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LIBERAL ARTS FACULTY ADDS 19
PHARMACY SCHOOL APPOINTS 3
A Letter From
The President
Of Mercer
Dear Students:
The faculty and administrative staff join me in extending
to you a warm welcome as we embark upon the 1966-67 aca
demic year. It is our hope that this may be the finest year in
Mercer’s history and one during which you will experience
intellectual stimulation and personal development and hap
piness.
There have been some changes on the campus during recent
months, and others are in prospect. The Hardman Building
has been converted to house the departments of art and speech
and drama. Construction of the science center will begin this
month. These additions add much to the campus. I feel sure
they will become increasingly meaningful to you as you seek to
prepare for responsible citizenship and productive living.
I wish to add a special word of welcome to the new stu
dents. Your enrollment in Mercer University is a milestone in
your life. I hope your experience here 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.
Yours very truly,
Rufus Carrollton Harris
Mercer President Rufus Harris
this summer announced the ap
pointments of 19 new faculty nwn
berg in the College of Liberal Arts
and 3 to the Pharmacy faculty for
the 1966-67 academic year. The ap
pointments, effective immediately,
are as follows:
William L Easterling and Mias
Sandra Kay Kelly, modem foreign
languages; Dr. John B. Sheppard,
Christianity; John W. Van Cura
and Miss Ruth Ann Rich, music;
Dr. George W. Gignilliat, Jr., Alan
B. Himber and Arthur Thaddeus
Perry, English.
Lt. Col. Robert M. Brambile Jr.
and Capt. Jimmy B. Sloan, mili
tary science; Dr. N. Archer Moore
and Mrs. Margaret A. Lamon,
psychology; Dr. Wilfred C. Platt,
Jr., and William L. Pitts, Jr., his
tory; Donald A. Joaephson, mathe
matics; Edwin R. Carter, art; Miss
Peggy H. Du Bose, political science
William A. McCormick, speech
and drama; Donald G. Veal, physi
cal education.
Appointees to the Southern Col
lege of Pharmacy in Atlanta are;
Dr. Spyroa Lazaris, assistant pro
fessor of pharmaceutical chemis
try; Dr. Vincent Lopez, assistant
professor of biological sciences;
Miss Nancy Sawyer, assistant pro
fessor of biological sciences.
TABOR RETURNS AS ASSISTANT
TO DEAN OF WOMEN'S OFFICE
“Linda Tabor, Mercer’s new As
sistant to the Dean of Women, at
22 is perhaps one of the youngest
women in the country to hold such
a position,’’ says the Macon Tele
graph. But she looks at her a^e
advantage optimistically.
“I think my age will be a definite^
advantage in my work, as I can see
the student problems and situations
from their viewpoint as 1 was a
student myself such a short time
ago,” she says.
A 1964 graduate of Mercer, she
was treasurer and president of her
sorority, Chi Omega; vice president
of Cardinal Key; president of the
Student National Education As
sociation; local vice president, state
president, and national vice presi
dent of Phi Beta Lambda; elected
to Sigma Mu honorary scholastic
fraternity; "Miss Future Business
Executive of Georgia” and second
runner-up in the national contest;
Mercer Greek Goddess; selected to
Who's Who in American Colleges
and Universities and recipient of
the Calloway Leadership Award.
At graduation she received the
Algernon Sydney Sullivan award
and her degree magna cum laude.
Her double major was in psy
chology anti Spanish, and she took
her teacher's certificate in Spanish.
At the time of graduation, she
thought she wanted to go into high
school counseling, but at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, where
she completed work for her mas
ter's degree, she decided that col
lege level was really the age she
wanted to work with.
Linda's office is an innovation
to the Mercer campus. “I received
a phone call from Miss Helen
Glenn. Mercer’s dean of women, in
January asking me if I would be
interested in accepting this posi
tion. I was delighted to accept as
Mercer is very special to me. I
had worked in Dean Glenn's office
part time my senior year and for
a month last summer so I was
familiar with the organization and
routine.”
July 1, just a few weeks after
graduation from the university, she
began her work assisting Dean
Glenn.
The job so for has entailed such
things as organizing an experi
mental training program for the
residence Hi eounsslocs assigned
to each floor of the men’s and
Dean of W
Linda Tabor.
women's dormitories to assist the
incoming freshmen.
