the CLARION r,„:7 Vol. XXXIII—Number 2 • Published by Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, September 28, 1955
Bethel Gets 16th C. Vellum
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event on October 7, and a Hallow-een
party. Concerning the gala
event, President Oaklund said,
"Don't date too much between now
and the event. Save your energy
for then." Dues of 50 cents per
quarter were decided upon. Please
note this special bargain: Dues
will be only $1.25 for the year if
paid by October 7. They are to be
paid to Pat Rodgers, treasurer.
"More freshmen were present at
the last football game than stu-dents
from any other class. Keep
up the good work," quotes Presi-dent
Oaklund.
"Nik Dag" is one of the main
events for the sophomores to plan,
as stated by president Jack Tier-ney.
He stressed the fact that the
sophomores must get their dues
paid. A committee has been chosen
and is now planning the class
homecoming activities.
The junior class president, Lin-den
Magnuson, disclosed the fact
that they are preparing for a num-
(continued on page 4)
Shirley Anderson
Elected Secretary
Shirley Anderson, elected last Friday in Chapel, begins her duties
as recording secretary of the Bethel Student Senate with a record of
services and activities that makes her well qualified for this position.
Shirley, a senior at Bethel this year, was a member of God's Invasion
Army during 1952, after having
completed her freshman year of
college here. In 1953 she returned
and was a member of the Social
Council. During her sophomore
and junior years, Shirley has been
secretary of the religious council
and has been chairman of the com-mittee
in charge of the Wednesday
evening student fellowships. She
works in the dining hall, and also
sings in the College choir.
Her job as recording secretary
of the senate has many varied
duties according to the Student
Senate constitution. She must first
take the minutes of all the senate
meetings, and issue notices of all
meetings to senate members. She
must keep copies of all the pro-ceedings
and decisions of the stu-dent
government, and also post
the decisions of the senate not
more than two days after they
are made. The recording secretary
is to keep roll and take atten-dance
at all the Student Senate
meetings. She must also keep a
record of all senate elections and
the results of them. She is the
official Student Senate represen-tative
to the faculty committee on
student activities.
Tennis' Courts
Reconstructed
Tennis fans on Bethel campus
were startled last Tuesday to see
a couple of bulldozers assault the
newly-completed tennis courts and
chew the beautiful asphalt topping
into chunks with their steel teeth.
In a couple of days, under the
wondering students' eyes, the des-truction
was completed and the
debris hauled away in trucks. Then
a new crew of machines moved in
to build a new surface.
A faulty job created the need
(continued on page 4)
So Long, Dort's
The resignation of Miss Doris Moberg, Bethel's school nurse
since January, 1952, becomes effective Saturday, October 1. Doris
plans to leave then for Hinsdale, Illinois, where she will take the
position as evening supervisor of the Cook County Suburban Tuber-culosis
Sanitorium. From us to you: So long,
'46,kor;
One of Four Given
To St. Paul Schools
A hand-lettered page from a sixteenth century choir book came to
rest last week at Bethel college after a long trip from its European
home. The parchment which is valued at $1,000, was a gift from Mr.
Stanley S. Slotkin, who had a part in its discovery in a long-buried
cathedral room in Valencia, Spain.
The large sheet, about two by
three feet, is of white vellum,
which is fine-grained lambskin,
and is in a perfect state of pre-servation.
It is inscribed on both
sides with Latin chants, accom-panied
by musical notes written as
black squares on a staff of five
red lines.
Mr. Slotkin made his discovery
in 1954 while representing the
United States government in set-ting
up a wood-working factory.
The choir books and other church
treasures came to light when
workmen were digging a pit to
set up a hydraulic press. Mr. Slot-kin
was allowed to keep about 100
pages, which he has been giving
away to churches, schools, and
galleries for permanent display. In
St. Paul, leaves were given to the
Public Library and to three schools
beside Bethel: St. Paul Catholic
seminary, college of St. Catherine,
and Macalester college.
Plans are now being made to
preserve the manuscript in such
a way as to make it both usable
and safe from deterioration.
Off-campus girls' prayer meet-ing,
9:00 p.m. (place to be an-nounced)
Oct. 4—Swedish club, 7:30 p.m.
