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Left to right: 1st row: Leila Kane, Carol Bruce, Linn Dillard, Karen
Rivers; 2nd row, Caryl Kagen, Nancy Westwood, Angie Rowe, Marcie
Fur bee, Elaine Morgan, Beth Powell; 3rd. row, Carol Smallwood, Julie
Hulsey, Susie Overstreet, Belen Brambila, Dianne Cmap, Theresa
Swctz.
ROTC Sponsors
In special ceremonies Monday
afternoon, the ROTC Company and
Unit sponsors were presented to the
Cadet Battalion. Those girls elected
to lx- Company Sponsors and given
the rank of Honorary Cadet Cap
tain were Miss Carol Smallwood,
Headquarters Company; Miss Carol
Broee, B Company, Miss I>eila
Kane, A Company; Miss Nancy
Westwood, C Company; and Miss
Karen Rivers, D Company.
Also announced were the Unit
Sponsors. Presented as Honorary
Cadet Firat Lieutenants were Miss
Linn Dillard, Rifle Team; Miss
Elaine Morgan, Drill Team; Miss
Theresa Swetz, Mauraders; Miss
Susie Overstreet, Band; Miss Caryl
Ga^en, 1st Platoon, A Company;
Miss Beth Powell, 2nd Platoon, A
Company; Miss Angie Rowe, 1st
Plan on, B Company; Miss Marcee
Furliee, 2nd Platoon, B Company;
Miss Dianne Camp, 1st Platoon, C
Company; Miss Belen Brambila,
2nd Platoon, C Company; Miss
Done Ripley, 1st Platoon, D Com
panv, and Mias Julie Hulsey, 2nd
Platoon, D Company.
Cheerleaders;
67-68 Spirit
By Ginny Scherer
On Tuesday, October 31, the
1967 1968 cheerleading squad was
chosen. It was a hard job for the
l*o local judges, but they finally
decided on ^ girU to cheer this
years basketball team on. Six of
•he girls will cheer for the varsity
lames and four will cheer for the
j#nu>r vanity games.
The girls trying out were re
quired to do three cheen. One
cheer included a cart wheel and
•he other two ended with split eagle
jumps. The (iris tried oat in groups
uf three and four and were called
hack many times to perform in dif
fer™ I groups. Personal appearance.
•Pint, and ability to do the cheers
•ere the qualities the judges were
•coking for. •
The six varsity cheerleaders are:
Pfan Hart (Miami, Fla.), Dori
Ripley (Fort Pierce, Fla.), Ginny
Chosen Monday
Laney Nominated;
Hughes Award
MACON, Ga—Lt. Col. Robert
M. Brambila, professor of military
science at Mercer University, an
nounced today that Solen Davis
Laney, freshman I-aw School stu
dent, has been selected as the Mer
cer nominee for the Hughes Tro
phy Award.
The Hughes Trophy is a perpet
ual award created by Hughes Air
craft Company and by the U. S.
Army to recognize the role played
in the American way of life by this
country’s citizen-officer—the uni
versity and college ROTC grad
uate. The trophy is awarded an
nually to the outstanding ROTC
graduate in the nation selected from
candidates nominated by the 247
colleges and universities that offer
ROTC. Presentation of the award
normally is made by the Secretary
of the Army.
Lt. I-aney. a Columbus native,
graduated cum laude as a Distin
guished Military Graduate from
the Mercer College of Liberal Arts
in June. As an undergraduate he
was president of Alpha Tau Omega
social fraternity, president of the
Interfraternity Council, justice of
Student Honor Council, president
of the Senior Class, and command
er of Company A, ROTC cadet
battalion.
Lt. Laney, is now serving on ac
tive duty as a member of the Regu
lar Army and is attending the Wal
ter F. George School of Law under
the excess leave program.
Scherer (Syosaet. New York), San
dra Rich (Orlando, Fla.) Susan
Watt (Jacksonville, Fla ), and Nan
cy Westwood (Albany, Georgia).
The junior varsity squad consists
of: Claudia Young (Syosset, New
York), Susan Strange (Fort Pierce,
Fla.), Shirley Harrison (Macon),
and Pam Nelson (Jacksonville,
Fla).
It was a hard decision foi the
two Macon judges and hopefully
the girls will cheer the bears on to
victory this year!
Georgia Baptist Coaventioa
Betts Af. U. Trustees Wed.
^mamaem Special Report From Jekyll Island mUUUUmum
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Seven persons were elected to
the Board of Trustees of Mercer University Wednesday by the
Georgia Baptist Convention meeting in its annual session.
They will serve terms of five
years with the exception of one
trustee who will fill an unexpired
term of three years.
The new trustees are:
Judge Griffin B. Bell of Atlanta,
judge of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir
cuit. Judge Bell is the first chair
man of the Atlanta Commission on
Crime and Juvenile Delinquency.
He is a trustee of the Institute of
Continuing Legal Education in
Georgia.