In addition to instructing the
sessions at which the counselors
learned their responsibilities, Hwh
had the sticky problem of matching
up roommates. Incoming freshmsn
girls were sent personal data sheets
which they filled out and returned
with the data to (hopefully) saabls
Miss Tabor to pair up giria who
will be compatable. “Only tana
will tell if I’ve been succearfuL,”
she says.
Aa Assistant to the Dean of
Women, Linda will work doaaly
with the PanhaUenic Council which
governs sorority activities, so shs
has been sitting in on the msstiagi
of the faculty and administrative
tions which has Institutsd a aaw
system of rushing for the
ities and sororities.
Miss Tabor recently got her
name and picture in the Atlanta
papers when she attended the na
tional convention of the Business
and Professional Woman’s Club
there. She was attending in the
capacity of the Outstanding Young
Career Woman of Georgia for 1968,
an honor she had won in the spring.
Nominated by the Warner Rob
ins B and PW Chib, she sms
selected after personal interviews
held in Atlanta. Since than the 1ms
spoken to several dubs and briefly
at the state convention held in
May.
Since returning to Macon, Mias
Tabor is firing with Mias Glenn
in her borne an Belvedere Drive.
”1 do moet of the ««*lf be
cnarn I really enjoy it Mias Glenn
Lt. Col. Brambile this month
was appointed commanding officer
of the Mercer University R.O.T.C.
unit and is also the professor of
military science. A native of
Hawaii, ha earned the B.S. degree
from the University of Nevada. He
was insistent professor of military
science at the University of Nevada
from I960 until 19S2. He is a gradu
ate of the U. S. Army Infantry
school at Fort Benning, Georgia,
and the U. S. Army Command and
General Staff College at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. He has also
been an infantry instructor at the
Army Quartermaster School at Ft
Lee, Va, and during the past two
yean was commander of the Para
guayan Superior School of War
at Asuncion, Paraguay. Col. Bram
bile entered the Army in 1943 and
served in the Southwest Pacific
during World War II.
EDWIN R
CARTER
Mr. Carter has been named in
structor in art. He received the
B.A. and master of fine arts de
grees from Florida State Univer
sity where he served as a graduate
assistant during the 1964-66 aca
demic year. In recent months he
has been actively engaged in
painting and drawing.
PEGGY H.
DuBOSE
Mias DuBose, a native of Macon,
received both her bachelor's and
Master’s degree from Emory Uni
versity, where she studied under
a Stipe Scholarship and waa a
graduate assistant. She was in
structor in government at Orlando
Jr. College during the 1963-64 aca
demic year, and served during the
past year as assistant in public
service at Mercer's Eugene W.
Stetson Memorial Library. She
will be an instructor in political
science at Mercer.
SANDRA
KAY
KELLY
Mias Kelly, a native of Macon
has been named visiting instructoi
in modem foreign languages. Ai
A.B. from the University of Geor
gia, she has done additional stud)
at Mercer. After having tough!
several months at Miller Senioi
High School in Macon, Mias Kell)
taught the last two years at Dykei
High School in Atlanta.
WILLIAM L
EASTERLING
Mr. Easterling has been ap
pointed acting chairman and as
sistant profeasor of the depart
ment of modem foreign languages
After receiving his B.S. degrei
from Western Carolina Collegi
and his master’s from Middlebur)
College, he did further graduati
study at Rice University and th<
Sorbonne and is presently a can
didate for the Ph.D. degree at
the University of Georgia.
He has served as regional super
visor of the Department of Edu
cation in Puerto Rico, teaching
sistant at Rice University and th
University of Georgia, and has beet
member of the faculty at Nor
wich University, the University oi
Vermont and Western Carolim
College. During the last two sum
mere he has been departments
chairman of the Governor’s Honor
Program at Wesleyan College
DONALD A.
JOSEPH SON ^ ^
Mr. Joaephson, instructor
mathematics, received his B.A. d«
gree with honors in 1963 fror
Wheaton College, and earned
master's degree the following yea
from the University of Michi»_
He has been an instructor i I
mathematics at Freeport Commul I
ity College during the past te J
years, and is a member of th
national and Illinois councils
teachers of mathematics, America
Scientific Affiliation and _
Mathematical Association of Aim
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THE MERCER CLUSTER
September 39, 19t
$tJje vEluater
September 30, 1966
Volume XLVJI, No. 1
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Thoaag W. Lang
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Diana Denton
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