Macon--Former Olympic track and field coach and Georgia Sports Hall of Fame honoree Jimmy Carnes will be featured speaker at Mercer University's annual Founders' Day Convocation at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Willingham Hall on Coleman Avenue.
A 1956 Mercer graduate, Carnes will share how his education at Mercer has influenced his success on and off the field.
Carnes served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team at the Montreal Games in 1976. He was selected head coach for U.S. Men's Olympic Track and Field for the Moscow Games in 1980, which President Jimmy Carter decided the U.S. teams would boycott in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. He later became the co-founder of Athletic Attic, a chain of retail sporting goods stores.
An Eatonton, Ga., native, Carnes began his coaching career in Atlanta as track coach for Druid Hills High School from 1956 to 1962. He went on to serve as head track coach at Furman University...
MACON, Ga. -- Mercer University President R. Kirby Godsey announced today that Daisy Hurst Floyd has been named dean of the Walter F. George School of Law. She will join the Law School on July 1. Michael D. Sabbath, the Walter Homer Drake Professor of Bankruptcy Law, who has served as interim dean of the Law School since the fall of 2002, will resume his faculty responsibilities.
MACON, Ga. - Mercer will play its first home basketball game at the new University Center on Jan. 27 against in-state rival Georgia State, as announced by athletics director Bobby Pope on Thursday.
MACON, Ga.-The following students were named to the dean's or president's list at Mercer University for the 2003 fall semester. Inclusion on the dean's and president's lists requires students to meet rigorous grade point average standards specific to their school within the University. The students' hometowns appear next to their names in the following listing.
President's List:
MELINDA BAILEY AGANMICHAEL S. ALFORD MELISSA M. AMYX WILLIAM R. ANDERSEN AMY ELIZABETH ANDERSON LESLIE A ARMISTEAD MICHELE ASA BRANDON BEAU AUSTIN REUBEN BAILEY DARYL WAYNE BAKER BRITTANY LEIANNE BANKS BRANDYN LYNN BARBEE JEFFERY TYRONE BARBOUR LAURA I. BARFOOT MICHAEL COLLUM BARR EMILY J BARRINGER KATHRYN G BAUER CASEY JEROME BEDGOOD DOUGLAS JEFFERSON BELL TAMARA GAIL BIGGS CASEY BOWEN GAIL H BOWEN BLAKE D. BOWLER MEGAN E BOYD TERESA GUYTON BOYD SARAH BRAMON JESSICA ANNE BRASWELL CHRISTINE ANN BRAY CASEY BRAZIEL SHERRIE RENEE BRIDGES-SINCLA CYNTHIA DARLENE BROOKS STEPHANIE ERIN BROOME...
Mercer University will once again bring its annual Homecoming Parade to the Macon community on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m.
Professor Henry T. Edmonson III of Georgia College & State University's Department of Political Science will speak on the Mercer University campus-Room 251, Stetson Hall-Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by Mercer's Tift College of Education and the Faculty/Staff Christian Fellowship.
ATLANTA- Parents need to remember this holiday season that books can make excellent gifts for children, and if parents pay attention to their children's interests, they can find books their children will be excited about receiving, according to Dr. Jacquelyn M. Culpepper, assistant professor of teacher education at Mercer's Tift College of Education.
"Books are excellent gifts for children because they send the message to young readers that reading is important," said Culpepper, who has a doctorate in reading education.
Culpepper said another reason books make great gifts is a young reader's imagination may be fostered by the invitation to pretend found in imaginative literature. And young readers' vocabularies are enriched and expanded by the books they read or have read to them.
With thousands of children's and young adult books published each year, it's important parents make good choices when giving books to young readers, Culpepper said. Here are a few tips Culpepper shared...
McDonough--Mercer University will offer a Law School Admission Test (LSAT) Review for students preparing to take the LSAT. This two-session preparation course will be held Sunday, Jan. 11 and 18, 1 to 6 p.m., at the Regional Academic Center in Henry County, 160 Henry Parkway, off exit 218 of I-75.
The review provides a systematic approach to tackling the LSAT. Topics covered include the logic behind the test and methods that can be used to master each of the three types of LSAT questions. The cost is $199, including textbook and materials. A 20 percent discount will be given to Mercer students, alumni, faculty and staff.
For more information, contact Angie Macon at (678) 547-6501 or macon_am@mercer.edu.
The LSAT is a test administered by Law School Admissions Services (LSAS) four times a year. Students are required to take the LSAT for entry into law school. The test is divided into five multiple-choice sections and one writing-sample section.
McDonough- Following a few simple guidelines, parents can find toys that are both fun and educational to give to their children this holiday season, according to Margaret McCall, an education instructor at the Regional Academic Center of Mercer University in Henry County.
"Those of us who are parents and grandparents have probably all had that experience of picking out what we thought was the greatest toy, and then our child ends up playing with the box or the wrapping paper," McCall said. "If we look for toys that appeal to children's senses and that will hold their attention, we can keep this from happening."
Below are a few tips for finding toys children will both learn from and enjoy.
Look for "open-ended" toys that children can use in a variety of ways. For example, rather than purchasing a toy in which the child pulls a string and then hears an animal sound, buy plastic farm animals that children can manipulate on their own.
Look for toys that encourage...
MACON, Ga. -- Mercer University music student Marshall Fordham recently participated in a guitar Master Class with highly renowned classical guitarist Antigone Gone. Fordham, an Elko, Ga., native, is the son of Robert and Trisha Fordham.
