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Volume L
MERCER UWVERMTT. MACON. GEORGIA. APRIL It. IMS
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Sally Farrar Chosen
Miss Mercer 1969-1970
I After many week* of planning
I and preparing the Miss Mercer
I Beauty Pageant, Sally Farrar was
1 choosen Miss Mercer last week.
I Sally, a cute Junior, competed with
I nine other girls in talent, beauty,
I and personality for the crown.
I Sally lives in Marietta, Georgia.
I She is president of Alpha Delta Sor-
I ority and is the KA Rose. Sally pre
I sented a Charleston routine to the
I theme song of “Thoroughly Mo-
I dern Millie". She designed her own
I costume.
I Marrianna Moore took first run-
I ner up She did an interpretive
I dance of two of her paintings and a
I sculpture, Marianna is in Chi Omega
I Twenty-one
Graduate
I MACON, GA. - Twenty one
I Mercer University students com-
Ipleted requirements for degrees
■ during the winter quarter.
I For practical purposes, they
I have graduated but will not receive
Idegrees until graduation exercises in
■June..
I The graduates, their hometowns
land courses of study are:
i I Juris Qoctor-Phillip K. Beck of
' (Lake Placid, Florida and A. J
’ pelch of McDonough
J I Bachelor of Arts-Hripsime Gar
t Median Amman of Macon in biol-
i logy, Rosa Martsd Babbitt of Au-
e frusta in psychology and biology,
1 L u April Cable of Maeoo ia Bn
“llish, Sandra dinton Oetti of
e Macon In Spanish, Sherri Darlene
e park of Jackaonville in mathemat-
i In, Jane Crockett of Rock ledge,
it Florida in Bluish, Mark Eppinger
‘'If Morin bland, Florida in bM-
“hy. Richard Alonso Epps of Dry
Iranch in psychology, Pamela
Sprouse Hammond of Macon m En
llish, Edward Reid Harvey of
sorority. The second runner up was
Shera Baker from Jacksonville,
Florida, Shera presented three
songs in a “little girl skit"- using
props she had made herself
The ten semi-finalists were
chosen from thirty-four contest
ants. These thirty-four girls started
preparing and rehearsing their en
tries several weeks prior to the con
test Each of the girls had a preli
minary judging on her talent entry
before the semi-finalist were
picked The week before the con
test was filled with rehearsals, a
television interview, and a
luncheon. The Circle K Club of
Macon gave a Luncheon in honor of
Macon in biology, Samaria Rutha
Mitcham Johnson of Macon in biol
ogy, Gwendolyn Ann Johnston of
Macon in English, Joyce Marie Lan-
ncan of Macon in biology, Law
rence F.dward Porter, Jr. of Macon
in English and psychology Thomas
Alan Rhodes of West Palm Beach.
Florida in biology, Mary Kuth Meis-
ner Stevens of Atlanta in history.
Jennifer Diane Waldrop of College
Park in art and Mary Hayes Yoe
mans of Macon in English.
Bachelor of Arts in fine arts -
Sami Farced Amman of Macon.
Scholarships
Awarded to Nine
Mercer University's School of
Pharmacy awarded scholarships to
nine students at Awards Day ex
ercises.
American Foundation for Phar
maceutical Education Scholarships
in the amount of $100 each were
awarded • six students who were in
the upper 2S percent of their clam
scholastically ^
Receiving these scholarships
were Claude W. Bates of Ocoee,
Tean,. Mrs. Brenda S. paaadl of
the girls the day of the contest. It
was held at the Dempsey Hotel.
One of the biggest features of
the talent was Judy Ford the reign
ing Miss America. After being wel
comed to Macon with a ceremony
and a parade given by the city. Miss
Ford came to Mercer for the
pageant Miss America crowned
Sally as George Henderson sang the
Miss America Theme Song".
Among other students that took
part in the pageant were Tommy
Maddox and Susan Wiseman that
sang. Ernie Robinson, a sophomore
produced the pageant and Bob
Walden served as the Emcee.
Knoxville, Tcnn., Buddy Hood of
Marietta, K. Eugene Lyda of Birm
ingham, Mary Obi of Jacksonville
and A. Lenonard Perry of Decatur
Three of these six scholarships
were matched by the Woman’s
Auxiliary of the Geotgia Phar
maceutical Association, two by the
Anne Morris Henderson Memorial
Scholarship Fund and by the At
lanta Drug and Chemical Club, giv
ing the recipients scholarships total
ling $200 each.
Lathan O. Nichols of Duluth was
‘awarded the John W. Dargavel
Foundation Scholarship in the
amount of $200.
The Marion-E. Lord Scholarship
in the amount of $100 was awarded
Richard A. Jackson of Atlanta and
the Sam T. Coleman Scholarship in
the amount of $2S0 went to
Howard C. Nixon of Carrollton.
