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Marauders Build Tower
November 1, 1963
The newest edition to the Mercer
skyline looks a .'ittle sinister sort of like a
gallows, but the students who built it are
too busy climbing on it to worry about its
reputation.
The new structure is a repelling tower,
built by Mercer ROTC’a crack combat
training platoon, the Mercer Marauders.
The 30-foot tower is being used as part of
the Marauders confidence-building field
training.
Patterned after similar towers used ir
Army Ranger training, the Mercer towei
is designed for training exercises in
mountain climbing combat procedures.
Maj. Curtis J. Smith, military advisor to
the elite Marauder unit, says the tower
training helps to overcome fear of
heights and "building individual alert
ness and toughness.
The black-painted wooden tower is
built around four huge poles with a top
platform more than 39 feet from the
ground. The Marauder cadets did all the
construction work themselves, with
materials furnished at no cost by the
Georgia Power Company and local
iumber dealers.
The tower training will leach the
Marauders how to scale down the sides
of cliffs and evacuate combat casualties
in mountainous areas. Later this year.
Maj. Smith said, the unit hopes to be
able to practice at a site near Macon with
sheer cliffs and a greater heights than
the training tower.
f Mercer is one of the few schools in the
south with an extensive ROTC program
similar to the Marauder training, and the
Mercer unit is earning the reputation of
being one of the best existing units.
All participating cadets are volun
teers. Rigid physical conditioning that
began in September has thinned out the
volunteers from 55 percent to the
present size of 24. In addition to the
repelling, the Marauders spend several
hours each week in formal bayonet
training, map reading, hand-to-hand
combat, knife fighting and bayonet and
knife disarming.
Cadet Captain-Henry A. Arnold is the
cadet officer in charge of the Marauders.
Other members of the Marauders are
Keith Pennington, Walker Chewning,
Garry Broadnax, Victor Kovac, R.S.
Braddock. B.W^ Baker, S.Arf" Coors,
Michael Wilder, N.E. Patterson, L.E.
Evans. t
Bill Osteen. B.M. Stephan. W.B.
Westwood. W.T. Bailey, C.E. Stovall.
M.C. Crosby. O.E. Ingram, James
* Soloman. Cole Haverfield, L.B. Mosely,
R.E. Brison. P.E. Hicks, G.L. Fleming.
Charles Snellgrove.
Artist's conception of exterior of new women’s dormitory, slated for completion in
September of 1964. The air conditioned $550,000 dormitory will be built at College and
Elm Steels. (Photo courtesy W. Elliott Dunwody, Architects).
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Changes At Mercer, New Additions, Revisions
Mercer Builds Library
September 20. 1963
Construction begins in November on
$650,000 memorial library for Mercer as
university officials launch the first phase
of a S2 billion building program to be
completed by 1985.
The new library will be finished in
June of this year. It will face Edgewood
, Ave. across from Porter gymnasium.
The library will be a two-story
structure with a seating capacity of 500
students and possibly will house Mer
cer's hi-fi and record library.
The other new buildings slated for
construction in present are a new
women’s and men’s dormitory. Work
will begin on the $550,000 women’s
dormitory in December with completion
set for Sept, of 1964. The $700,000
men's dormitory will be completed by
June of 1965.
Funds for the new library were
provided by an anonymous donor during
the summer. Construction of a new
library was set a9 a top priority project
by administration officials.
Preliminary plans for the library
include a microfilm room, a smoking and
study room, a rare books room and
several typing rooms. The typing rooms
will be single unit booths probably with
coin operated typewriters.
About 50 small desks for individual
study on research papers or other
projects calling for reference to several
books in the library at the same time are
included.
Space for exhibits will be provided
along with rooms for archivea, maps,
etc. Several rooms for use in seminars or
conferences will be housed in the library.
A passenger elevator will be located in
the center of the building.
The new women’s dormitory slated for
completion in Sept. 1964 will house 200
students. The building will have two
wings, one a two-story wing with 40
rooms and the other a three story wing
with 60 rooms.
The air conditioned building will
house two suites in a central section
connecting the two dormitory wings. The
suites will be for a house mother and also
for special guests. The central section
will also contain several reception
rooms.
The dormitory rooms themselves will
be furnished with built-in furniture
similar in Roberts and Shorter Halls. AH
the rooms will have wall-to-wall carpet
ing and be built-in units of two rooms
with connecting shower and toilet
facilities.
Construction on the women’s dormi
tory will probably begin in December
Funds for this building were furnished
by a federal loan from the Housing and
Home Finance Agency.
Plans are still incomplete on the new
men's dormitory, the last phase of the
building campaign. This dormitory will
cost between $640,000 and $750,000.
Building will begin in June of 1964 and
be completed June 1965.
This now dormitory, also air condi
tioned, will be located between Roberts
and Shorter Halls over the present
location of Mercer’s laundry. The
building will house between 216 and 300
men students.