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Miranda. The Carioca giria present one of the
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tiun of Holiday on lea. The bugs ialh| spectacular was seen
Macon at the Macon rolls sum’s Grand Opening Tueeday.
MF” Patrols
Yarbrough Show
By Jeffrey L. Salter
Lbove ue in the left balcony—
i*l i Dukes, walkie-talkie in hand,
piving nd transmitting little
>f info and perhaps a little
>. “look who Mary’s with."
iking about nervously—Jerry
checking for possible aasass-
lors, occasionally glancing up
ugh.
Wicring people to already
prc seats—Ed Bacon, trying to
lember who’s not talking to
lest he instigate e bitter
ch of fieticuffs. It wae all very
imscent of “miseion Impoasi-
" the number one enemy of
ly night studying, and it was
very real at 7:45 P.M., when
pie began selling their souls for
t near the front row.
be lines had started at 6:10
the auditorium was packed
7:45 P.M. end the Impossible
•ions Fores was still holding
beg. At 7:50 three guys came
on stage and tuned their fo
ments, but at 7:68, nobody wee
•tags.
ic black piano lurked silently,
guitaia leaned wearily, the
a set glared defiantly, the bam
n gaped hungrily, the skeletal
phones upright stood, and the
fat amplifiers squatted on stage.
Thus was the stage—the calm be
fore the storm.
Then, at 8:01, the Freddy Ram-
araiz Trio came on stage and dem
onstrated their mastery in the form
of three well-received instrumen
tals. The drummer pounded away
on the symbols and taut skins, his
metallic, emotionless face looking
occasionally into the left wing.
The piano player bended into
his machine, while the bass violinist
plucked on thick strings and nodd
ed his head in rhythm.
8:16 P.M. The rest of the ac
companists moved out on stage,
the lights flashed bright, and there
stood Glenn Yarbrough, literally
larger than life. He promptly ex
plained this though, for he had on
ly recently returned from the South
Sesw, where “being big is a sign
of virility.’’ As far as Macon Air
port ia concerned, he noticed it
(which is more than we on say
for most people).
I should like to extend thanks
to Jerry Stone and all hit IMF
(Impossible Missions Force) for a
most enjoyable evening, which was,
I venture to say. quite a welcome
change after the Billy Joe Moron
Affair last
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OCTOBER 16, 1968
Yarbrough Cites New
Horizons For World
By Julian Gordy
A smile came over Mr. Yar
brough’s round face at he described
his plans for the new school for
orphans. He -ssid that he planned
to retire at forty. “You 1 only enter
tain until you grow op,” he said,
punctuating the sentence with a
half-laugh.
Neorby, the members of the
Fred Ramaraiz Trio and the mem
bers of the guitar team were con
versing in relative obscurity among
themselves. Trying to remain un
noticed, I walked over to the jovial
group. The ban player was sipping
a “sprite” between laughs.
“How did you like the Mercer
audience?” I finally ventured.
There followed a chorus of such
adjectives as greet, responsive, and
a few other complimentary re
marks. “Better than last night,”
was one comment which deserved
further questioning.
“Where were you last night?”
"Valdosta.”
“Valdosta State College?”
"Yes, Valdosta State Mortuary.
You can quote me on that,”
laughed Mr. Ramaraiz, a bit sar
castically.
I learned a lot in the next few
minutes: when you have traveled
for over two years you get tired,
and if you want to eat, you practice
the guitar. When you finally make
it, though, you can ease up; your
name makes up for some of the
practice. No matter how hard it is.
you still try to get the “break”
and you learn how to joke with
each other.
Unlike many groups that I have
heard, these guys seemed to ac
tually like each other. “We get
along because we’re so different,
you know.”
They were joking like kids. Too
bad adults cannot joke like that.
But they tend to get hurt. So
maybe Mr. Yarbrough was right:
"You entertain until you grow up,"
and then you look for something
else.
Crenshaw Publishes Articles
In American Religious Journal
Articles by Dr. J. L. Crenshaw,
assistant professor of Christianity
at Mercer University, will appear
in the Journal of Biblical Litera
ture and the Journal of the Ameri
can Academy of Religion.
Dr. Crenshaw's article, "Method
In Determining Wisdom Influence
Upon ‘Historical’ Literature", has
been accepted for publication prob
ably in the December issue of the
Journal of Biblical Literature.
Articles in the Journal of the
American Academy of Religion will
be in the form of reviews of Georg
Fohrcr's "Introduction to the Old
Testament” and Gerald Larue's
“Old Testament Life and Litera
ture.”
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Dr. James O. Harrison examines
a sample of the JeUu rock collec
tion, a recent gift to Mercer.
Mercer Receives
Jelks Rock
Collection
A collection representing almost
every major type of rock and min
eral in America has been given
to Mercer University.
The family of the Rev Mr.
Hendley F. Jelks, a retired Venice,
Fla., minister, has given the collec
tion. The Rev. Mr. Jelks, a native
of Hawkinsville, Ga., and a 1925
graduate of Mercer, spent half his
lifetime collecting the specimens
from the United States, Brazil and
Africa.
Included in the collection is pe
trified wood from Georgia, Florida
and five Western states. There is
a large quartz crystal from Arkan
sas weighing eight pounds, a piece
of the White Cliffs of Dover and a
specimen of the rock of Gibralter
brought to America by immigrants
100 years ago
The collection includes clear,
smoky and rose quartz crystals,
flourescent rocks, agates and ge
odes. Some of the geodes have been
halved with a diamond saw ex
posing colorful arrays of quartz
crystals on the inside.
Dr. James O Harrison, associate
professor of biology, said the collec
tion is "invaluable to anyone in
terested. in studying rocks", lie
said it will be put on permanent
display in the new $1 76 million
Willet Science Center The collec
tion is the most extensive of its
kind given to. Mercer, Dr Harrison
said
In addition to the rocks, the
Rev. Mt. Jelks gave several books
written about rocks and minerals.
The Rev Mr Jelks has been
a Baptist minister for almost half
a century. He has s|x-nt a good
part of this time on his hobby of
collecting rocks. Many of the spe
cimens given Mercer have been
sawed and polished so the delieate
pattern* made by the minerals
are exposed.
Although the Rev. Mr Jelks no
longer serves a church, hi- is chap
lain for a trailer |>ark at Venice
and, in this connection, has met
many people from all over Amer
ica.