J. V. Skinner, former president
of Happ Company, Macon. He is a
recipient of the Macon Exchange
Club’s Golden Deeds Award and of
Mercer’s Algernon Sydney Sullivan
Award which is granted annually
to a civic leader for excellence of
character and service to humanity.
Mr. Skinner is co-chairman of the
board of directors of the Georgia
Bank and Trust Company, a mem
ber of the Macon Hospital Com
mission, chairman of the board of
trustees of the Bibb County unit of
the American Cancer Society, a
member of the board of directors of
the Macon Y. M. C. A.
Dr. W. Earl Lewis, Macon phy
sician, a graduate of Mercer and
of the Medical College of Georgia.
He is a Macon community and
professional leader, a Kiwianian
and a veteran of the U. S. Army
Medical Corps.
The Rev. Mr. W. Ches Smith,
III, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Tifton. A graduate of Mer
cer, Emory University and South
eastern Baptist Theological Semi
nary.
J. Paul Stone, president of
Stone’s Independent Oil Company
of Fitzgerald. A graduate of the
University of Georgia, Mr. Stone is
a former mayor of Fitzgerald. He is
a community leader of many years
and a director of the First National
Bank of Fitzgerald.
Dt. H. Tucker Singleton, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Madison He is a graduate of Mer
cer and of Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary. Dr. Singleton is
a member of the Executive and Ad
ministrative Committees of the
Georgia Baptist Convention.
J. Marion Roberts, Equitable
Life Insurance Company repre
sentative in LaGrange. He is a dis
trict governor of Lions Internation
al, a recognized community leader
throughout West Georgia. Mr. Rob
erts is on the Hospital Board at
LaGrange and heads the Red Cross
drive in that city.
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Baroque Orchestra
Wednesday Night
By Susan Scott
Baroque music was the watch
word Wednesday night in Willing
ham Chapel when at 8:30 the
Vienna Baroque Chamber Orches
tra gave a concert. This was the
second performance in the concert
series.
The world famous French pian
ist, Jean-Marie Darre, gave a con
cert Thursday night, October 19,
and thus opened Mercer's 1967-
1968 Concert Series.
Miss Jean-Marie Darre is recog
nized as one of the world’s greatest
living women pianists Her career
began upon her graduation from
Paris Conservatoire when she per
formed the five Saint-Saens Con
cert — all in one night.
Since then Miss Darre has had
many highlights in her career. She
has toured Europe and the Orient,
won the Legion of Honor in 1950,
and also the "Chevalier des Arts et
lettres" in 1960.
"All the works in this show are
recent. While illustrating one im
portant aspect of the new thematic
concern of many painters and sculp
tors today, they display at the same
the new methods, approaches, and
techniques by which these artists
express that concern.’’
So states William H. Gerdts in
the booklet accompanying the Ex
hibit. He believes that still life, as
a subject, has been almost reborn,
and certainly rejuvenated, under
the stimulation of the creative
American artists of our time. Many
Garrison Reports
Baptist Spending
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga —Record
given by Georgia Baptists in the
first nine months of 1967 was re
ported to the Georgia Baptist Con
vention Wednesday in its annual
session.
Dr. Searcy Garrison, executive
secretary on the convention, re
ported that Georgia Baptist church
es gave 4.7 per cent more in the
first nine months of this year than
for the same period last year. The
convention approved a budget for
1968 of 4.9 million for Cooperative
Program ministers. This is an in
crease of 531,000 over the 1967
budget and represents an increase
in budgeted funds for operating
ex|>enses of the six convention-own
ed colleges.
Among the events of the second
day of the convention were a talk
by Dr. Harold McManus, professor
of church history at Mercer, and
the Mercer alumni luncheon. A
luncheon for the Mercer Extension
Department Alumni was held on
Wednesday, the final day of the
convention.
Dr McManus, speaking at a
meeting of the Georgia Baptist
Historical Society, asked the ques
tion "Will Southern Baptists Have
Any History Worth Recording in
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of these acknowledge the techni
ques that preceded them and em
ploy what seems to be an impres
sionistic or Post-Impressionistic
style, using, however, a new ap
proach or attitude in their works for
example, Blaine, Porter, Dieken
korn, and Goldberg). Other artists
find the approach and interpreta
tion and subject matter are more
satisfying when totally update^. —
these are the bold Pop artists, who
often paint things larger than they
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“Oreo” by Robert A mason circulated by the Museum of Modem
Art, New York. One of the exhibits in the current Modern and Op-Art
show.
Does Still Life Stand Still?
by Dianne Downer
The works of art in the display now at Mercer answer the
question: “Does still life remain the same? with an emphatic
“NO!” Much has changed in the past few years in this field of
art, and the purpose of the Contemporary Still Life Exhibit is
to demonstrate the enormous and exciting metamorphasis that
has been, and is still, taking place, to our school’s population.
On display in the Connell Student Center Art Gallery and in
the upper halls of that building are 39 very diverse — and yet
similar — modem works of art.