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Nominations
Announced
Frances Anderson, John
Valentine, and I'hns Zorn are
Mercer's nominees for the
Danfort h Graduate Fellow
ships
l u lie eligible, one must be
a senior or a recent graduate
of an accredited American
college and must seriously
consider a career as a college
tea< her
Nominations from each
college are made by the Llai
son Officers and can number
from two to five. Selection of
winners will he based on per
sonal qualities, academic
achievement and outside in
volvemenl.
Renewable, the stipends are
adjustable to individual needs
and to either the academic or
calendar year The Danforth
Fellowship may be held with
out stipend along with an
other national fellowship.
Vienna Choir Boys
I News Briefs I
Dr. J L. Crenshaw, associate professor of Christianity at
Mercer, recently left Mercer to go to Vanderbilt Divinity
School where he will serve as assistant professor of Old Tes
tament. Dr. Crenshaw had been with Mercer since 1965.
The Guidance and Testing Center announces that the
Senior Test will be given on January 26, 1970, at 1:30 P.M.
in the Humanities Building. The Graduate Test will be given
on January 27, 1970 at 8:30 P.M., at the Testing Center.
Concert Seriei
Choir, Drama
Opera Planned
For Winter
During the Winter Quarter,
the Mercer family will be able
to witness the performance of
three great concerts, part of
the 1969-70 Mercer University
Concert Series.
The first concert will fea
ture the world’s most beloved
choir, Vienna Choir Boys, in a
concert of sacred music, folk
songs, and costume operettas,
on Tuesday, January 20,
1970, at 8:00 p.m.
The beguiling freshness,
charm, and artistry of the
Vienna Choir Boys have won
them multitudes of admirers
and made them the most be
loved choir ever to tour
America. Founded more than
460 years ago, the choir has
had its repertoire enriched by
such composers as Haydn,
Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt and
Bruckner. Today, as through
nearly five centuries, this great
tradition is still upheld and
the choir provides enchanting
entertainment with its unique
programs of costumed oper
ettas, sacred songs, secular and
folk music.
Ail concerts will be held in
Willingham Chapel. All mem
bers of the university family
— trustees, administrators,
staff and jtudents — will be
admitted without charge upon
showing their student identifi
cation card. All others may
purchase tickets at the College
Store in the Connell Student
Center, or by mail.
The third and final concert
of the Winter Quarter,
happens when the Goldovsky
Grand Opera Theater presents
Verdi’s immortal, romatlc,
masterpiece “La Traviata”, a
must for those who love and
enjoy a thrilling evening of
grand opera. One of the most
familiar and universally be
loved of all grand operas will
be brought to Macon in a
stunning new production for
everyone to understand and
enjoy, when the Goldovsky
Grand Opera Theater presents
Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the
Willingham Chapel here on
Monday, February 16, 1970,
at 8:00 P.M. In the course of
its fifteenth cross-country
lour.
The Vienna Choir Boys’
concert will be followed by
William Shakespeare’s "King
Lear”, which will be presented
on Friday. January 23, 1970,
at 8:00 P.M., in the Willing-
hairt Chapel, by National Play
ers, international repertory
company from Washington.
D. C. All the fire and color
and sweep of the greatest
English playwright's most
majestic tragedy have been
caught in the handsomely
mounted new production by
National Players.
National Players is an
operation of University Play
ers — a non profit theatrical
cooporation. The repertory of
National Players includes
works of Shakespeare. Soph
ocles, Shaw. Aeschylus, Aris-
topheneSj Moliere and Christo
pher Fry - the - greatest play
wrights of the world. In an
ever-expanding repertory, new
titles are constantly being
added while at the same time
revivals are being brought
back by popular demand
Student Unrest
Con't. from pg. 1
complacent students into tak
lng an interest in our society's
problems.” The reexamining
of educational priorities and a
commitment to programs of
community service are by-pro
ducts of unrest, Dr. Harris
said.
But “students now face the
obligation of proving that
they are responsible and ma
ture .If our higher educa
tional system is endangered,
responsible faculty, alumni
and trustees, with the help of
students, should be allowed to
handle the threat in their fash
ion, work out their differences
and resolve their problems. If
they are not permitted to do
this, the colleges will disinte-
~gWUj." —-——
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