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Volume XLVI
MERCER UNIVERSITY. MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 13, 1966
Number 24
Welcome Back
Alumni-Lawyers
Approximately five hundred Mercer graduates have entered reservations to indicate a
successful Alumni Day to be held here tomorrow. The response was from graduates far
gnd near.
The regular program is sched
uled to begin 9:90 A.M. with regis
tration and fellowship period on
the campus quadrangle. During
this time the “grads” will have
t:me to discuss the ‘good ole days’
snd review the changes in the cam
pus since their graduation. Imme
diately following registration and
the congenial discussions will be the
Annual meeting in the Willingham
Chapel, at 10:30.
During the annual meeting, Mr.
G. F. Dyar, President, Mercer
Alumni Association, will preside,
snd Reverend James Wallace Mc-
Ray of the Lakewood Baptist
Church, Gainesville, Georgia, will
present the invocation. Following
the invocation. President Harris
will extend Tfreetings to all return
ing. Also during the annual meet
ing, there will be a presentation of
awards, the Alumni President's
Plaque, and the Annual Alumni
Awards: Judge Harley Langdale;
Miss Lois Theresa McKethan; Mr.
John Carter Polhill; Dr. Thomas
Fort Sellers; arid The' Reverend
Mr. James William Waters. After
the presentation of awards will fol
low the Alma Mater and Benedic
tion.
This year's program provides
three seminars to follow the annual
meeting. The alumni have a choice
of which one to attend, as all three
will be simultaneously presented.
One will be led by Dr. Harold Mc
Manus in the Tattnall Square Bap
tist Church. His topic will be “The
God is Dead Radical Theology”.
The second seminar, led by Mr.
Victor Heck will be "Ten Years
From Now: Will Our Economy Be
Capitalist or Socialist?”. This sem-
ADPi WINS CAMPUS SING
Alpha Delta Pi sorority took top
overall honors in the fourteenth
annual Campus Sing held May 4,
the Willingham Chapel. The
victorious songsters sang: “Take
Time To Be Holy”, “I Came to
College”, "ADPi Sweetheart Song",
and “Blue Starlight”.
Honora for the best \ women’s
group went to Chi Omega, and
Kappa Sigma placed as best men's
group. Both organizations received
second place bowls.
Seven social organizations enter
ed this year's Sing, each centering
their programs around the theme
Fraternity Life”. Pat Patten
served as Master of Ceremonies.
Each presentation could be no
longer than ten minutes, and sail
songs were sung arapella.
Chi Omega, drmori in white
with green scarves, started the ac
tivities with “Moments to Remem
ber”, featuring songs pertaining to
events throughout the school year.
Next, Sigma Nu appeared in
blue and white pin stripes and dis
played pride in their organization
piresenting "Our Knight’s Sing”.
Alpha Delta Pi sorority was
next, and presented “Story Hour",
revealing the fun, worship, and
"Blue Starlight" associated with
their organization. Following the
winners were the Alpha Gams,
dressed in piastel and prints, who
sang "A Very Good Year” in ac
cordance with the fraternity and
collegiate world. The Kappa Sigs
then sang “Now and Forever”
through their fraternity songs.
M.I.C.A., in green dresses with
white trim, sang “M.I.C.A. Melo
dies" and of their involvement with
the campus and related activities.
The Sing was topped off by Phi
Delta Theta, appearing in. white
shirts and dark pants, who sang
“The Phi Delt Serenades", follow
jug a typical college career through
fraternity songs.
After intermission, more enter
tainment was provided by the Phi
Mu Alpha Simfonia. Mercer's Mu
sic fraternity. They sang three se
lections: “Hail Simfonia”, “Down
by the Riverside”, and “Dixie".
inar will be held in the Economics
Building.
The other seminar will deal
with laws and be led by Dean
Quarles, with the topic of: “Can
Our Police Officers Enforce the
Laws Under Present Criminal
Codes?” This seminar will be held
in the Moot Court Room, Ryals
Law Building.
A picnic style lunch will be
served at 12:45 on the Campius
Quadrangle with all Alumni taking
part as well as invited guests.
The program will be topped off
by the Continental Air Command
Band of Robins Air Force Base
performing a concert at 1:30.
Sigma Mu Initiates
Sigma Mu, the only scholastic
honor society of Mercer University,
announced the names of new mem
bers initiated May 5. They are:
seniors, Paula Johnson Arnold, Su
san Margaret Asdell, Joan Phillips
Bougher, James Terrell Bowles,
Sara Meredith Cole, Ronnie Julian
Davis, Jacquelyn Helen Edwards,
Patricia Anne Giesler, Frances
Louise Hobbs, M. Willisia Holbrook,
Lon Bishop Knight, Corliss Eliza
beth Martin, Mary Julia Murphy,
Sylvia Dianne Eyre Nix, David
Christopher Williams, David Earl
Wilson, and John William Wires;
juniors, Ninochke Dorothy Bean,
Harry Nathaniel Davis, Lillian
Carolyn Grant) and Dean Russell
Mullis; and faculty, G. Wayne
King.
To be eligible, seniors must
have a 2.5 average and juniors, 2.7.
New faculty members are those
who are members of Phi Beta Rap
pa, national honor society, or Sig
ms Xi, national science honor so-
ciety.
The new members were honored
at a banquet following the initia
tion ceremony Speaker for the oc
casion was Durward B. Mercer,
former judge of the Juvenile Court
of Bibb County.
