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MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER II, 1968
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Roger Wagner Corale
To Play November 12
The Roger Wagner Chorale, de-
crilicd by Leopold Stokowaki ns
“ms ond to none in the world," will
presented here by impresario S.
lunik on November 12, 1968 at
Willingham Chapel.
The Chorale, headed by its eele-
ated French bom founder and di
■tor, will be making its twelfth
nual tour of major United States
Sties.
Since the augmentation of its
During company several years ago,
he Chorale has vastly extended
range and variety of its pro-
Tams. Last season, in more than
ifty cities on its ten-week travel
hrdule, it won consistent praise
uni both audiences and critics for
St* performances of a variety of
orks that included sacred and
culur music of the Renaissance.
liturgical masterpieces by Bach,
and Handel among others, and con
tem|>orary works by Ives. Webern
and Ginasterra to mention a few.
Special concerts at its home base
in Los Angeles included Haydn’s
Creation and Stravinsky’s Lea
Nocea. The latter was performed
not only as an ensemble work but
also as part of Jerome Robbins'
ballet on the score.
Formed by Roger Wagner twen
ty years ago, the Chorale has ap
peared widely in North and South
America, Euro[)e, and the Near
East. In 1967 it made its first tour
of Japan and performed to sold-out
houses on every occasion.
The 1968-69 tour will last ap
proximately three months and will
cover close to sixty cities on tnis
continent.
Georgia Baptists To Meet;
Garrison Presents Budget
The 1968 Georgia Baptist Con
vention in Macon Nov. 11-13 will
consider a record budget of $6,344,-
800. The convention will feature
inspirational messages from pas
tors, laymen, and denominational
leaders.
Reverend J. Robert Smith of
the First Baptist Church, Swains-
horo will serve as convention pres
ident and preside over the three-
day meeting at Mabel White Bap
tist Church.
The executive committee report
will be presented by Dr. Searcy
S. Garrison the executive secre
tary-treasurer of the convention.
The report will be on the $5,344,-
800 budget for Georgia and South
ern Baptist missionary, education
al, and benevolent causes. 990,948
members from some 3,015 church
es will be cooperating with the
convention.
Dr. W. Wayne Dehoney, pastor
of the Walnut Street Baptist
Church, Louisville, Ky., will speak
in the opening session Monday
night on “The Crusade of the
Americans,” hemispheric evangel
istic movement. Dr. Dehoney is
North American coordinator for
the campaign involving 22 million
Baptists from 28 countries.
Dr. Walter L. Moore will give
the annual convention sermon.
Other addresses will be presented
by Mr. Owen Cooper, Dr. A.
artificial Hearts
Made With Rubber
Jim Wright, a young research
|*cn ntist, is a man with more than
11*'art. He’s a man with many
*a rts.
For a 24-year-old Jim Wright's
pm! -ssion is building hearts—a rti-
beinl hearts.
A-< one member of a research
am working in cooperation with
slu id researchers, he believes the
will soon come when man-
ido hearts can sustain human
'As I construct a heart,” Wright
id. ”1 wonder how much closer
in me will bring us to the time
shell heart disease victims can be
pvi u new life with one of these
earn."
AI i«dy, his handcrafted rubber
costing approximately
kiH'O each to produce, have sus-
uin i life in animals for up to 60
our. These hearts are donated
The Goodyear Tire A Rubber
, >any to medical research
S.
Wliat kind of man and materials
it take to build an artificial
Some of the necessary skills and
ubfthinces you wouldn't believe,
ev are a combination of the most
hiuticated engineering materials
know-how available, plus the
-inught skills of a basement ar-
in
Wright uses his knowledge of
•tomy, biochemistry and physi-
r, he rdys on the experience
medical researchers. Goodyear
nists and engineers, and be has
iloped the talent of a sculptor
the ingenuity of a Rube Gold-
For materials, be uses products
the most advanced chemical
hnology, as well as some basic
• hold Hems. Wright uses del-
ttely processed natural rubber
with all impurities removed,
urethane rubbers, special cua-
HEART-BU1LDER Jim Wright tests the pumping ca
pacity of one of his handcrafted artificial rubber hearts on a
mock circulation system. As one member of a research team
working in cooperation with medical specialists, he believes
that by the early 1970s the hearts he builds will sustain life
in humans.
tives, highly engineered butterfly-
type heart valves, wax and stove
pipe wire.
The tools of Wright’s trade in
clude artist's carving knives and
paint brushes, screwdriver, drill,
masking tape, calipers, rule and
gauge#.
To date, Wright ha* built more
than 30 rubber hearts for medical
rosoarch team* throughout the
world, and each new heart incor
porates design improvements.
It takes two or three weeks to
design a specific heart, and approx
imately two more weeks to build
the rubber organ." Wright ex-
Wright’s biggest customers for
his handcrafted hearts are the
Cleveland (Ohio) Clinic and the
University of Utah, both leaders
in artificial organs research.