(place to be announced)
Writer's workshop, 7:00 p.m.
room 211
Oct. 5—German club, 2:20 p.m.
Bodien lounge
Oct. 6—Foreign Missions Fellow-ship,
7:00 p.m., student center
Oct. 10—Student wives' meeting,
8:00 p.m., dining hall
Off-campus girls' prayer meet-ing,
9:00 p.m.
as speaker; and personal work and
visitation, October 14, with Dr.
Clifford Larson, chairman of the
Department of Bible and Religious
Education, as speaker. All meet-ings
are slated for 8:30 p.m. in
Room 204.
Mr. Hedberg said that team as-signments
will be made the latter
part of next week.
Plans and Goals Set
By Dorm, Class Officers
The presidents of the classes and dorms have met with their
partner officers to make plans and set goals for this year in Bethel
college. College classes each plan gala activities: Nik Dag, Recitals,
and Class Play.
Sam Oaklund, president of the freshman class, revealed that the
freshman committee is busy working on their float. The freshman are
urged to attend their class meeting on October 3. Social activities have
been planned including a gala
First Gospel
Team Survey
Contmues
A new type of Christian service
talent survey was initiated in the
chapel last night at 7:00. Vocal
groups and soloists wishing to
work with gospel teams were audi-tioned
to provide a basis for their
assignment.
Talent surveys in other fields
are as follows: vocal solo survey
7 p.m. today in the chapel, and
instrumental survey 7 p.m. Thurs-day
in the chapel.
After the talent has been check-ed,
persons in the various cate-gories
may enroll in workshops
aranged by Roger Hedberg, direc-tor
of student affairs. These work-shops
begin October 10 when Mr.
Nels Stjernstrom, instructor in
music, will lead a discussion for
song leaders.
Other workshops will include:
speaking and testifying, October
11, with Dr. Virgil Olson as the
speaker; testifying at Twin City
missions, October 12, with the Rev.
Claude J. Moore, superintendent
of the Union City mission, Minne-apolis,
as the speaker; tract dis-tribution
on October 13, with sem-inary
student Donald Richardson
Staff Photo
Miss Mildred Bisgrove, Mr. C. Howard Smith and Mr. David Guston, faculty members, admire the parchment
Rep McCarthy
Speaks Here
The Hon. Eugene McCarthy,
U. S. Representative spoke to
the American Political Party class
this morning about party co-hesion
in the House of Represen-tatives.
The class, which met dur-ing
the second hour in room 108
of the Seminary, was open to visi-tors.
Congressman McCarthy, 39, is
a member of the Democrat-Far-mer-
Labor party and represents
the Fourth Congressional district
( Ramsey county). Currently serv-ing
his third term in the House, he
is a member of the House commit-tee
on agriculture and on public
buildings. He formerly taught soc-iology
and economics at St. Tho-mas
college in St. Paul.
State Representative Claude H.
Allen and State Senator Elmer
Andersen are slated to speak to
the class at later dates in the
quarter.
Gov. Freeman Will
Speak Here at Field-house
Convo
Oct. 6
Week at A Glance
Sept. 30—Faculty coffee, 3:00 p.m.
college library
Oct. 1—Hagstrom residence meet-ing.
Oct. 3—Radio club, 6:30 p.m., phy-sics
room
When I called Mr. Healy to borrow his coat, I didn't know he
was THAT big.
Choral Groups Begun
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
of Bethel College have now organized
Norris Magnuson, seminary mid-dleman,
has been elected president
of the Male Chorus for this sea-son.
Other officers are as fol-lows:
Howard Rekstad, junior,
vice-president; James Dinsmore,
freshman, secretary-treasurer; and
Arnold Swanson, sophomore, busi-ness
manager.
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Dressed Up For What?
Dress-up night, a tradition long under fire on campus, is
pointless. It's a puny attempt at being collegiate.
Take the average Bethel male. Six of the seven days of the
week he needn't worry too much about a tie and coat—and why
should he ? We in the Middle West haven't gone Harvard yet. Go
to the University of Minnesota and you'll see the same amount
of casualness you find here. Anyway, to get back to Homo Bethelus
—he suddenly remembers at 5 :45 p.m. Wednesday that the even-ing
meal requires coat and tie. Dashing to his room, he switches
sport shirt for the Sunday shirt and tie, and sweater for sport coat.