THE LANGDALE LAW LIBRARY BUILDING is being dedicated
today at 11:00 as part of the festivities of Law Day. The Honorable
Richard B. Russell, U. S. Senator, is the speaker.
Sen. Russell Speaks at
Law Day Ceremonies
Georgia’s senior U. S. Senator, Richard B. Russell is the
principal speaker at Mercer’s 18th annual Law Day observ
ance today. The senator’s address accompanies the dedication
of the new Law Library building at 11 a.m.
Russell, who has represented
Georgia in the senate for 34 years
has also served as Governor of the
state and as a member of the Geor
gia House of Representatives. Dur
ing his first years in the senate, he
was a colleague of the late Senator
Walter F. George, for whom the
Mercer Law School is named.
Senator Russell is presently
chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee and a member
of the Senate appropriations com
mittee, committee on Atomic ener
gy, and the committee on Space
and Aeronautical Sciences.
Senator Russell is a native of
Winder, Ga., and a graduate of
Gordon Military College, Barnes
ville, and the University of Geor
gia School of Law. Mercer Uni
versity awarded him the honor
ary degree of Doctor of Laws in
1957.
The Walter F. George School’s
Law Day observance has in the
past featured, among others, Flor
ida Chief Justice Millard F. Cald
well, South Carolina's Senator
Strom Thurmond and (then) Sen
ator Lyndon B. Johnson.
Alston Speaks at Honors Day
Academic Leaders in Arts, Law, Pharmacy Recognized
Speaking before the assembled student body in the annual
Honors Day services Tuesday, Dr. Wallace McPherson Alston,
president of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, told Mercer stu
dents and faculty that today’s Liberal Arts institution can not
be “23 miles from everywhere and very beautiful,” but must
be relevant, must relate to all that is done, taught, and learned
and to the business o$ living in today’s world.
This business of living requires
that students learn to be, to do, to
do without, anti to depart. “The lib-
t era) arts institution is concerned
with helping those in it be all that
they are capable of becoming. We
deal not with'disembodied minds
. . . but with personalities, with
whole people.”
The university must help the stu
dent to evolve a philosophy of vo
cation, to become constructive citi
zens. to become involved. A good
education should help the student
learn to be selective, for “unless we
are very intelligent and very, very
careful, we will become swamped
(Continued on page 4)
Mr. "D” Elected
By Sculptors
Marshall Daugherty, chairman
of the Department of Art, hat been
e acted vice president of the South
ern Association of Sculptors.
He was named to the post at the
first annual meeting of members at
ttts Hunter Gallery in Chattanoo
|s, Tenn., on April 23. Howard
Woody of Pembroke, N. C., was
chosen president gnd Miss Rober
ta Phay was named secretary-
treasurer.
La vice president. Daugherty
•ill coordinate all activities of the
Southern Association of Sculptors
in Georgia, Florida and South Car
olina.
The Southern Association of
Sculptors was organised last year
with membership of more than 100.
Snd recently completed its first
traveling exhibition which was
•hown in four cities of the South.
Plane have been announced for a
r exhibition to be organised
Sarly this summer for circulation
to seven cities, and the juror will be
Harry Bertoia, a nationally known
sculptor and metal worker.
LAW SCHOOL OFFICERS:
David Turner, and Dean Queries.
(1-r) W. B. Shearer, Herb Rivers,
Law Elections Held
David J. Turner of Macon has been elected president of the Stu
dent Bar Association at Mercer University's Walter F. George School
of Law.
Other officers named to serve during the 1966-67 academic year
were Herbert A. Rivers, vice president; William B. Shearer, secretary;
Robert H. Reeves, treasurer; Harold Mims, solicitor; and James N.
Butterworth. sergeant-at-arms.
Marion Cummings was elected chief justice of the Court of Honor
and Corrections. Senior justices are H. Pope Hamrick, and Steve
Bowen. Junior justices elected are Winburn E. Stewart, and Lee
Rampey, Jr.
Jean Harrison Crowned
Miss Mercer, 1966-67
The annual Miss Mercer pageant was brought to a thrilling close
with the crowning of Miss Jean Harrison, Mias Mercer of 1966.
The stage of Willingham chapel j
was an array of twenty three beau
ties Wednesday evening. After I
making their appearance in the |
evening gown competition, ten
semi-finalists were announced.
The five finalists were chosen
after sportswear competition.
The girls making up the new
queen's court are; Marty Gregory,
fourth runner up; Ann Stanford,
third runner up; Midge Ivie, second
runner up; and Stiles Allen, first
runner up.
The queen, Jean Harrison, was
sponsored by Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity, and is the president of
Phi Mu sorority. In her three years
at Mercer, Jean has been outstand
ing. She was Miss Freshman, Tot,
and is now a member of Cardinal
Key, and is SAE sweetheart.
The top six talent entries, choeen
Tuesday evening, were: Jean Har
rison, who pantomined from “An
nie, Get Your Gun”, Marty Greg
ory who sang and accompanied a
medley of Broadway hits, Midge
Ivie, who sang “St Look Blues”,
JEAN HARRISON
and followed with a patriotic poem,
Stiles Allen, who performed a dra
matic reading, and sang “Dixie”,
Beth Brown, who sang from
"Showboat”, and Suxie Stone, who
presented the poem. “Casey at the
Bat".
Buddie’s Buddies provided <
teinment during intenaiaaion.
