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Stembridge Named Asst. Registrar
Willard I) Stembridge, Jr of Warner Robins has been named
assistant registrar at Mercer University by President Rufus C.
Harris.
A 1968 graduate of Mercer, Stembridge is a native of Moultrie,
for nine months, ending in June of 1967, he served as assistant in Colonel Jones
the U, S. Senate Document Room by appointment of Senator Her- 9
man Talmadge. »
While at Mercer Stembridge was president of Circle K, was a NOW CoiOflGI
dormitory counselor, served two terms as member of the Honor
Committee and was vide president of Alpha Tau Omega social
fraternity.
Stembridge is a 1963 graduate of Moultrie High School and is a Assumes Post
former assistant director of housing at Mercer.
King Scholarship Awarded Law Student
Tobias Stewart Jr. of Route 2, Gray, is among 62 Black ex-ser
vicemen to be awarded a Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowship by the
Woodrow W'ilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Stewart will attend Mercer University’s Walter F. George School
of Law He is a graduate of Morehouse College and was conferred a
Master in Business Administration from Atlanta University.
The King Program, now in its second year, is funded by major
grants from the Rockefeller and Sloan Foundation, with additional
funds from the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. and
the E. 1. du Pont De Nemours Company.
The fellowships provide full support over two years for graduate
and professional study leading to careers in service to the nation
and the community.
The largest group of King Fellows, eighteen will be studying
law; thirteen are in social work and related fields, and five are in
education, medicine, architecture, psychology and the sciences.
The King Fellows will be attending 49 universities from Harvard
and Columbia to Berkeley and the University of Arkansas.
Phi Mus Active in Summer
Dorothy Dillon, chapter president, attended the National Phi
Mu Leadership Conference at Culver, Indiana June 20 through
June 24. Representatives from the 115 chapters throughout the
United States were at the conference plus the national officers and
the alumni advisors from the collegiate chapters.
The Phi Mu’s were well travelled this summer and spent many
weeks as counselors at summer camps or resort areas.
Susan Zellner — Saphire Valley Inn. Sapphire, North Carolina
Susan Doughtery — Sea Island. Georgia
Suzanne Shelfer - Bahamas
Dori Ripley — Head childrens’ counselor at a camp in N. C.
Carol Strange — Counselor in N. C.
Susan Watt — Counselor for Upward Round, Macon, Georgia
All of the sisters were busy throughout the summer making
plans for rush October 11 through Oct. 19. Two of the most im
portant jobs of the rush program were headed by Shirley Harrison,
Rush Chairman, and Karen Rivers. Recommendations Chairman.
Lane Receives
Furman Smith Scholarship
Walter James Lane. Jr. of Macon has been named by Mercer
University President Rufus C. Harris as the first recipient of the
Furman Smith Scholarship at the Walter F. George School of Law.
The award, named for the late Mr. Smith, is provided annually
by the Barwick Foundation in the amount of $1,000 to an incom
ing freshman of the law school and is renewable each of the three
years the student is at Mercer Mr. Smith was a prominent Atlanta
attorney and a graduate of the Mercer law school.
Lane graduated magna cum laude from the Mercer College of
Liberal Arts in June with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and a
minor in sociology During his four years at the university he re
ceived no grade below B.
In his Law School Admission Test, Lane scored in the upper 47
percent of all who take it throughout the country. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter James Lane. Jr. of 1034 Georgia Avenue.
Colonel Joseph H. Jones has
been appointed by Mercer Uni
versity President Rufus C.
Harris as chairman of the De
partment of Military Science.
He succeeds Lt. Col. Robert
M. Brambila, Jr., who has been
assigned to the Military Assis
tance Operations Command
and Staff Course at F’t Bragg,
N C. Colonel Brambila will be
come an operations officer in
January with the U. S. Military
Assistance Command in Viet
nam.
Colonel Jones for the past
two, years has been the Assis
tant Deputy Chief of Staff, Re
serve Officers’ Training Corps
of the Third Army, stationed
at Fort McPherson.
A native of Greenville, S. C.,
he was graduated from Presby
terian College. During World
War II he served in the Asiatic-
Pacific Theater and later in the
Army of Occupation in Japan.
He returned to the United
States in 1946 and was relieved
from active duty, remaining in
the Army Reserve.
For two years he was em
ployed by the National Beta
Club in Spartanburg. S. C.,
and, for the remainder of
1948, by the National Ex
change Club, Toledo, Ohio.
