Leanita Blount
Blount was originally from Macon when she attended Mercer.
Check her out when she was a Mercer student in the 1942 yearbook, The Cauldron.
The Whisper of the River, chapter 19:
"The most socially poised and glamorous female [Porter] had ever encountered was sitting across from him in Chichester's Drugstore smoking a cigarette as casually as she chewed gum."