WHO: The entering first-year class of Mercer University's Southern School of Pharmacy
WHAT: Will participate in the Southern School of Pharmacy's White Coat Ceremony. They will be "cloaked" in their first white coat that symbolizes their commitment to the pharmacy profession. Dr. Judy L. Gardner, a 1987 graduate of the School of Pharmacy and a newly appointment member of Georgia's Board of Pharmacy, will deliver the keynote address to the students, their family members and friends. Dr. Gardner is director of Pharmaceutical Services at Northside Hospital.
WHEN: 2 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004
WHERE: Sheffield Student Center, Mercer University, Cecil B. Day Campus, 3001 Mercer University Drive, Atlanta (One exit inside the northeast interchange of I-285)
WHY: Through the White Coat Ceremony, first-year pharmacy students gain a sense of the School's core values that focus on professionalism, respect, integrity and caring....
NASHVILLE, Tenn.- In the first game of a two-game Atlantic Sun road swing, the Mercer men's basketball team fell to the Lipscomb Bisons, 83-66, Saturday afternoon in Allen Arena.
Both teams struggled on offense to open the game, with Mercer (3-9, 2-4 A-Sun) going nearly four minutes before guard Jacob Skogen dropped in a driving layup to cut the early Lipscomb lead to 7-2. The Bears were shooting 36.4 percent (4-of-11) from the field midway through the opening frame, while the Bisons were not much hotter, shooting 33.3 percent on 5-of 15 from the field but were out-rebounding Mercer 14-4 at that point.
Lipscomb (9-6, 5-2 A-Sun), which has won three in a row and four of its last five games, heated up while the Bears' shooting woes continued. The Bisons closed out the first half hitting 65 percent from the field on 13-of-20 shooting and pushing their lead out to 25 points on a first-half buzzer-beating 3-pointer by junior Brian Fisk.
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Family and school audiences will see the Berenstain Bears in a new musical by children's authors Stan and Jan Berenstain at The Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry St., Macon. Performances are scheduled for 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, September 20-21. Tickets are $6 each.
Written exclusively for the Omaha Theater Company for Young People, Berenstain Bears On Stage! is based on five of the most popular Berenstain Bears books, including The Messy Room, The Double Dare, New Baby, Get Stage Fright and The Truth. With music by Elliot Lawrence, the musical director of the Tony Awards, and his son, Jamie Broza, and lyrics by Stan Berenstain, the famous Bears and their timeless messages come to life on stage through songs like "Parents," "Home Sweet Tree," "You Can't Make the Truth Out of a Lie" and "You Gotta Practice."
Tickets may be purchased through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at thegrand.mercer.edu.
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(Dr. Clinton will be available for interviews with the media at 11:30 a.m.)
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- Mercer University organist Dr. Robert W. Parris, the Charles B. Thompson professor of music, Townsend School of Music of Mercer, has recently received critical acclaim for his new CD release on the Loft Recordings label. The review by The American Organist magazine stated, "[Parris] is a solid, no-nonsense performer whose playing is characterized by vitality, clarity, rhythmic freedom and stability, lyricism, and stylistic integrity." The American Organist is "published monthly by the American Guild of Organists and is the mostly widely read journal devoted to organ and choral music in the world," according to its Web site.
Parris' album, entitled "Land of Rest," is available on Loft Recordings' Gothic Catalog Web site (www.gothic-catalog.com), and is described as "a varied selection of works particularly suited to the new C. B. Fisk organ in Macon, Ga. The program showcases the Fisk brand of eclecticism in a...
MACON - Veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff will speak at Mercer University's Macon campus on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center. The event is sponsored by Mercer's Southern Studies Program as part of its year-long series of special events, "Remembering the Civil Rights Movement." Klibanoff will speak about his work covering race in the South, in a presentation titled "The Race Beat: Then and Now." The lecture is free and open to the public.
Mercer University has announced a new endowed scholarship in memory of former local resident Edna Reed Boone (1915-2000).
MACON, Ga.- For the second consecutive year, Mercer men's basketball forward Will Emerson has been named Atlantic Sun Male Student-Athlete-of-The-Year, as announced by the conference office Wednesday afternoon.
MACON - Phi Kappa Phi, one of the nation's most prestigious honor societies has awarded Mercer University graduate Samson Alva with a scholarship for post graduate study. Alva graduated magna cum laude May 13 from the College of Liberal Arts with degrees in physics, mathematics and economics and a minor in German. Annually, Phi Kappa Phi presents only 40 Award of Excellence scholarships and Alva was one of only three students in Georgia to receive the award.
