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Dr. Harris Speaks To
His Own Class Of 1917
THE MEANING OF REUNION>
For some 43 years of the past 50 I have viewed Mercer through the
eyes of an alumnus During those 43 years I was a knowing alumnus,
an informed alumnus, and a grateful alumnus, hut nevertheless an
alumnus
That alumnus status meant that
to me Mercer was Alma Mater —
fostering mother. Hut like all sons
1 had left home. 1 was no longer a
participating and responsible mem
ber of the family. As an alumnus I
viewed Mercer with deep apprecia
tion. I was appreciative for the in
troduction to the spirit and nature
of learning which 1 had acquired,
for the friends and associations I
had chiefly with you, my class
mates, and associations with many
other students in other classes, and
with our teachers I could name
many of the latter whose remem
brance would evoke emotions which
all of us share: Dr. Pickard, Dean
Sellers, Professor Steed, Dr Harri
son, Dr Forrester, Professor Car
ver and, of Course, Miss Sally As
an alumnus 1 had the warm feeling
for the College that is common to
all alumni of every college.
This morning 1 almost wished
that this was May 5. 1917 again. 1
wished that this world was the
good world we lived in then, a
world of innocence and illusion I
even wished that once more we
could go out "to make the World
safe for Democracy." For that was
our Crusade. Remember? And it
was not much different in spirit
from the spirit of those who under
took the Holy Crusades of a Ro
mantic Era We went out to fight
the “Hun" like they went out to
fight the Turk We were motivated
by something of a similar Chivalry.
Our weapons had changed, but we
honored the spirit. Hv the time of
World War II. though men fought
grimly the\ had less hope of set
tling differences by warfare. Now
they fight with such great awe of
oOf weapons that we are reluctant
to use them, and understand that
even less is settled. Fifty years ago
we hurried about the Mercer cam
pus to mis t each other, eager to
rt nlist for World War I Crusaders
we were, for sure
But as I stepped on the campus
this morning 1 met a young student
who states! t-xi iti-dly that he will go
into the Peace Corps this summer
And slowlv 1 liegan to feel that in
him I saw a Crusader too. He is as
eager to offer himself to help im
prove the lot of people in a distant
foreign village us we were to fight
the Kaiser, or as young men were
in other centuries to take up the
Cross. Then I encountered another
student who is in the ROTC who
secretly holies to become an astro
naut, to orbit the earth and, as he
described it, to reach the Moon,
or the next place " Being thus made
further aware of present-day Cru
saders, I saw in Chapel a young
Negro student who desires to be a
missionary to Africa. In the cafe
teria at noon 1 spoke to a young
Macon girl whose eyes were shin
ing over her rerent engagement to
a student who will begin medical
study next fall He wishes to be
come a medical missionary abroad
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Volume XLVm u MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON. GEORGIA, MAY 12, 1967
Number 18
Honors Day Spotlights
Outstanding Students
By Dori Ripley
The annual Honors Day Program, honoring those who have demon
strated outstanding academic and leadership qualities, was held in the
cha|iel Tuesday, May 9.
I President Harris privaled over I of the College of Liberal Arts be-
| the program and expressed Ins I gall In recognizing those students • |A AnAllfTII
pride and appreciation to those! who had attained the highest scho- la Mil \ IlKII W I H
■enior and Walter Chandler to Georgia Tech, will be
Dm Mitchell. Bill Naylor. ,Iud Roberts, David Taylor,
brook
pn on the court, these roundballers will spearhead the
iugh the twenty-four game season Also in the line-up
ping freshmen, Doug Porter (6'8") from St. Peters-
i Jimmy Graham (6'3") of Fort Valley. Georgia. It
new season for Mercer basketball.
iASKETBALL SCHEDULE IS ON PAGE 8)
Instic average in their respective
classes
Reed Banks and Evelyn Kay
★
Johnson were tops in the Freshman
.brier. White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia. Chi
. ,, . t , . ... »ve gathered here so often that the Greenbrier has
Taylor, Dean (lass and Rosa Martiel Babbitt [ the B . <home .. of chj 0mega Conventions. More than
E R. COGGINS TO
>EAK IN CHAPEL
Dr. Ross Coggins, Chairman of
me Christian Life Commission of
the Southern Baptist Convention,
will speak Thursday and Friday in
cha; >eL
Mr. Coggins was born November
J3, 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas.
He received the Bachelor of Arts
gree from Baylor University at
Waco in 1948, the Bachelor of Di
gnity degree from Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth in 1951, and did resi
dence work toward the Doctor of
Theology degree from that semi-
tarv.
