The annual Fall BearBacker Golf Tournament will be played Oct. 5 at the Houston Lake Country Club. Lunch will be available starting at 12 noon and then a shotgun start will begin play.
Entry fee is $60 per individual. Participants are encouraged to enter the tournament as a team although individuals can sign-up and the Athletic Department will place you on a team.
For more information or to sign up for the tournament, contact the Athletic Department at (478) 301-2994, Proceeds benefit the Mercer Athletic Department.
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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MACON, GA -- The Department of Music of Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts is establishing a new children's choir that will perform throughout Georgia and the continental United States. The Mercer Children's Choir is based on the model of first-level children's choirs, such as the Spivey Hall Children's Choir in Atlanta. The program includes two choirs: a Preparatory Choir for children ages 7-9, and a Concert Choir, which will tour, for children ages 10-15.
Dr. John Simons, associate professor of music at Mercer, will serve as conductor of the Mercer Children's Choir. Rehearsals will be held 4:15-5:45 p.m. every Thursday in the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon campus, 1400 Coleman Ave. Tuition for the choir is $150 per semester.
Auditions for both choirs will be held 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, and 9:30 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Sept. 17, in the Choir Room (Room 110) of the McCorkle Music Building. Interested singers should come with a parent...
ATLANTA - Renowned mathematics educator Colin Hannaford, director of the Institute for Democracy from Mathematics in Oxford, England, will speak Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at Mercer University on the connection between democracy and mathematics. The lectures are free of charge and open to the public.
Mercer's Atlanta Campus, for the first time, will host the Toco Hills Community Alliance Road Race. The 6th Annual Festival and 5K Road Race will be held Saturday, Sept. 17.
Complete information, including race forms to download, is available by clicking on the following Toco Hills.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Southern School of Pharmacy will kick off a new community-focused pharmacy education program with a free lecture on ways to reduce medication costs at 11 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 16, at Mercer University's Cecil B. Day Campus, 3001 Mercer University Dr., just off I-85 inside the northeast perimeter.
CONYERS, Ga.-The Baptist Women in Ministry of Georgia has named Joan Stockstill Godsey of Macon the 2005 Distinguished Churchwoman of the Year. The recipient of this honor is selected based on her significant contributions to ministry, her dedication to mentoring other women in ministry, her leadership and her commitment to her church. Mrs. Godsey received the honor at the meeting of the Baptist Women in Ministry of Georgia in Conyers.
Mercer University's towering magnolia trees, immaculate landscape, and stunning architecture have earned it recognition as one of the top five most beautiful campuses in the nation, according to The Princeton Review. Inclusion on the "Most Beautiful Campus" list is only one of three national rankings that Mercer earned in The Best 361 Colleges, the annual college guide published by The Princeton Review. Approximately 15% of the four-year colleges in America are featured in the book. It includes ranking lists of the top 20 colleges in various categories, from academics to political activism.
Several Georgia institutions of higher education fare well in the 2006 U.S. News & World Report rankings released Aug. 20. The rankings are part of the highly anticipated 2006 edition of "America's Best Colleges." Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Mercer University are among the leading of Georgia's institutions in their respective categories.
ATLANTA - Mercer University's Southern School of Pharmacy will defend its Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition title this year at the National Community Pharmacist Association's (NCPA) annual convention in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oct.