He suffers through the meal, which has romantic but terrible-for-seeing
candlelight. Then after the meal, in most cases, the fellow
returns to his room and his old clothes. What's the use?
The girls have to argue for themselves, but from a man's
viewpoint dress-up night seems silly.
A Worm's Cult
"You got the mark of the cult ?"
"Yes, sir!"
"And you like it ? How did it happen ?"
Well, you see, I was squirming across Bethel campus the other
day on my way to the tulip bed when Iyam Endiffrunt, a fellow
chordate, bumped into me and said, "Excuse me."
I asked him what for and he said, "For bumping into you!"
"But we're always bumping into each other," I reminded him, "in
our small world. And you never pardoned yourself before."
He explained that was because nobody ever pardoned anybody in
our small world. It was one of the outstanding characteristics of the
phylum Hookares. "But now when I bump," he boasted, "it's a cul-tured
bump ! It's got culture."
"Endi," I asked him, "what's so different between a cultured
bump and a plain old bump ?"
He put his many-splendored arms all over my shoulder and
confided, "Just from one worm to another, it's all in the head. Culture,
I mean. Either you got it or you ain't."
"Does it help you make a living, Endi ?" I questioned.
"Making a living ain't everything," he retored. "Life itself is more
important. No, culture don't help directly to make a living, but it
helps make a life."
He squirmed away.
And as I saw his last legs creeping around the first tulip stem,
I convinced myself, "From now on I'm going to be a worm with cul-ture
rather than just a plain old worm."
Yes sir, I'm glad I got the mark of the cult.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler
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What Kind of Faith Do You Have?
by Dr. Clarence Bass, assistant professor of Philosophy
"Every utterance of man is a reflection on his philosophy of life."
So said a sage of many years ago. If this is true—and who among us
should doubt it—it is equally true that every utterance we make about
our Christian faith is a reflection of our theology.
Herein lies one of the most pronounced problems of our contem-porary
Christian culture. If what we say—and what we do—is a re-flection
of our way of thinking about God, then in most cases our
theology is hopelessly floundering in an abyss of confused thinking
about God and our devotion to Him.
The Christian faith is a personal relationship to a personal God.
To be sure it has a basis in dogma, and it has a standard of ethics
and it requires an intellectual assent to a certain creed, but in the
final analysis, it is a relationship established in the love of God and
man's response to that love.
To say that faith is the means by which we respond to God���as
if faith is a certainty based on a prior knowledge, grossly reduces
our relationship in such a way that it loses its uniqueness. Faith for
the Christian is a unique "surrender-in response" of the Christian
to the revelation which God makes of Himself.
It is precisely this "surrender-in-response" that causes man to
respond to God's overture of love. Such a faith can never be static—
as if it can established in a single experience from which it draws its
vitality without ever being renewed. Faith is a continuing "surrender-in-
response," based most certainly on the single experience of redemp-tion,
but continuing always to be renewed in the ever-fresh relations
to th revelation of God in Christ.
As Christian, therefore, our "faith" in God should never be based
solely on the creed to which we adhere, but on the recurring "surrender-in
response" of our soul to God. Every utterance of man should be a
reflection of this respose. What we say, what we do, what we are, is
a reflection of the degree to which we respond to God.
Examination of our lives could reveal the degree to which we—
as Bethel students and as Christians—have such a faith—a "surrender-in
response" faith. Do you dare?
ebapet ebat The testimony of Dorothy Haskins, noted editor and writer, in-terested
everyone who came to last Wednesday's chapel. She had a
remarkable and, to say the least, a different testimony. So remarkable
and different was it that she was roundly criticized by several persons.
There were grounds for criticism, but let's look at the other side.
First, the chapel hour is devotional. You come for a blessing. Is
it possible to get a blessing if some person looks and acts a very un-convincing
part ? It's really a matter whether you WANT to be
blessed or if you're looking for faults—and trouble. You'll find either,
you know—seldom both.
