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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, JANUARY 28, 1968
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Traditional and contemporary choral music will be included in the program to be sung by
the touring Upsala College Choir in a concert at Willingham Chapel on Thursday, January 25,
•t 10 o’clock.
Under its new conductor, Richard Toensing, the 40-voice mixed choir will sing a program
including selections by Buxtehude, Billings, Schutz, Callus, and Gibbons.
A special feature of the program will be a group of works from the Baroque Period, sung by
a small ensemble from within the choir, with cello, flute, and keyboard accompaniment
Another program highlight will be a motet, The Transfiguration, by Sven-Erik Back. A
contemporary Swedish composer, Back was commissioned to write the work by the Upsala
Choir in 1966.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Toensing is a graduate of St. Olaf College in his home state
of Minnesota, and received a master’s degree in music from the University of Michigan, where
he was assistant director of the chamber choir.
Toensing is also a composer. He has received several awards for composition, including the
American Choral Directors Association Award, the Broadcast Music Inc. Award, and the
Beames Prize in Composition from Columbia U nivereity.
ISS Program
SeekApplicants
By Gary L. Johnson
M freer, along with hundred* of
the nation'* college* and univer-
ntjes, haa been selected to nomi-
Mtc participant* to attend the third
annual session of the Intensive
Summer Studies Program (ISSP).
Mercer is the only institution in
the state of Georgia participating.
The 1S9P is conducted at Harvard,
Columbia, and Yale Universities
during the summer for eight weeks.
This program, established in 1966,
has as its purpose to discover and
namine student# with promising
capshilities of completing advanced
degrif programs, to promote the
students’ interests in applying to
graduate schools, and to endorse
them for admission to appropriate
graduate committees. Students un
der the program are given the op
portunity to perform as in actual
graduate school, whereby they can
MtesH their own scholarly abilities.
The students are judged by the
Hsnard, Columbia, and Yale facul
members on the basis of their
Mninar, informal meeting and
das- m performances.
TV present program offers post
tophomore, post-junior, and this
year the post-senior tutorials. The
post sophomore courses include So
cud Science — Community Power
8tnu ture and Contemporary Civi
lization and the post junior courses
consist of English, History, Socio
logy Political Science, Psychology,
end Philosophy,
Dr Doris Raymond is presently
•ceking applicants for the 1968
cummer program. Each applicant
• interviewed by Dean Garland F.
Tcylor, who will make the final de-
cuion in making the final decision,
H* following factors are consider
ed (1) academic performance, (2)
•nrealized potentials, (3) emotion-
d ctability, (4) sense of industry
*nd responsibility, and (6) motiva
tion for academic excellence.
Ls*t year Sandy Harrison, Mar-
Babbit, and Bob Collin* wars
•dected from Mercer to parti ci pats
**«rtiel and Bob have been asked
t° reapply this year by the director*
* the ISSP Sandy Harrison is a
senior and plans to graduate this
June, therefore making her ineligi
ble to reapply. Other Mercer stu
dents who have attended the pro
gram include Diana Denton, Jacob
Beil, and Ann Jo Hendricks.
In a recent interview with Bob
Collins, he characterized the pro
gram as a unique experience with
a diversity of thoughts in a new
climate and a change of order. He
pointed out that the most interest
ing topics of his particular tutorial
group were of the subject matter
civil nghts and Viet Nam. Bob, a
psychology major, plans to attend
a similar post graduate program at
Florida State University this sum
mer.
Calendar of Events
Wednesday, January 24
8:00-Basketball, Bears vs. Georgia
Southern, HOME
Thursday, January 25
10:00-Chapel. Upsala College Choir
on tour
Friday, January 26
10:00-Chapel, Rev. Mr. William
L. Self, pastor of Wieuca
Road Baptist Church will
speak
7 .10-Movie, '‘Guns of the Nava-
rone,” Room 314 CSC
8:00-Baaketball, Bears vs. Florida
Presbyterian, Away
Saturday, January 27
Basketball, Bear* vs. Tampa
University, Away
MOORE WINS
ESSAY CONTEST
Sidney L. Moore, Jr., of Monte
zuma is the Mercer University win
ner of an easay contest on the legal
service program of the Office of
Economic Opportunity.
Moore, a senior in the Walter F.
George School of Law, was awarded
$50 for his essay on "The OEO
Legal Service Program — Oppor
tunity Or Menace To the Profes
sion”.
The State Bar Association of
Georgia selected the eeeay title with
the award furnished by the C2iicago
Title Insurance Company through
its Georgia agency. Title Company
of Georgia.
Wehunt Receives
$12,000 Award
William D Wehunt, Mercer Uni
versity senior, is one of five South
ern students awarded a Justin Pot
ter Merit Scholarship to the Van
derbilt University Medical School.
The amount of the scholarship is
$3,000 a year for four years. It
is awarded on the basis of grades,
Medical College Admisaion Test,
and personal interview.
Winners of the scholarship were
chosen from a list of 13 finalists re
presenting ten colleges and univer
sities in the nation.
Wehunt, a resident of Sumter,
South Carolina, is an A student at
Mercer. He is vice-president of the
senior class, president of Scabbard
and Blade military fraternity and
is listed in Who's Who In American
Colleges and Universities.
Other campus offices he holds in
clude vice-president of Circle K,
vice-president of Sigma Mu scho
lastic fraternity, secretary of Blue
Key leadership society and secre
tary of Phi Eta Sigma scholastic
fraternity. He holds the rank of
captain in the Mercer ROTC unit
Diplomat in Chapel
Speaking at chapel today was
Mr. John D. Jernegan, Ambassador
to Algeria 1966-1967 and now serv
ing as Diplomat-in-Residence at
Emory University. The purpose of
liis moving to Emory is to give ca
reer diplomats the opportunity to
discuss the world problems and for
eign affairs with citizens at home
in order to understand the differ
ent attitudes of the people he comes
in contact with.
