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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. 3oi - 'N ■ oJv Ao" g 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 (Continued on page 3, Col. 5) 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 (Continued on page 3, Col 1) “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.