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Volume XLVI
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 24, 1965
Number 1
WELCOME FRESHMEN
Dr. Rufus C. Harris
President of Mercer
Dear Studenta:
The (acuity and administrative
staff join me in extending to you a
warm welcome as we embark upon
the 1965-66 academic year. It is our
hope that this will be the finest
year in Mercer's history ami one
during which you experience much
intellectual stimulation and person
al development and happiness.
There have been many changes on the campus during recent
months. The Eugene W. Stetson Memorial Library has been completed
as has the Law Library, the Freshman Men’s Residence Hall, and an
addition to the Connell Student Center. These additions add much to
the physical beauty of the campus, and in tjme I hope they will mean as
much to you as you seek to prepare for responsible citixenship and pro
ductive living.
I wish to add a special word of welcome to the new students. You
enrollment in Mercer University is a milestone in your life; I hope
your experience at Mercer may be life’s finest adventure for you. It
will be nothing less if you respond fully to the best that Mercer and her
community of interests offer you.
Your very truly,
Rufus C. Hams
INSIDE THIS WEEK
Page 2—Changes
Page 3—Making of Mercer
Page 5—Meet the Deans
Page 6—New Faculty
Page 7— Social Organizations
Page 8—Clubs
17 JOIN FACULTY,
CHANGES ANNOUNCED
Classes beginning Monday will see seventeen new instruc
tors and administrative officials beginning their tenure on the
Mercer faculty, one former instructor welcomed back after
a fourteen-year absence, two figures with which students are
quite familiar filling in new desks, and two old favorites gone
on to continue their own studies.
Dr. Park Anderson, former dean
of Denominational Extension Ser
vices and assistant professor of
hristianity at Mercer will be re
turning to assist President Harris
denominational relations and
serve as assistant professor of
Christianity. Dr. Anderson left
Mercer in 1951 to serve as Presi
dent of Bethel College at Hopkins
viUe, Ky., where he remained until
it was officially closed in 1964.
During the past year he was aasis
tsnt to the president of Campbell
• liege, Buie’s Creek, N. C.
Dr. Ray Brewster, popular pro
fessor of Christianity at Mercer
now occupies the office of Assis
tant Academic Dean, vacated in
June by Dean Thomas Trimble,
who is now continuing his studies
at Vanderbilt. Dr. Brewster will
continue teaching courses in Chris
tianity, in addition to attending the
duties of his new position.
Former head of the ROTC de
partment and professor emeritus of
military science, Col. Robert Pitts
has been promoted since his re
tirement from the Army, Sept 1
of this year, to serve as assistant
to President Harris.
Assistant registrar Dan Bradley
moving across campus, leaving
his office to enroll in law school.
In addition to these changes,
seventeen new members have been
appointed to the Mercer faculty.
Mrs. Adrinne Bond, Visiting In
structor of English; John E." Byron,
Assistant Professor in English;
James Ljunar Cox, Assistant Pro
fessor of Christianity; Jimmy Lae
Crenshaw, Assistant Professor of
Christianity; Mrs. Ruth D. De-
^haies. Assistant Profeasor of Art,
W. Halaten. Instructor in
Health A P. E_ James Ronald
Harvey, Instructor in Modern For
eign Languages; Mrs. Angela Has
ty. Visiting Instructor in French
George Wayne King, Instructor in
History; William J. Layne, In
structor in Speech; Miss Barbara
Ann Lowery, Instructor in Modem
Foreign Languages; Byung Koo
Pak, Assistant Professor of Gov
ernment; James Granger Ricks
Instructor in History; Mrs. Deryl
D. Thames, Visiting Instructor in
Psychology; Kenneth Walker, In
structor in English; Colonel Edgar
William Schroeder, ROTC; Cap
tain James D. Montgomery, ROTC.
MERCER RECEIVES
VISUAL AID GRANT
Mercer University has received
a $2,000 “package" of visual educa
tion equipment from the 3M Com
pany as part of the company’s $1.5
million national assistance grant to
education programs.
According to President Harris,
the materials and equipment pro
vided in this grant will be put to
immediate use by the department
of education.
Each grant consists of a complete
teacher training unit including in
struction in the use of visual aids,
reference books, sets of transparen
cy originals of illustrative material
in 70 subjects, transparency mak
ing equipment, and classroom and
portable overhead projectors and
supplies.
The purpose of the grants is to
provide institutions and students
with modern teaching took design
ed to cover more effectively mate
rials in the class room.
MERCER ADMITS
MERIT SCHOLAR
Mercer welcomes to its campus
this week its first winner of a Mer
cer Merit Scholarship, Sheri
Clark, 1965 graduate of Ribault
Senior High School, Jacksonville,
Fla .
Sheri, Star student at Ribault
High and recipient of the Ribault
Lions Club Scholarship Citation,
was also voted “Most Likely to
Succeed” by her fellow students,
served as a delegate to the Duval
County Youth Power Congress of
1963, and was a member of the
National Honor Society, Spanish
Club, and Senior Girls’ Club.
Mercer awards this scholarship
in conjunction with the 1966 Na
tional Merit Scholarship Program.
Under the national program less
than one per cent of high school
graduates are ranked as finalists or
semi-finalists for consideration as
Merit Scholars. Approximately
1,700 are eventually rceognized to
receive scholarships.
