Ferrol Aubrey Sams, Jr.
Sams hailed from Fayetteville, Georgia when he entered Mercer.
Ferrol Sams appears in the 1942 yearbook, The Cauldron when he was a Mercer student.
Mercer published his obituary when he passed away in 2013 at the age of 90.
From The Whisper of the River, chapter 3:
"Porter was shy his sixteenth birthday by two weeks and was exactly sixty inches tall on the kitchen door at home ... with his shoes on. He looked up through round, gold-framed spectacles which were forever crooked on his face..."