Budding opera star Leah Hunt will return to the Mercer campus March 4, 7:30 p.m., for a free performance. Recently, Hunt has created quite...
Atlanta--Georgia's premier business enrichment program, The Executive Forum at Mercer University, announces the speakers in its spring series: . George Israel, president and CEO of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, in February; . Phil Jacobs, president of Georgia Operations for BellSouth, in March, and . Nancy Grace, Court TV anchor, Larry King Live guest host and Mercer Law School alumnus, in April.
All speakers will present on both Mercer's Macon and Atlanta campuses, with details listed below. The Executive Forum is a business outreach program of Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and the Office of Advancement. In its 24th year, The Executive Forum provides business professionals with an opportunity to hear nationally noted speakers while networking with other business leaders.
For registration information on these programs, call Mercer's Office of University Advancement at (478) 301-2724 or (800) 837-2911 outside of Macon.
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Macon-Mercer University students are busy preparing for the annual homecoming parade planned for Saturday, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m.
Mercer students and administrators have developed a new route for the parade, returning it to downtown Macon for the community to enjoy.
The parade will begin at Bond Street in front of the Walter F. George School of Law. It will continue to Georgia Avenue, then to College Street and wrap around the outskirts of the University's main campus ending at Porter Track, off Stadium Drive.
The internationally-themed parade will feature more than 20 floats designed by Mercer students, Mercer athletes, two marching bands, fire trucks and the Neubian Knights Saddle Club. Priscilla Danheiser, associate provost and interim vice president for student life at Mercer, will serve as the grand marshal.
Prime spots to catch a good view of the parade include Tattnall Square Park and the sidewalks along College Street between Forsyth Street and Coleman...
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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.
