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. . Student Spotlight. . \
March 3, 1967 § THE MERCER CLUSTER . • # 7
Daugherty To Design
Statue For Savannah
Cindy Clayton
In this edition the student "spot-
ght” (all* upon two eophomoree,
j Bacon and Cindy Clayton,
pdy hails from Orlando, Florida,
i do so many of our students. For
0 past two years we have seen
0 leading cheers on the cheer-
■ding squad. This year Cindy was
mien to act as co-captain of the
land. Presently she utilises her
ith major plans by serving as
awurer of Alpha Delta Pi sorori-
, This summer Cindy intends to
pel to Spain for a seven weeks
ir which is being sponsored by
•Hins in Winter Park, Fla. The
■ring party will meet and depart
an New York to go to Madrid,
ice in Spain, Cindy will have the
perience of real Spanish living,
she will spend the time living
th a native family. During this
riod she will not neglect her
■dies since she will be taking a
i week's course in Spanish. This
sold prove to be a very worth
ier trip and should give Cindy
iny pleasant memories.
SIX FLAGS Over Texas and
X FLAGS Over Georgia an-
anced plans to participate joint-
in conducting a series of region-
suditions in February and March
•lung talented collegiate per-
imers for their respective show
partment productions this sum-
9.
Mercer University students are
sited to attend the Georgia Re
ntal Auditions, which will be held
Atlanta on Saturday, March 11.
te exact time and location in At-
lta will be announced shortly.
All types of talent are being
light. Singers, dancers, musicians,
d specialty acts such as magi-
ins. acrobats, military drill teams,
■triloquists, fast-draw gunfight-
i will be considered.
The quest for collegiate perform
I will take the talent scouts into
wen strategically located region-
audition sites in the southeastern
i southwestern parts of the
■ted States.
SIX FLAGS Over Texas, lo-
ted in Arlington, midway between
lUas and Fort Worth, attracted
iriy 2,000,000 visitors from all
tr the nation during its 1066
Ison. Opened in 1961, the 116-
w historical-theme park is re
rded by the Texas Tourist De
bpment Agency as the most
pulur single tourist attraction in
• state.
Ed Bacon
Sharing the spotlight with Cindy
is that well known red headed “or
ganizer" of the Sophomore darn,
Ed Bacon. Bacon comes to Mercer
from Jesup. Georgia (yes, there
really is such a place). Ed was very
active in his high school's activities
and now that he is in the “big
tithe" he is still doing things. Be
sides being class president, he is
also on the Student Union Board.
He is also presently a pledge for
Alpha Phi Omega, a service fra
ternity. Eld’s other activities include
being on the Honor Committee, and
being an active member of Kappa
Alpha fraternity. He is the current
corresponding secretary of the
KAs. A very likeable boy. Eld is
perhaps the better half of the dy
namic duo of the “B and B” girl
saving team. (This is not a slight to
the other half but then again facts
are facts **••).
We think both of these students,
Eld and Cindy, contribute a great
deal to the spirit and growth of
their alma mater.
SIX FLAGS Over Georgia, on
the other hand, will begin its first
season of operations in June 1967.
Though similar in concept to its
counterpart in Arlington, this
$12,000,000, 276-acre entertainment
center, located in Atlanta, draws
its theme from the exciting history
and legend surrounding Georgia
and the Southeastern states.
Both attractions are owned and
operated by Great Southwest Cor
poration.
After completion of the entire
general or preliminary audition
tour, talent best suited for the
scheduled productions will be in
vited to appear as finalists in the
call-back auditions, which take
place in Arlington, Texas, and At
lanta, Georgia, in the late spring.
It usually takes the judges about
a week following the final audi
tion to make their selections. Ap
proximately 200 to 260 performers
will be picked, and they will be no
tified by telegram.
Awaiting for those who are pick
ed is an opportunity to enjoy a full
summer's employment at salaries
ranging from $76 to $126 a week.
The salaries vary according to the
type production in which they ap
pear and the number of hours work
ed a week, in one of the numerous
live and lively productions featur
ed at each entertainment center.
Protest Singer Is
Subject off Book
BOB DYLAN, a large format
book by photo-journalist Daniel
Kramer, which has been two and a
half years in preparation and has
had to battle its way through the
courts, is now ready for publication.
The publisher. Citadel Preas of New
York, announced this week that al
though the book is just coining off
the presses, the first edition is al
most sold out
Mr. Kramer, who is an interna
tionally published free-lance pho
tographer, took a full year from his
professional life to write and as
semble this book. During the pe
riod of preparation, Dylan asked
the courts to enjoin the book and
prevent its publication. Kramer ap
pealed to the courts that a true
and first-hand account of one of
America’s most ii luential and
gifted artists should exist: he con
tended that the public was entitled
to know the man through an hon
est portrait based on fact. The
courts agreed and the book will be
ready the first week in April.
