintendent of the
Bibb County (Macon) Schools, will
be awarded the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws.
The degree of Bachelor of Arts
will be conferred upon 126 seniors
in the College of Liberal Aria, that
of Bachelor of Science on 16 can
didates, one Bachelor of Science
in Dentistry, two Masters of Edu
cation, 38 Bachelors of Laws, and
27 Bachelor of Science degrees in
Pharmacy.
Candidates for defraaa:
BACHELOR Or ARTS—Susan A bar*.
Commerce: Jeretha Andrews, Columbus;
m Arnold, Macon; Lynn Barrett, De
catur; Carol Barton, Macon: Stephen Bow
en, Eastman; Walter Bowen, Macon;
Prank Brewer, Phenix City. Ala.; Robert
Brooks, Macon; Robert Brown, Jr_ Hart
well. Charles Brownlee, Macon; PhiilHp
Bryant, Jackson; Sandra Bunch. Fort Val
ley; James Burke, La nett, Ala.. AHen Car
ter, Lakeland, PM.: Madge Chapman, Ma
con; Ruth Clay, Macon; Kendall Coen, For
est Park: Anne Cork, Macon; Carol Da via,
Americus; Joyce Daria, Decatur; Juan Deb
yndo-N levee, Rio Piedrea, Puerto Rico;
Sarah Dtotelhuret. ThnmeeriBe; Quinette
Doug lea. Mahon; Lae Dotier. Macon; Wil
liam Exum. La Imbed; Sandra Faulkner.
Columbus; Johnny Fergnooa. Me ecu; Char-
lea Fowler, Macon; Elm Ana Gaines. Elber
ton; Dixon GiMert, Macon; Pamela Gra
ham. DanielerilM; Dianne Grant, Atlanta;
Aan Gully, Meoou; She*on Haggard, Ma
con; CoMn Harris, Decatur; David Harrii-
son. MiUedcevitte; Patricia Hart, Savannah;
Byron Hartley. Macon; Richard Hearn. Co-
himbus; Nancy Hendrix. Colum bus; Sylvia
. _ Hood. Au
gusta; Marion Hope, Pembroke; GUwoee
Hudson, Eaton ton; Virginia “
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Commune, Greensboro; Martha McDaniel,
Jasup. Morse McWilliams, Atlanta; Robert
Mantiply, Savannah; Mary Ann Masaen-
*111. Decatur; Jackson Massey, Waynesboro;
Carolyn Mitchell, Macon; Marvin Mixon,
Vienna; Charles Mobley, Morrow: Kather
ine Moody, Fort Valley; Martha MulHnax,
Macon; Philip Mullinax, Macon: John usial.
Macon; John Mynatt, Atlanta; Anna New
berry, Lieella; De Wayne Nix, Clermont;
Monroe Ogden. Macon: Lamar Oglesby, At
lanta; Peggy O’Halloran. Macon; Gilford
Oaterloh, Macon; Shirley Oxford, Cuiio-
den: Jeff Pace Macon: Reba Patten. Adel.
Carole Ann Proctor, Macon; Earl Ratliff,
Macon; Lynn Reddick, Macon: Patricia Ann
Rees, Preston: Susan Reynolds. Macon
Michael Rivers, Augusta; Ronny Rosser
Lake City, Fla.; Carroll Rudder. Woodbury
Anthony Ruff, Macon. Richard Schumak
er, Paduh, Ky.; Charles Shean. Sparta; Jac
quelyn Sheppard, Macon: Robert Shirley
Atlanta; Edward Simmons. Savannah:
Medora Sims, Roanoke, Va.; William Sims,
Macon; Cathey Smith, Macon: Jody Smith,
Fort Valley; Lundie Smith, Valdosta; Jos
eph Snow. Atlanta; Margaret Speights
Grenville, S. C.: Eugene Spence, Fernan
dins Beach, Fla.: Marla 8tripling. Spartan
burg, 8. C.; Linda Tabor, Hapeville; Mary
Touma, Masareth, Israel; Romney Tucker,
Macon: Toni Viaaage, Macon; Martha Ware,
(Continued on page 2)
49 Nurses Capped
Forty-nine freshmen of the Macon
Hospital School of Nursing re
ceive their cape at 8 o'clock to
night in exercises held at the First
Baptist Church of Macon. Organist
for the occasion will be John Tre-
in, with Hubert Wheeler, Min
ister of Music at Mable White
Baptist Church, as soloist. Guest
speaker, the Rev. Luke Moncrief of
the Northside Baptist Church.
Milledgeville, will be presented
by hospital administrator J. R.
Griffith.
Sylvia Dixon, president of the
student body, will present the
freshmen. The caps will be pinned
in place by Mias Elizabeth Ander-’
son. Director of Nursing Edu
cation, while Miss Joyce Paul,
freshman class advisor, will light
each girl's traditional Nightingale
lamp. The girls then take the!
Nightingale Pledge.
Rev. Albert Ray, Assistant Pas
tor of the Mulberry Methodist
Church, will pronounce the bene
diction. Immediately following the
service, a reception will be held
at the nurses’ residence.
NOTICE
Registration for the first session
of summer school will be held on
June 14. Cleeses will begin on June
16.
man for the United Given Fund
and as a member of the board of
directors of American Red Croes,
Family Service Agency, Macon
Chamber of Commerce, and Book
er T. Washington Community
Center. He is a member-at-large of
the Boy Scouts of America, a trus
tee of the Y.M.C.A., and has
served as president of the Macon
Civic Club and Mscon-Bibb Coun
ty Association for Mental Health.
Miss Tabor has been active in
all phases of campus life while at
Mercer, serving as vice president of
Cardinal Key honor sorority, pres
ident of the Student National Ed
ucation Association, state presi
dent and national vice president
of Phi Beta Lambda business fra
ternity. and president of Chi Ome
ga sorority. She has been a mem
ber of the Honor Committee,
Freshman Orientation Committee,
and Georgia Youth Delegate to the
National Business and Profession
al Women's Convention.
Mias Tabor is listed in Who’s
Who Among Students in Colleges
and Universities and has been re
cipient of numerous awards, in
cluding the Calloway Leadership
Award and the Outstanding Senior
Award. She was named Mist Fu
ture Business Executive of Geor
gia and was Greek Goddess for
1965, the student most exemplify
ing the ideal Mercer coed.
She will continue her studies in
psychology this fall under a grad
uate fellowship offered by the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
Mr. Harris has served with dis
tinction as president of Blue Key
honor fraternity, chief justice of
the Honor Council, cadet com
mander of the ROTC Battalion,
treasurer of the Interfraternity
Council, vice president of Phi Eta
Sigma, president of Alpha Phi
Omega service fraternity, and vice
president of Sigma Nu social fra
ternity.
He was chosen Greek God of
1966. the male student most exem
plifying the ideal Mercer student,
and is a member of the Ministerial
Association, Psychology Club, Bap
tist Student Union Greater Coun
cil. and Honor Committee. He
been named to Who's Who Among
Students in American Colleges
and Universities.
Scabbard & Blade
The Mercer ROTC organisation
of the Scabbard and Blade had
initiation Monday. May 24. Capt
Dan Kleckly presided as the fol
lowing cadets were initiated: Gary
Broadnax. Larry Dillard. Wood-
row Fincher, Thomas Humphrey,
Thomas Kirbo, Wilson Osteen.
James Solomon, and Beau Thomp
n.
Scabbard and Blade is a nation
al honorary military society dedi
cated to upholding ideals of |
military education.