Mercer Centennial Collection 2009

Mercer Centennial Collection 2009

Friends of Johnny Mercer

Donated in 2010 to then Armstrong State University by the Friends of Johnny Mercer through the group’s president Dianne S. Thurman and Nancy Gerard, Mercer’s niece. The Friends of Johnny Mercer, Inc. is “dedicated to perpetuating the lyrics, music, life and memory of John Herndon Mercer” (from a brochure in the collection)

Collection Abstract

Commemorative documents, news clippings, magazine articles, programs, correspondence, posters, brochures about the planning and celebration of the centennial of Johnny Mercer’s birth, 1909-2009 in Savannah GA.