Second, Miss Haskin prepared the audience—at least slightly—
for what was coming when she said she was an actress and, indirectly,
that she was emotionally unstable. Therefore maybe she had a right
to "jerk tears." It put across a point. Every speaker knows the power
of emotion. And even if the emotion was "hammy" you must admit
that the story was worth hearing. Certainly hers stands out
from the run-of-the-mill conversions.
Wednesday, September 28, 1955
The choral groups
the year.
The College Choir recently announced the results of their elec-tions.
Dale Nystrom, seminary junior, has accepted duties as presi-dent.
Other officers include Don Stipe, senior, vice-president; Beverly
Carlson, junior, secretary - treasurer; and James Hansen, sophomore,
business manager. Among the
many pieces in the college choir's
repertoire are "Brother John's
Noel" by Pendleton which has as
its basic theme the familiar French
round tune "Are you sleeping, are
you sleeping ?" Also there are sev-eral
contemporary sweet-dissonant
pieces. For example, Sven Lek-berg's
"Make a Joyful Noise Unto
the Lord," and "Alleluia" by Ran-dall
Thompson. Pieces by Bach
and Schultz round out a most var-ied
program.
by Dick Sibler
for
Zetteut to de
Editat
Dear Editor:
I think that Bethel has a new
and definite problem which is not
only going to have to be faced
subjectively in the minds of three
or four hundred irate students, but
objectively in the hands of those
in charge. Many of us here on
campus are getting in the "habit"
of being late to morning and after-noon
classes due to the congestion
in the dining hall line. The prob-lem
is becoming worse every meal,
and I think that something must
be done.
Besides the increased number of
students, the lunch hours have
been shortened considerably. There
is also a complication with College
choir and male chorus practicing
during the noon hour. It does not
seem logical to shorten serving
hours under such conditions. This
should not only be faced as a
problem, but faced—period!
S. E. H.
Royal Individual and Team Statistics
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Yds. gained Att. Net yd. Av.
Rushing
Wessman 13 48 3.7
Larson 8 23 2.9
MacDonell 5 8 1.6
Brunzell 9 27 3
Tierney 1 —1 —1
Seaquist 2 7 3.5
Yds. gained Att. Comp. Av.
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Photograph by Keith Davis
"Oh no you don't!" thinks Paul Larson (33) as he knocks down a
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the Auggies Wed., Sept. 21.
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Relentless Jamestown Attack
Wears Down Bethel 13-0
Passing
Brunzell 9
Passes rec'd. No.
Abrahamson 1
Kick-off ret. No.
Larson 2
Brunzell 1
Wessman 1
Punts No.
MacDonell 4
Dick Bougue is ready to plug
any hole in the line from his
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Meet the Player-
Dick Bogue
Calling the defensive signals is
center linebacker Dick Bogue. The
rugged six foot, 175 pound fresh-man
was born in Winthrop Har-bor,
Illinois, the second of three
children. He attended high school
in Zion-Benton Township. His
athletic accomplishments through-out
his high school career have
been numerous. He has had four
years of football and track and one
year of wrestling. He also played
intramural basketball as well as
church league softball and basket-ball.
His other activities included
being treasurer of the lettermen's
club, Hi-C president, and a mem-ber
of the Zion Youth council
which annually sponsored an al-ternate
prom night program. In
addition, Dick has attained star
rank in the Explorer Scouts. Dick
plans to attend Bethel for two
years and then study forestry at
Iowa State.
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Same Old
Tale
Last Saturday there were touch
football intramurals for the men.
Two teams did not show up for
their game.
Now it seems that since these
intramurals are run solely for the
student body, by the student body,
the least thing the student body
could do is attend.
There are probably many rea-sons
that would be advanced why
"I just couldn't make it." Some
work, some sleep, some study,
some have a sore muscle in the
inner right calf or someplace (not
quite sure where), but it would
seem that each section of the
country could arrange to be rep-resented
by enough men to make
up a side.
Perhaps it would be a good idea
for the captain of each team (if
there isn't such a thing, there
should be) to make sure on Fri-day
that a team will show up at
the proper time the following day.
NEW LOW RATES FOR
YOUNG MARRIED COUPLES
Fumbles and lack of reserves
just about told the story as James-town
crushed Bethel 13-0 at High-land
field last Friday.
