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WHO: Beverly Bowden Pickard, artist and retired faculty member of Mercer University School of Medicine.
WHAT: "Paintings and Prints" art exhibition opening reception
WHEN: 5 - 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 4
WHERE: Lobby, Mercer University School of Medicine, 1550 College St., Macon
WHY: Retired faculty member and Mercer alumna Beverly Bowden Pickard is exhibiting paintings and prints in celebration of the Medical School's 20th anniversary. Pickard received her Master of Liberal Studies degree in marriage and family therapy from Mercer and joined the faculty of the Medical School in 1982...
MACON, Ga. - With the help of a $50,000 donation from Brown & Williamson Tobacco and the promise of an additional 120 mentors, provided by Mercer University, Big Brothers Big Sisters will be able to grow and sustain its First Mentors program for more than 550 at-risk youth in the Central Georgia area.
For more than 40 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has been helping children in Central Georgia stay in school with its one-to-one mentoring program. "Currently the program matches 408 children with mentors throughout our five county service area," said Dianna Glymph, Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters. "The continued generosity of Brown & Williamson Tobacco enables us to expand the reach of our program to involve a minimum of 100 new college mentors in 2002."
Students from six area colleges and universities led by Mercer University will participate as mentors in the program. Once students are screened and trained by the Big Brothers Big Sisters...
ATLANTA - Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy student Alissa Hall has been chosen as the national president of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) of the National Community Pharmacy Association (NCPA).
WHO: The Hon. Louise Arbour, Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
WHAT: Speaking on "The International Criminal Court: Can it Live up to its Promise."
WHEN: 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 17
WHERE: Moot Court Room, Walter F. George School of Law, 1021 Georgia Ave., Macon
WHY: Macon attorney and Mercer law alumnus John E. James endowed a distinguished lecture series at Mercer that features the highly regarded Arbour as the keynote speaker this year. In a climate of terrorism and conflict abroad, Arbour will shed light on the topic of how effective international law is at bringing the perpetrators of...
ATLANTA - Nationally acclaimed preacher Dr. Fred Craddock will present a five-part workshop titled "Taking P301 Again for the First Time: How We Can Stay Fresh in Our Own Preaching" on consecutive Thursdays from 1-3 p.m., Oct. 3 - 31, in Cecil B. Day Hall on Mercer's Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus in Atlanta. The cost is $125, and participants should register by Sept. 20 by calling (678) 547-6470 or (888) 471-9922.
WHO: Mercer University President R. Kirby Godsey
WHO: Dr. Robert Shoenberg, senior fellow for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) and co-author of "The Academy in Transition: Contemporary Understandings of Liberal Education."
ATLANTA - Kicking off Mercer University's 2002-2003 Executive Forum speaker series is economist Todd Buchholz, co-founder and managing director of Enso Capital Management. He correctly forecasted the 2001 slowdown in the U.S. economy through his editorials in the Wall Street Journal and warned of the quicksand facing the stock market in his book, Market Shock. He will give a lunch presentation titled "Is the Economy Headed Higher - or Off a Cliff?" at noon, Sept. 24, in the Trustees' Dining Room on Mercer's Atlanta campus.
MACON – Kicking off Mercer University's 2002-2003 Executive Forum speaker series is economist Todd Buchholz, co-founder and managing director of Enso Capital Management. Buchholz...