Starting with a detailed diagram
made from specifications given by
medical researchers, he fashions a
mold for the heart from a block
of wax.
Wright dips the finished wax
mold into a large beaker of ex
tremely flexible natural rubber la
tex; and after it cures, he chips
the wax from inside the formed
rubber heart components with a
screwdriver.
(Continued on Fife 2)
Hamblin Letton, Dr. Harold K.
Grams, and Dr. Joseph R. Estes.
Dr. Paul C. McCommon, of At
lanta, secretary of the music de
partment will direct music with
Mrs. Olin B. Colwell of Atlanta,
organist and Kenneth Carithers of
Macon, pianist.
The Convention will close
Wednesday night with a final
youth session at 7 p.m. in the
Macon Coliseum.
Dr. James Griffith
Georgia Baptist Youth Night will
feature an Athens pastor and
young people in choirs, an orches
tra, and a flag ceremony in the
Macon coliseum, Nov. 13. .Thi-
Mercer University choir will be
one of the featured groups.
Concluding the 1968 Georgia
Baptist Convention, the youth ser
vice will focus on the “Crusade
of the Americas,” hemispheric
evangelistic movement
Dr. James N. Griffith, Beech
Haven Baptist Church, Athens,
will be the main speaker. A for
mer sports editor and news writer.
Dr. Griffith writes a weekly humor
column in The Christian Index,
Georgia Baptist paper. He is a
vice-president of the Convention.
Youth choirs from First Baptist
Church, Gainesville, and First Bap
tist Church, East Point will pre
sent testimonial features. Both
choirs are involved in tours as part
of the Crusade of the Americas.
The Gainesville choir will sing
in the northeastern U. S. neit
spring as part of the Baptist revi
val campaign. The East Point
choir will travel to Columbia,
South America, in the Crusade.
The Convention will also include
an orchestra co-ordinated by Boyd
D. Martin. Thomaston. Martin is
choral director, Robert E. Lee In
stitute, and choir director, Trinity
Baptist Church, both in Thomas
ton.
The 40-piece orchestra will in
elude students who attended the
Georgia Baptist youth music camp
at Toccoa last summer Martin di
rected the camp orchestra.
Dr Paul C. McCommon, church
music department secretary, will
direct the combined choirs and
orchestra.
Sociology Dept. Hosts Convention
The annual meeting of the Geor
gia Sociological and Anthropolog
ical Association will be held at
Mercer University Nov. 8-9.
Registration will start at noon
Friday and the afternoon will be
given to group discussion of
“Teaching Students to Think The
oretically”, "Gerontology”, “Socio
logy of Religion" and “Socializa
tion". A discussion o f “Model
Cities" will be held Saturday.
Officers of the association are
Dr. Dorothy Pitman of Georgia
College at Milledgeville, president ;
Fred Parsons of West Georgia Col
lege, program chairman; and Dr.
Marquerite Woodruff of Mercer
University, secretary.
Among those who will partici
pate in the discussions will be Dr.
Fred Bates, head of the Sociology
Department at the University of
Georgia; Dr. John Doby, chairman
of the Department of Sociology,
Emory University; and Dr. Pit
man who is chairman of the De
partment of Sociology at Georgia
College.
Others who will have a part on
the program are Dr AI Boskoff of
Emory, Dr. John Kelly of the Uni
versity of Georgia. Dr Alpha Bond
of Mercer, Dr. Ray Payne of Mer
cer, Dr. Barbara Pattard of the
University of Georgia. Dr Don
Chandler of West Georgia, John
Sharp of Georgia College, Dr Don
Soufh of the University of Georgia
and Hugh Floyd of the University
of Georgia.
Marquart Publishes Chemistry Article
Dr. John R. Marquart, associate
professor of chemistry at Mercer
University, is the author of an ar
ticle in Analytical Chemistry, n
publication of the American Chem
ical Society.
The title of the article ia "De
termination of Normal Paraffins in
Petroleum Heavy Distillates by
Urea Adduction and Gaa Chrom
atography." The research described
in the article resulted in a new
method of separating and identify
ing the molecular components of a
high boiling fraction of petroleum.
Such techniques prove to be of
value in determining components
to use in biodegradable detergents,
which are important for cutting
down on water pollution.
Dr. Marquart conducted the re
search while he was an employee
of Shell Development Corporation.
He expects to continue research in
this area at Mercer. Dr. Marquart
became a member of the Mercer
faculty this year.
A native of Benton Harbor,
Michigan, he received his BS de
gree from the University of Ari
zona. From Army ROTC ha
entered the US Army Chemical
Corps and served until 1968.
Dr. Marquart did graduate work
at the University of Arisona and
at the University of Illinois. From
the latter he received his MS de
gree and the Ph. D. He served as
research associate at Argnone Na
tional Laboratory near Chicago, be
fore working with Shell.