Bethel kicked off to open the
game and Jamestown marched
down to Bethel's 36. On third down
they scored but it was called back
because of a clipping penalty.
Bethel's defense made two tre-mendous
efforts to hold the power-ful
Jamestown attack but Mac-
Donell's two fumbles and another
by Larson gave the Jimmies too
much of an advantage. They scor-ed,
following the third fumble, on
an end sweep.
Late in the second period, Bethel
marched from their five to James-town's
35 but were stopped there.
The march featured fine running
by Wessman and Larson. In fact,
the Royal's running attack out-gained
Jamestown's in the first
half.
The second half was another
story. Our team was a little slug-gish
at first and couldn't move the
ball consistently. The defense held
up a little longer but it was only
a matter of time. The last period
was all Jamestown as they gained
more in the last fifteen minutes
than Bethel did in the whole game.
Jamestown scored their second
touchdown in the fourth period on
a 60-yard play, another end sweep.
As the game ended the Jimmies
were inside the Bethel 20 and
looking for that extra six points.
STARTING LINEUPS
Bethel
Jamestown
Erickson RE
Olson RT
P. Berg RG
J. Berg
C
Oakland
LG
Bogue LT
Abrahamson LE
Brunzell
QB
Wessman RH
Larson LH
MacDonell
FB
Bethel Scoring (none)
Jamestown Scoring
Cheerleaders Named
Bethel's new cheerleaders for
the coming sports season are Myra
Polifka, Susan Bodien, Carol Mar-tinson,
and Marilyn Carlson. Mar-ilyn,
the only cheerleader return-ing
from last year, and Carol are
sophomores, and Myra and Susan
are freshmen. The alternates are
Kay Kern, Rose Mary Carlson,
Jack Harper, and Lareau Lind-quist.
The choices were made last Wed-nesday
with thirteen women and
two men competing for the posts.
Mrs. Ingeborg Sjordahl and Mr.
Del Ray Peterson, instructors in
physical education department,
and sophomores John F. Anderson
and Francine French were the
judges.
TEAM STATISTICS
Yards gained rushing 121
Yards gained passing 15
Total yards gained
136
Fumbles 5
Ball lost on fumbles 4
Had passes intercepted
1
Why I Came to Bethel
"In this play," the coach was saying to me, "which is a pass if
the wind abateth, you go out and tackle the guy that intercepts." I
grunted and went back to sleep.
I was playing center for a pro football team out East, and I was
sick of it. A meager salary of ten thousand after taxes, and duties of
water boy and towel toter on top of it. I'll admit I was doing a good
job (there's no sense in not facing facts), but I had had enough. I
wanted to go back to a life of complete luxury.
Then I got my chance. A letter from Bethel college signed and
countersigned by dozens of impressive dignitaries, and in it I was
offered center position on the Bethel team. They were willing to give
me room, board, tuition, and three Jaguars. Also they wanted to as-sure
me a twelve dollar an hour job inventorying toothpicks in the
dining hall, but I was adamant. No work. So the deal was worked out.
Forswearing all my pet vices, I signed fifty-seven forms in quad-ruplicate
and was sworn in as a loyal Royal. Then I made an em-barrassing
mistake. I turned out for practice. One of the higher po-tentates
rushed up to me in a state of frenzied stupification. "For-sooth!"
he roared into my ear. "What are you doing ?" I calmed him
and repented.
But now the season has started, and once a week I go out and do
my best for dear old Bethel. Despite temptations in the direction of
Mankato Teachers' wh_o offered me room, board, tuition, and three
and one-half Jaguars in assorted colors, I remain here. But in my
weeks at Bethel, I have come to love this dear old institution of hire
education, and plan to stand out for years to come.
Foss
Weber
Braunagel
Anderson
Hogan
Berndt
Spillum
M. Joslin
R. Joslin
Thorstad
Seebold
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Wednesday, September 28, 1955
Seven Staffers New
On Bethel Campus
Seven new names can be found on the list of members of the staff
here this year.
Janet Tillquist, the new postmistress, is from St. Paul and attended
Rasmussen's Business college here in the Twin Cities. She particularly
appreciates the Christian atmos-phere
here.