Glover Lectures
Dr. Willis B. Glover, professor of
history at Mercer University, will
lecture before the American Soci
ety of Church History, April 19 in
Louisville. Ky.‘
The Mfafcct of his paper will be
Feininger’s Art
To Be Exhibited
The ruin of a fourteenth-century
Gothic church which preoccupied
Lyonel Fcininger as a theme for
paintings and drawings for more
than three decades is the subject of
an exhibition on view at Mercer
University’s Art Gallery in the Con
nell Student Center until April 22.
A major oil painting, Ruin by
the Sea , thought to be lost for
many years, and recently acquired
by The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, is exhibited with 19
drawings and watcrcolors on the
subject
Offering an opportunity to see
Feininger’s working methods and
the evolution of his ideas, the ex
hibition demostrates the metamor
phosis of his subject matter from
factual reality, apparent in the
earliest sketches, to a precise and
exact delineation of form.
Since the early 1920s, Lyonel
Fcininger has spent summers at
Deep in Pomerania on the Baltic
coast. On July 11, 1928, during an
excursion to the nearby village of
Hoff, he unexpectedly came upon
the ruined church. Greatly excited
by his discovery, that day he made
twelve sketches on the spot. He fol
lowed these in 1928 and 1929 with
drawings in the more exact, archi
tectural manner of his paintings.
A church had existed on the sire
as early as 1331. and when its vault
Penfield Service
MACON, GA Mercer Univer
sity seniors and friends of the uni
versity observed Founders Day at
Penfield in Greene County April 8
Mrs. Bernice McCullax, Georgia
author and Mercer trustee, made
the main address at 11 a.m. in the
historic chapel constructed^ the
pre-Civil War period
Mrs. McCullar, who won the top
non-fiction award from the Dixie
Council of Authors in 1968, spoke
on "How to Kiss a Ghost”.
Following^ the program in the
chapel, the seniors and members of
the Middle Georgia Historical Soci
ety, were special guests of the uni
versity, and moved to the Penfield
Cemetery where wreaths was placed
on the graves of Jesse Mercer and
former Mercer presidents Billington
McCarter Sanders, Spright Dowell
and George Boyce Connell.
The Rev. James Edwin Bacon Sr.
of Jcsup, past of the Gardin Baptist
Church, pronounced the benedic
tion at the graveside.
Mercer was founded at Penfield
in 1833 Though the original build
ings were lost in a fire, the home of
the first president stands as well as
a classroom building.
Mrs. McCullar has been awarded
the Quill Award by Sigma Delta Chi
and the Achievement Award by
Theta Sigma.
"Religious Orientations of *H G.
Wells: A Caae Study in Scientific
Humanism".
The meeting of the society will
be held at the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
later collapsed, the building was
bricked over and it retained only
the Gothic windows of the choir.
By 1868 the sea at the bottom of
the cliff had approached to within
three feet of the church Dams and
palings failed to save the church,
and 1874 it was abandoned. Ero
sion caused the fall of large sec
tions, until, after the turn of the
century, only a wajl and a portion
of the choir remained." An addi
tional panel in the exhibition shows
earlier anonymous photographs
dated about 1900 and 1924; also
included are photographs of the
ruin by the artist’s son, Andreas
Fcininger.
Fcininger preferred to complete
oil paintings away from his subject,
believing that its proximity bound
him to closely to literal appearance.
Away from Deep, in 1930, he com
pleted Ruin by the Sea, the paint
ing included in the exhibition.
L)onel Fcininger was bom in
the United States in 1871 and spent
the years between 1887 and 1936
in Germany. He came back to the
United States in 1937 and lived
here until his death in 1956. While
in Germany, Feininger revisited the
ruin in 1932 and 1934; the exhibi
tion includes a glowing watercolor
of 1934 In 1943, Feininger exe
cuted several larger watcrcolors on
the same theme from memory
Paynter Receives
Commission
Calvin F Paynter, Jr , a Mercer
University law student, has been
commissioned a second lieutenant
in the Military Police Corps of the
United States Army
The oath of office was admin
istered to Lt. Paynter by Lt. Col.
Robert M. Brambila. professor of
military science at Mercer
Lt. Paynter, the son of Mr and
Mrs. Calvin F. Paynter. Sr., 677
Starlight Drive, N. E.. Atlanta, will
receive his initial training at Fort
Gordon, Georgia
National Defense
Nominee
James Thomas Armstrong of Ma
con, a senior at Mercer University,
has been selected as Mercer’s
nominee for the National Defense
Transportation Association Award
Lt. Col. Robert M. Brambila,
professor of military science at Mer
cer said the award, a silver medal
with ribbon, is awarded annually to
Reserve Officer Training Corps
cadets displaying scholastic excel
lence in both military and academic
subjects. Twenty awards are pre
sented in the nation each year.
Selections are made from can
didates nominated by the 286 col
leges and universities that offer
ROTC.
Cadet Major Armstrong and his
wife, Gail, make their home at 391
Duncan Avenue. He is the son of
Mr and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong, 717
Lee Drive. Macon.