City of Oftacon
OF
GREETINGS:
TO THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY MEMBERS
WESLEYAN AND MERCER UNIVERSITY.
We are indeed happy to have you here and know you
will enjoy living among us. Our people are neighborly—hospi
table—friendly and easy to know, impelled by charity, com
passion, love and goodwill, who band together for a better
community in which to live. All of us trust your stay will be a
pleasant one.
You will like our wide streets and many lovely parks con
taining thousands of azaleas, camellias and other flowering
shrubs. We are proud of our schools, our churches, our numer-
ous attractive residential sections, which contain many old
colonial homes, and our historic landmarks, among which are
the Johnston-Hay House, the Old Cannon Ball House, the
Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Ocmulgee National Monu
ment and Fort Hawkins.
To each of you we extend our warmest welcome with the
hope that the succeeding years may be as abundantly fruitful
as those which have gone before.
Sincerely,
B. F. Merritt, Jr., Mayor
Macon CofC Proclaims
Mercer-Wesleyan Week
Sept 25-Oct 10
The “Stay and See” Committee of the Macon Chamber of Com
merce, headed by Mr. McKay, in conjunction with the various historical
sites involved, has proclaimed September 25-October 10 as Mercer-
Wesleyan Week in Macon.
During this period the adminia
tration, faculty and student body
will be admitted to the P. L. Hay
house, the "Cannonball” house and
the Indian mounds at a special
rate. More information concerning
Mercer Gets Half Million
A little old lady in Augusta died last November at the
age of 102, leaving Mercer the richer by half a million dolars.
This unexpected fortune, willed '
them by the late Mrs. Julia W
Crofts, comes in the form of the
Iverson L. Brooks Trust Fund, esti
mated to exceed $1 million and
designated for the joint benefit of
Mercer and Furman Universities.
Mrs. Crofts, a life-long resident
of the Augusta area, was the grand
daughter of the late Iverson L
Brooks, a Baptist minister and
trustee of Mercer University
1840. The trust bears the name of
Rev. Brooks.
According to her will, the fund
has been established for the joint
benefit of the two Baptist universi
ties, which will share equally in
come from the trust and use the
funds “for the education and train
ing of young people who have dedi
cated themselves and their lives to
be ministers of the Gospel or to
some other full-time Christian ser
The estate consists of properties
in North Augusta, South Carolina,
real estate mortgages, cash funds,
and furniture.
HARRIS NAMED TO
PRESIDENTS COUNCIL
United States President Lyndon
B. Johnson announced this sum
mer the selection of Dr. Rufus Har
ris, president of Mercer University,
to the U. S. Advisory Commission
on International Education and
Cultural Affairs.
The commission advises the
President on programs seeking to
promote mutual understanding
through educational and cultural
exchanges with people of other na
tiona.
PENFIELD
PILGRIMAGE
Some 500 freshmen and new stu
dents load Saturday into chartered
buses to take the annual freshman
pilgrimage to Penfield, Ga., where
Mercer University got its start in
1833 at the Mercer Institute,
founded by the Rev. Jesse Mercer
to train Baptist ministers. The
campus was moved to Macon in
1871, and annually incoming stu
dents make this journey to the
birthplace of their school, a jour
ney rich in memories for the ac
companying faculty members, and
instilling a sense of the traditions
connected with Mercer.
Departure is scheduled for 9
o’clock in front of the Student
Center. The morning will be filled
with a chapel service and barbe-
que lunch served on the Penfield
lawn, followed by leas formal wel-
comings. In the afternoon, students
will visit the home of Billington
Sanders, first president of Mercer,
ami place wreaths on Mercer’s
grave and that of Sanders.
Graduating seniors make a sim
ilar pilgrimage at the end of their
Mercer career.
the ticket and cost will be placed
in your local post office box. If ex
tra tickets are needed for your fam
ily, contact Tom Wilcox in the
Student Center.
Students interested in a tour of
Macon who need transportation
should notify Mrs. Agnes Jones at
the Information desk in the Con
nell Student Center. There will be
an organized tour of Macon on Oc
tober 3 and 10. Anyone interested
contact either Mrs. Jones or Tom
Wilcox.
NOTICE
Mrs. Hill, Mercer postmis
tress, announces that all stu
dents will be sharing postoffice
boxes this year. Returning stu
dents will retain the same boxes,
but there will be someone else
using it as well. She asks that
students take note of this an
nouncement and do not report
to the window if mail not their
own is discovered in a box.
When the university places a
general letter in your box, re
move only one, not both, and
leave the other for your “box-
mate”. Please don’t deposit that
one you have removed on the
floor—a trash can is nearby.
TRYOUTS-
MERCER CHOIR
MONDAY, SEPT. 27
4:30 P.M.
WILLINGHAM CHAPEL
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Sept. 24 Preferential parties
Sept 25 9:00—Penfield Pilgrimage
Sept. 26 4:30—President’s Reception and Meet the Ministers Tea
Sept 27 Pick up bids
Oct. 1 Qualifications for Freshman elections
Oct. 6 Convocation—Seniors in academic procession
Freshman Talent Show
Oct 6 Convocation—Freshman hear candidates for office
Oct. 7 Freshman Beauty Contest
Oct 8 F reshman Elections
Oct. 9 Dance—McKenna Armory
Arthur Alexander, Sam A Dave, and Leroy Lloyd Orchestra
