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Volume L MERCER UWVERMTT. MACON. GEORGIA. APRIL It. IMS Number IS i i 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.