Clarion 1977-10-07 Vol 53 No 04

              Starbuck tries to convince Lizzy that she's beautiful. -
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THE CLARION Bethel College Vol. 53, No. 4 October 7, 1977
Future students
get new welcome
by Debbie Valder
"Exciting" is the word which
surrounds a very special student
program that began this fall
through Bethel admissions office.
The program is called Sundouloi,
which in Greek means "fellow
servants."
Sundouloi is a group of twelve
selected sophomore students who
serve as student representatives
for campus visitors. Their job
includes giving campus tours,
hosting students to classes, and
describing Bethel to guests
through informed students' eyes.
Sundouloi's reason for exis-tence
is twofold:
1) "To create a dynamic visit
experience for the prospective
student and his parents by utiliz-ing
students as admissions asso-ciates.
2) To create spiritual unity
among the Sundouloi members as
they serve together in this minis-try.
The desired goal is that this
fellowship will spiritually edify
not only the Sundouloi members
but the entire Bethel community
as well."
Admissions counselor and re-cruitment
coordinator Merri Lee
Hipp parented the program after
seeing a great need for student
representatives during her three
years in admissions. After ob-serving
host programs at Wheat-on
and Trinity last April, the
Bethel program got under way.
RA's were asked to select stu-dents
who they felt had had a
positive experience at Bethel,
were good communicators, and
would enjoy giving tours. During
the summer letters were sent out
to these people describing the
program and interested students
responded. Fifty applications
were returned.
Throughout the summer Merri
Lee gave interviews, considering
the students' spiritual and devo-tional
life, their articulateness,
personality, and academic record.
"We needed kids who could
handle rough situations. Parents'
questions about Bethel can get
very difficult," said Merri Lee.
Six women and six men were fi-nally
selected by an admissions
committee of James Bragg, Joyce
Wold and Merri Lee. "They're
beautiful kids with impressive
testimonies," said Merri Lee.
Sundouloi members then began
detailed training in a six-hour
on-campus session. They exam-ined
Bethel's philosophy of re-cruitment,
admissions proce,
dures, requirements, financial aid
information, counseling tips, lib-eral
arts philosophy and the
mechanics of giving a tour.
Though this training is very
important Merri Lee emphasizes
that Sundouloi is primarily a
spiritual ministry. "Without the
Lord's help this would just be a
group of students giving a good
tour like any secular school," she
said. "Sundouloi members have
the greatest impact on guiding
students to Bethel."
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by Stephen B. Starr
Every dreamer, adventurer, or
romantic will enjoy the drama de-partment's
presentation of "Rain-maker,"
to be performed October
13-15 and 18-22 in Bethel's exper-imental
theater.
"Rainmaker" is a romantic
comedy by N. Richard Nash
about a Nebraska farm family in
the midst of drought. Lizzy, the
27-year-old unmarried daughter
of H.C. Curry, is subject to her
father's and oldest brother's at-tempts
to find her a man. When
the rainmaker, Starbuck, swings
into town, everyone is enthralled,
including Lizzy.
Starbuck promises rain for the
farmers and love and excitement
for Lizzy. When the deputy of the
town offers to marry Lizzy too,
she is forced to choose between a
dreamer and a practical family
man.
"Starbuck loves taking trips
around the world and making
friends by fast talking." That's
how Bruce Bohne describes the
character he portrays. Bruce, a
senior theater arts and communi-cations
major, sees much of him-self
in Starbuck, making the role
an enjoyable challenge.
Bruce is a veteran of the Bethel
stage having appeared in "The
Diary of Anne Frank," "Render
Unto Caesar," "The Importance
of Being Earnest," and "The
Hobbit." He also played in
"Death of a Salesman," at the
Chimera Theater in St. Paul.
Mary Wilson, a junior theater
major, plays Lizzy. Mary sees
Lizzy as "strong yet sensitive,
romantic yet family oriented. She
likes to laugh and still be practi-cal."
Mary depicts this variety of
emotions with skill. She was
active in high school plays, travel-ed
with the Berkeley Street
Theater for a year, and appeared
in "Showboat" last year at Beth-el
•The other members of the cast
include Ron Hultgren, senior;
Bruce Nordeen, senior; Rick
Reed, junior transfer; Ted Lewis,
sophomore; and Tim Nethercott,
sophomore transfer.
Dr. Don Rainbow, director of
the play, is excited about doing
one of his favorite plays. Doc sees
himself in Starbuck, the dreamer
who dares to dream big dreams
and in File, the proud deputy,
who needs his pride broken.
Doc sees each of the six
characters as being important to
the advancement of the story line.
Each one is an excellent character
study for the actors.
Doc has tremendous confidence
in his actors. He said, "We work
long, hard hours. The actors give
themselves completely to the
success of this show. They take
pride in the quality of their work;
there just isn't any option to lag
behind."
The cast has had one month to
prepare the show and they prac-tice
three or four hours a night.
This week will involve final
polishing before opening night on
Thursday, October 13.
"Rainmaker" is designed to
make the audience feel profound-ly.
It will move the viewers softly
and quietly; yet as victoriously as
when "Rocky" fought his boxing
match.
On the inside...
Bethel and the fuel crunch
page 3
A lab without test tubes
page 4
A composer and his craft
page 6
Mankato stops gridders
page 8
Rainmaker opens Thursday