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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 (Continued on page 7) 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)