Colonel Jones was recalled
to duty in September of 1950
and has been on active duty
since. He served with the infan
try in Korea in 1951 and from
1952 to 1955 was assistant
professor of military science at
the University of Mississippi.
Other tours of duty include
three years in F'ranee, one in
Korea and two as a U. S. De
fense attache to the Republic
of Ghana.
Colonel Jones is a graduate
of the Army Command and
General Staff College, the For
eign Service Institute at Arling
ton and the Defense Intelli
gence School. His awards in
clude the Bronze Star Medal,
Army Commendation Medal
with the 1st Oak Leaf Cluster
and the Joint Service Commen
dation Medal.
Mrs. Jones is the former Iris
Deane Shannon of LaGrange, a
graduate of the University of
Kentucky. Their children are
Joe, 12, and Katherine, 14.
Conc0rt» Begin October 14
Clyde Holloway Opens
Fine Arts Series
Eight attractions have been
booked for the 1969-70 Mercer
University Concert Series
which will open Oct. 14.
The brilliant young Ameri
can organist, Clyde Holloway,
will open the series. He will be
followed Oct. 31 by the Preser
vation Hall Jazz Band which
will appear in response to
popular demand after their suc
cess at Mercer last season.
Max Morath will present
Nov. 18 his “At the Turn of
the Century” ragtime show
which has been running off
Broadway for more than a
year.
The Vienna Choir Boys, the
world’s most famous boys’
choir will present a concert of
sacred music, folk songs and
costume operettas Jan. 20; The
National Players, the nation’s
most popular repertory com
pany will perform Shake
speare’s “King Lear” Jan. 23.
The Goldovsky Opera com
pany will give their fabulous
new production of Verdi’s “La
Traviata" fully staged with
soloists, chorus and orchestra
Feb. 16.
On March 31, a troupe of
Hindu musicians, each an au
thority on Indian music will
give an evening of music with
the sitar, tabla and tamboura.
The series will close April 16
with a concert by Jerome
Hines, one of the greatest living
bassos.
All programs will be in Will
ingham Chapel on the Mercer
campus, and are scheduled to
start at 8 p m., a change in
time from previous seasons.
The series is planned for and
financed by the Mercer Univer
sity Student Government, but
it is anticipated that a very
small number of seats will be
available for the public. Most
of these will be sold as the en
tire series. Seats for single per
formances probably will not be
available to non-Mercer person
nel.
Former season subscribers
may renew for the coming sea
son before August 22; thoee
wishing to change reserved seat
locations may do so August 25
and 26; former season general
admission subscribers and
those on the waiting list will be
taken care of August 27, 28
and 29. Sale of tickets to new
subscribers will open Sept. 2.
All ticket sales will be
handled by the College Store,
Connell Student Center,
Mercer University Campus It is
open Monday through Friday
from 9 am. to 4:30 p.m.
Preview Fall Attraction—Spiral Starecase, one of America's most popular groups, will appear in
Willingham Chapel this fall. Currently, the group has two smash hits on the record circuit — “I Love
You More Today Than Yesterday” and “No One For Me To Turn To”.
Dean's List Announced
Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts named nine students
to the Dean's List for the summer quarter.
The number represents 4.3 percent of the students following a
liberal arts curriculum, according to Dr. Garland F. Taylor, dean.
To be named to the Dean's List a student must have a B plus or
better average in all courses taken during the quarter. Of those
meeting thus requirement, one made all A's She was Janet Lynn
Bryant of East Point.
Others on the list include:
Terri Denson, Cheryl P. Lancaster. Marian Piper Rainwater and
Janice Loftin Wasden all of Macon, Robert Louis Bailey of West
Palm Beach. Carolyn Jane Braun of Jacksonville, Robert Fulian
Lindsey of Vero Beach and Betty Milton of Ft. Valley.
Former ADPi Sitter Killed
The sisters of Alpha Delta Pi wish to express their sympathy in
the death of former sister Cissy Famell and her husband in an auto
accident in August. 1969.
Home Away from Home
The College
Snackbar
"A haven of Southern hospitality "
Food that's f ingerltcking goo.. ,od! — Home of the
Famous Bear Burger and the Fabulous Bear Club Sandwich.
2nd Floor CSC Thelma Ross, Mgr.
Open 7:30-11:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday
8-1:00 p.m. Saturday
8t 5-11:00 p.m.
3-11:00 p.m. Sunday
MARTIN sad SALLY
THE MERCER CLUSTER • September 21,1969 • 4