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ft!E Mnttt Cluster V lume L MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER II, 1968 Number 5 J « i I * K £ # 1 > -Jk- ^ \ 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.