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r PAGE Z-THE CLUSTER, JANUARY 23, 1* Homecoming: You can never be too cool - " * . .. . i - I Ka U*xnna»e /'i-infAvl tc By DIANNE LAUBERT Staff Writer The Homecoming Dance is ap proaching quickly. While you're busy buying a dress, getting the flowers, and looking for that right suit for the Hbmecoming Dance, don’t forget about the other special activities that are happening during the Homecoming Week. The following is a day-by-day fist of the scheduled events: Monday Jan. 23rd • Nominations for Homecoming Queen and King. • Girls basketball game in Porter Gym at 7:00 p.m. Printed '89 Homecoming basketballs will be given out. • Dance in the Pen field Gym from 7:00-11:00 with music by 101.7. Tuesday, Jan. 24th • Homecoming buttons will bj distributed. Wednesday, Jan. 25th • Comedy Club in the Co-op starting at 8:00 p.m. Printed ‘89 Homecoming cups will be given out. Thursday, Jan. 26th • It’s Mercer'Color Day! Get in the school spirit by wearing blue/silver or orange/black. • Homecoming Court elections. Special “All American Din ner’* in the Mercer Dining Hall. • Boy’s basketball game at the Macon Coliseum starting at 7:00. Printed '89 Homecoming' basket balls will be given out. Friday, Jan. 27th • Bonfire and Pep rally behind Mary Erin Porter (MEP) at 7:00. • “The Unofficial Homecoming Dance" with AJ the DJ and Posse! in the Trustees Dining Room after the bonfire, sponsored by the Cluster. Saturday, Jan. 28th • Parade of Floats starting at 1:45. Floats will begin from behind the Engineering building and will go to the Coliseum. - • Homecoming basketball game at the Macon Coliseum at 3:00 p.m. At this time, the Homecom ing Queen and King will be announced. • Banner contest with theme YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO COOL. Banners should be brought to the Coliseum and registered with the contest official between 11:30 and 12:30. • The Homecoming Dance from 8:00-12:00 p.m. Music will be by the band Top Secret. The dance will be held at the Macon Conven tion Center on Riverside Drive behind the Holiday Inn. The Banner contest is open to any campus organization, any greek organization, or to any in dividual group. Rules for the con test are available at T’s Comer. Cash prizes will be awarded for the Float and Banner competitions Dean's Cup Points will also be awarded to Fraternities and Sororities that enter the competitions. All official Homecoming events are sponsored by and are a result of the efforts by the Student Union Ac tivities Board (SUAB) and the Stu dent Government Association (SGA). Odom takes Miss Mercer crown B^JENNIFER STONE and SARAH CAMBRIDGE SUIT Writers Although Friday the 13th is regarded as an unlucky day by many, it seemed to work the op posite for junior Ruth Odom, the 1989 Miss Mercer pageant and succeeded in winning the talcnt_division despite technical difficulties. Ruth, sponsored by Alpha Delta Pi. sang and signed “How Great Thou Art" in the Miss Mercer This year was a triumph for Ruth in that she has competed in nine previous pageants, including the past two Miss Mercer pagdants in which she won talent and third run- no- up her freshman year and was second runner up last year. “There was a lot of talent in this pageant. I really didn't expect to win. I just wanted to have fun. When I won talent. I was so shock ed. It’s worth fifty percent of the points.’’ Ruth commented. “When they called my name. I was in a daze. I wanted someooe to pinch me and wake me up and tell me I was dreaming. It felt really great to win.” Along with the title of Miss Mercer. Ruth won a $100 scholar ship for winning in talent and a $900 scholarship for wanning the ti tle .’••She will also receive an all ex pense paid trip to the Miss Georgia .pageant in June where she will compete under the sponsorship of SUAB. “I’m really looking for ward to it. I know many of the girts who will be there from having coi.'neted with them in previous pageat ts. It should be really fun.” Other winners in Friday night's competition included first runner up Amy Stubbs, second runner up Traci Dennard. who also received the best evening gown award, and Jennifer Wells, the third runner up. Sarah Loomis was voted by the contestants “Miss Congenial*} The pageant was sponsored and coordinated by the Miss Mercer Committee and SUAB. Mercer, Georgia College Jazz Ensembles to present joint concert'll The Mercer University Jazz Ensemble and Georgia College Jazz Ensemble will present a pint concert on Jan. 30th at8:00 p.m. The concert will be performed in the Max Noah Recital Hail on the campus of Georgia College in Mtiledgevtlk- The admission is free and the concert is open to all jazz music lovers. The Georgia College Jazz Ensemble, directed by Professor Jim Willoughby, has been in ex istence at‘Georgia College for the past twenty years. The band has performed in Jazz Festivals at Florida State University, Jackson ville State University io Alabama, and the Mobile Alabama Jazz Festival. The band has also per formed as a featured group at the Georgia Music Educators Associa tion Conference and at over 40 high schools throughout the state of Georgia. Included on the concert Jan. 30th will be the following selections: Good kews. by Bob Mintzer; Fat Cat, by Mark Taylor. Georgia On My Mind, arranged by' Dave Bar- duhn; Marguante. by Sammy Ncstico; <md Saturday Night Blues, by Les Hooper. The Jazz Ensemble at Mercer University is a volunteer group of musicians who rehearse twice weekly in the Newton Hall Band Room under the direction of Dr. Douglas Hill, Director of Bands at Mercer. The grpup is comprised of a diversified collection of students from the various colleges on cam pus. Students majoring in music, business. communications, engineering, journalism, biology, and pre-medicine participate in the ensemble. .The ensemblejjcrforms concerts both on and off campus and>in the spring of 1988 completed a lour to Acapulco. Mexico. While in Mexico the Mercer Jazz Ensem ble performed in several local con certs and appeared on regional television. • ^ The group performs a variety of music from several,different eras in jazz history. These include charts from the periods of swing, bebop, blues, dixieland, jazz rock.-and the most recent big band hits. The following selections will be per formed on the concert Jan. 30th: Pressure Cooker. " by John Tatgenhorst; Taler Patch, by Sam my Ncstico; Aja, arranged by Alan Broadbent; Basie-Straight Ahead, by Sammy Ncstico; Strike Up the Band, by G60fge Gets whin, ar ranged by Sammy Ncstico: and Tuxedo Junction, by Steve Wright. The Mercer. Jazz Ensemble is under the dir Hill. Director ofl University. This is Dr. Hill’s t year at Mercer where his d elude condoning the > blc and Jazz Ensemble, courses in conducting and ihusic education, and applied trumpet Previous to his appointment at Mercer, he was a graduate leaching assistant at the Cincinnati Conser vatory of Music for three years. He has also taught six years in the public schools of Ohio where he was Director of Instrumental Music for the Jackson City Schools and conductedjhe Jackson Symphonic Band. 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