The volume documents a time
when the great folkainger-poet rose
from near obscurity to become king
of the folk world—through the
time his creation of "folk rock”
changed the face of popular mu
sic. Kramer, whose studio is at 26
West 39th Street in New York
City, first noticed Dylan when he
saw him on a television screen in
1963. His search for Dylan, a first
hand account of the man, how he
works and a probing analysis into
the concept of Dylan is the subject
of the 15,000 word text. The nearly
160 photographs, many of them
double-page spreads, were drawn
from 3000 pictures made of Dylan
over a year and a half. Often called
“the best pictures of Dylan made,"
the photographs reveal the folk art
ist in many facets of his life—work
ing, playing, resting—and a certain
number of them includes Joan
Baez in rare momenta of the path-
crossing of these two artists. Sing
er Judy Collins, who had an oppor-
tunty to see a production copy of
the book, had this to say, "Daniel
Kramer is a fine artist and his
work is terribly important. I am
very much excited about the Dylan
book—I feel it is altogether a beau
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Shrimp...
and, oh yes, we
even serve 21 varieties of
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Marshall Daugherty, chairman
of the Departmen of Art at Mercer
University, has been commissioned
by the North Georgia and South
Georgia conferences of the Metho
diet Church to design a statue of
John Wesley which will be erected
in a downtown Savannah square.
Daugherty presently is working
on preliminary models for the sta
tue of Wesley, founder of Metho
dism. When completed, the 18-foot
high monument will cost $50,000
and will be placed in historic Rey
During Spring Holidays forty
members of the Mercer Choir will
tour Florida and present the music
they have worked on throughout
the year. They will preform at
various high schools and churches
throughout the state and on tele
vision in Jacksonville. Directed by
Mr. Jack W. Jones and accom
panied by Miss Redonda Lawrence,
the choir will sing religious and
secular songs, such as "O Clap
Your Hands," "I Hear a Voice
A-Prayin’," an arrangement of the
“Sound of Music," selections from
the musical "Kismet,” and “Bour-
ree,” originally sung by the
Swingle Singers. Further variety
will be added to the program with
solos by Vivian Humphrey and
Laura Kickland, a duet by Marty
Gregory and Helen Gilbert, and
some Christian Hottenanny by the
men in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.
Mr and Mrs. John Van Cura will
be featured soloists in various
■elections done by the choir. The
tour is proving to be a lot of work
for the choir, but the program
promises to be an excellent one
which certainly will compliment
Mercer.
Tonight, March 3, at 8:30 p.m.,
the choir will present the tour con
cert for the university. Everyone is
enthusiastically encouraged to at
tend.
Members of the Choir are as
follows: sopranos — Jertlyn
Crews, Jasmine Dawson, Helen
Gilbert, Marty Gregory, Vivian
Humphrey, Paula Johnson. Laura
nolds Square in downtown Savan
nah,
Reynolds Square is near the site
where Wesley had his parsonage
and gardens while living in Savan
nah in the early 18th century.
The Reverend Mr. James R.
Webb, Jr., superintendent of the
Savannah district of the Methodist
Church and former pastor of Vine-
ville Methodist Church in Macon,
is chairman of the monument
committee.
Kickland, Jean Matthew, Susan
Smallwood, Billie Uselton, Nancy
Williams.
The altos are Martiel Babbitt,
Jan is Craig, Bonnie Lawrence,
Jackie Knox, Janice Lienau, Carol
McDaniel, Peggy Malott, Gail
Springstead, Claudette Wells.
As basses are Randy Booth. Cal
Gough. Jimmy Henson, David
Marsden. Alan Mitchell. Jimmy
Newsome, Jim Price, Sam Smith,
George Trask, Charles Wright
The tenors are Bobby Awtrey,
Rocky Davis, Robert Magee, Robert
Markwith. Charles Russel, Paul
Sergent, Larry Walker.
The schedule of performances is
as follows March 16 at Leesburg
High School at 2:00 p.m. and the
First Baptist Church at 8:00 p.m.
in Leesburg Florida — March 17
at Boone High School at 8:40 a m.
and the Powers Drive Baptist
Church at 7:30 p.m. in Orlando,
Florida — March 18 a F'ree Day at
Daytona Beach, Florida — March
19 at Harbor City Baptist Church
at 11:00 a.m. in Eau Gallic. Florida
March 19 at First Baptist Church
at 7:30 p.m. in Vero Beach, Florida
March 20 at Vero Beach High
School at 10:00 a.m. in Vero Beach,
Florida — March 18 a free day at
Baptist Church at 8:00 p.m. in
Daytona Beach, Florida — March
21 at Wolfaon High School at 10:15
a.m. and at WJXT TV - Channel 4
at 1:00 p.m. in Jacksonville, Flori
da — March 21 at First Baptist
Church at 7:90 p.m. in Waycroaa,
Georgia.
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