Elizabeth Pander from Volga,
South Dakota, is Mr. Nels Stjern-strom's
new secretary. She is a
freshman and taking a reduced
course. For the past two years
she has been the secretary to the
personnel director of the Minne-apolis
Northwestern National Life
Insurance company.
Coffee shop management is un-der
the direction of Mrs. Violet
Cunningham. Her previous exper-ience
indicates that she is quali-fied.
This summer she was a cook
at Big Trout Lake Bible Camp
and prior to that she was the head
cook in the high school at Prince-ton,
Minnesota, her hometown.
Seminary student, Roger Hed-berg,
is the director of the Stu-dent
Affairs office. He is origin-ally
from Davenport, Iowa, and
was graduated from Bethel in
1948. He will be graduated from
the seminary next June. Rog be-lieves
this is very good experience
and he sincerely hopes that the
unemployment problem will be
much less this year.
In the dining hall, Mrs. A. L.
Fredrikson is experiencing her
first year as cook in Bethel. For
the past four months she was a
cook in a hospital in Ottawa, Kan-sas.
Mrs. Mae A. Christenson, from
Muskegon, Michigan, is the new
housemother in Bodien residence.
She has been employed in the re-tail
department at Sears Roebuck
for the past years. "Ma Chris" is
Missionaries to
Be At First FMF
Meeting
The first meeting of the Bethel
Foreign Missionary Fellowship
will be held Thursday, October 6,
at 7 p.m. in the dining hall. The
program will include five mis-sionaries
who will each spend some
time with previously divided in-formal
discussion groups. The mis-sionaries
will be Miss Arlene Jen-sen
from Assam, Rev. and Mrs.
Andrew Nelson of the Philippines,
Rev. and Mrs. James Luckman
from Ethiopia, and Miss Leona
Larm from Japan.
The purpose of this meeting will
be to introduce from FMF to the
new students on campus, and to
provide an informal question and
answer period with these returned
missionaries.
Tennis Courts
(continued)
for the rebuilding. The Simon Oil
company of St. Paul used a hot
mix asphalt heavily oiled. As a
result the courts were too oily for
tennis, and would have softened
in hot weather. The Hennepin
Blacktop company replaced the as-phalt
with Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing's recently develop-ed
Ramcoat. Hennepin Blacktop
has built over 100 tennis courts in
the Twin Cities, including many
public courts such as those in
Como park.
The blacktopping is scheduled
to be finished today or tomorrow.
After allowing several days for
the material to set, the contractor
will color the courts green on
Monday or Tuesday.
HAGGERTY'S
DAIRY STORE
Open evenings
till 10:00
1556 Como Ave. MI 6-9295
FAIRGROUND
SERVICE GARAGE
Phillips' 66 Motor Oils
and Gasoline
1588 Como MI 6-9153
ALLAN'S STANDARD
SERVICE
Snelling and Larpenteur
MIdway 6-9185
Complete Lubrication — Towing
Brake Work
"rr PAYS TO LOOK WELL"
ARNOLD'S BARBER
SHOP
1692 North Lexington Ave.
(in the Plaza)
et1.44te‘cerfeit
Home of Charburger
Larpenteur and Snelling Avenues Open 6 a.m. till 2 a.m.
STRANDQUIST
TEXACO SERVICE
Hamline and Hoyt Mi 6-9272
Brake and Mechanical Work
Towing Service
BISHOP'S
Ladies' and Men's Apparel
in Falcon Heights
1540 West Larpenteur
MIdway 5-1364
R: eenad'ad feetiehrey ea.
324 Kresge Bldg., 7th and Nicollet
Fine Diamonds — Watches — Jewelry
Student Discounts
TRY A
Sloppy Joe
and top it off with an
Angel Delight or a Crushed Cherry Sundae
eeMee Steedefte &weer
sure that she is the only house-mother
for some time who has had
two members of her family go to
Bethel. She feels the Lord has sent
her here and is very happy with
her new position.