Mr. Jernegan ia a native of Los
Angeles, California and attended
Stanford University where he re
ceived his M.A. and B.A. in politi
cal science. He was appointed to
the Foreign Service and assigned to
the Embassy at Mexico City in
December, 1936. He served in many
assistant positions before being ap
pointed Ambassador to Algeria. He
is also probably the only American
diplomat who has been forced to
leave two posts abroad, in Iraq end
Algeria because of breaks in diplo
matic relation*
Student Government
To Sponsor Primary
For U. S. President
by Wright Davis
Mercer students, regardless of age, will have the oppor
tunity to vote for President in 1968 in a collegiate presidential
primary sponsored by TIME MAGAZINE. The primary
officially named CHOICE 68 will give millions of students on
some 2,500 college campuses the opportunity to show their
preferences.
lot will be structured to allow “the
The voting, sponsored locally by
the Mercer SGA, will be held si
multaneously on campuses across
the country on April 24, 1968, and
the results of the primary will be
independently tabulated and made
available to all media, interested
organizations and individuals.
Ballots will be provided by the
project's executive committee and
distributed to participating cam
puses. Project leaders say the bal-
SGA News
The first business meeting of the
Student Government Association
was primarily concerned with
Homecoming 1968. Plans were fin
alized concerning the election of
dorm representative and Secretary
of the Freshman Class.
Gary Brenner, President of the
Junior Class presented a tentative
schedule for the weekends activities.
The activities are as follows:
February 2 — Registration of
Toby and Tot candidate* and
Homecoming displays between 2
PM and 4 PM. The fees are $6. and
$10. respectively.
February 7—Election of Toby
and Tot
February 8 — Student-Faculty
Basketball game.
February 9—Homecoming con
cert. (The performing artist will be
announced on the return of con
tracts. The delay is a result of the
death of Otis Redding who had
been contracted for the event.)
February 10—10 a.m. Judging of
displays. Afternoon jam session —
pep rally. 8 p.m. Homecoming game
Bears vs. Stetson. At half-time
Toby and Tot and the display win
ners will be announced.
After game dance—Performers
name will be released soon.
February 11—11 ajn. Chape]
Worship Service.
Brenner also announced Junior
Class Officers who are heading
homecoming committees. They are
John Winkle—Faculty-Student Ball
game; Stephanie Edgar, displays
and Jayne Ball—program.
Qualifications for the election of
dorm representatives and Secretary
of the freshman class were set for
Thursday, January 18. The election
will be held Tuesday, January 23.
Dave Hudson, Roger Anderberg,
Dickie Childs, Charles Witzleben,
Scott Mac lay, and Ed Bacon, were
announced to accompany Mr. Jer
ry Stone to Savannah for a Student
Government Swap - Shop state
Workshop January 13 and 14.
Hudson read a letter from Dr.
Rufus Harris, President of the Uni
versity, noting the appointment of
Miss Sandra Sullivan and Mr. Jer
ry Stone to the committee on se
lecting students to appear in the
List of Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities. Students
appointed to the same committee in
a non-voting capacity are Steve
Moody, past president of SGA and
David Hudson, Present president of
Mercer’s Student governing body.
The next meeting of the SGA will
be January 23 at 9:30 pm in room
336 of the Student Center.
fullest and widest possible expres
sion of opinion.”
The student voter will indicate
his age and political party affilia
tion or preference. The presiden
tial candidates will be grouped by
party, but students will be allowed
to cross party lines. All persons se
riously mentioned as presidential
candidates will be included on the
ballot
Voters wil lindicate three choices
for president, but the first choice
will be the only one used in the ac
tual primary tabulation. The second
and third choices will be used for
statistical analysis. In addition to
indicating their choice of presiden
tial candidates, students wil] have
a chance to vote on three issues of
national concern, each with four to
six possible responses. The selec
tion of these issues will also be
made by the Board of Directors.
Initial response by student lead
ers lias been highly favorable. Ac
cording to Robert G. Harris, Exec
utive Director of CHOICE 68, for
merly student body president of
Michigan State University, ''college
men and women see the Primary
as a meaningful political activity
and a monumental opportunity to
make themselves heard in an effec
tive way. '
Value of Housewife;
A Study by Dr. Pyun
Dr. Pyun, assistant professor of
economics, tried in a recent article,
“The Monetary Vahie of a House
wife: An Economic Analysis for
Judicial Decisions,” to analyze the
true worth of a
deceased house
wife. Many times
Dr. Pyun has
appeared in
courts where
cases of suit are
being held and
has discussed the
monetary worth
of a deceased Dr. Pyun
housewife.
Dr. Pyun obtains estimates of
the deceased housewife's earning
ability by the use of statistics. This
is an estimate of the replacement
cost of a deceased housewife on
the basis of her "prospective earn
ing capacity." Dr. Pyun, through
the use of geometry, discovers the
housewife's contribution to the
family as a whole. Overall, he found
that the housewife’s contributions
are larger than her earning capac
ity.
Dr. Pyun criticizes the standard
procedure in estimating the re
(>la cement cost of a deceased house
wife which divided house chores in
to occupations such as cook and
governess and then computed the
replacement cost of a deceased wife
according to the wage afforded to
the occupations. This Dr. Pyun
says, erases the individuality of the
housewife and takes for granted
that all housewives are alike in
their performance of household du
ties and affairs.