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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN
Intramural football kicked off the 1969 aeaaon last week with a
roaring start. (Abore a determined KA digs for yardage as an
A TO defender pursues with vigor.) Follow the Ouster week by
week for coverage of each game. This promises to be a great year!
Frosh Run-Off
Slated Today
In the Freshman elections,
held last Fridav. October 24,
seven candidates received
enough votes to make the run
off, which was to be held on
Saturday. The race was for five
senatorial positions on the
SGA for the 1969-70 school
year. The seven finalists were
David Allie, Tom Gordy. Bao
Jackson. Pat Kelly, (tail Kline.
Rick Roberts, and Chris Sul
/liokn
liven. Following is a recap of
fhe voting.
Allie 120
Baker 83
Butterfly 39
Wodson
Gandy
Gordy
Halpert
Jackson .
Kelly
Kline
Roberts
Lutz
Scherini .
Smyth
Stimpson
Sullivan
Thompson
Wallace
Ward
White
113
70
125
157
.87
180
52
.57
.32
64
95
.61
.25
46
61
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MERCER CLUSTER
“The South's Most Controversial Collegiate Newspaper"
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Volume LI
MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GEORGIA. OCT. 28, 1969
Number 4
Mrs. Agnes Watson, left, assistant registrar of Mercer Univer
sity, baa retired after 39 years with the university. She was honor
ed at a dinner last Friday, October 24, in the Connell Student
Center. Registrar Columbus Posey, center, presided at the dinner.
Mrs. Mary Statham congratulated Mrs. Watson.
Lamar Lecture
Features
Dr. Watkins
Dr. Floyd C. Watkins, professor of English at Emory Univer
sity and a Southern writer, will deliver the 13th Lamar Memorial
Lectures at Mercer University Nov. 13-14.
His subject, “Racism in through "lectures of the hlgh-
Recent Southern Novels”, will est type of scholarship”,
be delivered in three lectures Dr. Watkins is co-author of
which are open to the public. ‘The Literature of the South”
He will lecture on “Racism in and of “A Practical English
Fiction” Thursday, Nov. 13, at Handbook” which is in its
10 am. in Willingham Chapel, second printing For his
The second lecture, “The “Thomas Wolfe's Characters”
Black”, will be given at 8 p.m. (1957) he received a special
that evening in the Ware Music award for scholarship from the
Hall and the final lecture, “The Georgia Writers Association
Bad White Man”, at 10 a.m. and the Thomas Wolfe Memori-
Friday in Willingham Chapel, al Trophy from the Western
He vill be introduced by North Carolina Historical As-
John E. Byron, assistant pro- sociation.
fessor jf English at Mercer, Dr. The Lamar lecturer is co-
CarT.nd F. Taylor, dean of the author of “Old Times in the
College of Liberal Arts, and by Faulkner Country" (1961) and
Michael M. Cass, instructor in collaborated with his father in
English. writing “Yesterday in the
The Lamar Lectures, which Hills” (1961). He is a former
have brought to Mercer some chairman of the Southern
of the nation's most distin- Literature Conference of the
guished scholars, are made pos- Modern Language Association
sible by the late Mrs. Eugenia and of the American Literature
Dorothy Blount Lamar of Section or the South Altantic
Macon. Mrs. Lamar bequethed Modern Language Association,
that her estate should be de Dr. Watkins is a native of
voted to the advancement of Ball Ground and was awarded
Southern culture and ideals Emory University's Thomas
Jefferson Award in 1968 as a
faculty member who exhibited
* qualities which “Mr. Jefferson
m m would have considered essen-
I tial to the intellectual, social
* * and political advancement of
society "
0h,ld ? 2 He is a graduate of Canton
Chuck Jackson Page 2 High Schoo , and Georgia
SSenTet^ IZ 3 S ° Uthem 001,686 Emory Uni
Upen Letter Tage J vergJty con f e rred on him the
*° 86r ? 6 1 B#8e l Master of Arts degree in 1947
Around Campus Page 4 , nd VtBderhm ^ lvwsity ^
,, ' ' _ 8g6 _ Doctor of Philosophy degree in
Exchange Corner Page 6 1952
In Memoriam
by Rocky Wade
It is hard for a man to mold his life around ideals and to then
live up to those principles. Scott Hogan was the exception to that
rule. His character was a reflection of his creeds, especially the
creed of the fraternity he endeared. He was the personification of
that creed — a series of ideals and yet everyday occurences to
him.
“The Star and Crescent shall not be wom by every man, but
only by him who is worthy to wear it,” — In the fraternity, at a
party, on the ball field, he stood forth as the all-round person,
that proverbial man among men Scott was found worthy of all
his honors.
“A man of honor and courage” — He could face you on the
ball diamond and never once did he develop stage fright, he
would run over you but he was honorable enough to keep you his
closest friend — an almost impossible act in an athletic event.
“A man of zeal, yet humble" - He threw himself into his
work and yet he never once Look credit, it was always his friends
and school he mentioned, never Scott Hogan
"An intelligent man” — He never professed to be a brain He
always put his best effort forward and always achieved the best
he could.
“A man of truth” — There was no ambiguity in this man, he
took a person at face value and he never alienated anyone He
always strove to be true.
“One who tempers action with wisdom” — Cool and collected
was he. Never was he to go off half-cocked, he was sensible,
think-it-through type of fellow
“And above all else, one who walks in the light of God” It is
hard to live in the ideal of a loving God and yet somehow this
guise fit Scott Hogan Scolt put out his greatest effort to be a
man of good faith — one w ho could be followed with no quires
It has been aptly stated the mark of a true man is the impres
sion that he leaves behind on those who must follow him. The
impression that Scott leaves on the Mercer campus will linger as a
challenge. He was a friend to all and. yet somehow he found the
time to talk with an individual He was a well rounded athlete;
never quite the stand out but always consistent in Ins efforts. He
was a leader in his fraternity, military, and his school.
The loss of Scott Hogan leaves among us his pathway to fol
low. He was the epitome of the all round person he was the
ideal that each of us seeks to achieve. He was big in stature yet
even bigger in heart He was just the kind that cared
As a senior in high school, Scott won the Atlanta Journal Cup
as “the best all-round senior in his graduating class" Scott was
always the best all-round His memory leaves each of us a dial
lenge. It challenges each of us to be that gentleman, thal atlileti
that Mercerian that Walter Scott Hogan was.