Miss Elsa R. Nordin, assistant
librarian, comes to Bethel boast-ing
a full past. Miss Nordin re-ceived
her bachelor's degree from
the University of Minnesota and
then continued studies at New
York State Library school, which
is now an affiliate of Columbia
University. She then took a posi-tion
in the Minnesota Historical
society. However, she left this job
to become head cataloger at Carl-ton
College. She remained there
three years and returned to the
Historical Society to stay as head
cataloger for twenty-seven years.
The end of those years was in
1952 when she retired—and took
a fourteen month tour of Europe
that took her from Sweden to
Switzerland. A librarian at heart,
she took the opportunity to visit
the various libraries in these coun-tries.
Then she came here. But
Bethel is not new to her, for some-time
in that busy past she found
two free years to teach at Bethel
Academy. She replaces Miss Mar-ina
Axeen who is on sabbatical
leave taking advanced studies at
the University of Illinois.
Classes, Dorms
(continued)
ber of coming events. The juniors
have their plans well under way
for their homecoming float. They
are contemplating another sopho-more-
junior retreat to be held in
February. A probable class break-fast
and the annual junior-senior
banquet are events which the jun-ior
class will sponsor this coming
spring.
Getting money to buy a gift for
the college is the seniors' class
goal, as stated by their president,
Donn Goss. They plan to get the
money by sponsoring an event for
the college each quarter. Their fall
event will be a music program.
The winter event will be a pro-gram
of reading selections and the
spring event will be an outdoor
social. They are also developing a
homecoming float.
Sem classes plan for school gift.
The seminary seniors hope to
raise money for a gift to the
school. This was brought up at
their class meeting, led by presi-dent
Arthur Bayley. They deter-mined
their class dues and elected
their Student Senate members.
The seminary juniors haven't
discussed any plans as yet, stated
president Charles Hill.
To increase spirituality and de-votedness
to Jesus Christ is the
goal of the seminary middlemen.
This was passed on from president
Charles Anderson. He asked that
members pay their dues promptly
and attend class meetings regular-ly.
The middlemen plan to build up
a fund for a school gift when they
leave.
The Edgren residence president,
Dick Andre, said that the boys
plan to have their regular dorm
meetings and plan to have a ping
pong tournament as in other years.
No other definite plans have been
made yet.
Marjorie Peterson, president of
Bodien residence, said that the
dorm council has been investigat-ing
the possibility of getting towel
racks and toothbrush holders for
each room. Also under study is a
plan whereby there would be a
space provided for ironing on each
floor. All of these ideas will re-quire
administration approval
however, before any action can be
taken. Many plans are being made
socially, too. Discussion has cen-tered
around sponsoring informal
sings in the lounge, having an off-campus
girls' slumber party in the
dorm, and planning more frequent
open houses on Sunday afternoons.
A big skating or tobogganing
party will be held this winter with
the girls asking the fellows. Of
course plans are being made for
homecoming decorations by the
committee of which Barbara Hart-man
is chairman. The girls hope to
beat the boys' dorm for a change
this year.
Devotional Life Theme of
Dr. Bob Talk to EdgrenMen
Tips on a well-rounded devotional life was the theme a talk by
Dr. W. Robert Smith, professor of philosophy, given to the men of
Edgren Residence at the first of their monthly meetings last Tuesday
night. Dr. Bob stated that we, as spiritual children, need the same
elements in order to grow as a
physical child needs. The food our
spiritual body requires is the Word
of God, and only by digesting this
can we become as strong spiritual-ly
as a little child becomes on
good physical nourishment. Prayer
is the fresh air God has provided
for our spiritual being. As we
breathe our prayers to God, He
breathes His spirit into us.
Dr. Bob went on to say, "We
exercise our spiritual bodies by
doing His will, and by putting our
trust in Him. We learn to trust
Him by trusting Him, just as we
learn to swim by swimming, learn
to trust an airplane by getting
on, learn to climb stairs by climb-ing."
He then stated that we need an
eternal perspective. He said that
the things our lives are made up
of now—studies, work, everyday
needs—these things will not be
vital to us 200 years from now.
From a book of prayers of ten
used in his own devotions, Dr. Bob
closed his talk with a prayer by
the author, Dr. John Baillie, chap-lain
to the King of England and
professor of divinity at the Uni-versity
of Edinburgh.