Mr. Coggins served as a pastor,
B. S. U. director, and Bible teach-
w. In 1953 he accepted the position
*» Associate Director, Department
°f Student Work, Bdptist General
Convention of Texas. He served
•here until 1955 when he was ap
pointed a term missionary to In
donesia.
In 1961, Mr. Coggins was called
•o the position of Director of Com
munications of the Christian Life
Commission of the Southern Bap-
*mt Convention. His primary re-
Ssmsibility with the Commission is
to write in the field of allied Chris
danity in the general areas of fam
ily life, race relations, moral issues,
daily work, and Christian citisen-
who were being honored Attir the
President's brief welcoming spies h.
I)r. Robert Otto gave the invocation
and the presentation of honors In-
gun. Garland For Inn
ship. He has written numerous „r- m Sophomore rlaiili Th „ go, Ch. Omega developed a unique convention pa -
hcles for publications including ; hi hp!)t in the junior cla88 foundtable dfacuss.ons as informal ways for thought-
Christianity Today, The Baptist, Doro , hv Ann Bnilev and for V talk. Delegates meet with others who have some-
i Pr °* ran V The Sundav 801,001 the senior class was Harrv Na lame Situations.
I Builder, Commission. The Baptist ,haniel Davis. Dean Tavlor went on Chi Omega’s founding she has grown greatly in
I Student, Training Union Magazine, j (o rot . ogmze th( , m . w | y ( ,i w .,, k1 raem . nd number. Chi Omega is at present the largest
Brotherhood Journal, and the state ^ ^ of phl K( ., Sigma and Sigma Orority with a membership of 90,000. It has been
Tau Gamma, honorary scholastic l that she has the largest number of chapter houses
societies for freshman men and 130 associations. A 1966 national panhellenic survey
women who made the Dean's List Omega as number one in strength, power, and
at least one quarter during their
first year here. j facts about Chi Omega:
The newly elected members of Jga’s financial system has been ranked as being one
Sigma Mu for the year 1967 and-t stable next to AT&T and A&P.
1968 were then recognized and ap- 8, which are held every other year alternating with
plauded. as well as fourteen seniors lal convention are to perfect chapters and discuss
who had received scholarships, fel- difficulties. These firesides were adopted by
low-ships, and graduate assistant- Roosevelt during his term as U. S. president. He
slops in colleges and universities, em “Fireside Chats."
James Cliv Quarles. Dean of the itstanding Chi Omega’s are:
Walter F. George School of Law.i Hayes, Harper Lee, Joanne Woodward, and Mary
announced William Eugene Cetti Mobley, Linda Lee Mead, Dale Evans
as the new Editor m Chief of thi-fgg fjnah s t.s in the 1966 national College Queen
" ' Review, 1
Baptist pa)>ers. He has written
Training Union programs tor young
people anil adults.
In 1963 Mr Coggins was a con
ference leader for the Baptist World
Youth Congress in Beirut, after
which he made a study tour of the
Soviet Union.
He is author of two l>ooks, Mis
sions Todny, and To Change the
World; he edited the book The
Gambling Menace, and has a chap
ter in the book What Can You Be
lieve?, in addition to his writing
widely in the field of Christian so
cial ethics.
National Merit Scholars
To Attend Mercer
Two students have been awarded
National Merit Scholarships to at
tend Mercer University this fall.
Mercer Law Review, an honor-
based on academic qualities as well /-,»•
as writing ability. I he United _ „
States Isiw Week Award, presented Switzer Howard sums up the ideals and standards
to a senior, was given to Jam.-*' usands of Chl °megas across the United States in
Edward Peugh for his rtutstandintf Symprony.
They an- Carolyn J Braun. Jack ! scholastic ability. ive constantly above snobbery of word or deed; to
sonville. Fla. and Stephen M Bax-1 Joel Cash Williams. Jr was larehip before social obligations and character before
ter Rome. Ga. (noted as the outstanding seniores; to be in the best sense democratic rather than
Over 2,400 of the nation's ablest {student and thus received the an-’’, and loveable rather than "popular"; to work
high school seniors were named nual Phi Alpha Delta Award, while to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choose thought-
George Thomas Williams was roc- course which occasion and conscience demand; to be
ognized as the most outstanding ilways, to be discouraged never; in a word, to be
freshman student and received the tr any and all circumstances to my Fraternity and
Delta Theta Phi Award. For his t teachings, and to have her welfare ever at heart,
magnificent display of trial practice lay be a symphony of high purpose and helpfulness,
in courts, Albert Hawes Dallas re- '.here is no discordant note.”
(Continued on page 6)
winners in the twelfth National
Merit Scholarship. Three-fourths of
the awards or sponsored by Merit
Scholarships provided some 340
different corporations, colleges,
foundations, other organization*,
(Continued on page 7)
