Personal
During World War II, Mercer served in the United States Navy from 1943-1946 aboard the USS Rixie and USS LCI(G)–439 (Landing Craft Infantry – Gunboat) as a Signalman. Mercer attend college after the war and earned a Bachelors degree from the University of Denver in 1949 and a masters degree from North Texas State University in 1966.
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“... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.”
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