MACON - Noted scholar and Mercer alumnus Dr. Y. Lynn Holmes will talk about his career and extensive collection of ancient artifacts from the Holy Land at Jack Tarver Library at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday on the lower level of the library. The talk marks the opening of a new exhibit, "Holmes Holy Land Ancient Artifact Collection," which features items from Dr. Holmes' collection of ancient artifacts on loan to the University.
(The following article was published Saturday, March 10, 2007, in the Macon Telegraph.)By Jennifer BurkTELEGRAPH STAFF WRITER
Raymond R. Christman, president and chief executive officer of Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, addressed more than 285 graduates from Mercer University's Stetson School of Business and Economics.
Christman, who previously served as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Pittsburgh, has also served as a senior executive for a number of private non-profit and public sector organizations in Pennsylvania. He has worked as the secretary of commerce for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and served as executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh.
Most recently, he served as president and chief executive officer of Pittsburgh Technology Council, a regional business association and economic development organization.
Christman holds an undergraduate degree in business from Florida State University and a master's degree from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves on the boards...
ATLANTA - Mercer University President William D. Underwood today announced the appointment of Linda A. Streit, R.N., D.S.N., as dean of Mercer's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, effective July 1. Since July 2009, Dr. Streit has served as the College's interim dean, succeeding Dr. Susan S. Gunby, who returned to a professorship within the college upon her retirement as dean last summer. Dr. Streit is a tenured professor and associate dean of graduate programs, and she has served as a professor and administrator at the College since 1990.
MACON - Environmentalist and international affairs expert Sir Crispin Tickell will present "Environment on the Edge" at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Seventh Annual John E. James Distinguished Lecture. The presentation will take place in the Moot Court Room of Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law in Macon.
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 - Mercer University alumni serve the public around the country. Where there is service, there are Mercerians, often, many of them. One such place is the Georgia State Capitol, where Mercer alumni gathered March 16 at Gov. Nathan Deal's office for a photo and a showing of school spirit. In addition to Gov. Deal, who is a double Mercer graduate, the Georgia General Assembly has 17 Mercer alumni, as well as a Savannah campus Medical School faculty member, Dr. D.R. Watson, a state representative.
MACON - Forty high school teachers from across Georgia are honing their knowledge of foundational texts, thanks to a new summer program at Mercer University that is being funded by a grant from the Walmart Foundation as part of its community outreach in the state. The teachers are studying how to incorporate the Great Books of the West in their classrooms with faculty from Mercer's Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations.
MACON - Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts will hold its inaugural 2011 Breakthroughs in Engagement, Arts, and Research Day - or BEAR Day - on Thursday. The College has cancelled all classes to facilitate this daylong celebration, giving undergraduate students from the Macon campus the opportunity to present their scholarly and creative works in a wide range of venues to faculty, staff, administrators and fellow students. The event will be highlighted by Dr. Gabrielle Foreman's keynote address at 10 a.m. in Willingham Auditorium. Dr. Foreman is the Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware and is internationally known for her work in 19th century literature, American studies and African-American studies. The lecture is free and open to the public.
MACON - A Mercer University student group is going far beyond Earth Day, celebrated every April 22 since 1970, to educate students and the public on ways to reduce their impact on the environment. The events will run from April 18 through April 25 and will offer new ideas for ways individuals can enhance the global environment by making changes in their own lives. The group planned the events in and around Mercer's Macon campus as part of its Second Annual Earth Week celebrations.
