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Dr. William E. Volume XLVI MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, MAY 31, 1966 Number 25 FREEMAN, SIKES, ANDERSON, TO RECEIVE SUlllVAN A WARD going t Peyton This years’s presentations of the coveted Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards will be to seniors Bobby Sikes and Betty Jo Freeman and to prominent newspaper publisher, Anderson. Umity Council. Sikes received the Tbs Algernon Sydney SulHvmn medallions are sponsored by the New York Southern Society and presented to two out* •tending students In each year’s graduating class, and to a promi nent leader for distinguished serv ice. John Robert Sikes of Mecoa, is Blue Key and has this year. Uef Spright Dowell Award; was a candidate for president of the junior class; has been on the tennis team for four years, and was named Greek God, 1966. Miss Betty Jo Freeman of Tal- botton, Ge., has been a member of W.A.A., B.8.U., the Cluster staff, Sigma Mo, KDE and Sigma Tan Gamma, and was Cardinal Key Corresponding secretary. She has ■erred aa treasurer and president if tfc» Debate Club; secretary, treasurer and vice president of Ten Kappa Alpha; and pregram chair- nia of the French Club. 8he was listed in Who’ Who Among Ameri can Collages and Universities; has appeared consistently on the Dean’s List, and, on several occasions, held the highest academic average in her classes. Peyton Anderson, this year's civic leader chosen to receive the award, is publisher of The Macoa Telegraph and The Macoa N Mr. Anderson has been in the news paper business for fifty yean, her ing started at age nine in the offices of The Macea Telegraph. The awards will be presented during June 6. urdy ( is presented a certificate of honorary membership in Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity by Dr. Joseph A. McClain, speaker at the Law Day luncheon and former dean of the Walter F. George School of Law. Dr. McCurdy has been a visiting pro- pessor of law at Mercer since 1960, the year he retired after serving for 32 years as a member of the faculty of the Harvard Law School Dr. McClain is now a Tampa, Fla., attorney. Cluster CAULDRON DEDICATED TO DEAN F. R. OTTO The students of Mercer University showed their resi and admiration for their friend and guide, Dr. Francis Robert Otto, Dean of Chapel, by dedicating this year’s Cauldron to him Tuesday, May 24. Dr. Otto, who has been at Mer cer for ten yearn, baa been a source of help and inspiration to counties# students, both in his cl a wee and in hie personal relationships with tboee who search for truth, reason and meaning in their lives. His meeeagee in chapel have presented, e challenge to each one that has listened, and continue to do so even now, both in their content and in the thoughtful manner in which each one is presented. Dr. Otto is one of the people most concerned with the welfare of Mercer, which denotes to him Mercer’e students. Hie thoughts are always geared to the young people who walk this campus, and hie mind tuned to their feelings and ideas He is often found with these students vigorously debating some point of theology or quietly discuss ing some problem which is troub ling a confused mind. His lectures and speeches reflect hie high esteem for the students to whom he speaks. He spends much time in study so he can speak about matters relevant to the pres ent, matters that are of pressing concern to young people in ■ fast- moving troubled age. His skirmish es with the Georgia Baptist Con vention give evidence of the dis content with old trite subject mat ter that has been presented so often that it no longer has any meaning, especially to open minds who really are trying to learn. One wonders how so many pointed ideas can come out of a single mind. Suffice it to say that it is an exceptional mind, one witK unusual power and insight Mercer is truly fortunate to have one so intelligent and beneficial among her attendants. COMMENCEMENT EXCERCISES TO AWARD HONORARY DEGREES Prominent Civic Leaders Lauded Four honorary degrees will be awarded during commence ment exercises Sunday, June 5. The recipients of these degrees will be Dennis William Bros- nan, president of Southern Rail way; Thomas Baldwin Martin, director of work with National Aiken Martin prominent Macon attorney; The Rev. Paul Raymond Aiken, taptists for the Baptist General Convention of Texas; and The Rev. Albert Lindsey Cardwell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Macon. Names of the recipients were an nounced by Dr. Rufus C. Harris, president of Mercer. Bros nan will deliver the commencement address at 5:30 p.m., June 5, during cere monies at which 264 graduates will be awarded degrees. Mr. Bros nan and Mr. Martin will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. • « * Mr. Bros nan, a native of Albany and a graduate of Georgia Tech, began his railroad career in 1926 as a student apprentice and track laborer with the Southern Railroad at Macon. He served in various ca pacities with the railway system in Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Ken tucky and Alabama until 1952 when he was elected vice president of Southern Railway System, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. He was elected executive vice president in 1960, and has been president since 1962. As' president of the Southern Railway System he is president, chief executive, and a director of 15 railroads and companies, including the Southern Railway Co. He is chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of. five other railroads, including the Cen tral of Georgia Railway Co., and Georgia and Florida Railway Co., and the Savannah and Atlanta Railway Co. His is a director of several other railroads, educational organiza tions. civic enterprises, and finan cial organizations, including the Citizens and Southern National Bank of Atlanta. He is a trustee of the Committee for Economic De velopment and of the National Safety Council, and president of the Defense Orientation Confer ence. Mr. Bros nan has been widely recognized for his business and civic endeavors. In 1963 he was named the "Railroad Man of the Year” and given the “National Salesman of the Year" award of Sales and Marketing Executives International. He was awarded the “George Washington Medal of Honor" last year by the Freedoms Foundation. Inc. for “outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the Ameri can way of life." Mr. Martin will be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition for his services to the legal profession, the commun ity and Mercer University. He is a senior partner in the Ma con law firm of Martin, Snow, Grant and Napier, and is a mem ber of the board of directors of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Macon. Mr. Martin was a 1914 graduate (Continued on page 4) AWARDS DAY HONORS OUTSTANDING STUDENTS The annual Awards Day Program, held May 23 in Willing ham Chapel, honored students and faculty members for out standing performance during the school year. Social organiza tions also were lauded for their achievements. Miss Lynda Lee Dickens of the outstanding freshman male. Sparta and Miss Patricia Jo Mooney of Cartersville shared honors for the Sigma Tau Gamma Award to the freshman girl with the highest academic average. Miss Dickens was also recipient of the Mother Montague Award, presented annually by Cardinal Key to the outstanding freshman girl. George Lee Phillips, Jr., of Ma con received the Phi Eta Sigma Trophy which is awarded to the academic average. John Winkle of Rome was named recipient of the Spright Dowell Award which is given to Other awards: Chi Omega academic award to the girl with the highest average in social studies: Carolyn Broome Grant, Macon. Macon Chi Omega Alumni Scholarship Award: Delores Wil liams, Rooklet General information quiz schol arship award: First place, Jacob Beil, Columbus; second place. Bill Dayton, Dunedin, Fla. Reading Award: John Everett. Macon. Acting Awards, presented by Al pha Psi Omega honorary dramatic (Continued on page 4)